Tilting at Windmill Farms

I know I don’t have a lot of readers, but for those of you who have faithfully checked each day for new material, I feel as if I’ve been letting you down.

Recently, my 17 year old daughter has decided to go completly insane.  I realize that this is somewhat normal behavior for teenagers, but there were things being said and done that were simply not acceptable and could no longer be passed off as simple teenage rebellion.  After going through the gambit of talking to family members, going for counselling, punishment and everything else that I could think of, she finally left last night in a huff.  Now I realize that with her being only 17, I could easily have her brought back, but it won’t be long until she’s 18 and then she’ll leave anyway despite what I want. 

So, for the past month, I’ve been surviving on 2 - 3 hours sleep a night, and trying not to start drinking and smoking again.  It gets harder with each passing day, but with the prayers of my friends and family surrounding us, we will get through this.  I only wish I knew better how to comfort my wife during this time. 

Please bear with me through this.  When I can think coherently, I will try to get a few things posted.  Hopefully before long, she’ll see the light and we can get our lives back to some semblance of normal.  But never fear!  I will be back as soon as possible!

Found at Ernie’s House of WhoopAss:

We in Holland cannot figure out why you are even bothering to hold an election. On one side, you have a bitch who is a lawyer married to a lawyer, and a lawyer who is married to a bitch who is a lawyer. On the other side, you have a true war hero married to a woman with huge tits and owns a beer distributorship. Is there a contest here

Hear, hear!

I am completely sick and tired of the Democratic primaries.  Every day on every news channel, that’s all we see.  Obama attacks Hillary.  Hillary attacks Obama.  Obama’s leading.  Hillary needs to win <insert state here> to catch up.  It’s not news anymore people!  Oddly enough, I find myself in agreement with Howard Dean on this.  The ”super” delegates need to pick a candidate and get this mess over and done with.   By now, we all know that they are going to be the ones to pick the nominee anyway.  Any Democrats who still hold out hope that their vote counts in the primaries are living in a fantasy world.  It’s not like there’s a difference in the candidates anyway.  If you want socialism, vote Democrat.  Doesn’t matter which one, they’ll all take your money in the end.

I personally think the entire setup is hilarious.  The “party of the people” completly ignores the will of the people by putting in place mechanisms to override the popular vote.  The “party of tolerance” wants to make sure they don’t get another Carter or Mondale.  Hypocrisy reigns supreme in the upper ranks of the Democrats.  The same people who created “super” delegates to avoid getting another Carter elected have also made Carter a “super” delegate.  Go figure.

Senator Obama speaking about gun ownership during the Democrat debate:  “Just because you have a right, doesn’t mean that the state can’t curtail the practice of that right.”

 Are you sure about that Senator?  I’m pretty sure that’s EXACTLY what the Bill of Rights is all about.  Should we apply that same measure to the other articles as well?

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.  Unless they really want to.”

“No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house.  Unless they feel the need.”

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated.  Unless they think it’s necessary.”

“No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, or unless they think you’re guilty.”

 Kind of takes the punch out of the Bill of Rights, doesn’t it?  This man is too dangerous to be in ANY position of power if you still enjoy your freedom. 

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In a recent interview, Nancy Pelosi declared that the House will change its rules to avoid a required vote this year on a hotly disputed free-trade agreement with Colombia.  As I haven’t seen the bill and probably wouldn’t understand a lot of it if I did, I can’t say if it’s a good idea or not.  I do find Pelosi’s nerve to be a little appalling, though.  After all, it wasn’t that log ago that Democrats were up in arms about Republicans trying to change the rules to get things done.  Of course that’s one of the big differences.  Republicans were actually trying to get business moving on, while Democrats are trying to hold things up.

My guess is, their afraid that this bill is a lose-lose situation.  No matter how they vote, they’re going to alienate some potential voters.  And with the Presidency being so hotly contested this year, the last thing they want to do is lose voters over something like this. 

So instead of doing what we pay them to do and make a decision, they, in their hypocrisy, will change the rules and avoid making the decision.  And it looks like that calculated risk is paying off.  Certainly no one else is taking them to task over this.  But my six readers and I will know the truth!  And I’ll continue to cry from the mountaintop whenever hypocrisy rears its ugly head in Washington.

A Republican as media darling?  I would have never guessed, but according to the Washington Post, that’s exactly what happened to John McCain recently.  At a meeting of prominent news editors, McCain was met with donuts and jokes, while Obama was grilled once again on his “bitter American” gaffe.

So maybe I’ve been wrong all this time accusing the media of being liberal when they’re actually just being fickle.  Maybe that’s why Hillary didn’t even show up for the event.

Go ahead and tell me where to pick up my Nobel Prize.  I have solved Global Warming.  And we don’t even have to change anything we’re doing or put forth any additional effort. 

Everyone just needs to go back to using all the styrofoam cups and containers that we were using in the late 70s and early 80s.  The resulting hole in the ozone caused by the CFCs will even out the effects of the carbon that is insulating everything and allowing it to warm up.  After all, weren’t they claiming back then that we were headed for another ice age?

Once again, the Democratic candidates have taken an opportunity to prove how out of touch they are with the people of the United States.  Earlier, Obama had said that he would “unite” the two sides of American politics because people were tired of conservatism and ready to jump ship.  This, of course, did not appear to hold water as up to 30% of registered Democrats were threating to jump ship regardless which candidate eventually ends up as the nominee. 

Now, both of the candidates are attempting to play the religion card without really knowing what it means as both candidates attended a public forum on faith over the weekend.  What they don’t seem to realize is that most people of faith have already made their minds up about these two candidates, not from anything they’ve said, but from everything that they’ve done. 

They have made it clear that they do not value life by continuing to support abortion and finding every excuse that they can to support it.  They claim religion while helping the ACLU in its ongoing effort to systematically dismantle any semblence of faith in this country.  They take away our freedom to worship and then claim their peity.  Senator Obama, faith is something much more than attending church on Sunday.  If you truly have faith, it’s evident in the things that you do and the things that you say.  It’s shown in the way you handle yourself and the causes that you support.

Of course even at a conference about faith, Senator Obama couldn’t resist taking a potshot or two, saying that the current administration has left people “bitter” and that we were “clinging to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment.”  That’s right.  According to Obama, there aren’t really problems in these areas, we’re just bitter and blaming our problems on these areas.  Or at least that’s how it reads to me.

Clinton countered with probably the only statement from her that I’ve ever agreed with, saying that Obama’s remarks were “elitist, out of touch and frankly, patronizing,” but then showed her ignorance once again by claiming that religious people just didn’t understand Al Gore or John Kerry’s faith, and that’s why they lost on the religious vote.  The problem is not that we don’t understand them, the problem is that we understand them all too well.  Clinton seems to think that we should be able to put aside what we feel about the issues and vote for a candidate based on what they say about themselves.  But it’s just not gonna happen.  ESPECIALLY on faith-based issues.

Hopefully, some of the Democrats are reading this and will realize that it is going to take action and not words to convince us to vote for them. Who knows, maybe in their quest for power, they might even do something right.  But I doubt it.

I’ve been listening with vague interest the past few days to all the brouhaha about airlines cancelling flights and the subsequent hardships to their customers.  I haven’t paid much attention because frankly, no one was saying much except that flights were being cancelled.  The “depth” of this “investigative reporting” failed to pique my curiosity.

Last night, however, I happened to hear a report that did get a little more in depth on this issue.  They were saying that the safety issue that has grounded so many planes is due to zip ties being used to hold a bundle of cables together.  According to NTSB specs, these zip ties are supposed to be placed at one inch intervals along the length of the cable.  In some of the MD-80s, they are placed at 1.25 inch intervals.  That’s right, there’s .25 inches too much distance between two zip ties.  Of course this means that everything on the plane will stop functioning and it is going to fall out of the sky.  Or not.

 With the release of this information, I think I’ve gotten a clearer view of the overall situation.  Someone recently has come down on the NTSB for not doing their job properly.  Since shit rolls downhill, the NTSB has come down hard on the airlines, demanding that EVERYTHING be up to 100%.  The airline companies, in response to this petty thuggery, the airline companies have shown the NTSB just exactly what their demands were going to cause.  They don’t even have to worry about customer dissatisfaction.  If they lose too much money, they’ll just ask the government to bail them out.  Again.

I don’t have any proof for these accusations, but after a couple of the newscasts I saw yesterday, coupled with the fact that AA grounded 900 planes over 1/4 inch spacing on some zip ties, it certainly sounds plausible.  You be the judge.

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