I’m back again, ticked off at the world and ready to shove my opinion in your face. If you don’t like it, I don’t care. Just stop complaining.

Offshore drilling in the U.S. has long been opposed by President Obama for some reason, but why is it that U.S. Export-Import Bank promised Petrobras, Brazil’s state-owned oil company, $2 billion in loan guarantees to help finance lucrative drilling off the shores of Rio De Janeiro. Source. So let me try to understand this rationale thinking that the president has. It’s not ok for us to decrease our dependency on foreign oil by drilling off our own shores, but it’s ok to fund another country.

Now it seems we are a few years or so past the Valerie Plame case and many people still seem to think that Karl Rove and Bush leaked her name instead of Dick Armitage. While there was a lot of outrage over that, a picture of former CIA interrogators were shown to Gitmo detainees and one’s name was even released publicly by the New York Times. Seems like a lot of hypocrisy.

Talk of hypocrisy, it seems that Obama is asking clergy to promote his health care bill from the pulpit. Source. Where is the outcry from the people who want separation of church and state?

Ah, back to health care. Mr. President, if tax dollars will not be used to fund abortions, illegal immigrants will not be receiving free health care and this will not lead to a single payer system, show us that in writing in the bill. You CAN’T and therefore you just say what you want and say those opposed to your “reform” bill are lying. I’ve had enough lies, put your money where your mouth is.

Personally, anyone who can hold a newborn baby and not have tears in their eyes and not believe that they need protecting is a cold person.

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Look, I don’t know why this has to be such a hard sell if it is such a good idea. Why is there such an outcry against people taking advantage of their constitutional right? You have Senator Dingle saying that he hasn’t seen this kind of demonstrations since the KKK, Speaker Pelosi saying that disagreeing is unpatriotic and many other asinine comments by others in the Obama administration and the Democratic congress.

One of the best arguments I have heard against the obamacare monstrosity though was on a popular talk radio show. A caller made the point of saying that if the health care or insurance system is so broken, why allow people to keep it if they like it?

A close second was by President Obama himself.

His argument is that private companies are doing just fine, which is true. The next part has to be something he regrets saying though. He said that the post office is the one with problems. Yeah, so we should trust the government to operate health care like the post office, which has lost approximately $7BILLION this past fiscal year? That should seal the fate of the bill as a dumb thing to do.

Even dumber was the decision to get the SEIU members involved. A few of these so called “patriots” allegedly exercised their constitutional right to protest by beating up Kenneth Gladney, 38, a conservative activist from St. Louis, who said he was attacked by some of those arrested as he handed out yellow flags with “Don’t tread on me” printed on them. He spoke to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from the emergency room at St. John’s Mercy Medical Center, where he said he was awaiting treatment for injuries to his knee, back, elbow, shoulder and face. Gladney, who is black, said one of his attackers, also a black man, used a racial slur against him before the attack. “It just seems there’s no freedom of speech without being attacked,” he said.

I want to know where the ACLU, NAACP, Rainbow Coalition and Al Sharpton are since this fits the category of a hate crime. Somehow I don’t think we will get an answer, but even with loud voices, the protests were not violent until the Chicago-style politics were thrust into the picture with union thugs beating up those who dare disagree with the government. Then again, we should expect no less from SEIU members because the SEIU resident’s philosiphy can be summed up into one phrase: We prefer to use the power of persuasion, but if that doesn’t work, we use the persuasion of power.

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For those of you who don’t think that the people who are protesting is being staged and they should just shut up, what happened to the mantra of the left during the Bush 43 administration that dissent is the highest form of patriotism?

It’s really no wonder why when lawmakers are asked if they read a bill they answer “no”.  I’m attempting to read through the health care “reform” bill and can’t seem to get to the bill because the definitions portion is a mind boggling length.

Meanwhile, there seem to be near riots at town hall meetings where people are meeting their congressperson and either asking questions or stating their opinion. While SEIU counters the protests with violence(Source and the administration makes comments like “If you get hit, we will punch back twice as hard,” (Source.) Is this administration upset that communities are organizing to protest against his health care plan? Seriously? How about the administration being upset that people are petitioning the government for a redress of grievances as provided by the constitution? Wasn’t the president a constitutional law professor?

Hey, here’s another protest that Code Pink should mount. It seems that “climate change” could warrant military action. Considering that there has been a big push for Darwinism to be taught in schools and “change” was the mantra of the 2008 election, I have to wonder why no one is embracing climate change or considering that we should be evolving to our ever changing world. I think that Hot Earthers(as opposed to the “flat earthers” who do not believe in this so called man made global warming madness) are discriminating against climate change. Shouldn’t we be concerned when change is embraced unless it is climate change?

Word for the day… Eugenics. Look it up, see where it comes from and how it relates to the progressive movement.

Got into the writing mood this morning and thought I should opine while I’m sitting down and reading the news.

Maybe I’m just dumb, but if you have a net job loss of 247,000 jobs in July, how does the unemployment rate fall from 9.5% to 9.4%? It DOES NOT MAKE SENSE! A net loss of 247k jobs can not mean that unemployment went down. Speaking of which, cnn money has a graph showing how the number of jobs lost is easing.

Employers can only cut so many people before it’s just the owners working there or they can no longer perform their business. Maybe that’s it. I’ll just say that if Bush was in office, they would be talking about how bad it is. Funny how we can look back at the good economy that we had while Bush was in office. *sigh* Back when the government didn’t own the banks, car companies and have an eye on the insurance or the medical system.

There’s talk about a second stimulus. JUST A DOG GONE SECOND!!!!!! If the first stimulus worked so well, why should there be a second stimulus? Once again, all of this spending can’t be good. WHO WILL PAY FOR IT?????

Judge Sonia Sotomayor was confirmed by the Senate yesterday. Congrats on making history as the first Latina to sit on the SCOTUS. We now have a woman who talks about how wise she is and how she comes to better conclusions than a white man, ruled that it was ok to discriminate against white men but somehow isn’t racist. Debate was somehow not relevant because her nomination was historical. I’m sure glad Dr. Martin Luther King jr.’s dream came true. We don’t judge our fellow man by the color of his skin but by their merits. It’s a good thing that Judge Sotomayor isn’t a man.

Former Charlie Manson acolyte Lynette ‘Squeaky’ Fromme is set to be released on parole in 11 days. Who says there’s no justice? All she did was point a gun at a Republican president.

Hey, more cash for clunkers. It’s great how we are now predominantly subsidizing cars made overseas. Dumb how there are no restrictions saying you have to buy an American made car to get a $4500 subsidy.

Baitullah Mehsud, suspect in Benazir Bhutto killing, dies in U.S. missile strike. Ok, I’ll give the government a passing grade in warfare.

Congrats to Swampscott, MA for declining an offer for a free statue that honors troops fighting overseas. Apparently it’s not consistent with what has been placed on Monument Avenue. The statue was inspired by the movie “Taking Chance”.

Congrats to the Obama administration, you have successfully taken “The War on Terror” and “Jihadist” out of the current government vocabulary. If there is no war on terror anymore, who won?

So we are 200 days in or so to this administration. CNN has a report card based on polling in every state. I find it funny that in all 50 states, Obama overwhelmingly gets failing grades on the economy. His lowest percentage of “F” was in Washington D.C. Of course it was, his whole administration lives there. On Healthcare, Obama gets 49% “F” overall. Better in foreign affairs with an overall C. Hillary Clinton got high marks for her job as Secretary of State, but what has she done? Obama has done all the traveling. Biden gets bad grades on par with Obama. No state likes Congress except DC. Funny, they have a congresswoman who has no vote and they are pleased? Congresspeople voting for themselves. No one likes the Republican leadership, but they didn’t ask about the dem leadership. The Media gets the same cold shoulder as Obama and Biden. Figures, you can’t tell them apart.

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I have been searching for the right way to express how I feel about the current debate about the “reform” that Congress has on the table and I may have struck gold. Both sides of the issue are missing the point and not using any common sense. For starters, this bill that is proposed in the House of Representatives is not reform, it is remaking the health care system. The problems with the models that our system is proposed to be shaped in are not appealing. Hence why we have people who come to the U.S. from overseas to get elective procedures done. Elective, meaning not life threatening. Reform would make it better and if you think that this is going to be better, you need to think for yourself, do the research and use some common sense.

I am sure this article will be reported to the new White House thought police. Ya, there is an email address that the White House wants people to report any “disinformation”(disagreement) about health care to. (flag at whitehouse.gov) I encourage any of you who read this to research the facts for yourself. If I am wrong, report me. I expect to be reported anyways, even though there is evidence that policy may be illegal. Read more