Weekly Rant (kind of weekly) – February 23, 2011

Yeah I know it’s not really a weekly rant so I’m sorry but I have been busy. Here you go:

1. OK, so some Democrat congressman said something stupid in Massachusetts yesterday like getting out there and getting bloody. Then someone else says something stupid and then someone else. Yes I know President Obama said we need to ratchet down the rhetoric and we should, but you know what, sometimes people say something stupid and then ten minutes later they think to themselves, “What was I thinking?” Maybe we all just need to take a deep breath and not be so split-second in our judgment of someone making an unscripted mistake. I think we have all done this before. I know I have, I was there, I heard me do it…“What was I thinking?”

2. Stupid spending of the week; I know it’s small but the Department of Defense spending $7,000,000.00 on sponsoring a NASCAR driver is STUPID. Like I said I know $7,000,000.00 is small when you’re talking about a $1,600,000,000,000.00 deficit this year but every little bit counts. That could help and reduce the deficit to $1,599,993,000,000.00. I’ll work on this some more for next week.

3. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), spends valuable floor time complaining about congressmen saving money by sleeping in their office. REALLY, with everything else going on with our federal government Senator Boxer felt she needed to take time out of the Senate’s day to call attention to this. Maybe this is why she doesn’t get it. People like this frugalness and this is the sort of money saving measure that won’t save much but goes a long way with the voters. Oh yeah make sure you call her Senator, she’s earned it!!

4. Once again Columbia University shows why $50,000.00 plus a year (or whatever it costs) and an Ivy League pedigree is no protection from classlessness. After inviting Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak on campus among others in the past, last week the fine professors and students at this university booed off stage one of their fellow students while he spoke in favor of welcoming the ROTC back to campus. OH YEAH, he is also a former staff sergeant in the Army who was shot 11 times, lost his leg, and spent two years in Walter Reed Medical Center recovering from his injuries. Nice job you bunch of Columbia Patriots.

5. Reducing government spending in Texas; With Commissioners Michael Williams and Elizabeth Ames Jones both leaving the Railroad Commission soon to run for the US Senate, we can now retract the number of commissioners to one and be like the rest of the State Agencies. If we only have one Commissioner we could reduce the size of the staff by 2/3’s and reduces spending there. I’ll try to come up with some more next week. Believe me; it would be better to do this than take money from our schools.

Well there’s a rant for this week. Let me know what you think, not that it’ll mean much because this is only my rant but I would like to hear from you. No really, I do!!

Good Night Milano,
Bill