Obama Invokes Jesus, Discovers Great Idea
Aug 27, 2007 Uncategorized
B. Hussein Obama was out on the campaign trail discussing how his vision for America is greater than any other. He also decided it was time to bring up hurricane Katrina with a stop in New Orleans. Katrina has not been mentioned in quite some time so it is time for the Democrats to raise that issue again to show incompetence of the Federal Government (not just the Bush administration). Yep, if the feds are to blame then it is the entire government, many of whom have been employed long before Bush and will be long after. B. Hussein invoked the name of Jesus and in so doing, raised a very valid point:
“Getting ready to talk to you today, I recall what Jesus said at the end of the Sermon on the Mount,” Obama said at New Orleans’ First Emmanuel Baptist Church. “He said, whoever hears these sayings of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on a rock.”
“The rains descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house. But it did not fall, because it was founded on the rock,” he continued.
That rock, he said, was a principal of brotherhood exemplified by the church during Hurricane Katrina — but not the federal government.
“Something was wrong in America. Our foundation wasn’t built on the rock,” he said. CNN
Mr. Hussein has it partly correct. He stated that the foundation of America was not built upon a rock (our founders would disagree) but in reality it was New Orleans that was not built upon a rock. Perhaps, if they had built the place on a rock, above sea level, then it would not have flooded. When one looks up and sees ships, there is a problem. What was the great idea? Rebuild New Orleans on rocks! How about we bulldoze New Orleans in and fill that cesspool with plenty of good, strong rocks so that levees will not be required and so that she will be above sea level? Then we can build upon those rocks and they can weather the storm as depicted in the Bible.
You suppose that New Orleans crumbled because it is a sin city that is not built upon any type of strong foundation moral or otherwise? B. Hussein is onto something here and I would much more supportive if my tax dollars went to filling in that eyesore and making it safe.
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Labor Safety to Labor Unions, Politics Hurt Oversight
Aug 26, 2007 Uncategorized
A recent article at the Huffington Post by one of the wacko writers, oh wait, it was Huffington herself, discussed the Utah mine disaster and how lax occupational health rules that were eased by, who else, George Bush, were to blame for this and many other work mishaps. I don’t know if the rules of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration have been lightened by this administration but I am pretty sure that the toughest rules in the world would not have prevented an accident that some believe involved a tremor. I will not deny that the mining industry has had some serious problems with its safety record but it is insane to believe that a spiffy clean safety record could prevent a natural event that triggered the cave in, if that indeed is what caused it. Suppose some painters were working in a building and there was an earthquake and the building collapsed and killed them. Should Bush (or any person) be blamed for a lack of safety? It is illogical to think this way and amounts to nothing more than politics as usual for Huffington and her brood of ding-dongs.
I am unsure if the claims by Huffington are accurate but I know that OSHA has a ton of directives and regulations that apply to the workplace and worker safety. 29 Code of Federal Regulations (particularly the 1910 series) lays out the rules for all kinds of workplace safety programs and how compliance is expected. There are a lot of workplaces and it is certain that OSHA does not have enough people to routinely inspect workplaces. It is more likely that inspections result from a concerned worker making a call or filing a complaint. Even so, there are some things that fall directly on the shoulders of the employees themselves. Wearing hearing and eye protection, proper safety equipment and other personal protective equipment and doing things according to standard procedures are all things that the employee must do. Supervisors are responsible for ensuring that their people follow the rules but I have seen far too many injuries related to worker error to discount the idea that stupidity keeps emergency rooms busy and makes ER doctors wealthy. None of this oversight or supervisor involvement would have helped the Utah miners, that is unless their supervisor could see the future and know that a cave in was going to happen.
Interestingly, Huffington decries lax worker safety under Bush but has not addressed the Democrat’s attempts to remove 2 million dollars from the Office of Labor and Management Standards. This office has been ramped up after years of lax enforcement under President Clinton. Seems this office has been real good at finding illegal practices of labor unions and has recouped 101 million dollars for labor union employees. With this kind of success against labor unions the Democrats can only do one thing and that is to cut funding so that their mob buddies in labor unions can continue illegal operations unabated. House Appropriations Chairman David Obey (D.-Wis.) (a guy I dislike more as I hear more about him) is trying to cut the budget, mostly because they have been successful. Of course, success in this arena hurts the Democrat’s friends in labor and that just can not be tolerated.
Perhaps Ms. Huffington would like to spend some time writing about this instead of trying to put the blame for miners on George Bush who can no more trigger tremors than he can direct hurricanes.
I also think that perhaps the Democrats should either rethink their position of being honest and transparent or get Webster to rewrite the definition of those words. With their ability to rewrite history, a few definitions should be a cake walk.
Source:
TownHall (Robert Bluey)
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Geraldo Rivera is an ILLEGAL Alien Apologist
Aug 22, 2007 Immigration
I have never cared for Geraldo Rivera because I never considered him a real journalist. He always seemed to me as if he were a National Enquirer kind of TV journalist who did stupid things like find an old bottle (or some other trash) in what was supposed to be Capone’s secret vault. Rivera also revealed the location of our troops while embedded with them though I think, in all fairness, his reporting on their activities was fair.
The real problem with Geraldo is that he is so stuck on America is a racist country that hates Hispanics. He faults the citizens of the US for being against ILLEGALS coming into this country. In his mind, we are wrong for being against ILLEGALS and we are wrong when we focus on the crimes they commit and the lives they take, lives he cavalierly dismisses. Whenever an issue of an ILLEGAL committing a crime arises Geraldo is first in line to remind us that American Citizens commit more crimes. Well duh, there are more of us here, of course we are going to commit more crimes. That aside, it does not matter because the ILLEGALS broke the law to get here showing they have little regard for the law despite Gerlado’s claims that they are law abiding people. No Geraldo, they are not because they willingly broke the law to get here.
I have had it with this whiny schmuck excusing the illegal acts of those who sneaked in here. I have also had it with his insinuation that people who point out that the crimes that ILLEGALS commit would not happen if our government did its job are racists. Geraldo seems to miss the point that while we have criminals here they are here legally and we can not just deport them because they are citizens. He seems not to understand that the ILLEGALS who commit a crime such as murder have committed their second felony. Geraldo says that their being here is treated as a misdemeanor and this is true however the act of entering ILLEGALLY is a felony. If we capture them when they are crossing they are charged with a felony. Some quirk in the law makes their presence here a misdemeanor. To me this is like saying that if a guy robs a bank and we catch him in the bank he has committed a felony but if we find him in his home with all the money he is charged with a misdemeanor. In any event, the fact is they have broken the law and any idiot who excuses that behavior does not believe in the rule of law. I also take issue with this idiot’s references to our ancestors and how we all came from immigrants. Yes we did but they came here LEGALLY! Being an immigrant is not an issue because we welcome the legal ones with open arms. It is the ILLEGAL ones we have the problem with and the very ones Geraldo seems to dismiss as “law abiding.”
On Hannity and Colmes tonight Geraldo was on with Tom Tancredo and they were debating the crimes in Newark where an Illegal killed three young people and a fourth ended up in the hospital. The guy was out on a low bail for other crimes he committed and ICE was never notified about him because Newark is a sanctuary city. Geraldo made the entire issue about crime and how this guy’s bond should have been higher and the fact he is ILLEGAL had nothing to do with anything ignoring, of course, that if he had not come here ILLEGALLY he would not have killed. He also ignored the fact that if ICE knew about the guy they could have put a hold on him and bail would not have mattered. Instead, Geraldo dismissed this and the deaths while focusing on we racists and right wing nut jobs who only focus on crime that involves ILLEGALS while ignoring other crimes. Obviously, this is wrong but Geraldo never lets facts get in the way of his apologist ways. For the life of me I can not figure out why people watch this putz.
I wonder how Geraldo would feel had this guy raped and killed his kids. I also wonder how Geraldo would respond if an ILLEGAL who was not reported to ICE raped his wife and beat her to death or hit and killed her while driving drunk. I imagine that he would have to do a special on the failures of our immigration system.
If he scratched the surface on that one he would find a little more than an old bottle.
Ms Underestimated has the video of Geraldo and Tancredo
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Will The NAACP Let Us Talk About Vick Now?
Aug 20, 2007 Uncategorized
When Michael Vick was accused of doing horrible things to dogs as part of a dog fighting ring the NAACP told us that we should not be condemning Vick because he deserves his day in court. There were the obligatory statements about racism and a coaller to a local talk show indicated that there would be no problem if Cal Ripken had done this because he is a white guy. This is the same NAACP that condemns cops who shoot black criminals before the investigation is completed, but I digress.
Michael Vick pleaded guilty today to the charges so I want to know if we now have permission to discuss Michael Vick as a criminal? Is it OK with the NAACP if we now discuss how much of a degenerate Michael Vick is or will we all still be racists? Keep in mind that Vick said that he was guilty. He did this to avoid more charges and even more severe punishments should he be found guilty.
I am also wondering if the NAACP will now flood the media and condemn Vick for his actions. They spent the time calling people racists for thinking that Vick was guilty before he had his day in court (evidently the NAACP does not know the difference between a criminal guilt and being guilty in the court of public opinion) so now that he himself has said that he was guilty, are we free to talk about it without being called racist?
Source:
Breitbart
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The Global Warming Cycle, What was Old is New
Aug 15, 2007 Uncategorized
The global warming debate has caught fire (pun intended) and those who believe this tripe are dismissive of those of us they call deniers. They seem to believe that we only have ten years left and we will all burn to death if we do not do something and very soon. However, this same debate has been raging for nearly a century:
D.C. resident John Lockwood was conducting research at the Library of Congress and came across an intriguing Page 2 headline in the Nov. 2, 1922 edition of The Washington Post: “Arctic Ocean Getting Warm; Seals Vanish and Icebergs Melt.”
The 1922 article, obtained by Inside the Beltway, goes on to mention “great masses of ice have now been replaced by moraines of earth and stones,” and “at many points well-known glaciers have entirely disappeared.” Washington Times
There are still seals and there are still icebergs and we are being told they are going away. Shouldn’t they already be gone? In between the last global warming scare and this one, there was a concern about a coming ice age where we would all freeze to death and none of these things have come to pass.
Speaking of global warming, not long ago NASA came down on one of its folks who expressed his belief about the subject. I imagine it would not have been an issue if he agreed with the whole global warming urgency issue. In any event, I wonder if NASA fudged these numbers or if they really made a mistake. Given the fact that they do not allow a dissenting opinion on the subject, maybe they were shilling for Al Gore to pump up his credibility. Imagine the embarrassment when someone figured out the error.
Then again, maybe they just made a mistake, sort of like buying into the global warming cause.
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