Falling chips.....

Interesting how less than two years of Obamas hope 'n change has America pining for the 'good ol days' of Geo. Bush.
C'mon folks, we all know the enormity of the problem that confronted the Bush administration.
The huge cost of war exacerbated by worldwide profiteering pushed us down the road toward an impossible position between a rock ‘n a hard place.
The 'Tax 'n Spend' philosphy of the Democrat controlled Congress has taken us over the brink.
We suffer under too much government, too much taxation, and too much regulation.
I don't know how many of you have noticed, but Obamas sweeping changes come not from Congress and voter approved legislation but from additional and unwarranted regulation.
Our rising unemployment (in excess of 20%, not the 9% claimed) is the end result of over-regulation, hidden taxes, 'n the growing bureaucracy. Y'might say the Europeanization of America.
We have given away our manufacturing capability in favor of 'Made in China' products.
Our unions, which far too many people still blindly believe in have helped to drive our jobs away.
Countries that receive billions in aid from us are thriving as we founder.
Obamas Congress borrows trillions to provide our unemployed with welfare disguised as 'unemployment benefits'.....there seems no end to our culpability putting the lie to Lincoln's "You can't fool all the people all the time."
Evidently, you can!

A quest for sanity.....

T’is the quietest of Sunday mornings as I sit here watching the computer clock tick off the seconds as they pass.....reminds me of all the clocks counting down the seconds until the turn of the century ten years ago...
There were some who swore the world was coming to an end, that the millenia somehow marked the end of humankind on this spinning blue ball we’re riding....
I saw a scientific article (not that I have any great faith in science) that the deep-space camera had revealed a large number of earthlike planets in our expanding view of the universe.....English is such an imprecise language...
one of the articles I read said that we have a lot more universes than we ever imagined....I suspect that’s a case of good, better, ‘n best where something is good but better is gooder ‘n best is goodest ‘n it don’t get any better than that.....ah well, the hunt for superlatives is a never-ending quest....
We are inundated with superlatives on the telly ‘n the ‘net...we have a plentitude of magnificence in the tawdry world of advertising where ‘nothing was ever as great as the product of the moment but we’re coming out with a new and improved version of it tomorrow.....Once upon a time in the long, long ago (well, maybe not that long ago) there was a bar, a saloon really, out on Franklin Blvd in south Sacramento called ‘Club Four’...I don’t know that the name had any great significance but I imagine it had some....at least, to the owner....I’ve forgotten his name altho’ at the time I considered him t’be a friend ‘n we had many long ‘n serious discussions about his hometown of Chicago ‘n the relative merits of beer.... particularly Chicago brews versus California brews..... He was fond of the heavier brews of Chicago (higher alcohol content) and he seven percent beer shipped to him from a back home relative....if the bar was empty during one of our conversations, he would go into the back room ‘n return with uncapped bottles of seven percent Stroh’s beer from Chi-town....but I digress (not unusual) as I was talking about tomorrow....there was a huge banner hanging over the bar at the Club Four that read, “Free beer tomorrow!”.....’n of course, tomorrow is always tomorrow ‘n you can’t ever get there from here.....I’m just sayin’.......

justinother p'litical rant.......

Sometimes I just can’t help m’self ‘n it comes bubbling out.....I just saw POTUS on the teevee explaining how he just signed a bill that’s gonna save the poor but honest Homesteaders from the rampaging Cattle Barons...oops, I mean he personally stopped the evil Republicans from stopping unemployment payments to the poor but honest Democrat working men ‘n women....He (POTUS) also signed a bill making it illegal for the government to continue breaking the law by writing checks to people ‘n institutions that aren’t supposed to get them...’n by making it against the law to break the law, he’s gonna cut those ‘illegal payments’ in half....
I gotta stop now, I think I’m getting a headache......

Don't tread on me......

So, I was just thinking.....what, exactly are ‘liberal values’.....I mean, as opposed to ‘conservative values’....
The Democrat ‘n Republican parties seem to be at polar opposites.....whatever one is for, the other is against....
seems kind of childish but, after all, t’is politics.....but what about real people ‘n real values....If I, as a conservative, value human dignity, does that mean that self-identified liberals don’t.....If I value truth, do liberals value lies? That doesn’t make any sense at all...
So here’s my list of values:
I place a high value on truth. I’ve seen and experienced the damage that a simple lie can effect and, as a result, aver that truth, no matter how painful in the moment is less painful in the end.
I believe in the rule of law. Again, I’ve seen and experienced the damage of injustice.
I believe in the responsibility of self. Every action has a consequence. Quoting Baretta, “Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.”
I believe in charity and the karma that comes from helping someone in need. I believe that ‘what goes around, comes around.’ I’ve seen the good that comes from people helping people.
I believe in the efficacy of prayer.
I’m finding, in this list, that I believe in a great many things, so many in fact, that I hesitate to go on. I don’t believe that these values are of a conservative or liberal bent, but more likely just plain old basic human stuff.
Oh, and from a strictly conservative point of view, I don’t believe in having a government tell me what time I should go to bed or get up in the mornings; nor shall it tell me how often I should eat or what I should eat. It is not government business to tell me that I’m too fat or too skinny. Whether I smoke or drink or eat fattening foods is nobodys business but my own. I don’t understand why someone who favors abortion can oppose the death penalty. I oppose government interference in anybodys personal life. I’m pro-marriage but I don’t give a damn who or what someone else may marry. I don’t care what my neighbor does so long as he has enough respect not to step on my toes while he’s doing it.

Remind me to tell you some day......

“There y’go again.” Ronald Reagan

Quoting m’daughter who was quoting someone else, I’m sure...”The ability to quote is a good substitute for wit.”
That said, I wuz thinkin’ agin, mainly cuz I can’t get to sleep, about all the quotes I’ve used over the years....I try always to identify who or where I’m quoting from but I don’t always remember (Been known to sumtimes think I made it up m’self)....t’nite I wuz reminded that an awful lot of the quotes come from the Bible....I spect in the Jewish world, a lot of quotes come from the Talmud ‘n in the Islamic world, when they c’n get past the Allahu Akbar nonsense, they prob’ly quote a lot from the Koran (or Quran or whatever else they might be calling it)....
Also, y’get a lot of quotes from Shakespeare albeit sumtimes unknowinly....I still remember seeing a Shakespeare play as a teenager (a movie of one of his plays ackshully) ‘n being surprised that so much of the dialogue was familiar t’me just from daily speech... not all that surprising when y’consider that the lowly ‘n disdained hillbilly jargon that the elititist show bizness people made so much fun of wuz basically the language of Shakespeare ‘n hillbillies prob’ly wouldn’t have had any trouble understanding the actors at the original Globe Theatre of Shakespeares time.....(I’m just sayin....”)
Anyways, if I can’t identify something as having come from the Bible or Bill Shakespeare, I find that it usually came from Mark Twain or Will Rogers (both of whom, I believe, were voracious readers ‘n inclined t’take credit for whatever issued from their mouths)....
I began this little discourse with a quote from Ronald Reagan who was famous for quoting old movie lines, so much so, in fact, that he sometimes confused old movie plots with real life but, what the heck, somebody once famously said, “Art imitates life imitating art.”....or vice versa.....
Obama who is famous for being a great orator (altho’ I for one don’t see it) has yet to say anything memorable, other than ‘hope ‘n change’ that is ‘n Sarah Palin made that line more memorable than Obama....y’know, for a great orator, he sure has trouble explaining himself to reg’lar folk....which reminds me of an old movie wherein that great character actor, Walter Slezak, said, “Why should the little people have to think for themselves when they have great minds to think for them?”
I dunno, I’m just sayin......

Possibilities.....(the argument against AZ 'n other things)

I don’t think I c’d handle affluence very well...not that I’m ever likely to have the chance but, I’m just sayin’....
What brought this to mind was a scene in an old movie where the hero was spreading caviar on a cracker ‘n preparing to wash the ‘hull thing down with a glass of champagne....not that I don’t like champagne....well, I used to like it back in the day.....no, it’s the tho’t of eating those little black fish eggs....or the cheaper red eggs.....at least, I think the red is cheaper than the black but honestly I have no way of knowing since caviar has never been a part of my diet.....
I dunno, maybe I'm beginning to understand Obamas' tactic of dealing with our immigration problem...IF he bankrupts the USA and sends all our jobs to other countries, then we'll be poor and people in other countries won't want to immigrate to the US....a really simple solution....if nobody wants to come here, we won't have the problem....I don't know why I didn't see this before now..
my fault, I spoze, for having been born a hillbilly....

When I grow up.....

I was watching that commercial again, y’know the one, all those old people saying what they want’a be when they grow up.....I told Millyrose that I want’a be a curmugeon when I grow up ‘ n she told me I already was....so I looked it up....the word, I mean.....”a angry or surly person”.....I don’t think I c’n do it...Oh, I c’n get grouchy for a little bit but I can’t stay that way ‘n I ‘m almost never surly which translates as “bad-tempered and unfriendly”....too much Smith, I suppose....my mother, on the other hand, could be curmugeonly at times....I expect it was a bit of that dark Irish soul that was buried somewhere in her psyche ‘n no doubt had its roots in The Bradshaw.....Mom never talked much about the Bradshaws....didn’t seem to like ‘em all that much...
said the old man had a brogue so thick that she couldn’t understand much of what he said....anyways, when the temper was upon her, she’d cloud up like a summer storm in the mountains ‘n rain on everybodys parade....
fortunately, her storms didn’t last too awful long, at least not long enuff for her to be a successful curmugeon ‘n I suffer from much the same Smith curse....I just can’t seem to stay angry long enuff to be a really good curmugeon (sighhhhh...lack of talent, I suppose)