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How Does This Solve Anything?

Posted by Roxanna M. on Friday, February 10, 2012 2:36:56 PM

Attempting to get away from the hornet's nest he stirred up, Obama has now come out with this grand compromise regarding religious employers, insurance, and birth control.  You'd better sit down because this will really WOW you.

Instead of forcing religious employers to pay the insurance premiums for such things, Obama is simply going to force insurers of religious institutions to give these things away for free to the employees of religious employers.

When insurance companies are forced to give away things for free, they have to raise rates to cover it.  So, in essence, religious employers are ultimately going to be paying for the things they're objecting to.

And in the same vein, why isn't there a single legislator in this country smart enough to grasp the very simple fact that forcing insurers to cover more and more is what has driven up the price of health insurance.  And it's only going to get worse when insurers are forced to give things away for free.




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Lack of Standing

Posted by Roxanna M. on Tuesday, February 07, 2012 12:00:22 PM

Most, if not all, of the lawsuits brought against Obama regarding his eligibility (the recent miscarriage of justice in Georgia notwithstanding) were dismissed on the grounds that the plaintiffs lacked standing.  Often, the term "lacked standing" is just legalese for "not interested" or "can't be bothered".  In the simplest of terms, it means that the plaintiffs had no dog in the fight.  In reality, these rulings stand for the proposition that American citizens have no right to sue to see that the Constitution is being enforced.  I'm sure that the judges who made these rulings don't see it that way, but facts is facts.

Enter PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), who have brought suit on behalf of the whales at Sea World, claiming that these whales are nothing more than slaves and entitled to protection under the 14th Amendment.  Whales are people.  Who knew.

If any lawsuit should have been dismissed for lack of standing, this is it.  These whales did not hire PETA.  There were no attorney-client discussions.  No retainer agreements were signed.  But, somehow, whales have standing under the Constitution while American citizens don't.

No matter how hard the judges tried to dress up their decisions, the bottom line is that they were completely and utterly political.



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Losers of the Week

Posted by Roxanna M. on Saturday, February 04, 2012 1:16:13 PM

Georgia Administrative Law Judge Michael Malihi for ruling that Obama is eligible to be on the ballot, summarily disregarding the evidence in front of him as being of little probative value.  Call me cynical for not being surprised.

Charles M. Blow, who in his New York Times column stated that Mitt Romney is "disastrously out of touch" with Americans.  Who is really out of touch.  Could it be the couple in the White House who have partied-hearty for three years on the taxpayers' dime.  Could it be the woman who takes lavish vacations on the taxpayers' dime.  Could it be the woman who simply cannot wait for her husband and leaves on vacation without him, costing the taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars each and every time she does that.  Could it be the man who is campaigning on the taxpayers' dime.

Whether you like Mitt Romney or not, he's spending his own money.  But Mr. Blow is black so, therefore, it's the white guy who's out of touch.




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I Don't Really Care About His Personal Life

Posted by Roxanna M. on Sunday, January 29, 2012 1:16:18 PM

So said a friend of mine when I asked if he thought that Newt Gingrich was done with adultery.  I should note that this friend has been a Newt fan for as long as I can remember.  Nonetheless, his answer surprised me. 

Do we really not care about the personal lives of those we elect?  If he beat his wife, would we care?  If he put puppies and kittens into a chipper/shredder, would we care?  If he molested his kids, would we care?  Of course we would.  What my friend appeared to be saying, then, was that he didn't care about this aspect of Newt's life.

Character has been defined as what you do when no one is looking.  If you don't care if a politician is honest in his personal life, what right do you have to expect him to be honest in his public life?  You knew what you were getting.

If Newt is the eventual nominee, I will vote for him, because he's still head and shoulders above Obama . . . but I'll hold my nose when doing it, and I certainly won't be surprised when he breaks his word or starts sniffing around for wife #4.  After all, there is precedent.


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What An Idiot

Posted by Roxanna M. on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 4:15:26 PM

After Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels gave the response to the State of the Union Address last night, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) said:  "The Republican speaker last night, Mitch Daniels, talked about Americans must talk about the state of the union as grave.  So, we think we are in great shape.  We are in good shape."

Let's discuss.  Sustained high unemployment.  A housing industry still in tatters.  Record number of people on food stamps.  Record debt.  Record deficit. 

I understand the democrat need to support Obama, but if this is "great shape", what does bad shape look like?



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There's An Old Saying That Goes Something Like . . .

Posted by Roxanna M. on Friday, January 20, 2012 2:25:22 PM

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.  Enter Marianne Gingrich, wife #2 of presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, whom he left for wife #3.  I do not like the fact that Newt committed adultery.  I have often said that if a man will lie to and cheat on the woman he has vowed to love and cherish above all others, he will not hesitate to lie to and cheat on me.  I consider honesty and fidelity core values, and I find Newt sorely lacking.  I also don't have a problem with Marianne's fury. 

However, I do smell a rat.  There is no question in my mind that this sudden appearance was at the instigation of someone on the left.  Since it would be quite ridiculous for the left to champion the "accomplishments" of this administration, it has no choice but to smear the Republicans. 

Think we'll ever know.



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What A Stupid Thing To Say

Posted by Roxanna M. on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 3:33:07 PM

Newt Gingrich, who is currently behaving badly on the campaign trail, was heard to utter "Why would you want to nominate the guy who lost to the guy who lost to Obama?" 

Let's take a look at history.  Ronald Reagan ran for the Republican nomination in 1976 - and lost to Gerald Ford.  He came back in 1980 and won.  In 1984, he was re-elected in a landslide, both popularly and electorally - winning 48 of 50 states.  A figure unmatched in history.  Reagan went on to win the cold war.

Whether Romney would be another Reagan or not is debatable.  What isn't debatable, though, is that it's not necessarily a bad thing to nominate the guy who lost to the guy who lost to the eventual winner 4 years before. 

Gingrich knows history.  He knows what happened in 1976 and 1980.  This is yet another example of his tendency to shoot from the lip, a very unpresidential quality.
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Details

Posted by Roxanna M. on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 2:17:15 PM

In the new Hawaii Five-O that debuted in 2010, we were told that Steve McGarrett's paternal grandfather died at Pearl Harbor, which was December 7, 1941.  So, either Steve McGarrett's father John was already born at that time or was born soon after.  Even if Grandma McGarrett had gotten pregnant the morning of the 7th, the minimum age her son could be at the time the show came on was 68.

Bill Sadler, the actor who plays John McGarrett was only 60 at that time.

In the new show Alcatraz which debuted last night, one of the lead characters is Emerson Hauser, played by Sam Neill.  In a flashback to 1963, we see someone who is supposed to be a young Emerson Hauser, a guard at Alcatraz.  Since that was 49 years ago, even if the young Mr. Hauser was only 20, which seems highly unlikely for a guard at a federal prison, then the Emerson Hauser of today would be 69.

Sam Neill is only 64.

The old show Cold Case was famous for this.  And while it might seem like no big deal to most folks, it just drives me crazy.  It indicates to me that the people who came up with these things weren't paying attention, and I hate that.



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Hypocrisy

Posted by Roxanna M. on Saturday, January 07, 2012 2:04:00 PM

If under the definition of "hypocrite" in the dictionary it doesn't say "see democrat", it really should.  The hypocrisy of the democrats under Obama is so blatant that only the most stupid among us can't see it. 

Apparently, the president can make what is called "recess" appointments during the period of time that the senate is in recess.  This allows him to avoid the "advice and consent" portion of the Constitution.  During the time that George W. Bush was president, Harry Reid spent a great deal of time keeping the senate in "pro forma session", i.e., not really in session but not really in recess, in order to prevent Bush from making recess appointments.  Also apparently, it is generally understood that the senate is not considered in recess unless it doesn't "gavel in, gavel out" in 3 days. 

Well, Obama is in no mood for the Constitution.  While the senate was not in recess, he made recess appointments.  And here's the kicker.  Recess appointments get to serve, without senate confirmation, for a specified period of time.  Because of the date on which Obama made these appointments, these people are going to get to serve through 2013. 

Recently, the Republicans blocked salaries for 4 of Obama's so-called czars (appointed, not confirmed), to which he said that the Republicans were blocking him from fulfilling his constitutional duty as president by preventing him from having advisors.  What a crock.  Nominate them and let them go through the confirmation process. 

As you can see, Obama picks up the Constitution when it suits him and ignores it when it doesn't.  Those of us who were paying attention in 2008 aren't the least bit surprised.  Obama doesn't want to be president, he wants to be king/dictator.  It wasn't all that long ago that he said he could get much more done if only he didn't have to be bothered with congress.  During the Bush presidency, the left was all abuzz about how "imperial" he was.  Bush has nothing on Obama in that department. 

If he is re-elected, he will only become more determined to do what he wants, when he wants.  And the democrats who excoriated Bush for much less, will only applaud him.



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Merry Christmas

Posted by Roxanna M. on Sunday, December 18, 2011 1:00:19 PM

Jingle bells, BO smells.
Biden is a joke.
Three years of the two of them
have left us nearly broke.

Jingle bells, longing swells
for much needed changed.
Hopefully the GOP
will for us that arrange.


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Just A Thought

Posted by Roxanna M. on Thursday, December 08, 2011 2:35:10 PM

Seen Hillary Clinton lately?  She looks terrible.  Saw a picture of her today, and she looks like Casper.  She's gained a lot of weight, and she simply looks haggard.  If she thinks that long hair makes her appear youthful, she is very wrong.  If she indeed wants to mount her own presidential campaign or if Obama dumps Biden and puts her on the ticket, she needs to look elsewhere than that "mirror, mirror on the wall."

For the record, that open heart jewelry by Jane Seymour and those Pandora charm bracelets are ugly.  I made that perfectly clear to my husband, just in case he was getting ideas for Christmas.

Heard today that the shooting incident at Ft. Hood has now been declared "workplace violence."  While technically correct, reducing the slaughter to such a nondescript term is not only disgusting, it's not fooling anybody.

Multimillionaire Jon Corzine said that he has no idea where $1 billion of his clients' money went.  Meanwhile, accounts have been frozen and those dependent on them to live are just SOL.  Nice guy, huh.

Read today that the always annoying Barbara Boxer said that climate change deniers are endangering mankind because the evidence in favor of this monumental hoax is simply overwhelming and undeniable.  I highly doubt that she has ever actually read anything on climate change, much as she has probably never read any of the bills she has voted for.

Read an opinion column posted in a San Francisco paper that the people of California are actually in favor of higher taxes.  No wonder Nancy Pelosi keeps getting re-elected.

On that note. California governor Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown is going to try and get a tax increase measure on the upcoming ballot, even though Californians voted one down the last time around.  Since the smart people are leaving California, maybe the dumb ones now have a majority and will actually vote for it.

Appears our Child-in-Chief is off on another taxpayer-funded vacation.  You know, I wouldn't mind his vacations so much if he would actually do some work.  All he's done lately is campaign . . . on our dime, of course.  This is the latest job that Obama has held wherein he hasn't really done anything except show up now and again.

And, Queen Michelle might just leave without him if he has to stay behind in DC, costing us about $100,000 that we don't have. 

Class can't be bought, and neither of the Obamas will ever have it.



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Sorry About That

Posted by Roxanna M. on Tuesday, November 29, 2011 3:15:26 PM

Brian Terry, an American Border Patrol Agent, was killed last December as a result of the Fast & Furious gun program run by the AFT, a division of the Department of Justice.  His family had to wait nearly a year before receiving so much as a quasi apology from Eric Holder, who acts as though he is completely unaccountable.

Compare that to the apology that was issued nearly immediately regarding the Pakistanis who were killed as the result of a NATO drone strike.

We have poured billions into Pakistan for its alleged help in fighting terrorism, only to find out that Osama bin Laden was safely ensconced in a family compound near a Pakistani military installation.  So much for help.

Even if this were not the case, an apology should have been issued to the family of Brian Terry immediately.  Maybe if Holder hadn't been so intent on keeping the whole Fast & Furious program quiet, one would have been.



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Are We Still the Land of the Free?

Posted by Roxanna M. on Saturday, November 19, 2011 12:36:56 PM

Judge Laurence Silbermann is the latest judge to uphold the constitutionality of the individual mandate of the health care monstrosity known as "Obamacare."  Why it's called that is unknown.  Obama didn't write it.  He didn't read it.  He merely sandwiched in the signing of it between taxpayer-funded vacations.  But I digress. 

In an astonishingly stupid comment, Mr. Silbermann said that “The right to be free from federal regulation is not absolute, and yields to the imperative that Congress be free to forge national solutions to national problems, no matter how local – or seemingly passive – their individual origins,"   So yet another unelected, unaccountable slurper and burper at the public trough has decided that there is nothing that congress can't order us to do. 

In doing their jobs, administration lawyers have stated that health care is "unique" and therefore the individual mandate is appropriate because at some point in time, everyone will need health care.  Therefore, congress has the right to order us to buy this product. 

I hate to break it to these overpaid yahoos, but health care is NOT unique in that regard.  At some point in time, everyone will need food . . . clothing . . . housing . . . transportation.  Therefore, under the ruling of the right honorable Mr. Silbermann, and the others who have enforced this mandate, congress can order us to buy the type and quantity of food it dictates . . . the type and quantity of clothing it dictates . . . the type and quantity of housing it dictates . . . and the type and quantity of transportation it dictates.

And don't say that I'm off on some tangent.  If the Supreme Court, in an act of incredible stupidity, decides to give congress this power, it won't stop at health care.  Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.  It will be open season on We the People, and we will have ceased to be a free people.  We will be nothing but slaves of a power-hungry state that has been told there is no limit to its powers.

Hitler saw a national problem:  Jews . . . and forged a national solution . . . The Holocaust. 



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Why Is That?

Posted by Roxanna M. on Tuesday, November 08, 2011 6:16:26 PM

Yesterday, Sharon Bialek stepped forward to say that she too had been on the receiving end of Herman Cain's lascivious behavior.  And, since she's not going to bring a lawsuit, it is unclear why she had legal gadfly Gloria Allred by her side.  But within less than 24 hours after her underwhelming press conference, we have learned the following:

  • That she has twice filed for personal bankruptcy
  • That she claimed $5,700 in assets and $36,000 in liabilities spread among a management firm demanding back rent, four credit card companies, and a lawyer
  • She accused a former boyfriend of harassing her because he wanted her to pay back a $4,500 loan
  • She has had at least two liens placed against her, an IRS lien and an Illinois state lien.
  • She has been sued by at least one creditor
  • Where she has worked and for how long
  • That neither her fiance nor her father knew anything about her allegations
It took less than a day to dig all this up on somebody who is a complete nobody.  Yet here we are over 3 years later, and we know almost nothing about the man in the Oval Office.



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And So It Begins

Posted by Roxanna M. on Thursday, October 27, 2011 5:34:47 PM

Obama has formally announced that he will now govern as he has always wanted to, i.e., by fiat.  Congress refuses to ask how high when he says jump, so he's just going to ignore them.  And, since the Constitution states that "All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a congress of the United States . . .", he's going to ignore that as well. 

King Obama I has now freed himself  from all constitutional restraints by deciding that he will implement his programs by Executive Order.  Slowly but surely the Executive Branch has been grabbing more and more power for itself, most notably the EPA and its so-called regulations. 

Beloved Leader Obama has continually shown his disdain for the country that has given him so much more than he ever deserved.  He certainly has no regard whatsoever for us little people out here.  What remains to be seen is how far he will go.  One democrat governor has already called for a moratorium on congressional elections until 2014, which would be a violation of the Constitution. 

Is Generalissimo Obama so involved in his delusions that he will venture past the point of no return, the point at which even the dullest American will finally realize what he's really all about.  Since he believes that there is no limit to what he can do, he just might. 

Let's pray that that day is before November 2012 and not after.




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