One thing to consider regarding the ObamaCare package once again being re-created behind closed doors: if the government gets control of "health care" for the people, you can bet they will begin to legislate what we eat (for our own good), what we drive (for our own good), how we keep our homes (for our own good), whether we have guns in our homes (for our own good), what kind of "inciting, hate-mongering" material we allow our children to read (for example, the Bible) - all for our own good. The new KGB will have full rights to inspect our homes for all sorts of health violations. (DHS can already do this if they get an "anonymous tip" that children are not being cared for properly in any imaginable way.)
Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, John Adams, and my own great-grandpa Patrick Henry would have been appalled by this attempt to return us to a king and peasant system - in fact, they risked all they had and went to war to get us free from this very sort of mess.
We must stop this attempt to strip us and our children and grand-children of our "endowed by our Creator, inalienable rights" of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. No, that's not silly old-fashioned over-dramaticization - it's what this country was founded on.
Have we given up the idea?
Go mbeannaí Dia duit!
Friday 25 September 2009
Monday 21 September 2009
"Uh ... which button do I push?"
CITIZEN ALERT UPDATE: In the first comment below, WestPalm4Hillary noted, “Great, and THIS is the guy the Democrats want with control of ‘the button’.” Which reminded me of something we haven’t written about in a while — one of BO’s many (and they are countless) excuses for the votes he made, didn’t make, maybe made, or Planned Parenthood or the mob Chicago pols forced him to make, or was just “present” to make in the Illinois State Senate. Via the LA Times, January 8, 2008:
Susan’s Note: You know, it’s one thing to go “oops” when you (yeah, right) push the wrong button in a state senate vote, but … in the White House?! God help us all! (And, um, dare I ask … what might have affected his brain so adversely??? Huh?)Obama said oops on 6 state Senate votes
He pushed the wrong button, he asserted at the time. Two of the admitted flubs were on hotly contested issues.
Saturday 12 September 2009
Feelin' Everbitta 50
There's a Jimmy Buffett song that often reaches directly into my heart. the name of it is Pacing the Cage. Some of the lyrics are:
Do you ever get the feeling that this whole life is a joke? no matter how hard I try to make a difference and do the right thing and help someone, none of it matters a bit after I'm gone. The guy who sits on his ass all his life and never does a thing will be just as valued six months after he's dead as the guy who worked himself to death trying to get it right. Solomon (supposed to be the wisest man who ever lived) said "everything is vanity" - in other words, nothing matters except to the person doing it, and then only if it makes him feel better, like he accomplished something.
Some days I wish I had the guts, balls, courage, whatever to just get in the car and start driving, and keep going until I hit water, then crawl off under a tree and sit there until ... well, until, I don't know when. I wish I could crawl into a Buffett song and hide from the whole worthless, ungrateful world. Be a rum bum on a beach, scratching my beard and my ass and throwing sticks at the kids who come by to point and laugh at me. Stare at the horizon and the waves coming in. Watch the pelicans living a much more fulfilling life than most humans I've seen. Find the cool beneath the hot sand. Die out of the way.
So, how are you doing?
Sometimes you feel like you live too long(can't you just see a big ol tiger who's lived his entire life behind the bars of a 12 X 8 foot cage, pacing back and forth, his head hanging down as he watches life going on just out of reach?)
Days drip slowly on the page
You catch yourself
Pacing the cage ...
Sometimes the best map will not guide you(I think of these words often, wondering if all my walking, trying to hit the right road is just blind wondering in the dark)
You can't see what's round the bend
Sometimes the road leads through dark places
Sometimes the darkness is your friend
Do you ever get the feeling that this whole life is a joke? no matter how hard I try to make a difference and do the right thing and help someone, none of it matters a bit after I'm gone. The guy who sits on his ass all his life and never does a thing will be just as valued six months after he's dead as the guy who worked himself to death trying to get it right. Solomon (supposed to be the wisest man who ever lived) said "everything is vanity" - in other words, nothing matters except to the person doing it, and then only if it makes him feel better, like he accomplished something.
Some days I wish I had the guts, balls, courage, whatever to just get in the car and start driving, and keep going until I hit water, then crawl off under a tree and sit there until ... well, until, I don't know when. I wish I could crawl into a Buffett song and hide from the whole worthless, ungrateful world. Be a rum bum on a beach, scratching my beard and my ass and throwing sticks at the kids who come by to point and laugh at me. Stare at the horizon and the waves coming in. Watch the pelicans living a much more fulfilling life than most humans I've seen. Find the cool beneath the hot sand. Die out of the way.
So, how are you doing?
Thursday 10 September 2009
Response to Wilson's Rude Shout
When South Carolina Republican Rep. Joe Wilson rudely yelled out,
"You lie,"
to the President of the United States, I was so embarrassed!
I thought,
"Hey, why couldn't that have been our congressmen!?"
What a let down, you're both still dogging behind BHO.
We're thinking to moving to a real American state - South Carolina!
Get a clue or get out of OUR office!
BOO!
"You lie,"
to the President of the United States, I was so embarrassed!
I thought,
"Hey, why couldn't that have been our congressmen!?"
What a let down, you're both still dogging behind BHO.
We're thinking to moving to a real American state - South Carolina!
Get a clue or get out of OUR office!
BOO!
Sunday 6 September 2009
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