A Kind-Of-Weekly Rant!!

Well I wrote a sports rant earlier today but there is so much going on right now it just feels right to put out a rant on the rest of the world. Here it goes.

1.       The President has selected his National Security Advisor John Brennan as his choice to take over the CIA. Just for past reference, we already went through this four years ago with Brennan, but he pulled his name out of the nomination process because he was too concerned about the scrutiny he would face for failed predictions from earlier. Of course he’s only had to admit he failed the current president on about a half dozen occasions since became NSA. Just a short list of his mistakes; Benghazi, The Iranian Uprising in 2009, the state of the Iranian Nuclear Program, the make-up of the Egyptian uprising, and the list just keeps on growing. Nice Choice there.

2.       The President has selected former Senator Chuck Hagel as his choice for Secretary of Defense. Another nice choice, especially if you are all for allowing the Iranians to do whatever the hell they want – Unchecked – and if you are absolutely anti-Israel. Chuck Hagel proclaims himself a Republican and he is….I guess. But he is the Republican who gave Barack the 2008 GOP boost similar to 2012’s last minute boost by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.  

3.       Speaking of Chris Christie and his instrumental moment in the Re-Elect Obama Campaign; Today the good Governor came out and complained that when the President came to New Jersey he said that all the red tape and bureaucracy would be cut out to make things right. Christie railed the feds for it now being 70 days since Hurricane Sandy and how it only took seven days to get cracking on making things right following Hurricane Katrina. Gee, maybe the good governor should have thought of that when he was hugging Barack!!

4.       Retired Army General Stanley McChrystal, former commander in Afghanistan, began his anti-gun rhetoric saying that only soldiers should carry certain weapons. What a crock of you-know-what. The constitution has the 2^nd amendment and any other gun laws should be left to the states under the 10^th amendment. Once again the 2^nd amendment is about creating an atmosphere that allows the citizenry of the country to never fear the federal government and enforcement of the 2^nd amendment is what helps to manage that. Of course McChrystal is known for shooting himself in the foot by shooting off his mouth a little too often in Afghanistan.

5.       Today government officials released a report in which they state that they think the former FBI agent Robert Levinson was being held by Iran or one of their proxies. Well, that is an amazing deduction as he was captured/went missing on the Iranian island of Kish in 2007. Gee, with this sort of intelligence breakthrough they might be able to crack the whole how many licks to the center of a Tootsie-Roll Pop dilemma.

6.       In regards to another overreaching underachieving government agency, congratulations to the EPA, due to new stricter (and unnecessary) emissions standards, 15 coal power plants will be closing in Georgia in the next few months causing a loss of nearly 450 jobs and reducing the power grid efficiency by 15%. Nice job there, or should I say nice reduction in the job creation of the federal government’s policies.

7.       Now for a little lighter material. A Dutch non-profit company, Mars One, is sponsoring a reality TV based program to select the astronauts it will use to begin the colonization of Mars. Only catch, once you get to the Martian surface there is no return trip. The good news is that as far as anyone knows there is no income tax on Mars. Sound good? For more information go to the following website; www.thenextgiantleap.com.

Well, that’s it for tonight. Hope I didn’t offend anyone!! Remember, it’s all fun until someone loses an eye!!

Later,

Bill

Harry Reid again earns the “Idiot of the Senate” Award

I have mostly never thought much of Harry Reid as a Senator, an organizer, or a leader; but I think Louisiana Senator David Vitter hit the nail on the head when he said, “Sadly, Harry Reid has again revealed himself to be an idiot, this time gravely insulting Gulf Coast residents.”

What did good old Harry DO?

Well here is Harry Reid’s statement: and remember, this is the majority leader of the United States Senate. His comments in support of the aid package for Hurricane Sandy Relief went as follows, “The people of New Orleans and that area, they were hurt, but nothing in comparison to what happened to the people in New York and New Jersey.”

WHAT??

Now before we go too much farther I want to first acknowledge that both of these hurricanes left a path of destruction and grief that can never be defined for those who were and are affected and we should never politicize the suffering of our fellow Americans. So with that said let’s look at how the stats back Harry’s statement.

Just looking at the two stats that are generally considered the watershed numbers for a disaster let’s look at dollars of damage and deaths.

Deaths

125 – Sandy
1833 – Katrina

Damage in Dollars

$62 billion – Sandy
$108 billion – Katrina

I give these figures not in an attempt to trivialize the issue, but to explain how once again Harry Reid has chosen to lie for the sake of making a point and to make someone else seem less caring than he and his precious Democrat partisans. That’s very sad, especially on an issue that needs to be taken care of in a responsible manner and not subjected to traditional party politics or to the addition of trivial pork as was done by many in the Senate – also allowed, and passed, by Harry.

Out of habit Harry later apologized saying he simply misspoke, just like all the rest of the times he has lied, or fudged the truth or in his words misspoke on the floor of the senate in order to make or create a point. Of course then he blamed the Republicans by saying he wouldn’t have felt the pressure to misspeak if he hadn’t had to face GOP opposition.

But let’s give Harry some slack; this is hardly the first time he has misspoken. Think of this, if we listen to Harry, Ford would be out of business without the auto bailout (GM and Chrysler took that money) and Mitt Romney never paid taxes (Um except like the $2+ million he paid in 2011). I guess we should all pay a little more attention to what Harry says and does. After all, thanks to those gamblers in Nevada we have another four years of Harry’s intelligence!!

Ante Up,

Bill