An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
Archive for July 2010
Paid MUCH More…..Worth MUCH Less
Federal Government Overpaid $47 Billion a Year
The Foundry
Today, the White House is launching its second annual SAVE Award, which encourages federal employees to submit ideas on how to save taxpayer dollars. Federal employees will be able to rank the submissions submitted by colleagues, and then the general public will be able to vote on the top submissions later this year. Last year’s contest generated more than 38,000 submissions from government employees and more than 84,000 votes. Last year’s winner? A Department of Veterans Affairs employee from Colorado who suggested that VA medical centers should permit patients to take home extra bandages and medication when they are discharged. Estimated savings: $14.5 million by 2014. Not bad. But we have a better idea. How about paying federal employees what they would be worth in the private sector? Potential savings: $47 billion a year.
Can I Have One?
Can I can I can I….huh huh…..can I???? Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze??
Hey….I need all the help I can get! 
Glenn Beck 07/07/10
Foreign and Domestic!
Arizona Immigration Law Hurts Ties With Mexico, Federal Suit Argues
The Justice Department, in its lawsuit filed Tuesday against the Arizona immigration law, repeatedly cited concerns that the policy has undermined and interfered with its relationship with Mexico — raising questions about whether foreign policy has any place in the domestic case.
The lawsuit generally argues that the federal government has the primary responsibility for immigration policy and should be able to preempt — and nullify — the Arizona law.
But as part of the complaint, the Obama administration warns the Arizona law could damage ties with Mexico and other countries and has already had “foreign policy implications for U.S. diplomatic relations.”
Read the whole thing here.
Seriously? They are worried about Mexicans? Excuse me, but what about Americans? Shouldn’t WE be the PRIMARY concern for ANY administration? Bush didn’t much care, and it’s become more and more obvious that Barack Hussein Obama and his minions would be pleased as punch if the United States of America was no more! They sure are working hard to achieve that right now!
How DARE they side with ANY foreign country over the safety and well being of LEGAL residents and citizens! To me, that is treason, plain and simple!
This word imports a betraying, treachery, or breach of allegiance.
The Constitution of the United States, Art. III, defines treason against the United States to consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid or comfort. This offense is punished with death. By the same article of the Constitution, no person shall be convicted of treason, unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court. (source)
Well, I’d say we have a LOT more than just two witnesses, wouldn’t you?
Ann On Obama’s Afghanistan
Bill Kristol Must Resign
by Ann Coulter
Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele was absolutely right. Afghanistan is Obama’s war and, judging by other recent Democratic ventures in military affairs, isn’t likely to turn out well.
It has been idiotically claimed that Steele’s statement about Afghanistan being Obama’s war is “inaccurate” — as if Steele is unaware Bush invaded Afghanistan soon after 9/11. (No one can forget that — even liberals pretended to support that war for three whole weeks.)
Yes, Bush invaded Afghanistan soon after 9/11. Within the first few months we had toppled the Taliban, killed or captured hundreds of al-Qaida fighters and arranged for democratic elections, resulting in an American-friendly government.
The Draking Point
Captain Clueless At The Helm
The Rationer-in-Chief
The Foundry
When Linda O’Boyle was diagnosed with bowel cancer, her doctors told her she could boost her chances of survival by adding the drug cetuximab to her regimen. But the rationing body for Britain’s National Health Service, the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), had previously ruled that the drug was not cost-effective and therefore would not be paid for by the government. So O’Boyle liquidated her savings and paid for the drug herself. But this is not allowed under NHS rules. When government bureaucrats found out that O’Boyle had purchased the drug with her own money, she was denied NHS treatment and died within months.
“Trickle Up”?
Things are heating up in the Tennessee Governor’s race. Three major Republican candidates in the primary, and one Democrat.
Wamp and Ramsey dispute the notion that Haslam has earned consideration as the party front-runner and even McWherter was trying to stay neutral about his possible competition.
Personal opinion, the only thing I see as putting Haslam in the front is his numerous commercials. He’s got some good ones, but good commercials doesn’t mean that he’d be a good governor, does it? Shoot, D’Bama had some good commercials, and look how that turned out. 
But McWherter’s campaign has gone so far as to put out press releases specifically criticizing Haslam, and early in his morning appearance Tuesday, McWherter was attacking Haslam without saying his name by asserting the economic challenge facing the state “requires more of a candidate than simply juggling your statistics on TV ads to inflate your accomplishments.”
Don’t all politicians do that? Well, HONEST ones don’t. Honest politicians…..oxymoron? Yeah….I think so too. I’d prefer HONEST PUBLIC SERVANTS!
At another point, McWherter derided “trickle-down” economic theory, saying he subscribes to “trickle up” whereby first helping “working families” leads to greater prosperity. In recent weeks, Haslam’s campaign has promoted an endorsement from President Reagan’s economics policy advisor, Arthur Laffer, one of the strongest proponents of “trickle-down” or “supply side” economics.
Typical Democrat. The man doesn’t have a clue where jobs come from, and for some reason, he thinks he’d make a good Governor? Trickle up? Seriously? In order for those families to be working, there have to be jobs. For jobs, you need those “evil” rich men, and corporations. Working families don’t create jobs. No offense, but they don’t.
Contrary to what some on the left (aka Democrats) think, conservatives aren’t heartless. We DO care about the poor and needy. We just don’t believe it’s the government’s job to take care of them. It’s not “Charity begins in Washington, D.C.” or “Nashville”. No, it’s ‘Charity begins at home’. Home is family, church, neighbors, and community. NOT gubmint! “Trickle up”? Give me a flippin’ break!
Glenn Beck 07/06/10
Politically Incorrect Bible
Presbyterians to consider redefining marriage
This week’s General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) will consider redefining marriage to include same-sex couples and allowing ministers to perform same-sex weddings.
Carmen Fowler, president of the Presbyterian Lay Committee, believes those sorts of initiatives are to blame for the denomination’s declining membership.
Her group supports upholding the church’s traditional definition of marriage.
The PCUSA’s newly-elected moderator, Cynthia Bolbach, supports gay marriage but told the assembly on Saturday that the denomination has become paralyzed.
Fowler says that’s what happens when a church body becomes disconnected from its head — Jesus Christ.
This type of disconnect is one of the major reasons I left the Presbyterian church…..it’s no longer a church, but a push of the secular, as are way too many others these days. That’s not what Christian churches are suppose to be. A Christian church clings to the Word of God, not the word of man.
Genesis 2 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Matthew 19 4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, 5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
I’ve never seen anywhere in the Bible, Old or New Testament, that says diddly about George and Frank, or Jane and Louise. And no where has anyone ever said the Bible was “politically correct”….it’s just RIGHT!
The Talking Feds
Enforce The Law!
Illegal immigration may shape Tennessee elections
Illegal immigration is emerging as one of the key issues in this year’s state elections, with Tennessee Republicans planning to make the topic a pillar of their program to sweep state legislative and Congressional elections.
State GOP leaders say illegal immigration — along with the economy and criticism of the Democratic health-care reform plan in Washington — will be one of their main areas of focus in the fall, even in races for the state legislature, which historically has made few attempts to set immigration policy.
Someone might find it educational to read the Constitution.
10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Federalist Papers – 45: The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.
Real interesting reading.
“There is something going on here that is not immediately apparent,” said Gary Gerstle, a history professor at Vanderbilt University who tracks public sentiment on immigration.
Republicans say they are responding to voter outrage over the issue and to actions that have emboldened states to take up the matter, such as a new law in Arizona that lets police detain suspected illegal immigrants on trespassing charges.
I dunno….maybe some of the state Republicans are finally snapping to the fact the we have laws in this country, and the voters are getting pretty fed up with the federal gubmint not enforcing the very laws they created.
Democrats say the strategy is simply a political maneuver that will not lead to policies that reduce illegal immigration. Nonetheless, they are moving to defuse the issue before it can be raised in November.
What it means is that, like national Dems, state Dems don’t give a flying flip about the voters, or the law, and will do all in their power to use both the U.S. Constitution, and the state Constitution as toilet paper. Note to Dems: WE ARE FED UP!
Just last week, President Barack Obama delivered a speech in which he asked Republicans to work with Democrats on an immigration bill. A few days earlier, Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen signed a law that requires local police to check the immigration status of anyone they arrest, despite calls from immigration and civil rights groups that he veto the measure.
What he’s asking is for Republicans to work on an AMNESTY bill, so he can say it’s “bipartisan”. They would do so at their own peril! Ya hear that Graham? McCain? We know D’Bama doesn’t give a damn about the Constitution. Don’t make the same mistake!
Bredesen said he signed the measure in part because he wanted to discourage politicians from continuing to make immigration a campaign issue.
WE, The People have NO problem with immigration. WE, The People have a HUGE problem with ILLEGAL invaders. I really wish these people would get it straight! And it IS a big campaign issue. I repeat….WE ARE FED UP!
Upholding immigration laws will be the central theme of the Republicans’ message to voters, said Rep. Glen Casada, the chairman of the House Republican Caucus.
There is a real good reason for having these laws, and that is to protect the LEGAL American residents. If the federal government will not do it’s job, then it falls upon the states to enforce the laws. That shouldn’t be the case, but since we have feckless weasels in positions of power, more power than they are delegated, someone has to step up to the plate.
“Republicans are really making a mistake on this one,” said John Vile, a political scientist at Middle Tennessee State University. “Hispanics are now the largest ethnic group in the United States. They’ve already lost African-Americans. Do they want to lose them, as well?”
Latino groups will be watching the debate carefully, said Yuri Cunza, president and chief executive of the Nashville Area Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
Did they come into the country legally? Did they go through the proper channels to become legal residents, with an eye on becoming a citizen? Or, did they sneak through the back door, and break the law. Are they working to assimilate, or are they working to change the entire country into whatever they left behind? Legal residents have nothing to worry about, but if they want to encourage breaking the laws of the land, then they can go the hell back where they came from. WE ARE FED UP!
Tennessee’s population of illegal immigrants stood at about 150,000 people in early 2008, according to the Pew Hispanic Center. By comparison, North Carolina had more than twice as many illegal immigrants and Georgia had three times more.
That’s 150,000 too many! North Carolina and Georgia need to deal with their problems too. Will they? We shall see.
Democrats plan to punch back by attacking Republicans’ credentials on the issue, said House Democratic Caucus Chairman Mike Turner of Nashville.
“They’re going to try to attack us on hot-button issues, but when it comes down to the meat-and-potato issues — putting food on the table for Tennessee families — they’re not going to do anything.”
Seriously? That’s the best they’ve got? Democrats don’t give a happy crap whether or not you can put food on your family’s table. If they did, they’d get the hell out of the way, and allow the American people to thrive, instead of working so hard to control. Republicans aren’t innocent in this whole mess, but many are starting to snap. Taking money out of your pocket to feed their ‘social programs’ is not helping you, or the economy. Taking jobs away from illegals, and giving them to LEGAL residents would go a long way in helping get things back on track. Let’s face it, if your children are hungry, you won’t hesitate to clean toilets for minimum wage to feed them. Unless, of course, you really do think you are too good to do such menial tasks, and then, personal opinion…..you ain’t worth spit!
Remember NOW!
Remember the Gulf
The Foundry
Remember 9/11. Remember Katrina. Remember Haiti. Often, after a disaster of epic proportions, we are urged to remember the victims and the lessons of how to avoid a similar catastrophe. These reminders are necessary because after the moment of impact passes, people’s attention is drawn to other major events. Rarely ever, however, is the phrase used while the crisis continues unabated; while the administration that the media needs to hold accountable flounders in a sea of ineptitude, red tape and finger pointing.
Yes, we’re talking about the Gulf oil spill. It may be the first time in U.S. history that a president and the national media’s attention need to be refocused on a crisis while it is still, in fact, underway. Remember the Gulf.
Glenn Beck 07/05/10 – Refresher Course
Just Stuff
Blogging has not been on my priority list of “things to do” the last few days. Maybe you’ve noticed. 
I’m actually enjoying spending time with my daughter, Brat, son in law, Ick, and my youngest granddaughter, Short Person. Considering I’m not all that fond of kids in general (heh) y’all should be real proud of me…..I haven’t stuffed her into the dryer, and turned it on…………………….yet. *batting eyelashes*
It’s not that we all busy and going places, or anything, it’s just that it’s been quite pleasant not to watch the news nonstop, and get all pissed off. We actually talk about things OTHER than politics, although it’s not for the lack of trying to get my daughter a bit more interested. I don’t think it has hit her just how bad things could get, but I’m doing my best to nudge her. Hey….it took me years to get her to vote for the first time, I’m doin’ pretty good, considering. 
Tomorrow, Short Person and I are going to see my sister, and her brood. She smashed her ankle a couple of months ago, and I’ve been feeling guilty I haven’t been able to get down to see her sooner. She’s now out of the wheelchair, and using a walker. Yeah, it was pretty freakin’ bad! Gotta go see her and her menagerie of critters, y’know. Heh.
You know what’s odd? I haven’t been perusing the news sites, or even watching the news in general, and I haven’t missed it at all. Now, when I get back home, I’m sure I’ll be back to my snarky self, but this has been quite pleasant, and I’m enjoying the hell outta ignoring this contraption. Heh. Go figure. Maybe I should do it more often? LOL
Rockey Moose & Short Person
NO, the cat is NOT going with us.
