Seasonal changes my achin’ ass, there’s a blizzard going on out there right now. The wind is out of the Northwest at 30mph with gusts up to 45, the baramoter is 29.21 and it’s 24ºf. When I last checked the radar there were classic “Lake Effect” bands all across the U.P. and in our corner of the state. Everyones talking about the end of Spring/Global Warming/Recession/Second coming/Time! Hell people, it’s April 4th, what the hell do you expect?!?!?
Archive for April, 2007
Seasonal changes
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007Mike Ellis writes….
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007Well, the senior Dems in Congress are traveling to Syria to conduct their own Foreign Policy which is contrary the Foreign Policy of the Bush administration.
Reminds me of the 1980’s when Congressional Dems traveled to Nicaragua to embraced Marxist Dictator Daniel Ortega. The Dems apologized to Ortega for President Reagan’s policy towards Ortega and towards the Sandinistas.
This trip to Syria is another example of Dem’s clueless attitude regarding the world’s realities. The Dem’s unrealistic “just give peace a chance” and “kumbaya” philosophies made them look foolish in the 1980’s and will make them look foolish now.
Please remember that it took western civilization 1500 years to overcome Christian terrorism and put individual freedom ahead of religious radicalism.
The Dems will have a more positive impact on improving America when they loose their 1960’s protest philosophies and come to understand the realities of religious fascism.
Mike
Seasonal changes
Monday, April 2nd, 2007Yesterday, April 1st, Mark and I headed over to the Mallard for a round of golf. The day had started out rainy and miserable, but as we worked in the garage in grew nicer and nicer. Just as a thought, I said to Mark; “Geez, it’d be a nice day to play golf” and he headed to get the clubs. We tied at a 63 for 8 holes and I lost two in the fourth hole pond.
A political view from Mike Ellis
Monday, April 2nd, 2007As a result of the 2006 elections, The Dems took the majority of seats in The Senate and The House of Representatives. The Dems were voted into the majority on promises to bring troops home from the middle east and to better American life. Their promises to better American life were never explained in detail, but the voters bought into it anyway. And, of course, The Dems promised to end the Bush Administration’s evil and demonic policies.
Well, the other night I had a nightmare about all this. A description of the nightmare follows:
I sat in on a Dems’ congressional planning meeting. The objective of the meeting was to schedule time on the causes The Dems think most important.
“We must solve the pending Social Security problem,” a freshmen Democrat urges.
“No time for that,” responds a senior Democrat. “We deceived the American people by proclaiming that Bush’s plan was a roulette wheel that would destroy their retirement. There was no truth to that, but the American public bought it. We have no plan of our own, but our political needs were served by misleading the American people. So, we don’t need to waste time on that.”
“What about MEDICARE?” urges another freshmen Dem. “I campaigned on improving MEDICARE.”
“No,” shouts another senior Dem. “We accumulated valuable political points by convincing Americans that Bush’s program serves only the rich. We have no plan of our own, but the American public does not understand that, because we spend so much time criticizing Bush’s plans. We told the American public that we will force into law a provision that requires the U.S. Government to negotiate MEDICARE drug prices. We will never accomplish that, because Dems and Republicans alike receive too much money in campaign contributions from the drug companies. If we all want to be re-elected we must do nothing, or the drug companies will cut off our money. Remember, the primary cause of all politicians is to get re-elected.”
A senior Senate Dem queries, “What about The President’s spending request for $103 billion for the Iraq war?”
A senior Dem responds, “Oh! That’s a deal, because we want to add $24 billion in pork. So, we don’t need to spend much time on it. We will divert the American public’s attention away from the pork by specifying that all troops must be out of Iraq by 2008, just before the elections.”
“What about Bush’s request that we extend his tax cuts beyond 2010? We have already told the American public that we plan not to extend the tax cuts.”
The speaker of the house responds, “We have deceived the American public into believing that Bush’s tax cuts were bad for them and only good for the rich and big business. That’s nonsense, of course, but such accusations is what got us the majority in congress. We should not bring up that subject until after The Dems win the White House in 2008. Then, we won’t make the tax cuts permanent, which actually increases taxes on everyone and will cause loss of jobs, but because of our political grandstanding we will have won the White House. Then, we can do what we want. So, no need to spend anymore time on that subject.”
“What about the firing of those federal attorneys by the Attorney General?” the Speaker questions to no one in particular.
A junior Dem questions, “Those firings were legal administrative actions. What could we possible gain from spending time on that.”
“Are you crazy!” shouts the Senior Dem Senator from Nevada. “We should hold hearings and issue subpoenas to senior White House officials. We can shout ‘foul’ and ‘unethical’ via the media. We hold televised hearings and accuse the Reps of evil doings. The accusations are baseless, of course, and the hearings are unnecessary, and none of it will improve American life, but it will earn us votes in 2008!”
“I totally agree!” the Speaker of the House says loudly.
