An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
Archive for 10 November 2009
Buh Bye
In Honor
To those who lost their lives in the terrorist attack at Ft Hood, and all the heroes we have lost.
In Case You Were Wondering….
…..and even if ya weren’t! My favorite all time artist, although I could have really done without the Chopin. I’m more the Vivaldi type.
Hell Awaits
Virginia Governor Denies Clemency, D.C. Sniper Will Be Executed Tuesday
Virginia’s governor has denied clemency for sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad, clearing the way for his Tuesday execution.
Muhammad was sentenced to death for killing Dean Harold Meyers in 2002 at a Manassas, Virginia, gas station during a spree that left 10 dead across Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
Muhammad is set to die by injection at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt. His attorneys have asked Kaine to commute his sentence to life in prison because they say he is mentally ill. The U.S. Supreme Court turned down Muhammad’s final appeal Monday.
At the risk of sounding insensitive, IT’S ABOUT FREAKIN’ TIME! To be perfectly honest, I’m disappointed executions are not totally public, and in a more brutal manner, as in the type of murder the scum committed. I want people like this to suffer in the manner they made others suffer. Perhaps I’m sounding a bit Old Testament here, but seriously, perhaps if other saw exactly how it is, then maybe they’d rethink their plans to carry out some act of evil. And that’s what it is you know….evil. Not a crime of passion, no act of retribution, just plain evil. Then again, some people are just evil, period.
Cool!
Vanished Persian Army Said Found in Desert
The remains of a mighty Persian army said to have drowned in the sands of the western Egyptian desert 2,500 years ago might have been finally located, solving one of archaeology’s biggest outstanding mysteries, according to Italian researchers.
Bronze weapons, a silver bracelet, an earring and hundreds of human bones found in the vast desolate wilderness of the Sahara desert have raised hopes of finally finding the lost army of Persian King Cambyses II. The 50,000 warriors were said to be buried by a cataclysmic sandstorm in 525 B.C.
Video and slide show.
Whut? You thought the only thing I have an interest in is politics? Pfft! My interests are quite varied, and ancient history is just one of the many. 
Controlling the Masses
The Health Care Bill Americans Don’t Want
by J. D. Longstreet
Just a snippet:
Why is it so difficult for the democrats to understand that Americans would have settled for insurance coverage for those unable to afford it? THAT we could do. It would be a strain but we could manage to pay for it. What Americans do not want is Universal Healthcare with a trillion and a half dollar price tag, which we cannot pay for!
Americans also do not want the so-called public option. Americans do not want anybody, or anything, or any entity, between them and their doctor! Period! When the government announces IT will be the gatekeeper between all Americans and their sacred relationship with their personal physician, the national ire began rising.
Read the whole post here.
We’ve called, faxed, emailed, and had face to face meetings with our so called representatives. To no avail. I even saw one stand up on the House floor and blatantly claim that the town hall meetings were in FAVOR of this fiasco called ‘health care reform’. When a person is threatened with a fine and jail for not complying, this is not about care. No, this is CONTROL.
If you are such a weak willed person, you need someone telling what to do, how to live, I’m sure Castro or Chavez will make room for you. I, however, am an American. A natural born citizen, bred with independence of mind, and spirit. I will not go quietly.
“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
Forbid it, Almighty God!
I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!”
