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If you're here you have a lot of catching up to do. I hope that you will enjoy browsing through the depths of my warped mind. I embarked on this journey May 28, 2000 and will keep as much archive as possible here, the rest I have moved to my personal archives and are available if you ask me nicely. Bill If you’ve spent your whole career working on the conservative side of politics and then you decide you want to write a best seller… what do you write about? Basically all you have to do is use the Bush lied and people died theme that the left has been spinning for years as your central subject matter. That’s what former White House spokesman Scott McClellan has done and it has the media promoting his new book (which doesn’t even hit the book stores until next Tuesday) like it was the gospel. Just because someone writes something in a book doesn’t make it true… remember the whole purpose of writing a book is to get people to buy it and in our current political climate where the majority seems to be tilting toward the left the best bet for making money publishing a book is to regurgitate left wing mantra. Imagine if McClellan’s book supported the Bush administrations reasons for going to war in Iraq and made Bush look godlike… we wouldn’t ever know it came off the presses. On Sunday June 1, FEMA plans to close down the remaining trailer parks that Katrina refugees have been calling home since the August 2005 disaster. The problem is there are still plenty of leeches that are hanging onto that free government ride who will cry and moan that they are being put out on the street. My guess is that the free ride will continue. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for the federal government stepping in to provide aid to our own... lord knows they spend enough helping others around the world who turn right around and call us pigs. However once the dust has cleared, or in this case once the flood waters dissipated those people should have been told to get off their dead asses and fend for themselves or find help from the private sector. I firmly believe that New Orleans could have been rebuilt faster and more efficiently if the federal government had backed out long ago. We'll never know exactly how many billions of dollars have been swindled from the hard working taxpayers of this country by unscrupulous people who took advantage of situation. On top of that list has got to be Mayor Ray Nagin. Someone call Rotor Rooter... the toilet aboard the International Space Station is broken and they have company on the way. It was only a matter of time before something really vital on board the ISS turned to crap. Who knew that it would literally involve crap, which apparently has to now be collected in plastic bags for disposal. How come the media isn't using one of those sophisticated computer generated videos to show us exactly how that happens. Inquiring minds might want to know. NASA has landed another rover on Mars... How many billions did we spend so a handful of scientists can use an erector set to play in the dirt? Does it really matter if we find evidence that life once existed on Mars or that conditions are favorable for the development of life sometime within the next few million years? Somehow I don't think we're in any danger of a Martian attack if all we find are a couple of microbes. Ted Kennedy has a brain tumor... I've always thought that his liver would have done him in long ago. Either way I think we should be using Teddy's mug shot as the poster boy in support of term limits on US Senators and members of the House of Representatives. Hillary who? With each passing day Barack Obama gets that much closer to clinching the Democrat Presidential nomination… the political pundits are already focusing on the inevitable contest between Obama and McCain to become our next president. That discussion usually revolves around the fundraising efforts of the two candidates. Obama has become a money machine… raising $40 million a month while McCain is looking at using public funds and the relaxed fundraising rules of the Republican National Committee to fill his war chest. For someone who is running on ‘Change you can count on’ Obama sure is relying on the same old money talks routine that we’ve seen in all of our modern day elections. As for McCain… co-author of the last campaign finance reform act… is doing everything in his power to circumvent those limits so he has the cash to compete in the November election. The whole mess stinks to high heavens. The two may well end up spending $1 billion dollars on this single election… if that’s the case there can be no doubt in anyone’s mind that somebody is buying someone and nothing is going to change in the way politics operates in our nations capital. In a speech to the Israeli governing body, President Bush said; "Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along." "We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is — the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history." Presidential hopeful Barack Obama immediately went on the defensive calling for an apology from the president for remarks that he felt were directed toward him. If it quacks like a duck and it walks like a duck then it must be a duck... the president doesn't owe anyone an apology for pointing out the truth. Is John Edwards pimping for another VP spot on the Democrat ticket? Sure looked like it last night. Why else would you purposely fly half way across the country to stand hand in hand with the front runner in the race for the Democrat Presidential nomination to make the announcement that you're throwing your support onto the Obama express. I was told that the Detroit Pistons were too old to keep up with the Orlando Magic's fast paced game... must be nobody told the Detroit Pistons they were too slow to win the best of seven series as they ended the Magic's season last night in Detroit. It's too bad to... I was actually hoping the Magic would win last night so they could loose in grand fashion in front of their home crowd on their home court. What a pity the fans were not able to be there to feel the let down... the disappointment of yet another unfinished season. The Orlando Sentinel headline this morning will most likely emphasis the heavy hearted sentiment of the fans and the team, however tomorrow is a new day and a start of a new season of hope for that dream team victory. On a side note... I've been watching the local news on WESH channel 2 for over an hour now, it's 6:35am and so far not a peep about the loss by the Magic. Now... if the Magic had won we wouldn't have heard about anything else. A lot has been written in the press lately that tries to explain what happened to Hillary Clinton. She was supposed to be a shoe-in for the Democrat Presidential nomination, but is being derailed by a virtually unknown 1st term US Senator. Most of the articles deal with flawed political strategies that let Obama steal control of the primary process away from the Clintons, however I think Hillary’s problems are much more deep-seated than anyone imagines. I believe a few of the power brokers within the Democrat party went on a deliberate search for a fresh face politician without a lot of baggage; someone who would be insulated against the Clinton’s vast database of damaging information. Someone naïve enough to believe they have suddenly become immensely popular, but in reality will be easily influenced once they reach the oval office. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but how else do you account for Obama’s rapid rise to the top? The only other explanation would have to be there are that many stupid people amongst the voting population and if that is the case then we’re doomed… doomed. The situation in Myanmar is becoming grave... tens of thousand already confirmed dead, a couple hundred thousand more missing. If fresh food and water is not made available for the survivors they too will succumb to the ravages of diseases and starvation. We have millions of people who would make great little democrats that are looking for someone to come to the rescue, however their government won't let anyone in to give assistance... My feelings, oh well. Personally I believe if you're a religious person you should be justifying the situation as God's way of weeding out some of the excess population. These people have made their choices about how they live, who governs their actions and now they must live with the consequences... I think we need to stop trying to make everyone's life a wonderful day at the park. All we're doing with all this aid crap is developing even more idiots that sit on their asses waiting for the government handout. Barack Obama is now saying he's open to the idea of putting Hillary on as his running mate... If I'm correct about Obama's racial preference that won't ever happen. My guess is when it comes down to picking a running mate the short list will all be black and I'm not talking about the color of the ink on the paper. In my opinion all this talk about Hillary being the Vice Presidential nominee is a ploy to help Hillary make that tough decision to face the inevitable and end her quest for the Presidential nod. Hillary is falling into that abysses where old political candidates fall and if she's not careful with her exit strategy she'll never get another shot at the white house. Hillary is toast, she has got to know this... right now she's trying to recoup some of the $11 million she's pumped into her own campaign and then we'll see her do what ever is in her power to make Obama come away a looser. That will give her that second shot at it before she's pushing 70... oooh can you imagine what Hillary will look like in another 10 years. Ouch. 12 Nuns, all in their 80's and 90's showed up to vote in the Indiana primary and were turned away because they did not have the required picture ID. By their own admission they knew about the rule, but choose to ignored it. Unfortunately that won't stop the media from making a big deal out of it anyway and turning the nuns into their poster children for free and unencumbered elections wrought with undetectable voter fraud. In my opinion if these women are capable of getting to the polls to vote they more than likely had ample time and opportunity to get to the DMV and get a state issued ID card. And if they weren't capable of getting themselves to the DMV then they more than likely have no business voting. 22,000 dead, 41,000 missing and as many as 1,000,000 people are homeless after the Indian Ocean coastal area of Myanmar was hit by a cyclone this past weekend. The country has remained intentionally isolated over the years, so I’m sure the numbers we’re being fed are over inflated estimates designed to tug at the heart strings of the sympathetic, which will in turn load up the bank accounts of several charitable organizations here and abroad. As expected the United States government has already jumped in with a modest $3,000,000 in aid, which I’m sure will only be the tip of the iceberg once all is said and done. Personally I think we should only send disaster aid to countries that have rushed in to help out Americans who have been devastated by Hurricanes. A policy like that would save us a bundle in foreign aid since the list of eligible recipients is no doubt a very short one. Hillary Clinton and John McCain think the Federal Government should give the American people a break from high gas prices and suspend the Federal gas tax of $.18 per gallon for the summer. Barack Obama is the only dissenting presidential candidate, unfortunately it's not for the right reason. The way I see this one coming down... The US Congress and President Bush will push through legislation to make the gas tax disappear till Labor Day. The stupid people who all thought this was a great idea will give a collective sigh of relief. By Labor day the gas prices will have inched back up to the level they were at before the suspension of the gas tax, and those same people are suddenly realizing that when they wake up on September 2nd the price at the pump is going to jump another $.20 a gallon over night. During the few weeks leading up to Labor day people will start hording gas... supplies will tighten up, the price at the pump will continue to climb accordingly, shortages and long lines at the pump will be the norm. Tempers will flair and violent outbreaks will become common place as we compete for the last drops of that cheap gas. Those will be remembered as the good days come Mid October when the Feds begin scaling back road construction projects due to the lack of revenue from the gas tax. Our two political parties will be pointing fingers at each other like nobody told them before hand that this would happen. Now more and more construction companies will have to lay off workers due to the lack of government contracts. Come election day in November the unemployed American worker will thank John McCain for all his insight and that summer break from high gas prices by handing Barack Obama the White House. From there I only see our situation going from bad to worse. They say it's always darkest before the dawn... I think we're in for one of those long cold artic nights. Dwight Howard, the Orlando Magic star player has a sprained thumb... It appears to me that the team is already looking for an excuse for why they end yet another disappointing season. Quick, someone get them a broom. Florida Governor Charlie Christ is on another crusade… this time he has the legislature busting ass to pass an energy bill that will put the state on the greener side of the Global Climate Change issue. Since getting elected he’s done such a bang up job with the Insurance and Property Tax issues. I just can’t wait to see what a cluster-@*%& he’s going to make out of this one. I watched Barack Obama’s little press conference from a few days ago where he addressed the Rev. Jeremiah Wright issue. According to Obama he is outraged, he is upset, he is disappointed and he is saddened by Rev. Wright’s comments and wants the world to know that now that he understands how damaging the pastor’s words are to his quest for power he is denouncing them and reiterating that his spiritual leader of the last 16 years doesn’t speak for him or his campaign. The one thing that I thought was lacking during the whole statement was emotion… In fact I can’t remember ever hearing Obama inject any emotion in any of his speeches. It’s almost like he’s a robot regurgitating the words that one of his many handlers believes will win him votes. When you watch Obama speak you’ll notice that he pauses quite often while he searches for just the right word or phrase to use. Some people might think that’s a sign of intelligence, personally I think his mind is constantly weighing the pros and cons of his choice of terminology as it relates to voter apathy. NBC's The Today Show is in the middle of 'Where in the World is Matt Lauer" week... That's when the Today Show goes on the road dragging an entire crew to far off locations around the globe so the show can give us a history lesson at each stop. Next week they will probably do an entire week on how Global Climate Change is going to kill us all if we don't reduce that dreaded carbon footprint... Go figure. The Supreme Court upheld a 'tough' (according to the media report) state law that requires voters to produce a photo ID prior to voting. In a 6-3 decision they ruled that the practice wasn't a violation of anyone's constitutional rights. I'm amazed they actually got this one right. I believe every state in the union has a photo drivers license and if you don't have a license it's no problem to get a state issued photo id card, so what was the big deal? Who are these people who feel they are being somehow abused if a pole worker wants to verify that you are who you say you are? The only people I can see who might complain are those who are trying to pull a fast one and cheat or those who want people to lie and cheat while voting. Our Presidential candidates are so far removed from reality... McCain wants to suspend the Federal Gas Tax of .18 a gallon between Memorial Day and Labor Day. That idea is insane on two fronts. First it will dry up funding for billions of dollars in road projects, which will kick the construction industry while they are down and two by November nobody will remember that McCain spearheaded the effort to save the average family a couple of bucks. Then we have Obama who insists that race is not going to be an issue if he's the Democrat nominee. Then they show him stopping at a small mom and pop restaurant while on the campaign trail and we don't see a white face amongst the patrons. What's up with that? Doesn't he think there are any eateries that have a normal racial mix of patrons or is it he doesn't feel comfortable unless he's surrounded by his own race? Hillary won Pennsylvania and so it goes on... She is claiming to have raised insane amounts of money through her web site since the poles closed Tuesday night. What the race seems to be boiling down to is who has more of their own kind backing them. For Hillary it's white women and for Obama it's the black voter, oh but race and gender has nothing to do with the contest. Mathematically neither candidate can reach the golden ring that wins them the nomination. That leaves us with the Super Delegates to decide the contest... Which leaves just one question. Will the system set in motion so many years ago by the Democrat party to keep the people from making a huge mistake and nominating a relatively unknown with little chance to win, do it's job and make Hillary the 2008 Democrat Presidential Nominee. Are we going to see back room closed door politics at its best? Sure we are. It's the only hope Hillary has at this point. This is one of those things that has bothered me for quite some time, but has never made it to my blog… Why is it that our cell phones know we’re making a long distance call when we enter a ten-digit phone number, but the landlines need us to still dial a 1 prior to the number? Can someone explain to me why when the cell phone industry developed a system that didn’t need that pesky extra digit we couldn’t apply that same technology to the rest of our telephones? Yesterday the Today Show had more of these women from that Texas polygamist compound in a live report… I guess to update us on the latest developments on the plight of those 400+ children that have been removed and placed in foster care. These women are definitely hiding something… they all dress alike; they all wear that same stupid hairdo. It’s so obvious to me that these ladies have been brainwashed with the same methods used by the military in boot camp to strip you of your individuality and mold you into the person someone else wants you to be, which in this case the male leaders have trained the women to be submissive and obedient. These women talk in monotones and speak like they are reading a script yet they try to convince us that they are free to leave at will and their personal appearance choices are their own. Anyone with eyes should be able to see right through that line of bull crap. Dusty King is 26 years old and has Cystic Fibrosis. A month ago the doctors have given him 6 months to live unless he gets a double lung transplant. Right now Dusty is breathing through a tube stuck in his throat, so he's not much help in the efforts of his family to raise the $10,000 he needs just to get on the transplant list. (they failed to mention how much the actual operation costs or who was going to be paying for it.) His sister, in a heroic move, has been doing car washes and selling flip-flops to raise money, which is a slow process and has only netted them $1,600 to date, so I guess they featured his story on the local Fox news channel in hopes of finding larger donations that don't require the use of a sponge. The reporter who did the story asked Dusty what he'd do with a new pair of lungs and one of the things he mentioned was do some traveling and I thought to my self what an ungrateful jerk. I would have liked to hear him say something like 'become a useful productive citizen so I could give back to someone else.' Unfortunately with the disease that he has there isn't much chance of Dusty ever becoming a productive member of society because after the lungs it will be either the liver or the intestines that needs replacing. In fact Dusty's whole life has pretty much been one hospital stay after another. I'd venture a guess that Medicaid has been paying for it all up to this point, which means I'm already contributing dearly to Dusty's medical care. The Army Corps of Engineers have unearthed
more bombs near I have yet to hear anyone from the Army Corps of Engineers say that these things that they are digging up are actual live rounds that have the potential to spontaneously detonate. The area was once a bombing range, which means it’s loaded with bits and pieces of exploded bombs. Inert harmless metal shrapnel that was left buried in the ground when some developer picked up the property dirt cheap. The one still un-settled item is who knew what when… My guess is before all is said and done someone will be going to jail for their part in turning an old bombing range into urban sprawl. According to published reports; the Orange County School Board is getting ready to cut $70 million from their budget for next year, which means eliminating over 500 teaching positions. The extreme measures are in response to expected cuts in State funding to the district, which are the result of shrinking tax revenues. Do
I think any of the teachers in the The First of all do we really need another specialty license
plate (I think the State of I did a little sleuthing and found that the President and obvious founder of Faith in Teaching, Inc. Carla Mallen formed the non-profit company in October 2007 along with another non-profit company called I Believe, Inc. When I did a name check for Mallen I discovered that a David Mallen (using the same address listed for both of Ms. Mallen's charities) formed his own non-profit company, Christian Offering Plate, Inc. in September 2007 and is also linked to an inactive non-profit company, American Disability Association, Inc. Now I'm sure that Carla and David Mallen are both pillars of the community and are both deeply and spiritually committed to their particular charitable causes. And I'm sure that all this recent flurry of activity setting up multiple non-profit companies is completely above board and perfectly legal, but it raises a whole bunch of questions in my mind as to their real motive for creating a rats nest of intertwined company interests. Call me skeptical, but I do have first hand experience watching the principle of a non-profit corporation using that position as a vehicle to create a huge pay check for himself; even if it meant sacrificing the very programs outlined in the company mission statement. Yesterday the University of Central Florida held a day long training scenario simulating an on campus shooting, which I agree gives our law enforcement personnel vital experience if, god forbid, they were ever faced with the real thing. The one thing about the exercise that I find troubling is when they began talking about how those who participated will be so prepared should a crazed gunman start shooting people on campus. The very nature of the beast makes that kind of statement way off in left field of reality. Every one of these campus shooting sprees have had one thing in common... they happen fast. I don't care if you had a SWAT team sitting in their truck in the parking lot outside the building... by the time they got their gear on and evaluated the situation the damage would already be done. We're living in a dream world if we think playing good guy - bad guy will ever stop some lunatic from killing hords of people on a school campus. Especially if they have decided in that warped mind of theirs that that's what they need to do. Former President Jimmy Carter is taking a 9 day trip to the Middle East and is expected to meet with leaders from the terrorist group Hamas. At 83 you would think Jimmy Carter would confine himself to the peanut farm. He is arguably the worst president this country has had in modern history and obviously still out to prove that by kissing up to a bunch of terrorists. Oh in his feeble mind he still thinks he can find peace between the Palestinians and Israel... Unfortunately when the main objective of the Palestinians is to annihilate the entire country of Israel there isn't a whole lot of bargaining room left. American Airlines has cancelled hundreds of flights and stranded tens of thousands of passengers as they comply with FAA safety inspections and upgrades to the wiring on their fleet of MD-80 aircraft. It’s a story that has been repeated in the weeks prior to this with several other airlines and is being explained away as a safety issue that must be addressed with the worst-case scenario for the flying public. What I don’t understand is… was this pending danger with the wiring something that just cropped up this week with the American Airlines fleet. Logic tells me the answer to that question is NO! Which means the FAA let American Airlines fly their planes these past few weeks despite knowing about the suspected defect while the other airlines took turns doing mass inspections? What does that tell me? That either this electrical problem isn’t as huge a safety concern as the FAA would like us to believe or they think it’s a bigger priority to protect the financial concerns of the airlines rather than face the potential loss of a few hundred passengers … My guess would be it’s the later. A little over a week ago the Olympic flame set off on a world tour aboard a specially designed A330 Airbus (equivalent to the Boeing 767 Jetliner) that is scheduled to travel 85,000 miles while visiting 22 countries on 6 continents with a possible stop at the top of Mount Everest. So far the trip has been marred by political protesters who don’t like the way the Chinese government treats those who oppose them… duh what do you expect, it is after all a communist country. What has me puzzled is where is Al Gore? He should be shadowing the tour (aboard a private 747 jumbo jet) leading the rest of the Envio-Nuts in their own demonstrations to highlight the gigantic carbon footprint this useless parade (along with it’s head of state equivalent security details) is creating as they hop scotch this little itsy bitsy bit of fire around Mother Earth.
Extra... Classes at the University of Kansas were cancelled on Tuesday April 8th so that the faculty and students could pay homage to the basketball Gods. And we wonder why our educational system is such a mess, we have our priorities all mixed up. $4.00 a gallon gas by Memorial Day… They keep telling us that it’s going to happen and by god the oil companies are more than willing to accommodate. Sometimes I wonder if the oil companies aren’t responsible for all the speculation by the media as a way to judge just how much abuse the average citizen will tolerate at the gas pump. Are
the price hikes justified? I don’t have enough information to make that
judgment… even though a lot of politicians and lard assess in Most everyone by now has heard the plight of Deborah Shank, the Wal-Mart employee who was rendered severely disabled 7 years ago when she was broadsided by a semi-tractor trailer rig. The family sued and won a $700,000 settlement, but Wal-Mart decided to sue them for reimbursement of medical expenses paid on her behalf, which was more than the $417,000 the Shank's were able to put into a trust fund for Deborah's future care. While ever one has been concentrating on Wal-Mart being the bad guy, which is not the case anymore since Wal-Mart has since dropped the case under heavy public pressure. The real story should be the blood sucking lawyer who took $283,000 from the family before they got to see a dime? While this sleaze could be driving around in his new Ferrari the Shank's are trying to figure out how to keep the Pinto running. The trucking industry is attempting to pull off a boycott to protest the high price of fuel. We can expect one of two things… either the truckers are going to park their rigs, which will make the roads a dream for anyone traveling or they plan to drive at the minimum speed limit of 45mph, which will turn the roads into a nightmarish combat zone as the frustration between 18 wheelers and your average commuter car escalates. So what exactly do the truckers hope to accomplish? They think by bringing the shipping industry to a halt the oil companies are going to miraculously find a way to drop the price of diesel fuel. What will the truckers actually accomplish? Since most of them are independent contractors the biggest effect is they won’t get paid for the time they don’t drive. Produce will spoil because the farmers can’t get their product to market and the price everyone pays at the grocer will go up as the supply goes down. Nothing is ever going to change until we begin producing more of our own petroleum products, which means we have to start drilling for oil in places like ANWR and use do diligent to build the oil refineries necessary to bring that oil to the US consumer without any foreign intervention… or we need to develop viable alternatives (fuel cells or some other affordable sources of electrical power) to use instead of petroleum to power our means of transportation.
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