tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328669972024-03-13T23:16:40.720-07:00The Last Ones FirstYou are not who you think you are, you are not who other people think you are, you are who you think other people think you are.JohnnyT.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933993889323430535noreply@blogger.comBlogger379125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32866997.post-33893477385191993502014-03-04T22:56:00.002-08:002014-03-04T23:02:33.180-08:00IRONY BORED<h2>
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That Obama would have to concede all his liberal Dogma in order to duel with Bad Vlad Putin. Sign on for the Keystone pipeline, bring our own energy to market, grab your cock~man(Spartacus ref.), lead!, all these things that Obama can't or won't do. Now the world is spinning him toward these very necessities and if he wants to remain a world leader, leading is paramount. Dithering may finally pay a dividend, as the pack laps US up, we will seem to be in front of things for a moment. I pray our President gains the fortitude on the one hand, yet, my chagrin at this absolute buffoon holding our fates does desire to see the inevitable revealing of the true charlatan, on the other hand.<br />
It's all so twisted, Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin both were well aware of what we were dealing with in Russia. Both were vilified in the press. Both have now been vindicated.<br />
I long for the day when truth will out.JohnnyT.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933993889323430535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32866997.post-74674264133432878242013-08-03T07:16:00.005-07:002013-08-03T07:17:57.154-07:00<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #990000;">THE UNITED STATES, A NATION WITH AN ECONOMY, NOT AN ECONOMY WITH A NATION</span></span></b><br />
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Immigration reform being sold to US by the very pimps and whores who will use it all to their own advantages first. Who ends up getting hurt most by the unchecked flow of illegal immigrant workers into our country? Why, it's the low skilled. the high school dropout, the entry level kids, and yes the minority especially young black males. So <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/02/whats-missing-in-the-immigration-debate-american-wages/">why</a>, besides the obvious lowest possible wages would our politicians want it like this? They realize our economy is based on growth, I believe they don't want people with real roots to any particular area. If the housing industry tanks in a region, well let the vagabonds move on, if a city dies, like Detroit? get rid of the people and let cronies scoop up the remains for pennies on the dollar, then a little government subsidized community reinvestment and rebuilding and there you have it the rich will get richer, every time.JohnnyT.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933993889323430535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32866997.post-47493642296441593242013-07-30T21:42:00.000-07:002013-07-30T21:42:03.983-07:00C-O-N SPIRICIES<br />
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I have just a few moments before bed want to get this down before I forget<br />
#1 Anthony Weiner is really a hero, protecting New York and America from the Muslim Brotherhood takeover/Plant Huma/ the arranged marriage is a sham and Carlos Danger is blowing the lid off it.<br />
#2 The SF Giants used up all their mojo for the championship run last year now every team they stepped on is returning the favor. The fall from grace became official when they visited Obama.<br />
#3 Evil Dead is the worst movie I have seen in some time.<br />
#4 Conservatives are committing votericide/ Baseicide with their immigration stance and letting Christie and Marco Rubio become our next hopeful<br />
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Love the Lord with all your Mind , Heart and SoulJohnnyT.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933993889323430535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32866997.post-1978506733996785052013-07-24T22:51:00.001-07:002013-07-24T23:14:34.845-07:00<h2>
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After hearing President Obama's campaign style speech today I felt like a sickening wave of turpitude swamped over me, depositing me on a deserted Isle. Alone and vulnerable, a disenfranchised castaway that will be ignored for the crime of just not being willing to go to hell in a handbasket with all those who believe in this Huckster selling his bill of goods, paving a way to Hell with good intentions, re-prioritizing the whole government citizen relationship, basically campaigning instead of leading.<br />
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I feel diluted, my earning power is stripped bare, my vote and citizenship are worth less, nothing makes sense anymore. There are perverts who are positioned to become Mayors of big cities, there are tax cheats writing tax law, there are agendas out there that self serve before the greater good of the Nation. Race wars are being fomented, opposition is derided and insulted and blamed. We have had 4+ years of Obama and his policies have done nothing to strengthen this country.<br />
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Our economy is like a card to play when the mess gets so bad a distraction is called for, "Lets go sell the country some economic panacea". Everything Obama does has a delayed start and an expiration date. So all he ever really has to do is go out and talk about it and then it goes on the back burner for a few more months.<br />
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Today Obama again counted down his days in office, what is it? 1270? So a delay here and a diversion there and soon the lame duck is so lame and with the blame being the name of the game means that there is no accountability anywhere, no buckstopping, not much hope for anyone with half a brain knowing exactly where we are going,<br />
but change?JohnnyT.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933993889323430535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32866997.post-78544978059202202882013-07-02T19:54:00.001-07:002013-07-04T14:38:04.469-07:00For Deferred guiltThis country must have a collective guilty conscience for past endemic racism. This Trayvon Martin case seems Iike a perfect storm for a face off. With African American people reflexively taking Trayvon Martins side, up to and including President Obama, who claimed if he had a son he would look like Trayvon Martin. So we have the Black people on the one side, along with every one else trying to prove they are not racist, and everybody else who can see that this case is really about the right to protect yourself and your property on the other side. Since no one else was there no one can know if Trayvon Martin was looking for trouble or Zimmerman was looking for trouble and they just found each that fateful night.<br />
Poor George Zimmerman seems like a sacrificial lamb to the political correctness crowd, being tried in the public square through Internet and cable tv shows, his life hanging in the balance at the whim of the spectating speculating and in-vindicating for their own non racist purity, do good'ers who are really nothing more than monday morning quarterbacking a guy who was quite possibly fighting for his very life. I see Nancy grace pontificating and mock juries deliberating, I feel sick that all this speculating and the sport of trial watching seems to taint or jade people to think they know better. God help me if I ever had to have idiots like this decide my fate on a jury.<br />
Trayvon Martin seemed to be a kid who is having his checkered past whitewashed in the media to the extent that the photographs they show of him are from much earlier in his life to show a cuter less threatening persona. Now Trayvon certainly didn't deserve to die that night, but to me it seems he had chances to avoid the trouble but dove headlong into it by his charged up ego or a troublemaking spirit that couldn't walk or run away.<br />
Paula Deen and her character assassination are paralleling this explosive case and where President Obama could step up and make a public statement about rushing to judgement and expound the theme of forgiveness and the societal acceptance of certain individuals using the same words and not getting castigated we get silence and fanning the racistic flames by default. I believe that had Obama said we do not need to open up 30 year old wounds and everybody has said something in life they have come to regret that race relations could benefit and healing could begin again. But under President Obama race relations and the cause of Black people in particular have transgressed to the point where it has to become a crisis to be solved. And Zimmerman and Deen are perfect scapegoats<br />
Something here seems to me to be adding up to a squelching, throwing a bone to those who need racism to further careers, a shot across the bow to those who would defend themselves and to those who stand up for someone getting publicly lynched. The media whores have a story they want to tell, but the truth is not as important as the outcome.<br />
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Our country is imploding in slow motion and the train wreck is impossible to avoid.JohnnyT.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933993889323430535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32866997.post-2503565615301336902013-06-06T21:32:00.001-07:002013-06-06T21:41:57.204-07:00<h2>
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The abuse of Power by the Obama admin. is alarming on so many levels it's difficult to avoid sensational euphamisms because calling it out bluntly is downright damning to our country. If you break down all the Government agencies compromised since a month before the election it's almost an across the board indictment of our Government as a whole. State Dept., CIA, FBI, NSA, TSA, IRS, the voting process, DOJ, FDA, EPA, Health Care, HHS, DHS, Hell, even the House and Senate for their vacuous enabling.<br />
The dishonesty as a standard way of operating staggers the imagination.<br />
Take the IRS scandal, everything they have done and are still doing to harangue and pound into submission the opposition to the Government direction just reeks when you think of all the double standards. How they would punish the average Joe for the very excesses they themselves commit with impunity. Its so obviously a two level system thats been developed, and I don't think any true American would have ever thought that their Government could become so Mafia~esque in their self serving, power grabbing, and in doing so, become so indifferent to the other half of the Country with whom they are not ideologically aligned. Wait till the pendulum swings back again, there will be a pound of flesh required.<br />
As I try to connect the dots that all these scandals project I see a scary future ahead. Either we are being run by a bunch of incompetents who have no idea about any of these developments, to quote their own sworn testimonies, or Liars from dawn to dusk.<br />
Now I think that the Government could be in the process of being toppled from within. The overloading of scandalous situations to either numb US or dumb US down seems plausible. The carelessness and flip manner which these serious problems are whisked under the rug, the expectation of the Media to ignore or run interference, the way things would be so diametrically opposed if it was a Republican in the White House just spells certain doom to me.<br />
So maybe with all this coming out to the fore front of the National attention span something good can come about, the shrinking of the monster that is Big Gov.<br />
To think of the bravery and Patriotism on this very day 69 years ago and where our country is going and who is leading US there now is sad, disheartening, and yet there is always Hope, Change is a constant in this fallen world.JohnnyT.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933993889323430535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32866997.post-6785499740605428492012-03-27T05:30:00.007-07:002012-03-27T06:40:57.389-07:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhQD2MmhRafHJKXZllrLjoWVPuUPITPQS4-eCgQEn3tT46xpbS-RKRVABXc3fuDFYYZ_MDtc3ocPpriVJIcEu4L5-fX8a49zZprL2zHmg1ERFzLRa68qDoQvf0joRNzhV8nPcv/s1600/obamas+constitution.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 167px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhQD2MmhRafHJKXZllrLjoWVPuUPITPQS4-eCgQEn3tT46xpbS-RKRVABXc3fuDFYYZ_MDtc3ocPpriVJIcEu4L5-fX8a49zZprL2zHmg1ERFzLRa68qDoQvf0joRNzhV8nPcv/s200/obamas+constitution.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5724571423784347442" /></a><br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC6600;">Unconstrained</span></span></b><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Its so simple, now that I look at all the evidence. We are at the point of maximum vulnerability and most precariously perched. The <i>Birther's</i> have made claims that our President is not "Natural Born Citizen" by nature of his Fathers citizenship and the mystery of the location of the Birth and the veracity of the long form birth certificate that has been shown to the public. I have read the arguments and do believe where there is smoke there is fire. But I don't want to get sucked into a circular disagreement that has been so carefully crafted up all the way to the highest levels of media whitewashing and interGovernmental conspiracies.</div><div><br /></div><div>What I now see is what I long feared. A career politician at the last stage of the game. All along there has been a need to hedge bets and couch words. Subtleties were spoken and promises were passed back and forth, some intended to be honored others just "talk, talk". The American people need to be able to trust their President above all else. Words have to mean things and deeds have to align with <i>all</i> the rhetoric.</div><div><br /></div><div> There is a body of work out there that is Barack Hussein Obama which can be deciphered for any who are <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/10/who_is_barack_obama.html">not afraid to really look</a>. Past associations, past and present appointees, voting records, <a href="http://1461days.blogspot.com/2009/01/current-list-of-president-obamas.html">executive orders</a>, his own books for crying out loud, and yes, all those speeches. Mind numbing speeches full of sarcasm and disdain for opposition, snark and condescension dripping in between the lines. Class division and income disparity fomentations are regular staples. <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/03/president_put-down.html">The tone and sneer</a> leaves me wondering how this man could ever expect me to believe that he is representing me and my beliefs as President of these United States. </div><div><br /></div><div>And such is my fear that all roads lead to this one, that once Barack Obama gets re elected we see the real BHO. Not the restrained version seeking re election, but the man <a href="http://freebeacon.com/turner-to-obama-what-flexibility/">free to do as he pleases without the next election holding him back</a>. We shall see if America really has a death wish or <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-russia-after-my-election-i-have-more-flexibility_634473.html">if we are playing chicken</a>, and doing so with a sociopath would be folly, indeed.</div>JohnnyT.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933993889323430535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32866997.post-44078590237331069492012-03-23T06:05:00.008-07:002012-03-25T07:49:24.533-07:00<div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">Im in a Daze</span></span></b></div><br /><div>Readin' the news giving me the blues</div><div><br /></div><div>Watching my country fade away</div><div><br /></div><div>Rick rollin' onward even endorsing Barry</div><div><br /></div><div>Our Constitution gets misquoted or worse</div><div><br /></div><div>Blatantly disregarded by Nancy and Harry</div><div><br /></div><div>We all have religion, chapter and verse</div><div><br /></div><div>Not electing Pastor, Pope, Rabbi or Father</div><div><br /></div><div>I just want an adult responsible for what they say and do</div><div><br /></div><div>Power hungry Politicians we wonder why bother?</div><div><br /></div><div>Our world is spinning out of balance</div><div><br /></div><div>Gas prices food prices regulations strangle freedom</div><div><br /></div><div>Violence civility talk about ability</div><div><br /></div><div>Educate the masses indoctrinate classes</div><div><br /></div><div>Speak out shut up freak out what's up?</div><div><br /></div><div>Occupy your mind austerity for our senses</div><div><br /></div><div>Celebrities Tech gadgets Hunger Games PTSD</div><div><br /></div><div>Welfare Healthcare Warfare Riskshare</div><div><br /></div><div>We get what we deserve </div><div><br /></div><div>I guess, we regress, I digress</div>JohnnyT.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933993889323430535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32866997.post-88847210311692323812012-01-05T06:10:00.000-08:002012-01-05T06:38:59.358-08:00<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;"><br /></span></span></b></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;">The Goose, The Gander, The Gridlock, & The Gall</span></span></b><div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizzIiF5frEig4s827Tnxv3O20Lan7zgKHvEW2raMs6-khWTvveb-1X1eaobcjorb1bS05qUW4uOIuY_X9JGfDUy6fGyQX5bMX-DR4jr4zsgFqe4qmQYLq_uHjIUz74aLzr9AQ1/s400/lightning+strikes.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5694157271693185282" /></div><div><br /></div><div>Election season is beginning to heat up and it is becoming painfully obvious that the Government/ Media Complex is prepared to do whatever it takes to get their agenda (re)elected. From the destruction of each Republican frontrunner as they stand up and have their voices heard to all the <a href="http://www.maggiesnotebook.com/2011/12/national-defense-authorization-act-rendition-detaining-americans-the-reality/">un-American crud</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfHAPMuDWrA">emanating from Washington</a>. It will be an interesting and exciting time to <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-05/obama-chooses-politics-over-principle-in-naming-consumer-bureau-head-view.html">watch the politics</a> devolve. </div><div>I feel good about whomever gets the Republican nomination, in ability to debate Obama and his media sycophants and in the character of the new resident in the oval office. There really is a stark contrast being drawn and in less than a year our voices will be heard, we can put an end to the subversive/communistic track this country has been careening toward for the last half century or more. </div><div>If we do not prevail in the coming elections I believe there will be little hope for this country to regain our past glory of excellence, individually and/or United we will be all but boxed in.</div>JohnnyT.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933993889323430535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32866997.post-73202624740640103452011-09-25T20:30:00.000-07:002011-09-26T06:01:17.962-07:00<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;">Somethings to Think About</span></span></b><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Optimism: for remedy is at our beck and call, with leadership and courage <a href="http://spectator.org/archives/2011/09/23/risk-responsibly">its not over</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Doubtful: I can't help but think skin color matters not at all, its the character and content of the soul that <a href="http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/09/25/herman-cain-takes-morgan-freeman-calling-tea-party-racist">needs no excuses</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/24/obama-tells-blacks-stop-complainin-and-fight/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS">Talk is cheap</a>.</div><div>There are so many Tea Partiers and Conservatives who would vote for Herman Cain with no hesitation should he become the nominee, what say they then... racists?</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>JohnnyT.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933993889323430535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32866997.post-51091858337445948002011-09-20T06:16:00.000-07:002011-09-20T06:40:01.389-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC6600;">Spend and Tax</span></span></b><div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 181px;" src="http://media.hotair.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/o-ovaloffice.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></div><div><br /></div><div>The descriptor about the Liberal Way used to be tax and spend and it was so apropos it even became a pronoun. Now our country is on its heels with the European and world economies teetering right beside US. Who will catch them when they fall? Who will catch US when we fall?</div><div><br /></div><div>PIIGS~ Portugal Ireland Italy Greece and Spain~ And those are the tip of the iceberg. England is not doing so hot, the Middle East is bubbling over and on top of that Russia and China are trying to claim a top spot. It seems foreign policy needs some attention, but can Hillary Clinton Primary Obama? Is that really the question, or the answer? If a debt in Greece of<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#009900;"> $</span>11 Billion can derail the world economy What about the trillion$ Obama is putting US under?</div><div><br /></div><div>So after the jobs speech didn't jump start the jobs market now we have an economic plan that will tax the wealthy 1.5 Trillion, and that will save the economy???!!!???</div><div>I have rarely gotten any work from a poor person, so if the rich people are brought down by Obamas Tax Scheme I can't see anything good out on the horizon for my job prospects. </div><div><br /></div><div>Class warfare seems to be Obamas road to victory in 2012 in his own eyes. I guess the only consolation for average Americans may be that everything Obama has touched has turned to sh!t, so far. We won't get fooled again can be a rallying cry, again.</div><div><br /></div><div>Hoping for change in 2012.</div>JohnnyT.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933993889323430535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32866997.post-54797156409404943352011-07-13T05:28:00.000-07:002011-07-15T06:12:33.120-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC6600;">Through the Ceiling</span></span></b><div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 333px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsFhL23gLv0S5LLjAcGnCvYLQwYO8Ntl0umxELiBLoVZIhi7q3bQ5qoc7fElReUHHE6nr0inl_Gw7N1L3pB0vIhEBsVQg7fcsjh6pNmN76oLL0cqIX1-RVGy5a74mOPP9TT95g/s400/ceiling1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629197718391538914" /></div><div><br /></div><div>The proof of what the political parties are made of is now evident if we all have the nerve to see things as they really are. Since 2007 the economy has been in a tractionless funk. Spending by the Federal Government has spiraled upward and is now out of control. </div><div><br /></div><div>Both sides have some culpability in where we are right now. However, since 2007 the Democrat Party has had the advantage and responsibility. All the Republicans had since '07 was the Presidency for 2 years and now 1/2 year of majority in the House of Representatives. So you could say " Look what the Democrats have wrought" and be pretty accurate. </div><div><br /></div><div>Now we get a taste of the desperation of the taxers and spenders as rumblings of Europes avalanche of debt are being felt here and signs are apparent we are headed for the same fate. Our "leader" now sounds more like he's trying to be our Dad than <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2011/07/13/the-opacity-of-hope/#more-15741">the "</a><i><a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2011/07/13/the-opacity-of-hope/#more-15741">Messiah</a></i><a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2011/07/13/the-opacity-of-hope/#more-15741">"some were so beguiled out of their vote for in 2008</a>. 'Time to eat our peas', <a href="http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2011/07/12/look-what-we-made-the-obamacle-do/">threats</a> that social security checks won't go out, another summer of recovery, <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/58937.html">storming</a> out of meetings is no way to lead from behind, either.</div><div><br /></div><div> Its ironic that Baracks 2 and a half year spending spree has US on the edge of the cliff and now he has the nerve to <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/call-his-bluff/2011/07/14/gIQAfzFyEI_story.html?hpid=z4">play brinksmanship</a> with those who can help him out of His jam. I heard a great analogy to the Debt Ceiling Negotiations, that its like Obama and the Dems are bargaining between Obama's position and Pelosi's instead of between a Liberals solution and what the Conservatives want to move US forward again. </div><div><br /></div><div>The bully pulpit seems to be Barry's crutch right now as the reality that it is his spending that got US to this point might finally get to sink in if Boehner, Cantor and McConnell stick to their principles here. These are not election year politics at all, its the survival of a Nation at stake, and fiscal sanity has to be our cornerstone.</div><div><br /></div><div>A lot of Americans have had to declare Bankruptcy, lose their homes , scale back their lifestyles and start over since this mess started 4+ years ago. We have learned how to jettison the dead weight and non essential budget busters in our households and businesses. It seems high time that the Federal, State and Local governments learn to do the same. It actually has to start with a budget however. </div><div><br /></div><div>Sooner or later austerity will set in, and the sooner we get on the right road the sooner we can begin our journey back to prosperity. We are in danger of creating a whole lost generation if we don't start figuring out who knows what they are doing and who is learning on the job and messing everything up and needs to get reacquainted with the real private sector, job creating and productive sector of our once and future great economy.</div>JohnnyT.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933993889323430535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32866997.post-41318100057645841112011-06-30T05:19:00.000-07:002011-06-30T06:46:44.072-07:00<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#009900;">Blame Game</span></span></b><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Yesterday we got to hear from our highest echelon of Government all about how they spent so much and now its time to pay the bill. I just loved <a href="http://habledash.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1239:obamas-blames-economy-and-spending-on-congress-corporate-jets&catid=47:latest-news&Itemid=65">Obamas lament</a> that the Republicans are putting off the measures like a kid who won't do their homework until the last minute. Since when is holding the line on what really needs to be done procrastination? Sasha and Malika I am certain are the stars of the Obama household and I am sure if our dear President asked them what to do they would most likely have <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/06/obama_goes_for_broke_-_literally.html">a solution outside of blaming, smearing and condescending to opposition.</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Obama loves the straw man tactic. Its an easy guy to pick apart and as he preaches to his base voters, most likely the only ones who cant remember that Obama and the Democrats have had 2 years of total Government control and have had both the Legislative houses for 4 years. Thats 2 years with majorities that could have accomplished great things if only they could find unity within their own party, which is most difficult when re election is the goal and policy the party line embraces divides and destroys the Nation.</div><div><br /></div><div>So here we are with our proverbial car in the ditch, pointed at the cliff edge, gas tank on empty, oil light flashing, tires spinning, spewing smoke with our driver hoping everybody else sees our pile of debt through the passenger side mirror which states that objects appear smaller than they really are. That pile of debt is like a semi tractor trailer coming around the bend and anybody with eyes can see it now. But what do the architects of this predicament have in mind? The November 2012 election, thats what. Spinning the facts and hoping everyone forgets history and how we always used to get out of recessions and depressions. </div><div><br /></div><div>Obama acts as if he has arrived from some distant galaxy and can step in and save the day because he has no culpability and no agenda and no problem with the truth. He is right about one thing though, we do need leadership right now. Like never before we are boxed in and there are really no tools left in the bag of tricks. Maybe that semi will stop and pull US out of the ditch, or maybe it will just<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304657804576401883172498352.html?mod=googlenews_wsj"> knock US off the cliff</a>. Then our country can get a new car and driver, or go back to riding horses or something.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>JohnnyT.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933993889323430535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32866997.post-71605562525325337462011-06-22T06:04:00.000-07:002011-06-22T06:10:59.106-07:00<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><i>*Is *Hostility</i> War?</span></b><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>It depends on what the meaning of <i>is</i> is. and now it depends on the meaning of <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2011/06/21/quotes-of-the-day-721/">the word <i>hostility</i></a>. </div><div>Thats what happens when a lawyer is in charge. And a Constitutional Lawyer at that?</div>JohnnyT.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933993889323430535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32866997.post-14291756493855502852011-06-14T06:17:00.000-07:002011-06-14T06:29:06.982-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">Shovel ready Jobs</span></span></b><div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 281px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx005un8wjrpcMySFnEoLRCpfz34SJGxflG3FQHpSW3A6NrqO8WA4TkgEQyJ_Z0f4c3J-VLJ9GSbjeclx6mwb0ZCZJMikowOJs5GfHnTPYBoUc8epHoVt9ABftJI4kGCpMi0Ej/s400/Cartoon_Man_In_a_Suit_Digging_a_Grave_Royalty_Free_Clipart_Picture_101015-044408-229053.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618064820583963138" /></div><div><br /></div><div>Thank God <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/06/13/gibbs_election_not_about_blaming_someone_for_the_economy.html">some one is out there thinking</a> that what's best for our country is <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/269041/president-obama-not-worried-about-double-dip">growing the economy</a> and <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/06/obama-jokes-about-shovel-ready-projects/1">jobs</a>.</div>JohnnyT.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933993889323430535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32866997.post-16139636257411693892011-06-09T05:40:00.000-07:002011-06-09T06:04:48.674-07:00<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">Will It Be Worth IT</span></span></b><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>The economy is still tanking and all this country can seem to muster is enough attention to peruse sex scandals and who may run against Obama in a year and a half. Right here right now we have energy independence opportunities that will probably drown in the redtape regulations, Iran and the Middle East about to im(ex)plode, an economy that if it ever gets any traction will explode with inflation, Laws rammed through by this President and last congress about to be declared unconstitutional, a housing market that may take years to come back, unemployment ridiculously high, and debt that will crush the next two generations possibility to live a better life. </div><div><br /></div><div>All this is penance of a sort, I am thinking, paying dues for out of control obsessive compulsive living high above our hog. We have forgotten that God gave US this bounty and He can surely take it away if we seem to exhibit bad stewardship and self indulgence, which this nation, and the world, has surely been guilty of for at least a generation. We can get back in good graces if we remember our Lord and that our lives purpose is to serve Him. This crop of louts can be dealt with at the ballot box and will be soon enough. The lessons we learn? </div><div><br /></div><div>Hope and change can be desired, and may even be necessary. But in whom the agent and direction are empowered should be thought through with the greatest gravity. Here we are learning the hard way it takes more than just words and grand ideas. Ability has to match reality has to match possibility. Our lesson will be what we can't do this time.</div>JohnnyT.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933993889323430535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32866997.post-16967138745455975452011-05-15T08:51:00.000-07:002011-05-15T09:12:59.400-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">Allah Nakbar</span></b></span><div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 426px; height: 263px;" src="http://photos.thefirstpost.co.uk/assets/library/middle-east-map-426--129786124036675300.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></div><div><br /></div><div>Israel stands strong <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/15/israeli-troops-kill-eight-nakba-protests?utm_medium=twitter">as pressure mounts</a> from all angles. The world of peace seems delicately balanced and <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/terrorism-security/2011/0515/Palestinian-nabka-protests-turn-deadly.-Israel-sees-Iran-s-fingerprints.">the tipping point</a> is always near. We watch and we wait.</div>JohnnyT.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933993889323430535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32866997.post-60594129459840259482011-05-04T05:27:00.000-07:002011-05-04T06:29:59.569-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;">Freudian Slipping</span></span></b><div><br /></div><div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOsRSY0UvHR2T6zFrHFppbicQlRWwBnNdOIGPGLWzQI4BRvEWfUyspuToQj25AA8WlyJuUf65sIU_ibwMLcSL6esSyRWEs1z9mBXO7DZ7R5z9MAu64F4nQdd4ZRJLvWNgswMgy/s400/Osama+and+the+devil.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602852638873944482" /></div><div>I keep hearing news reporters and even Government officials commenting on the killing of Osama Bin Laden goof up and switch the S with a B and say Obama. I have heard it so many times here it seems almost to have its own sub meaning. </div><div><br /></div><div>Obama killed Osama, after he slept on it, of course. It was a monumental achievement for a President who appeared to be too afraid to confront the terrorism issue head on. I applaud President Obama for bucking his most hard core of leftist and pacifist supporters and doing the right thing. </div><div><br /></div><div>Whatever the unintended consequences arise from the killing of Usama Bin Laden (I will use that spelling, even though its much more difficult to do that switch in print, because I am always fascinated by the multiple spellings of all the terrorist names and places) whatever the consequences of this killing will be worth it. We cannot let a man who has the resources and the oft stated desire to do US harm the freedom to act with impunity forever. </div><div><br /></div><div>I believe its time to re think our aid to Pakistan in light of the fact that this 'Ally' was enabling Bin Laden, living right in the midst of their military industrial complex secure and protected. I am so thankful that Barack didn't worry about what the UN would say and followed all the measures set in place by former President Bush. After all, the very first goal of the War on Terror was to get Usama and bring him to justice. </div><div><br /></div><div>Reading the accounts of the raid made me feel so much pride in the ability of our military and our intelligence institutions to pull off such a bold and complex mission. Lately it seems like only Israel or Russia had the ability and the will to protect their National interests at any and all lengths. We still are a super power, sometimes our leadership has no choice but to do the right thing. After all the first order of any Government is to preserve and protect its society. If said Government can't or wont do that they really are illegitimate. </div><div><br /></div><div>So removing the head from th snake is a proper way to insure that snake can no more harm anyone. And people around the world should never forget that Osama Bin Laden was responsible for many Muslim deaths also, he really didn't care about any individual human life, maybe not even his own. His cause has lost a lot of traction in the middle east and jut maybe the peaceful Arabs can come out on top of all this unrest in Syria, and Lebanon, Gaza, Iran Afghanistan etc. They lost their front man but one thing is certain at this point is that the war is not over yet. The capture of his computers should help identify other terrorist suspects and all in all May Day was a good day for peaceful freedom loving people around the world.</div><div> I will not rejoice in the calamity that befell one evil man, a man with the means to do good in the world and does so much evil is always a tragedy.</div><div> I am not sure if this was the end Osama envisioned for himself, but its what he got, and most likely better than what he deserved.</div>JohnnyT.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933993889323430535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32866997.post-13523417403203422662011-04-26T06:38:00.000-07:002011-04-29T07:08:06.589-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">The Harbinger</span></span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 359px; height: 444px;" src="http://www.blackonomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/high-gas-prices-hurt-consumer-spending.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></div>"I'm gonna to get some gas and kick your @ss". That's a quote from an old story my daughter loves to have me retell every now and again especially when we see someone who is out of gas hiking to a station with a can in hand. <div>The story goes something like this... Probably circa 1980 Troy was driving by and saw some homey's pushing their lowrider off the parkway and he hooted out loud, "Ha Ha". One of the frustrated guys shook a fist and shouted back that infamous quote "I'm gonna git some gas and kick yo ass". I told my daughter that may have been one of the first ever rap lines, I have certainly never forgotten it and it brings back good and bad memories of good and bad times.</div><div><br /></div><div>Fast forward to the year of our Lord 2008. Gas prices spiked as the economy crumbled. It was only the complete ruin of the economy that brought gas prices to the low price we enjoyed at the beginning of Present Oh's rule. Here we are again, now 2011, having lost 2 years to Drill baby Drill, and the price at the pump seems only one more mid east uprising or gulf spill/ hurricane away from 5 or 6 $ a gallon. If that does not crown in glory the achievements of this one term wonder, only the ensuing dip of the subsequent recession will waken the blind following, kool aid drinking, facebook fixated, peace and love and head in the sand, psuedo intellectual, feel good~do nothing, scorched earth in lieu of green earth, dreamers hoping for change getting change and losing hope, up from their 2 year hiatus from reality. </div><div><br /></div><div>There are enablers out there in the media, citizens of the country answering polling questions, fellow Democrat/Liberal Politicians who put a floor under Present Oh. They take him seriously when he sits there with Oprah or on the View with his legs crossed like he is one of the girls and makes jokes about serious matters. Maybe the birth certificate wasn't the issue, but portraying yourself as transparent and then stonewalling only roils the waters and foments more questions. Why make it seem like those who want to know are some how conspiracy nuts? We wanted to know all along and it has taken 2+ years. We still want to know about college and any other paper trail. What will future historians have to cull from? Autobiographies? Will it all come out some day when its too ;late? </div><div><br /></div><div>What I always say is watch what the other hand is doing. The concerted effort is in and Oh needs the media to do their part to enable him to accomplish his plan. And never forget there is a plan being fulfilled right now. Tearing the country apart like a swarm of Tornados is the first step. Then, as in the aftermath of the gulf oil spill, its easy to put a moratorium on drilling. Create a crisis then offer the solutions, Govt solutions. Mark Levin said it best, Government is the crisis. But the daily news stories skip over the mid east fiasco and dubious appointments and dead or dying real estate markets and weakening dollar and impending inflation and necessarily skyrocketing energy costs and budgetary inaction/ deficits to bring you birth certificate and campaign sound bites and pardoned turkeys and college basketball picks and trivial pursuits. The media is even trying their darndest to bring US Present Ohs challenger, right now its Donald Trump, Sarah Palin has already been discredited, and who will we end up with? Probably a Moderate Republican aka Obamas personal campaign punching bag. </div><div>We are getting set up for the big take down in 2012 and if the country does not wake up the change we see will not be pretty, hope is not yet lost, but as close as you get before you find out what you fear is.</div><div><br /></div><div><div><br /></div></div>JohnnyT.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933993889323430535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32866997.post-50866356207520180382011-04-06T05:28:00.000-07:002011-04-06T06:01:34.600-07:00<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC6600;">Candidate Obama</span></span></b><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>The launching of the next Presidential campaign ironically coincides with the revelation that all the demagoguery candidate <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">o</span></b> spewed about Bush and Cheney shredding the constitution was just political rhetoric nullified when the w<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">O</span></b>n continued to use the same policies against terrorists/<i>sic </i>makers of disasters, Guantanamo detention policy and against certain dictators in the Middle East. The Nobel peace prize winner is actually escalating conflicts. Where is the war monger outcry always heard when there is a Republican President doing these same things?</div><div><br /></div><div>Now we see the same hatcheting of the messenger as Paul Ryan tries to wake up the American people as we sleep on the RR tracks with a debt locomotive just around the bend. Obama will try to stay above the fray as he floats ideas like trial balloons, threatens vetoes and separates himself from any position that could blow his political cover. Our President is no leader he is a campaigner, making a difficult decision is way above his pay grade and our country is so much worse off because of his weak, passive-aggressive, lawyerly style of Presiding.</div><div><br /></div><div> Its is almost comical to think that our countries fate hangs in the balance of the 2012 election and there are nearly 50% Americans bamboozled by this charlatan who will blindly pull the lever and watch our future circle the drain. </div><div>But there is a Trump card. And right now seems like he could do the job we need done so much better. Candidate Obama, you're fired!</div><div><br /></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">O</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">_</span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">o</span></b></div>JohnnyT.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933993889323430535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32866997.post-86238987360370011202011-03-28T07:06:00.000-07:002011-03-28T07:52:34.249-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;">A Smaller Fish To Fry</span></span></b><div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHMSYHFvd0r7CTYpm2QpnDuPWwcudpicTaqYNfZEtBrseHpKsB4ZtZ9pspewVUzMRdtrth-vr9DRMJCTVwHOp7ziShZZMzFqhC9vd-kz_7wrb5r5IXREB-U7sIFT-tYsEDcqTw/s400/small_fish_400.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589143561113171522" /></div><div><br /></div><div>In our National Interest lies Lybia<i>(sic)</i> just like a boil waiting to be lanced. Lo! over there, isn't that Syria? </div><div>Oh Lebanon and Egypt ~~Tunisia and Bahrain~~Algeria ~~ Morocco~~ The whole friggin' southern Mediterranean, What in the world is going on?</div><div><br /></div><div>I can't wait for our <i><b>Pre</b></i><b><i>s</i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;">id</span><i><b>ent</b></i> to 'splain it all to US tonight. I'm sure somewhere betwixt all the theories about protecting Europe's oil supply and anti-colonial Islamo-resurgency enabling we will get to see another facet of the charade that masks our CIC with the Islamic/ African sounding name. All I can see through all this is a noose encircling Israel and no word of comfort for an ally will be forthcoming from the top levels of the representation of our Nation.</div><div><br /></div><div>Stuff is happening right before our eyes, and it won't be pretty when its all played out.</div>JohnnyT.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933993889323430535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32866997.post-56347912564151514862011-03-26T10:49:00.000-07:002011-03-26T11:07:13.437-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#009900;">What A Pickle</span></span></b><div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 319px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS-FBx1xq9xCEBr1BdviS9Na6aWov4zUuDmuVZff0BbaqJyf_8gSBC_crD32JQTLAnkRKJ69LFlA-JrGR-3nXDS_XxjJdSszC8aII5RbE49tSe9T0jEAdhfnwaEZtkn53hkOEH/s400/Libya+Nightmare+cartoon.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5588449862977090114" /></div><div><br /></div><div>First we are ousting a dictator, then we are just preventing him from killing his civilians. We are bombing his compound but not trying to assassinate him. We are arming the rebels and hoping they can do the dirty work. But lo and behold who is also joining the rebels?? </div><div>Hint: first name is Al-</div><div><br /></div><div>This is sure a fine mess our political class has our stricken country wallowing in.</div><div><br /></div><div>Lives created or saved.</div><div><br /></div><div>There's a future out there that needs... winning. Duh!</div>JohnnyT.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933993889323430535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32866997.post-69282296698936266812011-03-21T21:45:00.000-07:002011-03-22T05:44:50.023-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#66FFFF;">UN</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;">til Now </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#66FFFF;">UN</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;">thinkable </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#66FFFF;">UN</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;">Holy Alliance</span></span></b><div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxfAcFfXepQPD9tO7xdrzYAbXMUGkGe_5uMmi3PBxdI06OKLNCYNXVv-1KcAavu-tfu32ItDPQUwxbw150UtVBqLtibp31VwGTcOf0V-1mlGfIcW-Ib-7Lfg9kbHuFhhqtIlU3/s400/obama-sotu-e1296013643556.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586775920353746898" /></div><div><br /></div><div>I have read some <a href="http://newine.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/not-against-flesh-and-blood-qadaffi-reagan-obama/">most interesting takes</a> on what is going on in the Middle East now that we have opened up yet another can of worms. History is in the process of writing itself. But its also a re-run.</div><div><br /></div><div>Under the rule of Pres. Obama the US has confounded allies and emboldened Nations hostile to US benevolence. <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/03/obama_the_accidental_president.html">The Presidents aloof and casual reactions</a> belie the gravity of the matter at hand. At best we may be witnessing the beginning of WW III and at worst there are a few more prophecies in the Bible that will be fulfilled before there is no longer any way to doubt.</div><div><br /></div><div> Israel has been our most faithful friend in the Middle East and a beacon of freedom in an otherwise harsh totalitarian jungle. The recent breakdown of the old order has me concerned for what little peace they have now. Almost all potential changes seem to be <a href="http://bigpeace.com/fgaffney/2011/03/20/the-gaddafi-precedent/">more perilous for our friends</a>. World events appear to be guiding and tracking a most dangerous path. The most anti American players are <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5408eb3a-5389-11e0-a01c-00144feab49a.html#axzz1HIx4EUre">even getting enriched by the turmoil. </a></div><div><br /></div><div>The Orchestration of these incidences and the viral nature make me certain we are witnessing Demonic influence on a global scale. I would hate to think Obama is complicit but I am certain he is unaware and getting played right along with The Nations of the World, the good, the bad and the Ugly. Its a spectacle both fascinating and terrifying all at the same time. </div><div><br /></div><div>The Liberals in our country have always looked up to the United Nations as more Utopian because they need <a href="http://conservativedailynews.com/2011/03/democrats-discover-that-one-world-government-doesnt-include-them/">to believe that secular Humanity can self correct</a>. And what better than the all inclusive UN to represent all the good in the world? If it were possible, ok, but... Human Nature says otherwise. So the Liberals have been Hell -bent on ceding our sovereign power to a corrupt body where hypocrisy sits on the Security Council. </div><div><br /></div><div>I can only imagine a day when we must overthrow our own Government once again because of corruption and unconstitutional behaviours and then We the People have to fight the UN who intervene for the good of ? what? European socialism? Islamic dictatorship? Chinese Communism? My God, so many precedents are being set and so many of them are for evil ends.</div><div><br /></div><div>I now know for certain what I have always guessed to be all we can do, </div><div>and that is to pray. </div><div>And remain vigilant.</div>JohnnyT.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933993889323430535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32866997.post-65548421522970415112011-03-15T09:54:00.000-07:002011-03-15T10:53:54.513-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;">Risk Averse</span></span></b><div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 302px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpjHkTCHx3LUt40gBPiNqL459ZLVbWDf_KG0Ta09IbUdOol5rCJBsnsH9-0tX-NsP0y9MboPiUrBgxnPsbUxDqvZ-6iafaBXSTdByt-6nfKw6pU33mrq7aiWGAUCyXVwe5mcQs/s400/PlayRisk.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584366397411802338" /></div><div><br /></div><div>Japan had their big one last week, volcanoes erupting and now another earthquake near Tokyo. So far they are weathering the storm. How much longer can they withstand explosions in their reactors, melt down conditions, and aftershocks both geological and humanitarian?</div><div><br /></div><div>Here in the US we are having questions of energy and how and where we obtain it. With plenty of our own resources but no willingness to exploit them we put our future in the hands of environmentalists and Middle Eastern despots, and market manipulators. On one hand using up other countries resources before our own makes National Security sense but is so hypocritical it's oxy-moronic. We can do a more responsible job of retrieving oil, natural gas and coal than 3rd world countries can. We can make a nuclear reactor able to withstand the forces of nature better than Iran, Syria, N. Korea or China. Why don't we? </div><div>And will they?</div><div><br /></div><div>Fear is the factor driving all the decisions in the world anymore. We used to want to go to the moon and Mars, but a few mishaps and budgetary concerns have grounded NASA. Nuclear energy could solve a lot of needs but now Japan will be in the back of every new decision on permits and environmental impacts. A blown up oil well halts undersea drilling, heck it halted all drilling contrary to our Chief Executive's feeble lies. If we were so worried about safety would we drive around in any car less than armored or would we ever fly anywhere in any type of aircraft? Would we be willing to step outside our own front door?</div><div><br /></div><div>Society has become so afraid of its own self we are paralyzed to attempt any thing adventurous or risky when the path is less than certain. I believe it is because western </div><div>society has placed a high price on life. As it should. Yet, at the same time moving forward has a price, also. Somewhere out here in the secular West we have lost some faith in our ability to have God direct the way. Some people even rebel from this golden corral by doing crazy stunts and taking up death defying past times.</div><div><br /></div><div> So the higher we go the farther we have to fall. Meanwhile we tie ourselves up with a zillion cords of red tape from regulations to impact studies and reasons not to try. We are protecting our children at the same time we are impoverishing them with mountains of debt. We are sealing our own fate by trying to create a world where there are no negative outcomes. It will be bland and at the same time suffocating. We will be at the mercy of those who refuse to answer to our higher code, we will diminish and a brave, bold and possibly evil usurper will meet no resistance from US at all.</div><div><br /></div><div>Our needs are being met by our loving creator, we just need to have faith and believe it. We just need to live.</div>JohnnyT.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933993889323430535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32866997.post-32439574730395438582011-03-13T10:58:00.000-07:002011-03-13T15:48:49.124-07:00<div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;">Civilization Perched</span></span></b></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgEXMiQlU8FF4D_qseZkCTFyu3l-1-URGuh7lgg5_NVj9B-SStUv3Rk22ivmcpmc7Jvk1sx76cspafx0DZGPza6EuVBnfpUFaBNql1K867MucW5i7_oWEZzSSGE0Z_Tt1A7XXP/s1600/us_house_of_cards.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 278px; height: 235px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgEXMiQlU8FF4D_qseZkCTFyu3l-1-URGuh7lgg5_NVj9B-SStUv3Rk22ivmcpmc7Jvk1sx76cspafx0DZGPza6EuVBnfpUFaBNql1K867MucW5i7_oWEZzSSGE0Z_Tt1A7XXP/s400/us_house_of_cards.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5583627150324175074" /></a>The world seems to be teetering at the edge, of calamity on one side, or a brighter day on the other. Like my own circumstance sometimes it really does appear to be the new normal. Hope and despair intertwined, inextricably coupled into a symbiotic synergy.<br /><div>I choose the brighter day and will exhaust myself in all effort to make it come to pass.<br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>JohnnyT.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933993889323430535noreply@blogger.com0