Commission report half as bold as it needs to be

The deficit commission is being hailed for its bold suggestions on how to reel in our current ever growing Borg-like federal government and reduce the debt. Not so fast my friend.


Just as an example, to save Social Security, the commission calls for an increase in the retirement age to 68 in 2050 and 69 in 2075. FLASH!! FLASH!! FLASH!! Social Security won’t be around in 2050 and will be a distant memory of those fortunate enough to still be around in 2075. It’s like buying a 15 year old car with 210,000 miles on it and setting aside $50 for an oil change 2050 and new tires in 2075. The car will be in the junk yard in a year if it’s not overhauled soon.

Social Security can be saved by returning it to what it started out as, a supplement to people’s retirement plans. Raise the retirement age to 68 tomorrow for those between 45 – 25 years old. Raise the retirement tomorrow to age 75 for those 25 years old and younger.

Don’t buy into the Lib BS, “Well how long can guy digging ditches for a living be expected to continue that task?” After a certain age, he can’t. What he can do is prepare for funding his own retirement – bridging if you will - of the first 3 and then 10 years until his SS kicks in. Part of that bridge could be to allow SS beneficiaries to VOLUNTARILY invest part of their own SS payments into private funds.

The commission didn’t fix SS. They didn’t even kick the can down the road. They sprinkled a generous amount of fairy dust on the problem in the hope it will magically disappear.

And where in the commission report is the penalty of a slow miserable death for the pols who take the new tax revenues from the taxes proposed in the report and spend that money on the new and improved Piss Christ or a longer more sophisticated bridge to nowhere? Short of the threat of being boiled in oil over a low fire for a day or two, pols will do what pols do. That is, they lie, cheat and steal. Short of a commission with the power to snatch pols off the street and slowly execute them, the Barney Franks and RC Turdbins of the world will just do whatever they want to do with other people’s money.

I would agree that the commission report is as bold as anything coming out Washington D.C. with regard to deficit reduction, but it isn’t bold enough by half. Bold would be a flat tax of 12% across the board. Bold would be, reorganizing the pentagon into a triangle, remove duplicate staffs, fire 1/3rd of the flag officers or reduce their rank back to O-6. Any government employee making over a six figure income would immediately be reduced to a salary commensurate with the private sector. Department of Education would immediately be reduced to a staff the size of a local car dealer with its only task being monitoring the performance of failing schools. NEA and NEH would be defunded on day one and every person within those leach organizations sent packing. The UN would be told the rent for their building is being increased to whatever sum they refuse to pay and told to move elsewhere. In its place would be the New Organization of Democratic States. That’s pretty bold.

The U.S. Marine Corps 235 today and still going strong

Well let’s see, mystery missiles off the coast of CA, P-BO traveling the world looking for someone to bow down to, the Browns are on a two game win streak, yes there is quite a bit going on today, but who cares? It’s Nov 10th and that can mean only one thing, the Marine Corps Birthday! OoooRah! The Marines turn 235 today.


While Hollywood smart guys were loosing their @$$es putting out garbage like In the Valley of Elah, Redacted, The Kingdom, Rendition and couple of other bombs, they some how missed the this story heroism and redemption:

By John North, KABC LA

DANA POINT, Nov. 12, 2007 (KABC-TV) (KABC) -- From gang member to Iraq War hero, and the first Latino Marine fighting in Iraq received the nation's second-highest award for bravery, the Navy Cross.

This former Marine has written a chronicle of his experiences.

This Veterans Day weekend we introduce you to a young man who did earn the nation's second-highest award for bravery, a man who once sat in a car with a gun on his lap, waiting to kill a rival gang member.

A few years later, Marco Martinez ignored intense enemy fire to save two fellow Marines from almost certain death.

Former Marine Corps Sergeant Marco Martinez has a dramatic take on what his life was like as a "gangbanger" in New Mexico before he joined the Marines: He believes he was one step from going over the edge.

"I was basically a leech on the side of America's body, sitting there, sucking blood out, not doing anything productive. Finally, when I joined the Marine Corps, I understood what it was to be an American," said Martinez.

You do not have to spend much time with Martinez to realize that is his core belief.

Martinez is one of the Marines who led the invasion into Iraq. At one point they were hit by intense enemy fire from a building. Martinez's squad leader was wounded and another Marine hit badly.

Martinez found an enemy RPG and fired it into the house. Then he rushed the house, single-handedly taking out everyone inside with a grenade and a rifle.

"Our first casualty ended up losing about a liter of blood within about a 35-minute time frame," said Martinez. "And the second wounded Marine was paralyzed from the waist down and bleeding out pretty good, too, so if I hadn't have done what I did, both those Marines would probably be dead right now."

Martinez has written a book he calls "Hard Corps," about his experience that led to the awarding of the Navy Cross. It lives up to its title.

What you hear from Martinez is a sincere expression of the way he feels. He believes in the war in Iraq and he was ready for the ultimate sacrifice.

"I really thought I was going to die, and I was at peace with that, because I had done so many things beforehand, where I might have died over misinterpreted glances, colors, girls," said Martinez.

These days he is a community college student studying business and working as a nuclear plant security guard. Fellow students don't know about his heroism. He is uncomfortable with the adulation he's received, as the first Hispanic and first Marine in Iraq to be awarded the Navy Cross.

"I kind of felt that since we were all in it together, why am I the only one receiving this award? I kind of felt the award was for everybody," said Martinez. "I really felt that I was just doing my job. And all the accolades I was receiving were unnecessary, anyone else in my squad or my platoon would have done the same. If I hadn't done it, someone else would have done it."

Perhaps. Martinez is living in Dana Point as he works and studies toward a business degree. Despite his humility, the Navy Cross is something that's awarded to only a relatively few people. And as a Marine colonel told me, you don't "win" the nation's second-highest military honor; you earn it.

Nah, nothing in there for a movie.  They should do something on Abu Grahb.  That's what American want, right?  @$$holes.  Tell your jarhead Marine friends Happy Birthday!

GWB has more class than all three Dope presidents combined

If anyone still needed an example of what a classless dope we elected, George Bush’s book tour interviews ought to serve as a good reminder. I can’t waste time going over the litany of arrogance, racism and just plain stupidity here – the typical white woman, stupid cops, bitter clingers, I won, punishing enemies etc.


Suffice it say when GWB went on Oprah and said he wouldn’t criticize his successor, Bush demonstrated the class and restraint we wish Jimmy the Arab Carter and Billbo where are my pants Clinton, and the sitting Demo-Dope might display.

It seems among the living presidents Republicans are more comfortable in their own skin. GWB and his dad go quietly about their lives doing what they can when they can. They aren’t standing on top of a roof somewhere pounding in nails for a photo op or pimping themselves to build the biggest presidential library ever or foreever whining about what mess the other guy left them. 

Side note:  Hey P-BO!  You wanted the job.  Man up and do it.

Carter seems to me a frustrated old man desperately trying to be more relevant in the post presidency than he was when occupied the oval office. Fine, given the complete disaster he was as president, I can understand why he’d want to atone for Desert One, double digit inflation and interest rates, canceling the Olympics and trying to bring the cardigan sweater back as means to off-set high oil prices.

Carter’s chief means of building his own legacy is to tear down others – both Clinton and Bush. But Jimmy, it ain’t working. Keith money bags Olbermann returns to his special comment seat tonight. Maybe he can tell you to live like the Bush 41 & 43 and just shut the hell up.

Clinton was the man who could have been. But he wasn’t. He could discover the cure for cancer, global warming and achieve peace in the Middle East tomorrow, but his presidential legacy will always be one of an impeached serial sex offender.

P-BO has started legacy building while still in office. A whiner, complainer and arrogant know nothing of monumental stature, he cannot wait until he leaves office to try to talk his way into a legacy. He’s such a miserable failure a mere two year into his term he has to start to talk himself up now. Like whiners Carter and Clinton, P-BO cannot talk about himself in glowing terms since there’s not much to talk about, so like the others he’s left to bash Bush.

None of this low brow decorum matters to Dopes and the MSM, as long as the failed and foiled ex-Dope presidents are bashing Bush. Bush for his part rarely takes the bait. Rather he simply goes about his own life as if the bashers were no more worry than gnat or two. This of course causes more frustration for the Three Stooge ex-Dope presidents. Aw wise guy huh? Well take this.

How to compromise on the current tax schedule

Voting to leave the current tax schedule in place for the next two years or even permanently is a no brainer. It’s a no brainer for economic reasons and it makes good political sense as well.


Now notice it reads “leave the current tax schedule in place.” There is not one word in there about “tax cuts.” The idea is not for anyone’s taxes to be cut, but rather leave the current schedule in place. When things stay the same only Dopes refer to it as a “cut.” You may recall that the Dopes wanted to increase school lunch program by 12%. Republicans argued for a more reasonable 7% rise. Dopes took the air and said that Republicans, who wanted to increase the program by 7%, wanted to “cut the school lunch program.” If the current system is extended, nobody’s taxes are going to be cut. On the other hand, if nothing is done, everybody’s taxes are going to go up.

Economically, everyone but SEIU and teacher unions can see that sending money to Washington D.C. for the 535 dopes there to divide up and then redistribute is a fool’s game. As I asked the census worker who made the “so we’ll get our fair share of federal money” argument for filling out the entire questionnaire, “Why is the money going to Washington to be divided up in the first place? Doesn’t make better sense to keep the money in Indiana? Then if we need another traffic light, we just pay for it ourselves.”

Under the current system, states are like adult children who are still turning their paychecks over to their parents, as if they were five year olds who received a birthday check from grandma and grandpa. Then when the adult child wants something, he has to beg mom and dad for some of the money HE EARNED. That’s when he finds out mom and dad has spent his hard earned money on his no count older brother’s cocaine addiction and blew the rest on an Internet pyramid scheme that looked too good to fail.

In real terms, the older brother’s cocaine addiction may well be a bail out of loopy self destructive CA, and the pyramid scheme has to be the doomed to fail Social Security system.

Politically, the Repubs ought to give the Dopes a choice to either extend the current tax schedule indefinitely or extend it for no more and no less than two years. That would put the Dopes between a rock and an extremely hard place. They can’t extend them indefinitely. Their base would go crazier than they already are. If they extend them for two years, that would put taxes front and center for the 2012 election cycle. Let’s have that debate.

Both parties trying to read the election

Both Demo-Dopes and Repubs seem a bit flummoxed by Tuesday’s results. Demo-Dopes are calling for P-BO to adopt a double down in your face, yeah so what attitude toward the Repub shellacking. Senate Repubs are up in arms about what might have been had the Tea Party not bollixed up the works with with the likes of Sharon Angle and Christine O’Donnell.


Well the Repub answer is easiest so let’s start there. Had it not been for the energy of the Tea Party, the Repubs night would have been significantly less successful. Sure Charlie Christ might have won FL, but given what a complete flip-flopping waste of flesh he has turned out be, aren’t we about 10,000 times better off with Rubio? Sure we might have gotten Castel through in DE, but we just got rid of Arlan Specter, do we really need another?

And to all the Karl Roves out there who think “the Tea Party” put these candidates forward – you’re wrong. The electorate put these people forward. If the Tea Party candidates are flawed, why not pitch in and help instead of sniping from the gallery?

Establishment blue blood Republi-rats had better get the big picture eary on, the Tea Party is here to stay. Wise up or they may be the next Mike Castle. I hope there is a strong challenger to my own IN Senator Dick Lugar. One thing we know about the creepy class, no not child pornographers, the really creepy class – politicians, is they are pretty good at saving their own @$$es.

They should do a remake of Titanic where everyone on board is a politician.  You'd have scenes of men beating women and children for a seat on a life boat.  Drunks refusing to save themselves because there is an  open bar.  John Kerry would have taken an entire lifeboat for himself and left the ship before it hit the iceberg.  Latter he'd claim to have rescued 1,000s, by working in the engine room, communication room and on the bridge all at the same time.  He'd blame GWB for iceberg.  ALGore would claim the iceberg would have been much bigger had it not been for global warmin...uh...er climate change.

Note to ALL: The Tea Party is here to stay and has already begun looking at the 2012 cycle.

Demo-Dopes are a bit harder to read. Sure there’s the kook MessNBC fringe that thinks a cloud of racism swept across America on Tuesday. But that is their answer to anyone and everyone who might challenge P-BO and the Dopes on anything.

They seem sure that there is no way a repeal of P-BOcare will make it through the Senate. Ha! Let’s vote. After Tuesday’s supreme @$$ whoopin’ and with 23 Senate Dopes up for re-election in 2012, let’s see if it can’t get through the senate to land squarely on P-BO’s desk for veto. Then let’s see if the most onerous parts of the monstrosity cannot be deconstructed bit by bit so that the remaining shell will simply fall in on itself.

Here’s a hint to the Dopes, better to die from one swift blow than to be bitten to death by ducks. Kill the thing at the earliest opportunity with one swift blow or it will be an issue for the next two years. As more unpopular facts drip out bit by bit, the Repubs will pounce and force votes. This thing is destined to die from a 1,000 cuts or one swift cut across the jugular. Which do the Dopes think is best for them?

Killing it fast will also put the Repubs in the position of having to come up solutions of their own rather than just railing against the hugely unpopular sack of crap that the Dopes forced through in the dark of night without ever reading. I’ll bet most still haven’t read the damn thing.

Everything is fine. Dopes need to double down on 2010's winning strategy

Well, after P-BO’s presser yesterday, it doesn’t seem as if he’s gotten the message. But yeah, we’ll see what happens when repeal of P-BOcare comes up. Going forward how can the Demo-Dopes avoid the same monumental @SS whoopin’ in 2012 that was delivered on Tuesday?


First, Demo-Dopes need to step up their verbal assaults on Americans. Demo-Dopes need to start calling more people who disagree with them racists. Well OK, they already call everyone who disagrees with them racists. They just need to be more in your/our faces with it. One thing we learned from this cycle, is that when called a racist by the nincompoops on MessNBC, Americans will immediately shut up. So keep it up.

In fact, they should gin up a few racial incidents. Get a black congressman to lie through his @$$ about being called a ni**er by a bunch of Tea Partiers. Yes, of course they did that, but they just need more of it.

Get totally credible people like Revs? Al and Jesse to make the accusations this time around. Nobody is has more credibility on faux racial incidents than these two faux Revs. Then fire up the enlightened party intellectuals, Janeane Garofolo and the like, and just shout racism at everyone.

Also, they need to minimize the Tea Party. Start by calling every one associated with that movement a racist. Yes they already do that, but they just need to pick it up a bit more. In addition, they need to come up with some sort of sex slang to describe the Tea Party. Of course they did that too, but just give us more of that hugely successful tactic.

Next, any Republican woman seeking office needs to be described as, a racist of course, but also a whore, slut and bitch. That’s how elections are won and the hearts and minds of the American people persuaded. So double down and give the American people more of that kind of stuff.

Then in addition to calling everyone who has the temerity to disagree with the Dope agenda a bigot, racist, homophobe, bitch, whore, slut and/or teabagger the Demo-Dopes need call them un-American. Of course they have done that from the start, but they just need more of it. As Tuesday’s results prove, Americans love that kind of stuff. No better way to pursued an American than to call her a bigoted, homophobic, un-American bitch. It works every time. They just need more of it.

Last, to show that you are really just one of the people, set up a 200 MILLION DOLLAR A DAY trip to India for yourself and THREE THOUSAND of your friends. Yes while Americans go wanting, you go and blow 200 MILLION DOLLAR A DAY on a business trip. Whatever you do, don't stay home and save a few bucks after an @$$ whoopin’ like Tuesday’s.

So by my estimation, there is no need for P-BO and his band of merry Dopes to change anything. Double down on their strategy until those/us rubes finally realize how great the Dopes and their MSM and Hollywood creeps are. Keep doing it. Why change who you are?

The brakes have been applied. Now let's see how we get this thing in reverse.

As noted several posts below, not enough good could have come from last night’s election. The biggest disappointment is that Scrawny Harry Reid will still be around to pollute the system.


After Harry the war is lost Reid, the biggest disappointment is CA. But CA is the knife that will be thrust into Demo-Dopes back just in time for the 2012 election. CA is likely to need federal money before 2012. That issue will put the Dopes on the ropes. Do they try to bail CA out with federal money? Or does the new Rep House hold strong and say, you made your bed CA, now lay in it?

How many Demo-Dope senators up for re-election in 2012 are going to want to have “I supported a bailout for the loonies in CA” on his resume? Can border state Dopes up re-election in 2012 in OH, NE, FL, MT, MO and PA afford a CA bailout? If I lived worked or were doing business in CA, I’d be looking for a way out this morning. It cannot end well.

Also consider the face of the Demo-Dopes. What a bunch of losers - Al I can steal any election Franken, Richard why yes I served with John Kerry in Cambodia Blumenthal, Chris I’m Harry’s lap dog Coons. Rumor has it that Kerry and Blumenthal are already in tit for tat over who is the greater war hero. After hear of Kerry’s exploits in Cambodia, Blumenthal claimed to have been dispatched enemy line during the Korean War by President Kennedy.

And what about the WV chameleon Joe Manchin? Manchin essentially ran as a hard right conservative. But six years is a long time, and pols are among the creepiest people alive. Manchin probably figures he only has to what is right during the last two years of term to fool the people of WV again.

Well we shouldn’t dwell on the “what could have been” side of things. To use P-BO car in the ditch analogy, that screeching noise you heard last was the brakes being slammed on P-BO’s out of control, reckless and irresponsible operation of OUR car. Or, as one pundit put it, “It’s not an election. It’s a restraining order.”

It appears as if the Tea Party is here to stay to hold shill pol’s feet to the fire. Can the Scrawny one really count on votes of Dopes who are up for re-election in 2012 on any issue? Ben Nelson (NE), Bill Nelson (FL), Jon Tester (MT), Clair McCaskill (MO), Bob Casey (PA) and Sherrod Brown (OH) will be listening more to voters than anything P-BO or the Scrawny one has to say.

When Repubs ask for a vote to repeal P-BOcare what are these fence sitting border scoundrels going to do? Cover their own butts that’s what. The Repubs should press their advantage and push issues everyday on repealing P-BOcare, securing the border security, cutting taxes and stop spending.

Angry? No. Not today.

If you want to get drunk quick tonight, tune into MessNBC and drink a shot of whiskey every time a pundit on that cable debacle notes that the electorate is “angry.” Drink a shot every time they describe their fellow Americans as angry or some other synonym of the word.


For my part, I’m well past angry. There was good cause for someone to get “angry.”

I was angry when DOJ let the NBPP off.

I was incensed when AG Eric the wad Holder called us a “nation of cowards,” as if that pampered little weasel knows anything about courage.

I was irate about the beer summit and what made that photo op necessary.

I was mad as hell about having to “pass P-BOcare to find out what was in it.”

I was infuriated with a president who would bow down to comic world figures, princes, sheiks, commies, tyrants and the like.

I was really PO’d about the “stimulus” and still want to throw up every time I see one of those clever, “this project” with no one working within 100 miles of it “was funded by stimulus funds” signs.

I’d fume a bit every time some smug Lib know nothing, including P-BO, would use a disgusting sex slang when referring to Tea Partiers.

I was a bit hot under the collar when P-BO called his political opponents the “enemy.”

I was actually quite livid watching the arrogance of this president at the Bi-partisan P-BOcare meeting.

I got annoyed when this tone deaf president and his whole family were rushing from one vacation so that they could make the departure on another one.

I would actually get infuriated with Demo-Dopes when they would blame GWB for everything and anything under sun that went wrong when they had at least a part in creating the problem – Freddie and Fanny being the prime example.

But you know what? I’m not mad, angry or upset about anything today. Today I’m determined. I will crawl on my belly over broken glass, through fire, during a hurricane to vote.

Tonight I hope to sit back and watch what I hope are the first signs that the American people have had enough of this arrogant know nothing that they elected president. The worse it is for Demo-Dopes, the more time I intend to spend watching MessNBC which will be the gage for how the Demo-Dopes will move forward after what I hope is a world class @$$ whoopin’.

There will be plenty of time to get mad again. Today is not the day for it though.

No, everyone shouldn't vote

So, there’s this myth that we ALL need to get out and vote tomorrow. That’s a bunch of BS. Here’s a short list of people who should stay home.


If you go by or are friends with anyone who goes by the name Snookie or uses the handle “the situation,” sleep late. Get up just in time to meet your posse at the newest “after hours club” on Wednesday morning. Do the republic a favor, don’t vote.

If you think that the words, “separation of church and state” appear in ANY of our founding documents, spend all day Tuesday searching those documents for that passage. Report to your polling place only after finding those words, in that order, in one of our founding documents.

If you get your “news” from John Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Keith Olbermann or other comic clowns, maybe you should stay home and read a month’s worth of WSJ OpEd pages.

If you think that the Cambridge, MA police “acted stupidly” for investigating the report of man breaking down a door to a neighbor’s home at night, hold your own day long beer summit, but don’t vote.

If you look at voting as the surest way for you to increase your annual income, spend the day looking for a job or a non-union job. Don’t vote. We really can’t afford you now.

If you think the US Constitution is “living” and “breathing” but babies aren’t, print off a copy of the constitution and spend Tuesday seeing if it will fog a mirror. After proving that it will, report to your polling place to vote.

If you think the same people that can’t tell you if it’ll rain or not in two days, can accurately predict catastrophic “climate change” in the next three decades, you should spend Tuesday collecting food and building your “climate change” shelter. You really cannot afford to waste what limited time you have left standing in line to vote.

Unless you are bed ridden or house bound, if you regularly watch any program that comes on between 9AM and 4 PM (ie Daytime tv), spend Tuesday examining when it all went wrong for you.

If you refer to your female friends a “bitches,” call the bitches up for coffee, but don’t vote.

If you cannot name one member of the Supreme Court, the president’s cabinet or your congressional representative, but can name every American Idol and runner up, you probably shouldn’t be choosing the leadership for the nation.

Others who shouldn’t be voting:

Can’t locate your own state on a map.
Can’t locate America on a map.
Can’t locate the map.

Don’t know who George Washington is.
Don’t know who Abe Lincoln is.
Has to ask what the meaning of “is” is.

Never looked for meaningful work.
Never held a meaningful job.
You shouldn’t vote, but cheer up, apparently you can be elected president.

Rickey's method for Speaker of the House ignored as well

In the post below, Lex noted how Branch Rickey carefully broke the color barrier in MLB. Demo-Dopes should have followed Rickey's model.  But maybe there was a method to their madness in picking unqualified people to be their "firsts."  Most obvious, maybe Demo-Dopes have completely broken the color barrier, because now, not only is it OK to have a black president, it’s OK if that black president is a terrible president with huge character and integrity deficits.


Wow! Screw Rickey.  Who says the first of anything has to be really good.  We can have a terrible black president just like we can have terrible white presidents.  Maybe we really have put this race thing to bed. Except for when race hustlers, a group that now includes the President of the United States, are turning us on each other, like when the cops question a man for breaking into a house. OK, he was breaking into his own house, but none-the-less breaking into a house. Instead of thanking the police for being vigilant, the new race hustling industry, which now includes P-BO, have to try to figure out a way that can pit black against white over the incident.

And the race hustling industry cannot be limited to black against white. Now the race hustlers, P-BO and Scrawny Harry Reid, want to turn the Hispanic community against Republicans. Read white people there, because we know that no self-respecting person of color would ever vote Republican or show up at a Tea Party rally. How do we know that? Scrawny Harry and P-BO told us.

So, as with a lot of what P-BO promised, this post racial thing he promised is turning out about as well as his pledge to close G’itmo in the first year. Oh well, Rome wasn’t built in a day. At least he got us out of Iraq. Oh, that’s right he didn’t. Well at least we’ll all be able to keep our health care if we like it.

But on to yet another barrier broken down by Demo-Dopes with utterly disastrous results. Drum roll please. Nancy Pelosi as the first ever woman Speaker of the House of Representatives. From the famously ignorant comment, “We have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it;” to the, “We’re going to drain the swamp;” to the “I’ll be running the most ethical house ever;” to the loss of control of the House with between a 40 and 70 seat swing, Pelosi has set the Liberal women’s movement back 20 years.

Conservative women on the other hand are on the rise, as are candidates of color with in the GOP. The GOP has a great line up women candidates and leaders. Liz Cheney being chief among them for my money. They are so good and I like them so well, that if I mind like Joy Behar’s, I’d be calling them all my bitches.

Hmm, is “mind” the right word here for Behar’s...what? Maybe “vacant cranial surface area?” Or “cranial vacuum?” Cranial vaccum has possibilities because it conjures up the image of a black hole for me. So every time Behar opens her pie hole, I get a visual of everything being sucked out the room, light, intelligence, rational thought everything.

So anyhow, Demo-Dopes made a total boob the first woman Speaker of the House. Can you call a woman a boob? Maybe I should just stick to the words that Demo-Dopes use for women they disagree with, bitches and whores.

Another good thing about Demo-Dopes not following Branch Rickey’s model, is that no matter how clueless the next black president or woman speaker is, they will be compared to these two. Given that measure, no matter how awful they may turn out to be, the next black president or woman speaker will probably have to be judged a huge improvement over the first.

In that sense black people and women have to be thanking P-BO and Pelosi for setting the bar so low.

Side note: Behar’s comment calling Tea Party candidate Sharon Angle a “bitch” led to a fund raising boon for Angle. So much so that Angle sent Behar flowers thanking her for the help. The ever classy Behar responded with this:


“Those flowers were picked by illegal immigrants. And they’re not voting for you, bitch.”

Two questions:
Are we sure they were picked by illegals? Because after all, that would be illegal.

And, if illegals aren’t voting for Angle, who will they be voting for?

I’m of the opinion that they shouldn’t be voting at all. That probably makes me some sort of racist bastard to the shrills on View.

Demo-Dopes should have studied Rickey

When Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, thereby breaking down MLB’s race barrier, his success was as much a credit to his example of character as his unquestionable talent.  It was a combination of Robinson's grace, grit and talent that challenged the traditional basis of segregation.


When Brooklyn GM Branch Rickey was approached about bringing players into MLB from the Negro League, Rickey was on board as long as the first player brought into the league had not only the requisite skills, but also a character and will of steel necessary to withstand what Rickey knew would be unbelievable pressure from teammates and fans. Rickey knew that if his experiment failed, because of poor performance or character issues, it would set acceptance of black athletes in MLB back decades. Robinson filled the bill admirably, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Too bad Demo-Dopes didn’t study Rickey’s technique for bringing Robinson into MLB. If they had we wouldn’t be saddled with P-BO’s failed presidency. There is not one thing in P-BO’s life story that qualifies him to hold the office of presidency. He admitted himself that his primary qualification for being president was running the slick campaign for the office. That is definition of a self-licking ice cream cone if ever there was one.

But being unqualified for the office is one thing, lacking the character necessary to hold the office is quite another. P-BO recently called one group of Americans the enemy of another group of Americans. Why? Was one group the KKK or a militia intent on doing the other group, in this case Hispanics, harm? No. Not at all. The group P-BO called the enemy of Hispanics were anyone with the temerity not to support P-BO.

P-BO is a divider. Divide, separate and conquer the electorate. If they end up at each other’s throat, fine as long as P-BO maintains his power.

And his willingness to turn us on each other is intentional. It’d be one thing if he had just misspoke. But you do not call one group of American the enemy of another by accident. If it were an accident, he’d be falling over himself apologizing for the classless comment. He didn’t.  So the comment must have been purposeful.

And for what great end was the comment issued? To stop racism or some other great social injustice? No. It was to garner a few more votes for what appears to be a disastrous midterm election for Demo-Dopes. Never has so much character and integrity been cast away, wasted on such a meaningless cause.

I had an old colonel who used to tell me, “You have a million dollars worth of integrity. But you cannot spend a dime of it.” The moral was simple enough. If you compromise your integrity once, he’d never trust you again.

I’d say between, stupid white cops, typical white grandmothers, bitter clingers, racist preachers, communist White House staffers and declaring Americans the enemies of other Americans simply for how they vote, I’d say P-BO’s million dollar character and integrity accounts are now completely bankrupt.

In places across America there are black men with the talent and the character to be great presidents. Too bad P-BO has just made it all that much more difficult them.

Too bad the Demo-Dopes didn’t study Branch Rickey. They probably ignored him because he’s an old dead white guy. Gee, where have I heard that before?

Why wait, Demo-Dopes coming unhinged before Nov 2

I thought the Demo-Dopes would have waited until after the mid-terms to come unhinged. Apparently there’s a memo from the supreme punk – P-BO – that it’s ok to start coming unhinged right now. Why wait?


P-BO turned punk again when he urged a Spanish speaking crowd to “punish our enemies” with regard to border security. Who is the enemy, punk? The thousands of Al Qaeda, dope peddlers, human traffickers and just plain illegals trying to sneak across our unsecured southern border? No. Hell no. The enemy according to the punk are the people trying to secure the border. So how far will one seedy sail eared little punk sink just to get a few votes? Referring to fellow Americans as “enemies” has to be a new a low for any president. It’s even lower Scrawny Harry’s remark about not understanding how any Hispanic could vote for a Republican.

Picking up on P-BO’s divisive comments, intellectual soul mate Joy Behar called Sharon Angle a b!t*h, and said Angle would go to hell for not supporting open borders. Wow! Isn’t the “tolerant left” sounding less and less tolerant to closer we get to Nov 2?

You’ll recall that Behar and fellow (g)@$$bag WHOOOOOOOPIE cushion Goldberg walked off the set when Billbo O’Really? Remarked that the Muslims attacked us on 9-11. Fine stand up for your moral equivalency every chance you get. Then Juan Williams was fired by NPR for making a remark, if not equally condemning of Muslims, at least on a par with O’Really?’s. WHOOOOOOPIE’s response? Why NPR is crazy. Why would they fire Juan? They need to “get it together” over at NPR according WHOOOOOOPIE. So, why does Juan get a pass and Billbo gets walked out on? (Actually, Billbo got the better end of the stick. It doesn’t get much better than not one but two [g]@$$bags walking away from you.)WHOOOPIE is clearly a racist.

Let’s test WHOOOPIE and Joy’s theory. Take the View gals on a two months month tour of the Middle East where they broadcast daily from open venues. Live from the Blue Mosque in Baghdad. Live from Damascus. Live from Kuwait City. Live from Mecca. Those (g)@$$bags wouldn’t last two days over there.

But wait there’s more unhinged craziness from the left. Scrawny Harry Reid claimed to have single handedly prevented a worldwide depression. Think about that one. Some slippery skunk of man claims to have saved the world from a depression? And even if you did Scrawny, whose money did you use/waste saving it? This makes AlGore’s claims on the Internet believable.

Then there’s Katie Couric. She is touring what she calls “this great unwashed middle of the country.” Unwashed in what sense Katie? As in not bathed? Or some other unwashed sense? Couric is traveling among the “unwashed” in an effort to divine the mood of the “unwashed” before the midterms. And CBS wonders why they are tanking.

As Allah Pundit puts it over at HotAir:

It’s not as bad as it sounds. She didn’t mean it in a “these ignorant peasants sure do smell when they haven’t bathed” way. She meant it in a “I love to chat with these ignorant peasants no matter what they smell like” way. She’s a people person, guys. Accept it.

Last Jimmy Carter, always unhinged, thinks he would have beaten Reagan had it not been for the third party candidacy of John Anderson. Hmmmm. Anderson was a Republican. Seems to me, had Anderson not been in the race many of his votes would have gone to Reagan. Besides given the total @$$whippin’ Reagan laid on Jimmy the Arab, he truly is unhinged if he thinks there’s anything short of the second coming of Jesus as his running mate that would have saved his pathetic loser @$$.  But even then, Demo-Dope would have demanded a separation of church and state.  So actually, no Jimmy, there is NO WAY you could have beaten Reagan.

This is just the mash down on the brakes election

Wow! We’re just about one week out from the most consequential election of my lifetime. I could vote absentee, but I prefer to go to the polling place with camera in hand to record anything out of the ordinary. You know like three Black Panther thugs standing outside with clubs hurling racial epitaphs outside the polling place. But you know, come to think of it, maybe that’s not so out of the ordinary since cowards like Holder are now running the justice department. I’m considering throwing my .32 on the dash just in case. Oh! Just in case, that’s the Safe Auto guy. Now I get it!


If the blow out is as big as expected, I plan to turn the TV over to MessNBC for a good laugh. How great is it going to be to listen to Olberdouch, Moodow, Liying, liar, liarface, liar Larry O’Donnell, Pissy Mathews and the same 3 people they interview every night whine about all of the racists showing up to vote? I expect that MessNBC will using the DE senate race as the bellwether for the evening. I can hear Olberdouch’s speckled comment now, “Even though they took 70 seats in the House and 10 in the Senate, Republicans have failed miserably. The American people have rejected the racists who do not believe everything I do. Case in point, Christine O’Donnell was defeated in De by 2%. There you have it America. A stunning come from behind victory for P-BO and the Democrats.”

And what about O’Donnell? What if she does close in the remaining days but comes up a point or two short and that leaves Demo-Dopes with control of the Senate? Who do we blame? Well we could blame the candidate. We could blame the people of DE who nominated her over Republi-Rat Mike Castle. We could blame Castle who like Chuck Crist and Lisa Murkowski act like sore losers when things don’t go their way. ( Aside: Ain’t it funny how the Republi-Rat establishment want us to get on board with their wishy-washy candidates but they never seem to reciprocate when those candidates get an @$$ whippin’ from a real conservative.) We could blame Rove and Krauthammer for, if not comfortable with an outright endorsement, at least not just shutting the hell up. Shut the hell up: To date, Keith Olberdouch’s singular contribution to journalism.

How long will it be into the evening before some Demo-Dope loser uses the line: It’s easy to run a campaign, but now they have to govern. No. Wrong idiot. P-BO will still be president. Even if things go swimmingly, Repubs will not have a 60 seat majority in the senate - the magic number required to roll back P-BOcare.

This is just an apply the brakes election. Sadly to roll anything back, we’ll have to start the whole thing over come Nov 3. To roll things back. P-BO will have to be removed from office and Repubs will need enough votes in the senate to overcome Republi-Rat squishes like Snowe, Collins, Grahmnesty, McCain, Lugar, et al. 2012 will be the roll back election.

Libs, Libs and Democrats

Juan Williams
After being sacked by NPR, Juan Williams just signed a 2 million dollar contract with Fox. Does this mean that all of NPR’s “talents” will be going off the NPR reservation in hope of getting a bigger contracts and audiences with Fox? Probably not.


I saw this Williams thing yesterday and had meant to comment on it but the rant on DADT went long, and to be honest, I saw something shinny and just forgot about Williams.

So Williams gets canned from NPR where no one heard him anyway. He gets a huge pay raise from Fox where he’ll reach 100 times as many people. It sounds as if Juan might have landed on his feet.

NPR on the other hand has been condemned from left, right and center for firing Williams. Its head, some ditz, Vivian Schiller proved that you can be an idiot and a mean spirited idiot all at the same time when she told an audience that Williams should have kept his feeling about Muslims between himself and "his psychiatrist or his publicist."  Yeah I fired him, but that shouldn't stop me from kicking him while he's down.

Never has one firing done so much good. Williams has landed on his feet after a Lib on Lib food fight. Schiller is in jam of her own idiocy, and NPR is finally going to be investigated by congress and lose its public funding.

I like Williams. But had I known so much good would come from his firing, I’d have called for it years ago.

Lib Victory either way in Nov
How great is it to be a Lib? They are in a win-win situation come Nov 2nd. If they win, they can raise taxes. If they lose, they can just send whatever they think is their fair share into the federal government.

Imagine if the shoe were on the other foot. If Republicans win, taxes go down. If Republicans lose, we just send in what we think is our fair share.  I know I’d save several thousand dollars under that arrangement.

But have you noticed that when P-BO, the Slickmeister Clinton, Soros, Buffet et al talk bout how rich people like them ought to be paying more taxes, no one ever challenges them to just send it in?
Dear NRA:
I was considering becoming a life member. Not anymore. Your endorsement of Brad Ellsworth in the Indiana senate race has me considering weather or not I want to renew my annual membership.

I understand that the NRA is a single issue organization. I might even believe that Democrat Ellsworth has a better record on gun issues than his Republican opponent Dan Coats. But the NRA had better begin to look at party politics.

No party votes in complete lock step like Democrats over the last two years. How does the NRA think we were saddled with mandatory national health care? The Democrat Party, that’s how.

Ellsworth’s record may be one thing, but the NRA has to know that his party would love to see restrictions on gun ownership and ammunition purchases. The NRA might take a day to study what the long-term effects on gun issues are likely to be if Ellsworth, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden and Barak Obama continue with unchecked power.

Coats is the obvious choice for thinking Indiana gun owners - if for no other reason than to act as a check to the gun grabbing Democrats who dominate Washington, D.C. today. But the NRA wants to send more Democrats to Washington?

Wake up. Reject all Democrat candidates until the party signs a plank in its national platform that recognizes that the Second Amendment says what it says.

It is the American culture not the military culture that needs changing

Headline from the AP:


Pentagon trying to change culture to allow gays

OK, you’ve got the biggest baddest and best – something. Makes no difference, a soft drink, beer, screwdriver, anything, it’s the best. One day the CEO comes in and says we need to change the culture around here. What’s your reaction? What are you nuts?

It reminds me of the story of two owners standing around lamenting the fact that they sell so many canary yellow purses. “Who would buy such a thing,” laments one. “I don’t know they are just awful,” says the other. They agree that even though they sell a ton of the purses, that they shouldn’t reorder. The third partner steps in and says, “Hold on. I don’t care if they are the ugliest thing ever. If they sell, we’re stocking them.”

The military could make the same case.  We're not the most sensitive bunch, but we can kick @$$ on behalf of the American people when asked to do so.  But instead of arguing the need for good order and discipline in the military as an argument to reject social experimentation in the armed forces, the nut jobs want to change the culture.

You can almost hear it down in Alabama, under Bear Bryant. “Bear the times are changing. We need to change the culture around here a bit.” Bear, “Huh? Oh you mean from a winning culture to a losing culture?” “Well no. Not necessarily. Just a kinder gentler culture.” Bear, “Yeah, that’s what I said. From winning to losing.”

And look we are not talking about purses or football here. We are talking about the defense of the nation. Seems to me we need to set people’s feelings aside here and do what is best for the force and the country.

The last thing the military needs at this point is to inject another protected class into its midst.  How do you think we got murdering scumbag Maj Hassan? He was a protected class. No one in the Army from the Chief of Staff all the way down to Hassan’s immediate supervisor would confront the bastard for fear of being labeled an Islamophobe. Hell Gen Casey spoke out against any Muslim backlash before he’d admit that Hassan was $h!thead. Something about a troubled man, we don’t know what his motives were, blah, blah, blah.

So the military will not confront a Muslim murderer. What makes anyone think that it will confront an openly gay colonel for doing the gay orderly on the parade deck before formation?

Things may have changed, but you could see hard core military men bite their tongues and change their demeanor when women were on the scene. At one briefing a female general told a friend that the reason most women couldn’t handle a 60 pound pack was because the pack wasn’t designed correctly for women. Yeah sure. And the only reason I’m not an all-pro NFL linebacker is because the shoulder pads don’t sit right on me.

Dare I say it? It’s not the military culture that needs to change. It’s the culture of me first that needs to change. The culture of no matter what it is, it is a right. The rent is too damn high. I have a right to live wherever I want free. Tuition is too damn high.  I have a right to a college education paid for by my neighbors. Arugula is too damn high. I have a right to food subsidies.  The military is the last bastion of good order and discipline.  Gays have a right to destroy it.

Leave the military culture alone. Change the American culture back to one of personal responsibility.

Libs get American history lesson from Palin

The picture above is the iconic 1846 lithograph by Nathaniel Currier entitled "The Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor"


There is nothing quite as delicious as a know nothing know it all being shown up by a target of the know nothing. That is exactly what happened yesterday. In a speech to Tea Party activist Sarah Palin wisely warned them - as Lex has on this page a couple of times - not to “party like it’s 1773″… yet.

Since her appearance on the national scene, Palin has been roundly mocked and criticized by MSM BS artists, Hollywood (the land of know nothings if ever there were such a place), Demo-Dopes and Republi-Rat blue bloods as not being sophisticated and/or smart enough to hold a high political office.

Well after her speech to the Tea Partiers yesterday, Libs across the country thought that Palin had flubbed the date of our founding and meant to say 1776. Several well known lefties took to the tweet and lambasted Palin for what they though was a Slow Joe Biden like gaff.

As it turns out, only Slow Joe Biden can make Slow Joe Biden like gaffs - Look there's Stephen Hawking.  Stand up Steve and say a few words to the crowd.  The gaff in this case was by the dopes on the left. The actual Boston Tea Party took place on 16 Dec. 1773. So it turns out that, no the left isn’t as smart as a fifth grader. But OK it’s hard to keep a couple hundred years of history straight. Thank goodness we’re not Chinese or Egyptian where they have to keep track of several millennia of history.

But hey, take dad’s advice and look it up. Google 1773. This is the first thing that pops up. WOW! Ain’t AlGore invention the best? This Internet thing is so cool. Now, look right down the page to Dec. And there it is:

“December 16 – Boston Tea Party: A group of Americans, dressed as Mohawk Indians, steal aboard ships of the British East India Company and dump their cargo of tea into Boston Harbor.”

Unbelievable. Had these leftist dopes taken the 10 seconds necessary to look it up, they wouldn’t be staggering around this morning looking for a towel to wipe the egg the off their collective faces. One of the ignorant jackasses cracking wise about Palin’s apparent gaff was Gwen Ifill. She tweeted, “Sarah Palin: party like its 1773! Ummm” So when Ifill’s caught in her own ignorance, like whenever she opens her pie hole, ignoramus doubles down and tweets this, “Stand down everybody. I was quoting Sarah Palin from her speech yesterday.” So Gwen, what was the "ummm" all about?

Ifill’s last tweet proves that not only is she ignorant and lazy, she also has trouble admitting when she screws up. And what is with the “stand down” BS, Gwen? You stand down. You’re the meathead here. I’ll stand down when you admit you’re wrong and kiss my butt at Broad and High Streets in Columbus, OH at noon on a Monday and give me half an hour to draw a crowd.

Ifill’s an idiot running for cover instead of saying, “I guess I’m not quite as smart as I though I was.” And how great is it that this crowd is made to look like a bunch of jackasses by a woman they try to portray as not ready for primetime?

So you’ve got a whole bunch of Demo-Dope Homer Simpsons wandering around claiming to be soooo smart, only to be shown to be ignorant of their own history and too damn lazy to look it up.

No doubt they will fall back on the Demo-Dope line, “Palin tricked us into mocking her.” You know, like they did with GWB “tricking” them into supporting the Iraq war. In both cases it seems that the Demo-Dopes are so much dumber than the people they mock. Only Libs and Demo-Dopes can be tricked by someone they claim to be a fool.

Were we actually lucky that B-HO became P-BO?

I was just thinking given the landslide that is LIKELY to occur in just two weeks – Oh, by the way, does anyone else have that Christmas feeling? You know, you just can’t wait. Anyway, in just two weeks there is LIKELY – Oh, likely appears here twice in all caps because I’m still not convinced that Dems will not cheat themselves into control of the senate, as they always do in a close election where the Supreme Court does not intervene to stop the cheating. Anyway, in just two weeks there is LIKELY to be one of the worst political smack downs in the history of the world. Given that occurrence, were we actually lucky that B-HO was elected P-BO?


Think it over. Had McCain won, we’d be left trying to justify the half measures he would be taking to steer the ship of state into the same socialist iceberg, all-be-it in slow motion, that P-BO is driving ship toward at all ahead full.

As a result of P-BO’s reckless actions, a great majority of Americans have awakened to the fact that this experiment in self-rule is only one election away from being destroyed. We came very close in 2008. It still remains to be seen if we can reverse the damage done by the Demo-Dopes since inauguration day.

But one thing is certain, there has been the great awakening. That is the first step necessary to at least make the effort to roll back the idiocy laid down over the last 20 months. You have to know that you’ve dug yourself into a deep hole before you can stop digging.

Given the extraordinary @ss whippin' expected in Nov, many think P-BO will quickly move toward center.  I don't think he'll have too.  The next big danger is that Republi-Rats being Republi-Rats will likely bend over backward to get along with whatever remains of the Demo-Dopes. As I mull over the numbers in the senate, whatever happens, the ruling class in the senate after Nov 2 is going to be half a dozen “moderate” squish Republi-Rats like McCain, Grahmnesty, Collins, Snow, Brown, Lugar and Grassley. Unless Republicans get to at least 48 senators, these half dozen linguini ribbed Republi-Rats will continue to steer the ship toward the iceberg, but the Republi-Rats will demand that P-BO slow the ship thereby delaying the eventual wreck of the ship but not avoiding it.

Sadly, what took only 20 months to get into may take us 20 years to get out of. Several post below, Lex notes that “not enough good can come from this election.” It will take at least two possibly three cycles to affect the kind of – dare I say it – change necessary to just get us back to the status quo anti. Who knows how long it will take to get us back to the days when you could sing Christmas carols in a public park.

Scrawny, takes @ss whippin', TKO'd by girl

The former boxer who dominated the, please don’t kick my butt weight class, Scrawny Harry Reid was bitch slapped into a comma in his recent debate with his senate opponent, Sharron Angle. The big news was when Sharron told eunuch Reid to “man up.” No it wasn’t over Scrawny Harry’s the “war is lost comment,” which would have provided the perfect opening for the line. It was over the Scrawny one’s failure to admit that Social Security was in trouble.


I know millions of readers just dropped their cups of coffee. Social Security is in trouble? Why yes it is. It is well on the path to going the way of Woolworth’s Dept. stores. But don’t tell Scrawny or the other Demo-Dopes. They have a plan. We’ll just grab up more money from the working saps and spread it around.

But for me the “man up” shot wasn’t the most telling shot landed on the Scrawny (wo)man’s chin during the debate. Maybe because I knew it was physical impossibility for the crusty old bastard to do. No the best shot came when the closest thing to man on the stage, Sharron Angle, asked Nevada land baron Reid to explain how he/she became one of the richest (wo)men in the senate while trumpeting his “humble beginnings” in Searchlight. Harry was crushed and had a stunned mullet look. He was shocked that anyone might remember his land swindling past.

His answer was more bizarre than the land transaction that netted the Scrawny little weasel millions. He claimed he was a successful lawyer before going to senate. Fine. As David Axelhead might demand, prove it. What case netted you the millions and when exactly was the last time you worked on a case? Excrement for brains Reid went on to say that he was a shrewd investor. So while everyone else was loosing their collective @sses in the market, Scrawny’s brilliance allowed to make millions. He must have been getting stock advice from cattle futures maven Shrillda Beast Clinton. There’s a case for insider trading in there somewhere. Get the feds on it. Send in Patrick Fitzgerald to ignore Scrawny’s criminal activity and nail some poor shlub for lying to the FBI.

Irrespective of how many seats the repubs take in Nov, the victory will not be complete unless the people of Nevada send this seedy little sack of crap packing.

Friday headlines

Confirmed: Moochelle Obama doesn't know what she's doing


After the First angry Lady violated Illinois campaign laws by campaigning inside the polling place, an election official explained away the violation with this troubling insight, "You kind of have to drop the standard for the first lady, right? I mean, she's pretty well liked and probably doesn't know what she's doing."

This is BS on so many levels

“You kind of have to drop the standard for the first lady…”

What does that tell us? Is it the right entitlement for certain people, or is it “the soft bigotry of low expectations?”

“…she's pretty well liked…”

Well as long as she’s pretty well liked, let’s elect her prom queen and let her break as many laws as she pleases. I think that there are a great many more of us, who are less well liked, who would like to think “equal protection” means something, and is in no way influenced by how well liked you happen to be.

“…probably doesn't know what she's doing."

Well there you have it. When it comes to giving eating advise, going on vacation, talking about policy, talking about America, voting, dressing like a president’s wife, dieting, Moochelle Obama “probably doesn't know what she's doing."

Come to think of it, maybe the “election official” is a bigger doof than the First angry Lady. After all, “she probably doesn't know what she's doing." What’s his excuse for such BS statement regarding

Behar and Goldberg walk off The View: average IQ on stage doubles after departure

I don’t care for any of them, O’Reilly included. But if can get Behar and Goldberg to leave a room, well then he is good for something.

Oh and the Behar Goldberg departure didn’t do a thing to improve the IQ of the studio or TV audience which has to be about a -10.

Another go for good ol’ Slow Joe

Slow Joe told us that P-BO asked him to run again in 2012. Oh joy! I’m sure this true. Why break up such a dynamic team? Did Batman vote Robin off the ticket? Did Tom tell Jerry to get lost? Did Simon tell Garfunkel to take a hike? Well, actually yeah, he did. Anyway, shouldn’t the president have been the one to make this announcement?

Hail big business, the miners are safe!

All 33 Chilean miners have been pulled to the surface. I wonder when P-BO will begin slamming big business for the landslide that trapped the miners. But the fact is, were it not for big business, the miner would have died of starvation and dehydration long ago.


What mom and pop company had the resources, technical know how and equipment to save the miners? It took big business to come to the rescue here. It was the hated American mining industry that had the know how to bore down half a mile to affect the rescue. UPS flew the necessary equipment in from the US in less than 48 hours.

The next time P-BO and the Demo-Dopes slam big business, try to imagine your life without it. Own a TV? Gone. A refrigerator? Gone. A furnace or air conditioner? Gone. Planning to fly off for some nice vacation? Don’t. Need a quart of milk after 8 pm? Too bad. Need to drive to work? Better get a bike, uh wait that’s big business as well, better leave early or take up long distance running.

So why is big business the #1 least respected group in America today? Well we have a president who has never worked a day in his life bashing big business for political gain. It’s class warfare. It’s an attempt to pit the big thinkers and risk takers against the rest of us. How many pols in Washington today have ever done one thing of substance outside of politics? Too damn few that’s for sure. Theirs is the life of a self-licking ice cream cone. Get elected, then spend every waking moment pitting one group of Americans against another to get re-elected. And big business is an easy target. Because it’s so big and touches every aspect of our live.

Try to imagine your life without big business. It isn’t pretty. It pushes us back centuries. Yeah sure we all complain when our flight is delayed or stranded on the runway for hours. Some of the stuff that occurs on occasion is downright criminal. But where would we be without it? And is big business really out to screw us and endanger its employees? I do not think there is a single business plan out there among the fortune 500 that has as its goal drawing in first time customers and screwing them so completely that they will never again use the companies product or service.

Quite the opposite. It’s usually the small time business that shows up reeks havoc on the customer and is off to the next town before the cops can catch up with them. You hear about it all of the time. Joe pays a little “front money” to the local shade tree mechanic to get his car fixed. Ten weeks later the car the car isn’t fixed. His front money is gone and the mechanic is in jail. Had Joe gone to the Ford Motor Company, he’d have paid a bit more, ok a whole lot more, but the car would be fixed.

I try to use the little guy as much as possible, but on certain things I like to be able to go back and say. “Hey something’s not right here.” Every business has its ups and downs. Businesses big and small sometimes come up short. But I submit that unless it’s some fly by night scam company or fly by night scam manager, no business sets out to screw its customers or workers.

So the next time you hear someone complaining about “big business” because the manager at McDonald’s was rude to her, reminder her that it was the manager not McDonald’s that was rude. The next time some know-it-all talks about putting all of the CEOs in jail, ask him if thinks he could go a week without the goods and services that those CEOs provide.

Yeah, I get frustrated sometimes with business, but I thank God that people are willing to take the risks and invest the way that they do because it makes my life on the whole soooo much easier.