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People better go to jail for this..........

Am I truly old-fashioned enough to be disgusted by this ad? Apparently this is some kind of game?

He has resorted to making fun of Mitt Romney regarding:
-Sesame Street
-Binders full of women
-Boats that allow planes to land on them

He has called Romney a Bullshitter (imagine Mitt saying that about Obama...the election would be over). Admittingly, my dislike for Barack has escalated over the past few months, but I about popped a vein over this image.

What a childish president we have. Can we please get a grownup in the White House? To see the Presidency so diminished.....

I miss posting stuff..........think I'm going to make it a weekend tradition. More to come.

So the latest and greatest from Obama's Administration specifically from DHS is that illegal immigrants who are awaiting trial for illegally entering the country, will be housed in nursing homes, hotels and assisted living facilities. Essentially they want to turn these facilities into detention centers. YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME! So not only are we going to reduce nursing home funding by $100 billion dollars, but now I have to take care of illegal immigrants for illegally entering MY COUNTRY?

Can anyone help me with this one? I am floored by this. I don't really even know if I have the energy to state all the reasons why this is fundamentally wrong. But, I guess Obama is "fundamentally changing America." Not sure why it needs fundamental change. I think it was pretty good to begin with. Oh wait, it was the best country in the history of the planet! Shortly, we are going to lose it....

I'm still willing to believe in global warming, but not until we have further proof.

I believe that we have to respect our planet and reduce pollution, but I don't appreciate the false facts I've been given.

--Antartica's ice is actually growing, despite LOCAL reductions in ice (the famous peninsula)
--Iceland's glaciers are growing
--Greenland's reduction in ice are consistent with cyclic events recorded in the layered ice.
--Rural areas across the board are showing consistent average temperatures over the past 150 years.
--There seems to be a LOCAL warming effect of metropolitan areas (explanations have included heat-emitting huge cement buildings, people, exhaust....etc).
--As CO2 and heat increase, plants are happy and grow helping to offset carbon gases.

I now believe that global warming is used for political purposes. Fear is a powerful vehicle for policies to be made (see Patriot Act).

Let's focus on things we know for a fact are hurting our environment:

--Over-fertilization of our crops (algae/protozoan tides--kills fish, not good)
--Burning coal for electricity (acid rain, radioactive waste....yes the black leftover crap is radioactive and we use it to pave our roads).
--You get the idea

I am all for getting us off of oil, but that doesn't have to cripple our economy. I'm anxiously awaiting a government that believes innovation can actually boost our economy.

I love nuclear power, that would solve so much by preserving natural resources and reducing pollution. After visiting Palm Springs, I can never support use of Wind--extremely inefficient as it takes up miles and miles of land and is worthless when there's no wind. I dislike large-scale solar power as well--right now, you'd basically have to cover the state of New Mexico to light up Las Vegas (how is that being considerate to the environment?).

Whether you like Mitt Romney's plan or not, Massachusetts has proven that a state can take care of itself regarding healthcare.

A one-size-fits-all approach to healthcare shoved down our throats is borderline tyranny (especially if the senate uses the "nuclear option"). There isn't a redstate in the Union that wants to swallow the Dems' plan.

I'm tired of Republicans/Libertarians knocking Romney's plan because of government mandates...........they should use Mitt's example of reform with great zeal--I can't find a more perfect example of a state taking initiative....why should we care what Massachusetts' citizens want? We don't need to federalize healthcare--we should avoid doing so at any cost or the eventual price may choke our economy into oblivion (or at least into Europe of the New World).

If states decide their own reform, healthcare will more closely match their citizens' needs and reform will be easier to amend and modify.

Keep the feds out of this one.

Uhh...........what has he done? He was nominated after 2 weeks (that was the deadline for nominations) after the election.

Personally, I'd rather hear about him raising the morale of our soldiers in Afghanistan. Does he even know there's a war going on?

Thanks to Mr. Obama, we are closer to socialism than ever before. Granted, George Bush helped add to the biggest government in the nations history. At least it took him 4 years to do it. Obama has TRIPLED the size of government on only 7 months. At that pace, he will have expanded the government by 24 TIMES at the end of his first (and hopefully only) term. I don't care what Bush did, what Obama has done to this point is unbelievable.

I am proud of the American people that they have spoken their mind in this recent healthcare debate. And today, Congress voted down the "public or government run option" Obama so desperately wanted to pass. Without that he doesn't really have much of a platform to stand on moving forward, according to him and Biden. I work in the healthcare industry. With the proposed changes, my industry stands to loose nearly 50 billion dollars over the next 7 years. Because of that, my nursing home alone will have to operate with over 1 million fewer dollars a year. Essentially that means I would have to cut my staff in half to be able to just stay in business over that time frame. Most HEALTHCARE, not insurance, companies operate on razor thin margins. I am lucky to have a profit margin of 5%-10% monthly. Believe me, my expenses are as bare as they can be. Let's just say, Obama will effectively cripple the Long Term care industry. I wonder where he will live when his Alzheimer's disease requires his residence be in a nursing home...Just ask yourself that Barack.

Cap and Trade will also decimate our economy. So far, NO GREEN JOBS have been created as promised by the B. Hussein Administration. Not only that but the estimated cost for each American family would be almost $2000 extra a year. For a country already strapped for cash, it really doesn't seem that this is the best case scenario. McCain really didn't help this cause either. He would've probably been worse for us than Obama has been. That doesn't mean America has chosen the best of two evils, they just chose the more obvious one in Obama.

Don't let up America. Understand that what we do today will dictate how our children will determine their well being in the future. It is imperative we stand for our principles and morals. Don't let Obama take them away from us, because he sure is trying...

Ok Everybody. It is time to re-start the antics of this blog. I sorely miss our bantering back and forth. I am giving everyone a subtle shove in the blog direction. Josh, I promise not to be too offended with your left wingness :) Staff, let's hear the good stuff. Kent, Sueann, anyone else keeping occasional tabs on this blog, it is time to re-engage and let the good times roll. By mid-week, I will have posted something hopefully thought provoking enough to stimulate some kind-of response. I'm sure their are a few things that warrant a conversation out there. Let's hear it...

Beck uses a live audience a lot......I kinda like it.

Not much time to go into detail, but it is too bad that Maine has gone down the slippery slope of legalizing gay marriage. I am afraid for the trend that is beginning to develop in our country. It is a shame we are re-defining the fundamental unit of our society that has existed for thousands of years. I don't consider it being evolved and learned, I consider it being unmoral and afraid.

The following article is from NRO (click on title to see source):
A Timid Advocate of Freedom
President Obama has failed his early foreign-policy tests.

By Mitt Romney

At last week’s Summit of the Americas, President Obama acquiesced to a 50-minute attack on America as terroristic, expansionist, and interventionist from Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega. His response to Ortega’s denunciation of our effort to free Cuba from Castro’s dictatorship was that he shouldn’t be blamed “for things that happened when I was three months old.” Blamed? Hundreds of men, including Americans, bravely fought and died for Cuba’s freedom, heeding the call from newly elected president John F. Kennedy. But last week, even as American soldiers sacrificed blood in Afghanistan and Iraq to defend liberty, President Obama shrank from defending liberty here in the Americas.

In his first press interview as president, he confessed to Arabic television that America had “dictated” to other nations. No, Mr. President, America has fought to free other nations from dictators. And in Strasbourg, the president further claimed that America has “showed arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive.” London’s Daily Telegraph observed that President Obama “went further than any United States president in history in criticizing his own country’s action while standing on foreign soil.” Of course, it was not just the Daily Telegraph that was listening: People around the world who yearn for freedom, who count on America’s resolve and support, heard him as well. He was heard in China, in Tibet, in Sudan, in Burma, and, yes, in Cuba.
The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to “tear down this wall,” a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire. It was the same confidence that had been ignited decades earlier when John F. Kennedy declared to a people surrounded by Communism that they were not alone. “We are all Berliners,” he said, because “freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s confident commitment, spoken as he led us into the war that would free millions in Europe, inspired not only Americans but freedom fighters around the globe: “The American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.” Such words of solidarity, of confidence, and of unwavering conviction that America is indeed “the last best hope on earth” are what freedom’s friends would have expected to hear from our president when our nation was slandered. Instead he offered silence, smiles, and a handshake.

Even more troubling than what he has or has not said is what he has not done. Kim Jong Il launched a long-range missile on the very day President Obama addressed the world about the peril of nuclear proliferation. As one of the world’s most oppressive and tyrannical regimes is on the brink of securing the “game changing” capability to reach American shores with a nuclear weapon, the president shrinks from action: no seizure of North Korean funds, no severance of banking access, no blockade.

Not to be outdone by Kim Jong Il, President Ahmadinejad announced that his nation has successfully mastered every step necessary to enrich uranium, violating the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty it has signed. So, like North Korea, Iran will have changed the world’s equation for peace and security: It will be capable of devastating Europe and America, and of annihilating Israel. And as with North Korea, the Obama administration chooses inaction — no new severe sanctions, no hint of military options. Ahmadinejad can act with confidence that the forceful options once on our proverbial table have been shelved.

Vice President Biden was right that the new president would be tested early in his administration. What the world learned was not good news for freedom and democracy. The leader of the free world has been a timid advocate of freedom at best. And bold action to blunt the advances of tyrants has been wholly lacking. We are still very early in the Obama years — the president will have ample opportunity to defend America and freedom, and to deter nuclear brinkmanship. I am hoping for change.

— Mitt Romney, formerly the governor of Massachusetts, was a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008.

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Where else can I turn for news? I'm not a fan of how right-wing Fox is, but I am disgusted with other media options. Is there any fair and balanced news left? Trust me, if I could watch something other than Fox, I would.

Another thing, would we have allowed Anderson Cooper to keep his job if he made an oral sex joke about us protesters 20 years ago?

Wish I brought my camera......darn it........I'm sure there will be some pics of me in cyberspace though.
It was encouraging to know that my feelings of anger and distrust mingled with hope for a better America were shared by many (at least 2500)--yeah, even here in the liberal pits of southern Florida.
I wasn't sure how big the turnout was going to be.........that was the scariest part. You can't find a more liberal city in Florida--maybe Miami........I seriously thought this protest could have been like so many terrifying street displays I participated in on my mission.

The number of enthusiastic people was electrifying. I hate admitting this, but I had to wear my sunglasses to hide a few tears. I regained my manhood after about 20 minutes, but it was very emotional for me. Seeing all of the American flags was cool.........the only chanting was "U.S.A........U.S.A.......U.S.A." I felt that was appropriate.

I enjoyed signing my "John Hancock" on the huge copy of the Declaration of Independence. I was happy signing my vote of no confidence in our congressmen.........I think everyone in Congress needs fired, frankly. I even relished getting all of the Ron Paul, Constitution Party, and Fair Tax pamphlets..............not a big fan of any of them, but it was still cool..........I take that back; I love Ron Paul if you take away his foreign policy.

Anyways, here's a news link for the Ft. Lauderdale Tax Day Tea Party