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Can You Imagine If John McCain...

Drudge is reporting this morning that three reporters from three large newspapers were thrown off of O-Force One.  These newspapers endorsed John McCain.  Reporters from the Dallas Morning News, The New York Post and the Washing Times  had their boarding passes revoked in favor of more sycophantic "journalists" (if that's what we call propaganda apparatchics these days).  Can you imagine John McCain doing similar?  (Ok, he threw Maureen Dowd off the plane, but it's not like anyone other than her takes her seriously.)

They found Obama's Aunt Zeituni living in public housing in Boston and a half brother living in a hut in Kenya.  Both are poor.  Can you imagine if they found a relative of McCain's living in poverty?

It's a matter of record that Obama has had more than a casual relationship with the Communist terrorist William Ayers.  Can you imagine if McCain had any kind of relationship at all with Timothy McVeigh?

Can you imagine?

I can't either.

VW

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A Non-Military National Security Force?

It's funny how things go unnoticed in a campaign - or not because the Press will bury any negative Obama information.  LGF posted this last night and I decided to run it down and try and figure out what Obama meant when he said this gem.

Fom Little Green Footballs:

“We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set,” he said Wednesday. “We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded.”

Given that the Defense budget is a little over 500 Billion, it gave me pause to think that he is advocating creating some kind of civilian armed force or perhaps some kind of KGB apparatus.  So I decided to run down the source and see it in context.  On the face, it sounds pretty scary and it actually is scary when you put it into context.  I don't think he means some kind of armed force (at least not yet). 

One of the bloggers at the Volokh Conspiracy who originally posted about this back last July also posted a YouTube of Obama talking about this concept.

As Jim Lindgren notes, the relevant part starts about 16 minutes in.  He writes:

So I think it’s incorrect to think that Obama is proposing some new paramilitary organization or is just referring to the FBI or the CIA.

B. Comments on Obama's Proposal

The part of Obama’s comment that may be a genuine cause for concern is his statement that this civilian force has to be “just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded” as our military.

1. First, Obama is suggesting a fundamental restructuring of our national government with civilian service organizations becoming roughly as important and as expensive as our military. He is proposing to carve another large slice out of the private sector and assign it to the government.

I think Mr. Lindgren nails it.  He not talking about putting people in tanks to patrol the streets, but what he is talking about doing is essentially nationalizing the concept of ACORN.  He wants to make "community organizing" as much a part of the government as the military.

Essentially, it's the equivalent of an Obama Youth movement.  Forcing people into community service in order to graduate is (in essence) involuntary servitude.

And what about Obama's promise to curb spending.  Lindgren's analysis says this:

So – if Obama means what he says – his civilian national security corps would cost at least another $100 billion a year, and perhaps as much as $500 billion a year. With total federal income taxes of $935 billion in 2005, Obama's proposal would mean using up to half of all federal income tax revenues just to fund his promise “to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded” as the military.

In other words, where is he going to get the money to fund the rest of the nation budget.

Change?  Clearly to a Socialist state.  Hope?  Abandon all ye who enter into Socialism.

Just another reason whyyou shouldn't vote for Obama.

VW

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An Open Letter To All Politicians

Note:  A version of this was sent to my Congress and State Reps and Senators.  They are all Democrats so I'm sure it will be ignored.

Dear [Politicians at Every Level]:

I'm a regular guy with a regular house payment, a regular car payment, a regular credit card payment and a regular set of utility bills.  I got kids and grandkids, one dog and two cats.  I got a regular job with a regular company.  I got a couple of regular hobbies and I like to do the kinds of things most law abiding regular guys like to do.  In short, I'm just another regular working stiff.  I ain't overly poor, but I sure as hell ain't rich and most of the time, because of government at all levels, this regular guy feels way over regulated and taxed!

I read this morning news and I feel broker than when I started my day.  I'm wondering when it will end.  Will it be when it all comes crashing around us or will it end when regular guys like me have had enough and start storming the Bastille? No, I'm not for armed revolt, but something has to give!

What I have to say has been said a billion times by millions of regular guys like me and even by most of you politicians.  No one seems to care.  A few are ringing the warning bells, but no one is listening!!!

New York says the have a 47 Billion dollar deficit!  California says theirs is running at 18 Billion, Michigan's a mere Billion or so, and here in Washington, we are looking at almost  4 billion dollars.  That's a lot of money for a regular guy like me to deal with!

Doing some rough calculations, I'm in the hole for about $650 for WA. That puts my family's share at about $3250.  It's better than New York State.  The average New Yorker's share of their state's deficit is about $2350.00!  For a family of five, that's about almost $12,000.00!  This is, of course, over and above the taxes we already pay!

All that and I won't even attempt to tackle how much I'm on the hook for the federal deficit!  Math is not my strong suit.

What are you people doing?  You promise responsibility but deliver arrogance.  You promise fixes, but your repairs are even worse than the problem.  It's like taking my car to a mechanic for a flat tire and he not only ignores the tire, but changes my perfectly good engine for an even bigger one that doesn't even work.  He then hands me a bill I have no hope of paying and arrogantly explains how he made it all better for me!  You are that mechanic!

All you care about is keeping yourself in power and all of those lovely perquisites that go along with it.  I can understand job security.  We all want it, but you are as bad or worse then corporate bigwigs you say you are trying to rein in.

I plan to vote for no incumbent this year.  I will work  to convince others of that in time for the next election.  I may not be successful, but anything is better than watching my hard earned dollars be wasted day after day.

I want you to stop spreading the wealth!  I want you to spend my money wisely as if it was your own.  I want you to stop spending money as if there was no end because there is an end!

I want you to be responsible!

[VW]

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Redristributing Health Care

Dakong Utok of Two Digit IQ discovered a blog run by an ER doc down in Texas.  It's called Scalpel or Sword.

The good doctor decided he'd start patterning his practice to be like Obama's economic plan.

It seems that the sickest 5% of patients are taking up entirely too much of my time, so I'm going to stop giving so much attention to those with heart attacks and strokes. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind them with chronic back pain or poison ivy, that they've got a chance too. They shouldn't have to wait longer to be seen just because they were triaged to a lower acuity level. My attitude is that if the ER is good for folks from the bottom up, it's gonna be good for everybody.

Go read the whole thing.  You'll come away with a different view of redistribution!

VW

Nuclear Powered Aircraft?

I read a lot of news and when I see a story concerning airplanes, I usually take a look.  Airplanes fascinate me and I never tire of seeing them take off, land or just parked out on the ramp.  When I saw the headline on the Times online:

Nuclear-powered passenger aircraft 'to transport millions' says expert

I just had to check it out.

Nuclear-powered aircraft may sound like a concept from Thunderbirds, but they will be transporting millions of passengers around the world later this century, the leader of a Government-funded project to reduce environmental damage from aviation believes.

The consolation of sitting a few yards from a nuclear reactor will be non-stop flights from London to Australia or New Zealand, because the aircraft will no longer need to land to refuel. The flights will also produce no carbon emissions and therefore make no contribution to global warming.

Except for that radiation thing when it crashes - but don't worry, it'll only be a few square miles.  Do you have any idea how many people live and work within a few square miles of most airports where most crashes happen?  Lots.

I don't know.  Maybe in the next 40 years technology will advance toward that kind of thing and it will indeed be safe.

However, as one commenter to the story, Glenn from Maidstone, UK, put it:

Possibly the most stupid idea ever to be justified with the words "climate change".

I agree with Glenn.

VW

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Obama Wants Me To Take Election Day Off

Dear Senator Obama,

My question to you, sir, is:

Are you gonna pay me?

Just askin'

(I probably need to be careful because we all know what happened to Joe the Plumber when he asked a question!)

VW

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It Wasn't A Credible Threat To Obama

It was all over the news yesterday, two "white supremacists" were caught in a plot to kill Obama.

Now, I have no doubt these two little meatheads are capable of killing people.   I have no doubt they meant what they said.  I also have no doubt that if they hadn't been caught, they would have killed more than a few people.  But did they pose any serious threat to Obama, I doubt it.  I'm glad they got them before they could hurt anyone.

They were young and at least one of them didn't finish high school.  Neither are probably smart enough to plan their own birthday party, let alone a sophisticated crime spree that would end with them assassinating a Presidential Candidate.

These two scumbags presumably met over the Internet.  They probably hatched this "plot" over sever several sessions in which way too much Budweiser was consumed.  Their     plans probably got more grandiose the more they drank.  In redneck parlance, they let their alligator mouths override their lizard asses.

Like I said, fortunately, these to little bottom suckers are behind bars.  While some ordinary people might have been at risk because of these guys, Obama was not.  Stop the shrieking about it.

The bad part about this is that once they throw these two steaming piles into prison, you know who they are going to hang with inside the pen.  It's only going to make them worse, however, prison is where they belong.

At some point, I expect that their lives will end while uttering the famous last words of a redneck:  "Hey y'all!  Watch this!"

VW

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Goodbye America

It's been nice.  Your run is just about over.  Everyone says it was grand and indeed it quite wonderful.  In just a few short years (in relation to world history) we were born and grew up to be quite big and strong.  Now, however, we are in decline and the death throws to the American dream are now in process.

The promise of the American Dream has always been that if you work hard and apply yourself, you could be successful.  It was rumored in the old countries long ago that our streets were paved with gold and wine sprung from our fountains.  That might have been a stretch, but success was there for all who would work for it. 

Now, we are about to chuck all of that to the dustbin of history and head down the path of losing our individuality, our rights and eventually, end up in mediocrity.  We are headed for Socialism in a big way.

Obama is an avowed Socialist and he might have a bullet proof Congress behind them.

This is what you are electing people.  Socialism is not American and it runs counter to the whole idea of what it means to be an American.

The American Dream is not built upon taking away from those who achieve it in order to give it to others.  When we speak of equality, it's always been with the understanding that it was in the context of opportunity. Equality in Barack Obama's America means that economically, we are equal.  Never mind that this idea has never worked, Obama thinks it will here. 

Goodbye America, land of opportunity.  Hello brave new world socialist order.

VW

Hot Water

I'm not feeling particularly political at the moment, so I thought I regale you with a story from my lurid past.  This dates back to November of 1972 when I was a young Airman First Class (E-3) stationed at Kunsan AB, South Korea.
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The November of 1972 at Kunsan AB was cold.  Really cold.  In the first week of that cold month, the water heater in our barracks went out.  It was duly reported to the Barracks manager and the First Sergeant.  Most of us trekked the half-mile to the base gym to take a shower because the prospect of showering in ice cold water had as much appeal as snuggling up to an ice block. 

After a week of this, we checked again and found that it had been reported to the proper authorities in the Civil Engineer (CE) Squadron whose job was to maintain base buildings and infrastructure.  There was, however, no record of anyone coming out to investigate the building's hot water malfunction.

Another week passed and we were getting tired of cold showers or hiking to the gym.  Several of us were sitting around having a few beers and talking about the shower situation.  We weren't intoxicated, it wasn't one of those sessions.  It was common for us on a week night to sit around and relax with a beer or two and BS for a few hours. 

Anyway, as we sat and talked, it seemed like the madder we got about our lack of hot water.  We reasoned that if similar happened to the Base/Wing/ Civil Engineers Commander, the situation would be addressed immediately.  Why should we be treated any different?

Somebody suggested we start calling people in our chain of command and the more we discussed the more reasonable such an action seemed.  So we adjourned to the day room (common room) at about 8 PM where a phone was located.  I don't remember who did the dialing and talking, but several of us were gathered in that room.  First, we called the CE call in desk and asked for status of our hot water.  We figured we give them a fair chance before we started calling in the big guns.  They said it was scheduled to be looked at next week.  It was now two weeks with no hot water and it would be at least another week before anyone would be out to look at it.  We were not amused.

We decided to address the situation up the chain of command.  We called our First Sergeant's room phone and there was no answer.  We expected this.  He was an alcoholic and was either dead drunk, passed out or at the NCO Club well on his way towards one of those two states of existence.  So we called our Squadron Commander.  No answer.  Hmmmmm...next in line would be the Wing Inspector General - the Vice-Wing Commander.  We called the wing commander's home phone and again, no answer. We even tried the CE commander's quarters with the same results.  What we didn't know, is that the officers were at the Officer's Club for some important (to them) function.  Had we known this, we probably would have called over there. 

Since we couldn't find anyone to complain to on base, someone got the brilliant idea to call Osan AB to a guy whose first name began with General.  Brigadier General Travis R. McNeil   was the Commander of the 314th Air Division and Our Wing Commander's Commander. 

We had a base phone book for Osan, but the only number we could find for General McNeil was the command post.  We dialed.  "No guts - no glory!", as we used to say.  I might mention that this was now about 9:30 PM and several beers later so I'm sure we were fortified with a bit of Liquid Courage.

Some Jeep ("Jeep" in USAF parlance means someone who is really new and inexperienced) 2nd Lieutenant answered as I recall and dutifully recorded our complaint and promised to let General McNeil know about our plight.  We thanked him and hung up.  Yeah right, maybe he'd get the message sometime next year - if at all.  We were somewhat disheartened because aside from some Airman manning the CE call desk and some wet-behind-the-ears, butter bar second lieutenant, we'd essentially reached a dead end for the night.  We opened another beer and sat around cussing out the 3rd Tactical Fighter Wing, The 314th Air Division, Pacific Air Forces and the USAF as a whole for their whole lack of caring whether a few airmen in an old decrepit barracks had a hot shower.

About 15 or 20 minutes after we'd hung up the phone, it  rang and to our surprise, it was 2nd Lt. Jeep!  He had a message for us from General McNeil.  He told us that we would have hot water in our barracks by 0500 the next morning or he would have a report on his desk the next day explaining why.  General McNeil happened to be in the command post when we called!  After we picked ourselves up off the floor, the phone rang again.  It was the CE Squadron Commander.  Lt. Colonel CE was very apologetic and said his on-call guys would be there as soon as they could get their tools into a truck. 

Fifteen minutes later, the maintenance guys arrived and troubleshot our water heater.  They determined it needed new elements and they would order them as soon as they got back to their shop.  They said it would likely take at least a week or more to get them from the states.

Those elements were installed in three days.  I don't know where they got them. We heard Gen. McNeil expedited them.  Whatever the case, we had hot water. 

We, of course, braced ourselves for the inevitable "hot water" of local retribution that would most like follow our quest for hot water that night.

Oddly, it never came. We never heard a word.

VW

Only Liberals Riot

The other day, THE HILL had a headline that read "Police prepare for unrest".  The author, Alexander Bolton, did some checking and found out that police departments in some  large cities are preparing for riots.

Police departments in cities across the country are beefing up their ranks for Election Day, preparing for possible civil unrest and riots after the historic presidential contest.

Public safety officials said in interviews with The Hill that the election, which will end with either the nation’s first black president or its first female vice president, demanded a stronger police presence.

Some worry that if Barack Obama loses and there is suspicion of foul play in the election, violence could ensue in cities with large black populations. Others based the need for enhanced patrols on past riots in urban areas (following professional sports events) and also on Internet rumors.

In other words, if Obama loses, there will be riots and if he wins, there will be riots.

If he loses, cities will burn because of some sort of perceived right wing plot and the violence will be fueled and abetted by every nitwit, left-wing mouthpiece from MSNBC to the fever swamp that is The DailyKos.  It doesn't matter that the electoral process in those cities is controlled and counted by Democrats.  That fact gets quickly forgotten.  It doesn't matter that there have been no evidence of organized and intentional voter registration fraud by some kind Republican ACORNesque group.  Never mind that it was the Obama campaign that gave $832,000 to Acorn and not McCain Palin.  Voter fraud will somehow be blamed on the Republicans and third world tactics of violence and intimidation will be exacted upon Republican offices, businesses and anyone who publicly supported McCain. I predict it will last several days and be particularly violent

If Obama wins, it will be violent, but probably not as much or as prolonged.  We'll probably see one or two days and nights of celebratory anarchy comparable to a city whose football team wins the Superbowl. 

In either case it will not be Republicans and Conservatives who will be fanning the flames of retribution or celebrating their win by burning your house and overturning your car.  It will be liberals and Democrats.

Who are the grownups?

VW