Crazy Rick Santorum and Sharia Laws

If you were asked if you wanted to live in a Middle Eastern Country – a country where the civil laws are based on the Q’uran – you would probably say no.

Rick Santorum wants to be President of the United States and he wants our laws to be based solely on the Bible.  No ands, ifs or buts.  He said:

“We have civil laws, but our civil laws have to comport with the higher law.”

His higher law is the Bible. Quite frankly, I don’t want to live in a country where our laws are completely and utterly based on the Bible. I believe firmly in the separation of Church and State. If you disagree with me and think that this is a good idea, think about this: Bible law (right there in the Ten Commandments) states that

“Thou shall keep the sabbath holy”.

Um, to Orthodox Jews, the Sabbath starts Friday at Sunset and there’s no electricity or work allowed until Sundown on Saturday. Are we going to follow that law?

Oh, I can hear you, No, of course not. We’re not going back to the dark ages.

Are you sure?

You can’t be sure, not really. A crazy, religious president and you really believe that we all won’t be sitting in the dark come Friday at Sunset?

Allowing Religion in our laws is a slippery slope I really don’t want to go down. And, neither should you.

No Attack on Christianity

TO MY FELLOW CHRISTIANS:

I’d like to point something out:  There’s no attack on Christianity here.  We are in the majority and wouldn’t Jesus’ disciples be surprised.  Don’t you know why we celebrate Christmas with trees and on December 25th?  Because back in the day, we could be persecuted for living out our faith.  Jesus, most likely, wasn’t born in December.  He was born in the spring, but so Christians could hide from those who would hunt them down, we moved his birth to coincide with the winter solstice.  That way, we could celebrate our faith more openly.

And, so what if Christ has been moved from our schools?  The teaching of Christ to our children shouldn’t belong to a government worker – it should belong to the parents.  And, the fuss about Happy Holidays verses Merry Christmas?  Get over it.  Businesses want to sell their products to people of all faiths.  When someone says, “Happy Holidays” just respond with “Merry Christmas”.  I do, why can’t you?

Our Christian faith shouldn’t be tied to our government.  Jesus said, “Render that which is Caesar to Caesar and render that which is God to God.” Even Christ believed in the separation of Church and State.

And, for goodness sake, quit whining!  Jesus doesn’t want wussy followers complaining all of the time.  If you have a relationship with Christ, then you don’t need your government to have one as well.  Live your life by Christ’s example.  He wasn’t whining on the cross.  Find strength in him – talk the talk and walk the walk.

And, remember His words about loving thy neighbor?  No where did he say unless the guy’s a Muslim or Jewish or any other faith.  Embrace your faith and allow your neighbor to embrace theirs.  Perhaps, when they see how you walk in Christ’s footsteps, they might want to convert or not.  It doesn’t matter to your salvation.

To Cut Taxes or To NOT Cut Taxes

I happen to be against continuing the payroll tax cut. I don’t think it is wise to extend it for another year. I’ve said that I didn’t like the idea of it.

That said, I saw an article that stated along with the tax cut, there would be a tax raise on those making more than a million dollars. This raise would be used to offset the financial effects of the tax cut.  If there is going to be a way to make up the money Social Security loses, I would be willing to rethink my opposition to the payroll tax cut.

Since then, I’ve heard that the raise is now off the table.  Now, I’m back to my original opposition.

This makes me one of what the right calls the elite. See, I can think for myself and weigh all of the options.  The right doesn’t like people who can think for themselves.

They, also, don’t like the Americ

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Worker. The GOO is against this tax cut.

Is that a fact?

Yes, it is.

Tax cuts / breaks for those earning more than $250,000 per year. You beach! Those people work hard for their money.

Tax cuts for the little guys. Not on you

r

life – the American worker is nothing more than a lazy bum looking for a handout.

Make sure you remember how the GOO is too busy making nice with the CEOs, who are jacking up their stock profits, while running away with their double digit raises, to care about what happens to the American worker.

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Tags: tax breaks, tax cuts, GOP, AMERICAN WORKERS, CEO

Simon’s Cat

I love these Simon’s Cat videos.  This one – since we recently aquired a new cat (although, he’s an adult) is particularly amusing to me.

Tags: cartoon, cute, funny, humor, kitten, kitty, litter tray, mess, pets, play, Simon's Cat, simonscat

Veteran’s Day

As is my Veteran’s Day tradition, I’m running both my Veteran’s Day article and posting my all time favorite commercial.  However; I wanted to add something to the beginning… My suggestion for thanking Veteran’s shouldn’t just be you.  We have to teach our children to do the same.

When the grandsons descended on our home over Halloween, I took the three older boys to the store.  Alex and Nicholas were back in the van and Danny was helping me load up the groceries.  I saw two Army soldiers and I took the opportunity to teach Danny.  I told him who they were and said that he needed to thank them.  Danny, with the flair of a politician, thanked both of the men and shook their hands.

Start them young.  Throughout our history, our Veteran’s have kept us safe and we need to thank them.

Today is the day that we honor the men and women who gave the absolute sacrifice for their country.  Without these men and women, our country would be very different than it is today.  We wouldn’t be free, the majority of us wouldn’t speak English and we wouldn’t be the amazing country we are today.

But, I wonder about those men and women who have survive.  I wonder, do we do enough for them?  Do we show our gratitude often enough?  Do we give them our thanks?

So, here’s what I purpose for anyone reading this article – starting today – every time you see a vet, tell him or her, thanks.

It doesn’t matter where you are when you do so.  If you see a soldier, Marine or sailor in uniform, shake their hand, look them in the eye and thank them for their service.  If you see someone in a hat that says veteran on it, do the same thing.  These men and women put their lives on the line for us.  They serve their country with honor and for little pay and benefits. Their families live with the separation of war and service and they’re rarely thanked.

Remember this:  If you can read this, thank a teacher.  If you can read this in English, thank a vet.

God Bless our vets and God Bless America.

Tags: Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marines, Military, Navy, Thanks a Vet, Veteran, Veteran's Day, Veterans

I posted this on the main site yesterday and I’m posting it here today.  We need to have the FCC eliminate the network non-duplication protection.  Below is what set me off and the email addresses of the five FCC chairmen.  Let’s fill up their inboxes with emails until they agree to eliminate the rule that allows a television station to dictate that I can only watch their station when the two stations are showing the same network show.  It’s wrong and it kills competition.

I posted the following on my facebook profile.  If you’ve experienced a blackout on a channel due to the stupid network non-duplication protection, pass the word around.  It is time to have the FCC change this rule.  It gives local station’s a monopoly.  It kills competition.  The rule is from FCC 76.122.  I’m trying to find it on the FCC website to post a link here.

Enough is enough. Bones didn’t record last night because WITI Fox 6 Milwaukee has exercised their right to network non-duplication protection. Per FCC rules, Time Warner cable is required to blackout the program. Tune to channel 6 or 1006 for FOX programming.
What about MY right to watch the show on whatever channel I want? How is this fair to consumers? I should be allowed to choose the channel – not a broadcaster! Who is with me to contact the FCC and have this rule changed? I pay for the channel out of Chicago, I want to WATCH the channel out of Chicago!

Further – if you live in the Milwaukee Area – BOYCOTT WITI FOX 6.  They don’t deserve our business, since they’re so scared of competition.

UPDATE:

Here are the names and email addresses of the five chairmen of the FCC.  Let’s load up their inboxes with complaints regarding network non-duplication protection.

Chairman Julius Genachowski: Julius.Genachowski@fcc.gov

Commissioner Michael J. Copps: Michael.Copps@fcc.gov

Commissioner Robert McDowell: Robert.McDowell@fcc.gov

Commissioner Mignon Clyburn: Mignon.Clyburn@fcc.gov

Tags: Channel 6, FCC, Fox, Government, Milwaukee, network non-duplication protection

The Country has gone Crazy!

I just saw a headline that Mississippi (or was it Missouri? In either case – a place where dumb people live) is voting on an amendment declaring a fertilized egg as a person. A PERSON! Does anyone else realize how STUPID that is? It is insane.

And, it doesn’t stop there…

The morons in the Wisconsin State Legislature have voted that you can carry a concealed weapon into the chamber. Well, that’ll never com back to bite them in the ass!

And, finally, if you purchased Groupon stock today in their IPO, then you’re a moron. $28.00 per share for a company that had over a $200 million loss? Based on this stock price the company is “worth” $12.8 BILLION. Heads up, jackasses, it ain’t worth shit until it turns a profit.

Whew! I feel much better now.

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Tags: concealed carry, fertilized eggs, Groupon, jackasses, Mississippi, Missouri, morons, Scott Walker, stupid people, Wisconsin

Off the Top Of My Head…

Here’s just a quick comment on yesterday’s CBO report regarding the income inequality:  One of the reasons the lower sectors went up by 18% is because the employer paid premiums were included in the study.  If those had been removed, you would see the lower earning parts of the population more stagnant between 1979 and 2007.  (I don’t have the figures on how much, but I’ll find them.  I did find a report that showed that since 1995, premium contributions nearly doubled.  However; that report is from the California Healthcare Foundation and I am unsure if it covers just California or the whole country.)

Anyway, if you want to know why everyone is angry in this country, I think this graph from the Congressional Budget Office Trends in the Distribution of Household income between 1979 and 2007 report says it all.

CBO Figure 1 - Growth in Real After-Tax Income

I saw a comment on one of the news articles on this where the guy actually defended the Top 1%.  He thinks they somehow deserve to earn that much more than those on the bottom.  That’s his right to believe it, but a lot of the Top 1% are the same guys who ruined our economy and walked away in millions of golden parachute money.  (One example: Martin Sullivan – CEO of AIG received $47 million for failing.)  What I did find interesting was that he was defending the upper 1% without spelling anything correct.  Another commenter mentioned that what they earned didn’t affect him.  And, he’s wrong.  Companies only have so much to go around.  Every dollar that goes into a CEO pocket is one dollar less the company has to put into a worker’s pocket.

The more I read about how the financial crisis happened, the angrier I get.  I will be sitting down soon and writing up my own opinion.

Tags: CBO, Congress Super Committee, Criminal Justice, deficit, Deficit Reduction, Financial Crisis, Income Inequality, inequality, Medicare, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, OWS Super Committee, Politics News, recession, Social Security, Super Committee Protest, Super Congress, tax cuts, taxes, video, Wall Street, Wall-Street-Criminality

Family Surprise Goes Wrong… Horribly wrong.

Watch the video and then read my comments.

Here’s my question: What the Hell’s in Chattanooga that’s better than Walt Disney World?

Tags: Chattanooga, Chattanooga Surprise, Comedy News, Disney Surprise Fail, Disney Surprise Goes Wrong, Disney World, Disney-Surprise, Kids Want Chattanooga, Surprise-Disney, Urlesque

The Financial Meltdown

The more I read, the more I learn.  I’m reading The End of Wall Street by Roger Lowenstein. Actually, I’m listening to the MP3 version from the library. I’m only at Chapter 5 or 6 and already I am so disgusted by what I am hearing.

Did you know that Banks and lending institutions had been slowly lowering their standards over the last twenty years?  And, that the government played a big role in the idea that everyone should be a homeowner?

Did you know that there were loans where the people didn’t have to provide proof of income?  Oh, you make $150,000 a year?  Great, let’s sell you a $500,000 home.  No downpayment?  No problem – we’ll just write you two loans: one for 80% of the value and one for 20%.

Some of the blame of what happened should fall on the homeowners.  They lied on their applications.  They signed on the bottom line that, yep, they could make that $1200 house payment.

A little part of me feels sorry for them.  They were hoodwinked.  They dreamed of owning a home and someone said, we can make it happen.  They believed the fantasy.  Can you blame them?  This entire nation was built on the backs of dreamers.  People looked west and said, “Hey, what’s over there?”  And, they went and found it.

But, I digress.

A lot of the blame needs to fall on the shoulders of the people who only saw the short-term profits and didn’t look down the road.  Everyone was partying right up until someone decided we should pay the check.  The lack of regulation and oversight on the part of the government, the easing of the credit lines because Alan Greenspan kept lowering the interest rate and the greed of the people writing the mortgages and those who were buying them up in a neverending cycle of looking for profits – all of that contributed to the financial collapse.

I’ll post more information – and a review – after I’m done with The End of Wall Street.  But, I just wanted to pass this little tidbit of information.  It’s really a reminder to everyone who seems to think that everything is going to be fine overnight.  We didn’t get into this mess overnight – we’re not going to get out of it overnight.

Tags: Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, Bernanke, bundling, economy, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, housing, Housing bubble, housing market, Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley, mortgages, Paulson, Robert Rodriguez, sub-prime mortgages, The End of Wall Street, Wall Street, WAMU, Washington Mutual