I think I make a good bit of sense in the second sentence above, try reading it again if you are sitting there thinking things like “Bernanke has a cool beard, he must know about the free market” or “a shiny dome like his is a sure sign of intelligence”. Yeah I went there and no it does not make my argument any less valid. We must cut spending, encourage thrift, and stop regulating ourselves into obscurity in the marketplace. Get the government out of the way and let the free market figure out a way to produce again. Artificially propping up the market is only going to make the eventual letdown all the more catastrophic when that day inevitably comes.

Now if only I could borrow a few bucks to buy a six pack for my mock BeerGate I will now have to throw for my previous comments about Bernanke’s dome.

First things first, doesn’t Sherrod at least deserve a beer with the President after he added fuel to the fire? Maybe not on second thought because we cannot afford to buy a beer for everyone our President has managed to offend or paint in a negative light. There would be a lot of people out there clinging to their Bibles and guns that would be owed a drink for example. Secondly, why the rush to judgment on Sherrod’s employer’s part? Didn’t she at least deserve a chance to explain her side of the story, which incidentally would have only taken 43 minutes?

What really irks me about this situation is the fact that the White House has issued an apology to Sherrod (link here). Really? Where was the apology a year ago to a white cop the President basically accused of being a racist? Crowley is not a racist nor is Sherrod but only one gets a quick apology from the President while the other has to take part in some sort of strange teaching lesson on the White House lawn? Inexcusable for our Commander-in-Chief to continue to act this way. Neither situation required nor deserved Presidential input especially when that input was completely misguided. Our President should act Presidential and keep his distance from these types of incidents in the future.

Now that I am all out of sorts when do I get my invite for my free beer at BeerGate XV?

Update: So now the President has called Sherrod directly to apologize and I sure hope it was a collect call. Michelle Malkin has more here.

Speaking of green related crap, the piece written over the weekend for the Washington Post by Stan Cox titled “In the heat wave, the case against air conditioning” clogged the toilet. Mr. Cox actually argues in the article that the reason we need air conditioning is because we use air conditioning. Huh? Following this disjointed logic would lead one to ask why was air conditioning invented then in the first place? Oh I know, I know!!! Because the Earth has experienced fevers long before the con of global warming started so someone decided “what if we make a device that spits out cool air to make life more comfortable”? Presto: the air conditioner is born. Too simple for you? Doesn’t make sense since clearly air conditioning is causing the Earth to warm? Is this my German cousin reading this?

Before I move on let me predict the future for the first time ever here @Fishdeck: In the future central heating units and their ugly children space heaters will be blamed for global cooling. You heard it here first. (I expect credit for this theory Mr. Cox when you write this in a few years).

What else is irking me you may ask? How about the complete disregard for the rule of law in our country. The inJustice Department continues its assualt on our fine country by first suing the fine state of Arizona and now announcing that it will not sue sanctuary cities. See this article at the Washington Times for more info. What I don’t understand is how in the world the feds can sue a state for attempting to enforce a federal law that the feds aren’t enforcing but refuse to sue a city who thumbs its nose at federal law? Apparently Arizona should quickly rewrite the law to include some sort of language that contradicts federal law so the feds will stay away. (Your welcome Arizonians, all you had to do was ask and I would have helped craft the bill in the first place).

Boy this post is getting really long, I blame the withdrawals I am having after the World Cup. I have nothing to do now other than ramble here so….

How about this one: Utah agencies probe alleged illegal immigrant list. First, who really spends time making a list of illegal immigrants? That must have taken months to compile such a dossier when taking a video camera to a Home Depot takes what five minutes tops? I kid, I honestly do. The reason I mentioned this article was because the list contains due dates of pregnant women which is beyond creepy. Does the government store this information or was this something these people gathered on their own? Either way it is just weird and so reminded me of my favorite show Lost (minus the ending which really sucked).

Lastly, I read recently where the world is looking to China for hopes of economic recovery. I could stop right there because that sucks enough already but then I came across this today at Yahoo News: Beijing starts gating, locking migrant villages. To detour crime, China has now gated in certain communities at night. WTF? And the rest of the world is like, “gee, I hope they can lead our economy into the 21st century”. These communists couldn’t lead us into the 17th century let alone today, so why don’t we wise up while we can, take our lumps, and show the world how to rebuild a nation without throwing aside our morals in the process. This is America and we need to start acting like the nation that won not one but two world wars last century instead of sitting around in our Chinese made sweatpants hoping that the economy that still employs child labor can save us.

Twisted Taliban militants took terror to a new low by accusing a 7-year-old boy of spying – and hanging him high.

It is hard to imagine anything more extreme than intentionally targeting children and murdering them. What will it take to stop this type of bully behavior? Our current president spends his time codling savages such as this instead of having the balls to stand up for the truly innocent in the world. Want to kick some ass Barry? Here’s your chance, find the cowards that did this and send them to that virgin party asap. I know environmental disasters are much more important than human life, so please hurry back down to the Gulf Coast again so you can touch the sand and look presidential. 

As citizens we have failed every single man, woman, and child that has laid down their life in defense of this nation. Too often we have allowed the debate over matters facing our nation to be framed in a way so that we always lose the argument. Take for example the debate over abortion, for decades there have been two arguments; one against abortion and one for abortion. Both arguments fail at their very core because although both stances are valid the setting in which they are framed makes both sides a loser. The debate on abortion, like many others facing our nation, should play out in each individual State. What harm would befall this country if only two-thirds of the States legalized abortion? A citizen could travel to the next State to have the procedure and thus would not have a “right” stripped away. The point here is not to argue the validity of abortion but to illustrate how we as citizens have allowed the Federal government to overstep its Constitutional authority. States should have the right to decide matters such as abortion, gay marriage, public education, and any other hot topic as long as the Constitution does not permit the Federal government that authority.

This is not an argument for anarchy, socialism, or any other type of nutty government. This is an argument for getting local again, bringing solutions back to where the problems are, not creating solutions where problems do not exist. It is time to force our local government to stand against regulations that are unwanted or do not fit locally. It is time for citizens to take responsibility for the actions of government that they permit in their town, community, city, and State. If California is facing bankruptcy for example, due to the incompetence of its elected leaders, then the State and its citizens should be held responsible. The people of California need to dig themselves out of the hole they created for themselves by continually reelecting the same incompetent leaders over and over again. Until they do so they should not be the beneficiary of bailout money either Federally or from other States.

Herein lies the problem we are facing today; no one takes responsibility for their own actions. Sure we hold others responsible for their actions, but we never look in the mirror and take the blame. For full disclosure I live in California and even here we look to blame others for our problems. The most common is to blame the illegal aliens for our failing economy and the Federal government for not securing our border. The truth is though that the State of California is an absolute, horrible mess of an economy and of government. Whose to blame however? The citizens of California are (that’s me). It would be unethical to hold citizens of other States accountable fiscally by taking their hard earned income in the form of taxes and redirect that money through the Federal government to the corrupt and broken system of California. Californians must be the ones to fix the system they have broken or fail trying. Our Constitution requires us to stand up and now is the time. Let’s reboot before our system crashes.