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My parents taught their five children that if you wanted something, you had to earn the money so that when you were able to purchase it, it would be yours and no one could take it away from you. They said that there were no free rides in life and that the only thing that made you a good person, a real person, and a benefit to your community was your work ethic. These lessons have been remembered and practiced throughout our lives and we have appreciated that working makes you feel good about yourself, but lately, it has made many of our era angry at those who complain that what people give you isn’t good enough. Governor Deval Patrick gives people in his state cars to get them to work, because they cannot take public transportation, but if they lose those jobs for which the cars were needed, they get to keep the cars. Supposedly this frees up $6000 from the welfare payments made to these families, and though they keep the cars, they lose the other benefits such as insurance, and up keep. Twenty percent of the car recipients end up back on welfare. You can read the full story on the Boston Herald web site.

There are many problems with the “give-me” system due to the fact that there are many people who would rather receive than give. It’s human nature to want to help those who cannot help themselves, but it is not human nature to want to help those who will not help themselves. The give-me attitude is over-worked and most Americans working to pay bills just do not have the funds to give to those that cannot put down the crack pipe and go find a job. Social Security is running dry due to the give-me system, unemployment is a wait-and-see operation for most Americans, and food stamps…well, if you want food stamps, you will have to swim the Rio Grande before applying. Medicaid is a sump hole where only the children of people unwilling to work will get benefits, and the elderly have been pushed to the back burner with restrictions on their income and medical care so many times that it appears as though the government would like to tell them to take a long walk on a short pier.

If you’ve worked for a living all your life and suddenly find yourself unemployed, you’re likely to find that you’re ineligible for government aid because you have never been on their role-call before. As a matter of fact, working to support yourself was your first mistake in the great nation where no man/woman/child is left behind. If you become terminally ill, you are made to prove that you have cancer or whatever, which takes 6-months and many people in this position die before ever collecting any social security benefits. You will die; however, with a clear conscience knowing that all that money you paid in, in your lifetime, went to support someone who was too lazy to work. These poor defenseless people that you work to care for every day will not only, not be grateful, they will complain that what they have been given was insufficient, that they have a right to live as well as you have lived, and that it is your fault that they cannot work to earn money to support themselves. That’s right; you’re to blame for them not attempting to learn while they had the opportunity. You’re responsible for their drug habit, you’re responsible for them getting pregnant, and you’re responsible because they say so, and if they cannot prove it, they will get a legal document in hand to do so for them. Best of all, and the last thing to be remembered, is that you did all this by electing officials who came up with the laws that protect people from having to work for a living. Thank your congressman/woman, your local representative, and your president for having helped you to aid another human being in his pursuit to lie around and do nothing. There is a free ride, in life, but you cannot receive it if you chose to work, rather than to complain about everything and everyone.

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.

My husband works for a paving/construction firm and as is the norm, these days, they have to undergo drug tests every now and again. Gary is a lab technician, which means that he is in charge of making sure that the asphalt that is laid on the roads is up to standards according to government regulations (that should put your mind at ease). Others, within the company, drive heavy equipment, big trucks, and company vehicles, so you can easily assume that the need to test for substance abuse is both company and public oriented. People, in all walks of life, are tested on a regular basis by the companies employing them due to a need to insure the company’s productivity and consumer safety, so why is it that the president, congressmen/women, and representatives are not tested?

The job…okay, their duties require them to make decisions that will affect millions of Americans and yet, they could be high as kites in a stiff spring breeze for all we know. I am convinced that the speaker of the house, Nancy Pelosi, is abusing some substance because of the wide-eyed rants and raves of her attacks on other members of congress and former administrations, so she definitely needs to be tested. Senator Dodd is another one, but he is probably suffering from Alzheimer’s and that would account for the fact that he would have his office write several hundred pages of crap to cover the president’s backside on the AIG bonuses and not remember them, and the last I heard the narcissistic complex the president suffers is not drug related. However, there are way too many memory gaffs, back tracking, and out-right lying for no drugs to be used in the hallowed halls of congress.

“We the people” should drug test the lot of them, and it would be a more expedient way of clearing the government of useless pork-filled bills than trying to understand and vote towards a fair and logical administration of representation. We do not have to drug test Hillary; her gaffs are due to having lost the presidential nomination and menopause. I cannot believe I’m saying this, but it’s easy to feel some sense of sympathy for Hillary, at this time.

In his Wednesday evening speech-it was long, it was boring-he said that he laughs at those who think he is trying to make the government “Big.” He must laugh every night, just before he bows north to say his ritualistic Muslim prayers, at how much he has been allowed to get away with in the first 100 days. The problem with the arrogant son-of-a-crapper is that he is laughing us into financial ruin, and a Muslim dictatorship. That’s right MSNBC, some of us did not get the memo and we’re really ticked about what is happening to our country.

According to tickers, emails, newscast, and many other avenues of information; we’re basically screwed as far as capitalism and freedom are concerned. Next tax season, we will receive a bill from the government ordering us to pay back those nice little tax cuts ($13 weekly) that we received through the year. Ours-my husband and myself-will be returned unpaid with a notice to the IRS that we have enacted the Geithner-Sebelius clause, “We don’t owe taxes and are applying for appointments to the Obama staff.”

As of February 7 2009, Obama has given $20.3 million to Hamas from Palestine to aid them in relocation to the United States. These will become the new regime’s equivalent to the Nazi SS soldiers…you don’t do as you’re told, they blow you up.

Those who were naïve (Evian drinkers) or ignorant enough to believe that Obama wanted to make America more prosperous for Americans, can now take a bow north while your government sticks it to you “really good.” My husband and I will be over here with the redneck gang acting as the French did in WWII-the French Resistance-to save our country from the dictator and chief.

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.

In Supreme Court terms, David Souter is a youngster (age 69), yet he is the justice who has resigned. The combined age of these individuals could easily equal Methuselah’s biblical age. They are inherently old enough to know better, but still too young to care. Souter recently described preparing for his annual ritual as a “lobotomy of the mind,” and it might be an over-rating of what the Supreme Court actually does. They hear cases that were decided in lower courts but have been appealed because of screw-ups, or failure in following the law to the tenth degree.

Now is the opportunity for Obama to actually make a change by appointing someone who would not need Depends or would be able to hear properly without a hearing aid. This is the opportunity to appoint someone to the Supreme Court who might still retain an actual semblance of a life. Here, in the hallowed halls of the Supreme Court, Obama could appoint an individual with even less experience than Obama, himself, had to be president and provided that the individual is a tax-dodger he would be able to get the man/woman installed as a Supreme Court Justice.

When a case arrives at the Supreme Court, it must feel like viewing the 15^th re-run of a really bad sitcom. The justices already know that the boy gets the girl, the murderer has been caught based on his DNA having been on every item used to murder the victim, or that the guy really does owe the suing establishment more than $75 thousand, so what’s left to decide? Who is paying for lunch and where they are all eating? How many days of taxpayer’s money they want to waste before allowing the original decision to stand? Or, the one-in-a-million reversal, which might occur once in a decade…ah, justice is served in an aging court.

The good news, if there ever is any good news involving Suleman, is that the child with the black eye was 4-year-old Aidan Suleman. After an investigation by CPS, one of the 2-year-old twins was blamed for the bite marks, and constant falling episodes, on Aidan’s part, were to blame for the black eye. Although police have made several visits to the Suleman resident over the past year that have involved missing children, trapped children, or children lacking proper parental care, the incident will remain under investigation, and it is assumed the children will remain with their mother. Okay, as a mother and grandmother, it’s truly heart-warming to hear that a 2-year-old was blamed for the bite marks, because we all know how well they communicate their feelings and actions.

Why not blame a 2-year-old? Their communication skill-level is barely above that of the family dog, who is more capable of telling you that he is hungry and wants to be fed than the toddler. We’re all certain that Suleman would not strike one of her children, because she would be required to be within arms length of the children. From the reports that came about when Angels in Waiting were in the home, Suleman is most often in her room opening “fan mail.” So the kid fail, what about the missing and trapped children? Why is this woman still running around free, she has defrauded the government and the taxpayers of thousands of dollars and plans an acting/reality career? Fear of staving off the inevitable, is only putting the children in harms/mom’s way.

Speaking of harm’s way, and we were, what does one say to the fiancée when he has been accused of murder and robbery? Meagan McAllister, the long-suffering fiancée of Phillip Markoff, managed a 30-minute, candid conversation with him yesterday. The setting, a dingily decorated investigation room where the two former lovers sat discussing what had happened (murder and robbery of hookers), and what will happen next (an impending court date and possibly death penalty). It’s impossible not to feel sorry for this young woman as no one could predict what any of us would feel at this point, but really, did she not know that he had some strange characteristics? When a man comes home with more money than he had when he left there is bound to be suspicions; anything ranging from sells of dope to betting on the horses. My husband plays the brackets while he’s bowling and has, on occasion, come home with more money (no great denominations) than what he had when he left to bowl. Ah, maybe not, maybe she thought that he was just the lucky recipient of some off-the-wall contest. Perhaps pennies do fall from Heaven, and cash grows on trees, or maybe she just didn’t ask thinking that ignorance is bliss.

To acknowledge Olbermann as anyone of credence, the Fox gang and Hannity would first have to acknowledge MSNBC as anything other than Obama’s mouthpiece and that’s impossible. MSNBC views water boarding as horrible because that is what Obama says that it is, and they view the need to spend Americans into poverty because that is what Obama says it will take to turn the economy around. In other words, MSNBC is only allowed to have a view if it agrees with the Obama administration, and it’s clear that Olbermann would like to be able to say what he thinks, but he is no longer allowed to think.

The Air Force water boards all pilots during their training, and only a few have seen flying saucers. Of those few that have seen flying saucer, at least 6 have met Mother Goose, and 5 have an intimate relationship with well-known, long-dead movie stars, so if that is the worst that we did to the terrorist it would be more than they have actually enjoyed since birth. Which is worse, facing death by your own hand, or talking to Marilyn Monroe? The anal probes of aliens are probably not a welcomed event, but what the heck; you get to fly around in a space ship. All of which adds up to exactly nothing, because our torture could not possibly measure up to what has been done to others by the terrorist themselves.

Hannity works for Fox news and is allowed to say what he feels, while Olbermann works for MSNBC scam sheets and has only the opinion he is given. Will Hannity contact Olbermann and take him up on his offer? He didn’t make the offer to Olbermann. He made the offer to Charles Grodin, and it was in jest, so why even bother considering what Olbermann has to say or offer?

Personally, I feel that the president of the United States owes the people of New York an apology for frightening them out of their wits, but instead he gave a half-baked, “It was a mistake and it won’t happen again,” reference to the press concerning Air Force One’s buzzing of the New York skyline. His demeanor did not say he was sorry; in fact, it looked like he was stifling a laugh. When Obama pens his memoirs they will best be described as the ramblings of a would-be dictator, turned comedic talent for some third-world dictator’s late night radio show. And maybe, just possibly, he will be able to get MSNBC a spot as the leading news and information for that same third-world dictator.

As one of the commenter’s on the yahoo boards stated, “an 8-year-old could have photo-shopped Air Force One with the statue of Liberty.” It’s feasible that Obama did not know the plane was in the air, but it’s unlikely. The number one reason to believe that Obama knew the plane was headed to New York is that he forgets that the perks of the office of the president of the United States do not belong to him, and has had a really great time flying around the country/world at the expense of the taxpayer. If you took Obama’s plane for a flight without his knowledge, and he wanted to use it, there would be a tantrum in the offing.

He proved that there are far more people still frightened of the terrorist than the polls have shown, and in the aftermath left a flunky to take the blame for the stupidly planned stunt. Obama has the mentality of a 5-year-old when something happens, its either Bush’s fault or some peon that he has chosen to bear the brunt of a deed gone wrong. While most 5-year-olds don’t have a cabinet of idiot-followers willing to take the blame, the 5-year-old will choose the boogieman instead. In our house, there was a little blue man that neither my husband or I ever met, but often knew was responsible for something stupid. In Obama’s White House, there are no guilty parties, just a rash move followed by a lame excuse.

The dignity and the obligation of the office of president insist that the buck stops there, but no more, not since Obama took office. Now, it’s anyone to blame other than the man giving the orders and taking little, if any, advice. We never gave the keys to our trucks to the kids when they displayed ineptitude for taking responsibility, and yet we allow the 5-year-old in the White House to play with public property. Fortunately the president rarely drives, and flying is less likely for a man that cannot talk without a teleprompter; however, getting the big bird shot down is a real possibility when it is being used for publicity stunts. From now until the hoped for days at the end of his term, if the right hand cannot let the left hand know what it is doing, better that the right hand should be slapped hard when it screws up. If we are going to pay for these stunts, then it should be put to public vote before Air Force One leaves the ground again. Take the toys away from the president before someone loses an eye.

If the U. S. had truly wanted to torture the inmates/terrorist of Guantanamo Bay, they could have made them attend endless parties at any of the Chucky Cheese establishments nationwide. Anyone above the age of 35 can tell you that the noise level alone is enough to make people yell “Uncle.” There are no sedatives passed out at the door. There’s no hard liquor allowed, and numerous pings from the many game consoles, songs from whatever video has been chosen to entertain, and children running wild will make one wish they had a gun aimed at the temple of their head. We have attended two such parties in the last year, and bamboo shoots under the fingernails seems almost like a wet dream compared to the torture that an aging adult experiences at Chucky Cheese.

The latest of these parties saw one grandson who was frightened of the mouse, and a granddaughter who kept backing away from fear that the large gray thing might come near her. The teenagers that work in these places are always happy, and I have wondered if they have a stash of some illicit drug in the back that is given before each shift. There is not enough Valium, Darvon, or Loritab on the planet to keep an aging adult sedated for an hour in one of these places. However, the children love it. Of course they love it, they run wild like animals in a forest and are allowed to yell, scream, and sing to their little heart’s content. It would be the perfect place if there were a sign on the door that stated, “No grown ups allowed beyond this point.”

I’ll take water boarding as opposed to listening to the Chucky Cheese song. I’ll take crickets in my cell, and nudity over the many pings, pongs, dings, and dongs of the game consoles. A padded cell with no windows or openings would be the ideal place for such as the party occasion at Chucky Cheese. It’s enough to make the average adult, age 35 and above, give up their license, social security, and bank account numbers, in order to escape unscathed and without the need of psychiatric treatment from one of these parties. Thirty minutes of Chucky Cheese would have been the ideal torture to get any terrorist to give up the locations of future attacks in the United States.