A recent newspaper article made me think of a rather old Mel Gibson movie. Mad Max was filmed long before the ranting and raving Gibson of today or at least he had better P.R. people back then. Mad Max depicted a post-apocalyptic world of lawless gangs battling for what was left of valuable resources. Most of the memorable parts of the movie involved extreme highway chases using pumped up cars, trucks and motorcycles. Of course it was a story about good versus evil.
The mascot of our local school district happens to be a dog. Needless to say there aren’t many sports games played that the famous song by The Baha Men isn’t blared over the loudspeakers ten years after the song was popular and 9.5 years after it was tolerable.
The “dog” in this post is none other than our esteemed VP, Joe Biden. For the life of me I cannot understand why he is not kept under wraps. Even the lame-stream media cannot smother all of the things that come out of his mouth. Maybe his freedom is part of a “contrast” strategy whereby Obama looks bright and measured by comparison. A more likely scenario is that by shooting off his mouth, BHO can always jettison him before the next presidential election in favor of a more “suitable” running mate. By “suitable” I mean Hillary (she is famous for wearing pants suits).
Now with over eighteen months in the White House the Obama Regime is having to come to grips with ruling versus running. Even though he still seems to be in campaign mode, Obama has to be coming to the realization that being the President of the United States is not anything like community organizing. He can no longer say anything he wants or make conflicting promises. He is still doing it, but citizens have expectations that are not being met.
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In John F. Kennedy’s famous “moon” speech he captured America’s attention and opened the door wide with a broad proclamation that the United States would reach the moon within the decade;
Bunker Hill, Trenton, Antietam (Sharpsburg for you southerners), Cold Harbor, Gettysburg, Argonne , Iwo Jima, Midway, Utah Beach, Inchon, Hamburger Hill, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan should mostly be familiar to you as sites where America found glory while many of its sons and daughters gave their last full measure.
These famous battles could not have been won without dedicated military leaders. You know the guys who would lead the charge up that hill, up the beach, or across that field. It always intrigued me about how soldiers follow their leaders even though many know that death awaits. Medals are often given to those that die or are wounded, but not enough is given to those who simply follow and fight.
The joke goes; A Brit, a Canadian, a Croatian, a Frenchman, a German, an Irishman, a Mexican, a Romanian, a Dutchman, a Norwegian, a South Korean, and a Swede rush out of a bar one day. Barry the bartender says “What’s the hurry? Did someone spill something?
The joke unfortunately is on us as our federal goverment has refused the help of these nations to control and clean up the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Many of us seriously have our doubts that the White House was on top of things from “day one,” but the linked article provides a glimpse into the fact that many of our allies offered help in our hour of need. The Dutch, in particular, offered help almost from DAY ONE. Here we are nearly two months later and the Obama administration is still refusing help from other countries.
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Chicago is having a pretty good year if you follow the old adage that all press is good press. Even with “bad” press you are still in the news. The Blackhawks made it to the Stanley Cup Finals. Their junior member of the Senate is now the President of the United States and many of Chicago’s operatives are now employed by the White House.
Everyone in the United States of America should breathe a collective sigh of relief. Our third world neighbor to the south has given permission, in principle, to Obama’s plan to send 1,200 National Guard troops to help with border security. Mexico’s President Calderon did impose one condition to Obama. The troops may not arrest Mexicans trying to illegally enter the United States.
What gives the leader of failing country like Mexico the cajones to tell Barry what he can do about border security. Maybe he was emboldened by the invertebrates that work in Washington. I think if you added up all of the spinal material in Congress and the White House you’d barely have enough to make one complete backbone.
Aging hippies from the sixties cannot get enough protesting as they fight to maintain their anti-establishment credibility. Many of these folks, now over the trusting age of 30, are in positions of power or as they would have said decades ago, part of the establishment. Their righteous tactics to stop a war has turned into a methodology to gain more power and intimidate their targets. No group may be worse that Obama’s friends at the Service Employees International Union (“SEIU”).
A local middle and high school had to be evacuated yesterday. Nearly 2,000 students, faculty and officials were forced out of the school and sent to the local football field and they were later sent home. Two students and three custodians had to be decontaminated and hazardous materials responders had to be brought in.
If you read the original post you probably guessed that mercury was somehow involved and it obviously was leaked. I seems that a student broke…drum roll please…a thermometer. I bet you thought that the student broke a CFL bulb.
