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.

I go to this interview because frankly the town I live in isn’t exactly a hotspot for IT so I try to leave as many options open as possible. I show up for the interview early and am informed that at a specific time I will be handed the list of questions that I will be asked in the interview by the “selection committee”. Did I mention I showed up early? So what did I get for doing that? A district employee standing over me with the questionnaire in hand just waiting for the clock to strike the magical hour. Tax dollars hard at work there I’m sure. Plus I get to have a wonderful conversation with another candidate that decided to show up almost an hour early to their interview. Wonderful!!

Once the magic hour struck, I was handed a sheet of paper with ten questions, two of which weren’t even questions or were they? The first was something like “What do you know about California Title V?” The last question listed said “Do you have any questions for the committee?” To reiterate, I was handed a sheet of paper with 8 legit questions for this interview which will be important in a moment.

When my time came to go before the “committee” I was shocked to find the committee consisted of 6 people that would take turns reading the questions to me; the same questions I had been handed earlier. Now I am not an efficiency expert but I am pretty sure it does not take 6 government employees to read 10 (8) questions. Even if the entire committee were Polish it still would seem bizarre. Although that might be a funny joke, have to work on that one. Anyway, I felt I did fine in the interview, as fine as one can when speaking to a group of robots that can’t ask follow up questions. (What’s up with that anyway? What is the point of an interview anyway if the interviewer cannot ask follow up questions? Why not do the whole process by email or something then?) Needless to say I did not get the job.

This was not the first job I had applied to for some type of government work. Each time the process is nearly the same, read questions off a sheet of paper, stare blankly at me as I answer said questions, and then thank me for time, we’ll call you. Each time I have been overqualified for the positions I apply for and each time I am overlooked for the job. My interview skills with private employers has led to a fairly high success rate once I reach the interview process. So why can’t I land a government job? Sadly the only conclusion I can come to is government employees are mandated to be racist. I look great on paper, I test well, but once they see the color of my skin, I am automatically dinged points for being a certain ethnicity. Has this happened to you? Have you been discriminated against because you look different than the type of individual government employers are looking for? Oh, did I mention that I am white? That’s right, white as a saltine cracker, well maybe a Ritz, I do have a nice tan. Either way, I am a cracker that can’t beat the government’s desire to hire minorities. I am not arguing that a white should be hired over a minority, by no means am I implying that. I have no problem losing out on a job to anyone that is more qualified, regardless of their skin color. I am just saying that I feel that I do not receive a fair shake because of the color of my skin. Oh did I mention that I am a male also? Yeah, a white male that is currently suffering from reverse discrimination or what the government likes to call “affirmative action”.

1. Money makes mankind crazy. This is true no matter what end of the money spectrum you fall in, either rich or poor. In our current economic situation we seem to be going out of the way to make sure we all feel safe in a time of uncertainty. The recent flap over AIG bonuses is but one example. Why are we blaming AIG for keeping a contractual commitment they have made to certain employees? The government were the ones to fork over money to AIG but now seem surprised that AIG has to pay bonuses based on previously signed contracts? Where is the demand for due diligence on the part of government?
2. Remember the flap over the Patriot Act? How the argument was made by some that trading liberty for security is never a good thing? Where is that argument now? As a nation we are collectively sacrificing future economic liberty for a warm and fuzzy false sense of economic security now. This is a dangerous road we have allowed our politicians to travel down and I fear the course we have embarked on cannot be altered now. The fact is we have saddled the youngest generations of this country with a financial obligation that will alter the country they inherit. Previous generations fought and died to ensure that our generations inherited a country the same or better than they did. What sacrifices are we making to ensure the same for the generations that will follow us?
3. Money makes mankind crazy. I know this was point 1 but it is worth reiterating. When millions of Americans are struggling to pay their mortgages or put food on the table, they will do whatever they have to do to hold onto what they have. In steps the government with some plan that will help the average person pay their mortgage or provide food for their family and we as citizens will gobble it up. Herein lies the problem however, relying on the government for assistance only strengthens the power of the government. Much like a child is dependent on their parents to provide food and shelter, we are being trained to rely on someone else, the government, for these same basic necessities.

To be clear here, I am not arguing that unemployment assistance or other programs intended to aid those on tough times makes a person subservient to the government. Those programs were put in place for the exact crisis we face today and every working citizen paid into these funds to help those who need assistance. There is nothing wrong with these programs. I am arguing against things such as the stimulus package and mortgage relief. We must stop depending on the government for our personal needs and start showing a little more responsibility for ourselves.

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.

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.

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.