The World According to Me.

There is a small conversation starting with Eco-Liberals about pushing to stop offshore drilling with the recent explosion of a platform in the Gulf. Well lets do a quick analysis, how many times have you heard of one of these platforms exploding and sinking into the Gulf of Mexico and how many platform are there in the Gulf. Totals: Sunk: 1 Running: 4,000 with 819 manned Article So, less than 1/4000th has exploded and caused a problem. Logic states, no the industry is fine.

Article California figured it out, the key to stopping kids from being fat porkers is to remove plastic toys from their lunch. That's it. I didn't know kids in California had jobs and were buying their own food at McDonalds. Is there a 'Little Tykes" drive through too? No I'm sure somewhere there is a loser parent that is filling their child with fattening food. I'm pretty sure that sounds logical. But then again, this is California and there isn't much logic there. You know what causes fat kids, fat lazy parents. Parents that are either too busy watching Americana Idol, Tweeting, working or shoving food in their own face to pay much attention to what their kids are eating. More welfare state crap from the league leader. Why doesn't Cali just vote to remove all personal responsibility for anything, ever. I mean you're already about to break 50% as a tax bracket for Cali to pay for your useless piss poor programs, why not just make it 99% and take ca...

When you're discussing what you're being taxed you need to consider the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve is a conglomerate of private banks with publicly appointed leaders. This is important because these leaders, appointed by politicians, directly effect you. How? Inflation. When the government sends billions and trillions of dollars to a program where do you believe they get it? GDP, as if they have a vault under the Capitol that has pure gold in it that they turn into dollars? Wrong. The Federal Reserve creates the money and devalues the currency in the long term. This becomes inflation (Simplified Of Course). Though you never receive a 'federal reserve tax' you do pay for it, every day and on every thing. The dollar today is worth 95 cents less than it was in 1912, prior to the Federal Reserve. Products don't gain value, your money loses purchasing power. This is controlled and manipulated by the Federal Reserve. Do you realize that until 1974 you weren'...

Obama speaks of financial reform, making government accountable and making tough choices while telling the truth to the American people. The "truth" is that America has become too social program dependent. We need to pull back these dependencies. We have spent far too much time doing whatever is possible and impossible to make class warfare the prime topic of debate: "Tax the richest 10%" "Remove tax breaks for the rich" "Remove breaks for big business" All of these comments are class warfare comments. What we need to realize and state are what we believe as Americans to be the core dependencies of the United States. Until we bracket what is important and critical, we can't cut costs. Everything is not priority one. The role of a leader, is to lead. The executive branch is suppose to lead. It is suppose to set the course for the land while legislative and judicial bodies organize and keep balances in scope. The job of a CEO is not to make gra...

Goldman Sachs was beloved by the Obama administration. GS was one of the largest contributors to Obama's presidential bid and Obama has hired numerous GS employees for his administration. For starters, Tim Geitner (The Secretary of the Treasury) and Gary Gensler (Obama's Trading and Futures Commission Head). Now over 50 banks were at the heart of the financial meltdown in the US and World economies between 2006-2008. So now the administration has pulled in one, one out of fifty, entity to hammer in a public spotlight. Ironically this is exactly when the administration is looking to push financial reforms. Everyone gets bent out of shape when they think of Wallstreet. They think bailouts, they think about their loans, they think about their debt. What seems to be removed from the latter positions is that you, John Q. Public, signed up for those debts. You did not however sign up for a bailout. Bush and Obama signed that for you. Remember back about 18 months when Obama signed in...

Article James Jones, the National Security Advisor for Obama, made an inappropriate joke the other day at a meeting. Basically going with a joke that discussed a jewish merchant tricking the Taliban over a sale. The joke was done to break the ice at a meeting, however the Jewish individuals present didn't find it too funny. He has since apologized. To me though, this isn't the real issue of this event, this is: The official White House transcript of the speech he gave, though the joke was said during the speech, was not included in the transcript. Hmm, nice transparency there. I guess we just leave out the bad parts, right? How Bush of you. Jones, a retired general, used the lengthy joke to break the ice before his address last Wednesday at an event honoring the 25th anniversary of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Interestingly, it was not included in the official White House-provided transcript of the speech.

Wouldn't it be simpler to just say "anything but white males". I'm throwing in the race card, the white race card. I find it annoying at least and discriminatory at most that the US seems fine with daily articles from OPEDs to POTUS saying they are concerned about everyone but white males over 25. POTUS put out a note for the 2010 elections today asking for : 1) Blacks Americans 2) Women 3) Youth To come out and vote. Last I checked there wasn't a 100% white male voter turnout, so why is there never one second of focus on this group? And why is it that nobody ever condemns this non-sense of kowtowing to everyone and using the "white guy" as the scapegoat? The logic used by POTUS is he was looking for independent voters, oh you mean the 2nd largest group in the Tea Parties. Pretty sure that cat is out of the bag there leader. Just wish Politicians could stop pandering and start being honest. Try watching the special "America" on the History Chan...

Article I'm glad to hear that Obama is glad to be getting out of private industry, sadly he should have never gone in following Bushs lead. Obama wants a financial system overhaul to avoid future catastrophes but no where in his proposed legislation does he comment to Fannie or Freddie Mac or the multitude of other "government" programs that caused the mortgage failure which catapulted the financial crisis. For those not paying attention Fannie/Freddie are lending institutions backed by the US Govt, and in being so they have to follow government direction. So when the government says "give loans to poor people" regardless of their ability to pay it back, these entities do it. Fannie and Freddie collapsed requiring truck loads of tax dollars to stabilize. Not a word is mentioned in reforming their practices.

Lets discuss the AZ legislation that provides law enforcement in AZ the ability to call ICE or detain you if you're an illegal immigrant. Contrary to popular belief on the liberal and conservative front, the bill does not allow police to say "hey a Brown guy, lets check his papers". No, the 4th Amendment of the United States still applies. For those that need a refresher, the fourth amendment guarantees US Citizens the right against unreasonable search and seizure. This means that the government has to have a reasonable cause to question you. So if you're speeding down the road and a cop pulls you over in AZ, it is well within the officers means to say "show me identification". There is nothing illegal about that. This non-sense that police will be running around simply questioning people for their "papers", as those that like to claim Nazism like to elude to, is exactly that..non-sense. This bill is a direct result of the Federal Government not do...

Shocker, Obamacare is going to raise prices, not lower them as Obama claimed. This really is a shocker, I mean, who could have predicted that? I thought that Saint Obama said that it would all work out, hope & change. Article

Article This is amazing. Bertha Lewis, head of ACORN, called the Tea Party a movement that could be worse that WWII Concentration camps and Segregation. Basically accusing the Tea Party of all the worst things in the last 100 years on Earth. She is absolutely awesome, and paid for my your tax dollars. That is right, ACORN until recently was funded with tax dollars. So why don't you read about this piece of trash and her TRUE thoughts on America. Former ACORN head Bertha Lewis told a group of the Young Democratic Socialists on that they should "do everything [they] can" to build their organization, and then insisted that our times are worse than internment under the Japanese and the years of Jim Crow laws (h/t Morgan Richmond at BigGovernment): Any of these groups that says, "I'm young, I'm Democratic, and I'm a socialist," is okay with me. You know that's no light thing to do -- to actually say, I'm a socialist. You've got to know, actual...

ABC wouldn't run ads with "Plus size models" saying they show too much cleavage...ahh, these are lingerie commercials right? What are they suppose to show. And judging from the two photos used in this article, cleavage is about the same. What I want to know is, where are all the women's groups? And would it be different if the Fox network did it? article

Alright I'm not getting McCain coming out now trying to support all this 'immigration reform' now that a rancher was shot, IN HIS STATE. McCain hasn't done crap for his state, he has been busy pumping his profile up for the national platform and lost. Now he is acting as if he really cares about illegal immigration all the sudden. If you really cared sir, you would have taken care of your state over the last few decades.

Wow, pass me some of that crack, maybe I'll feel better. Article The Obama Administration, the same one that has us at a record 14T dollar debt..that is double the Bush Administration for those keeping score at home, has claimed it is doing far more to combat the deficit than Bush ever did. They even go as far as to say "Silly Republicans, the Tea Party people are mad at you". They really are out of touch at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The Tea Party is not about health care or taxing currently, it IS about the fact that the spending in Congress led by the Commander and Chief is racking up an insane amount of debt for the future. Yes, taxes to date are near the lowest ever however, the taxes in the next 10 years will not be. Someone has to catch the bill for the 14T deficit that the Obama Administration has charged. That is the issue. Trying getting in touch, then make a statement. Now before all my libby friends run off and say "see you like George Bush" ah, no. A...

Today there are two rallies planned by people who like the bill of right, oh I mean gun advocates. These are citizens that have the right to bear arms and do, I always wonder why "anti gun groups" (that is like anti-free-speech IMO) go after these types of individuals, as if they are the ones that commit gun crimes like gang-banging at 3am and shooting up a neighborhood. To quote one such anti-rights individual: "What I think is important to note is that many of the speakers have really threatened violence, and it's a real threat to the rule of law," Josh Horwitz, executive director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, said of the program for the armed rally. "They are calling health care and taxes that have been duly enacted by a democratically elected Congress tyrannical, and they feel they have a right to confront that individually." Hey Josh, please tell me exactly where they advocate shooting up the Capitol in any form or fashion? Pretty sure yo...

Sometimes you just realize how weak you are. I've decided that I am not good at dealing with physical injury, to myself. I'm quite capable of helping others in pain or treating others as necessary for physical issues. I don't get queazy and I don't get nervous. However when it comes to my person, I'm finding a lot of flaws. I've found that I lack, whatever it is, that some people have that gives them the ability to deal with injury and being 'down'. For a while I bitched and moaned doing the whole whoa is me thing, then I felt as though I was wasting the time of my wife and kids and that they spent far too much time having to worry about me and not enough time having fun. That was quickly followed by the internal realization that I was not nearly as bad off as others. As I sit here laid out with zippy medical advice on how to get better, I think about how much I appreciate my family and how much I love them. Even the things my children do wrong or when...

Why is being a true American hard, well because it takes your personal responsibility to the next level. In many countries the citizens have turned over their mail key and told the government, 'hey you keep tabs on this, I'll pay for it". They did this for good reason. Being an active citizen is hard, it requires intellect, reading, knowledge, involvement and constant maintenance. Where as simply letting the 'government' work on its own requires nothing of you, offers you basic protection and simply requires you do something. In the United States our basic backbone is setup to keep the government and citizenry at odds. It is as basic as a check and balance. The same way the government is divided into three branches with no branch having absolute power over the other two (think of the game 'rock-paper-scissors'), the government is kept in check by the citizens and states. This point is what makes the United States so special. It is the only country in histor...

This is dangerous ground, home grown extremists being labeled in the United States. In my opinion there are certainly areas where you can identify home-grown extremists efforts; black panthers, KKK, Unibomber, and other types however we as citizens have to be careful how large a brush we grant the government in finding these 'groups'. Remember that it is very easy for the government to say 'you're a threat' and instantly wipe away the majority of your rights. You also have to be very thorough especially when the rationale for the label is "possible" threat. Almost every group of every kind has an element of it that doesn't follow along with the logic of the rest. That Westboro Church for instance, while they preach a very hateful message they have not engaged in any act to illicit physical harm, nor have they violated their right to assemble and right to speak. Many people disagreed with recent court engagements that waived any legal avenue against thi...

In Massachusetts there is an uproar. The people are upset because a transgender inmate in a Mass prison has to have a tax-payer paid mammogram. Well, when as a society we agree that people should be allowed to adjust their entire lifestyle based on 'how they feel inside' and that their needs emotionally out weigh logic, then this is what comes home. Tax payers paid for the transgender hormone therapy, so it is only in keeping they should pay for any treatment after the fact. Sorry, time for society to realize illogical gains require illogical means. Article

POTUS is now threatening to veto a bill by Congress if it doesn't remove at least 50B from "too big to fail" bank bailouts. Whether this is simple pandering to the 'Tea Party' crowd at the direction of his handlers or actually a noble effort, we don't know. Either way I'm glad to see it. The more we recognize in mass that entitlement and free money is bad, the better off we will be. A journey of 1000 miles starts with one step. Hopefully, POTUS has laced up his walking shoes. Obama may VETO

How dare they have volcanic eruptions that disturbs the whole world. Who do they think they are? Stopping flights for rich d-bags that want to fly around the world and for jackasses who don't understand why their plane can't fly through dirt. I say, Iceland you owe all of us now.

The President was quoted yesterday saying "you'd think these people would be happy" because taxes in 2010 are lower, in general, then prior years. Well sir, people realize when you sign 780B TARP projects and 800B health care bills while you have hundreds of billions of dollars going to two wars with no concept of how to pay them and you have generated a 14T dollar debt (fyi, Bush had it around 7T and people went crazy on the democratic side). People aren't as dumb as you believe Mr.President, they know a bill will come due on this. They are thinking past today and looking at tomorrow. Granted, this is unusual. Usually the US population acts very much like sheep, just look to the Clinton presidency. All people saw during Clintons reign was high DOW and easy money and easy life. They didn't care that troops were slaughtered in Mogadishu or US embassies were blown up left and right in Africa, all they cared about was themselves. Now, people are looking past themselv...

Keep on Suckin' Ben Franklin and many of the founding fathers agreed, unemployment must be difficult on the individual or they have no need to look for work. Why does the government continue to use our money to extend unemployment coverage with no accounting of where the funds go. Just one more social policy that will end in failure.

That was the basic headline in the sports section of the USA Today this afternoon. The gist of the article by Bob Nightengale is that less than 10% of players in MLB are "blacks" black being Americans of 'african' decent. After reading the article I left thinking, who gives a crap? Are we really so statistically based that if there aren't 12% of the players being black in MLB (you know to correlate with the percentage of US population) that the league must be plagued with racism? Well that said, I have three letters for the writer......N B A. What is the percentage of blacks and whites in the National Basketball Association? Hmm, well lets see after a little research in 2008 82% were black. So where is the outcry of racism against whites? Why are 12% of the general populace representing 82% of a professional sport. It must be racist blacks not allowing whites in the league right? I mean it has to be. It couldn't be that less whites play basketball than blacks ...

Good old April 15th, the day the US Government officially lays pipe on its citizens. It is amazing to me to know that nearly 47% of the populous will pay no taxes what so ever and actually have the possibility of getting money back, even though they put nothing in. Think about that, you pay nothing and get a return sounds like a Ponzi scheme, well it is but it is done to "those other people". Every year around this time people start clamoring about taxes, how they owe money or how they pay too much, well where are these people the other 364 days of the year when legislatures are creating these 'bills'? It seems every time there is an election they completely forget how pissed they were about taxes and start putting on their Donkey or Elephant garb. How about next time around we don't get bogged down in the bullshit and realize what really hits home the most, taxes. Nothing else. Health care is a huge issue, sure, as is the epic failure of Americas first true socia...

Civil War People love to water down the civil war in the United States and say the the south was "racist". Yes an easy view of the civil war is to say you had a bunch of white slave owners that simply hated blacks and wanted them enslaved, an thus succeeded from the Union. Well, nice re-write of history there. Try this on.... Republicans in the North were iron clad enemies of slavery. Prior to civl war they wanted the Southern states to drop slavery all together and they wanted it mandated by the federal government. At first glance people say "what's wrong with that?". Well this: nearly all the laborers in the South were slaves so with a federal mandate to stop slavery you suddenly impoverished every southern state that relied on this form of labor and the federal government offered no assistance monetarily or possible recourse to end slavery. You see this a lot today where the federal government steps in to "assist" on moral grounds and screws the poo...

Deion you go on and on about how McNabb shouldn't have been traded, really? I love this coming from a guy who overstayed his welcome in the NFL. McNabb is statistically good, there is no debate on that but stats don't win rings. McNabb has played for 11 years and chocked in every major event. 4 NFC Championship games he couldn't pull his game together, even when given your "great, elite Owens" as a receiver, he still chocked in the Super Bowl. McNabb is a great contender, not a winner. He will be good in Washington, but he will win no rings there either. McNabb can't play under pressure, it is as simple as that.

I apologize upfront and immediately to all my friends and family that are doctors :) What is the deal? Apparently I can diagnose most things for my kids and myself via webMD and the Internet, then when I go to a doctor they tell me exactly what I already knew. It seems the only thing I'm lacking is the knowledge about what medicine works for what. When my children had Billiruben issues, I knew more of the facts than the pediatrician working with our children (and we saw about 5 different people). With me, I tore a hamstring and pinched a nerve (that was my diagnosis) I go to two different doctors, same thing. Ah, I think you've pinched a nerve and tore your hamstring. Ah, OK so how long till I'll be better, um not weeks..maybe months. Great, you went to school for that? I'm not asking for something serious like a heart surgeon or neurologist or optometrist or something very specific like that, but general practitioners come on, be able to provide something more than wha...

Obama's economic advisor is saying the US should look at having a VAT (value added tax) like Europe. This is in some ways similar to a flat tax, though a VAT gathers more revenue. Well this could actually gain momentum if we dropped our progressive income tax. VAT THIS

Bledsoe --- Brady Favre --- Rodgers

So Joe Lieberman you and your league of incompetents have just realized that buses and trains are susceptible to terrorist attacks. Wow. Glad you're at the helm. Wake-up Call

Currently reading Lee Iaccoca's "Where have all the leaders gone?". Talk about a cool book. It was written prior to the election of Obama and it is interesting to read Lee's breakdown of candidates as well as his view of corporate America. Definitely worth it if you have some time. Where have all the Leaders Gone?

I'm so tired of hearing analysts, former players and current players ramble on and on about how McNabb is "elite". Well if we define Elite in Jim Kelly terms, meaning you can't win the big game, then yes he is. Statistically McNabb is great however statistics don't win rings. McNabb has been the point man for over a decade and has yet to clinch. Everyone likes to point to receiving core or other surrounding members of the team. How about the fact that number five can't throw without 8 snaps of rhythm, or the fact that he tends to lay receivers out and throw to the ground? He is terrible at pinpoint passes. Point of fact is McNabb, dating back to college, can't win the big game. He can't handle pressure. Who cares about going to the playoffs or a winning record if it never amounts to anything. Do you think the Patriots give a crap about an undefeated season or the fact that they didn't with the Superbowl? Is Kolb the replacement? Who knows, nobody ...

Well I'm looking into this "iPad" looks pretty cool actually. But if Sprint has a 4G network, and that is where the industry is going, why is this thing rigged for a 3G plan? http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_ipad/family/ipad?aid=AIC-WWW-NAUS-K2-PREORDER-IPAD-TECH+SPECS&cp=PREORDER-IPAD-TECH+SPECS

Got this in an email from a friend. This takes the moral story of the Ant and the Grasshopper and relates it to politics in modern times: MODERN VERSION The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving. CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.' ACORN stages a demo...