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• What has happened to America? (Not really a random thought but the first thing on my mind today). This nation is on the path to self destruction and it seems Americans cannot stop arguing about who is driving. Both parties are like drunk drivers who on a cross country trip each take turns at the wheel. They are both dangerous and just because one has not driven in a while does not make them the safer choice behind the wheel. With that said, having one drive and the other give directions does seem like a better idea than the what we currently have running the country.
• Just over 48 hours before the NFL season kicks off and I predict my lovely Redskins will finish 7-9. I would like to be more optimistic but it is about time to temper my expectations after years of dismal performances.
• Back to politics, does our President understand that we are tired of the government trying to control everything? Does he understand that continually spending our money on projects that benefit very few causes more frustration than it solves? Why does it take a failed economy to improve infrastructure? I am not an economist but I would think infrastructure is something you build or invest in when you have capital to spend not the other way around.
• When did questioning one’s beliefs become a bad thing in this country? If I understand this correctly, it was okay to accuse the former President of being complicit in allowing 3,000 Americans to die on 9/11 because it was a “inside job” but questioning our current President’s faith shows one’s ignorance? More on this one in a few…
• Cannot wait for Windows Phone 7 to be released. I might be in the minority here but Apple, Android, and Blackberry phones do not appeal to me. At least Apple and Android are decent phones but I cannot understand the consumer desire for a Blackberry (I do see the corporate advantages however). More on this in a few as well…
• Finally, why does a rally in D.C. that focuses solely on faith draw so little media coverage about its message? Pure speculation here but if a rally for global warming had the same type of turnout, the media would inflate the numbers, spend hours highlighting the message of the rally, and would probably not spend much time trying to figure out the “hidden agenda” of the rally. What ever happened to honest journalism in this country? (Side note: I think the idea of honest journalism is a figment of our collective imagination and while there have been and still are honest journalists, the industry on the whole has and still is a propaganda machine).

Chicago is apparently floating the idea of taxing soft drinks to try to discourage people from drinking them. You can read the story here. Why tax it though? If soft drinks really are so bad then why not just ban them? Is it because you want the tax revenue and you are only feigning concern for childhood obesity? Ding ding ding, we have a winner. This crap turns my stomach and makes me want to hurl on the socialist mindset. Much like the tax on cigarettes, if a product is truly horrible ban it. Instead we will create government programs from the tax revenue which will then require people to continue buying the product to support the program. (See example A: SCHIP). In the end, nothing is accomplished other than more taxes levied against hard working Americans. We must stop this type of ludicrous behavior from our politicians in Chicago and elsewhere or before you know it they will even start trying to sell us seats in the Senate.

Where to start? Oh I know, how about we start with the nut job green movement. I have been in an ongoing debate with my wife’s German cousin over green related stuff lately and am at the point of wanting to bang my head into a wall to make the crazy stop. His latest trick is to sensationalize everything he says and then back it down a notch when confronted. Hmmm, I’m guessing he learned that somewhere…oh, his fearless leader $500 massage man Gore. It is extremely frustrating when a family member has not only drunk the kool-aid, they are now gleefully mixing up new batches to serve to the feeble minded.

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?

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From NYDailyNews.com, Taliban hang 7-year-old boy accused of being a spy, suicide bomber kills 40 at Afghanistan wedding:

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 Americans, as citizens, we have the duty to stand up and defend our Constitution. We have the same obligation to our country that soldiers do when they swear an oath to defend this great nation from enemies both foreign and domestic (Army.mil). History, our history, is rich with patriotism, rich with sacrifice, both from soldiers fighting on distant shores to everyday citizens pitching in what they can to support such efforts. From the birth of this nation to that dark day in September a decade ago, Americans have always united to defend ourselves from external threats and many have paid the ultimate sacrifice to do so. So why do we sit idly by as our nation is being ripped apart from within its own borders? We have a right, a duty, to defend this grand experiment from domestic enemies yet we do nothing to stop the usurping of Constitutional power from the citizens and states that are the bedrock of this Republic. This nation needs a reboot or better yet a fresh install of the Constitution, back to the original intentions that brought together thirteen separate and sovereign States.

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So, the other day I applied for a position with a county agency, specifically a county community college district. To be completely forth coming I applied for two positions, one that matched my experience although I was short the college degree that I will have in a few months, and the other was a much lesser job for which I was very overqualified. Anyway, I get called in for an interview for the lesser of the two positions. Oh wait, first I had to go take a test for the position that involved looking at a picture of Microsoft Office (2003 edition) toolbars and identifying the icons. That was the qualification for this position apparently, being able to identify an icon in a blurry photo. Ten years in the IT field, mostly as an administrator, and that was the first time I ever had to pick an icon out of a lineup.

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With more and more Americans feeling the effects, either directly or indirectly, of the economic slowdown, there are a few things to keep in mind. The first is that God is in control. I really could stop there because that sums up where our focus should be, on God. Since as a nation we have turned our back on God, believing that we are somehow bigger than He, there are a few other things we should keep in mind.

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Just a follow up to the previous post.  Dems Says Pentagon Using Scare Tactics:

WASHINGTON (AP) – In their latest tussle with the White House on the Iraq war, two leading House Democrats said Tuesday the Pentagon was using scare tactics to try to goad Congress into passing another war spending bill.

And Reps. David Obey and John Murtha said they won’t budge. Obey, D- Wis., chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, and Murtha, D- Pa., head of the panel’s Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, said they won’t support more money for the war this year unless President Bush accepts a timetable for troop withdrawals.

Last week, the House passed a $50 billion bill that would keep operations afloat for several more months, but sets a goal of bringing most troops home by December 2008. After Bush threatened to veto the measure, Senate Republicans blocked it.

Ok, I won’t deny that I am very biased towards our military.  In fact I personally believe it is one of the few powers that the Federal government was actually given under the constitution.  With that disclosure out of the way, when will the average American realize that this current Congress is either very close to or already has betrayed American security past the point of repair?  Seriously, if we don’t have the balls to stick out a fight we are winning, how will we have the balls to fight a war that could go either way? 

Look around the world right now, our enemies are rallying around a weak America.  Liberals would have you believe that if it weren’t for George Bush and his “failed policies”, that the world would love America unconditionally.  These are the same people who believed the cold war would go away if President Reagan weren’t such a stubborn dick.  They were wrong then and they are wrong now.  Stop trying to cut America’s balls off to please the other pussy countries of the world.  America must show its resolve to the rest of the world or we’ll be fighting a nuclear China and Russia instead of a bunch of misguided towel heads holding an express ticket to hell.

I have long argued (mostly with my wife) that the women’s movement is primarily responsible for the decline in America.  Women’s rights are great, I wouldn’t change that, but with most women now in the workplace the American quality of life has eroded.  Huh?  Sounds a little sexiest doesn’t it?  It is but let me attempt to illustrate what I am referring to here.  What have we as a society gained by having working mom’s in every business? 

As a nation we have seen the quality of our schools decrease as they have had to take on more of a role in raising the students.  Our children today are not getting the attention from their family they need because the parents are too involved with work.  Divorce rates have soared without the stability of the traditional family roles. We have seen household incomes increase two fold which at first was great but now has driven up costs across the board almost making it mandatory to have two wage earners in the family.  Obesity in America has skyrocket because we have become dependent on fast food to make up for the lack of cooking from the woman in the house.  Our politician’s tell us we need immigrant labor to make up for a shortage in the workplace.  A shortage that wouldn’t exist if women weren’t given the right to murder their own children. 

Anyway, now that I have exposed myself as a chauvinistic pig, here is an interesting and somewhat related article on the budget crisis in middle income families: From MSNBC.com Life is harder now, some experts say:

Shopping malls are packed every weekend. Restaurants can’t open fast enough. Everyone seems to be wearing designer shoes, jackets and jeans and sipping $4 lattes. Credit card commercials constantly advocate splurging and, it seems, U.S. consumers are all too ready to comply.

So what’s the problem? Why do so many middle class Americans with so much stuff say they feel so squeezed? If they are dogged by debt, isn?t it their own fault?

Perhaps, some experts say, things are not as they appear.

So Barack Obama is now using faith to justify environmental hysteria? Obama Links Faith to Environmentalism:

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama said Sunday that his religious beliefs influence his plans for how to protect the environment.

Speaking before religious leaders and others at what he called an “interfaith forum on climate change,” the Illinois senator said God has entrusted humans with the responsibility of caring for the earth, and “we are not acting as good stewards of God’s earth when our bottom line puts the size of our profits before the future of our planet.”

“It is our responsibility to ensure that this planet remains clean and safe and livable for our children and for all of God’s children,” he told about 200 people gathered at the downtown public library. “But in recent years, science has made it undeniably clear that our generation is not living up to this responsibility. Global warming is not a someday problem, it is now.”

Personally, my faith is what leads me to believe global warming is an absolute joke. I’m not saying we can’t make the Earth heat up a tiny bit, I just don’t believe man is capable of destroying it. It is clear from scripture that there are people on Earth when Christ returns. If global warming can destroy the Earth how would this be possible? Perhaps Barack should read the Bible before he claims to know God’s desire for us on the planet He created. This is simply a bum politician trying to woo fence sitters by using flowery language to invoke a greater purpose in people. Or as I like to call it, a deceptive plan to destroy capitalism and create a socialist state.