- I’ve been absent lately for good reason. The dog ate my homework---not really, but I’ve always wanted to say that. Actually the main database program I use for my blogs, background, notes, and work-in-progress failed. It deleted all my work for 2009 and part of 2008. I don’t know what happened. Since my backups are done daily, the bad database was copied. There was no sign of the later files anywhere on my disk. I called the software provider and was told that the program couldn’t do that. It must be my fault. I disagree. The only problem I had was with that particular program. Nothing else was damaged. So what am I to think? Get a different program that’s what. In any case, all my WIP is gone, as are my notes. So, I have to start from scratch.
- Our National debt keeps growing. We suffered an October deficit of $176 billion---hey! That’s in just one month! With the increase in socialist programs, we’re going to be saddling more and more generations with the cost of our mistakes. The House bill for Obamacare is set for a $1.3 trillion in the future [ten years I think]. But in addition to that, we’ll be paying more in taxes; more in insurance premiums; more for pacemakers, wheelchairs and other medical devices [partially via a tax]; more for goods and services---the list goes on. And does anyone think the bill for all this will be what’s stated? Wanna buy a bridge in NYC? How much are we prepared to pay to socialize everything? We’re being taxed unconscionably every day, and at some point the whole shebang will collapse. Is that all the Hope recently voted for?
It reminds me of the old joke based on the “No taxation without representation” call during the revolution. “If you think taxation without representation was bad, just look at it with representation.”
- Nancy Pelosi is looking positively skeletal lately. At certain angles, she shows deeply sunken eyes and more than usual signs of aging and wear and tear. I guess her Botox is wearing off. At what point will her horns be showing?
- Obama finally visited Fort Hood to show empathy and console survivors and the families of the dead. He went because he had to in order to show empathy and shore up his failing Presidency. He also went for the photo ops. But don’t for one second believe he went because he wanted to. He’s a confirmed socialist, and his actions and policies show him to be anti-military in all respects---except maybe to protect his butt and those of his family.
- Obama has now rejected all four alternatives for additional troops to be sent to Afghanistan. He wants changes to those alternatives based on the comments of our ambassador to Afghanistan, his own flawed beliefs, and the obvious continued corruption in the Karzai administration. So, this is what it means: continued troop deaths in Afghanistan; probable re-introduction of the Taliban; downfall of Karzai in favor of the Taliban; continued training of terrorists; and more terror activity in the US and against American interests abroad. Our forces would be leaving the Country with tails between legs and another Obama scar on our reputation home and abroad. So, we can expect many more American deaths as Obama---the anti-military socialist with a radical bent---moves to defang the entire American Worldwide experience.
- So now ACORN is suing the government to get its funding back. I always thought you couldn’t sue the government. It seems to me if the Congress can provide funds to a specific entity, it can also cut them off from that same entity. This is what happened. Some in Congress are calling for a detailed investigation into ACORN activities. Personally, I think ACORN should be prosecuted, fined and shuttered under the RICO statutes.
