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They May Be Out of Office . . .

Posted by Roxanna M. on Monday, December 20, 2010 8:58:31 AM
 
but the damage they inflicted could be catastrophic. 
 
I'm referring to Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.  Just saw a headline today, "Second Korean War Suddenly Possible."  If there is another Korean War, it could very well be a nuclear one . . . all thanks to Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton who gave North Korea everything it needed to make nuclear bombs. 
 
Why would two former presidents give a rogue regime nuclear capabilities?  Good question.  The answer is because they're stupid.  They acted on what they wanted to believe, not what was true.  They fell for the same claptrap that Iran dishes out on a daily basis, i.e., we'll only use nuclear capabilities for good, like electricity. 
 
If nuclear war does break out, will the left-learning journalists who own the mainstream media whitewash the deeds of two of the most inept people ever to occupy the Oval Office, or will they tell the truth. 
 
I certainly wouldn't bet on the latter.
 
 
 
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She Was Not A Saint

Posted by Roxanna M. on Thursday, December 09, 2010 2:49:53 PM
 
Elizabeth Edwards, long-suffering wife of former senator John Edwards passed away the other day.  As is usual in such cases, the remembrances of her far exceed the actuality of her.
 
When her husband again decided to run for president, he had already had an affair with a "staffer," which had produced a little girl.  Mrs. Edwards knew this, yet she and her husband paraded themselves in public as the perfect couple.  Always photographed holding hands.  She was going to lose some weight so she could fit into her wedding dress, which she wanted to wear when they renewed their vows on their 30th anniversary.  Blah.  Blah.  Blah.
 
As it has a nasty habit of doing, the truth came out.  You'd think that two lawyers would have been smart enough to know that.  And what happened when it did?  The pathetic Mr. Edwards denied everything, including the paternity of his child and even famously commented that the affair happened while his wife's cancer was in remission.  What a guy. 
 
John Edwards is a slimeball, and his wife swallowed her pride and her self respect because she wanted to be in the White House.  She was as grasping and avaricious as he was, and if they had to lie to the American people to get where they wanted to go, then so be it. 
 
 
 
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What's Wrong With That?

Posted by Roxanna M. on Tuesday, December 07, 2010 12:46:28 PM
 
Michael Copps, an FCC commissioner with definite leftist leanings, thinks that the government should create new regulations to promote diversity in news programming.  He believes that broadcasters should be subject to a "public values test" every four years.  In order to keep their licenses, broadcasters would have to:
 
1.  Prove they have made a meaningful commitment to public affairs and news programming.
       Who gets to decide what is "meaningful"?
 
2.  Prove they are committed to diversity programming.
       Who gets to decide how "committed" they are?
 
3.  Report more to the government about which shows they plan to air.
        Report or ask permission?
 
4.  Require greater disclosure about who funds political ads.
        Who gets to decide what is the right amount of disclosure?
 
5.  Devote 25% of their prime-time coverage to local news.
        Forget about the shows that actually bring in the money?
 
If you think this administration is about anything other than power - getting it, keeping it, using it - over all aspects of our lives, you aren't paying attention.
 
 
 
 
 
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Losers of the Week

Posted by Roxanna M. on Saturday, November 27, 2010 1:28:42 PM
 
Speaker-Elect John Boehner (R-OH) for whisking to the front of the line and not bothering himself with the enhanced screening and/or pat down procedures in force for the rest of us.
 
Ruth Marcus for her column admonishing America to grow up.  "We let people touch our junk all the time in medical settings."  Really.  Because we let a doctor examine us, we should let somebody with no medical training and no background check do likewise?  Have sex with your husband.  Have sex with a rapist.  What's the dif? 
 
Rodney Schroeder of the T&A for saying, "What do you want to do, get blown up by a g.d. Arab at 30,000 feet or we get to see your private parts?  It's up to you."  As though those are our only choices. 

John Pistole, head of the T&A, for disregarding internal advice to inform the public about the new scanners and groping techniques.  Apparently, he thought to prevent terrorists from avoiding detection by using other airports where the new technology wasn't in place.  Okay.  So now, the new technology and techniques are in place in certain airports.  What's to stop terrorists from avoiding detection by using other airports?
 
 
 
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Where's the Outrage

Posted by Roxanna M. on Tuesday, November 23, 2010 4:15:48 PM
 
Dateline:  Atlanta, Georgia
     A TSA (T&A) worker abducted a young woman from the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, took her home, and sexually assaulted her.
 
Dateline:  Denver. Colorado
     At the Denver International Airport, all female members of a high school netball team were forced to go through the full-body scanners, while the man watching the screen was whacking off.  He was dragged from his (peep show) booth with his pants around his ankles.
 
Dateline:  Detroit, Michigan
     A cancer survivor at Detroit Metropolitan Airport advised the TSA worker not to break the seal on his ostomy bag.  The worker did so anyway and urine from the bag leaked all over the man, forcing him to travel in that condition until he reached his destination.
 
Dateline:  Charlotte, North Carolina
    A cancer survivor, after being felt up by TSA personnel (there's no other way to describe a person putting their whole hand on your breast), was forced to remove her prosthetic breast and show it to the groper.
 
Where is the outrage?  For pity sakes, even the ACLU is silent, and it usually can't wait to have its name in the paper.  During the Bush administration, there was no end to the caterwauling of the left about how Bush was taking away our rights.  But what exactly is their response to this invasion of our privacy - one of these new machines can tell if a woman is wearing a tampon - and this taking away of our 4th Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure? 
 
Well, Eugene Robinson summed it up nicely in his latest column in the Washington Post when he said, "Be patient with the TSA" because "what, specifically is the alternative." 
 
The alternative is profiling, which is perfectly acceptable to the left when it's done in the name of affirmative action, but oh so very wrong when done in the name of national security.  Now you see why liberalism is often called a mental disease. 
 
And, by the way, if a Republican were in the White House right now, there would be no end to the caterwauling of the left about how he was trampling our rights.
 
 
 
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Not Any More

Posted by Roxanna M. on Monday, November 22, 2010 4:31:39 PM
 
"Air Force Launches Massive Secret Spy Satellite."
 
 
 
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Headlines

Posted by Roxanna M. on Monday, November 22, 2010 2:13:05 PM
 
View from Mideast:  Obama's a Problem (Ben Smith, politico.com)
 
View from America:  Ditto (Roxanna Moser, mariposarocks.blogtownhall.com)
 
 
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Losers of the Week

Posted by Roxanna M. on Saturday, November 20, 2010 12:01:30 PM
 
Councilman Michael Wolfensohn of New Castle, New York, who, upon discovering two young boys had set up a stand to sell cookies and such, immediately called the police to report that they were operating their stand without a permit, which typically requires a fee of $150.00 every two hours AND a $1 million certificate of insurance. 
 
Well done, Mr. Wolfensohn.  You sure showed them, didn't you.

Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) for saying, "There's a little bug inside of me which wants to get the FCC to say to Fox and to MSNBC, 'Out.  Off.  End.  Goodbye.  It would be a big favor to political discourse; to our ability to do our work here in Congress; and to the American people, to be able to talk with each other and have some faith in their government and, more importantly, in their future." 
 
Hey Comrade!  We are all deeply aware that you would like to get rid of the people's means of learning what you guys are up to.  We know how much better you would like it if you could just keep us in the dark and not have to explain yourself.  But there's this pesky little thing known as the Constitution that gives us free speech and freedom of the press.  Read it sometime.
 
Barbara Boxer (D-CA) for comparing America, unfavorably (no surprise there) to Iran, North Korea, and Pakistan because we don't allow gays in the military. 
 
Firstly, Call-Me-Senator Boxer is incorrect.  We allow gays in the military.  We just make them decide which is more important:  serving their country or talking about their social life. 
 
Secondly,  Miz Boxer, who is as removed from reality as is possible without being completely nuts, doesn't understand the function of the military.  Back in the day, she was one of the ones pushing for women fighter pilots, which resulted in women who were not qualified flying multi-million dollar fighter jets, which resulted in the death of Kara Hultgren. 
 
Listen up, Babs!  The purpose of the military is to protect and defend us.  It is not a testing ground for the touchy-feely, PC garbage lefties like you think is so important.
 
Barack Obama, who embarrassed us once again on foreign soil.  While in Portugal to talk about, among other things, global warming, the Man-Who-Would-Be-King rode around in "The Beast," an 8-ton, diesel-powered limousine, plus an entourage of Secret Service vehicles AND 35 Portuguese police motorcycles.  Meanwhile, everyone else rode around in small, electric-powered cars.
 
"The Beast" has Kevlar tires, special foam in the gas tank to immediately extinguish fire in the event of direct hit, as well as a supply of presidential blood. 
 
And, shades of Saddam Hussein, Obama didn't let anyone know where he was going to spend the night, just in case somebody got an idea.
 
 
 
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And the Apologies Continue

Posted by Roxanna M. on Friday, November 19, 2010 12:32:01 PM
 
In a continuing effort to (1) show that Obama is not incompetent and (2) they weren't wrong to support him, Newsweek recently said, "The presidency has grown and grown and grown, into the most powerful, most impossible job in the world . . . The issue is not Obama, it's the office . . . Can any single person fully meet the demands of the 21st-century presidency."
 
What a crock!
 
If the presidency is so big and so powerful and so impossible, then why does Obama have so much time to play golf and throw parties and travel all around the world on our dime. 
 
Judging from the amount of time he has for these extracurricular activities, it would appear that the office of presidency isn't even a 9 to 5 job. 
 
More like something he does in between naps and playtime.
 
 
 
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Good Time Charlie

Posted by Roxanna M. on Monday, November 15, 2010 9:22:04 AM
 
Well, today's the day.  Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-NY) goes on "trial" today for ethics violations.  Over the weekend, it was revealed that he's not let his ethics-violating-skills go to waste.  Seems he's been taking money from his PAC to pay his legal bills, which is yet another ethics violation.  Can this guy not read the rules or does he think they don't apply to him or is it just that he's non compos mentis and in need of a guardian?  To paraphrase Chris Matthews when he's railing against Sarah Palin, are we even sure that Mr. Rangel can read?
 
In any event, the House is still in the hands of democrats, so I'm really not expecting this "trial" to result in anything stronger than a slap on the wrist, maybe a censure.
 
But what puzzles me is that after spending some $2.2 million, none of which was his own money, Mr. Rangel is going to be representing himself.  What?  They wanted more to actually represent him at the trial?
 
Next up, Maxine Waters.
 
Ain't we got fun.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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What Did He Expect

Posted by Roxanna M. on Sunday, November 14, 2010 10:06:00 AM
 
Obama will return from his India-Indonesia-Asian trip empty-handed, except for whatever his shopaholic wife bought.  No free-trade treaty with South Korea, which might kill the chances of other such treaties.  While trying to convince other countries to quit playing with the value of their currencies, Ben Bernanke was over here printing more money and thus lowering the value of our own currency.  And, he couldn't convince other countries to do what he's doing, i.e., stimulus, stimulus, stimulus.  In other words, other countries aren't interested in increasing their debt.
 
Barack Obama has raised bashing and apologizing for America to an art form.  He never fails to mention that we did things we shouldn't have.  He bows in submission at every opportunity.  He says that America is no more exceptional that any other nation.  So, why would he expect other countries to do what he says? 
 
If America is nothing special, then neither is its leader.  (How could the world's most brilliant man not see this one coming.)
 
I know he's only at the halfway point of his one (and, God willing, only) term, but how is this man going to "restore" our standing in the world?
 
  
This is your brain. 
 
This is your brain on drugs.
 
 
 
 
 
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Losers of the Week

Posted by Roxanna M. on Saturday, November 13, 2010 1:01:19 PM
 
The Transportation Security Administration for so many things.  The new "naked" body scanners at airports, which could increase your risk of cancer.  TSA personnel at airports, who have not had background checks, for sexually assaulting people, including children, under color of authority if they refuse to go through one of the scanners.
 
Denair Unified School District Superintendent Edward Parraz who told student Cody Alicea to remove the American flag from his bicycle because of "racial tensions." 
 
Barack Obama for so many things.  Leaving on his lavish trip on the 1-year anniversary of the Ft. Hood shooting rather than attend the memorial for the slaughtered soldiers.  Being in Indonesia on Veterans Day and praising Indonesia's military.
 
Fresh from the drubbing he and his party took in the mid-term elections comes this headline, "Obama's Economic View Is Rejected on World Stage." 
 
Far from "restoring" our position in the world, Obama has turned himself and America into a laughingstock.  From dragging his teleprompters everywhere he goes to advancing economic positions that absolutely nobody is interested in to getting testy with a press that just might be waking up to the Obama of reality and not the Obama of myth that they sold us in 2008.
 
Obama was not ready for primetime, and his unreadiness is being played out day after day after day.
 
Democrats Patrick Caddell and Douglas Schoen have written an article in the Washington Post saying that he should not run again in 2012.
 
 
 
 
 
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Happy Veterans Day . . . and Thank You

Posted by Roxanna M. on Thursday, November 11, 2010 9:31:41 AM
 
. . . to my favorite vets:
 
My granddad, Roy Clement (RIP)
 
My dad, Jim Ellington
 
My brother, Ron Ellington
 
My uncles, Dawson Pope, Bob Keesling, John Knipp (RIP), and Maurice Ellington
 
My cousins, Ross and Curt Pope, Randy Ellington, Bob Ellington, and Jeff and Paul Knipp
 
My friends, John Bailey, Bob Brown, George Thomas, Richard Holland, Jim Lindstedt, Jon Turner, Clarance Vineyard (RIP), Joel Tolbirt, Bill Soden, and Bill Ashworth
 
Thank you for being members of that long, unbroken line of men and women who have been willing to stand in harm's way so I didn't have to.
 
Remember, only two people in all of history have been willing to die for you:  Jesus and the American military veteran.
 
Thank you.
 
 
 
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Recap

Posted by Roxanna M. on Wednesday, November 10, 2010 4:21:36 PM
 
Republicans won more House seats than in any election since 1938, and democrats hold the smallest number of seats since 1946.
 
50 incumbent democrat members of the House lost their seats, only 2 incumbent Republicans lost.
 
Independents were 28% of the electorate and supported Republicans by a margin of 56% to 38%, a 36-point switch from 2006, when they supported democrats by 57% to 39%.
 
Republicans won in 57 of the 83 democrat-held districts in which Obama won with less than 55% of the vote.
 
Republicans picked up 680 state legislative seats, the highest in the modern era.  In 1994, Republicans picked up 472.  In 1974 democrats picked up 628.
 
Republicans gained majorities in 19 state legislatures and now control 55.  Democrats control 38.  In 26 states, Republicans control both houses.
 
Republicans and Independents favor repealing Obamacare by 87% to 7% and 51% to 42%, respectively.
 
65% of voters said that the stimulus either hurt the economy or did no good and they voted overwhelmingly for Republicans.
 
54% of voters said they were dissatisfied with Obama, and they voted 85% to 11% for Republicans. 

In the face of these numbers, how can anyone say the election was not a repudiation of Obama and democrats?
 
 
 
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A.W.O.L.

Posted by Roxanna M. on Monday, November 08, 2010 4:23:08 PM
 
On November 5, 2009, a muslim man opened fire on unarmed soldiers at Ft. Hood, killing 13 and wounding some 30 more. 
 
On November 5, 2010, a memorial was held for the families, and a 6-ft. rectangular granite stele, carved with the names of the victims, was unveiled.
 
Where was America's Commander-in-Chief on this day of remembrance?  Preparing for his lavish trip to India and Indonesia, with 3,000 people and several million of our taxpayer dollars in tow.
 
Let no one ever claim that the Obama administration has even the slightest interest in our men and women and uniform, especially if to honor them means getting in the way of one of his ego trips.
 
 
 
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