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Thursday, 12 November 2009

  • From this morning's email:

    I checked this teacher's home address and phone no. on "white pages" and she is for real; no unlisted no. or secret home address. I like this kind of gut!!
     

    --- IF THIS TEACHER HAS THE GUTS TO SEND THIS, WE SHOULD HAVE THE NERVE TO FORWARD IT.  SHE WILL PROBABLY LOSE HER JOB.  DO WE AMERICANS HAVE THE NERVE TO STAND BEHIND HER, IF WE AGREE, OR DO WE JUST LET HER AND OTHERS LIKE HER CARRY OUR LOAD? INTERESTING QUESTION.  

     Wow Again...

               This 4th grade teacher has said it all, and she was brave enough to attach her name to it.
                       

                         April 17, 2009


                         The White House
                         1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
                          Washington ,   DC   20500


                         Mr. Obama:
                         I have had it with you and your administration, sir.  Your conduct on your recent trip overseas has convinced me that you are not an adequate representative of the   United States of America collectively or of me personally.

                         You are so obsessed with appeasing the Europeans and the Muslim world that you have abdicated the responsibilities of the President of the United States of America .  You are responsible to the citizens of the United States ..  You are not responsible to the peoples of any other country on earth.

                         I personally resent that you go around the world apologizing for the United States telling Europeans that we are arrogant and do not care about their status in the world.  Sir, what do you think the First World War and the Second World War were all about if not the consideration of the peoples of   Europe ?  Are you brain dead?  What do you think the Marshall Plan was all about?  Do you not understand or know the history of the 20th century?

                         Where do you get off telling a Muslim country that the   United States does not consider itself a Christian country?  Have you not read the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution of the   United States ?  This country was founded on Judeo-Christian ethics and the principles governing this country, at least until you came along, come directly from this heritage.  Do you not understand this?

                         Your bowing to the king of Saudi Arabia is an affront to all Americans.  Our President does not bow down to anyone, let alone the king of Saudi Arabia .  You didn't show Great Britain , our best and one of our oldest allies, the respect they deserve yet you bow down to the king of Saudi Arabia ..  How dare you, sir!  How dare you!

                         You cant find the time to visit the graves of our greatest generation because you don't want to offend the Germans but make time to visit a mosque in Turkey ...  You offended our dead and every veteran when you give the Germans more respect than the people who saved the German people from themselves.  What's the matter with you? I am convinced that you and the members of your administration have the historical and intellectual depth of a mud puddle and should be ashamed of yourselves, all of you..

                         You are so self-righteously offended by the big bankers and the American automobile manufacturers yet do nothing about the real thieves in this situation, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Frank, Franklin Raines, Jamie Gorelic, the Fannie Mae bonuses, and the Freddie Mac bonuses. What do you intend to do about them?  Anything?  I seriously doubt it..

                         What about the U.S. House members passing out $9.1 million in bonuses to their staff members on top of the $2.5 million in automatic pay raises that lawmakers gave themselves?  I understand the average House aide got a 17% bonus.  I took a 5% cut in my pay to save jobs with my employer.  You haven't said anything about that.  Who authorized that?  I surely didn't!

                         Executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be receiving $210 million in bonuses over an eighteen-month period, that's $45 million more than the AIG bonuses.  In fact, Fannie and Freddie executives have already been awarded $51 million not a bad take.  Who authorized that and why haven't you expressed your outrage at this group who are largely responsible for the economic mess we have right now?

                         I resent that you take me and my fellow citizens as brain-dead and not caring about what you idiots do.  We are watching what you are doing and we are getting increasingly fed up with all of you.  

                         I also want you to know that I personally find just about everything you do and say to be offensive to every one of my sensibilities.  I promise you that I will work tirelessly to see that you do not get a chance to spend two terms destroying my beautiful country.

                         Sincerely,
                         Every real American

                         Ms Kathleen Lyday
                         Fourth Grade Teacher
                          Grandview Elementary School
                         11470 Hwy . C
                          Hillsboro , MO 63050

Thursday, 22 October 2009

  • Phony Science: Global Warming Warning!

    We have been taking and recording temperature measurements for about a hundred years now. If we accept one creation model, the Earth has a six thousand year weather history. Based on this model, we have recorded temperature measurements for only the last 1.6% of the Earth's history. If we accept an evolutionary model, the Earth is at least a billion years old. Based on this model, we have recorded temperature measurements for only the last 0.00001% of the Earth's history. In either case, there is not sufficient recorded history to make any assumptions about "normal" temperature.
     
    Maybe the Earth is warming up. Maybe it's cooling off. Maybe it's just coming back to normal.
     
    It is stupid to make major decisions based on insufficient evidence. Should you plan the rest of your life based on the most recent 17 minutes?
     
    I don't think so.

Wednesday, 14 October 2009

  • From Today's Email: A Cautionary Tale

    You're sound asleep when you hear  a thump outside your bedroom door.  Half-awake, and nearly paralyzed with fear,  you hear muffled whispers.   At least two people have broken into your  house and are moving your way.   With your heart pumping, you reach down  beside your bed and pick up your shotgun. You rack a shell into the chamber, then inch   toward the door and open it.
     
    In the darkness, you make out two shadows. One holds something that looks like a crowbar.  When the intruder brandishes it as if to strike,  you raise the shotgun and fire.  The blast knocks both thugs to the floor. One writhes and screams while the second  man crawls to the front door and lurches outside.
     
    As you pick up the telephone to call police,   you know you're in trouble.   In your country, most guns were outlawed years   before, and the few that are privately owned  are so stringently regulated as to make them useless.
     Yours was never registered.
     
    Police arrive and inform you   that the second burglar has died.  They arrest you for First Degree Murder  and Illegal Possession of a Firearm.  When you talk to your attorney, he tells  you not to worry: authorities will probably   plea the case down to manslaughter.
     
    "What kind of sentence will I get?" you ask.
     
     "Only ten-to-twelve years,"  he replies, as if that's nothing.   "Behave yourself, and you'll be out in seven."
     
    The next day, the shooting is the lead  story in the local newspaper.  Somehow, you're portrayed as an eccentric  vigilante while the two men you shot   are represented as choirboys.  Their friends and relatives can't find  an unkind word to say about them.
     
    Buried deep down in the article, authorities acknowledge that both "victims" have been arrested numerous times.   But the next day's headline says it all:   "Lovable Rogue Son Didn't Deserve to Die."   The thieves have been transformed from career criminals into Robin Hood-type pranksters.  As the days wear on, the story takes wings.  The national media picks it up,  then the international media.
     
    The surviving burglar has become a folk hero.
     
    Your attorney says the thief is preparing   to sue you, and he'll probably win.  The media publishes reports that your home has been burglarized several times in the past and that you've been critical of local police for their lack   of effort in apprehending the suspects.  After the last break-in, you told your neighbor   that you would be prepared next time.
     
    The District Attorney uses this to allege  that you were lying in wait for the burglars.
     
    A few months later, you go to trial.  The charges haven't been reduced,  as your lawyer had so confidently predicted.   When you take the stand, your anger at  the injustice of it all works against you.   Prosecutors paint a picture of you  as a mean, vengeful man.   It doesn't take long for the jury to convict  you of all charges.
     
     The judge sentences you to life in prison.
     
     This case really happened.
     
     On August 22, 1999 , Tony Martin of Emneth, Norfolk , England , killed one burglar and wounded a second.   In April, 2000, he was convicted   and is now serving a life term.  How did it become a crime to defend one's  own life in the once great British Empire ?
     
    It started with the Pistols Act of 1903.
     
    This seemingly reasonable law forbade selling pistols to minors or felons and established that handgun sales were to be made only to those who had a license. The Firearms Act of 1920 expanded licensing to include not only handguns but all firearms except shotguns.
     
    Later laws passed in 1953 and 1967 outlawed the carrying of any weapon by private citizens and mandated the registration of all shotguns.
     
    Momentum for total handgun confiscation began in earnest after the Hungerford mass shooting in 1987. Michael Ryan, a mentally disturbed man with a Kalashnikov rifle, walked down the streets shooting everyone he saw.
     
    When the smoke cleared, 17 people were dead.
     
    The British public, already de-sensitized by eighty years of "gun control", demanded even tougher restrictions. (The seizure of all privately owned handguns was the objective even though Ryan used a rifle.)
     
    Nine years later, at Dunblane , Scotland , Thomas Hamilton used a semi-automatic weapon to murder 16 children and a teacher at a public school.
     
    For many years, the media had portrayed all gun owners as mentally unstable or worse, criminals. Now the press had a real kook with which to beat up law-abiding gun owners. Day after day, week after week, the media gave up all pretense of objectivity and demanded a total ban on all handguns. The Dunblane Inquiry, a few months later, sealed the fate of the few sidearms still owned by private citizens.
     
    During the years in which the British government incrementally took away most gun rights, the notion that a citizen had the right to armed self-defense came to be seen as vigilantism. Authorities refused to grant gun licenses to people who were threatened, claiming that self-defense was no longer considered a reason to own a gun. Citizens who shot burglars or robbers or rapists were charged while the real criminals were released.
     
    Indeed, after the Martin shooting, a police spokesman was quoted as saying, "We cannot have people take the law into their own hands."
     
    All of Martin's neighbors had been robbed numerous times, and several elderly people were severely injured in beatings by young thugs who had no fear of the consequences. Martin himself, a collector of antiques, had seen most of his collection trashed or stolen by burglars.
     
    When the Dunblane Inquiry ended, citizens who owned handguns were given three months to turn them over to local authorities.  Being good British subjects, most people obeyed the law. The few who didn't were visited by police and threatened with ten-year prison sentences if they didn't comply.  Police later bragged that they'd taken nearly 200,000 handguns from private citizens.
     
    How did the authorities know who had handguns?
     
    The guns had been registered and licensed.
     
    Kind of like cars Sound familiar?
     
    WAKE UP AMERICA; THIS IS WHY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS PUT THE SECOND AMENDMENT IN OUR CONSTITUTION.
     
    "..It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.."
    --Samuel Adams


Thursday, 01 October 2009

  • From today's email

    WOW!!!
     
    How's this for apocalyptic literature. This was written by a pastor's wife in biblical prose as a commentary on current events. It is brilliant.
     
    ------------------------
     
    And it came to pass in the Age of Insanity that the people of the land called America, having lost their morals, their initiative, and their will to defend their liberties,
    chose as their Supreme Leader that person known as "The One."
     
    He emerged from the vapors with a message that had no meaning; but He hypnotized the people telling them, "I am sent to save you." My lack of experience, my questionable ethics, my monstrous ego, and my association with evil doers are of no consequence. I shall save you 
    with hope and Change. Go, therefore, and proclaim throughout the land that he who preceeded me is evil, that he has defiled the nation, and that all he has built must be destroyed. 
     
    And the people rejoiced, for even though they knew not what "The One" would do, he had promised that it was good; and they believed.
     
    And "The One" said " We live in the greatest country in the world. Help me change everything about it!"
     
    And the people said, "Hallelujah! Change is good!"
     
    Then He said, "We are going to tax the rich fat-cats." And the people said "Sock it to them!" and "redistribute their wealth." 
     
    And the people said, "Show us the money!" 
     
    And then he said, "redistribution of wealth is good for everybody."
     
    And Joe the plumber asked, " Are you kidding me? You're going to steal my money and give it to the deadbeats??" 
     
    And "The One" ridiculed and taunted him, and Joe's personal records were hacked and publicized.
     
    One lone reporter asked, "Isn't that Marxist policy?" And she was banished from the kingdom!
     
    Then a citizen asked, "With no foreign relations experience and having zero military experience or knowledge, how will you deal with radical terrorists?" And "The One"
    said, "Simple. I shall sit with them and talk with them and show them how nice we really are; and they will forget that they ever wanted to kill us all!" 
     
    And the people said, "Hallelujah!! We are safe at last, and we can beat our weapons into free cars for the people!"
     
    Then "The One" said "I shall give 95% of you lower taxes." 
     
    And one lone voice said, "But 40% of us don't pay ANY taxes." 
     
    So "The One" said, "Then I shall give you some of the taxes the fat-cats pay!"
     
    And the people said, "Hallelujah! Show us the money!"
     
    Then "The One" said, "I shall tax your Capital Gains when you sell your homes!" And the people yawned and the slumping housing market collapsed. And He said, "I shall mandate employer-funded health care for every worker and raise the minimum wage. And I shall give every person unlimited healthcare and medicine and transportation to the clinics." And the people said, "Give me some of that!"
     
    Then he said, "I shall penalize employers who ship jobs overseas."
     
    And the people said, "Where's my rebate check?"
     
    Then "The One" said, "I shall bankrupt the coal industry and electricity rates will skyrocket!"
     
    And the people said, "Coal is dirty, coal is evil, no more coal! But we don't care for that part about higher electric rates." 
     
    So "The One" said, "Not to worry. If your rebate isn't enough to cover
    your expenses, we shall bail you out. Just sign up with the ACORN and your
    troubles are over!"
     
    Then He said, "Illegal immigrants feel scorned and slighted. Let's grant them amnesty, Social Security, free education, free lunches, free medical care, bi-lingual signs and guaranteed housing..." 
     
    And the people said, "Hallelujah!" and they made him king!
     
    And so it came to pass that employers, facing spiraling costs and ever-higher taxes, raised their prices and laid off workers. Others simply gave up and went out of business and the economy sank like unto a rock dropped from a cliff.
     
    The banking industry was destroyed.
     
    Manufacturing slowed to a crawl. And more of the people were without a means of support.
     
    Then "The One" said, "I am the "the One"- The Messiah - and I'm here to save you! We shall just print more money so everyone will have enough!" 
     
    But our foreign trading partners said unto Him. "Wait a minute. Your dollar is not worth a
    pile of camel dung! You will have to pay more"... 
     
    And "The One" said, "Wait a minute. That is unfair!!" 
     
    And the world said, "Neither are these other idiotic programs you have embraced. Lo, you
    have become a Socialist state and a second-rate power. Now you shall play by our rules!"
     
    And the people cried out, "Alas, alas!! What have we done?" But yea verily, it was too late. The people set upon The One and spat upon him and stoned him, and his name was dung. 
     
    And the once mighty nation was no more; and the once proud people were without sustenance or shelter or hope. And the Change "The One" had given them was as like unto a poison that had destroyed them and like a whirlwind that consumed all that they had built.
     
    And the people beat their chests in despair and cried out in anguish, "give us back our nation and our pride and our hope!!" But it was too late, and their homeland was no more.
     
     
    You may think this a fairy tale, but it's not.
     
    It's happening RIGHT NOW.
     
     
    THIS really tells it like it is.
     
    After reading it -- and before you go into the bathroom to throw-up -- send it to your friends and those you know who care about our country and what is happening to it under the rule of Commissar Obamanation.
     
    P.S. -- Yeah, this is too true to be funny.Tragic, but not funny; tragic but true.

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