Our President has been with us for a year.
I didn't vote for him, although I had hopes for him.
He has managed to dash all hopes that I had. In its simplest form, he lies.
He apparently thinks we proles have no memory, and that we don't know that he promised to air debate on (among other things) health care. This did not happen.
He promised bipartisan efforts, then shut out the opposing party, saying "I won!"
He promised that the Constitution would be uppermost - then appointed Czars to do things not constitutional, effectively nationalized industries, gathered up a crew of hangers-on in high offices for which offices the first requisite seemed to be having failed to pay taxes. You and I would end up in jail for such silliness - his buds get high-visibility well-paid jobs - which pay comes form us proles.
His wife has hired more assistants than the past 20 presidents' wives have found either needed or useful - all of which are paid, you guessed it, by us.
He makes generals wait - not a good thing, and gets troops killed just by doing nothing.
He believes we are all too stupid to breathe unassisted, and that there is not a question that he has not heard so he has all the answers - and all the answers involve growing government. He fails to understand that Government produces no profit, and sucks the life out of profit-producing organizations by demanding tribute that is used to pay , guess what, more government "workers."
He says no lobbyists will be around to influence anyone, but apparently he meant that no more than all of them will be allowed through the door.
His congress creates libraries of rules for us regarding how health care will be managed, and then exempts itself from those rules.
It's time to unelect the house of representatives - all of them and get some folks in there who are truly interested in representing the interests of the folks who put them there.
It's also time to return the selection of senators to state legislatures, although I don't think I'll live to see that happen.
I still believe that the Founding Fathers had their heads screwed on straight, and that we tamper with what they devised at our own peril.
/end rant
Friday, January 29, 2010
Sunday, January 24, 2010
New Rant(s)
I hate working 7 AM to 3 PM. I hate even worse getting up at 5 AM to be at work at 7 AM.
I think it's prophetic that a democrat did not get Ted Kennedy's seat - not that it was ever his anyhow, although the folks in Massachusetts were probably shielded from that fact.
I think that the Constitution is not subject to alteration except by the means it established, and I surely am tired of the way so-called czars are being appointed to bypass the constitution. Someone needs to uncerstand what, historically speaking, czars were.
I think Bull Riding is a great sport, although I have no interest whatever in participating.
I think it is a damn shame that courtesy can't be legislated, because if folks would be courteous we'd have a lot fewer dead and damaged people on the highways.
I think it is not the job of the President to dictate to folks what is good for them.
I think that people need to make their own decisions, and take the heat when the decision is wrong - and learn from it. It's an old axiom that good judgment comes from experience, much of which comes from bad judgment, and that that axion is important to remember.
I think it is getting late, so I'm going to bed.
I think it's prophetic that a democrat did not get Ted Kennedy's seat - not that it was ever his anyhow, although the folks in Massachusetts were probably shielded from that fact.
I think that the Constitution is not subject to alteration except by the means it established, and I surely am tired of the way so-called czars are being appointed to bypass the constitution. Someone needs to uncerstand what, historically speaking, czars were.
I think Bull Riding is a great sport, although I have no interest whatever in participating.
I think it is a damn shame that courtesy can't be legislated, because if folks would be courteous we'd have a lot fewer dead and damaged people on the highways.
I think it is not the job of the President to dictate to folks what is good for them.
I think that people need to make their own decisions, and take the heat when the decision is wrong - and learn from it. It's an old axiom that good judgment comes from experience, much of which comes from bad judgment, and that that axion is important to remember.
I think it is getting late, so I'm going to bed.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Zero dark thirty
When I was in the Air Force, that was the time we had to get up for certain shifts, and I always hated being up before the sun. For many years I have worked 10 to 6, 11 to 7 or similar hours during the day, giving me plenty of time to wake up in the light, have breakfast with my wife, have some extra coffee, and arrive at work reasonably awake. It even gave the folks around me time to determine which problems were theirs, so I could start right away on real problems, and not misoperations.
Well, I just changed to work 7 to 3 - and I hate getting up around 5 AM. Maybe I can change it back in a couple of months. I hope so.
It's cold around here right now - global warming seems to have gone into hibernation. I thought all along it was crap, and some purloined emails (and the fact that the global temperature has been static for almost ten years) only served to underline that belief.
But it is even too cold to think about starting the motorcycles, let alone riding one of them for more than about three minutes, and it is my personal rule (be kind to engines or some such bull) that I never start one up if I am not going to ride it for at least 20 minutes. Usually I ride to work when I can, but not when it asks for frostbite before even getting on the highway. We did have one day the weekend before Christmas that it was really nice, and I rode over to visit our then-pregnant daughter, and really enjoyed the ride - it was cool, but not really cold.
I gotta write some emails - I owe one to a friend in Germany, and a couple more. Maybe I'll do that tomorrow as soon as I get to work; right now I gotta get some sleep - 0 darh 30 approaches!
Well, I just changed to work 7 to 3 - and I hate getting up around 5 AM. Maybe I can change it back in a couple of months. I hope so.
It's cold around here right now - global warming seems to have gone into hibernation. I thought all along it was crap, and some purloined emails (and the fact that the global temperature has been static for almost ten years) only served to underline that belief.
But it is even too cold to think about starting the motorcycles, let alone riding one of them for more than about three minutes, and it is my personal rule (be kind to engines or some such bull) that I never start one up if I am not going to ride it for at least 20 minutes. Usually I ride to work when I can, but not when it asks for frostbite before even getting on the highway. We did have one day the weekend before Christmas that it was really nice, and I rode over to visit our then-pregnant daughter, and really enjoyed the ride - it was cool, but not really cold.
I gotta write some emails - I owe one to a friend in Germany, and a couple more. Maybe I'll do that tomorrow as soon as I get to work; right now I gotta get some sleep - 0 darh 30 approaches!
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