I have been thinking about what I feel following the attack at Ft. Hood. I thought about it, thought about the soldiers, their wives and children, their families. I thought of the family of the shooter, of other veterans like me and what they are going through. I have listened to the media jump right in and say “not to be hasty in deciding if it is a terrorist attack.” I heard the president – the same one who jumped right in and called police out when they “acted stupidly” in arresting a belligerent friend of his for acting even more stupidly – say that we should not “jump to conclusions” until all of the facts and evidence are weighed.
After all of that, I have come to one resounding thought:
FUCK the shooter. He is a Muslim murderer. He sought to contact known terrorists. He spoke about infidels warranting getting their throats slit. He spoke hate about America. He purposefully killed 13 soldiers and wounded nearly 30 more. Why is their no cry of anger and denunciation from C.A.R.E.? Where are the Imams and their vocal cry of rage at this horrendous TERRORIST act?
They claim to be the religion of peace. Why do they not promote it? Why do we cater to their demands? Why are we so afraid? Why do we maintain our Politically Correct attitude? Where is our BIG STICK? Try and execute this asshole in one day. It won’t bring back the dead, but the living will have some sense of vengeance. I am not one to call for violence, but an eye for an eye.
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I learned something this past weekend- Halloween is dying. Perhaps not across the board, but where I live now there is a definite, substantial decrease in the quality of the scariest night of the year. Maybe it is just my perception. Maybe where you live, Halloween is a living, thriving event. Perhaps that is the hope for which I am holding out.
When I was growing up, I recall that I was once d’Artagnan, swashbuckling hero known as the Fourth Muskateer. I had a sword and a homemade outfit (Feathered hap excepted). Another year, while my brother was a mailbox, I was the Space Pumpkin. A set of long johns spray painted silver and a large, plastic pumpkin as a helmet were all that was needed. We went to the local parade where we were judged for our creativity. The streets were crawling with witches, ghosts and goblins… and mailbox-guiding Space Pumpkins.
This last weekend I saw virtually no one walking the streets. People were all over the local strip mall, where stores posted flyers in the windows so that kids knew they could come in to get candy- and parents could get drooling looks from employees working on commission. I admit that I brought my kids (and some friends) to our office Halloween party, where each scored at least a half-reusable-grocery bag of sugar… er… candy. It took me hours to filter out all of the bad stuff.
But I also took my kids around the neighborhood. There were two or three well-decorated houses. The guys down the street converted their garage into a mini haunted house, complete with Scary-Chainsaw-Guy as you exited. But for all of the Halloween hoopla, scarcely 5 percent of the houses had their lights on to indicate they were playing. My little witch and Mortal Combat dude had tired legs because of how hard we had to work to get a respectable haul.
Halloween is becoming a shell of its past. Are we that commercial? I see it in Christmas and New Year’s; not so much for some other holidays like The Fourth of July and even Thanksgiving. But Halloween has always been a sacred event. It was a time when kids snuck around and pranked their friends. It was a time when we got together and decided what to MAKE ourselves for Halloween, not what costume we were going to fork over dozens of dollars for.
Like much of our culture, our past, Halloween is fading into obscurity. The satisfaction of doing it ourselves, seeing the looks on peoples faces as you reveal the closely-guarded costume secret; perhaps winning some cool contest because of it. For the kids, at least, it is becoming ghostly pale in comparison to the days of my youth. Somewhere, the black cat crossed our path and we are suffering for it.
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I added a link to Social Vibe in my side bar. Take a minute to hit the link for me and help us find a cure for Diabetes.
Why that disease? Because Diabetes can be a contributing factor to so many other things and my family has those who are afflicted. From young to old, Diabetes has no remorse, affecting all equally harshly. So lend a hand. Just by clicking through, sponsors will donate to the cause.
We need to find a cure soon, before our government health care plan collapses any desire to continue with innovation. After all, the main reason drug manufactures put funding into R&D is to make a profit. If the government runs the system, and they refuse to pay a fair price, researchers will move to other fields. So help out now, before it is too late.
Thanks,
Sean
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The new stimulus-related jobs report is coming out. In it, Glorious Leader claims that the $787 Billion Porkulus Package “saved or created” some 600,000 jobs. His economic guru says it is more like 1.5 million.
How can you say jobs are saved or created when we have lost millions more than we created? I am talking NET results. I freely admit that if you spend billions of dollars there will be some jobs saved. You might even manufacture a few new positions. But this crap about saved or created has got to go. Our unemployment rate is pushing ten percent overall (40% in parts of California!). The president’s own expert said that all of the simulation we are going to get has already occurred. Excuse me?
My argument is, and always has been, what do we do when the money runs out? Cash for Clunkers gave a great boost to the auto industry. Now what? More programs? What about the electronics folks? Why did we not save Circuit City? Do we not want Best Buy to have competition? The housing industry got a great boost from the $8,000 tax credit for new home buyers. Now they want to extend it until April, and some want to expand it so every home buyer will be eligible.
When will we stop? If I bribe my kids enough they will mow my lawn and do the dishes. What happens when I stop paying? So will the chores. It is the exact same with American citizens. If you agree to pay them enough they will blindly do what you want. But, like every government idea, we- the tax payer- will then have to permanently foot the bill. Otherwise we are right back where we were but with a huge bill to pay.
I think we need more economists and CPA’s in congress and many less lawyers.
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Actually, I don’t think anyone should be surprised by anything the Washington insides do. All Congress is about is power. How much power can they grab and how much control can they exert over the people they supposedly represent. It really doesn’t matter who is in charge, they are all the same. Why, then, are people shocked at the fact that Glorious Leader is peddling favors and positions to those who raised the the most capital for his campaign?
Anyone have $300K I can borrow? It would be so cool to bowl in the White House.
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The House put out their health care proposal today. 1,990 pages of regulation, taxes, waste, fraud and abuse. Did they not listen to us back in August? Do the Democrats really think that in passing this thing the people will finally shut up and take their medicine?
Melt the phones. Don’t be shy about calling and emailing. Do it every day. Make sure that you wind up on the administration’s watch list. It is the least we can do for our children.
Anyone have any Tylenol? (Crap. Is that even covered now? Have you seen the PRICES for a bottle of aspirin??)
Roman Polanski is a sleezeball. Thirty years ago, when he was 44, he was at a friend’s (Jack Nicholson) . There also was a 13 year girl. He drugged her and then raped her.
From the AP:
Polanski was charged in 1977 with raping a 13-year-old girl he plied with champagne and Quaaludes. He served 42 days in jail, but fled when a plea deal collapsed
And now that he has been arrested, the left ahs been screaming foul. They say that it was over 30 years ago and that the girl has since forgiven him. WTF?? Are we such a corrupt society that we feel it is ok to let a CRIME of such stature pass on by? Where do we draw the line? Why not let Charles Manson out? After all, it has been years since it happened. Surely he has paid his dues.
Whoopi Goldberg, on The View this week had the audacity to say that he “didn’t rape rape her…”
Excuse me? Please define what Rape Rape is for me. Is that only half as bad as Rape? Or is doesn’t count because the girl, completely doped up and drunk, said ok?
Do you have children? If you do, and you agree with Whoopi, then you should be part of the eugenics program suggested by White House advisor Cass Sunstein. We are, truly, a country on the skids.
I don’t give a damn WHAT your party affiliation. Raping a minor is a criminal offense that needs to be punished. There is no statute of limitations. The man is lucky the girl was not my daughter. Rape charges would be the least of his concerns.
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That is what Glorious Leader told us during his whirlwind media blitz not too long ago. According to him, that was just false information being put out by the wingers who watch FOX News. That comment was what got Congressman Wilson in trouble when he called the president a “Liar”. Of course, now that it is coming down to it, House Democrats are ramping up the effort to get all of the illegals on the the rolls.
The Democrats, trying to stiffen their party’s spines on the contentious issue, say it’s unfair to bar illegal immigrants from paying their own way in a government-sponsored exchange. Legal immigrants, they say, regardless of how long they’ve been in the United States, should be able to get government-subsidized health care if they meet the other eligibility requirements…
You can read more here, but that little bit there makes me throw up in my mouth a little. The Democrats do not care about the illegals here in this country. If they did, they would take a seriously hard look at REAL Immigration reform, which includes permanently shutting down our southern borders to ensure we know exactly who is coming here. All they truly care about is getting them to support them in the elections and with their money.
IDIOTS.
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