For a worthwhile New Years resolution. You're probably a wonderful person, just as you are, even if you eat too many procrastinations, drink too many cigarettes, or smoke too much caffeine.
A RESOLUTION
We hereby recognize that the presidency of Barack Hussein Obama has been a disaster. The corruption, incompetence and lack of experience demonstrated by the President, his advisers and allies in the U.S. Congress and the American news media have made Americans worse off economically and have damaged our alliances around the world and placed us at a disadvantage in relation to our enemies.
Four more years of this failed, corrupt and recklessly radical presidency would impart lasting and irreparable damage on the fabric of this country and expose us to further economic decline and dangers from overseas.
Therefore, we hereby resolve...
Additionally, you can resolve to read more at Mike's America, Hillbilly White Trash, and On Motivation & Chocolate, any of which will make you feel smarter than a Holiday Inn Express.
NOTE: One caveat I had to Mike's Resolution is that if Kooky Ron gets the nomination, I'll support a scheme to launch a third party and camp out on Chris Christie's lawn until he agrees to run.
Showing posts with label tea party. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tea party. Show all posts
Monday, January 2, 2012
Monday, January 17, 2011
Rally. Really? No, Raleigh.
From the flyer linked below,
You can download and print this flyer, and post it around your town. See you there, fellow Patriots!
It has been over 110 years since the Republicans have controlled both Houses of the (NC) General Assembly, and we should celebrate this achievement.I'd add perhaps, celebrate this achievement as a product of Tea Party patriotism, not to be confused with blind allegiance to the "R" party. But yeah, this is a great idea. And I hope to lend my support in person. Wednesday January 26, 11AM-1PM, Raleigh.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Why Do You Make The Big Bucks?
Back when I was building things for a living, I had these two laborers on the jobsite who were constantly trying to either get out of doing their assigned tasks or take credit for someone else's production. Their names: James Carter and Willie Clinton.
Seriously, if they'd have been state road-working employees, they'd have been outfitted with upside-down shirt pockets, so the shovels they'd be leaning on would have a place to catch and keep them from toppling over when/if they fell asleep standing up.
One day, I saw them talking with each other and was wondering what they were up to, when Willie walked over to me. He said, "We was wondering why it is that you make the big bucks."
I asked him if he didn't consider it possible that I earned more because I was willing to take on more responsibility and answer for my errors or wrong decisions instead of blaming someone else or some seismic anomaly, that I came to work prepared to do those things required to help my employer be successful, and that I considered his success was a good thing worth working for, and that I actually work harder and more efficiently than anyone else on that jobsite, and that I show up for work even when I don't feel like it, or because I do things myself that others in my charge cannot or will not do?
"No," he said, "I don't think that's why. I think there's something else."
"You're right," I said, "come here and I'll show you why I make the big bucks."
I walked over to a block wall that had been poured solid with concrete, and held my open hand in front of it.
"Now ball your fist, and hit my hand as hard as you can."
In a rare moment of compliance (or maybe it was just that he was willing to seize upon any opportunity to take a whack at me), Willie did just that. And I pulled my hand back, as he bloodied his knuckles on the unforgiving wall.
"That," I said to Willie, "is why I make the big bucks."
I watched Willie walk back to where Jimmy had been waiting expectantly.
Jimmy: "What'd he say, what'd he say?"
Willie then held his palm up in front of his own face and said, "hit my hand."
I chose those names in this tale because we've recently had a couple of former US Presidents by similar names inject themselves into the national discussion as if they're some kind of authority on, get this, the Tea Party and its emerging force as a voice for, and of, America.
Back in April, Slick Willie claimed that the Tea Party was "dangerous," but this past week was heard listing things "they" may be good for, peering professorially (and condescendingly) over his bifocals. And Jimmy the peanut head recently suggested that Tea Party rallies were a lot like his own Presidency.
Wow. Things are so bad now for the Corruptocrats that the two most-recent, most egregious examples of Presidential ineptitude not named Obama are swimming hard as hell to get in front of the wave, in an effort to deflect the reality that honest, law-abiding citizens who never envisioned themselves at a political rally, are indeed rallying to protest all the big-government intrusion and dependency that these two fostered and perpetuated their entire political lives. Next thing you know, Owl Gore will be claiming to have invented the Tea Party.
It isn't a single person that gives the Tea Party ralliers their drive and focus, it's the result of caging good people in an ever-deepening invasion of statism. The more those statists try to put their own brand on the Tea Party movement or belittle and ridicule its participants, or infiltrate those ranks with nutcases bent on smear tactics, the more they succeed in only defining themselves for everyone paying attention as the real enemies of America. Like that bumper sticker said, "If they don't want civil disturbance, why do they keep disturbing us?" The answer is that they just don't get it.
Power, for the statist, is the only thing that matters. More laws and more regulations equals more authority and control. Kinda like if I'd have let Willie and Jimmy have a "boss-for-a-day" experiment on the job, these folks have taken the past 23 months and proven just how inept and corrupt and un-American and rabidly evil they can be, given such unbridled authority.
The thing they did not count on was that good people maybe wouldn't sit silently while their country was sabotaged by its government. We've seen the harm you can, and will, bring to our economy and national security, and individual liberty. It would seem that enough good Americans weren't numb or asleep or addicted to your benevolence, despite the hardiest efforts of your assumed intelligensia and media, and none of your twists and perversions and slander come as a surprise to us now.
Anything other than finding useful occupation outside and away from public scrutiny, now that we've all seen you for what you truly are, only serves to reinforce our understanding of your destructive motivation, and the inherent danger therein.
...And for all those folks out there who were duped by empty Democratic rhetoric, Dennis Prager has a spot-on essay for overcoming emotional hurdles when it comes to "Danger on the right" at TownHall.com. Please consider checking it out.
Seriously, if they'd have been state road-working employees, they'd have been outfitted with upside-down shirt pockets, so the shovels they'd be leaning on would have a place to catch and keep them from toppling over when/if they fell asleep standing up.
One day, I saw them talking with each other and was wondering what they were up to, when Willie walked over to me. He said, "We was wondering why it is that you make the big bucks."
I asked him if he didn't consider it possible that I earned more because I was willing to take on more responsibility and answer for my errors or wrong decisions instead of blaming someone else or some seismic anomaly, that I came to work prepared to do those things required to help my employer be successful, and that I considered his success was a good thing worth working for, and that I actually work harder and more efficiently than anyone else on that jobsite, and that I show up for work even when I don't feel like it, or because I do things myself that others in my charge cannot or will not do?
"No," he said, "I don't think that's why. I think there's something else."
"You're right," I said, "come here and I'll show you why I make the big bucks."
I walked over to a block wall that had been poured solid with concrete, and held my open hand in front of it.
"Now ball your fist, and hit my hand as hard as you can."
In a rare moment of compliance (or maybe it was just that he was willing to seize upon any opportunity to take a whack at me), Willie did just that. And I pulled my hand back, as he bloodied his knuckles on the unforgiving wall.
"That," I said to Willie, "is why I make the big bucks."
I watched Willie walk back to where Jimmy had been waiting expectantly.
Jimmy: "What'd he say, what'd he say?"
Willie then held his palm up in front of his own face and said, "hit my hand."
I chose those names in this tale because we've recently had a couple of former US Presidents by similar names inject themselves into the national discussion as if they're some kind of authority on, get this, the Tea Party and its emerging force as a voice for, and of, America.
Back in April, Slick Willie claimed that the Tea Party was "dangerous," but this past week was heard listing things "they" may be good for, peering professorially (and condescendingly) over his bifocals. And Jimmy the peanut head recently suggested that Tea Party rallies were a lot like his own Presidency.
Wow. Things are so bad now for the Corruptocrats that the two most-recent, most egregious examples of Presidential ineptitude not named Obama are swimming hard as hell to get in front of the wave, in an effort to deflect the reality that honest, law-abiding citizens who never envisioned themselves at a political rally, are indeed rallying to protest all the big-government intrusion and dependency that these two fostered and perpetuated their entire political lives. Next thing you know, Owl Gore will be claiming to have invented the Tea Party.
It isn't a single person that gives the Tea Party ralliers their drive and focus, it's the result of caging good people in an ever-deepening invasion of statism. The more those statists try to put their own brand on the Tea Party movement or belittle and ridicule its participants, or infiltrate those ranks with nutcases bent on smear tactics, the more they succeed in only defining themselves for everyone paying attention as the real enemies of America. Like that bumper sticker said, "If they don't want civil disturbance, why do they keep disturbing us?" The answer is that they just don't get it.
Power, for the statist, is the only thing that matters. More laws and more regulations equals more authority and control. Kinda like if I'd have let Willie and Jimmy have a "boss-for-a-day" experiment on the job, these folks have taken the past 23 months and proven just how inept and corrupt and un-American and rabidly evil they can be, given such unbridled authority.
The thing they did not count on was that good people maybe wouldn't sit silently while their country was sabotaged by its government. We've seen the harm you can, and will, bring to our economy and national security, and individual liberty. It would seem that enough good Americans weren't numb or asleep or addicted to your benevolence, despite the hardiest efforts of your assumed intelligensia and media, and none of your twists and perversions and slander come as a surprise to us now.
Anything other than finding useful occupation outside and away from public scrutiny, now that we've all seen you for what you truly are, only serves to reinforce our understanding of your destructive motivation, and the inherent danger therein.
...And for all those folks out there who were duped by empty Democratic rhetoric, Dennis Prager has a spot-on essay for overcoming emotional hurdles when it comes to "Danger on the right" at TownHall.com. Please consider checking it out.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Call Me Capricious, Then
I just never really find myself in disagreement with The Hammer. Except, well, this time.
Charles Krauthammer said yesterday that Sarah Palin's endorsement of Christine O'Donnell versus Mike Castle in Delaware, is "destructive and capricious", because in his assessment she has no chance of beating the Democrat in November but Castle would be a "shoo-in."
While I do see the value of having the raw numbers of "R's" in the Senate and all the inherent reconstructive power of a conservative majority, the time for half-measures is long gone. Chris Christie didn't seem particularly electable, and neither did Scott Brown. I don't want any shoo-ins, unless they've proven dependable in flawlessly adhering to the Constitution, and Castle can't remotely make that claim.
Out with establishment RINO's. I'd rather lose with the good guys than win with the losers.
And a vote for Castle is a vote to just lose a little, instead of maybe winning a lot.
UPDATE: Michelle Malkin reminds us that "9 terms (of phony republicanism) are enough."
UPDATE 2: Check out Mark Levin and Jim DeMint ("I've been here when we had the numbers, and we didn't have the principles") at the National Review. Reference the Mark Levin podcast pane.
Charles Krauthammer said yesterday that Sarah Palin's endorsement of Christine O'Donnell versus Mike Castle in Delaware, is "destructive and capricious", because in his assessment she has no chance of beating the Democrat in November but Castle would be a "shoo-in."
While I do see the value of having the raw numbers of "R's" in the Senate and all the inherent reconstructive power of a conservative majority, the time for half-measures is long gone. Chris Christie didn't seem particularly electable, and neither did Scott Brown. I don't want any shoo-ins, unless they've proven dependable in flawlessly adhering to the Constitution, and Castle can't remotely make that claim.
Out with establishment RINO's. I'd rather lose with the good guys than win with the losers.
And a vote for Castle is a vote to just lose a little, instead of maybe winning a lot.
UPDATE: Michelle Malkin reminds us that "9 terms (of phony republicanism) are enough."
UPDATE 2: Check out Mark Levin and Jim DeMint ("I've been here when we had the numbers, and we didn't have the principles") at the National Review. Reference the Mark Levin podcast pane.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
What if everyone quit?
TEA PARTY FOR ONE (Pt. 2)
The few folks who were aware of my plans to thumb my nose on April 15 warned me that not filing would mean that I'd have no recourse later. But I don't care. No, that's not true...I do care about those things I've worked hard for, and don't want them confiscated (stolen). And I've never been to jail, but I don't think I'll enjoy it. And the ironic truth of the matter is that, had I submitted those filings, my wallet would definitely be fatter right now. I paid more tax last year, by far, than the net sum owed would be, given the "deductions" which I certainly could have taken.
I made 12 mortgage payments (did it myself, ha!), most of which were interest.
I had healthcare costs that I paid out of pocket; not piddly-ass shit, either.
I had business expenses that literally dwarf the amount of what would be my tax.
I had unrecovered losses due to scoundrels who couldn't find their checkbooks.
And I would have had an accountant paid to sort through it all.
But the point is, it doesn't matter. Let them keep that cash as my last investment in their grand scheme. Perhaps they can use it to offset their prosecutorial expenses!
I know you can't eat your principles, but I just couldn't go through another tax season gnashing my teeth over the whole process of laying bare my worth, and so many other facets of my existence, to that great self-perpetuating machine that does nothing if not abuse that worth. So, I refused to play their silly little reindeer games this year, as I'll also refuse from here on out.
The threat of voting those bozos out "next term" hasn't ever stopped them from taxing more and prying deeper in the past, has it? They make new laws for the sake of having new laws and refer to government handouts as "tax breaks." Not that I want to lead any big revolution, but what if everyone right now changed their filing status with their respective employers to accomodate the least amount of weekly govenment-enforced theft, and said to those vermin inhabiting the Capitols in Washington and Raleigh, "steal from me now, but do not expect my complicity next April..."?
The only certainty regarding taxation is that it requires your willing assent. I stopped giving it, and wonder out loud how effective it would be if everyone else did likewise.
I had a girlfriend a few years ago (only temporarily, thank God!) who possessed three young'uns and earned (as a hairstylist) less than 20 grand a year. Every year about this time, she made arrangements for her end-of-the-schoolyear, weeklong, beach vacation that she affords because of her...wait for it...I am not making this shit up...
INCOME TAX REFUND.
Not just rough-camping somewhere within a long walk of the beach, but a weeklong rental...HOUSE...on...the...beach. Again, with clarity: ON the beach.
This is the equation, folks. You will be paying for her beach vacation next year, because you will pay and she will collect the refund. [For the full effect, re-read the previous sentence and when you get to the italicized word, think of Jerry Seinfeld saying his neighbor Neuman's name sneeringly: "NEUMANNNNN".]
If I was getting assaulted and didn't kick up much fuss, my assailers might get the idea that I didn't mind it so much. I mean, getting taxed is one thing, but being forced to endure a rectal probe every April 15th to prove you were taxed appropriately seems a bit excessive. Why not just quit?
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Get away for tea & dogs
Road trip!
Our State magazine this month has a series on weekend mini-vacation ideas. I haven't gotten to those articles, yet, but they include trips centered around baseball, shopping, golf, history, and romance (eleven articles in all). I'd like to briefly suggest a 12th:
From Sister Toldjah, and her reader Donna, Saturday March 21st in Raleigh will be a Tea Party to "revolt against Barack Obama's big government spending ways." The aforelinked link also has a link to a Facebook site where you can note your planned attendance.
Fish Camp Barbie recently reminded me of the fabulous Roast Grill in Raleigh. Well, okay...their website says "No Sweet Tea," so I'm not too sure how fabulous that equation can be, but you gotta love the No Heinz T-shirt. And, if you combine the two, you'll have the best of both worlds. Bring your own Hunt's, shove a half-dozen dogs down yer thote, then go over to the Capitol (East side) & get your Tea Party on. Walking distance, kids! And, as the FCB informs, The Roast Grill is to be the destination for an upcoming Man Vs. Food episode. You can watch the show and proclaim, "I was just over there!" Oops, editorial update: While researching the show schedule, I learnt that this episode is slated to air on March 18th. So, that means that when you're watching it, you'll be saying, "That's where I'll be on Saturday...and I'll eat more hotdogs than Adam did!"
Like the Sister, make mine SWEET and no lemon...not so much on the lotsa ice, though!
I 'spect to be there.
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