Ranting n raving again

This morning's Argus online poll asks: "Do you support a second stimulus package?"

Here we go again...supposedly conservative South Dakota responds with (at 5:15 am) 62% yes; 38% no.

I really would like to find out just where these people think this money is coming from...

NO!

Even better yet, here is my idea of a "stimulus package".

Reduce taxes, immediately, by 35 to 50 percent. Let us have the money in our pocket, and that will stimulate the economy in more ways than one.

Reduce con-gressional pay by two-thirds, immediately. Why does a con-gress critter need that kind of money anyway?

Repeal con-gress' non-participatory retirement program. The founding Fathers never anticipated having career poli-tic-ians in the government.

Unfederalize department of education. This is supposed to be a state thing anyway.

Suspend all federal gummint social spending. Let the lobbyists depend on encouraging the people to support their programs and ideas, not the con-gress critters who have no qualms about giving away other people's money.

Do away with the National Endowment for the Arts as a budget line item. Let the people who wish to further the arts in this country support it.

Privatize NPR and PBS, allow them to be user supported like the rest of the air waves.

Privatize social security, take it completely out of the hands of gummint bureaucrats.

And, you know what would really be a stimulus?

Make the inheritance tax retroactive to when the federal gummint started. Yes, let's go and get our pound of flesh from the fat cats, whose families amassed their fortune before the socialist/communist taxation began.

And then, let's just let the American people do what they do best...take care of themselves, and those around them.

An American Carol

Went to the theater last nite and watched "An American Carol".

What a HOOT!

Yeah, I laughed a lot...

but you know, I had a little trouble seeing the screen at one point, seems there was some fog, or moisture came up, and obscured the screen at one point.

Yeah, coulda ben my military mind reflecting on something personal.

Fun movie, think I am gonna have to go see it again.

I AM JOE

I am Joe

No matter how we look at it...we are either JOE, or we are dingbat dimmocrats or RINOS who have lost sight of what is important in and to this country.

May Almighty God have mercy on our souls, as we allow this great nation to dissolve into nothingness like so many other great nations before it.

We have met the enemy, and he is us!

S.T.A.N.D. U.P. for the U. S. of A.!

Blowen a little steam

Recently, I have heard Mamacita speak out about "stupid" people in restaurants, and fast food drive thrus, and in grocery store check out lines.

Not sure if they are peet peeves or not, I do know she has some cats, but I don't know about any other pets.

Alas, I digress, Mamacita does that too, did you know that?

Anyway, I thought I would take a moment and rant a little bit about a pet peeve I have, that has really come to the forefront since I have been driving school bus.

I am a firm believer, that if gummint ever instituted a "stupidity" test for anything, there would be a lot less licensed drivers on the road, and maybe, nah, better not go there...

There was a time in my adult life, that i believed that if stupidity cost money, there would be a lot less stupid people around: I don't believe that anymore...

Rush Limbaugh sez the most expensive commodity we have in this country is ignorance; I echo that with the caveat, that stupidity is just as costly.

I guess a lot of stupidity is a direct offshoot of ignorance... I just can't believe there is that much inbreeding going on in this country.

So, there!

Don't think Mamacita gets to have all the fun all the time...

Dear John Letter Advice from a Marine Wife

Pretty astute post over at Villainous company...

The first part may not be the best safe for work language, but when you get to her actual response there is much to touch your heart.

Having been a Marine, in Vietnam while married, and having been married and divorced a number of times, her thoughts definitely resonate with me.

good insight

Zendo Deb helps us to get a little idea of what we can look forward to in a "changed" gummint and country.

Senitmental ole you

I received an email from my high school alumnus coordinator (?) with a link to a slide presentation, with music entitled:
remembering the 60s.

If you remember, may be a little reminiscent for you, if you don't, may be interesting for you...

I personally spent the first two and a half years in hi skool, and the rest of the decade was in the Marine Corps with a year in Vietnam.