Priceless

Congress Hard At Work

This is one of their THREE DAY WORK WEEKS that we all pay for. I am ready to start from the beginning by voting out all elected officials and not letting any of them stay in office for more than two terms. No more lifelong healthcare, retirement, voting in their own pay raises, taking perks on our taxes, etc.


House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero Jr. , R-Norwalk, pictured standing, far right, speaks while colleagues Rep. Barbara Lambert, D-Milford and Rep. Jack F. Hennessy, D-Bridgeport, play solitaire Monday night as the House convened to vote on a new budget. (AP)

The guy sitting in the row in front of these two.... he's on Facebook, and the guy behind Hennessy is checking out the baseball scores.

These are the folks that couldn't get the budget out by Oct. 1, and are about to control your health care, cap and trade, and the list goes on....

KEEP THIS GOING, DON'T LET IT STOP WITH YOU! CONSIDER VOTING ALL INCUMBENTS OUT NEXT NOVEMBER

Flying Air Force One with Dignity & Class

Wow.

"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:

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.

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?)

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:

Sometimes you feel like you live too long
Days drip slowly on the page
You catch yourself
Pacing the cage ...

(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?)

Sometimes the best map will not guide you
You can't see what's round the bend
Sometimes the road leads through dark places
Sometimes the darkness is your friend

(I think of these words often, wondering if all my walking, trying to hit the right road is just blind wondering in the dark)

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?

I’m Moving To Mexico

Dear Mr. President, Senate and House of Representatives:

I'm planning to move my family and extended family into Mexico for my health, and I would like to ask you to assist me.

We're planning to simply walk across the border from the U.S. into Mexico, and we'll need your help to make a few arrangements.

We plan to skip all the legal stuff like visas, passports, immigration quotas and laws. I'm sure they handle those things the same way you do here.

So, would you mind telling your buddy, President Calderon, that I'm on my way over? Please let him know that I will be expecting the following:

1. Free medical care for my entire family.
2. English-speaking government bureaucrats for all services I might need, whether I use them or not.
3. All Mexico government forms need to also be printed in English.
4. I want my kids to be taught Spanish by English-speaking (bi-lingual) teachers.
   
5. Schools need to include classes on American culture and history.
6. I want my kids to see the American flag on one of the flag poles at their school.
7. Please plan to feed my kids at school for both breakfast and lunch.
8. I will need a local Mexican driver's license so I can get easy access to government services.
9. I do plan to get a car and drive in Mexico, but, I don't plan to purchase car insurance, and I probably won't make any special effort to learn local traffic laws.
10. In case one of the Mexican police officers does not get the memo from their president to leave me alone, please be sure that every patrol car has at least one English-speaking officer.
11. I plan to fly the U.S. flag from my house top, put U S. flag decals on my car, and have a gigantic celebration on July 4th. I do not want any complaints or negative comments from the locals.
12. I would also like to have a nice job without paying any taxes, or have any labor or tax laws enforced on any business I may start.
13. Please have the president tell all the Mexican people to be extremely nice and never say a critical things about me or my family, or about the strain we might place on their economy.

I know this is an easy request because you already do all these things for all his people who come to the U.S. from Mexico. I am sure that President Calderon won't mind returning the favor if you ask him nicely.

Thank you so much for your kind help.

Sincerely,
U.S. Citizen & Taxpayer