Congressional Turkey of a Bill

cross posted at hepsy.wordpress.com

Thanksgiving. Twenty pound turkeys. Stuffing and all kinds of trimmings.

Turkey is best when it’s sliced before serving. Then cut into bite-sized pieces before inserting in mouth. Congress is looking to stuff the bird with things they don’t want to read, consume the whole turkey in one big swallow, then pass the gas off on us.

Yesterday the Senate began the turkey season with 60 votes for its two thousand seventy four (2,074) pages of S.1697. It’s difficult enough to imagine our busy Senators taking the time to count the pages, let alone read the words printed on them. As Senator Murkowski (another smart lady from Alaska) said, that 20 1/2-pound pile of the Senate’s 2,074 pages [propaganda] is a turkey of a bill.

Senator Boxer complained of the resolution’s objectors, “Nowhere on their desk do we see their bill. They have no answers, no solutions.” Here’s one. Cut the turkey into reasonable servings. Then cut it again, for bite size pieces. No need to pretend the Congressional Turkey bills are ready to serve. No need to practice gluttony. If it’s not suitable for Congress, it isn’t suitable for US, the citizens.…Read More

a Lady as President?

 

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What’s wrong with Sarah?

Sarah is a lady.

It was the image contrasting last year’s First Lady on the left and this year’s First Lady positioned on the right that made me realize my hesitancy with Sarah Palin.

Politics: always spinning, the truth is there, somewhere, usually tucked between the folds of the spun propaganda. The Left has made quite the investment in convincing US that Sarah is stupid. And they’re looking to spend more to discredit her, with the DNC currently raising money for attack ads against her. Shouldn’t take too long to figure out that the Left isn’t as convinced of her stupidity as they would present her, as they want you to believe.

I couldn’t quite put my finger on my hesitancy about Sarah. When considering the prevarication of MSM, political pundits and the DNC against her it became obvious that she is not stupid. Either she isn’t stupid, or the Piper on the Left is, for expending so much energy and money in paltering a truly stupid person. Or am I wrong, the Left really is that stupid?

Then I saw the Change picture, Laura on the left and Michelle on the right, and instantly knew why I was holding out in supporting Sarah. Sarah is a lady. She’s feminine. Can a Lady be an effective President?

Not every woman is a lady. Laura Bush is a graceful lady. As First Lady, Laura presented herself as well groomed, well dressed, as though she respects the people who look up to her. That’s Laura. Laura isn’t the first First Lady to be a graceful lady, but she is the most recent. Michelle, on the other hand, doesn’t hesitate to present herself rumpled and flippant. Laura filled her role as First Lady as a dignified lady. Michelle is extravagant in her nouveau riche position, yet all the gold in the world can’t make her the lady she is not. Michelle is filling her role as First Lady as, well, a pretentious woman.

When imagining a female President, isn’t it easier to picture a masculinized woman? What woman in power is, or has been, a lady, or even feminine? Few. Not recent women prominently in American politics, as Hillary C., Nancy P., Madeline A. or Janet N., hardly feminine. They’re women in power. Women, not Ladies.

It isn’t easy to picture a lady, feminine like Sarah, in the role of President, is it? Men like to look at her, and she’s smart. She’s sincere, likely the non-politician in her. She’s soft and cuddly, her edges feminine. Her administrative experience, tested decision-making, resilience to attack, etc., get lost when people look at her. Even with her glasses on she’s a sexy, feminine lady.

What’s wrong with Sarah? Sarah is a lady.

A lady can be every bit as effective as any man.

Especially a lady qualified as Sarah.

A Lady for President?

You betcha!

 

Mugshot Fashion Rage

There's a new fashion rage for Mugshots.

You can see it on my blog: Mugshot Fashion Rag

Creationist or Humanist?

Who would you rather govern you? Creationist or Humanist?

It was the video I posted, Expert Ignorance, that prompted the question.

I would choose the Creationist who recognizes the Creator identified in the Constitution: "...that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men..."

If the Creator doesn't exist and those rights are endowed by the reason of man,  then men are free to to take away those rights. But men cannot take away rights endowed by the Creator. (A friend wrote a bit about this, I may post it as a blog.)

-aloha!

Remaking America

Barack Hussein Obama is now President of United States of America. He has been consistent in his promise to Remake America. He promised again in his Inaugural speech. America can Change, now. America can become a people whose men, women and children will find their freedoms in the Government. America can change, and become like Boxer in Animal Farm. They're wrapped in pretty words, an emotionl snare: Remake America. Does America see the threat? Does America see insult?

Keeping the Gods Straight

Religions confuse things. Things are confused in the name of Religion. Take the gods, for instance. To confuse things, They (Those whose knowledge of Religion is based on gossip) say Jews, Christians and Muslims have the same god. That is so, not true! Here's the straight path to the differences in these three religions, with two gods among them. It's quite simplified, considering the many years covered. And I've kept the words intentionally simple, for clarity. The Jews came first. The name of their god was unpronounceable, so they used the letters that translate to YAHWEH. Other adjectives were sometimes use to identify their god, like God, just to make life easier. For centuries, they lived, played, worked and warred. Then Jesus was born, sometime in the season of Herod. The Romans, who ruled the Jews, didn't like Jesus, and oversaw his death. The Christians came along after Jesus died. Jesus was a Jew, and he never changed his religion. He was a man, a very special man, but man, he was. (note: theological omission, for clarity) He was recognized as the Savior the Jews were looking for. The ones who recognized that Jesus fulfilled the Laws of the Jews, followed him, Jesus. The followers were called Christians first in the Greek town of Antioch, decades after Jesus left. Christian means, (surprise!) followers of Christ, another name for Jesus. Christians did not change gods, they added a Savior. Jews and Christians still worship the same God, the same one as Abraham, and all those other old guys named in the Hebrew Holy Books and Christian Bible. (The religion of the Jews is Jewish, the culture is Hebrew, their land named Israel in 17th century BC.) The Christian Bible, in its Old Testament, you'll find the several Jewish Holy Books whose names mean, roughly, Law (this was divided into five books), History, Poetry and Prophecy. Again, the Christians added to the Jewish heritage, they did not dismiss it, and they kept the same god YAHWEH, using various adjectives like Lord or, again, God, avoiding the tongue-twister. The Muslims entered the scene in about the 6th century AD. It got sticky years before, after Ishmael, illegitimate son of Abraham, was born. Ishmael had to leave his father Abraham's place and found a rock and received promises. Down the road, Mohammed arrived, descended from Ishmael. Whatever God it was that Ishmael prayed to, I do not know, but Mohammed found a God, named Allah. (The name of this God is significant when you check out its origin.) The history of the Jews isn't lily white, but their season of slaughter is centuries past. (The Atheists, whose god isn't a topic here, slaughtered Christians in the first few hundred years of Christian existence.) The Christians had its season for killing, called the Christian Crusades. The Crusades was an war to reclaim the land, lifestyles, and lives overtaken by Mohammed's followers. This god named Allah, always was, and is now, foreign to both Jews and Christians. by hepsy