My New Politically Incorrect Rant

In my new-found quest to remove the barriers created by the politically correct morons of our time, I am feeling a little chippy tonight and thought I would write a powerful and direct to the point rant. So I sat down and wrote this instead! I hope you enjoy it.

1.       When President Obama was first elected President he promised a transparent and open government the likes we have all wanted and not seen in this country; however, his Royal Transparency has once again missed the date to submit his annual Budget to the congress. Nothing like missing a constitutionally mandated requirement four out of five years that he has been in office. But with all his transparency, it’s really not necessary to worry about the legalities of everything.

Did someone just here a drone fly by?

2.       President Obama also promised the most color blind, all inclusive cabinet in the history of the presidentdom (I just coined a new word). To be honest, he tried hard his first term. Of course George W. Bush holds the record for minority appointments closely followed by Bill Clinton. But Barack has made up for that shortfall by nominating all white men this time around.……… Hmmm, heartwarming!!

3.       The Coalition for American-Islamic Relations, CAIR for short, was eight ways of upset with the Coca-Cola television ad from the Super Bowl. Their spokesmen got on all manner of airwaves to say how upset Islamic folks were with the proliferation of the stereotype of Arabs riding Camels and such. Of course his complaints sound credible until you realize CAIR is an organization of like almost 400 people founded by three members of the Islamic Association of Palestine, who has had a hard time since being reportedly linked with other groups raising money for Hamas. You remember Hamas, that silly group trying to destroy Israel and all traces of Western Civilization. Personally, I thought the Vegas showgirls in the ad were awesome!!

4.       Warning for smokers, Under ObamaCare your health insurance is going to go up by 50% according to various insurance companies and the Government Accountability Office. Woo-Hoo, Now to get after those pesky drinkers!!

5.       So let me get this straight. Most illegal aliens come to America because they are looking for a better life and don’t trust government – RIGHT! So as part of the “Pathway” to citizenship proposed by the President and Congress (aka the government), these same people have to turn themselves in, pay their back taxes plus a fine, and then get in the back of the immigration line. GEE, with their trust, or distrust of government I wonder how many of these folks will get past step number one – BRILLIANT!!

6.       Bouncy lip-synced the National Anthem at the Inauguration and sung at the Super Bowl. I could have cared less about her lip-syncing but after listening to her sing live at the Super Bowl, I think she should have lip-synced there too.

7.       Mr. Global-Warming himself, Al Gore has sold his liberal-spewing Current TV to the Al Jazeera, the network built by the oil-rich global warmers and used for terrorist propaganda proliferation! On the Bright side for old Al, now he has an estimated fortune in the neighborhood of $300 million; or about $70 million more than Mitt Romney – But who’s counting!!

Well that’s all for tonight. Have a nice sleep as you ponder my politically incorrect wisdom!!

Night Y’all,

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

Buy People homes or Saddle an Ant?

Sometimes we hear about the trips the President takes and how expensive they are, but rarely do we consider just how much the cost of those trips are actually worth to us. Well let’s just take a look at it in terms we can all understand.

 

 

Wednesday, President Obama packed up the whole show and flew out to Las Vegas to give a speech at a campaign-style rally filled with his supporters to outline his immigration policy. A policy that is nothing more than the same rhetoric-without-a-real-plan that he has been spewing out for the last five years. Once again, lots of talk but nothing tangible to put your hands on or to read with your eyes – JUST MORE TALK.

 

 

So let’s look at the money spent for the President’s Day in the Nevada Sun. On average it takes about three hours to and from Las Vegas from Washington D.C., counting the time on the ground. Now according to the white House’s own figures, the President traveling on Air Force on with his entourage costs approximately $1.2 million per hour. So for six hours of travel time, that will start the bill at $7.2 million.

 

 

Then there is the time and money spent on the event site and setup, overtime for the Las Vegas PD, feeding the entourage, and transportation on the ground. The figure I get for all that based on previous trips of the same sort is around $300 thousand. So for this day trip excursion, the trip’s prior security teamwork, and the other incidentals involved the total cost come to about $8 million dollars on the low side.

 

 

So in the end, for a speech he could have given outside his office in the Rose Garden, he traveled to La Vegas and wasted $8 million to regurgitate the same old rhetoric that gave us absolutely nothing of any substance.

 

 

So let’s see what the $8 million could do for you.

 

 

First of all, $8 million dollars is nearly 80% of the yearly budget of Milam County where I live. But in terms most of us can understand let’s look at what you can buy. If you are interested in cars, you could buy about 6300 first class round trip airfares from Washington DC to Las Vegas, 150 Ford F-150 Raptors, 65 Corvette ZR1s, and about eighty 2,000 sq ft houses.

 

 

Next week he’s going to make another day trip, this time to Wisconsin or Michigan (I lose track with this guy). He’s going to give yet another speech on jobs (like we haven’t heard that one before), which is ironic since his little attended Jobs Council expired today. Maybe this time he could just walk out his office door and meet the press in the Rose Garden to give his speech. Then he take the money he will be saving not taking this trip and send it to Wisconsin or Michigan, where I am sure those folks can make much better use of it than he is.

 

 

Now yes I know all Presidents make trips away from DC, that’s part of the job. But in my life I can’t remember a President taking more trips just to stage yet another outlandish speech of limited substance merely for the purpose of sparking some excitement into his lemmings while framing a picture for his worshippers to slobber over giving him another event with which he can stroke his own ego.

 

 

I don’t know…..maybe more could get done in Washington DC if the President stayed put, maybe he could hold more constructive meetings with the leaders of congress, and maybe he could make better use of his time there rather than gallivanting around the country in search of the perfect audience for his limitless rhetoric which, if it was measured in leather, couldn’t saddle an ant!

 

 

But you get the idea, each trip could buy 80 families a new home, but instead of being responsible with the people’s money, he’ll take a trip to Las Vegas. Maybe next time he’ll take Senator Bob Menendez with him for a good time. Remember, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas!!

 

 

Viva Las Vegas!!

Bill

Context on the Use of Quotes Please…why DEMOCRATS Hate the Truth!!

In the last month or so since the tragedy in Newtown, Ct., I have seen a quote from President Eisenhower posted all over the web by those who like to call themselves Liberals, Progressives, and/or Democrats ( I think I got all the polite ones in there anyway). But let’s take a closer look at this and the hypocrisy of using this statement out of context.

On September 23, 1957, President Eisenhower gave a speech which included the following Quote that has suddenly become an out-of-context masterpiece used by the Left for their ridiculous attempt to place new limits on the 2^nd amendment.

 

Here’s the story of where this statement comes from.

In 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Brown v. Board of Education and declared laws establishing school segregation to be unconstitutional. So the school board of Little Rock, Arkansas, working along with local NAACP, labored to come up with a plan to peacefully organize the implementation of integrating the schools starting with Little Rock Central High School. As part of that plan nine black students were selected for the initial class by the local NAACP based on their outstanding academic and attendance records.

The nine students, who became known as the “Little Rock Nine” were admitted to start school and scheduled to start in September of 1957. On September 4, 1957, the students attempted to enter the school but were met by troops of the Arkansas National Guard sent out to stop the students by Governor Orval Faubus, a DEMOCRAT.

Over the next few weeks the Little Rock School Board, the NAACP, and Republican President Dwight Eisenhower tried in vain to reason with the Governor and the DEMOCRAT-controlled Legislature of Arkansas; but there was no reasoning with these bigots. On September 24, 1957, as a result of Faubus’s insolence and at the request of the Mayor of Little Rock, the President was forced to mobilize the 101^st Airborne to escort the Little Rock Nine to school and also to federalize the entire Arkansas National Guard in order to take them out of the control of the DEMOCRATS in Arkansas.

On the afternoon of September 23, 1957, President Eisenhower met with Governor Faubus to try and talk some sense with the Governor in hopes of averting the situation; however, that attempt failed. As a result, President Eisenhower preceded his difficult decision with a public statement explaining why these highly unusual actions would have to be taken to enforce the Supreme Court’s Decision and protect the Civil Rights of these nine students from being threatened by bigoted DEMOCRATS.  And as part of the statement and by way of a warning to other states and other DEMOCRATS contemplating the same action; the President used the above referenced quote as a sort of warning about the stupidity of not following the anti-segregation decision of the Supreme Court.

Of course there is so much more to this and the entirety of the Civil Rights issues. The DEMOCRATS take so much credit for Lyndon Johnson’s signature on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but the southern DEMOCRATS never speak of the obstructions caused by their actions throughout the civil rights process. LBJ is given credit for signing acts that are effectively the same pieces of legislation he helped blocked as the Senate Majority Leader in the 1950’s. But let’s not muddy up the water with facts, after all, they just get in the DEMCORATS way!!

Whenever you’re ready!!

Bill

The Gun Debate.....OVER.

SOOOOOO Let's get this straight!!!

A person steals guns,(WHICH IS AGAINST THE LAW),
shoots and kills his own mother (WHICH IS AGAINST THE LAW),
transports these guns loaded (WHICH IS AGAINST THE LAW),
brings guns onto school property (WHICH IS AGAINST THE LAW),
breaks into the school (WHICH IS AGAINST THE LAW),
discharges the weapons within city limits (WHICH IS AGAINST THE LAW),
murders 26 people (WHICH IS AGAINST THE LAW),
and commits suicide (WHICH IS AGAINST THE LAW).

And there are people in this country that somehow think passing ANOTHER LAW banning guns would protect us from someone like this. If you haven't noticed, people like this are not concerned about breaking laws - they only care about fulfilling their own twisted agenda.

The only people that a gun ban law would impact are the LAW ABIDING CITIZENS.

If you agree with this, feel free to share it!!

I did.

If not, read it again and see if it does not make a wee bit of sense.

Benghazi Hearings Rant – The Reality of the Situation.

So I’ve only discussed this a little bit, but after today’s performance from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, I feel like making a little rant to get some things off my chest. First of all I think I speak for most people when I say that I am very tired of the overuse of the phrase, “with all due respect.”

When I was in the Navy we were always taught to have respect for our seniors and not to disagree with them in public unless we first use the phrase, “with all due respect.” So using that phrase is equivalent to a lady in the south starting a comment about another person with the phrase, “Bless her/his little heart.”

Today I must have heard that phrase about a million times and in this overly-charged, politically-correct world that we live in I think it’s time for us to remove some of that political correctness and just lay it out as it really is. So here we go!!

The Benghazi debacle is the biggest bunch of SNAFU that I have seen since the stained dress, or Iran-Contra, or Watergate, or Scooter Libby, or the….well hell, I can’t go into them all, but safe it to say this is a mess and the real truth is pretty well been figured out but no one wants to just come out and admit to it all.

Today we had congressmen questioning the Secretary of State. Each of them got a whopping five minutes of time to question her and except for Secretary Clinton; NOONE was prepared for the day’s events. Between the grandstanding by the congressmen and the evasive avoidance of answering a question once posed, nothing was accomplished except a lot of cross talk and that smelly stuff you try not to step in while in a stable.

Now I am not going to get into too many details as I do not want to bore anyone and I am not writing a book, which I could with this mess. But I will touch on the main points and the ridiculousness of this all. First let’s go with the part that bothers me the most. Libya one of the hotbeds of foreign troubles then and now should have been one of the priorities of the foreign service; however, the new embassy in Tripoli and the consulate in Benghazi had less security as far as physical barriers and security personnel than those in England and France – HUH.

Just seems like this a war zone and the countless requests for more security from the personnel on the ground in Libya it would appear logical for more security to be provided here.  But apparently, due to the small number of personnel assigned to the embassy staff in Libya, more security was not authorized. Apparently the size of the staff and not the security of the country is the deciding factor involved with determining the size of the security detail assigned.

Of course the four State Department individuals responsible for this lack of common sense were later suspended from service as a publicity stunt with a Friday afternoon press release; however, they were later reassigned to other departments in the state department. So apparently their ineptness that resulted in the death of four people, including the U.S. Ambassador, was not enough to warrant their permanent removal from the service – AMAZING!!

Then let’s look at the talking points that were designed to deal with the immediate fallout associated with this horrible event.  Within 24 hours most everyone on the planet with even a modicum of intelligence knew this was a terrorist attack. But the Obama Administration’s story that this was a demonstration that got out of hand was the story that the administration went forward with for two weeks because they either thought no one would find out the truth, or that as a populace us Americans were just gullible enough to accept this ridiculous explanation.

Today Secretary Clinton tried to walk that back and say that she and the President both called it a specific act of terrorism right from the beginning. But other than speaking in generalities about the evil of terrorism n general, neither of them called it terrorism and both taped Public Service Announcements (or commercials) that played on Arab television apologizing for the video they continued to blame for the incident. Meanwhile four American families are burying their murdered loved ones back here in the states.

They believed that us American suckers would buy this whole story hook, line, and sinker. They even rolled out U.N. Ambassador (and former Secretary of State hopeful) Susan Rice to go on the Sunday morning new show circuit and recite this finely crafted lie in hopes that Americans would buy this poisoned bill of goods; and guess what, far too many of the voters did.

But now we know the truth, Rice was unleashed with a set of talking points designed to blame the deaths of these fine men on a video and not disclose the inadequate capabilities of the Secretary of State, her staff, the intelligence community at large, and even the President himself. Today Clinton said she was not there when these talking points were developed but that is a point of discussion also since there are currently five differing lists of who were in those meetings and she is on two of them. Which begs another questions, if there was a group meeting to determine what had happened and she was in Washington then why wasn’t she in that meeting?

Today, a rattled Hillary Clinton made the screaming statement that it did not matter if it was an organized attack or a group of individuals who decided to kill some Americans. Well I beg to differ when you reason in the fact that just a few days ago American intelligence and the Foreign Service missed the very organized attack on the petroleum production site in Algeria. An organized attack that utilized many weapons that will probably be traced back to the Libyans rebels we aided.

It would be interesting to find out how many of the weapons used in Algeria actually came from Libya. Of course we would have to be able to trace those weapons and since the current administration can’t even trace the weapons they allowed to be illegally sold and smuggled into Mexico, well I guess we’re not going to get anywhere with that investigation either. See how far the ineptness goes when there is a leadership vacuum at the top.

Today Secretary Clinton said that serving overseas in the Foreign Service was inherently dangerous and those who served knew that when they signed on. But I am sure they figured they would be given the resources to do their jobs with at least a minimum of security requirements. When I was in the Navy and we were overseas I always knew that many times we would be in a dangerous situation; you kind of take that for granted. But whether the President was Reagan, Bush, Clinton, or Bush again; I never felt like we were inadequately provided at least that minimal amount of security.

Then there is the argument that Hillary Clinton made trying to lessen the importance of the State Departments incompetence. She tried to rationalize their deaths by saying that they knew their job was hazardous and that their acceptance of that knowledge essentially excused the State Department for the incompetence that cost them their lives; as ludicrous and asinine as that sounds that is precisely why she made that statement.

Later, Secretary Clinton, with the help of several liberal congressmen, went on to attack congress for a failure to fund the state Department with enough funds to provide the proper security in Libya. But the truth is the Military made an offer to augment the Libyan embassy security staff and that offer was rejected by State Department personnel. You know, those folks who were suspended on a Friday and working in another department with the month – BRILLIANT!!

Maybe if the State Department would have saved some money on Secretary Clinton’s travel, or if the Obama Administration had not funded those thoroughbreds like Solyndra, they might have been able to afford the additional security.

Well that is not the end of it, but that is all I am going to write about this evening. I feel like that is enough to ingest this evening. In the future I intend to praise the positive and hammer the negative that occurs in Washington, Austin, and for me, right here in Milam County, Texas.

With All Due Respect…Goodnight!!

Bill

End of the Week Notes!

Okay, so this is sort of a rant but since I put out a rant earlier this week as well as one on my Sports Blog (Buffalo Bill’s End Zone), I figure I would title this blog a little differently. So without further adieu, here we go.

1.       Well today is payday. Did you notice your paychecks might have gone down a little because of higher payroll taxes? But don’t worry; the fiscal cliff bill only raised taxes on the rich!!! RIGHT!!

2.       All Gore has made some moves in the last few weeks and guess what; he is now worth more than even that Fat Cat Mitt Romney!! That’s right; Al is now worth about $80 million more than old Mitt. Of course Mitt made his money in the business world and Al made all of his via nepotism, selling his cable network to Arab propagandists (Al Jazeera), and by scaring the hell out of everyone with his global warming movie filled with misdirection and scientific falsities. GOOD JOB AL!!

3.       Former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson is in North Korea this week to work on getting an imprisoned American released from a North Korean Prison. So how does the Obama Regime address it? By attacking Richardson’s efforts by saying it’s not an approved visit. Of course the Obama regime couldn’t even secure the release of an illegally imprisoned American veteran having to rely on some conservative media members and a couple of congressmen to make this happen. Maybe the Obamaites should look at Richardson for Secretary of State and not Lurch….un, I mean John Kerry.

4.       West Virginia Senator Jay Rockefeller announced this week that he will not run for re-election this next year – AMAZING!! This is one of the problems with the federal government. Our founding fathers intended for those serving in government to be citizen servants and not lifelong politicians. Rockefeller is the model for career politician and is what all Americans should be hesitant to allow. After 509 years, with no real improvements to show for it other than defending public television (his wife’s employer) he is the picture perfect example of that which we should all strive to replace in Washington.

5.       The President met with the Afghan President and suggested that the peace talks with the Taliban are positive and the Taliban’s plan is a good start –WHAT? This is the same group the allowed Al Qaeda to flourish, ruled the Afghan people with a repressiveness we have not seen since Stalin’s Soviet Union or Mao’s China, and most importantly for women’s rights advocates, a group that repressed women’s rights beck to the Stone Age. But of course this is from a President who has spent the last week appointing his men’s club members to cabinet positions rather than the best qualified, maybe he needs Mitt’s binders full of women?

Well that’s the short and serious of it all….Kind of!!

Later,
Bill