The more I read about the abuses endured by American citizens at the hand of TSA workers, the more I begin to take seriously the theory that our country is being consumed by a government seeking to enslave us under the guise of being "for our own good". I haven't flown since the body scanners were implemented in some of the major airports but when I heard that Homeland Security chief, Micahel Chertoff, was benefiting financially from the machines' placement, it sounded like a bad idea from the get go.
Additionally, it didn't take much of a bet that there would be TSA workers misusing the scanned images in humiliating ways. A multitude of cases are documented where the images were not only passed among the TSA workers but on to some sheriff and police departments strictly due to the gawk factor. As if invasion of privacy and humiliation isn't enough to call an end to body scanner use but the worst part is the level of radiation emitted with each scan. The Inter Agency Committee on Radiation Safety said the levels were not acceptable, especially to people who fly regularly. From the government's perspective, exposing hundreds of thousands to radiation is worth the cost in order to cover their butt. Don't you crazy citizens get it? You give us your tax dollars and we pretend to keep you safe from bombs while you get the added bonus of humiliation mixed with radiation for good measure. Now, get to work and stop thinking so much!
Luckily, every passenger has the "right" to refuse the dangerous and humiliating body scan and opt instead for sexual molestation. Sign me up! It's really mind blowing to think the government can hire some minimum wage goons whose job it is to feel peoples' genitalia for weapons. Boy, does that give me some ideas! Only within a government gone insane would this exist.
Apparently the fact that the measures now underway in our airports violate the 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
is of no concern to our government. There is account after account of every day citizens, young teenage girls with prosthetic legs having breasts groped, old men being forced to drop their pants in public due to a knee replacement, young children having their groins examined for explosives. REALLY? This is happening in America today. This is exactly why ALL airport security needs to be taken out of the control of government and placed back into the business of private firms. Unlike the government where incompetence is never grounds for termination, private firms can be fired, hired and held to standards of common sense and decency! The government has never operated decently let alone applying rules of common sense.
These absurd measures do NOT keep us safer in the skies, they are merely another way to strip us of our rights as citizens. And the next step to save us from terrorists being discussed is to implement these same measures at all large sporting events and concerts. What then? Screening us each time we step outside our front door?
Safety in the skies is an important goal but nothing in life is risk-free. Common sense is the best tool any of us have to increase our chances of staying safe. However, government replaces adaptable common sense with rules that apply to limited scenarios, resulting in more harm than good. Why then does government pretend they are improving a situation when the facts do not bare them out? If I were really paranoid, I'd think our government were creating this outrageous atmosphere in the airports specifically to limit our travel as well as stifling the numbers of those coming from the outside. Tourism and business travel to the United States has dropped at a time when we can least afford it. Reagan's advice regarding the words Americans should all fear, have never been truer than they are today..."We're from the government and we're here to help". Help who, exactly? Maybe if pat downs and groping of private parts is the best way to keep us all safe, perhaps we as travellers should be allowed to do the same search to the TSA agents. With Liberty and Groin grabbing for ALL!
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Monday, November 8, 2010
What the Facts Is on the Taxes
Every time I hear a politician or pundit on the left characterize the extension of the Bush Tax Cuts to the "wealthy" as a cost TO THE GOVERNMENT, I cuss a blue streak. Until the day comes that all citizens have skin in this government funding game, I will remain one foul-mouthed broad. Sorry kids, keep covering your ears!
I agree in the concept of taxes to pay for the infrastructure of our country, not a problem but when you read about tax dollars going for items such as studying the sexual arousal in anesthetized female rats (real Dartmouth study with our real tax funding), research and development regarding the use of African-American English, or $168,000 going to Escape Massage Parlor in Midlothian, Virginia, a taxpayer has to wonder how these recipients are worthy of our tax funds?! Of course, it's always the policemen and firemen whose funding will be first on the chopping block. Heaven forbid sexy drugged up rats should not have their fun!
Please, all politicians, cut the crap. We've delivered our shot across the bow. For the next two years we will be watching every move you make. No pulling fast ones on us anymore because we've got your number. OR do we? Regrettably just this past election I am afraid the crafty politicians scammed the voters of Virginia once again. Though we were able to oust a few of the weasels this last round, the good people of Virginia made a very bad mistake. We fell for yet another tax scheme and this one was backed by REPUBLICANS. Shocking, I know. NOT.
Two of the three initiatives on Virginia's ballot involved changing our state's Constitution to reduce the taxes of (1) our elderly and (2) our military. Who wouldn't WANT to give tax breaks to elderly and the military? Seems like a "no brainer" however the fact is as Rob Schilling http://www.facebook.com/schillingshow noted in his pre-vote warning against these initiatives: ANY CITIZEN EXEMPT FROM PAYING TAXES THAT HIS NEIGHBOR MUST PAY, HAS NO INCENTIVE IN KEEPING THE TAX LOW BECAUSE HE HIMSELF PAYS NONE. With 2009 showing 47% of ALL AMERICAN CITIZENS paying ZERO Federal Tax, we are setting ourselves up to either run all successful individuals out of the country or render them extinct all together. The Progressive Tax has brought on the predictable instability that all ponzi schemes produce. To ADD to this by voting for tax breaks on the elderly and military are only bringing financial collapse to our system all the quicker. Playing on our emotions is how these thieves always strip our pockets and in the long run, both elderly and military will suffer too.
As for the third initiative, it too sounded like a good idea...increasing the funding for the state's rainy day fund. In these days of financial insecurity, the concept of putting money away for emergencies seems right in line with every responsible person's ideals. WRONG! Giving more money (our money) to the state to hold for a rainy day is equivalent to asking an arsonist to tend the BBQ. The state is not a bank, investment fund or a savings account. The state is not regulated to spend that money per your request. It has full control in deeming any rainy day it wants as an emergency, and with politicians made of sugar, you know EVERY drop of dew will magically become classified a hurricane by our sweet representatives.
Even though American citizens are undoubtedly waking up and becoming informed, we still have quite a way to go. Don't be fooled. Whether it be a Democrat or Republican, if they suggest you give them more money, there's a very good chance it is funding the arousal of rats at the Escape Massage Parlor in Midlothian, VA.
Think twice when governments entice.
I agree in the concept of taxes to pay for the infrastructure of our country, not a problem but when you read about tax dollars going for items such as studying the sexual arousal in anesthetized female rats (real Dartmouth study with our real tax funding), research and development regarding the use of African-American English, or $168,000 going to Escape Massage Parlor in Midlothian, Virginia, a taxpayer has to wonder how these recipients are worthy of our tax funds?! Of course, it's always the policemen and firemen whose funding will be first on the chopping block. Heaven forbid sexy drugged up rats should not have their fun!
Please, all politicians, cut the crap. We've delivered our shot across the bow. For the next two years we will be watching every move you make. No pulling fast ones on us anymore because we've got your number. OR do we? Regrettably just this past election I am afraid the crafty politicians scammed the voters of Virginia once again. Though we were able to oust a few of the weasels this last round, the good people of Virginia made a very bad mistake. We fell for yet another tax scheme and this one was backed by REPUBLICANS. Shocking, I know. NOT.
Two of the three initiatives on Virginia's ballot involved changing our state's Constitution to reduce the taxes of (1) our elderly and (2) our military. Who wouldn't WANT to give tax breaks to elderly and the military? Seems like a "no brainer" however the fact is as Rob Schilling http://www.facebook.com/schillingshow noted in his pre-vote warning against these initiatives: ANY CITIZEN EXEMPT FROM PAYING TAXES THAT HIS NEIGHBOR MUST PAY, HAS NO INCENTIVE IN KEEPING THE TAX LOW BECAUSE HE HIMSELF PAYS NONE. With 2009 showing 47% of ALL AMERICAN CITIZENS paying ZERO Federal Tax, we are setting ourselves up to either run all successful individuals out of the country or render them extinct all together. The Progressive Tax has brought on the predictable instability that all ponzi schemes produce. To ADD to this by voting for tax breaks on the elderly and military are only bringing financial collapse to our system all the quicker. Playing on our emotions is how these thieves always strip our pockets and in the long run, both elderly and military will suffer too.
As for the third initiative, it too sounded like a good idea...increasing the funding for the state's rainy day fund. In these days of financial insecurity, the concept of putting money away for emergencies seems right in line with every responsible person's ideals. WRONG! Giving more money (our money) to the state to hold for a rainy day is equivalent to asking an arsonist to tend the BBQ. The state is not a bank, investment fund or a savings account. The state is not regulated to spend that money per your request. It has full control in deeming any rainy day it wants as an emergency, and with politicians made of sugar, you know EVERY drop of dew will magically become classified a hurricane by our sweet representatives.
Even though American citizens are undoubtedly waking up and becoming informed, we still have quite a way to go. Don't be fooled. Whether it be a Democrat or Republican, if they suggest you give them more money, there's a very good chance it is funding the arousal of rats at the Escape Massage Parlor in Midlothian, VA.
Think twice when governments entice.
Saturday, November 6, 2010
I Vote For Irate Pirate PELOSI
This is great news. My favorite phony Catholic, hypocritical bamboozler of all time is staying in the game. Nancy Pelosi is taking a page out of Brett Favre's playbook and coming back for one more (plus) season(s). Apparently having her hat handed to her is no deterrent from power for our girl Nan. She is going to scrape and scratch for every shred of power she can possibly cling to till the enth hour, so help her... "the word", as she would say.
As a conservative, this is the best news I can hear. I'd much rather have Hellosi remaining the face of House Democrats than Steady Steny Hoyer. If Steny were elected minority whip the wind in the sails of conservatives would predictably diminish. Republicans would still play the role of "push back" to Obama but the tone and energy would be lower and slower. This is something conservatives can not afford to happen at such a pivotal time. The visuals for the next two years have to be big. Pelosi as minority leader would supply the arrogance of purpose that the populace needs to keep seeing. Americans want calm. The minute Democrats sound reasonable, as if they will play nice and compromise, many concerned Americans will breathe a sigh of relief and go back to mowing their lawns. We need the insolence and bold deceitfulness that only Nancy Pelosi can bring.
Am I calling for conflict and turmoil within our government? No. If I thought for one moment that the liberals who now own the Democratic Party were not actually progressives in their favorite costume of sheep's clothing I'd be fine with a Congress that operated with civility and respect. However, our Democrats have morphed into a brand of Fabian Socialists who use the guise of uplifting the underclass when in fact they want to take down the system as a whole (hurting the weakest of society the most) in order to ultimately rebuild society under their twisted "total control of the masses" scheme. Their vision of a few smarties shepherding the world population in controlled existence is their ultimate wet dream.
For progressives, controlling the ignorant population, providing them the mediocre necessities of life from cradle to grave is the humane, evolved, loving thing to do for the big dummies. Everyone, even backward conservatives, must admit, there's really only a handful of intelligent people in the world. The rest of the lot are barely able to read the Health Care bill (thank goodness) let alone manage their own existence! That's why the precious few mental giants need to mother, smother and molest the idiot herds, for their own good, of course. This is the logic of the current class of American progressives as well as your run-of-the-mill pedophile. And for this reason, I want bold and brash Nasty Nan to lead their charge. She's the creepy uncle everyone knows to stay clear of at Thanksgiving.
Some may think I am saying the American people are dim if they need such an obvious red flag waved to keep their motivation alive. In fact, the American people are not dim, they are industrious, maybe to a fault. They are individuals inclined to sailing their own ship, mending their own sails, plugging the holes in their own vessel, relying on the notion that all the other captains are doing the same. However, when pirates invade the waters, captains have to shift attention away from the shape of their ship to the outside threat which proposes to render sailing impossible altogether. To defeat pirates, all self-sufficient captains must unite as a force to rid the seas of thieves. The true danger occurs when the pirates begin acting as fellow captains (Steny Hoyer). The guard goes down, the theiving commences, only on a more stealth basis.
That is why I vote for the swash-buckling antics of Irate Pirate Pelosi. She will reliably keep all good captain's eyes on the Jolly Obama through the tempest of 2012. Yo-O-Bo and a bottle of Dumb!
As a conservative, this is the best news I can hear. I'd much rather have Hellosi remaining the face of House Democrats than Steady Steny Hoyer. If Steny were elected minority whip the wind in the sails of conservatives would predictably diminish. Republicans would still play the role of "push back" to Obama but the tone and energy would be lower and slower. This is something conservatives can not afford to happen at such a pivotal time. The visuals for the next two years have to be big. Pelosi as minority leader would supply the arrogance of purpose that the populace needs to keep seeing. Americans want calm. The minute Democrats sound reasonable, as if they will play nice and compromise, many concerned Americans will breathe a sigh of relief and go back to mowing their lawns. We need the insolence and bold deceitfulness that only Nancy Pelosi can bring.
Am I calling for conflict and turmoil within our government? No. If I thought for one moment that the liberals who now own the Democratic Party were not actually progressives in their favorite costume of sheep's clothing I'd be fine with a Congress that operated with civility and respect. However, our Democrats have morphed into a brand of Fabian Socialists who use the guise of uplifting the underclass when in fact they want to take down the system as a whole (hurting the weakest of society the most) in order to ultimately rebuild society under their twisted "total control of the masses" scheme. Their vision of a few smarties shepherding the world population in controlled existence is their ultimate wet dream.
For progressives, controlling the ignorant population, providing them the mediocre necessities of life from cradle to grave is the humane, evolved, loving thing to do for the big dummies. Everyone, even backward conservatives, must admit, there's really only a handful of intelligent people in the world. The rest of the lot are barely able to read the Health Care bill (thank goodness) let alone manage their own existence! That's why the precious few mental giants need to mother, smother and molest the idiot herds, for their own good, of course. This is the logic of the current class of American progressives as well as your run-of-the-mill pedophile. And for this reason, I want bold and brash Nasty Nan to lead their charge. She's the creepy uncle everyone knows to stay clear of at Thanksgiving.
Some may think I am saying the American people are dim if they need such an obvious red flag waved to keep their motivation alive. In fact, the American people are not dim, they are industrious, maybe to a fault. They are individuals inclined to sailing their own ship, mending their own sails, plugging the holes in their own vessel, relying on the notion that all the other captains are doing the same. However, when pirates invade the waters, captains have to shift attention away from the shape of their ship to the outside threat which proposes to render sailing impossible altogether. To defeat pirates, all self-sufficient captains must unite as a force to rid the seas of thieves. The true danger occurs when the pirates begin acting as fellow captains (Steny Hoyer). The guard goes down, the theiving commences, only on a more stealth basis.
That is why I vote for the swash-buckling antics of Irate Pirate Pelosi. She will reliably keep all good captain's eyes on the Jolly Obama through the tempest of 2012. Yo-O-Bo and a bottle of Dumb!
Friday, November 5, 2010
What Does Obama Care About?
I've been trying to figure out Obama's story ever since his tone deaf date night with Michelle way back when he was still considered a rock star. I chalked that particular elitest act up to the fact that the strain of the campaign could easily justify a night of blowing off steam. The small fact that Obama ran as a man who championed the "have nots" could surely be spared the title hypocrite this one time. The mere fact that the country was in economic free fall, for pete'sake, it was one date night for the leader of the free world! Oh, but if only the fllaunting living large lifestyle had only stopped there.
No, the country then had an outrageous stimulus bill funded from the taxpayers' hide, an obnoxious health care bill rammed down our throat and don't forget the auto bailouts. Thank goodness we live in America where capitalism determines the winners and losers...not! Obama and his regime piled that on us all the while taking extravagant vacations to Hawaii, Chicago, Copenhagen to secure the 2016 Summer Olympics for Chicago, NOT, Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize for stuff he MIGHT do as President (talk about HOPE), Florida to look like he was working to stop that mean gushing oil that Bad BP caused, Martha's Vineyard with the first fam, who needed another vacay away from Barack so they went on to Spain and made a big splash there before coming back to that yucky old home in that backward country they rule over. Life can be so trying when you're an elitest leftist living in America with throngs of complaining Teabaggers who have some crazy notion that they matter.
So now Barack feels bad. Not for what he's done to our country, but for himself. All that GOVERNMENT money spent to turn things around, to get us out of the ditch, to deliver the hope and change has failed. Our money now has been devalued thanks to the Fed, bringing us all the closer to identifying with the Weimar Republic. The Chinese are telling us how to be capitalists, the English are moving away from socialist healthcare and the French get tough with Islamist law in their country while we fill the void of being the chumps of the world. And Obama feels bad that he is misunderstood. Heaven forbid he realize the thing that is misunderstood is the will of the people!
A huge shift occured in Washington with this midterm election. Will it wake our leader up? Will he see what we see? Will he care? Judging by his flying off to India, spending a reported $200 mil A DAY, no, he will not because this man does not have the capacity to care. I initially thought Obama was an intelligent man with a liberal agenda. I was right about the liberal agenda but his mental make up is not one of intelligence, it is one of narcissism, the kind of which this country has never seen in a leader except maybe Richard Nixon. In Nixon's defense, I believe his mental sickness developed later while in power. Obama came into this presidency a total nut job. When I think back to the faux presidential seal he had cooked up during the campaign and that embarrasing display he orchestrated after winning the Democratic nomination, with the weird colonnade backdrop, it becomes clear the guy had delusions of granduer way before that over the top Inauguration Day.
Obama jets off to India as our soldiers are in two war zones, mid east peace is in shambles, the U.N. is damning America for Human Rights violations, on our dime, at the invitation of our president as our dollar is sinking, jobs are shrinking, inflation is looming and medical costs are now higher than ever due to his fabulous plan. The black population is in much worse shape economically than they were under Bush. Home ownership overall is at an historic low, foreclosures, all time high and Barack Obama tells us he's doing "more than we know". Do I want to know what more? Now THAT is a scary thought.
What bugs me is the fact that any person who takes a job with the CIA or FBI is subjected to a mental evaluation. WHY isn't EVERY candidate for the Office of President of the United States screened too? I'm sorry, I've known passionate individuals who were obsessed by their cause. I've known highly intelligent people who are arrogant and frustrated by the hoi polloi's simple take on life. And I've known people who are certifiably crazy, out of their gord, nuts. Of the three groups, Obama fits in with only one.
None of Obama's actions make sense from an intellectual, logical, politically self-preservation stance. Obama cares about no one, not because he is evil or even selfish. It's not that sinister. Simply, Obama just needs a check up from the neck up. George Soros on the other hand...
No, the country then had an outrageous stimulus bill funded from the taxpayers' hide, an obnoxious health care bill rammed down our throat and don't forget the auto bailouts. Thank goodness we live in America where capitalism determines the winners and losers...not! Obama and his regime piled that on us all the while taking extravagant vacations to Hawaii, Chicago, Copenhagen to secure the 2016 Summer Olympics for Chicago, NOT, Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize for stuff he MIGHT do as President (talk about HOPE), Florida to look like he was working to stop that mean gushing oil that Bad BP caused, Martha's Vineyard with the first fam, who needed another vacay away from Barack so they went on to Spain and made a big splash there before coming back to that yucky old home in that backward country they rule over. Life can be so trying when you're an elitest leftist living in America with throngs of complaining Teabaggers who have some crazy notion that they matter.
So now Barack feels bad. Not for what he's done to our country, but for himself. All that GOVERNMENT money spent to turn things around, to get us out of the ditch, to deliver the hope and change has failed. Our money now has been devalued thanks to the Fed, bringing us all the closer to identifying with the Weimar Republic. The Chinese are telling us how to be capitalists, the English are moving away from socialist healthcare and the French get tough with Islamist law in their country while we fill the void of being the chumps of the world. And Obama feels bad that he is misunderstood. Heaven forbid he realize the thing that is misunderstood is the will of the people!
A huge shift occured in Washington with this midterm election. Will it wake our leader up? Will he see what we see? Will he care? Judging by his flying off to India, spending a reported $200 mil A DAY, no, he will not because this man does not have the capacity to care. I initially thought Obama was an intelligent man with a liberal agenda. I was right about the liberal agenda but his mental make up is not one of intelligence, it is one of narcissism, the kind of which this country has never seen in a leader except maybe Richard Nixon. In Nixon's defense, I believe his mental sickness developed later while in power. Obama came into this presidency a total nut job. When I think back to the faux presidential seal he had cooked up during the campaign and that embarrasing display he orchestrated after winning the Democratic nomination, with the weird colonnade backdrop, it becomes clear the guy had delusions of granduer way before that over the top Inauguration Day.
Obama jets off to India as our soldiers are in two war zones, mid east peace is in shambles, the U.N. is damning America for Human Rights violations, on our dime, at the invitation of our president as our dollar is sinking, jobs are shrinking, inflation is looming and medical costs are now higher than ever due to his fabulous plan. The black population is in much worse shape economically than they were under Bush. Home ownership overall is at an historic low, foreclosures, all time high and Barack Obama tells us he's doing "more than we know". Do I want to know what more? Now THAT is a scary thought.
What bugs me is the fact that any person who takes a job with the CIA or FBI is subjected to a mental evaluation. WHY isn't EVERY candidate for the Office of President of the United States screened too? I'm sorry, I've known passionate individuals who were obsessed by their cause. I've known highly intelligent people who are arrogant and frustrated by the hoi polloi's simple take on life. And I've known people who are certifiably crazy, out of their gord, nuts. Of the three groups, Obama fits in with only one.
None of Obama's actions make sense from an intellectual, logical, politically self-preservation stance. Obama cares about no one, not because he is evil or even selfish. It's not that sinister. Simply, Obama just needs a check up from the neck up. George Soros on the other hand...
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