On this Memorial Day, I was remembering my cousin Charley; son of my Dad's brother, Charles. Charley was a pilot in WW-II. He was killed early in the South Pacific campaign. The cemeteries are filled with millions like him; decent young men who gave up their lives for what they believed was their duty and their country.
And then you have the Clintons of this nation, those who "loathe the military"; and the Obamas for whom service was never even considered and the Kagans who refuse to allow the military to come onto their workplace.
I've chosen my side, my Americans.
And you?
Monday, May 31, 2010
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Barack Obama: CEO?
Americans from loudmouth James Carville, the Clinton hatchet-man, to the man-in-the-street now see a major presidential problem on display. Barack Obama has no clue about how to go about managing the Gulf oil spill. Not a bloody clue and it's obvious to all. Sans teleprompter, he is naked before us, wholly without executive experience and incompetent thereby.
An executive would have organized an ad hoc team of experts with spill clean-up experience, local Louisiana officials who live with the spill minute-by-minute, Coast Guard, Army Corps of Engineer and other federal resources, all under the helm of one senior person who has Presidential authority to get stuff done. Instead, we are treated to the emptiest of sound bite rhetoric: "Just plug the damn hole!" Why didn't someone else think of that? Surely Obama is The One.
One almost wants this farce to continue so that voters see what it means to employ a community organizer to lead 300 million Americans, to manage a $13 trillion economy and to deal with world leaders who do have the experience of running something other than their mouth.
Barack Obama is a fraud; a feckless, bewildered fraud: he simply does not know what to do or how to organize the resources available to do the job before him.
We told you so.
An executive would have organized an ad hoc team of experts with spill clean-up experience, local Louisiana officials who live with the spill minute-by-minute, Coast Guard, Army Corps of Engineer and other federal resources, all under the helm of one senior person who has Presidential authority to get stuff done. Instead, we are treated to the emptiest of sound bite rhetoric: "Just plug the damn hole!" Why didn't someone else think of that? Surely Obama is The One.
One almost wants this farce to continue so that voters see what it means to employ a community organizer to lead 300 million Americans, to manage a $13 trillion economy and to deal with world leaders who do have the experience of running something other than their mouth.
Barack Obama is a fraud; a feckless, bewildered fraud: he simply does not know what to do or how to organize the resources available to do the job before him.
We told you so.
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Pipsqueak in the Gulf
The current alleged disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is a pipsqueak considering the effects of natural events. The Gulf is immense in cubic size and is easily handling the several thousand barrels entering into it each day. As hydrocarbons float to the surface, bacteria begin their feast and growth in the trillions thus providing nourishment up the animal foodchain. BP laps up the surface oil in ships and trundles it off directly to the refinery. Hurricanes kill far more birds and fish, destroy more buildings, ravage more land and kill more people.
Nevertheless, politicians boringly sound off about oil companies and look for more ways to tax or fine them. That's simply another way to tax you, the consumer. The environmental crowd screams about egrets or dolphins but yet those and other birds and fish are never threatened with extinction by an occasional oil spill. Like politicians, Greenies just want to make your driving more expensive so you walk or bicycle to work and play. Pay no attention.
Drill, Baby. Drill.
Nevertheless, politicians boringly sound off about oil companies and look for more ways to tax or fine them. That's simply another way to tax you, the consumer. The environmental crowd screams about egrets or dolphins but yet those and other birds and fish are never threatened with extinction by an occasional oil spill. Like politicians, Greenies just want to make your driving more expensive so you walk or bicycle to work and play. Pay no attention.
Drill, Baby. Drill.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Europe: A Geographic Construct
The notion of Europe as a union of nations is over. It was never a good idea as the people of no country thought of themselves other than as Italian, French or German. (Dare I say Greek?) It was a bad idea, nurtured from false premises by bureaucrats and power-mongers, backed by the usual academics and liberals, those who also love the United Nations above their own country. Nations, like Finland or Spain, are not states like Utah or Florida. There is no national unity between the former as in the latter. And a currency does not unite them. The reverse is true: a currency is reflective, not creative. The continent of Europe is returning to its true self: a host of different nations. Vive la Difference!
Sunday, May 16, 2010
LEGAL MALPRACTICE
As a lawyer, clients often are irked when I don't give my view on an issue until after I've read the file or documents of a case and had time to consider what I've read. Imagine a judge asking if your lawyer has read the contract at issue and your lawyer says: "No." That is the position our nation's top lawyer is in. Attorney General Eric Holder admitted before Congress that he had not read Arizona's controversial legislation about local police authority to enforce illegal immigration law.
Nevertheless, Holder has been outspoken in opposition to the law he has not bothered to read. That is reminiscent of Speaker Nancy Pelosi's remark that Congress needed to pass the healthcare bill in order to find out what's in it.
It is incredible that no storm of protest has arisen from the liberal media as to Holder's malpractice. Imagine the flogging Ed Meese, John Ashcroft or Clarence Thomas would have been subjected to had any been guilty of such conduct.
But we all know why that hasn't happened: Holder is a liberal democrat, a close friend of Obama and he's black. Only conservative blacks are held to any account. [Cf: Jackson or Sharpton) Holder can and does get away with legal malpractice despite admission of guilt.
Shameful.
Nevertheless, Holder has been outspoken in opposition to the law he has not bothered to read. That is reminiscent of Speaker Nancy Pelosi's remark that Congress needed to pass the healthcare bill in order to find out what's in it.
It is incredible that no storm of protest has arisen from the liberal media as to Holder's malpractice. Imagine the flogging Ed Meese, John Ashcroft or Clarence Thomas would have been subjected to had any been guilty of such conduct.
But we all know why that hasn't happened: Holder is a liberal democrat, a close friend of Obama and he's black. Only conservative blacks are held to any account. [Cf: Jackson or Sharpton) Holder can and does get away with legal malpractice despite admission of guilt.
Shameful.
Saturday, May 15, 2010
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS - V
Once again, facts are stubborn things. My home state of California is broke, insolvent, basically bankrupt. None disagrees with that description. As to the question of why, there are many opinions. One view is that decades old Proposition 13 has failed to produce sufficient property tax revenues for the political class to rain down more goodies on impoverished Californians. In truth, California has suffered its financial death from some major blunders and an endless parade of earmarked, targeted goodies for some favored group.
One favored group - illegal immigrants - is rarely mentioned in the major media as a cause of California's fiscal woes. Facts, however the chattering class tries to ignore them, keep getting in the way.
Consider.
There are 19,000 (!) illegal immigrants in California's State prisons. They cost the State $860,000,000 a year even after accounting for federal support. And this does not count illegal immigrants in county jails. Think of the total as nearly $1,000,000,000.
A billion is still a lot of money where most Americans come from. And if Arnold could cut a billion here, a billion there, pretty soon we'd be in better financial shape. But he won't cut this billion. The Terminator is afraid. Afraid of his "legend", his wife, her family and the media: afraid of being called a racist, anti-immigrant or bigot.
A real governor would execute the killers in this bunch of criminal illegal immigrants and return the rest to their home country; i.e., kick the Mexicans over the line at San Diego and dump the rest on the doorsteps of their respective country's consulates. Alternatively, a governor could sub-contract their care to Arizona's Sheriff Joe rather than spend 45,000 California dollars on each and very criminal illegal immigrant.
And Voila! Two birds with one stone!
One favored group - illegal immigrants - is rarely mentioned in the major media as a cause of California's fiscal woes. Facts, however the chattering class tries to ignore them, keep getting in the way.
Consider.
There are 19,000 (!) illegal immigrants in California's State prisons. They cost the State $860,000,000 a year even after accounting for federal support. And this does not count illegal immigrants in county jails. Think of the total as nearly $1,000,000,000.
A billion is still a lot of money where most Americans come from. And if Arnold could cut a billion here, a billion there, pretty soon we'd be in better financial shape. But he won't cut this billion. The Terminator is afraid. Afraid of his "legend", his wife, her family and the media: afraid of being called a racist, anti-immigrant or bigot.
A real governor would execute the killers in this bunch of criminal illegal immigrants and return the rest to their home country; i.e., kick the Mexicans over the line at San Diego and dump the rest on the doorsteps of their respective country's consulates. Alternatively, a governor could sub-contract their care to Arizona's Sheriff Joe rather than spend 45,000 California dollars on each and very criminal illegal immigrant.
And Voila! Two birds with one stone!
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