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Empty Words From An Empty Man

Posted by Roxanna M. on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 11:30:59 AM

In a recent college address, Barack Obama urged graduates to avoid the temptation to make excuses and to take responsibility for their families and their communities.  His "whole life", Obama wanted "to be a better father, a better husband, a better man."

That's rich, considering the source.  Barack Obama has raised excuse making and refusal to take responsibility to an art form.  He spent his entire first term blaming all of America's woes on his predecessor.  Who was, by the by, a better man in every respect.

Right now, his second term is bogged down with scandals:  Benghazi, the IRS targeting right-leaning organizations, and his Department of Justice seizing phone records of some 100 reporters.

Who's taking responsibility for these?  Certainly not Mr. Obama.  He refuses to divulge where he was the night of the terrorist attack in Benghazi or what he was doing.  We know that first thing the morning after, though, he hopped aboard Air Force One to attend a fundraiser in Vegas.

What about the IRS?  Well he claims that the first he heard of it was when he saw it on the news.  As for the AP scandal, well, he has complete trust in Eric Holder, who just went to Congress claiming he didn't know nothing 'bout nothing.

Barack Obama and Eric Holder are two very well educated men.  Yet they're taking refuge in being completely ignorant of what's going on around them.  Worse yet, they expect us to buy their bull.

It's easy to believe that Obama doesn't know what's going on.  After all, it's not like he actually goes into work.  In between rounds of golf and parties, he manages to squeeze in a fundraiser or two.  It's not as though he has time to actually be president.  It's so much easier to just play one on TV, not to mention more fun.

Hey Obama!  You want to be "a better father, a better husband, a better man"?  Then grow up.  Take responsibility for your actions.  Take responsibility for the actions of those around you.  After all, you're their boss.  Don't pitch temper tantrums every time you don't get your own way. 

Given the fact that you were elected and re-elected, I know it's easy to think that all of us out here are stupid.  And while there are millions who are, not all of us fell for your flimflammery.  So, quit playing to the lowest common denominator. 

Sad thing is.  Obama didn't mean a word he said.  He could easily tell other people to take responsibility for their actions without taking a single second to realize that he doesn't.  His words were nothing more than hot air, said and then forgotten.

It's deeds not words that make a man great.  Responsibility is a word.  Taking responsibility is a deed.






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Why It Matters

Posted by Roxanna M. on Saturday, May 18, 2013 9:47:02 AM

The first thing people need to understand about the Benghazi incident is that neither Barack Obama nor Hillary Clinton care that four people died.  They only care that they're getting bad press about it.  Once you understand that, everything else is easy.

This is completely evident by the cover up that was concocted and why Hillary attempted to cover up the cover up by asking why it mattered how Benghazi happened.  If she was concerned about anything other than covering her own backside, she would know why it's important.

9/11 happened because for 8 long years, her husband paid no attention to terrorism.  Bill Clinton treated terrorism as nothing more than regular crime.  We were attacked and attacked and attacked, and all he cared about were his disgusting trysts with Monica.

Those who would destroy us saw that and realized there was nothing stopping them from doing what they wanted when they wanted.  During the feckless Clinton administration, terrorists dared to dream big and 9/11 happened.

Fast forward to today.  The terrorists are watching this administration deny that terrorism is even happening.  There are "overseas contingency operations" and "workplace violence".  They see that the paramount interest of this administration is to perpetrate the myth that Obama has vanquished terrorists.  The lie about what happened at Benghazi is just another link in the chain. 

The terrorists are learning that Obama, like Bill Clinton before him, is more interested in playing a president on TV than actually being one.  They see that America sent a boy to do a man's work, and they are rubbing their hands together with glee.

Just as 9/11 could be laid at the feet of Bill Clinton, the bombing at the Boston marathon and all of the attacks that follow can be laid at the feet of Barack Obama.

That's why how Benghazi started matters.



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This Ia How It Starts

Posted by Roxanna M. on Sunday, May 05, 2013 9:01:18 AM

The Florida legislature has awarded Palm Beach County the sum of $1 million for a new violence prevention unit.  The goal of the unit is to prevent tragedies like the shootings at Newtown and Aurora. 

Sheriff Ric Bradshaw plans use the money to launch "prevention intervention" units made up of specially-trained deputies, mental health professionals, and caseworkers.  There's going to be a 24-hr. hotline where people can call in and report people if they fear those people could harm themselves or others.  Then the "prevention intervention" unit will come knocking on the reported person's door.  You know, just to talk.  Just to make sure everything's okay.

Knock.  Knock.  "Hey, we heard that you might be having a bad day, and we just wanted to make sure everything's okay.  Can we come in?  Yes?  Can we look around?  Hey, is this gun I found in the back of your closet registered?  What are these pills I found in the back of your underwear drawer?"

Or

Knock.  Knock.  "Hey, we heard that you might be having a bad day, and we just wanted to make sure everything's okay.  Can we come in?  No?  Why not?  You got something to hide?  Open this door.  Don't make me break it down.  Hey, you're going to have to come downtown with us.  Dispatch, this is Officer Jones.  We're going to need SWAT and the drug dogs."

Anyone who thinks that this isn't going to be abused is a complete and utter moron.  Spouses who are angry at their exes for some real or imagined grievance are going to call in just to cause trouble.  Ticked off and ranting a bit?  Expect a knock on the door.  The sheriff has said that they know how to "sift through frivolous complaints".  No they don't.  The innocent will be harassed, and the criminal will go free to do what they will.

People's civil liberties will be violated.  People will be stigmatized.  Many will be unjustly accused.  After all, they have to show success if they want to keep the money rolling in.

The governor still has to sign off on this.  Hopefully he will see the light before he brings the Russian KGB or the East German Stasi to our shores.



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What's Happened to This Great Country

Posted by Roxanna M. on Friday, May 03, 2013 12:15:12 PM

Back on September 11, 2012, there was a terrorist attack on the consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that resulted in the deaths of four Americans.  From the very beginning, obama and his minions have spread nothing but lies and disinformation.  There has been no effort whatsoever to find out what really happened.

For the record, this is what I think happened.  There's a rumor going around that the purpose of the attack was to kidnap the ambassador and trade him for the so-called "Blind Sheikh", currently in prison for terrorist attacks against this country.  This rumor has some merit when you factor in that despite repeated calls for more security, the State Department was systematically reducing security.  Hillary Clinton, who was supposed in be in charge of the State Department, was deliberately leaving an American vulnerable.  Why?

Okay, back to the point of my blog.

When Hillary finally brought her august self to testify before the senate about the matter, she pitched one of her famous temper tantrums.  When asked why the administration continued to stand by its absurd, and long debunked, story that the Benghazi incident arose out of a "spontaneous protest", she said "What difference at this point does it make." 

Well, it makes all the difference in the world because:    

     1.  If our government was deliberately setting up an American to be used as a pawn in a game run by terrorists, we have the right to know.

     2.  If our government is lying to us, we have the right to know.

     3.  If Benghazi was one in a line of terrorist plots against us, we have the right to know.  Considering what just happened in Boston, is this so difficult to believe.

     4.  We have the right to know because we have the right to know. 

It's despicable that egomaniacs like Hillary and Obama think they have the right to say:  We're going to tell you what we're going to tell you and that's all you get.  We the People deserve to be treated better by those whose salaries and benefits we pay.

We're now at the latest loser in this sad, sad saga.  Jay Carney, the current White House Press Secretary who always looks like he's wearing his daddy's suit.  I realize it's not his fault that he looks so immature, but let's face it, he doesn't command respect.  It doesn't help when he's being petulant, like he was recently.

When asked a question about Benghazi, he said "Benghazi happened a long time ago."  Really.  An American ambassador was murdered.  A woman lost her only child.  Our consulate was blown up.  Nobody in this administration seems to be the least bit interested in finding out what happened.  And the official line from the White House is some boy-man whining about how long ago it was.  If there had been an adult in the Oval Office, Mr. Carney would be packing his bags. 

But what difference at this point does it make.  Benghazi happened a long time ago.




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Is the Worm Beginning to Turn?

Posted by Roxanna M. on Saturday, April 27, 2013 2:34:57 PM

We all know that the MSM would excoriate a Republican for playing so much golf or having so many parties or taking so many vacations or for constantly campaigning.  I have long believed that until the MSM turns on obama, he will continue to do things and get away with things that no Republican would even dream of.

Is that beginning to happen. 

An unidentified "hardcore democrat" journalist, was quoted as saying that she would not miss covering obama because "He's an inch deep.  Bush is a bottomless chasm, a deep, mysterious, emotional, profound man.  Obama is all surface, shallow, obvious, robotic, and frankly, not nearly as smart as he thinks.  Bush was the one."  (Curl:  W outclasses Barack and Bill without even trying, www.washingtontimes.com)

Peggy Noonan, writing in the Wall Street Journal said that the Washington press corps "doesn't much like Mr. Obama because he's not all that likable . . .".  (The Presidential Wheel Turns, WSJ.com)

"Obama's hubris problem" screams a headline at politico.com, which tells of how obama would be holding a moment of silence for the victims of the Boston bombings and no one else was invited . . . except for a White House photographer, obviously there for the sole purpose of capturing this "private" moment of mourning.

Included in that article is the sentence "Unfortunately, this president's acts of high handedness and self-absorption have been accumulating in the past several months at a blistering pace."

This otherwise excellent article was ruined by one of the closing sentences:  "If Obama starts to get too grand a sense of himself and sheds the last vestiges of concern for how others perceive him . . ."  Unfortunately, obama has spent the past five years showing that he already has "too grand a sense of himself".  And, there is nothing in the record to show that he has ever had "concern for how others perceive him".

In fact, I believe obama's response has been "I won", which is pretty much the same thing as "My way or the highway".

Obama crossed a line with his recent temper tantrum in the Rose Garden when gun control failed, which showed him for the petulant child he is.  And the air traffic controller crisis was a complete failure for obama.  Contrary to what he thought, people got ticked off and instead of blaming Republicans, looked to him.  Congress very quickly passed bipartisan legislation to get the traffic controllers back to work.

Obama has spent the past several years getting a pass for everything he does, when he's not getting outright praise.  As a consequence, he has begun to believe that nothing he does is out of bounds.  At some point in time, even his most die hard fans are going to say, even if not out loud, that something is very wrong here. 

Got to wonder who will be the first lefty journalist obama kiss bot to speak out.  When that happens, it'll be pretty much over for the boy who would be king.


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Facebook Friends

Posted by Roxanna M. on Sunday, April 21, 2013 10:48:23 AM

I have a Facebook friend who has a Facebook friend who has a Facebook friend and on and on it goes.  Eventually, all kinds of different ideologies and points of view are in the mix.

What I, and other like-minded people, don't understand is why the media was all over the Newtown incident, which involved a young man murdering children, but has maintained a near impregnable wall of silence over the trial of the abortion doctor in Philadelphia, who was murdering newborn babies. 

When it gets right down to it, the left isn't really interested in the death of children.  It's the manner in which they're murdered that has them all exercised.  Guns bad, abortion good.  There is no end to the restrictions these people want placed on guns, but they are actively and virulently against any restrictions on abortion.

I think it all has to do with what abortion has become.  The left wants to close its eyes to the truth and pretend that what's happening isn't really happening.  After all, weren't we told that abortion had to be legal because of dirty, unsanitary back-alley abortions and abortions being done with coat hangers and women not getting proper care and women dying from infections.  Oh wait, that's exactly what's happening today.  Weren't "safe, legal, and rare" abortions were supposed to prevent all that?

In any event, a Facebook friend of a Facebook friend summed it up nicely recently when she posted: ". . . a woman's right to choose a medical procedure that affects only herself and her own conscience . . ."  There it is.  That's why the left can want all kinds of restrictions on guns but none on abortions.  Abortion doesn't take a human life.  No one, other than the mother, is affected.  Apparently, we live in the age of Star Trek, where the developing infant is simply dematerialized from the womb and rematerialized somewhere else.

The left wants to deny reality and will forcibly tamp down anything that threatens to intrude on their fantasy.  The thoughts and opinions of such people are not worthy of consideration.



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Butt Out

Posted by Roxanna M. on Sunday, April 14, 2013 8:53:25 AM

Contrary to what you may think, you do not have a right to know what's happening with me.  Just because we are friends doesn't mean that every aspect of my life is your business.  The truth is, nothing in my life is your business unless I choose to make it your business.

A few years back, I told a friend of mine that a mutual friend of ours had a disease that would eventually lead to his death.  Instead of saying something like "Oh my gosh", his first comment was, "How come you knew before me."  The fact that one man was dying came in second to the other man's desire to be the first to know.

There are people who want to know what's going on with you because they care and want to help you.  Then there are those who want to know what's going on with you so they can talk about you, and perhaps be the first to tell everyone.

There is a movie with the line "You can't fart sideways in this town without your neighbor complaining about the noise."  I live in just such a community.  Gossip, juicy or otherwise, is the absolute life blood of some people, especially those with empty lives.

There's a woman I know who has a mouth the size of the Grand Canyon and absolutely no discretion.  The things that roll off her tongue cause most people to just stand there, look at her, and think:  Did you really just say that . . . out loud.  If you want the entire populace to know something, then just tell this woman.  Everyone will know by the end of the day.

I recently found out that this woman is trying to dig into a very painful chapter in my life.  And rather than come straight to me, she went behind my back and tried to get info from a mutual friend. 

If I had wanted to include that woman in that aspect of my life, I would have done so.  But the situation doesn't involve her at all, and if she had had the decency to come to me first, I would have told her so.  Knowing her verbal diarrhea, I absolutely shudder at the thought of what this woman would do should she gain access to my private business.

I told this woman, in no uncertain terms, to butt out.  But since she's one of the many people in the world who justify, at least in their mind, their nosiness by pretending that they're doing it out of concern, she probably has no clue why I'm so upset.

And as for the woman who was involved in the incident, quit courting the sympathy of our mutual friends by pretending you don't know what happened.  Own your behavior.

Trust and friendship are precious things.  Don't throw them away.



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The Shocking Arrogance

Posted by Roxanna M. on Wednesday, April 10, 2013 9:55:04 AM

"The budget will include a new proposal that prohibits individuals from accumulating over $3 million in IRAs and other tax-preferred retirement accounts.  Under current rules, some wealthy individuals are able to accumulate many millions of dollars in these accounts, substantially more than is needed to fund reasonable levels of retirement saving. The budget would limit an individual’s total balance across tax-preferred accounts to an amount sufficient to finance an annuity of not more than $205,000 per year in retirement, or about $3 million in 2013. This proposal would raise $9 billion over 10 years."

That's obama's budget proposal.  The Spoiled Brat-in-Chief has now decided how much money we're allowed to have in retirement.

It will be interesting to see how this is enforced, given that the amount in retirement accounts fluctuates with the value of the stocks and bonds and other assets in those accounts. sometimes drastically.  Many saw their accounts plummet after the housing debacle. 

Don't ever forget, the housing bust was caused by the government forcing banks to lend money to people whether or not they could afford to pay it back.  Hold on to your butts because the government is about to start doing that again.  Just when the housing sector looked to be making a comeback, in steps the Hoser-in-Chief to squash it.

When your IRA hits $3 million, will you not be allowed to put any more money in?  If the value drops below $3 million, will you be allowed to put more money in?  Will the government just come in and simply confiscate all sums over $3 million?  Will you be taxed for the money the government steals?

It's absolutely sickening to watch this despot do whatever he wants without so much as a peep from the leftist lapdogs who would be screaming bloody murder if a Republican president were doing this.  Do they not have such accounts?

Here's another thought.  What if you have millions outside your IRA.  Will the government let you keep it, or has the government decided you only need $3 million and that's it?
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Did You See It?

Posted by Roxanna M. on Monday, April 01, 2013 12:16:43 PM

Over the weekend, a black college basketball player suffered a terrible injury on the court.  It was considered so gruesome that replays of the incident were halted.  While the injured player lay crying on the court, cameras panned the audience.

Grown men were crying openly.  Women were crying.  What a lot of these people had in common was the fact that they were white.  It didn't matter to these people that it was a black man who had been injured.  All they saw was another human being in pain.

That's where this country should begin its conversation on race.  Not along the already biased dictates of the left.  Yes, there is still racism in this country.  But it's not everywhere . . . and it isn't practiced only by whites.



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Happy Easter

Posted by Roxanna M. on Saturday, March 30, 2013 11:42:07 AM

Today Christians celebrate the holiest day of our belief:  the resurrection of our Lord and Savior.

Had Jesus just been someone who lived and died, then He would have been nothing more than just a really good guy who lived and died.  His birth, death, and resurrection set Him apart from everyone else who has ever lived.

We are thankful that God sent Him to earth, we are humbled that He died for our sins, we rejoice in His resurrection, and we look forward to His return.



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Where's The Outrage?

Posted by Roxanna M. on Tuesday, March 26, 2013 12:58:31 PM

On December 14, 2012, a young man took an automatic weapon and murdered 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.  Twenty of those victims were children.  Prior to going to the school, he murdered his mother. 

The anti-2nd Amendment crowd was quick to jump on this.  They had no compunction whatsoever using these terrible deaths in an effort to further their desire to do away with guns entirely.  Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has become so unhinged that she actually said:  "We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds.  And yet it's legal to hunt humans with 15-round, 30-round, even 150-round magazines."  I had no idea it was legal to hunt humans in America.

Meanwhile, in New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has his sights firmly set on a White House run in 2016, was quick to push gun-control legislation through the New York legislature, without first exempting law enforcement and without any understanding that manufacturers don't make 7-round magazines.  His 7-round limitation has been suspended indefinitely.

Meanwhile, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, an abortion doctor is on trial for murder for allegedly delivering babies alive and then using scissors to kill them by cutting their spinal cords.  An assistant has already stated that she murdered ten babies this way.  She is currently in prison.

Yet, there is no outrage whatsoever from the left over the murder of these babies.  Would there be outrage if 20 babies had been murdered, instead of just 10?  If so, what is the number of murders necessary to provoke outrage?  Would there be outrage if the babies had been older?  If so, at what age do people have the right to not be murdered?  Somewhere between birth and 1?  Birth and 2?  Birth and 3?

What kind of monster do you have to be to murder a newborn baby?  What kind of monster do you have to be to say it's okay?  What kind of monster do you have to be to say nothing at all?




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Losers

Posted by Roxanna M. on Sunday, March 10, 2013 9:54:30 AM

On 9/11/01, 19 pieces of garbage brought down four planes using nothing more than boxcutters.  Now, after years and years of forcing people through machines that deliver enough radiation to see every nook and cranny or forcing them to be sexually assaulted under color of authority, the TSA is thinking about allowing people to bring pocketknives on board airplanes.  Obviously, there is no end to the stupidity of the people in charge of this country.

Oliver Stone and Sean Penn for hailing the (finally!) dead Hugo Chavez as a hero.

John McCain and Lindsey Graham for putting up such a fuss during the Chuck Hagel confirmation hearings and then voting to confirm him.

Jeb Bush for even thinking about running for president.  This administration has done nothing but blame George W. Bush for everything bad in this country.  A country stupid enough to put obama in the White House is stupid enough not to know that the "Bush" on the 2016 ticket is not the same "Bush" as before.

Michael Bloomberg for acting more like a dictator than a mayor . . . and the people who let him get away with it.

The Phoenix City Council for saying it's okay for transgendered men and any other men who really think they are women to use the same restrooms as women.  I guess women and little girls are just supposed to smile when a man peeks through the crack or looks over or under the stall. 

As I said above, there appears to be no end to the stupidity of the people in charge.




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No, No, and No

Posted by Roxanna M. on Thursday, March 07, 2013 10:04:46 AM

America's top lawyer is on record as saying that obama has the authority to kill Americans on American soil under "extraordinary circumstances".

Now, an American can be killed on American soil without due process if he or she is in the process of killing someone else or is getting ready to detonate a bomb.  Self-defense is an acceptable defense.

However, how do you get a drone to such a circumstance before it happens?

No, I'm afraid that obama and holder will define "extraordinary circumstances" as anything they want to do, whenever they want to do it.  There's always collateral damage in war.  So sad.  File a lawsuit.

If I see a drone hanging around outside my house, I'm going to run like the dickens.




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Hey Venezuela

Posted by Roxanna M. on Wednesday, March 06, 2013 12:16:57 PM

If you're missing your dictator, you can have ours.  He's young and hardly used.  He should last you guys for decades.  We'll trade him for some of your oil.
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Obama the Abusive Lover

Posted by Roxanna M. on Monday, March 04, 2013 10:39:47 AM

Bob Woodward created quite a stir last week when he made a comment about obama being "mad" and further by saying that he received an unpleasant call from the White House telling him he would "regret" his position.

It wasn't too long before other lefties came out and said that they too had been "threatened" by this administration.  If not threatened, then otherwise treated badly.

I don't know why that comes as any surprise.  In 2008, those in the mainstream media sacrificed what was left of their objectivity and neutrality to get obama elected.  They gave obama their undying devotion.  They don't question anything he does.  They never hold him accountable.  We've got one lefty claiming he's above God . . . another got a tingle up his leg . . . another says obama has the highest IQ of any president ever, even though he has no idea what obama's IQ is . . . and yet another thinks he's the most inspirational African-American on the planet.

Obama knows that, barring some as yet unforeseen incident, the mainstream media will always suck up to him.  He has no respect for those in the MSM because they have given him no reason to respect them.  They have voluntarily become obsequious little toadies, ever ready to regurgitate whatever this administration tells them to.

Those who step on others to get where they're going never respect those they've stepped on.  Obama will always be an abusive lover to those who enable him.



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