Humpday Happenings...
Welcome to month 9 of the year 2010...
September is finally here, and there's lots to ponder this fine morning.
*** Well, according to last night's address from our fearless leader, the war in Iraq is now officially OVER...sorta-kinda.
I did enjoy the rather stilted and quaint "We are the Borg" delivery OF the address last night.
Between yawns, that is.
And I don't recall hearing the word HONOR once when he referred to our TROOPS.
The president forgot to mention that 50,000 troops WILL remain in country (...in, as well all know, purely an "advisory" capacity)












Oh, and we'll ALSO have SPEC OPS teams in theater as well to KILL the bad guys, should any of them rear their towel-covered, sand-flea infested heads.
Would have been nice if the prez would have said THAT.
So, now we turn our attention to Afghanistan (another boil on the globe's ass), where fighting will continue (until NEXT year, when we're supposed to pull out of THAT country). In the meantime, the corrupt government THERE will do it's best to prepare for the "handover" of government at that time...JUST like Iraq.
What I find incredible about Afghanistan, is that the USSR was there for about a decade, and THEY couldn't "win" their war there (because WE were HELPING the opposition), and after a similar decade of fighting with OUR troops in that country, WE will be leaving as well (probably because someone is again HELPING the opposition).
I have never seen such a remarkable and near-perfect example of a STALEMATE in all my life.
You have TWO aspects to modern warfare these days.
1) Strategic
2) Political
Problem is, the POLITICAL always seems to outweigh the STRATEGIC part.
And you can't win any war running it on politics alone.
It really hacks me off when I think about the sheer might and resolve of OUR military being rendered impotent by bureaucrats in order to state we "have achieved our objective". No mention about a REAL (or decisive) victory anywhere. Do we even HAVE victories these days?
An OBJECTIVE is a means TO an end...and NOT the end result in warfare. Never has been and never should be.
The objective was to "take that pillbox", or that airfield...
The END result was that the enemy was vanquished and/or surrendered and we had a decisive VICTORY.
That's what it USED to be, anyway.
I can see a future where "war" is waged by computers and that tallies of "deaths" on either side will require people to report to a "death chamber" for elimination, because the thought of a REAL WAR, with REAL casualties is repugnant (and scary).
Wait a minute, that sounds EXACTLY like an old STAR TREK episode ( A Taste of Armageddon)...amazing. Life imitating art.
Bet'cha if we watched a few more episodes, we'd see some interesting things happening today that were alluded to way back in those late 1960s.
Nah...that's just a science-fiction show...no relevance THERE, right?
Moving along...
You'll have to look REALLY hard to find this little "news nugget", because someone must NOT want all of you to KNOW about it:
*** Federal spending surge sets record.
Federal domestic spending increased a record 16 percent to $3.2 trillion in 2009, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday, largely because of the huge economic stimulus package enacted to rescue the sinking economy.
The rise in spending was the largest since the Census Bureau began compiling the data in 1983. Overall, the spending total was the equivalent of $10,548 for each person living in the United States.
(Now, I didn't get MY check for that amount...how about YOU?)
The biggest chunk of money went to support Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, entitlement programs that are projected to consume ever larger portions of the federal budget as the U.S. population ages.
Now who would have EVER guessed that the FEDS were SPENDING...and at RECORD RATES?
A whopping SIXTEEN PERCENT you say?
And then we hear Obama whine about "We spent a TRILLION dollars on the war in iraq".
Yes, so...what's your point?
Did you have to get the cronies platoon out and go spend TRILLIONS (as in a sh*tload more than ONE trillion) more on useless programs that aren't doing a damn thing to HELP this nation (except to help it drop farther in debt)?
And how EXACTLY are YOU, Mr. President, planning on having THIS bill paid for, when we've got a stagnant economy, unemployment that damn near refuses to DROP, but rather increases, a TRADE DEFICIT that seems to grow exponentially, and a GDP in the crapper?
I mean, if you can pull this off WITHOUT raising current taxes, WITHOUT creating NEW taxes, or otherwise try to fundamentally change this nation AWAY from a capitalist venture (that has worked pretty darn well over the years) and into some sort of "collective" where you will take from those who HAVE (because they worked for it) and give it to those who have not (because they don't want to work for it)...that would be as great a feat as anything Harry Houdini could conjure up.
So please, clue us in as to HOW this can be accomplished (like our overwhelming "victory" in Iraq), OK?
Inquiring minds wish to know.
Still moving on...
*** Glenn Beck is still taking heat for his "event".
The leftards will NOT let this beautiful and patriotic event this past Saturday alone.
Claims of everything from "crazy" to Elmer Gantry from all those liberal news sources.
Funny, don't see ANY left-wing events in the offing, and IF there are, they certainly could NEVER have the numbers in attendance that Beck had.
Seems like everyone on the left is M.I.A. when it comes to GOOD solutions to America's problems.
And it takes a flawed person with a radio & TV program, who has come to know his limitations as well as the TRUTH, because he was bold enough to state that GOD meant more when it comes to redemption that the almighty buck, to say what NEEDS to be said, and to challenge ALL of us to get right with the Creator and get this nation back to her roots that were founded IN God, and BY God-fearing men.
Who knew?
Trouble with all this name-calling, bashing, flaming, and sundry other knocks at Beck is that it shows the REST of us ONE, very important thing:
It shows us the TRUE COLORS of those who want something other than America...AS "America".
All Beck did was UNITE people under a common banner and with common sense for a common cause.
That cause was to RECLAIM this nation AS America for ALL Americans.
Not a damn thing wrong with that...and it's been long overdue.
But these misinformed "outworlders" don't have any idea (themselves) how to chart a better course for this nation.
They're just pissing in the wind, and shooting in the dark (with an empty pistol).
--And I've got Bob's "Eight Simple Rules" for proper governance to back me up:
1) You don't spend your way out of debt. That's like drilling another hole in the bottom of the boat to let the water out.
2) You don't weaken America by apologizing your ass off to every other country.
3) You don't bailout every asshat that can't manage a business because of corrupt practices.
4) You don't punish those trying to offer jobs and grow a company. That denies incentive...and progress.
5) You don't take from the rich to distribute to the poor.
(Robin Hood took BACK from the "rich" the money that was ORIGINALLY taken FROM THE POOR in the first place...get the story RIGHT)
6) You don't ENSLAVE a nation through entitlements and control.
7) You don't mortgage the future on the backs of subsequent generations that won't be able to pay for it.
8) You don't treat the populace as a bunch of dumbasses or children, especially when THEY wield the REAL power in this country.
I'm sure I missed a few, and you readers can feel free to amend where needed.
So there you have it...plenty of food for thought, laced with some rather pungent social commentary.
But it's what you've come to expect here...nothing but "straight-shooting" from the hip.
And the truth. No more...no less.
Welcome to September, gang!
Be well, make a difference to someone, and...
Stay safe out there, America.