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Showing posts with label USA and stupidity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label USA and stupidity. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
A CANADIAN'S VERSION OF LETTERMAN'S TOP 10 -
Friday, May 24, 2013
Thursday, May 2, 2013
THE STORY OF THE NIGHT WATCHMAN, OR INSANITY IN GOVERNMENT
NIGHT WATCHMAN
Once upon a time the government had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert.
Congress said, "Someone may steal from it at night."
So they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job.
Then Congress said, "How does the watchman do his job without instruction?"
So
they created a planning department and hired two people, one person to
write the instructions, and one person to do time studies.
Then Congress said, "How will we know the night watchman is doing the tasks correctly?"
So they created a Quality Control department and hired two people. One was to do the studies and one was to write the reports.
Then Congress said, "How are these people going to get paid?"
So they created two positions: a time keeper and a payroll officer then hired two people.
Then Congress said, "Who will be accountable for all of these people?"
So
they created an administrative section and hired three people, an
Administrative Officer, Assistant Administrative Officer, and a Legal
Secretary.
Then Congress said, "We have had this command in operation for one year and we are $918,000 over budget, we must cut back."
So they laid-off the night watchman.
NOW slowly, let it sink in.
Quietly,
we go like sheep to slaughter. Does anybody remember the reason given
for the establishment of the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY during the Carter
administration?
Anybody?
Anything?
No?
Didn't think so!
Bottom
line is, we've spent several hundred billion dollars in support of an
agency, the reason for which very few people who read this can remember!
Ready??
It was very simple... and at the time, everybody thought it very appropriate.
The Department of Energy was instituted on 8/04/1977, TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL.
Hey, pretty efficient, huh???
AND
NOW IT'S 2012 -- 35 YEARS LATER -- AND THE BUDGET FOR THIS "NECESSARY"
DEPARTMENT IS AT $24.2 BILLION A YEAR. IT HAS 16,000 FEDERAL EMPLOYEES
AND APPROXIMATELY 100,000 CONTRACT EMPLOYEES; AND LOOK AT THE JOB IT HAS
DONE!
(THIS IS WHERE YOU SLAP YOUR FOREHEAD AND SAY, "WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?")
34 years ago 30% of our oil consumption was foreign imports. Today 70% of our oil consumption is foreign imports.
Ah, yes -- good old Federal bureaucracy.
NOW, WE HAVE TURNED OVER THE BANKING SYSTEM, HEALTH CARE, AND THE AUTO INDUSTRY TO THE SAME GOVERNMENT?
Hello!! Anybody Home?
Signed....The Night Watchman
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Friday, November 9, 2012
FINGERS
An ancient philosopher once wrote: “The tale of men is written by a finger of wind upon moving waters”.
Food
for thought. And I know that most of us have heard our mothers say it
was not polite to point a finger at other folks. There times however
when a pointed finger becomes a tool of enlightenment.
The
astute and discerning citizen cannot help but recognize the fingers of
the Democratic party’s dirty tricks in the Cox-Rehberg contest. I know
my opinion on this will anger more than a few Libertarian thinkers who
were compelled by conscience to vote as they did. But they did, in point
of fact, vote away any chance of control in the U.S. Senate. The logic
of the numbers is inescapable. Mr. Rehberg admittedly has a few
political warts, but he would have been the ‘gate keeper’, halting
Obama’s rampant surge to totally control the Senate and thereby the U.S.
Supreme court, stacking the deck so to speak, removing the last few
safeguards of the Republic.
History recalls that Judas, in his remorse, hanged himself. I suspect
that was a bit extreme and has probably gone out of style, so, Mr. Cox
and his loyal followers must needs cower in dark corners and content
themselves with gnawing on their fingers and find what solace they can
in counting their thirty pieces of silver. Privately,
I cannot help but wonder what Mr. Cox was offered by his handlers, the
shady backroom folks, to induce a man of decent enough stature, to
pursue a course he could not help but understand was un-winnable and
held such catastrophic consequences. The number of votes cast in his
name tell their own story, point their own finger needing little further
help from me.
Folks
who know me are aware I hold a deep and abiding pride in my home state
and faith in its people. That faith has been shaken and it will be a
long time before I can look on my neighbors in that same way again.
Knowing that Montana cast the votes that will likely lead to the
eventual demise of the Republic is not an easy thing to deal with.
However, I can look myself in the mirror and know I did the right thing
and owe apologies to no one. There
are other faces in other mirrors who will know they cannot do the same,
and see the pointed fingers of guilt for the rest of their lives.
Rest
in peace Montana.
H/T to DDL
Sunday, November 4, 2012
[ASI] The Failure to Impeach Obama
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Cliff Kincaid President. America's Survival, Inc. www.usasurvival.org www.noglobaltaxes.org www.religiousleftexposed.com www.sorosfiles.com www.leninandsharia.com |
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Dear Friend of America's Survival, Inc.:
At the September 21 AIM "ObamaNation" conference, Rep. Lamar Smith was asked about impeaching President Obama. He said, "I've been through one impeachment process: I was on the House Judiciary Committee when President Clinton was impeached. It is a long process: It took two years back then. You have a high standard to meet, and that is not something that, even if it could be justified, is not something that is going to be accomplished between now and the election. So rather than answer a hypothetical question, I really think the better answer is to turn the attention to the American people and saying, 'If you feel that strongly about the President, one way to register that discontent is to vote for the other person.'" This has been the Republican game plan. They are hoping that Obama loses on November 6. But what if the Republican game plan fails? My follow-up question was: "Does it further demonstrate the liberal bias of the media that the President who was impeached during that process you just described, Bill Clinton, has been so rehabilitated that he was the featured speaker at the Democratic Convention, and nominated Obama for President?" Smith replied: "...that touches on something that I just said recently, which is along the lines of the point you're making, which is, 'Was there a single national media outlet who, when Bill Clinton was giving a major address at the Democratic Convention, mentioned that he was the only President to have been impeached in the last 120 years?' I don't recall hearing a single national media make that point. Again, as I said a while ago, ask yourself, 'If this were a Republican former President who had been impeached, don't you think they'd be saying it every other sentence?'" So what has Mitt Romney's plan been to combat this liberal bias? He has no plan. Read my column: Romney Won't Challenge Liberal Media Bias This is why some conservatives call the GOP the "stupid party." Romney re-emerged, especially during the final presidential debate, as the old "moderate" Mitt in order to appeal to Democrats and Obama supporters. The Karl Rove strategy: don't call Obama a socialist because the charge might offend people. It is possible Romney could still win and win big, if a "silent majority" turns out. Perhaps those people are out there, putting their faith and trust in anybody but Obama. We shall see. But what if the silent majority stays silent on election day because they don't think Romney is truly fighting for them? If Obama wins, will the House Republicans then have the spine to pursue impeachment? Or will their excuse for inaction then be that Obama's presidency has been validated by the voters? Send me your thoughts at Kincaid@comcast.net |
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Saturday, October 13, 2012
Friday, October 12, 2012
THE VP DEBATE: EMBARRASSED AT JOE - A YOUNG, CONTROLLED, KNOWLEDGEABLE RYAN WON
http://cowboybyte.com/13557/blustering-biden-serene-ryan-exchange-barbs-in-fiery-90-minute-debate/
Maybe that's the right word. Maybe better than appalled, I was just amazed at Biden's rude nonsense and his overdone theater of laughter, smiles, biting of lip, shaking of head and the orchestration with the moderator, Raddatz, to allow him to interrupt Ryan 88 times.
Here's what a friend had to say this morning, and I think this take is excellent. Someone should send this to the Romney/Ryan advisers. I personally resented this as much as a drunk in a bar coming over to force a free drink on me and calling me "friend".
Maybe that's the right word. Maybe better than appalled, I was just amazed at Biden's rude nonsense and his overdone theater of laughter, smiles, biting of lip, shaking of head and the orchestration with the moderator, Raddatz, to allow him to interrupt Ryan 88 times.
Here's what a friend had to say this morning, and I think this take is excellent. Someone should send this to the Romney/Ryan advisers. I personally resented this as much as a drunk in a bar coming over to force a free drink on me and calling me "friend".
I was hoping he would shove the "FRIEND" name tag down Biden's throat. He should have said he was not Biden's friend, that using that term devalued the worth of his real friends. Then continued by saying this inability to distinguish acquaintances from friends was an indicator of an inability to distinguish friend from foe. Ryan should have parlayed this to include Netanyahu, as an example. A friend comes half way around the world, you don't ignore him. You stop what you are doing and welcome him... Opportunity lost.
Since my political lightbulb moment came to me, I have had a severe dislike for many in Congress, and Biden the blustering, bombastic, bigmouth, is one of them.
I wanted to slap his face.
He made no points intellectually. He just tried to bully. "Joe being Joe" is stupid. It doesn't work. It didn't work. It won't work in the future. I shudder to think he's next in line for President...at the moment. Was he drunk?
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Monday, September 10, 2012
Sunday, August 19, 2012
OBAMA'S PLAN TO PAY DOWN OUR DEBT WOULD ADD $10.6 TRILLION IN FEDERAL DEBT
http://cowboybyte.com/10880/obamas-plan-to-pay-down-our-debt-would-add-10-6-trillion-in-federal-debt/
What the hell do you do with a madman who's a fraudulent president?
What the hell do you do with a madman who's a fraudulent president?
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Friday, June 22, 2012
WHAT'S OBAMA HIDING WITH EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE ORDER
http://visiontoamerica.org/10481/whats-obama-hiding-with-executive-privilege-order/
HOW STUPID DO THEY THINK WE ARE?
HOW STUPID DO THEY THINK WE ARE?
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