A Rant for the Fourth Week of June!!

I felt like I needed to shoot out a new rant and get this blog up and running again……It’s been a while.

-          Hillary Clinton first claimed that her and Slick Willie were poor upon leaving the White House…of course they made $12 million the first year out of the white house and she was already a Senator getting paid as such……But honestly…...It was hell for them.

-          Now Hillary claims that her and SW are not as rich as other multi-millionaires (she made $5 million last year). If you just go by those two numbers then they have cleared over $1 million a year since leaving the White House and that does even include the other 11 years in between. Go ahead Hillary….keep using that line of logic….that should connect with common folk….or at least the DEM Lemmings!

-          The IRS requires seven years of records for their auditing purposes, yet they can’t even keep up with emails from two years ago that congress wants for their auditing purposes. I’m not sure why someone doesn’t subpoena the NSA for the IRS’s emails……they gotta be there somewhere.

-          This week the President spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin and according to Josh Earnest, the new White House Propaganda Minister…errrrr….Spokesman, the President told Putin that if he didn’t back down from his current aggressive position that there would be “additional costs” to pay for their aggression. I’m sure old Vlad is shaking in his boots over that threat. Let’s see….the community organizer vs. the former KGB Colonel…….WHATEVER!!!!

-          Lastly, I am glad that the leaders of Texas have taken the next step to help secure the southern border of the state from the influx of illegal immigrants and criminals. Now if we could better control the influx of immigrants across the rest of our borders from the liberal havens like California before we are outnumbered.

Well there you go. I didn’t mention a few things, but I intend to write about them in the coming days.

Thank You For Your Support,

Bill

Eric Holder is One Tough Dude!

Today, our abysmal failure of an Attorney General, known as Eric Holder, gave a very brave speech detailing how the Obama Justice Department would challenge the Texas Voter ID law in federal court in San Antonio. Of course he bravely gave the speech 1400 miles away in Philadelphia to a friendly audience at the Urban League Convention.

He cited last year’s law suit regarding redistricting and that same court’s ruling that the maps were drawn in a manner that was overly discriminatory against Latinos. Were they? I don’t believe they were, but I am not a Latino. But then again, in Texas how many of our families are interracial and just how do you accurately determine who is Latino and who isn’t. I mean I have relations in my family and my wife’s family that are of all different colors and cultures.

As a matter of fact, I have a lifelong friend who married a young lady of Hispanic culture and they have three sons who all have German sir names. Are they Hispanic? This same friend’s sister married a Hispanic man and they have two boys and a girl all with Hispanic sir names. Which kids are Hispanic and which aren’t? This is the future of Texas and the United States. All you have to do to see the integration of america clearer is travel to a college or high school campus.

When my parents were in high school they were all segregated. By the time I was in high school integration had been the law of the land for nearly twenty years and while we were fully integrated I am afraid there was still some self segregation in the schools. Today things have changed greatly since the time my parents were in high school. Take a look and see that the kids of today are pretty well integrated when allowed to be so. When I visit my children at college or in high school I am so happy to see this taking place. It reveals a little window into martin Luther King’s dream.

Unfortunately there are far too many older folks including many in my generation who knowingly and unknowingly work to maintain the rifts between cultures and the races they need to survive financially or politically. Regardless of their party affiliation, I look at representatives in government who are of mixed racial and cultural backgrounds and I see people who should be the perfect candidates to help unite Texans and Americans.

Yet far too many of them are worried about winning the next election rather than working for the betterment of society. They can’t see past their own future to take the time to help create a brighter future for all of our children and grandchildren. As a result, I have to say that should we as a country not learn to quit bickering, to address our own flaws as a people, become proactive in our handling of the issues rather than reactionary, to unite, and to work to come together; then our current outlook is bleak.

But then you have race hustlers (who I will leave nameless); people who through their own actions make a mockery of those who came before them. People who make a mockery of addressing civil rights and racial harmony while claiming to carry the legacy of Civil rights trailblazers like Martin Luther King, James Peck, Medgar Evers, Rosa Parks, James Zwerg, or Octavio Ambrosio Larrazolo.

So to go on the plaque of race hustlers who shall remain nameless, you can etch in the name of Eric Holder because regardless of what else he says, the only way for him to keep the fires from flaming out of the liberal agenda is to keep all the racial fires stoked to an overheated frenzy.

Sadly though, this will be a costly endeavor for both the federal government and the State of Texas; and in the end it will go to the Supreme Court of the United State where they will rule as they have in similar cases in other states and the law will stand. After all, Texas’ law is less severe than the decade-old voter ID laws in either Indiana or Georgia; and amazingly enough in both of those cases minority voting increased after those laws were passed.

But Oh Well, why not waste all those federal dollars….it’s not like they’re borrowed or anything!

Bring your ID with you to the polls in November!!

Bill

FEMA Reneges on the President’s Promise to West

Before I get into the meat and bones of this I first want to point out that in general, I believe that we are all responsible for ourselves and when tragedy strikes that we must rely on ourselves first, our family second, and our friends and communities third. I believe that it is up to us to help out our fellow citizens and not wait for a government entity to come and bail us out of tragic situations regardless of whether they are the work of nature or manmade.


With that said, I like so many in Central Texas are extremely perplexed by FEMA’s refusal to render anymore aid to the people of West Texas following the destruction this past April as a result of the explosion of a fertilizer plant in that small town. Normally I would not immediately look to the government for help; however, like so many other issues politicians use to enhance their persona, the President promised something that FEMA is now saying they will not deliver on.

Following the tragedy, President Obama came to Central Texas, met with the citizens of West and then gave a speech at Baylor University in which he spoke about how it didn’t matter what else transpired after this tragedy, America would not forget about the victims of this tragedy. He singled out several of the people of West and explained about how important it is to keep these communities intact and to make sure they are protected.

Here is an excerpt of his speech, “We’re Americans, too, and we stand with you, and we do not forget. And we’ll be there even after the cameras leave and after the attention turns elsewhere. Your country will remain ever ready to help you recover and rebuild and reclaim your community.” This line received much applause and many tears from victims who felt reassured and secure in the President’s comments.

Less than two months later; FEMA has agreed to help the U.S. Small Business Administration in providing $7 million in aid and low-interest loans; however, in a letter from FEMA director Chris Fugate to the governor, FEMA has denied the major disaster declaration that would have given West money to rebuild. Of course after the fires that destroyed hundreds of homes in the Bastrop, Texas area went unaided by FEMA just 18 months ago, why should we expect an explosion in West to be treated any different.

After all, it was just an explosions that left a 93 foot crater, leveled the intermediate school, caused severe damage to the junior high and senior high school, leveled almost a hundred homes and in some way affected the homes and businesses of every citizen of this town of 2,800 Americans – NOT TO MENTION took the lives of 10 first responders.

Officials in West say they are getting estimates that say it will cost around $57 million to make the necessary repairs to bring West back to normal. It seems like the federal government could take a little chunk of the tax-payer (and/or borrowed) money they are sending to Egypt, or Brazil, or China, or Libya, or anywhere else for that matter and send West what it needs to make repairs.

Like I said above, normally I wouldn’t think the government should be too involved in solving the problems of people in the face of disaster unless it’s unavoidable (meteor crashing to Earth, terrorist bombing a site that is supposed to be protected by the government, or some other out of the ordinary sort of tragedy).

But this time the President made a trip to Central Texas, used Americans as props, and used an the event to make a speech about how the people of West would be taken care of. If you’re going to make a promise, then live up to it Mr. President.

Now is the time!

God Bless west,
Bill

Another Day, Another Rant!!

I know – I know!!

How lucky can you be to have two rants in as many days!! Just so much happening today I just felt like needed to vent a little. So let’s get to it!!

1.       Venezuela’s Dictator Hugo Chavez has died. His Vice-President blamed the US for contaminating Chavez with cancer, but President Obama is hopeful we can build a relationship with their new government. Did he not just listen? Anyway, you remember Chavez? He is infamous for wanting to befriend Comrade Obama and for calling George W. Bush “el Diablo” during an address to the UN. Funny thing is, I do believe Hugo is about to meet el Diablo for real!!

2.       The White House is discontinuing the White House Tour on the 9^th of March. According to a White House recording it is due to sequestration. I know this disappoints many folks; however, if the White House thinks that canceling the availability of an unguided tour will help with the sequester then I guess we must defer to their better judgment.

3.       As if the TSA hasn’t already made some of the most asinine decisions possible with security screenings in the last few years, now they are in the process of changing the allowed items on a flight and how the security process will work? Well no, you still can’t take a box cutter on board nor a razor, and yes you still have to take off those dangerous shoes and belts before you board your flight, BUT now you will be allowed to being your pocket knife on board…HUH? I guess it’s important to remember that this is the same organization that takes away plastic toy hammers from children and will frisk granny in a wheel chair so I suppose this makes sense…

4.       The state legislature is looking at what to do to make Texas schools more competitive in the area of college preparedness. How about we worry about the thousands of kids not going to college and how to put some vocational education and training back in schools. That way those of us who have kids who go through 13 years of school can graduate with a marketable skill like welding, cosmetology, and automotive repair. We used to do it and it worked, but somewhere we lost site of the importance of skilled labor and now it is expected that inside the next decade America will have a shortfall of 10% to 20% of the skilled workers we need!

5.       The State Legislature is also working to move the primary date from March to February so that the state’s primary will be more in play for the upcoming 2016 presidential election; however, the move forward will cost the state delegates to the national convention. So in the end we need to either leave it where it is or move it to January 1^st so we can have the first primary in the nation and people can vote on New Year’s Day, which is a holiday.

Okay, that’s the quick and ugly. Hope it helped you as much as it helped me!!

Till Later,

Bill

Texas Football’s Legislative Loser of the Week

Rep. Ryan Guillen
(Texas House District 31)

So let’s get this straight. Apparently all the ducks of Texas legislative affairs are in a proverbial row to the extent that we can start worrying about the trivial issues affecting our great state.

Without using political parties in this post, State Representative Ryan Guillen (HD-31) who represents almost the entire rural area south of San Antonio has filed what apparently amounts to be the most influential piece of legislation of this session. In his own words, “I think the people of Texas want a game, and we’re trying to get them one.”

Have you guessed what this genius filed as his earth-shattering piece of legislation? Yes, he filed House Bill 778 which would seek to force the University of Texas and Texas A&M to renew their rivalry in college football. His bill deals out the punishment of losing all their scholarships should one of the teams not agree to participate. Apparently that is the life-affirming necessity that all of us Texans require for proper stability of our cooperative equilibriums.

Regardless of where you stand on whether other former conference foes have a game with Texas A&M, that is an irrelevant point in this discussion. The point here is that we as a state, and especially in the country, are in need of serious legislators who are in Austin to properly legislate the state and not there to put up ridiculous shots at sad ending to a once-proud rivalry. Whether the University of Texas ever agrees to play Texas A&M again is solely and completely up to them. The state House of Representatives is not the place to settle that.

During a typical legislative session there are thousands of items of legislation that are filed in the Texas House alone and roughly only four months to settle them all. So regardless of whether this is a serious bill or just a symbolic attempt to make a point, the time in which the Texas legislature is in session is short and there is no time for these sort of idiotic and petty measures.

That is the reason that Representative Ryan Guillen wins this week’s Legislative Loser of the Week.

Congratulations,

Bill

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

Rant for the third week of 2011

Thanks for all the nice emails. I am glad someone out there is reading this as I thought I was writing with no readers. Kind of begs the question; if you write it and no one reads it is it really a blog?

Here we go!!!

1. China’s President Hu has come for a visit this week and has been attacked by President Obama, Hillary and Harry. Be careful my liberal friends, I mean after all, our Chinese friends could have come over here to foreclose on us.

2. About one year ago, 219 house members voted for Obamacare. Today 245 voted to repeal it. And yesterday House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said on MSNBC that the reason there was so much negativity towards Obamacare was because it did not go far enough – HUH? Yeah, that’s it Nancy.

3. Late last week Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that she is stopping the construction of the “Virtual Fence” on the Mexican Border. Two years ago she proclaimed the virtual fence the end all beat all in border security. So what could she have up her sleeve that will trump the virtual fence? Wait for it…….She has a plan that will address the concerns for each region of the border and provide a “new path forward” for border security; however, she had no details, None, Nothing, Nada…..Oh I feel safer already!!!!

4. More new jobs have been created in Texas than in any other state in the union in the last few years. As a matter of fact, more jobs have been created in Texas than in all the other states combined. So rather than being proud of job creation in the Lone Star State, our Democrat friends are only too eager to pounce on the fact that a majority of these are minimum wage jobs. So let me get this straight, Democrats would prefer to have people jobless and on welfare rather than being paid the minimum wage they set at $7.25 an hour.

5. How about the next time there is an opening on the Supreme Court we put an English scholar on the high court. Since everyone seems to have such a difficult time understanding the 230 year-old document, maybe having an expert in English on the court instead of having lawyers on the court would lead to an easier time understanding the true meaning. After all, nothing says a member of the Supreme Court has to be a lawyer.

Well I think that takes care of this week’s Rant. Hope you all enjoyed it and it makes you think a little. Wonder how much a used border security camera is going for on eBay?

Until next time, stay safe!!
Bill

This week in America – November 18, 2009

Sorry I haven’t been as handy with this as I had wanted but I have been quite busy this summer and football season. Someone gave me a radio microphone this football season and I have been completely engrossed with that. But now it’s time to get back to the grindstone in the issues,

1. Attorney General Eric Holder wants to bring the terrorists in for a civilian trial. Hey Eric, this isn’t “What’s My Line,” or the “People’s Court,”…well I guess maybe it is some of the latter, but you get my meaning. These are dangerous terrorists and KILLERS. They were combatants caught on the battlefield and as such they should be prosecuted in a military court as approved by the Congress a few years ago.

2. Unemployment figures for October 2009 is over 10%...well thank God we passed that stimulus package back in the first few weeks of the Obama administration. Remember that one? It’s the one that President Obama said we needed because without it unemployment might reach 8%. What are they playing by golf scores? Isn’t 10% worse than 8%? Nice call on that one.

3. So in Allentown, Pa., a 17 year-old Boy Scout volunteered his time and worked hard to clear a walking path in a city park as part of his work towards earning Eagle scout. Commendable of the young lad. In this time when most teens are looking for some direction, here is this young man working hard to better himself. Then comes Nick Balzano, he’s the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) boss for Allentown. Nick is threatening to sue Allentown for allowing this scout hoodlum to volunteer when there are plenty of out-of-work union members who could have been used – for a price. You know, the SEIU already seems to have free run of the White House, now they want to go after the Boy Scouts of America – NICE!!

4. So Barbara Ann Radnofsky, a Democrat who wants to run for Texas Attorney General says that the 2005 state constitutional amendment that makes the definition of marriage in Texas a union between one man and one women also contains a clause that eliminates marriage altogether in the state – Brilliant. Current Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott says this law is perfectly fine and does not mean what Ms. Radnofsky declared. She is going to point this out and try and use this as a campaign issue – Really? Well go ahead Barbara, you should get the vote of everyone who is married and wants to remain married cause that’s what we want, to elect someone who is going to come into office and tell us all we aren’t married.

5. And the Winner of the Day, U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval ruled in favor of several New Orleans plaintiffs saying the U.S. Corps of Engineers caused the disaster in parts of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina due to their lack of supervision of the levee system. The judge called it a manmade disaster. So let me get this one straight, if you live in an area that is below sea level and a once a century storm blows through, it is somehow the governments fault. Where was this judge when I was growing up and sent a baseball through Mrs. Johnson’s house? I could have sued on the grounds that Mrs. Johnson shouldn’t have built that house there in the first place – This is Genius!!!!

Carry On Folks,
Bill

Can I See Your ID?

So the Democrats in the Texas state legislature are against a voter ID law – SHOCKING!

Okay, let me see if I can get this straight. You have to show your ID to get a fishing license, You have to show an ID to get a marriage license, you have to show an ID to cash a check, You have to show an ID to use a credit card, MY GOD, you have to show an ID to pick up tickets for an airplane flight, sporting event, or a rock concert.

So how in the world are all these people able to show a picture ID for these purposes and it is not considered biased? The Democrats says it disenfranchises people from being able to vote – HOW!

Since it doesn’t affect their ability to fish, cash a check, use a credit card, or attend a ticketed event, then how on God’s green Earth is it going to affect their ability to vote. I could understand it being a detriment if it was done under a Jim Crow law, but this is the 21st Century and Texas has had the “Motor-Voter” law for quite some time.

Let’s call it like it is, pure and simple, if you make people show their ID to vote, you make people responsible for their own vote and effectively eliminate fraudulent voting. I guess this would have too much of a negative effect on Democrat voting numbers.

I wonder if I can get copies of my ID picture?
Bill