Saturday, June 25, 2011

Wiki-Leaks Gets it Wrong, Again

Wiki-Leaks is absolutely wrong on this chopper attack on so-called "civilians."
  1. It was NOT a camera that terrorist was carrying. Cameras are NOT long, tube-like instruments that are placed on the ground for assembly.
  2. You don't stand behind a building for protection, if you are going to film a U.S. Army chopper.
  3. Why do you place it on your shoulder, aim it toward the gunship, then pull back when you see that your timing was off, and can't get off a good shot?
  4. You don't hug close to the building and aim the "camera" at the chopper, then see the chopper has circled beyond the wall you are hiding behind, and realize you can't get a good shot without stepping way from the wall and exposing yourself to the chopper's defenses and cameras.
  5. Why are your buddies looking over the wall at the chopper, telling you something while watching the chopper come back around toward you?
  6. Also, when the chopper circles around to where you're standing, why have you collapsed the long, tube-like instrument - the "camera" - placed it back in its shoulder-case, with all your buddies around you, blocking our view of the "camera" with their bodies?
  7. Why do you nonchalantly begin to walk away, as though you'd done nothing with that "camera"? Where's your PRESS sign?
  8. Additionally, why are they caught lead-footed, as the gunfire reaches them, and you tear-off running away, dropping the "camera" like it were a hot-potato?
  9. If you were a journalist, wouldn't the "camera" be the one thing that would save your hide? Wouldn't you want to film this "massacre?" Why do you run like hell, after dropping the "camera"?
  10. If you were innocent, why didn't you signal your innocent intentions to the chopper?
  11. And those guys rushing in the van to pick you up, could they have left the children home, or at a friend's house? There were no women at home in burkas to babysit the children?
  12. You had to bring the children to the battle?
  13. This whole Wiki-Leaks thing stinks of weenies trying to make a name for themselves.

Sunday, August 9, 2009

People Shout When Things Are Rammed Down Throats

Why are people screaming? Because they feel powerless against policies being rammed down their throats!

You want more reasoned discussion? Try reading the bill you're forcing onto us!

Oh, wait. Here's an idea: To further the rational debate, start with knowing what it is you're emotionally ramming through Congress!

Leftists are so concerned about Big Businesses! What about Huge Federal Government - that's the biggest single corporation I know of! The most sluggish and the least responsive.

The DMV in charge of Health Care!

At least Big Business is a common noun of the common man! And it's plural - many groups of The People. Ain't nothin' more democratic than that!

Unless you mean a People's Red Revolution. Then you're talkin' Liberte at the butt of an AK-47 and guillotine, not Liberty under a Tree, freely and openly discussing and debating it's terms!

Now that's democracy at work. Many people coming together for the common good - incorporating, to make and sell shoes, clothes, cars, cell phones, TVs, computers.

Robbing from the rich and giving to the poor? Frederich Bastiat during the French Revolution called it legal plunder! Legal theft!

Barak Hussein Obama called it in his last debate: "Share the wealth." There should have been a counter-revolution of liberty loving cavaliers with swords raised rushing to rescue government of, for and by the People, from robbing the People.

You want Power to the People?

Don't lower the standards of home ownership, Fanny and Freddie!

Teach them correct principles of financial management -the frugality of Ben Franklin, the First Populist Founder! A Common Man who taught: $1.00 earned, .99 spent = happiness; $1.00 earned, $1.01 spent = misery!

Quit clamoring in the streets, fists raised and pitchforks threatening, for other people's money!

Let us voluntarily divest ourselves of our own wealth for the good of our neighbor.

Don't you ram "goodness" down our throats, you hypocrites! Joe Biden making $300,000+ gave $350 in charitable giving. My buddy making $57,000 gave $8000+ - of his own free will and choice!

With a $12 trillion debt hanging over our heads, misery is our selfish, self-indulgent legacy for the next generation!

Shame on all of you narcissistic Woodstock Generation!

You wonder why we're mad?

Saturday, August 8, 2009

ObamaCare is Like Federal School Lunch

Just a few ideas on ObamaCare:
  • Not many kids now like Federal school meals. There's lots of waste; much of the lunch is thrown away. Would be better to give each student an LDC Lunch Debit Card and let them use their cell-phones to punch in what they will eat, and have McDonalds or Burger King deliver to the school from a list of approved and balanced meals.

  • They could have an online Weight Watchers-like account that would allow them to keep track of the Points they use, thus teaching them good nutritional practices.

  • Health care Federal-style would be similar to the Federal Lunch program. But at least every child gets a meal, the Left would say. However, the Market (which is to say the People) would make billions of individual decisions better than a bureaucrat sitting at a desk who knows only statistical spreads of data, and not individuals.

  • This Leftist generation rails on "evil corporations" - large impersonal organizations of suits - which leave oils spills, deny the poor their rights of health care, and so on. Yet, there is no larger and more frightening levianthan of corporation of thought than the Federal Government!

  • A woman asked Ben Franklin: What have you given us? He replied: A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it.

  • I don't know that this nation of children clamoring for a King can stand up to the rigors of a Republic - the intellectual, physical, budgetary, financial and emotional requirements of self-governance.

  • That woman who told the media, after Obama was elected: I don't have to worry about paying my mortgage, or my bills or nuthin' now! The fact of such people who clamor for a king, is erroding the structure of freedom to decide the trillions of daily decisions that are impossible for a central committee to make.

  • And yet we must take care of our poor!

  • One way would be to let me give the $1,000 dollars left over in my Flexible Spending Account at the end of the year to some entity which would distribute that remainder to a poor family in my area. Let me be free to make such a decision!

Just a few considerations from a free citizen, not so sure Obama is making the best decisions about our health care.

Friday, July 31, 2009

Pelosi: Rethink Who the Bad Guys in Health Care Are!

Investment Business Daily (IBD) Editorials reports:

The Speaker of the House says insurers are "villains" for opposing Democrats plans for overhauling the health care system. She needs to rethink who the bad guys really are.

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=3339328

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Obamacare Discussed by two Cato Institute Experts

Two economists at the Cato Institute discuss President Obama's health care plan in a point-by-point analysis that presents the other side of the coin.

Go to the Cato Institute web site:

http://www.cato.org/weekly/

Click on June 25, 2009 - "Michael D. Tanner and Michael F. Cannon dissect Obama's health care plans" for a 5 1/2 minute discussion of Obam's plan.

Well worth the short time it takes to shed light on a muddled issue.