Priorities, Mr. President

All over the blogosphere conservatives and even some lefties are criticizing the president for his upcoming trip to Denmark to help bring the 2016 Olympics to Chicago.

Expressions of outrage are many, expressions of support are many, too. At any other time, I'd say "OK, it's not THAT big a deal. The man is constantly on TV anyhow, I guess this is just another photo op for the cronies."

But for this man, who has claimed that the health care bill MUST be passed NOW because of the dire need for the program for the little guy, to take time out of his schedule for something so ... partisan ... is really kind of disgusting.

The people are reeling right now. They were just informed that not only does Iran in fact have a secret nuke site, but that the president and world leaders have known about it for some time and have yet to do a thing about it. The people have had ACORN's true nature thrown in their faces in a manner in which NO ONE can any longer ignore.

The president has been caught out on a myriad of lies, the least of which is the fact that in the health care legislation he and Congress have been trying to shove down our throats, there is provision for not only taxes and other penalties, but jail time for those who do not knuckle under.

And in the midst of all this, men and women in uniform still fight and die both in Iraq and Afghanistan and yet this president has only spoken to the commander of the fight once in 70 days.

It sounds to me like the president has been enjoying his little trips here and there, his TV appearances and little "atta boy" town hall "meetings" instead of doing what he was elected to do.

Please, Mr. President. Could you stop working to get more fame and pats on the back and get back to doing your job? You won the campaign, you don't need to glad hand any more. We need you to do what you claimed you were ready to do: We need you to run the frigging country and protect the people.

Or is this too difficult for you? After all, we tried to tell you the White House isn't a good spot for on the job training. Do you think maybe you're in over your head a little bit? I sure do.

I hope like hell your lack of experience doesn't net this country a few more thousand deaths.

But I guess you and your buddies in Chicago can look at it this way, at least you looked like a big shot on the world stage.

Sorry for the delay, worrisome developments

Hey all, please forgive the lack of posting recently. Between the anniversary of my mother's death, some new health problems and other things going on, I just didn't find the time to post. I will attempt to do better in future. 'Nuff said on that, let's get down to it.

I'm noticing a disturbing trend in "conservative" circles and I feel the need to address it now, before it becomes more than a trend and gets foisted on us all as policy.

Anyone who paid attention to the primary races in 2008 and the campaigning in 2007 should know by now that former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee is NOT the candidate conservatives need in 2012.

Recently, as I listen and read chatter by so-called conservatives and republicans, I'm seeing a lot of discussion about how great Huckabee is and how he's setting up to be THE candidate in 2012. Sorry folks. The man to pull this party outta the shitter, Huckabee AIN'T.

Look. The reason we got stuck with John McCain was this ridiculous notion that conservatives need to be LESS conservative to convince independents to join our cause. The last nine months should have shown us all that LESS conservatism is the last thing this party needs.

Huckabee is wrong on many issues and is, in my opinion, as big a RINO as McCain ever was.

The people of this country are not rising up to protest at tea parties, rallies and town halls because they feel the U.S. is being pushed to the right. The people are angry because BO Boy and the Chicago Thug Crew are shoving this country so far left we're going to play hell straightening things out for decades.

The elections of 2010 and 2012 are setting up to be some of the most important elections in the history of this country. If America is to remain the United States of America and not some giant outpost of the European/Russian Union, conservatives MUST stand up and put forth candidates that stand with freedom, independence and strength.

We CANNOT put forth candidates who are worried about reaching across the aisle, making friends and appeasing our enemies so they won't hate us anymore.

The only candidates who will be successful are those who are willing to tell it like it is, whether it pisses off the liberals and/or offends BO Boy and the Chicago Thug Crew or not. The candidate who is going to be able to win against the liberal media and all those who will sling mud, lie, cheat and even steal to keep said candidate from winning is a candidate who is STRONG in his/her conservative beliefs.

Half-assed candidates will get us nothing. And while I'm sure Mr. Huckabee is a great guy with great intentions, he is NOT the man we need to win.

At this point, I'm not sure WHO we need to put forward. I've always been a Palin fan, but, to be honest, I'm just not sure she can overcome the vitriolic hatred/lies/jealousy from the right, much less the shit-slinging that's been lobbed at her from the left.

I beg my fellow conservatives from the bottom of my cranky old heart: STOP with the Huckabee cheerleading. Please do not saddle us with a lackluster candidate again. Let's focus on 2010 and get Congress back. Then let's take a look at who has the REAL conservative cojones to do the job.

2,996 Project: Edward Saiya

In the eight years since the 9/11 attacks, many in this country would have us forget just what was lost on that horrible day. The 2,996 Project has a different goal. The goal of this project is simple: to remember those who were lost. I wish I had a chance to know the man I write about today. He sounds like he was a truly great guy. But then I guess that's what made 9/11 such a tragedy. 2,996 people, who were great in one way or another, died that day.

As part of the 2,996 Project for 2009, I remember Edward Saiya.

Edward Saiya was 49 years old on that bright September morning in 2001. Working as a communications engineer for Genuity, he was on the 110th floor in World Trade Center 2 conducting a training session when American Airlines 11 was flown into the north tower.

According to a profile in the New York Times, Saiya called his brother to tell him about the crash, at that time believing it to be an accident. When his brother turned on the television, he was just in time to see United 175 fly into World Trade Center 2, the tower where Saiya was working.

The rest of the day's events are ones we all know. We've all seen the images, we've all wept over and over again, the tears never able to cleanse the pain from our souls. But we must never forget those who passed that day.

Edward Saiya will live on forever, in the memories of his family and friends. When there are comments available at the various websites on which Mr. Saiya is honored, it is clear he was very much loved. Friends post happy memories, loved ones post thanks for the time they were given with him. Even eight years after his death, what's clear is that Edward Saiya is still very much alive in the hearts of all who knew him. There are seven pages of comments at the Legacy.com guest book for this man. Please read them. They speak volumes.

http://www.legacy.com/gb2/default.aspx?bookID=147182

Mr. Saiya, we will NEVER forget you. Nor will we forget anyone who died September 11, 2001.

Please read on:

Published in the New York Times Dec. 23, 2001

Edward Saiya: Minor Fame, Major Fun

The Saiya brothers have a place among the countless lesser-known Brooklyn legends. Frank, Art, Mike and Eddie were known as the Fame Brothers of Dayhill Road, based on the first letters of their names.

The Saiyas were tough boys. They went to Catholic school and they liked their beer. They served in Vietnam. But they were not so tough that they could not say they loved each other. Mike Saiya died a few years ago of liver cancer. Eddie Saiya, 49, was a communications engineer who worked on the 110th floor of 2 World Trade Center.

"He called me that morning from the roof, calm as could be, and told me to turn on the TV," Frank Saiya said. "The first building had been hit. He thought it was an accident."

Edward Saiya had two children, Katherine, 16, and Shawn, 11. Their mother, who has Alzheimer's disease, sometime asks how Eddie is doing, Frank Saiya said. They tell her just fine.

Frank, 60, is the eldest Fame brother. He now lives in Topeka, Kan., and has 20 pounds of the trade center rubble in his home. "Maybe part of Eddie is in there," he said. He's got that and the memory of Eddie Saiya in 1969 chasing down two thieves who had stolen his car. "He wasn't wearing anything but his skivvies."

From the Topeka Capital Journal originally published September 13, 2002.

A brother's grief

By Vincent Brydon of The Capital-Journal

Topeka resident Frank Saiya, 61, is the last of the Brooklyn-born FAME (Frankie, Artie, Mike and Ed) brothers living in the United States.

Artie, 59, is retired and living in England, Michael died at age 51 from liver cancer three years ago and Edward, the baby, died one year ago on the 110th floor of the World Trade Center's South Tower when terrorists attacked the nation's Eastern Seaboard on Sept. 11, 2001.

Frank Saiya said the office where his brother worked for Genuity, a network service provider, was about six blocks away from the World Trade Center. According to Genuity officials, Edward Saiya was conducting a training session in the South Tower the morning of Sept. 11.

Edward Saiya, a Genuity employee of 20 years, was 49.

"We were getting ready to have a big blowout for his 50th birthday in November," Frank Saiya said.

Just before 8 a.m. on Sept. 11, Edward Saiya telephoned his oldest brother, who was still asleep in Topeka.

" 'Turn on your television. The World Trade Center's just been hit by a plane,' " Frank Saiya recalled his brother saying. "I turned on the TV just in time to see the second plane hit tower two, the one he was in."

Saiya discussed his family's loss in the Sept. 17, 2001, edition of The Topeka Capital-Journal. A year later, Saiya said sharing his story helped him deal with his grief.

"I remember when this first happened, I debated whether or not to make it public," he said. "But what I found out was that it helped a community put a face on something that seemed so surreal."

Linking Topeka to a tragedy that captivated the nation generated an enormous amount of appreciation, Saiya said, noting that Topekans showered him with countless telephone calls and letters of support.

"It let me know that I wasn't alone in my grief," Saiya said.

But the Saiya family continues to sort through the aftermath of Edward Saiya's death.

"I've made five trips to New York since Sept. 11 to try and take care of his affairs and see that his wishes, so far as his children are concerned, are carried out," Frank Saiya said.

Making sure his brother's children --- Kathrine, 16, and Shawn, 12 --- receive a good education and remain connected with the Saiya family was always chief among Edward Saiya's priorities, his brother said.

Fulfilling the latter of these wishes has posed the most trouble.

"We have not been able to spend any time with them since Ed's memorial last September," Frank Saiya said.

But Saiya said his healing progressed during his most recent trip to New York, less than two weeks ago, when he cleaned out his brother's Brooklyn apartment.

"There were mixed emotions there," he said. "There were reminders of my brother. But there was also some relief, that maybe I could go on with my life at this point, because I did everything I could to see that his wishes were carried out."

Moving on, not forgetting, is what Saiya said he is ready to do. But, even if he chose to forget, it would be impossible. He finds constant reminders of his brother everywhere, even in the most unexpected of places.

While in New York, he opened up a copy of The New York Vue --- a weekly TV guide published by The New York Daily News --- only to see Edward Saiya's image on page five. His brother's picture, along with pictures of other people missing in the World Trade Center attacks, is shown plastered on a wall outside Bellevue Hospital.

It is the same at home.

Copies of "One Nation: American Remembers September 11, 2001," a Life magazine publication with an introduction by former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, and "A Tribute," a book by acclaimed photographer Jay Maisel, lie on the coffee table in Saiya's Shawnee Heights home.

There is also Edward Saiya's martini glass in Frank Saiya's kitchen, a reminder of his brother's biannual trips to Topeka.

During Edward Saiya's last trip to Topeka in March 2001, the two brothers visited their mother, who lives in a Topeka nursing home, had drinks at The Scoreboard, a sports bar at S.E. 21st and California, and watched sports on television.

"He'd come here to visit and we had a blast," Frank Saiya said. "We always had a blast."

Saiya said the loss of his brother has heightened his appreciation for life.

"Like most Americans, it changed my outlook on life. We just don't know what life may bring us," he said. "I don't worry about the future any more. I think about the future, but I don't worry about it. I just want to enjoy life."

This is the type of attitude Edward Saiya would want Americans to adopt, his brother said.

Recalling that his brother served in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War, Saiya said, "Ed was a real American. He really loved this country."

"We're third-generation Americans of Italian descent: not Italian- Americans, we're American first, then Italian. If he were aware now of what has happened to this country (the terrorist attacks) it would break his heart. But he would rise up and face it."

It is for this reason, Saiya said, he supports the war on terrorism.

"The best way to honor those people is for us to stand up to this type of terrorism," he said. "You have to fight for peace and you have to be strong to maintain it."

Thank you for taking the time to read about Edward Saiya. On behalf of myself and my family I would like to thank the 2,996 Project for taking on the task of putting this event together. It is a very beautiful thing.

May God bless and keep the family of Mr. Edward Saiya and all those who died on 9/11. It is our duty to always remember them and all who have died as a result of terrorism around the world. Only by remembering their deaths can we remember just how dangerous our world is and how important it is for us to fight for freedom and safety around the world.

Another great idea from our new rulers

Question: What do you get when you take a corrupt group of Chicago politicians and combine then with unlimited power over the only remaining super power in the world?

Answer: A complete clusterfuck of Biblical proportions aka the world's newest dictator/king.

So, while the world mourns (ick) the passing of the last of the Kennedy clan's political wing, news comes today of the latest power grab by BO Boy and the Chicago Thugs:

"Bill would give president emergency control of Internet"
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10320096-38.html

Note this news comes from CNet, not Fox News therefore it should be difficult for libs to attribute it to right wing lunacy. Not that they won't or anything.

Basically, S 773, in the guise of "protecting the U.S. from cyberterrorism" gives the president the ability to seize "temporary" control of private networks should there be a cyber attack on the country.

Why is this disturbing? Well, considering BO Boy's chief of staff Rahm E. has been quoted in the past as saying it's best never to let a crisis go unused for political gain, this bill has repercussions which could wind up being pretty far-reaching.

Why I'm laughing is, when the Chinese ban certain websites to keep their people from getting outside news, the left howls about oppression and the like. Yet this bill does the EXACT thing they're bitching about!

This country is becoming a pretty scary frigging place. So far we've handed control of the financial sector over to the White House (after all, the president now has the power to hire and fire anyone he likes in the auto industry and is busily securing the same power in the health care industry) along with the power that goes along with the left's control of both houses of Congress and everything else political they can get their hands on.

As of this week, the White House took control of terrorist interrogation from the CIA and put it in the hands of a new "unit" which will answer only to the White House, removing any Congressional oversight from the process. In addition, the Department of Justice in the guise of Attorney General Eric Holder has decided that despite the fact that previous prosecutors and the like with no political axe to grind had decided against it, the DOJ needs a special prosecutor to look into the past interrogations by the CIA.

This is after AG Holder decided that even though blatant threats by members of the New Black Panther party toward voters on election day had been deemed illegal by others, in his sight nothing wrong had happened. Oh ... and don't forget old Bill Richardson here in New Mexico. He's been let off the hook via Holder's DOJ even though a grand jury and prosecutors in New Mexico were already working on the case.

So, let's look at the count boys and girls: The White House now controls terror interrogations, the auto industry, the judiciary, the banks and financial sector, the Congress and all of the other government entities they're actually entitled to control since they won and now they want to be able to seize control of the Internet when they feel its necessary.

Why don't we just declare BO Boy king and get it over with? That's what he wants and that's what the left wants to give him. After all, thanks to Pelosi, Republicans can't even send out emails when they want without the left denying them that right. And they sure as hell don't have any say whatsoever in any legislation that's brought up for a vote, despite claims to the contrary.

If you people cannot see just how dangerous it is to give one man this much power over this country, you're fucking insane.

Do you doubt it's a bad thing? Well, why don't you ask the people of Russia, Germany, Japan, Iran, Iraq, Venezuela, Honduras and the myriad of other countries in the world where tyrants either have ruled or have sought to rule how that worked out for them.

Is this the change you voted for? It sure as HELL is the change all of us TRIED to warn you about.

I just hope to hell you all wake up before it's too fucking late.

Things that make you go WTF?

So, the wave of grief over the passing of Sen. Ted Kennedy has washed over the country and while I attempted to speak respectfully yesterday, I feel that the unabashed glossing over of the partisan and, in at least one glaring incident, near traitorous behavior of this man should be addressed.

Despite the fact that the man was known to have some pretty severe character flaws, was involved in an accident following which he left a woman behind to die to cover his own ass, his decidedly uncivil behavior on the Senate floor during at least one confirmation hearing and his behind the back attempt to undermine a sitting president, the press and the left of this country has been behaving as if Sen. Kennedy were akin to a saint.

To hear tell, this senator was never uncivil. This is patently false. Despite the whining and crying over how mean Republicans were to Supreme Court nominee Sotomayor, Kennedy's comments about Bush 41 Supreme Court nominee Bork will live in infamy as some of the most uncivil, false attacks on a nominee ever made. Kennedy said Bork would preside over a country where: "women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists would be censored at the whim of government, and the doors of the federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is often the only protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy."

Does that sound "civil" to you? It sure as hell doesn't to me. But then I guess that sort of talk is something only liberals and democrats are allowed to put forth. Kind of like the eight years we spent with lynched Bush 43 effigies, signs about killing a sitting president, etc., that were just fine when it was liberals saying it. Yet today, you can't even disagree with BO Boy and hig Gang of Thugs without being called racist, Nazi, etc. Weird, huh?

But even this pales in comparison to Kennedy's attempts to undermine the presidency of Ronald Reagan.

Rush Limbaugh is set to do a big show on this issue, so I'm sure people will finally hear a little bit more about it than I can produce here. But suffice it to say, when the KGB files were opened after the USSR dissolved, evidence was discovered that Sen. Kennedy, through a friend who was visiting the Soviet Union, contacted the Andropov government to offer his help in undermining the Reagan administration.

The text is available in a book by Paul Kengor called The Crusader - Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism. But the meaning is very clear. Kennedy didn't agree with Reagan's actions and felt that it would be better to go behind the president's back and try to work with a foreign government rather than agree to disagree and attempt to fix things via legal channels back home.

Sound familiar? It should. BO Boy did much the same thing during what I call his "Legitimizing a Man Without a Lick of World Experience" tour before the 2008 election. While he visited Iraq in attempt to look presidential, BO Boy is alleged to have met with Iraqi leaders and asked them NOT to deal with the Bush administration regarding troop withdrawal. What makes this even more disgusting is that BO Boy hadn't even been ELECTED yet, and he was going behind the sitting president's back in an attempt to thwart U.S. negotiations.

Where I come from, boys and girls, this is not only disrespectful and wrong, it's treasonous behavior which should have been cause for the man to lose the election. Yet he won and now sits in the White House shoving everything he can think of to further his own power down American throats.

To add insult to injury, now we've got the left using the death of, let's face it, a man who did nothing but benefit from his family's wealth and standing, to shove this healthcare crap in our faces and down our collective throats. While Sen. Kennedy used his money to get himself the best healthcare he could afford, bypassing a system he says would be great for the rest of us, the left is making hay out of the situation, claiming the man's death shows just how bad the current system is. It makes no sense! Under the new plan, Kennedy would have been pushing up daisies last year when he was diagnosed. Instead, he used the current system to give himself several more months of life.

The hypocrisy of the left is truly mind boggling. Please, America. Wake the hell UP! Time is short, but the years it will take to fix the mess they're pushing us into will be loooooong. Stop them now.

RIP, Senator, May God have mercy on your soul

For a person of faith, situations like this can be difficult. Not because I don't believe in the forgiveness of God. Nope. I know God forgives. That's something that keeps me going every day.

But for many, many years, I've watched Sen. Edward Kennedy on the national stage, unrepentant, often smug, always obviously benefiting from the life to which he was born.

I was born in Okinawa to a U.S. Air Force airman and his young wife. We came back to my mother's family home in Texas not long after. Since I was a wee lass when the future senator from Massachusetts was involved in Chappaquiddick , I wasn't there watching the news and gathering knowledge for myself. That means I've been forced to learn about the incident from the memories of others.

As is common today, news accounts of this situation are relatively skewed in a manner which makes Kennedy appear a victim. As the years go by, investigations and deep looks into the incident show that may not have been the case. But the one stark reality is, the man, whether in fear or deliberate negligent behavior, left a young woman to die. There is no excuse for this.

But now that he has passed on to God's judgement, can Mary Jo's family forgive him? If they can, then I suppose, despite our disagreements with his political actions and other behaviors, so must we. Even if they cannot, we, as American Conservatives who have been dealt with so badly in situations like this by those on the left, MUST do as God does and offer our prayers for the man.

Therefore, let me be among the many who, today, say "Rest in peace, Senator. May God show you his infinite mercy and may you find eternal grace."

In your honor, Senator, I had hopes that those on the left would not use your passing as a crass way to gather steam for their own political uses. I had really hope BO Boy would not use this as another grand-stand moment. But I'm already beginning to see that I was wrong. What a shame.

Are these people really telling me they could not find SOMETHING in this man's life to discuss, remember, honor? Instead they had to make this thing all about the politics. Now that I think about, though, as others have said before me, THIS reaction is probably not a surprise at all. And it's most likely EXACTLY the action the Senator would have taken himself.

Get Ready Boys and Girls, Here it Comes...

I apologize in advance for the length of this post. This has been festerin' for a while, so I figured I'd make the inaugural rant a long one.

So, I'm readin' the news today and discover that our Dear Leader aka The One aka The Messiah aka BO Boy (I prefer the last, therefore that is what I shall call him. Don't like it, too frigging bad.) has taken it upon himself to create a "terrorism interrogation unit" answerable only to the White House.

Now, if I remember right, those on the left spent the years since 9/11 (Remember that one.. that time those terrorists attacked us and killed nearly 3,000 Americans.. I know that you do, despite the best efforts of the left and our utterly ethical media) going completely bugshit every time the Bush administration attempted to keep an eye on terrorist activity. "He's taking too much power!" they hollered. "How DARE he spy on Americans! How DARE he interrogate terror suspects in such a mean, EVIL manner!"

While the Attorney General appointed by BO Boy busily lays plans to prosecute Bush era CIA operatives who, just for the record, managed to glean information which kept this frigging country safe since 9/11, BO Boy himself creates a unit all his own to "interrogate" suspected terrorists. Huh. How times have changed.

This is just another example of the left and its never-ending two-faced view of the world.

During the Bush years, there was NOTHING the president could do that was right. Despite the fact that there have been NO OTHER attacks on this country, Bush was seen as evil because he made it clear to his government that terrorism was to be stopped, no matter the cost. If it meant that people with ties to questionable organizations or individuals over seas would have their phones tapped, then that's what would have to happen.

The New York Times outted that program with no concern for how badly it would hamstring anti-terror efforts because, they claimed, no administration should have the right to spy on the American people. Never mind that the program was NOT spying on just anyone. It was spying on those who clearly had ties where they shouldn't.

Now, I don't agree with the former president on a variety of subjects. I think amnesty sucks. I think he left us wide open for the unfettered spending we're seeing by BO Boy and his Gang of merry idiots by allowing Congress to spend like crazy during his terms.

But on this subject, I believe President Bush did a great job. He kept this country safe. And he took the War on Terror (I know, I know ... this term isn't used any more. Terrorism is nothing more than "man caused disaster.") TO the terrorists and kept it from our shores. No president can ever claim to have done more for his people on that score.

All of his efforts, however, have gone for naught. Because BO Boy and the Gang have not only decided that to fight back is wrong, they're busily making it impossible for this country to be safe. In fact, the ONLY folks this administration seems comfortable targeting are those who don't agree with whatever half-assed policies they determine are necessary for the "public good."

For those of you who are graduates of public schools, here is a little lesson of history:

Despite Madam Blathermouth Pelosi's assertions that Americans who oppose BO Boy's health care reform are "Nazis," the only folks in this country acting in a Nazi-like manner are those on the left. Don't get what I'm saying? Let me explain. You see, Hitler did not look like a monster to the German people. He looked like a guy who wanted to "change" things. He wanted to bring "hope" to the German people. It just so happens that he used hatred of the Jews to give the people that "hope." While I realize this is a very, VERY Cliff Notes look at how Hitler came to power and millions of Jews and others who disagreed with him came to die, I feel it gives some insight into how this country, right now, is headed down the same very slippery, dangerous slope upon which the German people found themselves.

Despite the fact that many of the ideas put forth by Hitler and his guys were blatantly socialist in nature, Hitler used the country's fear of communism and the fact that there were attempts at revolution in Germany led by Jewish communists to convince the people that, among other things, Jews were the cause of the people's trouble. By demonizing the Jews, Hitler managed to find a scapegoat upon which to blame every thing that had gone wrong for Germany. Instead of bringing all sides to the table, Hitler, like the dictator he was, used his charisma and presence to rid the country of anyone who disagreed with him. Those who came to meetings where he was speaking were removed forcibly. Once he gained office no one was allowed to disagree with anything he proposed.

Sound familiar? Despite the fact that the left absolutely LOVES to draw parallels between Nazis and anyone who disagrees with them, especially those with conservative beliefs, the truth of the matter is, the Nazis had much more in common with the left of this nation and its "Democrat" party. That's why it's become wrong to disagree with BO Boy on ANYTHING unless you want to be declared "racist" among other nasty little labels the left likes to apply.

It's frightening, depressing and downright disturbing how far we've gone down the road to tyranny in just a short time.

Never did I believe I would see an American president act in the manner that BO Boy has in the few months he's been in office. I was shocked when the man used his office to attack an American citizen by name simply for disagreeing with him as BO Boy did Rush Limbaugh. But that shock was NOTHING compared to the absolute amazement I felt when I heard that this administration was asking American citizens to rat each other out for "fishy" opinions on health care reform. And then came the town halls wherein BO Boy and his Gang found that people didn't agree with their plans. Instead of listening, these people decided that those who were protesting their "change" were Nazis, astroturfers, racists with no brains. These couldn't be real Americans, the Gang said, because they were too well-dressed. They had to be angry because BO Boy was black. There was no WAY these people could be angry because the president and his Gang were shoving this legislation down their throats with nary a glance at what the actual legislation contained. Hell no. They're just idiots who don't know any better.

My, how a few months changes things. In January the American people had finally gotten a brain. They'd elected a black man to office. A smart, educated, well-spoken black man who was going to fix things in this fucked-up country. After eight years of hell under that dictator in training Bush, America was finally free!!!! Yippee!!!!

You're kiddin' me, right? Oh wait. The American people are only stupid and fucked in the head when they disagree with what the left and the media tell them is right.

Huh. Wait a minute. I call bullshit, boys and girls. To me, it looks like the only fucked up thing about America was its belief in a man with no experience in anything other than running for office. A man with little or no respect for the office to which he was elected. A man with very little class when it comes right down to it.

The man that got himself elected to the presidency looks to me like the man who may well be overseeing the most corrupt administration and Congress in U.S. history. A man who will stop at nothing to gain more and more power for himself. Too bad he's throwing the entire welfare of this country under the bus while he he does it.

Never before in this history of this country have more people had more on the line than we have now. We have our very freedom at stake. And this latest action by BO Boy and his Gang just goes to show how very dangerous things have become. You see, once Hitler gained control of every single aspect of the German government, no one was safe. And the German people LET him get that control.

Today, a sitting American president has created his own terrorist interrogation unit, answerable ONLY to the White House, in the guise of "protecting the people."

My question is: just what is this man's definition of a "terrorist." Because not too long ago, the Department of Homeland Security named anyone with a variety of conservative values to be possible terrorists right along with returning military and others.

Does this mean that anyone who disagrees with this president and his Gang could find themselves visiting with the officials from this new "unit?"

Wake up, America. Your president has just created his own gang of thugs answerable only to him. You think he won't use them? Just what do you think this man has called out the unions for? They sure as hell ain't filling up these town halls with thugs just to keep dialogue going!

You'd better stop this man before the people they haul in to "interrogate" turns out to be you.

P.S. I heard this quote during a television show today:

"Dictators always start out saying they're gonna help the little guy. It's the "Big Daddy." Here is this powerful person and he is committed to taking care of me. And these powerful men who represent oppression, dictatorship do have do have a charisma about them, the charisma of power about them. Saddam Hussein had terrific what the military calls "command presence." He walked tall, upright, tended to dominate any landscape he occupied. His message was: "Follow me and I'll take care of you. One can see the attraction. "

The man who said this was a dyed in the wool leftist. Though this comment was part of a show about the evil Empire in Star Wars, I think it applies to the BO Boy administration very VERY well. After all, wasn't he such a charismatic feller that everyone forgot to check the bullshit meter when he spoke? I'm sure he'd disagree with how I've used it, but I've gotta thank ol' Dan Rather for the quote. He hit the nail right on the frickin' head. Thanks, Mr. Rather, even though I'm sure you figured we'd all see President Bush in your words rather than your Dear Leader.