May
19
We’ve Moved
May 19, 2009 | | Leave a Comment
I haven’t been able to get to ANYTHING having anything to do with Blogivists for a long time. No explanation, no nothing. I’ve written to everybody I can think of, including the guy who runs Blogivists. I’ve gotten answers from others, but no news about Blogivists. So I moved this blog to Blogger. the URL’s pretty much the same, just substitute “blogspot”: (Ray’s Shorts)
May
3
“Sending A Message”
May 3, 2009 | | Leave a Comment
“SENDING A MESSAGE”: Obama says “we can’t send a message that we have two sets of rules. Sorry, O; that horse is gone.
RANGEL’S BULL DROPPINGS: Charlie Rangel did not pay his taxes for 28 years and got away with it. At the same time her was constantly railing about “corporate greed.” What about “congressional greed?” What about the “Senate Post Office scandal? The Senate Banking Scandal? They really think we don’t remember things like that. Most don’t, but people like me do.
THE “BIGGEST CON EVER!” TARP is undoubtedly “the biggest con ever foisted on the American people.” Bigger even than the Social Security scandal FDR figured would be nothing but a “slush fund,” since he set the age to qualify to receive money at 65, the “life expectancy” limit. He figured most people wouldn’t live long enough to get any money. He was fooled.
TWO WARS: The news media constantly says we are “fighting two wars: one in Iraq, one in Afghanistan. This is wrong; we are fighting ONE war, against Islamic terrorism, on TWO FRONTS, currently. There WILL be more fronts in this war before it is over. Wait for it.
OBAMA HAS NO CONTROL: If you believe his response to the “flyover” of Air Force One over New York City, scaring the hell out of “Nyawkuhs.” He says he “found out about it the same time you did. Sounds like he has NO CONTROL over what happens in his government. If I were president I’d know where Air Force One was at all times. Apparently Obama does not. Or he’s lying. I believe the latter rather than the former.
“NAIVETE, INEPTITUDE AND ARROGANCE”: That’s how former Senator Fred Thompson describes Obama’s action in releasing classified information about how we now, and will in the future, handle the Islamic terrorists we capture on the “field of battle.”
May
2
Nobody Knows
May 2, 2009 | | Leave a Comment
NOBODY KNOWS: It’s a fact that nobody knows what’s IN the “stimulus bill” because nobody actually READ it before voting it into law. I predict we will soon find out, to our detriment, what’s in it, as the Democrats and their bureaucrats ENFORCE all those things they sneaked into it. We do know SOME things, such as Obama’s “medical czar” and his “enlivened gun control” measures, still to be created by his bureaucrats under this law.
HOW STUPID IS THAT? Obama’s administration is letting the Yemeni terrorists who blew up the USS Cole, killing 17 American sailors go, if they sign a “pledge” not to do it again. How stupid is that? Those sailors will not come back to life if they sign this “pledge.” And if you believe they’ll keep their word, you need help! As do our politicians.
SPECTER TOLD US “I’M A REPUBLICAN!” While at the same time he was negotiating with the Democrats to change parties. As usual, whenever a politician, especially a liberal tells us something, we can depend upon the OPPOSITE being true.
WHAT PLANET IS HE FROM? People are trying to get Obama to prove he’s an American. I don’t think he’s even from this PLANET! He had pledged to “free us from our dependence on foreign oil” while at the same time pledging to “bankrupt the American coal industry.” He also wants to TAX the very people who are providing the money he and his accomplices are LOOTING from us into oblivion! This man is BANANAS!
THROWING HIS SHOES: the Iraqi man who threw his shoes at then President Bush got off easy with only a few years in prison. If he’d thrown his shoes at Saddam Hussein, he’d have been SHOT on the spot. No trial; no prison; dead. And he hates Bush for that.
DASCHLE’S CORRUPTION: The person who provided a free car and driver for former majority leader in the Senate Tom Daschle wanted something from him. Did he get it? I’m sure he did. And Obama even wanted Daschle to be in his administration and was “disappointed” when he couldn’t get him. This is the kind of president, and the kind of government we now have.
Apr
30
“Gaming the System”
April 30, 2009 | | Leave a Comment
“GAMING THE SYSTEM”: Obama and his accomplices have, like Bill Clinton, come to Washington to “game the system.” We thought Clinton did an efficient job of gaming the system, but Obama has made him look like a piker. He has stolen more money from the American people in the first THREE WEEKS of his administration than ANY politician has been able to do, COMBINED, in the history of this country. In fact, more than this entire COUNTRY has spent in its entire existence!
SPECTER’S MOTIVATION: Some people say it’s his “devotion to his ideas” that is responsible for his move BACK to the Democrats. In reality, it is to advance his political fortunes. So what else is new?
POLITICIANS EASY TO FOOL: American politicians are very easy to fool. They actually BELIEVE that “communism is dead” in Russia. Never mind that the SAME PEOPLE are running things there. They just say they’re “no longer communists.” Right! They’re now “socialists,” which is just another name for collectivism. People even equate the “fall of communism (one step back)” in Russia to the failure of communism worldwide. Forget the large number of countries (including China and Cuba) still being run by communists. Castro quits and they talk about “a new life for Cubans.”
“ADDICTED TO OIL?” Even George Bush (a Republican but NO conservative) said we are “addicted to moil,” as have many liberal Democrats from both parties. But there is nothing near to the truth in that statement. How can you be “addicted” to something that is VITAL to your survival? Am I “addicted” to food? Am I “addicted” to air? To say we are “addicted to oil is a STUPID statement and is designed to enrich the speaker.
GO FIGURE: In Denver, two teenagers were KILLED using cars to pull them on skateboards. “Authorities “ are very disturbed. In Leadville, Colorado, they ENCOURAGE kids to do the same thing on skis, using snowmobiles. Go figure.
BLAMING THE VICTIMS: While rewarding failure and punishing achievement. That’s what our government is doing today by “bailing out” large corporations who have made bad decisions and are now going broke. Meanwhile, small business, who have to declare their COMPANY PROFIT as INCOME on their personal tax forms (never mind most of it goes back into the business) get taxed 25% higher. It’s like a cop, stealing money, then arresting the VICTIM because the cop stole it.
Apr
29
Civility and Tolerance
April 29, 2009 | | Leave a Comment
“CIVILITY AND TOLERANCE”: Obama and other Democrats talk a lot about “civility and tolerance.” But where IS “civility and tolerance” in the way they treat people who disagree with them? Janet Napolitano, his choice for Homeland Security Secretary, says “conservatives are dangerous right-wing extremists” while openly gay blogger Perez Hilton calls the “Miss USA contestant who is against gay marriage a “dumb bitch” on his Hollywood gossip blog. That he is gay doesn’t bother me. That he had the power to “sink” this contestant does.
“HATE CRIMES” DEFINED: There is no definitive definition of a “hate crime.” Such crimes are defined by those enforcing them. That means a cop or a bureaucrat can DEFINE anything you did as a “hate crime” after the fact, and prosecute you for it. They can prosecute you for what you SAY. That this is a violation of the Constitution doesn’t seem to bother them.
HAVE WE FORGOTTEN? Have we forgotten that Islamic terrorists murdered up to 3,000 innocent civilians who did not realize they were targets at the world Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001? Why are so many people concerned about how we interrogate Islamic terrorists? I don’t think they DESERVE our “concern” about anything related to them.
ETHICS COMPLAINTS: Isn’t it funny how when you anger certain politicians (mostly liberals) you start collecting “ethics complaints” like stamps? Newt Gingrich had, at last count, 39 of them when he was the Majority Leader of the Senate who got the “Contract With America” adopted, which put the Republicans back in power? Last I heard, ALL of them were “thrown out.” But did you hear about that? Not likely. Now Sarah Palin, who frightens Republicans and Democrats alike because she CAN win the presidency in the next election (and they don’t like that) is beginning to collect them. They’re all just as phony.
“HATEFUL WORDS”: What is a “hateful word?” Nobody knows, and that’s what liberals like about it. They get to DEFINE what IS a “hateful word” so they can prosecute somebody for things they SAY as a “hate crime.” That this violates the First amendment of the Constitution against ANY law that prohibits freedom of speech doesn’t seem to bother them a bit.
NO “EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE”: There is NO “empirical evidence” that people die from smoking. Yet the liberal news media keeps on promoting that IMAGINARY number of “four million people dying each year from smoking.” Yes, they can “draw an inference” from some things, but an “inference” is NOT proof. But they care not. If that many people died from ONE CAUSE, there’d be a revolution. But that many people have NOT “died from smoking,” so there hasn’t.
Apr
28
“One Part Joke”
April 28, 2009 | | Leave a Comment
“ONE PART JOKE”: “This administration has been one part joke, one part unbelievable, and many parts scary.” (Rush Limbaugh) And he’s right. There is only one thing he has done that is right for this nation. That is to “beef up” troops in Afghanistan. Otherwise, his “first 100 days” have been a flop. I feel sorry for my grandchildren and THEIR children and grandchildren, who will be BORN so deeply in debt they’ll never get out.
OBAMA TO ASK TERRORISTS: Obama wants to “interrogate” Islamic terrorists in custody on THEIR OPINION about their treatment. What do you think he’ll learn? That they think those “harsh interrogation techniques” are “torture” and shouldn’t be used? What a surprise! Does he think people who routinely BEHEAD their captured people are somebody he should ask? I don’t.
MAKING CARS NOBODY WANTS: That’s what “King Barack the Mild” wants to force carmakers to do. That this will drive them even further into the red doesn’t seem to bother him. A GOOD NOMINEE IN 2012: If the Republicans nominate a worthwhile candidate, such as Sarah Palin. Bobby Jindal in 2012, they’ll win handily. Nominate another McCain and they’ll lose.
SOCIALISM IS IMMORAL: People ask me why I am so adamantly against socialism. They say, “What’s wrong with socialism?” My answer is simple: the whole idea of TAKING the earnings of one man (or woman) who EARNS it and GIVING it, UNEARNED, to another, is IMMORAL!. If you earn it, it’s YOURS. Nobody should have the power to take any of it from you, to give to another.
JUST LISTEN! The other way, a man told me he didn’t listen to such “bull” as comes from Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity. I asked him if he ever LISTENED to either one and he said he didn’t NEED to listen to them to know what they preached was bull. What an asinine answer! How can you KNOW it’s “bull” if you don’t listen to them and examine what they say for yourself? Obviously this guy has formed an opinion based on what the liberal media has taught him.
BLOGGER SINKS BEAUTY: Perez Hilton, a Hollywood blogger who happens to be openly gay, “sunk” her chances at winning the “Miss USA” contest after she gave an answer to his question that he didn’t like. Being gay, it’s understandable that he didn’t like her answer to the question about gay marriage (she’s against it because of how she was raised). But my question is, how does a BLOGGER get to ask questions of a contestant and “sink” her if he doesn’t like her answer? This has nothing to do with him being gay. It has EVERYTHING to do with him asking that specific question of a “Miss USA” contestant and calling her a “dumb bitch” later on his blog. That was uncalled for, gay or not.
Apr
23
I’m A “Right-Wing Extremist!”
April 23, 2009 | | Leave a Comment
I’M A “RIGHT-WING EXTREMIST”! I must be! Obama’s Homeland Security Secretary just released a report that says I am! So it must be true. Obama (by proxy) said it! Seems like I remember that the first thing a “wannabe dictator” does is “criminalize his opposition.” So if I’m a criminal, Obama, come and get me.
MONDAY MORNING QUARTERBACKING: Obama has left open the option to prosecute Bush administration officials who “signed off on” what THEY call “torture.” (Things like yelling at prisoners or “slapping them around.” Remember, these are people who BEHEAD their prisoners.) Only problem is, Bush was operating under the “War Powers Act” and those operations were LEGAL. Now Obama people are going to INTERPRET the law to believe those actions were NOT legal. Just another way to hassle the Republicans.
IS OBAMA A U. S. CITIZEN? If he is, then it would be simple to prove it, and put this to rest. Why then, does he NOT? And why does he attack the conservative United States Justice Foundation (USJF) for even bringing it up? There’s something fishy here, and it needs to be resolved. Not in the way Obama wants it, but legally. Just prove your citizenship, Obama! And we’ll be okay. Don’t, and we will continue to demand it.
17-YEAR-OLD SEX: Obama seems to think 17-yeqar-olds are smart enough to realize that “morning after pills” are not very reliable. I predict a big increase in teen pregnancies, and it will be Obama’s fault.
REDUCING SPENDING? Obama spent trillions of dollars we don’t have in the first month of his term, and now he’s crowing about his Cabinet “saving” maybe $100 million (a very small percentage of what he’s spent) by doing such things as “buying in bulk.” My question is this: why haven’t they been buying in bulk right along?
MAKING HIM LOOK GOOD: The “Obama Doctrine is all about making HIM look good. It has nothing to do with what’s good for the country.
Apr
22
“Reaching Out” to Our Enemies
April 22, 2009 | | Leave a Comment
“REACHING OUT” TO OUR ENEMIES: Obama says doing that will “make us stronger, but he will not “reach out” to Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity—or any other conservative. Instead, he directs his thugs to “target” them in any way they can. Is THIS how he “reaches out to his enemies?”
REVEALING THEIR INTENTIONS: Some banks and other companies that have received TARP money and are just now realizing what “the strings” attached force them to do, want to give it back. But the Obama administration refuses to take it, telling them they want “voting stock and positions on your board of directors.” Which means simply that Obama means to TAKE OVER these companies, using the TARP money as the lever.
STUPID BUREAUCRATS: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano (you know, the one who says conservatives are “dangerous right-wing extremists” subject to “investigation?”) She has also said, “illegal immigration is not a crime.” What the hell does she think “illegal” means?
WITCH HUNT: Obama earlier said his administration would not prosecute Bush administration officials. But it seems like now he wants to prosecute top officials who “approved” or “signed off on” what HE calls “torture.” You know, such things as “waterboarding” or yelling at prisoners? Maybe “slapping them around?
“HE STARTED IT!” Obama and his accomplices are saying, “Bush started it” to avoid responsibility for things THEY’RE doing. They call it “last year’s business.” It’s like a schoolboy telling the teacher, ”He started it” when he was caught beating the hell out of a smaller boy.
Apr
21
Newspeak
April 21, 2009 | | Leave a Comment
NEWSPEAK: George Orwell described a system the government used to confuse the people called, “newspeak,” in his landmark book, “1984,” where a dictatorship changed the meaning of various words, completely REVERSING their meaning. Such is the case with Obama’s “New Capitalism,” a word he has “coined” to describe what can only be called SOCIALISM by intelligent people.
OBAMA DELAYED PIRATE RESCUE: They’re praising Obama’s “decisive leadership” to the skies, yet his limited rules of engagement DELAYED the rescue for 36 hours before he finally gave the order.
THROW MONEY AT IT: That seems to be the Democrat answer to every problem. Obama throws around such terms as $50 billion, $100 trillion with abandon, never thinking about where he is going to get the money. He’ll probably say he’ll “tax the rich,” forgetting there aren’t enough “rich” to foot all the bills. Come to think of it, McCain has started talking the same way.
PC GONE STUPID: “A judge in Atlanta, GA, has ruled that “Men at Work” signs are sexist. The City of Atlanta has been ordered to replace the signs with ‘Men and Women who look like Men at Work’ signs.” How stupid is that?
TYPICAL DEMOCRAT: The “Green Party is just another word for “Democrat. They’ve proved it again by selecting Cynthia McKinney as their 2008 candidate for president. You remember Cynthia. She’s the one who was so arrogant she refused a direct order from a police officer and got herself in big trouble. Her worst enemy is her big mouth. Worse, she’s a Democrat (aka: socialist). Fortunately, she has no chance of winning anything.
NAME RECOGNITION: Electrosol spent millions of dollars to create name recognition, then abruptly changed its name to something nobody ever heard of. I wonder what “faceless bureaucrat” made that decision. Another well-known institution, Pinkerton Security, whose name is known to every American who ever saw a western about a train robbery, and is a well-known security company in the U. S. for more than 100 years, was bought by a Swedish company that is well-known in Europe, but completely unknown here. So they abruptly changed its name to “Securitas,” a name nobody in this country knows. And they wonder why they’re losing contracts left and right.
Apr
19
You Can’t Tax Americans Enough
April 19, 2009 | | Leave a Comment
YOU CAN’T TAX AMERICANS ENOUGH: Omama has promised so many things, there isn’t enough money in the WORLD to pay for. So he can’t tax Americans enough to pay for his promises. But he will try, count on it. And the more you tax them, the less they’ll work; the less they work, the less they make; and the less income there is TO tax, no matter how much you raise taxes.
SACRIFICE: Omama continues to talk about ”sacrifice;” for US. Not for him. Ayn Rand said, “The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.” Omama clearly means to BE “the master” with YOU AND I the slaves.
THE “SANCTION OF THE VICTIM: Ayn Rand tells us that there is only one way collectivists can “take us over.” That’s with our APPROVAL. So everything they do is to gain “the sanction of the victim” (us) to their enslavement. They CREATE an “emergency,” publicize it to everyone who will listen, than offer to “solve” the problem THEY have created themselves, if we will just give up a little more freedom and some more money. In this manner, they take our freedom away INCREMENTALLY, in such small bites that we don’t even know they’re doing it.
I LIKE NEWT GINGRICH: But I question his judgment ever since that ad they ran with him sitting next to Nancy Pelosi on a couch placed on a beach, showing support for man-caused global warming. Sitting with Nancy is bad enough, but “buying” AlGore’s ”global warming” swindle? That makes me wonder about his intelligence and judgment. If he runs for president in 2012, I will be voting for Sarah Palin. Her, I can count on.
“TEA PARTIES” JUST THE START: As they were before the American Revolution, I’m hoping the “Tea Parties” will “galvanize” Americans into action (not necessarily armed rebellion, so don’t accuse me of that, Obama) and give Obama enough opposition that he’ll rethink his entire plan for the “socialization” of America.
WHAT KIND OF JERK IS NAPOLITANO? She approves a report intimating a returning vet who has fought (and some have died) defending this country is, by BEING a vet, “suspect.” That ANYTHING the government doesn’t agree with is a “possible threat.” This is how a “wannabe dictator” works. He “criminalizes” ANY opposition to his harebrained ideas, and then works to shut people up. I think we owe our veterans better than that. And so do most Americans. I don’t care if they try to criminalize me; I can take it. It goes with the territory. But leave our brave vets alone! Napolitano needs to be fired.