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People Annoy Me
I observed something today that seriously annoys me. I thought I would share it with ya…..whether ya like it or not. 
When I stopped for gas, I pulled in behind a couple of women in a Mercedes who were also getting gas. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but most places you have to prepay these days, so obviously the driver had stuck her credit card in and was filling her car, while her friend went inside.
Now, here’s where I get annoyed. There were cars waiting to get gas because this place was about 7 to 10 cents cheaper than the places close by. What does the woman do? She looks at the cars waiting, and walks into the store. Hmmm….
I finished pumping my gas, and had to back up to get out. The car waiting behind me had to back up so I could back up to get out. I went and parked in a parking place so I could go into the store to get something to drink. The Mercedes woman was just milling around, taking her time, looking at this, that and the other. Well, I realize she was waiting for her friend who was otherwise occupied, but was it necessary for her to just leave her car sitting there next to the pump, where no one else would be able to use it?
Now, the reason I bring this up is because it’s just an example of how self centered people have become in recent years. I’ve noticed such behavior in a lot of areas of general life. Young people shoving in front of older people to get in line to check out at the grocery store or getting a door closed in your face because the person who just walked through is oblivious to anyone around them. Well, you get the picture.
What I’d like to know is just when did it happen? When did we become so disgustingly self centered? What happened to please, thank you, after you, let me get that door for you?
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Courtesy of Texas Fred via email:
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Useless Politicians
(it just occurred to me…that’s redundant)
….and not a DAMN thing has changed! Nor, will anything ever change until we get rid of the feckless weasels! ALL of them! Vote against every single incumbent!
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Abusing “Eminent Domain”
Consistently, we have seen courts (and politicians) pick and choose which parts of the Constitution to uphold, and which parts they want to interpret in a manner that screws the American people, royally. Such was the case with McCain/Feingold, and Kelo v New London. The folks in Nashville are taking highway robbery to a whole new level.
From Blue Collar Muse:
Will the Circle be Unbroken, Part I
A snippet:
Welcome to the real blight in this story. Just a week after Kelo v New London’s 3rd anniversary and in a week celebrating the quintessential remembrance of American freedom from governmental tyranny, the spreading blight of governmental abuse of Eminent Domain has arrived in Nashville. The arrogance and hubris of Joe Cain and MDHA reminds one of the royalty we opposed for our freedom over 230 years ago. If Joe Cain has his way, Joy Ford’s dreams and right to do what she pleases with her own property will be bulldozed to make room for a $100 million dollar development deal with a private company in Texas.
At it’s heart, this is the real issue. True Eminent Domain is about the government requisitioning property for Public Use for the good of all the citizens. This is just a business deal. And it’s the stuff of Hollywood, not Music City. It reads like a boilerplate movie script, not a hot Billboard single. The widow v the conglomerate. MDHA signed a deal with Houston based Lionstone Group, a private developer, to sell them the property they wanted at cost. They inked this Music Row deal in March of this year. At the time, Ford’s property was not theirs to sell yet they sold it anyway! Now, they are using strongarm tactics to keep a promise they had no right to make. In doing so, they are not simply trampling on the rights and dreams of one woman. They are making a mockery of our Constitution and rights and values paid for with the blood of tens of thousands. The question is, will this movie script, as yet unfinished, have a happy ending? How will this sad country song finish after the bridge?
When are we going to stop letting those elected into office to do OUR bidding from trashing everything generations of Americans have fought and died to protect? Tennessee is the “Volunteer State”. I don’t get the impression that Mrs. Ford is “volunteering” to turn over her property, and business, for a business deal. So, what will the city of Nashville do? Why, they’ll do what governments all over the country are doing these days: condemning properties and screwing its citizens!
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Where’s Jimmah?
I would have thought the former Weasel in Chief would have been all over the Zimbabwe situation. Isn’t he the biggest fan of murderers and thugs? I must say, I’m a little disappointed in him. (insert sarcasm)
Zimbabwe isn’t the only example, but it’s a good one. After Britain, the former colonial authority in Rhodesia helped peel power away from Ian Smith’s rebel white regime, and Robert Mugabe governed for a time with some success. Then he decided to become president for life. Autocracy descended, as did hunger and imprisonment. He seized the productive farmlands of the country’s then-numerous whites. Racial mythology protected him. He was black and, as the New York Times called him this week, “a revered liberation hero.” The whites were, well, white.
Leave it to the Slimes to “revere” a murderous thug.
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Reality
We’ve heard just how great ethanol is for the last few years. Reality has been setting in recently. The price of food has sky rocketed. When you use food to put fuel in your vehicle, common sense SHOULD have told those pushing for all those “mandates”, there would be some serious consequences. Naturally, the corn farmer thought, “Wow, I’m gonna make a boat load of money”. All well and good, except at what price in the long run? When there isn’t enough food to feed those who are truly starving, I’d say there was a big problem.
The fact that stupidity is causing children to cry themselves to sleep with hunger, ethanol in the gas tanks suck! It’s not efficient. When you get 40 to 50 miles LESS per tank, there is no efficiency involved.
Can we PLEASE knock off the idiocy, get back to reality and start looking for REAL alternatives? While drilling in our own “back yard” is not going to solve the problems in the long run, it’ll sure put a damper on the “speculators”. While we should have been thinking towards the future of our nations energy and security, people in D.C. have been playing politics. Using their positions of power, and the desire to keep said positions, they have allowed this country to be so dependent on foreign sources, not just for energy, but for nearly everything we use in our daily lives. Enough already! It’s time to wake up, and start dealing with the issues right here at home!
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The Media’s Messiah
The main stream media long ago lost any credibility with me. Sadly, there are many today who find their brand of “reporting” right up their ally. And by ally, I do mean all the trash shoved in the dumpsters that stinks to high heaven. Unfortunately, there are many who do not bother to do any “investigating” for themselves, and take whatever the folks at the NY Slimes, etc., as gospel. “Well, gosh, the NYT’s says it, it must be true, right?” Wrong. For those people who never bother to read other sources, watch other news related programing, or drool at the alter of Walter Chronkite, I say……
SNAP OUT OF IT!
Snippets of Mr. Krauthammer’s column, The Ever-Malleable Mr. Obama:
Back then, in the yesteryear of primary season, he thoroughly trashed the North American Free Trade Agreement, pledging to force a renegotiation, take “the hammer” to Canada and Mexico and threaten unilateral abrogation.
Today the hammer is holstered. Obama calls his previous NAFTA rhetoric “overheated” and essentially endorses what one of his senior economic advisers privately told the Canadians: The anti-trade stuff was nothing more than populist posturing.
(…)
Normally, flip-flopping presidential candidates have to worry about the press. Not Obama. After all, this is a press corps that heard his grandiloquent Philadelphia speech — designed to rationalize why “I can no more disown [Jeremiah Wright] than I can disown my white grandmother” — then wiped away a tear and hailed him as the second coming of Abraham Lincoln. Three months later, with Wright disowned, grandma embraced and the great “race speech” now inoperative, not a word of reconsideration is heard from his media acolytes.
If you were shown a picture of B. Hussein, what are the first things that come to your mind? Is it “hope”? Perhaps “change”? Not me. What comes to my mind is the damage that could be done to the Constitution. An arrogant man who has neither the skill, or the experience to even run for so high an office.
Worry about the press? His FISA flip-flop elicited a few grumbles from lefty bloggers, but hardly a murmur from the mainstream press. Remember his pledge to stick to public financing? Now flush with cash, he is the first general-election candidate since Watergate to opt out. Some goo-goo clean-government types chided him, but the mainstream editorialists who for years had been railing against private financing as hopelessly corrupt and corrupting evinced only the mildest of disappointment.
Not only is B. Hussein a hypocrite, but his drooling minions are as well.
Indeed, the New York Times expressed a sympathetic understanding of Obama’s about-face by buying his preposterous claim that it was a preemptive attack on McCain’s 527 independent expenditure groups — notwithstanding the fact that (a) as Politico’s Jonathan Martin notes, “there are no serious anti-Obama 527s in existence nor are there any immediate plans to create such a group” and (b) the only independent ad of any consequence now running in the entire country is an AFSCME-MoveOn.org co-production savaging McCain.
If John McCain had decided to forgo public financing, do you really believe the Slimes would have been so “sympathetic”? Here’s your sign!
And just where are the 527’s that are going to “attack” B. Hussein? I’d like to contribute a few bucks in order to “swift boat” him m’self!
The truth about Obama is uncomplicated. He is just a politician (though of unusual skill and ambition). The man who dared say it plainly is the man who knows Obama all too well. “He does what politicians do,” explained Jeremiah Wright.
Well, that’s an interesting insight from the most racist preacher I’ve ever seen, but he’s right. He does do what politicians do…….he lies, he spins, he promises what he can’t deliver. As for the skill? Take away his cue cards and teleprompters, and what do you have? “Uh….ummm…uh…..”! Ambition? Oh yeah, he’s got plenty. For himself. “Elect me and I’ll screw you anyway that is humanly possible!”
Why, the man even tossed his own grandmother overboard back in Philadelphia — only to haul her back on deck now that her services are needed. Yesterday, granny was the moral equivalent of the raving Reverend Wright. Today, she is a featured prop in Obama’s fuzzy-wuzzy get-to-know-me national TV ad.
Not a flinch. Not a flicker. Not a hint of shame. By the time he’s finished, Obama will have made the Clintons look scrupulous.
And THAT, ladies and gentlemen, is the best reason in the world NOT to cast a vote for Barack Hussein Obama.
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Larry Elder TRIES to School the Folks!
How Can a “Fellow Black Republican” Oppose Obama?
Mr. Elder,
I am shocked that you oppose Barack Obama and belong to the Republican Party. We must get over ourselves and realize there is room at the top for everyone and we must get there by helping each other — instead of agreeing with policies and old politics that are proven not to work.
To endorse John McCain, a person who will not make it easier for the underprivileged, is just too much. How can a fellow black American feel this way?
Your Former Supporter
Dear Former Supporter,
Do you have any Republican friends, let alone black ones? If so, how many of them want to make it harder “for the underprivileged”?
You also might want to familiarize yourself with the history of the Democratic and Republican parties, and see which party has stood up longer for the rights of people of color. Do you know that Democrats opposed the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution — abolishing slavery, granting citizenship rights to newly freed slaves, and guaranteeing the right to vote (at least on paper) to blacks, respectively? Do you know that most of the politicians who stood for segregation were Southern Democrats? Do you know that the Ku Klux Klan was founded by Democrats, one of whose goals was to stop the spread of the Republican Party? Do you know that, as a percentage of the party, more Republicans than Democrats voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Read more.
I seriously doubt if many people who vote Democrat are all that familiar with realities of history. If they were, and still spout the same ol’ Party line, then I would have to say they CHOOSE to be ignorant, or enjoy spreading lies. I’d prefer that they just are unschooled, but I’m afraid it’s more of the latter two.
Any fourth grader SHOULD be familiar with the history of our nation, yet they no longer are being taught what really happened. Anyone with a high school diploma should be aware of the Democrat suppression of blacks, but they seem blatantly ignorant of these facts.
When I hear/read Democrats/liberals spewing how “racists” Republicans have kept the “black man down”, I want to reach out and smack someone.
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Proudly Swiped….
…..from The Jawa Report!
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State, Teach THEIR Children Well
HSLDA Condemns German Court for Jailing Homeschool Parents
On Wednesday, June 18, a district court in the German state of Hesse sentenced Jurgen and Rosemary Dudek each to three months in prison simply because they homeschool their seven children.
HSLDA condemns this court ruling in the strongest possible terms. Good parents who love and care for their children should never be sentenced to prison for doing what is best for their children. Germany is a Western nation and should know better.
HSLDA will be helping the Dudeks with their appeals, but German courts have so far consistently ruled against homeschoolers.
How do you even comment on such flagrant disregard for parental rights? All I can think of is the Nazis taking control of the children during the Third Reich.
H/T: Thirsty Jon
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