….(bean a reaction to the DOJ dropping the charges against certain disgusting thugs, without any explanation or justification whatsoever,thereby letting them get away with the most reallest “voter intimidation” tactics ever employed in modern times in this country….and the toadal lack of press time devoted to this story….)

……however. living as i do in west virginia…..i won’t have the opportunity of dressing up in clan gowns and playing election monitor during the next election…..even tho such opportunity has apparently been afforded to the “new” black panthers…….i mean, just because they were engaging in blatant, potentially violent, and obviously militant voter intimidation, that does not mean that they should be prosecuted for such obvious violations of the law……just because they failed to respond to subpoenas requiring their presence in federal court, that does not mean they should be prosecuted for such obvious violations of the law…..i mean, basically, just because they obviously BROKE THE LAW, that does not mean they should be PUNISHED for breaking the law…….

i am not saying obama is a racist who will allow his fellow color-co-ordinated people absolute freedom…after all, Tim Geithner looks awfully whitish to me….and he has got more freedom than any black person in the country….i just kinda think that if this were white guys in sheets with blackjacks…(oh wait, am i allowed to call them “black”jacks…????…..oh gosh this is just too hard)….no….seriously…this is an open and shut case which would have ended up in serious prison time for anyone who tried it in the 60s or 70s….but not these guys, oh no……case dismissed…..

what we need…and we really do need to do this….is for somebody to belly up to the bar and prepare to show up at this very same polling station in 2010 in full KKK regalia and do pretty much exactly the same thing these thugs did in 2008….and see if they get their charges dismissed…..and we need those who can’t or would rather not be in the spotlight to start RIGHT NOW to contribute to their legal fund/hospitalization fund….in advance….because who amongst us would believe they wouldn’t need one and/or the other…???

this “president” has done so much damage to our country in such a small space of time, that we have no way to fight…but this particular thing is something we CAN fight….

to quote a very great patriot….

“Let’s roll”

…i got exposed to one memorable line about people who had refinanced their mortgages at a lower rate, that this was “effectively another tax cut”….i guess he must have been listing his famous tax cuts…or something…

….but wait…if you reduce the interest you pay on your mortgage, doesn’t that kinda lead to reducing the deduction you can take on your taxes if you itemize..which would lead to paying higher taxes…?…but surely, i digress….

…when we refinanced our mortgage in 03, GWB never tried to take credit for it, calling it a tax cut…oh, but i digress again…..

…when i use my handy dandy kroger card, which magically reduces the price i pay for many items, it also results in me paying a few cents less sales tax…is this, in Barry’s opinion, a “tax cut”…?…

……when i fill up my car at sheetz, instead of across the street at exxon, is this, in Barry’s opinion, a “tax cut”…?…

…looks to me like this…

… here we have a guy who thinks anyone who reduces household expenses, by way of refinancing or otherwise, is experiencing a “tax cut”….no wonder he said he would provide tax cuts for 95% of us….he’s forcing us to find ways to save, and by saving, we are therefore definitionally - at least according to his definition - experiencing “tax cuts”…

..only i seem to remember…i know i’m old and my memory does not always serve me correctly, but i’m pretty sure i remember somebody saying that if my household income was under 250K, that we would not see any tax increase of ANY kind…i think the money quote was ” not one dime”….

….this worries me, because i do our family’s tax returns, and apparently i am unaware of better than 200K of income…which could be a bad thing….because of one of the first things this man did was raise our taxes 60 cents a pack….little more than a dime, i think, but then, i probbly digress again….

please please pretty please don’t anyone anywhere ever say to this man, “A penny saved is a penny earned”….okay???….cause of i don’t want the IRS on my butt just cause of my handy dandy kroger card…..

When Sgt. Dave - my son - was discharged from the Army in 2006, we knew there would be the inevitable calls from recruiters. The National Guard. The Active Reserve. And, of course, regular Army recruiters hoping to re-enlist him. Some of these offered pretty large inducement packages, but Sgt. Dave was able to resist the temptation.

After a while, the calls became less frequent, and Sgt. Dave started college on his G.I. Bill. But sometime about a year or so ago, the recruiters started ramping up again. This time, one of their favorite pitches is:

“We can get you a better deal if you sign up now, instead of waiting until you get called up.”

Apparently, it is time to put the fear of God into our Iraq vets. The threat of being called back to duty hangs over all of them for ten years, and they are aware of it. Someone somewhere seems to have decided it would be good for recruiting to make it sound as though vets are being called up all over the place, AND YOU MIGHT BE NEXT. I haven’t heard of any units being called back to duty against their will, and I strongly suspect our friends in the MSM would not be likely to ignore a story like that. But if any of you out there know something like that is happening, I would appreciate an informative comment.

Now, Sgt. Dave receives at least one call or letter every week from a recruiter. One cute little post card yells “TIME TO REENLIST,” and warns him that “failure to act immediately could lead to discharge.” He informs me not to worry as long as we don’t get the one that says “You are ordered to muster duty.”

So, naturally……..from:

Department of the Army

U.S. Army Human Resources Command

1 Reserve Way

St. Louis Mo 63132-5200

YOU ARE ORDERED TO MUSTER DUTY ……..

When your heart slows down a little, you can continue reading. Sgt. Dave is ordered to schedule a one-day visit with Kimberly Underwood, a recruiter, in our local “big city.” The purpose of this “muster” is explained in this way:

“At the muster you will: review you Individual Ready Reserve (IRR) participaion requirements, receive an Orientation Handbook, and discuss training opportunities available locally and Army wide.” (emphasis mine)

If you know of any other vets who have received this letter, please leave a comment. It would also be nice to hear how they reacted to it.  My particular vet did not very much appreciate it.

Ordering these people to attend recruitment lectures is just a little over the top, but to use this particular method of notification is …….just……..wrong.

When I was young, my name was (not really) Chuckie Smith.  When I got married, my name changed to (not really) Chuckie Jones.

Does Caroline Schlossberg (that’s my best approximation, you never really see her real name much) deserve a Senate seat? Good question.

Her claim to fame then…she raised children?  Oh really.  I raised children also.  I lost all my potential Social Security benefits because I quit working when my kids were born.  I am disabled from a work accident when my kids were mostly but not quite grown, but I am not eligible to receive any benefits because I was a “stay at home mom” while my kids were growing up. Ya know, I kinda think Princess Caroline was able to continue all her normal activities whilst her kids were growing up.  I am ashamed to say, I believe she probably had lots and lots of people on her payroll to take care of her kids while she went about the world doing good and wonderful things I never heard about. But I don’t think she raised her kids. I don’t think any Kennedys actually do that.

Another claim to fame..she has done wonderful things in the world. What wonderful things?  Have we ever before now heard of even one wonderful thing she has done in the world?  You have never heard of any wonderful thing I have ever done in the world either, therefore I am on an even footing for the NY Senate seat, except for the fact that I don’t live in New York, lucky for me.

But I have done wonderful things in the world.  When my church could not afford new hymnals, I was able to rebind our ancient books so that they could last a few years longer.  Nobody taught me how, I just made it up as I went along.  But it worked.  When my church needed new cabinets in the downstairs kitchen, I walked a couple miles every day to first build, and then finish them. When I came across a family stranded in the Kroger parking lot, unable to buy gas to get home, I gave them the forty dollars I had left (which left me unable to complete my own shopping) and directions to my church, where they would get significant assistance.  I have moved wounded or aged butterflies/moths out of the paths where they would be stepped on, into safer places where they can die in peace. I feed the birds. I have made sure the frogs are comfortable in the used cat litter box they moved into, under the hose. Before one of them put my on crutches for weeks, I used to  calmly catch spiders under a glass, and take them out of the house. These are little things, but they are important.  And they are wonderful.  I kinda doubt Caroline ever did any of these wonderful things.

 We took in a lost teenager, whose family had abondoned him, We housed him and raised him for three years, and never asked for government assistance because that would have “negatively affected” his father and mother financially. I, who got my own driver’s licence at age forty, taught this young man to drive, although he had had several learners permits while in his parents “custody,” as it were, and it was me who finally got him his license.

I doubt if any Kennedy ever took an empty can and used pliers to bend it into just the right shape to become a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle cookie cutter.  Or afterwards, took the time to paint the appropriate colors for each Turtle on the cookies. And you may not think that was a wonderful thing, but when my son was graduating from basic training with the first class that enlisted after 9/11, his classmates recognized Leonardo, and Michaelangelo, and Rafael….and what’s his name….I may not remember, but they did. I kinda got the impression they thought it was a wonderful thing. And they appreciated the many many pounds of cookies we took to their graduation. Which I attended with funny looking tie-up sandals because of my foot was swollen from a bee-sting.

I’m not bragging.  I am America.  There are thousands of me all across this land.

These are the wonderful things that Americans do every day.

We are not named Kennedy.

Technically, neither is she.

So.  All this hype for some Caroline Schlossberg?

I don’t think so.

dateline: toadlynotrealnews,October 29,2008, (me) reporting

In a surprise announcement this morning, NFL spokesperson Nina Allenburger said:

“In today’s football world, we have too much disparity between the ‘name brand’ ‘popular’ players, and the third or fourth string ‘generic’ players. We in the NFL realize that the fans come to the games to see their favorite big stars, so that’s who we put on the field. But this doesn’t mean our lesser-known players shouldn’t get a fair share of the glory.”

According to Allenburger, the plan will not effect any player’s salary or benefits.

“It’s not a financial redistribution. 100% of all NFL players will receive absolutely no change in pay and benefits under this plan,” she maintained. “The inequality is not so much a financial problem as one of statistics. Take the Saints, for example. So far this season, the Saints have scored 27 touchdowns, 15 passing, 9 rushing, and 3 punt returns by Reggie Bush. Of the 22 offensive-team goals, 11 were scored by only three players, Devery Henderson, Lance Moore, and Reggie Bush. Add to that Reggie Bush’s three punt returns and you get these same three players…THREE PLAYERS….getting credit for better than fifty per cent of all the team’s touchdowns.

Asked by this reporter (me) to elaborate on the exact workings of this new plan, Allenburger explained:

“What we’re planning is a little leveling formula that will take some of the glory stats away from the big-name players - who obviously have more than they need - and share them around among the no-name-recognition third and fourth stringers who never actually get to play in a real game.”

As the exact formula to be used has not been fully worked out yet, Allenburger was unable to provide specific numbers and examples of how much this would take from any one player, or give to any other.

Allenburger continued:

“As we saw on Monday Night Football this week, the Titans’ LenDale White really doesn’t need to pad his stats with any more touchdowns this year. Between White and Chris Johnson, as another example of this disparity we’re trying to correct, these two players have scored 70% - I’m saying SEVENTY PER CENT - of all the Titans’ rushing TDs. It’s really not fair. This is not the American Way. Many of the third and fourth string players believe they could have scored those goals if they had been allowed on the field.”

Allenburger declined to name any players in particular who held this belief, so this reporter (me) did some research among the benchwarmers, after first assuring them that no names would be used in this article. Many of those who would speak to me seemed to be okay with the plan, but some were more enthusiastic than most, and some were definitely against the whole idea.

One wide receiver thought his career could probably benefit from one or two touchdowns, even if they weren’t really his, because, as he put it, “That’s what they write on the trading cards, right? If it’s on the card, then it’s official. If it’s on MY card, the I did it.”

Two defensive second stringers, with one sack between them to their credit, had a different take on the situation.

“I don’t know why they are worrying about ‘level,’ all the (expletive deleted) fields are level. When are they gonna get some heat at Lambeau, that’s what I wanna know.” His companion mentioned the lack of “air in the air” in Denver. Both thought the idea of “leveling the playing field” was a little silly. “It’s not Bowling for Dollars out there.”

However, there were several potential future “stars” who were upset with the plan. “I don’t want nobody else’s points, but my points are my points, and my stats are my stats, and that’s all I got to say on the subject,” said one, before returning to practice.

Another said, “This kinda (expetive deleted) would never be happening if Condi would of took the (expletive deleted)job.”

This reporter (me) was impressed by one particularly good-looking third string tight end. We sat in a dark corner of Antoine’s Bar and Grill. We had both ordered “David’s Buttery Nuts” - patent pending. As we were sipping on them, he mentioned the “celebrity endorsement” problem.

“I’m cute, I know it. The women drool, the men drool. But if I’m not the leading receiver for my team, I don’t get the endorsement. I could loose millions, I’m talking millions, in advertising. I mean, technically, she’s correct, my salary and benefits are unchanged, but I still face the possibility of serious fiduciary damages. Are they going to compensate me for that?”

One very common attitude was summed up by another player:

“They got this game rigged from (expletive deleted) to (expletive deleted) and back, they ain’t never gonna let this man on the field. Ain’t never gonna get my chance, never. I got rights just like anybody else, and if they get stats, then I oughtta get some stats too. If they ain’t gonna let me play, it’s only fair they give me what’s due.”

Neverthless, one player who insisted that I do use his name, nicely wrapped up the prevailing attitude. Joe Plumber put it this way:

“If they really want us to have stats, all they have to do is put us in the game. Most of us, if we’re in the game, I gay-ron-tee you right now, we WILL get stats. We know the fans are here to see Eli, or Brett, or whoever, but if we’re in the game, I gay-ron-tee you right now, we will get our own fans, too. Just put us in the game. That’s all. Let us make our own stats, they want us to have stats so bad. I don’t want Eli’s stats. I don’t want Elway’s stats, I want MY OWN stats, and when I get them, I’m gonna want to keep them for myself, and thank you very much.”

Lance Moore, Reggie Bush, Chris Johnson, LenDale White, Devery Henderson, Eli, Elway, and Brett were unavailable for comment.

(end of silly post)

acknowledgements:

This post was inspired and edited by Pedro aka Kid #1, who is running for President in 2016. Any help you can offer to keep him alive, fed, clothed, and housed until that time is greatly appreciated, and may be tax deductible.

“David’s Buttery Nuts” patent pending by David aka Kid #2…and don’t ask what’s in it….just sip…. mmmmmm….yummie…

in 2000 ad, chuckie worked in the kitchen of a restaurant chain as a prep cook. this was to help cover the 100% justified and toadally reasonable” increase in premiums brought about by having two teenage male drivers in our household. but let me not go there, yes?

i was one of two prep cooks on the staff. we shall call the other….hhmmmm….how about beverly, yes, that sounds good. beverly and i only worked together on thursdays, fridays, and saturdays, there not being enough work to keep two of us busy the other days. as prep cooks, we would get a list of things to do in the morning, and we would leave as soon as the list was completed. so you might see where…ummm…taking your time might seem to be financially advantageous…to the right sort of person.

beverly was that sort of person.

i’m not.

beverly had been employed at this job for about 18 months when i was hired. i had no problem with her hourly wage being more than mine. i was earning $6.50 at this time, while she was paid $8.00. that was not the problem.

beverly was a divorced mother with three children, aged 11 to 17. i was a married mother of the aforementioned two teenage male drivers so jealously coveted by insurance companies.

beverly’s ex-husband paid child support. mine didn’t, technically. he just worked at a good job and supported his family the old-fashioned way.

april 15 comes for us all, but for some it looks more like december 25.

i have done the math. in 2000 ad, 8.00/hour/40 hrs/52 weeks yields an income of $16,640 dollars, not much for a family of four, but don’t forget the tax-exempt child support. take away the (then) $6450 head of household deduction, and the $11,200 for four people in the family, and you end up with a taxable income of -$1010….so….no tax due.

beverly keeps all her money.

because chuckie did not work the whole year, our family’s income was only increased by about $8600 that year. that 8600 dollars led to an increase in our tax bill of 2152 dollars.

chuckie loses almost 25% of her money.

are ya with me so far…..

now comes santa, also known as the earned income credit. with beverly’s dependants at her income level, she is eligible for an additional 3059 dollars back from the irs. add this to her actual income, and beverly is effectively making 9.47/hour.

chuckie is making, after taxes, 4.87/hour.

beverly’s favorite saying around tax time? “i pay taxes just like everybody else.” this is because they take them out of her paycheck.

and she never could understand that she got back more than she paid in…or that that extra money came directly out of my paycheck. but of course, she also thinks there are 48 states, and we live in “western” virginia…….

the next year, her son spent spring break in fort lauderdale….

thing number one….gas prices…which is reliably THE number one economic thing “the people” pay attention to…we are now approaching a gas price equivalent to the gas price in FEBRUARY 2008, or, for people who can’t count, the same gas price we had only eight months ago…what happened in the meantime to cause gas prices to go so high…anyone???

thing number two…fannie mae, freddie mac….a mostly democrat-inspired government intervention into the free market, that forced banks to lend to people they knew could not repay the loans….in the name of “affordable housing”….aided and abetted by ACORN, barnie frank, christopher dodd, et al….

thing number three…..an almost toadal across-the-board refusal of democrats in the senate to allow ANY votes on ANY judicial nominees of the bush administration….the only important ones that got through were the two supreme court nominees, which were “big ticket,” you cant’t really ignore these kinda nominees….

thing number four…a very well-timed letter “made public” by sen charles schumer, starting the run on indymac…and precipitating the current financial crisis…..

thing number five…ridiculous belief in the “anthropogenic global warming” theory, in defiance of all scientific evidence…as expounded by it’s prophet, al gore…just because he has thrown a whole excrement-load of money down this hole….add to this the ridiculous ethanol requirements that are literally starving people, but that is nowhere near as important as the fact that they are raising grocery prices for americans….

thing number six…ACORN….of course, they’re not actually PLANNING for all those non-existent people to vote, they’re just making sure nobody has any faith at all left in the election results….see saul alinsky for details….

answer to number one….gas prices can only go so high before people reduce the demand….naturally the price will come back down…that does not explain why they went up so high, but it does explain why they came back down. think about why they went up, though….does the word “speculation” come to anyone’s mind..?….and perhaps speculation might possibly be equated with “manipulation” maybe possibly perhaps???

answer to thing number two…somebody besides barnie frank has to investigate who was responsible for barnie frank getting us into this mess…somehow i don’t see any patrick fitzgerald on the horizon here….

answer to thing number three…don’t worry, once obama has been elected, the new administration, backed by nancy pelosi and harry reid, will have no trouble filling federal district courts with very young lifelong appointees to interpret the “living constitution” for us….

answer to number four…um…kinda self-explantory, isn’t it?

answer to number five….okay, al, explain to me how our SUVs etc have raised the temperatures on pluto (they’re up)…or jupiter (they’re up)..or even mars (which is losing its icecaps), which we actually have solar powered vehicles on at this moment…..and by the way, where have all the sunspots gone (the sunspot cycle is known to be a dominant factor in global temperatures)….or have you not noticed that this whole warm period/ice age period thing has been going on for a..um…kinda like…a really long time, without a whole lot of help from us humans……

answer to number six…okay, let’s just maybe require people to prove who they are in order to register and vote…hey look, i’m on the short end of the stick here, my birth certificate is in german….and i live in west virginia…what are my chances???…but i nevertheless have an army issued proof of natural citizen birth…where’s obama’s birth certificate, anyway…hasn’t that judge ordered him to release it to the court???

another answer to number six…remember “no taxation without representation” from your history books..???…how about no representation without taxation…why do people who don’t pay any federal income tax get to vote in federal elections anyway…??…ever think about that…???

now, the problem is, really, that one would have to have planned this from way long ago, in order to bring about this “perfect storm” kinda situation…and one would have to have a whole lot of money one did not particularly care about losing….and one would have to have been very lucky in the meantime not to have been found out….nevertheless….

i have never ever seen things line up so neatly…ever….things DO NOT line up neatly on their own….it almost makes you believe in divine intervention along the lines of …”america has become sodom and gomorrah, therefore god will now smite thee” kinda thing…it’s either that or…somebody…else…has lined these things up….

now…who do you think that might possibly be….i mean…hypothetically speaking of course….who could actually be orchestrating such a long-range plan….

i’m just throwing this out there for any other conspiracy freaks to jump on, of course…we all KNOW nothing like this could ever happen in THIS country….

in 2000 ad, chuckie worked in the kitchen of a restaurant chain as a prep cook. this was to help cover the 100% justified and toadally reasonable” increase in premiums brought about by having two teenage male drivers in our household. but let me not go there, yes?

i was one of two prep cooks on the staff. we shall call the other….hhmmmm….how about beverly, yes, that sounds good. beverly and i only worked together on thursdays, fridays, and saturdays, there not being enough work to keep two of us busy the other days. as prep cooks, we would get a list of things to do in the morning, and we would leave as soon as the list was completed. so you might see where…ummm…taking your time might seem to be financially advantageous…to the right sort of person.

beverly was that sort of person.

i’m not.

beverly had been employed at this job for about 18 months when i was hired. i had no problem with her hourly wage being more than mine. i was earning $6.50 at this time, while she was paid $8.00. that was not the problem.

beverly was a divorced mother with three children, aged 11 to 17. i was a married mother of the aforementioned two teenage male drivers so jealously coveted by insurance companies.

beverly’s ex-husband paid child support. mine didn’t, technically. he just worked at a good job and supported his family the old-fashioned way.

april 15 comes for us all, but for some it looks more like december 25.

i have done the math. in 2000 ad, 8.00/hour/40 hrs/52 weeks yields an income of $16,640 dollars, not much for a family of four, but don’t forget the tax-exempt child support. take away the (then) $6450 head of household deduction, and the $11,200 for four people in the family, and you end up with a taxable income of -$1010….so….no tax due.

beverly keeps all her money.

because chuckie did not work the whole year, our family’s income was only increased by about $8600 that year. that 8600 dollars led to an increase in our tax bill of 2152 dollars.

chuckie loses almost 25% of her money.

are ya with me so far…..

now comes santa, also known as the earned income credit. with beverly’s dependants at her income level, she is eligible for an additional 3059 dollars back from the irs. add this to her actual income, and beverly is effectively making 9.47/hour.

chuckie is making, after taxes, 4.87/hour.

beverly’s favorite saying around tax time? “i pay taxes just like everybody else.” this is because they take them out of her paycheck.

and she never could understand that she got back more than she paid in…or that that extra money came directly out of my paycheck. but of course, she also thinks there are 48 states, and we live in “western” virginia…….

the next year, her son spent spring break in fort lauderdale….

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okay, guys, i’m on dial-up,really really slow dial-up,so i don’t see any of these videos that get posted here, but i do notice a trend.

apparently, you all have dug up videos of obama saying things he swears - okay he doesn’t swear as such - but at least, lots of things he denies he ever said.

i had thought it was my age-eroded memory, of course, when he claimed he never said he would sit down with tyrants during the primary debates. surely i remembered incorrectly, ya know?

maybe once or twice, i admit, i may have that kind of memory moment (insert howling laughter of my sons here), but lately, it seems that obama is pretty much denying everything i ever heard him say…..i mean, thought i heard him say….

so here’s what i think is going to happen next.

obama will begin a nationwide manhunt for the “person or persons unknown” who are going around making videos of him saying these outrageous things, and posting them on the internet to fool us into believing he actually said them.

and then he’ll get the guy a job on saturday night live….

“Good morning, boys and girls. My name is Ms. Livingston-Probinski, and I have the most fun job in the world. Can you guess what it is?”

boychild:” Are you a clown inna circus!?!”

“No, my job is much more fun than that, and besides, I would never work in a circus, because they take advantage of people who are different, and make you laugh at them. Any-”

girlchild (interrupting): “Miss Constance says we should nevoo make fun of fweaks just because they aaoo diffewent.”

“You shouldn’t say ‘freaks -’”

girlchild (interrupting indignantly): “Don’t make fun of me cause I can’t say my aaooos yet! (sob) Miss Constance always says ‘Shame on you, Billy” when he makes fun of me.(sob) Where is Miss Constance?”

“Miss Constance is wes -resting. She’ll be back as soon as we’re done. But you haven’t guessed my job yet. Who can guess?”

another girlchild: “Are you a cowgirl in a rodeo!?!”

“No, I don’t think that would be much fun. People in rodeos are very mean to animals.”

boychild: “Are you a fighter pilot!?!”

“Heavens, no, I loathe the military. Okay, I will tell you my job. I am a Teacher-”

another boychild: “Miss Constance is our teacher. We have lots of fun with Miss Constance..”

“Yes, but I am a Special-”

girlchild: “Miss Constance says everybody is Special. She says-”

“Yes, that is true, everyone is special, and I’m a Special Teacher. I am an Age-Appropriate Comprehensive Sex Education Teacher!!!”

(silence)

“Okay, who knows what sex is?”

girlchild:”Grown-up stuff”

boychild:”If it’s grown-up stuff, what’s she doin here, Janie?”

girlchild: “I dunno………”

“I’m here because it’s important for you children to understand about sex. Okay, who can tell me the difference between boys and girls?”

boychild:”Girls are yucky.”

(laughter)

girlchild:”No,* boys* are yucky.”

boychild:”Girls are!!!”

girlchild:”Boys are!!!”

boychild:”Girls are, and you’re a doodoohead, Monica.”

another girlchild:”I’m gonna tell Miss Constance! I’m gonna tell Miss Constance!!”

boychild:”All girls are doodooheads. Doodooheads, doodooheads….”

boys (chanting) “Doodooheads…doodooheads….nanny nanny doodooheads…”

girls (crying):”Where’s Miss Constance?!? We want Miss Constance.”

girlchild:”Aaoo you having fun, Ms. Livingston-Pwobinski?”

**Apparently, Obama’s main message is that when the Government has soooooo very many things to pay for, they have to get the money somewhere…..

Obama wants the Government to pay for health care, mortgages, college education, “pay your bills,” and apparently whatever else anyone can think of.

I don’t know about you, but when I was a child, my parents paid for my health care. They paid for my dental care, and they paid for my glasses. I suppose that it’s my fault that we have had union insurance the rest of my life….

I don’t know about you, but since we have had a mortgage, we have had to pay it ourselves. There were plenty of times when that was not easy, but we never asked anyone else to pay it, even when it was at 19% interest.

I don’t know about you, but my kids are not going to college on the federal dime either. If we -or they - can’t pay for it, then they won’t go. Our youngest is a freshman this year, but he got there by way of Baghdad.

I don’t know about you, but I have had bills to pay all my adult life. Guess what? We paid them. Nobody helped. We didn’t ask anybody to help. They were our bills, we paid them. End of story.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t when it became the job of the federal government to pay for all this stuff. I’m not too much bothered by the fact that if I ever win the lottery, the government will take a really really big bite out of my winnings. But when someone works really hard, or invents things, or just makes a lot of money by using their brains, I really think the fruits of their labor belong to their own selves, not to all us “less fortunate” people who envy their success.

And I don’t know about you, but it seems to me, that this is really all it’s about,that people in this country - who are rich by the standards of most any other country - are always and constantly watching those who are better off, and saying to themselves:

“It’s not fair, why should they have more than me?”

okay, well i don’t know what particular “diary” to select, so i just picked the first one…hopefully, someone will educate me on the etiquette of blogging, so i might get better at it…i am just a oleperson here, trying to make sense of this new world….hah, good luck with that….

well, to get back to the meat of the matter, or the “what the frack is going on here” theme….what the frack is going on here???

i watched Sen. Obama’s speech tonite, and i was….um…less than wowed, as it were…then i watched FoxNews tell me how i should have been wowed, as it were…i was told he gave me specifics…..um…when did he do that, exactly…? i don’t know, i didn’t see much in the way of specifics except when he said that the govt has got to stop “giving to those who have much” in the hope that it will trickle down to the rest of society…somebody please enlighten me as to when the government has ever GIVEN anything to “those who have much”….as opposed to, say, not TAKING so much FROM those who have much…i would be much obliged….

don’t come at me here with tax cuts….tax cuts is just another way of saying they’re not gonna take quite so much away from successful people; it’s not exactly “giving” to the “rich,” especially when compared to the Earned Income Credit, fer instance….

i think that was the closest Sen. Obama got to actually articulating any specifics. the rest of his speech was pretty much hope and change, change and hope, we are the ones, etc….except when he was contradicting himself….

he said….we are all capable of lifting ourselves up by hard work…..oh but, wait, lots of us need special help because of our innate disadvantages, so we need to take money from those who have succeeded in lifting themselves up, in order to help those who have failed, or not even tried……because “we are our brothers’ keepers”…..

he said….we may not agree on abortion…OMG WHAT AN UNDERSTATEMENT…and yet, that should not interfere with a woman’s “Right to Choose,” as enshrined in the Constitution….(i have looked and looked and looked and looked, but i cannot find it….that’s why i’m not a SCOTUS person, i spose….)

he said…he would find ways to reward companies that kept jobs in the United States, and punish those who sent jobs overseas…while at the same time raising corporate taxes on companies in the United States…this is some magician, this is….last i heard, only Japan has higher corporate tax rates than us….

he said….he ACTUALLY SAID…that he would go over the budgets LINE BY LINE…um….hmmm….lemme think……he really believes they’re gonna revive the line item veto….JUST FOR HIM?????…gimme a break, that just toadly destroys the way congressional budgets work…..

he blathered a whole slew of other Demo talking points, as about the Iraq war, the Economy, the evil of Free Trade, etc, but…as i said before…no specifics…WHERE ARE THE SPECIFICS??? WHAT EXACTLY DOES HE MEAN TO CHANGE FROM WHAT TO WHAT???

Americans want change, that’s pretty obvious…Barack says we CANNOT go back…i ask….why not…???…why not go back to considering teen pregnancy a bad thing, and treating it that way, instead of subsidizing it?…why not go back to honoring those who enlist in the military, instead of stigmatizing them??…why not go back to letting our children be children, instead of sexoholics-in-training…???…why not go back to the founding principles of our country, which relegated the powers of the federal government to a very very few specific areas, as opposed to telling you what lightbulbs you may use in your own home….???

when Americans respond over and over in polls that they think their country is “headed in the wrong direction,” i think the Democrats should not particularly take heart from this…since it has been them and their politically correct confederates who have been leading the charge in this wrong direction…i believe most Americans would like to get back our old values…life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but foremost my God, my Country, and my family…and forget these new values……”me, myself, and what i want,” and who cares what it does to you…..

last year, my son’s fiancee coerced me into reading Ayn Rand….at the time, i thot Rand was a little “over the top,” as it were….now….it looks more and more like she hit the nail straight on the head….looks like Obama thinks, if you work hard and make money in America, it ain’t your money, it rightfully belongs to someone “less fortunate”….for example, the Government…..