THE FUTURE OF TREE TRIMMING

If the eco-nuts would have their way, all tree trimming would be like this. One of them over the last weekend was even excited about $20.00 per gallon gas and no air conditioning. He'd be perfectly happy with us living like the Ingalls' again.

Yes, that is I, your humble author, whacking away at a Pussy Willow bush, which, by the way, was neither a bush nor a pussy. It actually gave up quite a fight, but my hops-powered tree whacker defeated the plant. I learned that this mangle of four-inch diameter trunks was grown from a single twig some sixty years ago, planted by my wife's Aunt Pearl. We don't believe we killed the plant, but we certainly did stunt its growth for awhile. Sherri needs its "fruit" for school next spring. There were no other casualties, much to our amazement, except for a few small scratches and an axe handle. Here is what remains of the once huge "bush" - the world's ugliest stump.

NOT IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD

You've left your house for a vacation without your keys or your even your garage door opener. While on vacation, a neighbor, who has agreed to keep an eye on your house, calls you with a heads up regarding a police-aborted break-in. Your relief surprise, shock, and thankfulness are realized, and you complete your vacation.

Upon your return home, you realize your home entry mistake. You and the friend that chauffeured you home have no alternative but to attempt to break into your own home, forgetting the attempt by real criminals a week or so earlier. Just as you make the unorthodox entry, the police are at your front door sternly, but calmly requiring your presence.

Let me stop here. Now, I'm certain most of us would, at this point, run to the front door and accommodate the police officer's instructions to the letter, realizing how this might look, even thanking the officer for his due diligence in protecting your property at his peril.

This, however, is not the case in elitist Boston (Bahsten) where, if you are a Harvard professor doing this exact same thing, your reaction is to demean the officer and accuse him of a counter crime.

Oops, I forgot to mention some tiny details about our Harvard professor: he happens to be black and an acquaintance of the 1/2 black POTUS and accused the officer, who has risked his own actual life TWICE defending the professor's property as a racist for daring to ask for identification of a man breaking into an upper-class home for being broken into the second time in about two weeks.

Then, our new President, who has been showing us more and more as time moves along (as well as his Harvard cronies), what a Harvard education can do for a person, shoots his teleprompter-less mouth off and says that the "police acted stupidly". As the nation's highest ranking law enforcement official, the use of the word "stupidly" is, well, stupid, especially after admitting that he did not know all the facts of the case and merely assumed the officers were at some sort of fault because police officers ALWAYS hassle the black man.

Here's a thought - Why hasn't this Harvard professor slandered the racist neighbor for calling the cops in the first place? Imagine, assuming two men forcably entring a black man's house are there for committing a crime. Or, worse yet, this racist neighbor assumed that the black man could not care for his own property. Why didn't POTUS call the neighbor "stupid" for making these assumptions? The neighborhood crime watch signs should come down immediately as they are racist for these reasons! No snitching!

Three and a half more years of this? God help us all.

According to the U.S. Constitution, I'm still allowed to say (write [type]) this.

COMPARISONS OF AN ECONOMY

Just after "THE" September 11, the U.S. economy naturally took a large dip as we entered two different theatres of war offensives. The unemployment rate was a whopping 5.2%, interest rates rose to a twenty year high of 8%. The press had a field day at Mr. Bush's expense as these were his problems at the time. Keep in mind that even with these statistics the economy was in the midst of its greatest expansion in history (thanks to RWR and his tax-lowering policies a generation earlier).

After this dip passed the U.S. went through a fifty-two consecutive month period of economic growth. Interest rates were low as were gas prices and unemployment rates. Housing boomed, incomes rose, jobs were created, etc. Then, the burst of the housing bubble and speculating in the oil market drove up gas prises and the economy tumbled. Even with this, interest rates were back up to only 7.25% or so and unemployment was a staggering 4.9% or so and the stock market crashed.

Now we have a knew President with his own party in majorities in both houses of Congress. They all exclaimed "watch us get things done now"! "Yes we can". Well, in seven short months, unemployment is over 9.5% (nationally, I just heard that here in Beloit, WI it's over 16%) and losing 450,00 jobs per month, house foreclosures at at an all-time high, bankruptcies are up 30% and the national deficit has reached $3,000,000,000,000.00! That's actual money we, the people of the U.S. are responsible to make up at some time. That's about $7700 for every person in this country - not every adult, not every taxpayer, every person.

With an economy this poor one would assume a journalism corps as technologically advanced as ours is in the U.S. would have every editor clamoring for the heads of the President, the Speaker of the House and the Senate Majority Leader, right? Not in 2009! We have a press corps full of sycophants, apologists and economic law deniers! They didn't even question a statement the administration made to the effect of "a rise in bankruptcies is good, that way more people will be free of their large financial obligations an can buy stuff. After all, this is a consumer-driven economy and buying stuff is good".

And now this same press corps is actually leading the cheers for the government to assume control of 17% more of the economy in the way of health care, without asking many questions at all. Amazing!

IDIOTS!!!

40 YEARS LATER

Today is the fortieth anniversary of Niel Armstrong's walk on the moon. Since then technology has evolved exponentially, though the space program is a shadow of its former self in importance to the lawmakers of this country and, sadly to say, more so to their constituents.

It is believed that the next goal of the space program is to determine if there is evidence of ice on the poles of the moon and/or Mars. I guess we need to determine this because the polar ice caps on this planet are melting at "alarming" rates (according to the Algore acolytes), killing the Polar Bears and raising all of our oceans thereby wreaking their salinity and altering their environments, blah, blah, blah. I wonder if the next space goal will be funded in the same manner as Cap & Tax and Obamacare, by taxing the rich - and their cigarettes.

The space program of the 1960's and 1970's was the last true national, government-sponsored program the majority of Americans supported. What will be the next one? Certainly NOT the ones being championed by our current politicians!

WITHDRAWAL

It now begins. Withdrawal. It has been a whirlwind two weeks of quality "Tizu Time". She and her Mama spent a week with us while Papa was in Vienna, Austria for his academic pursuits. Then, this weekend they visited again for the other son-inlaw's birthday celebration and Tizu spent an extra overnight with Grandma and Grandpa while Mama and Papa took the next day to plant some flower plants they dug up at at Aunt Pearl and Uncle Herb's homestead and to see "Public Enemy" of which portions were filmed in Oshkosh. Now, it appears, we have to do without our precious Tizita for almost three weeks! Ah, the life of grandparents. It will make our next reunion that much sweeter.

OBAMACARE

Not only is the "Quality, Affordable Health Coverage for All Americans, or QAHCAA, the health care bill before congress as I type, expensive, it is, as feared a complete takeover of the entire health care "insurance" industry. According to an investigation by "Investors Business Daily " http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=332548165656854 , it only took until page nineteen of the actual 1,018 -page bill to prove it. The paragraph states: "Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day" of the year the legislation becomes law."

It appears as though or President has not been entirely truthful with us, AGAIN!

He actually said that under his plan we could retain our current insurer if we chose. That may be true, but we would not be able to change that insurer, EVER. This would cause service to decrease to the sane level as Obamacare, though prices probably would not rise because they would have to "compete" with Obamacare. Again, this administration has totally ignored the U.S. Constitution as nowhere does it allow the Executive Branch to disallow free enterprise for ANY reason. Check out Mark Alexander's essay on the subject http://patriotpost.us/

And how about that acronym "QAHCAA"? Say it out loud and pronounce each letter. This bill could not be more aptly named if the Republicans were allowed to name it. Way to go, dems!

Image source: The Patriot Post, 16 July, 2009

END OF LIFE

It may seem as though I have a recent morbid obsession with death, but the entries are separated by time and I couldn't help myself with this one. According to the New York Times, the "Newspaper of Record", Obamacare, soon to be at a clinic near you, is depending on us old folks to just give up and die (see attached:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/health/09sisters.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1).

Hey, at least we won't have to spend a lot of time watching this fiasco try to actually treat anybody!

All you seasoned citizens who voted with AARP for this Marxist power grabber, I hope you see the change you're in for.

OOPS

It turns out that Obama-Biden MAY have under estimated the dismal economic results from their "stimulus" package. Oops! Mr. Onederful actually claimed to have gotten insufficient information. When Dubya said the exact same thing about intel from Iraq, the MSM jumped down his throat and libs everywhere demanded his impeachment and resignation. And now, because BHO has the reigns...crickets. Just a couple of weeks ago this same administration claimed the recession was over, that the stimulus worked, that hundreds of thousands of jobs were created or saved. Wah happened?

The administration says they can't spend the "money" in the stimulus fast enough and because of that, we're going to have to get another stimulus bill shoved down our great-great-great grandchildrens' wallets. As is the case with most big productions, the sequel is almost always not as popular as the original. And in this case, the reviews for the original, as nominal as have been reported, are far from favorable.

LIVING ON BORROWED TIME

Farrah. When I was a young adult, that name denoted THE sex symbol of the time. She was that completely covered. She is no longer with us, taken by cancer at age 62.

Micheal Jackson. Pop music icon turned wacko, died from heart failure at 50.

Billie Mays, famous pitchman, also died of heart failure at 50.

I'm on the downward side of 54. I am not concerned, nor do I put stock in "signs", but incidents like these make one take stock and contemplate ones mortality, even if briefly. It does, however, remind me that I have an eternal soul, that I am saved, that God is still in charge and that when He is finished with me He will call me home.

INDEPENDENCE DAY

With all the store and car dealership sales, the family get-together preparations and the scheduled parades, the actual reason for the "Fourth of July" gets totally lost. I read the Federalist's "Patriot Post" newsletter today - http://patriotpost.us/ where the editor wrote a brief history in his weekly essay regarding the Declaration of Independence. It made me wonder, given the current political climate, if this country could ever have come to pass as our founders had framed it. My vote is nay. These idiots would be far more concerned about whose state would contain the capitol, how much federal aid that state would receive for the capitol, what type of paper on which the Declaration would be printed and from which state the tree forming it would be taken and, again, how much aid for it. They certainly would not not have chosen a general as the President. It probably would have been a lesser representative with very little experience in government and absolutely none in the business or agronomic communities but able to read others words extremely eloquently.

Thomas Jefferson, another wealthy white guy founder, stated that the tree of liberty needs the occasional feeding by the blood of tyrants. Is this one of those occasions?

Before you jump to conclusions and assume you know what's in my head, I am not advocating a bloody coup nor inflicting physical harm on ANYONE. I am, however, advocating voting the bums out. Any politician who voted for any of the cockamamie spending bills forwarded by BHO and his minions in the House and Senate need to be shown the door at the next election. Here in the dairy state there is a movement afoot to recall our governor for his budgetary misdeeds and hyjinx. While this may not be the exact process, it is a start.