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Here’s a novel idea, why not have state run-offs to find a candidate from each state with the qualifications to be president? Each state would then send their candidate to the National contest where they would be judged American Idol style. It would make money, save money, and they would not have to be wealthy to apply for the position. They would; however, have to pass a drug test, a birth certificate check, a background check, and have an impeccable work record. They could be male or female, black, white, or purple, and in fair health. We could eliminate the bathing suit portion of the contest in favor of a mathematics/income tax test; recipients being given 15 minutes to accurately complete a simple income tax form, and repeatedly be able to count back change to a simulated customer in the ‘old fashion style’ signifying that they can operate without a calculator.

They would have to be able to give a spontaneous speech, based on their true opinions and answers, without the aid of a teleprompter. They would have to have owned a successful business, or presently own a successful business, based on the idea that if you cannot run a company, you cannot run a country. They would be able to recite the pledge of allegiance, know the words to the Star Bangled Banner, have some understanding of Miranda rights and the hypocritical oath, and must have served on at least one jury so that they comprehend what the law really provides as rights to the criminal and the citizen through the court system.

They could have a wife and children, or be single/divorced. Marriage and patriotism are not even in the same league, figuratively speaking. They could be physically challenged, hopefully not mentally challenged by psychotic episodes, though most of our presidents have proven this not to be a detriment while running the country.  We would need to keep the gown portion of the competition in order to validate that they have some sense of taste and style. They should have, at least, looked at an etiquette book once in their lives and be able to recognize moments that demand respect, as well as moments when empathy is needed.

The majority of the competition would hinge on questions asked about how to solve an economic crisis without taxing the nation to death, how to eliminate dependency on oil without taxing the nation to death, and how to best aid other countries in their conflicts without taxing the American taxpayer to death. And while these questions are being asked, the individual would be hooked to a lie detector machine, while standing in water, that would shock them every time they lied until we got the whole truth and nothing but the truth from them.

Outward beauty, though highly valued in Hollywood, would have no bearings on the competition, but the individuals would be require to display a certain amount of decorum, discipline, dignity, diplomacy, and honesty. Then when we had eliminated everyone above the age of 5, we could choose the child that held the highest degree of intelligence and was potty trained.

The first time the swine flu raised it’s ugly head, a plane had errantly flown too low and too close to buildings in New York, and now it would seem that a politician has met too closely with her demise, so out comes the epidemically inclined swine flu. My question is one that many are asking themselves, these days, is the swine flu really any more contagious or deadly than congress and the administration?

The swine flu lasted, the first time, just long enough to identify and oust the scapegoat for the Air Force One flub-up. Weighing in a reasonable amount of lunacy, logic, and hot air, this epidemic will have to last long enough for Pelosi to come to grips with her destiny, resign her post, and have her constituents remove her from the senate by means of rope and pulley, if necessary. The words “Swine Flu” have become synonymous with “Wag the Dog” and “Hide the Wienie”…they’re just not scary enough to avoid a disastrous scandal in Washington D. C.

This last bit of testimonial trivia, on the part of Nancy Pelosi, may have sunk her battleship. It was unclear if she intended to convince those sitting in the audience that she really did not know about water boarding, or if she was performing some new age congressional dance steps while smiling like a jackass and stumbling over her words. Reporters sitting in the front row at these news conferences might take heed of all the stories that have plagued people whose family members have downed Prozac and bitten loved ones…Pelosi is on something and with her all-too loveable attitude it’s best not to second guess the Prozac diagnosis.

Somehow, I smoked, but I didn’t inhale is no longer working on Capitol Hill. Perhaps Pelosi will be able to obtain papers from her doctor stating that she suffers from Turrets and has moments of utter nonsense in her otherwise normal day; however, even that explanation will not stop the inevitable removal of Pelosi as Speaker of the House. With Pelosi out of congress and flying solo to California, the words “Next victim” will be uttered in the halls of congress, as the bus is hauled away with all the residual victims of bus-slinging clinging to her underbelly and the new speaker will find himself in the spotlight.

We get these things, all the time, our warranty is going to expire, we have an excellent insurance deal for you, and you’re being offered a deal you cannot afford to pass up. Strange thing is that we put our numbers on the “Do not call” list, and they still keep calling.

Here are a few of the numbers from robo-callers who ignore the “Do not call” list:

347-982-0056

702-705-5043

626-259-5548

702-705-5043

It does not mean that some may not be legitimate businesses, but it does mean that they ignore the list and call anyway. There are two or three things that have been suggested by Andy Rooney of 60-minutes, such as hitting the # button immediately and repeatedly until the recording goes silent and your number is kicked out of their system, or laying the phone down and letting the recording go until a customer service representative-using that wordage loosely to define anyone who is desperate enough to work for one of these companies-comes on the line and then asking them to repeat the offer, where upon you lay the phone back down and let them keep talking; then hang up. But, and this is the big ‘but’, you’re not supposed to be getting these calls because you requested that your number was put on the list.

Senators are considering filing a suit against the so-called “warranty expiration” callers, but that is really not good enough if you are the unfortunate recipient of several calls-all wanting to sell you something that you did not request information about-daily.

I don’t want satellite television service, because we have it. It’s not necessary for you to call us to tell us that our warranty on our vehicle has expired we know it. There’s no need in your calling us to give us a great deal on some product that you just cannot wait to unload on unsuspecting individuals, we have the government doing that already and we’re on the no-call list, what part of that don’t you understand?

While our senators are busy considering law suits, why not add the callers who want to tell you that you have won some erroneous contest that you never entered. The last time I had one of these calls, I asked, “What email address registered for me to enter your online contest?” The man replied, “I don’t have an email address attached to this information.” I rebutted, “Then it was not me or my husband, so please don’t call either of us again.” The man got ticked, but it bothered me little, since he really interrupted my day with his stupid phone call…I missed part of a show that would only re-air three times that day. I was ticked!

The only thing more irritating than spam is the robo-calls. At least, not yet anyway, my inbox doesn’t talk to me.

Congress has felt the sting of their own meddling and they don’t like it. Some of them feel that the CIA is out to get them, in what they say, “is an attempt by the CIA to CYA” involving their activities surrounding terrorist interrogations. If you stir up a hornet’s nest, there’s little way of knowing who will or will not get stung. Congress should have let sleeping dogs lie, and hornets unmolested and they would not be feeling the sting of their own attempts to bury the previous administration. The CIA released the documents that implicated the democrats and republicans because they did not want to be the only ones thrown under the bus, it was lonely under there. Pelosi’s “truth commission” is likely to stir up more aggravation and dissent by the time she finally has to resign and take an army jet home, for the last time.

If the CIA looks really close, while they’re under that bus, they are likely to see Wanda Sykes down there with a strange look on her face and hear her attempts to explain that she was only shining White House policy during the WH press dinner. Though her jokes were in bad tastes, her frequent glances toward Obama told the story. She was just looking for approval, which she got from Obama and his laughter and wide-open hearty demeanor confirmed that she had indeed done as she was instructed. Ms. Sykes is a comedienne and as such does some off-color jokes, but most are harmless. Obama, on the other hand, is supposed to carry himself with more dignity and his off-handed slap in the face to Joe Biden was in poor taste, poor form, and fairly undignified for someone who is supposed to understand that the office of president carries the weigh of diplomacy. One can only hope that the next time he pulls a bone-head stunt like the one in New York-the flight of Air Force One-that he won’t chose to jokingly blame his daughters for the disastrous decision, and remember that the people of New York still have not received their apology. Obama don’t give up your day job, even though some of us feel that you’re not doing much better in that position.

Keith Olbermann might want to look into a little incident known as the sinking of the Lusitania before he spouts off about what Winston Churchill wouldn’t do, and claims that Bill O’Reilly is not truthful. Those of us in the private sector have the benefit of doing our own research, and some of us have been reading about political characters, such as Churchill, for years. This whole nasty business of interrogation, congressional blame, presidential roasts, and hidden agendas is getting out of control, and in Texas we refer to it as “crap-storm”…it’s the cleaned up version. When you’re in the middle of a crap storm, it’s best to keep your mouth closed or you might choke on the filth that flies loosely in the wind.

Ms. Garofalo was busy insulting those who attended the tea parties again, calling them racist due to one sign that she says she saw in a group of protestors. She insist that though she made cruel and crude remarks about the tea party attendees, that she owes no apologies, and she continued to insist that Obama’s race and not his economic position was the catalyst behind the tea parties. The white people attending the tea parties were racist…but what of the black people attending the tea parties? Were they racist?

If you buy into Ms. Garofalo’s ideology of why people were protesting, it follows that you would have to believe that while the whites were protesting the blackness of the president, the blacks were protesting the whiteness of the president. It all gets very confusing to those who did attend tea parties, because they were expressing their freedom of speech and protesting taxation, and government spending. As has been pointed out more than once, by more than one individual, the liberals seem to be the ones hung up on racial issues, while the general population is angry over the vast spending campaign this government has undertaken since the installation of the Obama administration.

Garofalo wanted to know where these people were during the last administration, and why they were not protesting then? Well, Ms. Garofalo, there were plenty of protest under the last administration, some were white people, some were black people, and none were called racist because it is the right of Americans to assemble peacefully and protest whatever they view as a wrong decision made by the government. Under this administration, you cannot be white or black and protest without being a racist, which indicates that the government and not the people are holding out for a racial situation to develop, and apparently we the people just don’t feel like fighting among ourselves to give them their wanted/needed/ or whatever demonstration that they see as their liberal right to incite.

Please Ms. Garofalo, take a bath, clean your face and clean up your mouth before you begin another Janice Joplin-like tirade on the television camera. There are those who are still trying to watch and enjoy the television series 24 and are finding it hard due to your liberal craziness.

In theory, the government works for us, not us working to secure their future of lazy days making more laws or spending more money that we no longer have because they have been lying around on their over-sized keesters collecting taxes that go to make more laws for collecting more taxes. The latest, in a long line of unnecessary laws, is the consideration of increased confinement or penalties for “hate crimes.” Hate crimes are crimes that are committed by one person/s against another person/s because of his/her race, sex, or gender affiliations. Hm, there is a time when someone commits atrocities against another human being that did not find the origins for the act in hate? That’s right up there with the insanity plea, too often used because the person wishes to avoid paying for his crime wishing instead to convince a jury that his acts were committed in an altered state of mind. You could lay better than average odds that if/when this bill is passed it will be so fully-loaded with loopholes that the attorney who is receiving a sizable fee will be able to obtain his clients plea for leniency. Regardless of how you wager, this is one of the many things that our congressional do-gooders spend countless hours coming up with only to have a really intelligent/underhanded lawyer tear it down in a court of law.

How about solving some real problems? They cannot because they are so sorely unaware of reality and the problems facing the everyday Joe that they have ceased to hear the voices of said “Joe.” Joe wants to know why the green movement should increase his electrical bill when the bill itself is so outrageous to begin with? Joe wants to know why his 8-hour workday brings him a 5-hour paycheck? Joe wants to know why he should spend tax dollar to send another man/woman’s child to a private institution when his own child has to attend public schools? Joe wants to know why abortion and family planning organizations in third world countries means he will work harder to acquire money to support his family? Joe has a lot of questions he would like his government to answer, but the government does not have time to talk to Joe because they are busy figuring out what Joe really needs. Joe and Jane Doe are the bank from which the government embezzles billions, and now trillions of dollars a year, and feels no accountability to explain why they feel he and she need to work harder for someone else to have things that they cannot have. In point of fact, as long as Joe and Jane Doe continue to support themselves, the government will never hear their voices because the government only hears the poor, the lazy, and the outraged voices of those who feel entitled by some force to receive attention and funds from those who do work to support themselves.

So who is the boss? Apparently we have no voice; therefore, the government only serves those who whine and bitch, and the government is filled with whiners and bitchers that have no purpose other than to rape the average working class American on a daily basis. The Republican Party is trying to figure out how to get voters to come back to their side of fence, when both parties have completely lost touch with Americans and the value of a strong work ethic. Both parties may find themselves in a state of shock when those who have become accustomed to lying around lazily spending money are not re-elected to serve as congressmen/women during the next elections. Obama and his administration need to quit meddling in World Affairs and start tending to their own country and the needs they so easily ignore. How can a man/men assist other countries to come to terms and acquire peace when those men face a virtual revolution in their own country? Think about that…think hard, because the spending in this administration has signaled the end of government without checks and balances. It may be that Joe and Jane Doe have found their backbones and are now handing out pink slips.

It was our money, it was loaned without our permission, and now it is being held in limbo until the government decides that the banks can pay it back. The government has decided to keep us entertained instead of allowing us to pick and chose what we want as the morning comedic tribute to the start of our day. For your entertainment, there is Obama (the overly obnoxious Hardy), Biden (Costello), Pelosi (carrying the weight of three actors as Mo, Larry, and Curly), and the banking industry in the most ridiculous role as Laurel—a limp-brained comedian of less than adequate intelligence. Rohm Emanuel and Tim Geithner could easily be interchanged as any of several despicable characters, known but not loved, in such movies as Jaws, Leviathan, or Godzilla. They are the guys who see only the dollars and do nothing, if not risk the nation, city, or town, while insuring that they get their fair share of the booty. If you compared Emanuel and Geithner to the sheriff and his nephew in Smoky and the Bandit, we all know who would be the lack luster, somewhat slightly brainless nephew of the smart and crooked sheriff.

There is really nothing to indicate that Pelosi is actually involved in what is bound to turn into the greatest banking/government scandal of the nation’s history, but since most are unsure what she is guilty of, why not give her a starring role in the insidious tactics being used by our government to produce the biggest disaster-comedy of all time? As the speaker of the house, she has—by her own admission—been the least informed member of congress and will likely retire from government service under a dark cloud of suspicious bull crap with her index finger still pointing helter skelter in any direction available.

As with any comedic films of the late 30s, 40s, and 50s, Hardy and Costello will last be seen heading out of town in some broken down automobile spewing smoke and bouncing from one pot hole to the next, while the sheriff and his deputy are led away in handcuffs, or eaten by the biggest shark that emerges from the depths of political bureaucracy. The coffers will be empty and Laurel will be smiling that innocent yet imbecilic smile, and the taxpayer—that would be us though we will not get credit as anything other than extras—will return to the voting booths with a stunned but satisfied look upon our faces. All the while remembering that this disaster-comedy film had the most expensive popcorn in the history of cinema.

Footnote to film: Rattner did not easily fit into any starring role and was for that reason omitted from the script.

I did not vote for George W. Bush, but at least I knew whom I was not voting for at the time. With Barak Obama its difficult to know if I did not vote for him or this other person from his former life known to his classmates and teachers as Barry Soetoro, the step-son of a wealthy Indonesian oilman. Whether or not George Bush was or was not a good president is ancient history now, because we have a man in office who may not even be a United States citizen and a court system that would benefit Obama by denying the right of others to find out.

Strangely enough, the Supreme Court will now have an appointee who might have to answer questions about the origins of the man if Mr. Berg causes enough of a stir.Even stranger is the fact that during a video, Mr. Berg makes mention of Obama’s grandmother having been in attendance of Obama/Soetoro’s birth in a Kenyan hospital, while Obama’s sister (half-sister) puts his birth in one hospital in Hawaii, and Obama, himself, claims it was another hospital in Hawaii. All of which becomes moot if Obama/Soetoro did not renew his American citizenship during the 8-years that he was listed-in Indonesian schools-as a citizen of Indonesia. The republicans and the democrats have told some “mighty-tall” tales in the past, but this one takes the cake for its deviance and danger to America.

Then you have to ask yourself, do you really want Joe Biden if it turns out that Obama was ineligible to run for office? And if it’s not Joe Biden, we get Looney Sue Pelosi…which is worse?

The Hawaiian birth certificate, produced by the eager democrats at the time of query, means nothing in the grand scheme of things, but what is questionable is how deep the corruption of the government has gone and how much more will the American people take before they stop this nonsense? We need a president and a government that puts “we the people” first and not in the back pocket category to big business, and big government.

Links to Reality: Phil Berg, Israeli Insider, Chicagoagainstobama

Perez Hilton is not abhorrent because he is gay; he is abhorrent because his mouth singles him out as one of the nastiest men alive. However, giving the devil his due, Perez is just one of the nasties, and not the lump sum. His remarks were totally uncalled for in the incident with Carrie Prejean, but they have been echoed by people who serve-so we’re told-as news informationalist, and last night by Gloria Feldt.

Ms. Feldt is a feminist blogger whose utterance of male-like slams toward Ms. Prejean were offensive to all women. Ms. Prejean has a heart and was more than gracious in offering her prayers for Perez Hilton instead of offering a nasty rebuttal. I don’t really watch beauty contestants and had actually been under the impression that Ms. Prejean was a Miss America contestant; however, in a land/country where people are supposed to be free to seek their own fortunes in life the beauty contest do not bother me either. What really bothers me is when a woman-not unattractive by general standards-such as Ms. Feldt make uncommonly rude remarks about breast implants and a need for a heart transplant toward an extremely attractive young woman such as Ms. Prejean. I wonder how insignificant Ms. Feldt truly feels she is in the world. Had I been a feminist, last night or at any other time, Ms. Feldt would have convinced me that I was on the wrong path in life.

Ah, back to Perez Hilton and his mouth. Perez would not be attractive regardless of sexuality. He is, I assume, a man with a really bad hair cut, tackily attired, and in severe need of narcotics that would alter him, in some form or fashion, into an individual fit to have in for dinner. Apparently those baring the name of Hilton, feel no need for candor or pleasant conversation with people in general. These might be the arrogant Americans that Obama made reference too in Europe.