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I fail to understand the mindset of the Republican Party and its candidates  for the presidency.  They are attacking each other with a fervor that should, at best, be reserved for the general election.  Is it their intent to have a Republican as president next year or is it that they must win the primaries and become the candidate at all cost?  I think that in their zeal to win they are accomplishing what the Democratic Party could not do on there own….. Read the rest of this entry »

We just left Iraq, we are preparing to leave Afghanistan by 2014, the question is, why are we still in Germany? Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday on the local news they had a spot about “fracking”, the process of injecting water and chemicals into shale to remove natural gas.  If it is allowed here it will mean lower energy costs and thousands of new jobs in North Carolina but some are opposed due to environmental grounds.  Read the rest of this entry »

Look at all the nations in the world.  Observe them closely.  Where you see pain, suffering, starvation and a destitute populace look then at their government.  In all cases you will find a corrupt government that is intent on holding onto power at the expense of the people. Read the rest of this entry »

Blogs have an uncanny way of attracting spammers.  Fortunately I do not allow comments to appear on my blog unless I review them first.  I just completed deleting 287 comments that were attempts to spam my blog. I will not allow any comments that link to sites that are just attempts to create backlinks or to take a visitor to adult, poker, or other sites that I believe are just unethical ways to lure visitors.

If you want to continue attempting to post comments that are only for the purpose I have mentioned above, be my guest.  Just be assured that they will be deleted prior to being viewed by anyone.

I predict that the so-called “Arab Spring” that the main stream media loves to call the uprising in the Arab countries will be nothing more than Islamic Fundamentalism taking over the political processes in those nations.  There will be no democracy once the Islamists take over those countries.  What you will see is strict sharia law with the clerics spewing hatred for western civilization.  Freedoms will be curtailed and women’s rights will be non-existent.   Time will tell if I am correct, but we are already seeing this in Tunisia and in Libya where the new leaders are calling for all laws to adhere to Islam and sharia or be declared null and void.

So Obama is in North Carolina touting his jobs bill.  He claims his bill will put hundreds of thousands of people back to work, specifically teachers, police and firefighters..  In other words more people on the government payroll that the private citizens will have to pay for.  Jobs that are not only unsustainable but non-productive.  They offer nothing that grows the economy.  You cannot grow the economy by creating more government jobs that take money away from the private sector to pay for them.  Don’t believe it? Ask Greece where one in three workers work for the government and is now an economic basket case.

President Obama is jetting around the country on the taxpayers dime promoting his American Jobs Act.  But is he promoting the act or is he just campaigning and using the act as a pretense to avoid paying for the flights out of his campaign war chest?

He wants Congress to pass his $450 billion plan to create jobs and stimulate the economy. Read the rest of this entry »

I don’t usually have much to say about the movies.  Especially since if Hollywood was expecting to make a living off of me, they would starve to death.  I have gone to two movies in the last five years but when I heard about Atlas Shrugged I had to go.

First let me say that if you like bang-bang-shoot em up movies you will be very disappointed. If you like mind candy type of movies, the kind where you just go to be mindlessly entertained, again you will be disappointed.   Read the rest of this entry »

Mr. Obama is intent on helping the Libyan rebels defeat the current regime.  The question that has not been answered is who are these people?  Granted many are Libyan citizens and I am sure that there goals are to free themselves from a repressive regime, but what about their leaders?  Rumors now abound that Al-Qaeda and Hezbollah are behind much of the uprising.  Are we backing the wrong horse?  Is it true as Gaddafi  has claimed that we are being duped by Al-Qaeda and the result will be a fundamentalist Islamic State with Shariah Law that will turn on the United States and Europe?  We shall see, but for now I remain a skeptic of this whole military intervention.

But as for Mr. Obama, he has in effect declared war on Libya without consulting with Congress and getting Congressional approval.  Of course, the Constitution has never really mattered to him anyway.