Funky Accounting

If you and I used the "funky" accounting Obama and his Democrat henchmen used to justify the cost of his new Health Care bill, we would be sent to jail. Their ponzie scheme makes Bernie Madoff's look like a scheme to steal pennies from the collection plate at church. The Obama Administration has incurred more national debt in a year than all the others put together. Whatever happened to responsible stewardship of the peoples money? Guess who was the last president to balance the nation's budget? Andrew Jackson!

Air Conditioning in Washington, D.C.

I have a great idea to save energy to protect the environment and to save us, the people, from the politicians. Remove the air conditioning from all federal buildings in Washington, D.C.

Years ago before the Era of Air Conditioning arrived, Congress met for only a few months in the spring time. Presidential inaugurations were held early in March because of the hazards and discomfort of traveling by stage or horseback during the cold winter months. Congress was convened thereabout and always adjourned by early June. Why? Because summers in Washington, D.C. without air conditioning are miserably hot and humid. No one wanted to stay hour upon hour in session perspiring within the confines of large buildings with only open windows to draw in more fresh air laden with heat and humidity. So, they quickly did the people's business, adjourned, and got out of town (went home).

Just think how much energy costs could be saved thus reducing the national debt. And, just think how much more prosperous we all would be if Congress had less opportunity for mischief.

Brevity and Clarity

It would be very instructive to know just precisely who all it was that cobbled together the Obamacare legislation of over 2,700 pages. Way back last September or there about when the first House of Representatives bill of about 2,500 pages was on the Internet I under took to read it. I read about a third of it by early December when it became evident it would be drastically changed and I realized I was reading fiction, so I stopped. When this most recent legislation that was passed by reconciliation and made available on the Internet I again began to read it to try to understand it. Ugh!! It was very little different from the original. Both are so convoluted, duplicative and unclear that it defies the imagination. So I quit reading after about 15 pages. I can't, for the life of me, understand what kind of minds conjure up such mental gyrations.

Brevity and clarity are the keystones of understanding. Is there any politician that understands this? Or, better yet, are there any persons that draft legislation that understand this? Or, do they intentionally do it to blur the issues?

A Trillion

Our president and political representatives toss $trillions around like they're nothing. A $trillion here and a $trillion there and pretty soon you're talking real money. We have a deficit of $9trillion. Just today it was revealed that ho-hum they (the Obama crowd) just under estimated the deficit a mere $1.2trillion. Well, think about this: If you were counting one $dollar bills and you were counting one bill a second it would take you 31,709 years plus a few months to count a $trillion. And, it would take you 317,090 years to count the national debt. Incredible! And, Obama thinks health care is more important than jobs. When people have no jobs they pay no taxes. No taxes and the country sinks further into the red. Red China, that is.

Would you rather?

Would you rather go moose hunting in Alaska with Sarah, or antique hunting at Haight-Asbury in San Francisco with Nancy?

Would you rather go fishing on the Salmon River in Alaska with Sarah, or watch tuna processed in the plant owned by Nancy's husband in American Samoa?

Would you rather go snow mobiling in Alaska with Sarah, or ride on the cable-car trolleys in San Francisco with Nancy?

Would you rather go snow skiing in Alaska with Sarah, or go skinny dippin' in The Bay with Nancy?

Would you rather shoot hoops with Sarah, or flip tiddley-winks with Nancy?

Would you rather have Sarah as your seat companion on a long bus trip, or have Nancy?

Would you rather have Sarah running a local charity fund raising event, or have Nancy running it?

Would you rather just hang out with Sarah, or hang out with Nancy?

Would you rather look at Sarah, or look at Nancy?

Would you rather trust your life with Sarah, or trust it with Nancy?

Would you rather have Sarah running the country, or have Nancy running it?

Would you rather vote for Sarah, or vote for Nancy?

If you answered "Sarah" to all questions then you are one smart person. If you answered "Nancy" to any. . . . . . .well, we just feel sorry for you.

Smart and Evil

All the political pundits on the national airwaves and in the halls of Congress espouse how smart Obama is. He even once taught constitutional law at the university level. He ran the smartest campaign ever. So, if he is as smart and intelligent as they all say he is, then to have purposefully done what he has done and what he wants to continue to do to our beloved country, then he is an evil man.

Love the IRS?

If you love the IRS you are in for a rare treat. Just think, you will have 16,000 new IRS agents to police your compliance with the mandates of Obamacare at an annual cost of about $1.6 billion for salaries alone. Now doesn't that make you feel all warm and fuzzy! And, this doesn't take into account the perpetual administrative costs of supporting and maintaining yet another bureaucratic arm of the Treasury Department. That will double the cost. And, Obamacare will save money and reduce the deficit? Get ready for the day that dreadful letter from the IRS arrives in your mailbox advising you that you are being audited for lack of compliance with the government run health care regulations. Can anyone say despotism?

Thank Goodness for Al Gore

Here it is the first day of Spring and its cloudy overcast with a stiff wind howling out of the north and its near freezing cold outside. Thank goodness for Al Gore. Just think how cold it would be if we didn't have global warming.

Obamacare Economics

Try as hard as I may I simply cannot get my brain around the concept that our government can provide health care for an additional 31 million people and at the same time spend less and reduce the deficit. How does that work? Fuzzy math and voodoo economics comes to mind.

Mama Hawk

A couple of years ago on my blog I followed the progress of a pair of red-tail hawks that nested high up in an oak tree in the far back part of our backyard. I posted from time to time the progress of the two young hawklets as they became grown and finally flew from the nest with all the consternations of the parent hawks. Last year they nested else where, if they nested at all.

This year I think mama hawk is nesting at the old nest again in our backyard. Earlier in the year I saw her make occasional visits to the old nest, but the past two weeks I have seen her visiting daily. I think maybe she intends to nest there again. For my nature loving readers I will periodically report on her progress if she does in fact nest here again. Papa hawk must be a scoundrel. I haven't seen him around.

Daylight Saving Time

Its Benjamin Franklin's fault. He had a lot of good ideas and inventions, but Daylight Saving Time was his dumbest idea. Government has been "jacking around" with the time ever since.

For years there was no uniform consensus until 1918 when the U.S. formally adopted An Act to Preserve Daylight and Provide Standard Time for the U.S. That law proved to be so unpopular that it was repealed in 1919 with a Congressional override of President Wilson's veto.

Daylight Saving Time became a local option and was continued in a few northeastern states until WW II when President Roosevelt instituted War Time (Daylight Saving Time) from February 1942 until September 1945. From 1945 to 1966 there was no federal law regarding Daylight Saving Time. States and localities were free to choose whether or not to observe it and choose when it began and ended. This caused a lot of confusion. On one 35-mile stretch of highway between Moundsville, WV and Seubenville, OH every bus driver and his passengers had to endure seven time changes.

Thus, The Uniform Time Act of 1966 was signed into law by President Johnson creating Daylight Saving Time to begin the last Sunday of April and end the last Sunday of October. The federal law was amended in 1986 to begin Daylight Saving Time on the First Sunday of April. Then, The Energy Act of 2005 extended Daylight Saving Time beginning in 2007 to start the second Sunday in March and end the first Sunday of November.

I don't really care how they determine the time just so government can settle on a final agreement, but I do object to being told I am saving daylight when all reason tells me I'm doing nothing of the kind. I even object more to the implication I am wasting time if I stay in bed after sun up. I further resent the government pushing me to bed earlier so I'll get up earlier to make me healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of myself. Its only government that thinks by cutting twelve inches off the top of a blanket and sewing it onto the bottom makes a longer blanket. And, they want to run our health care?