Granddaughter's Softball Team

I just have to brag a little about my granddaughter and her softball team, The ThunderCats. They play in an instructional league for 7 and 8 year olds. Her dad is the manager for the team with two parents (one dad and one mom) assisting as coaches. The ThunderCats were unbeaten during the regular season. My granddaughter ended the regular season with a .664 batting average. They lost only one game in the championship tournament, but came out on top as champions in the final game with a 20 to 7 win over the only team they lost to. My granddaughter had four hits and scored four runs in the final game. As you can tell, I'm proud of her, and my son. He did an excellent job working with the girls.

Practicing Ignorance

A new phrase has entered the lexicon of American political language. Its called "practicing ignorance."

What is it you say?

Its when a politician or bureaucrat professes ignorance of a law or an issue so he can demagogue it. Case in point is when Attorney General Eric Holder was quoted numerous times on live television that the Arizona illegal immigration law would violate civil rights, result in racial profiling and all kinds of other undesirable things when in fact it does not allow any of those things. And, when Holder was asked directly if he had read the law he said he had not, because if he said he had, when in fact he probably had read it, then he would have to admit he was a liar. The same goes for Janet Napolitano, Mexican President Felipe Calderon, and even the man himself, Obama.

So, instead of practicing honesty, they practice ignorance to advance their agenda at the expense of honesty, and to cover their backsides. You know and I know they darn well did read the Arizona law. It is only sixteen pages, not some two thousand plus page monstrosity piece of legislation no one read.

Whatever happened to transparency?

Iranian Border Security

Its strange to me that three Americans hiking along the Iraq-Iran border stray over into Iran and they are immediately apprehended by Iranian border guards and jailed, but the United States of America, the strongest nation on earth, cannot stop the tsunami of illegal immigrants flooding over its Southern Border. There's something dreadfully wrong with this picture.

Old Age and Pills

When I was much, much younger I often wondered why old folks sat around and talked and talked about their aches, pains, pills, operations, doctors, etc. I now know why.

My brother and his wife recently visited for several days. He and his wife are in their late seventies. My wife is in her late seventies. I'll be 82 in December. There was a lot of conversation about our aches, pains, pills, etc., etc.

The sad commentary is that as we age those things become very much a part of our daily lives.

Busing Illegal Immigrants

I have the perfect solution to Arizona's illegal immigrant problem. When the Arizona police arrest illegal immigrants don't try to turn them over to ICE for deportation to Mexico. Hold them in detention until there is a bus load. Then, put them on a bus, take them to 14th and G Streets in Washington, D.C. and release them. Let the Feds take care of them. Its their responsibility anyhow. I wonder how many bus loads it will take to get some Obama action.

Citizenship - George Lopez

This was a most appropriate remark. Funny and to the point, but a sad state of affairs:

The Hispanic comedian, George Lopez, appearing on The View television program said: "If the president doesn't have to prove his citizenship then why do we have to?"

Touche!!

Supreme Court Justices

This is a list of the current Supreme Court Justices and the undergraduate and law schools they attended. The first institution of higher learning listed after their names is the school where they received their undergraduate degree. The second institution listed is the school of law where they received their law degree.

Roberts - Harvard/Harvard

Stevens - University of Chicago/Northwestern

Alito - Princeton/Yale

Scalia - Georgetown/Harvard

Kennedy - Stanford/Harvard

Thomas - Holy Cross/Yale

Ginsberg - Cornell/Harvard

Breyer - Stanford/Harvard

Sotomayor - Princeton/Yale

Kagan (nominee) - Princeton/Harvard

Is it me, or what? Don't I see a predominance of Ivy League institutions, especially Harvard? Why is this? Is our Constitution and legal system being judged by a group of elitists influenced by a select group of so called elite intellectuals at Harvard and Yale that don't have the slightest notion of what the real world is really like? It looks like a conspiracy.

There are good men and women educated at the universities and law schools of Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Alabama, Tennessee, etc. that are just as capable and probably a lot more grounded in the real facts of life and what the Constitution and the American way is all about that can set on the highest court in the land. Its time for drastic change.

The Tea Party

The career politicians on the national level just don't get it. The Tea Party movement is not about Democrats. Its not about Republicans. Its not about liberals. Its not about conservatives. Its all about the s....t that goes on in Washington. Its about government and its failures to respond to an entire litany of things most Americans consider sacred to the American way. Things like the Constitution, the rule of law, secure borders, fiduciary stewardship of the taxpayers money, states rights, integrity, honesty, etc. as opposed to things like political correctness, social justice, affirmative action, redistribution of wealth, community re-investment, too big to fail, ACORN, living constitution, etc.

Too many elected representatives are career politicians. They've been there so long they have come to truly believe they are entitled. Some are beginning to get a wake-up call. Just consider "poor little ole" Senator Bennett from Utah. Just this weekend he was "tossed" by the Utah Republican Convention in favor of Tea Party advocates. He was reduced to tears on television that "my three-term career was ruined". Three terms for a senator is eighteen years. That is much too long. Small wonder he considered his tenure as a senator to be a career. We don't need career politicians. We need astute leadership that puts America first above all else. This all speaks loudly for term limits. And, term limits are imposed by the vote. That is what the Tea Party movement is all about, you dunderhead politicians.

Obamanation

This is from The Heritage Foundation Morning Report. It is just too good not to pass on and share .

Back in 1994, columnist Jonathan Rauch explained what happens when Washington becomes a center of profit for the private sector:

Economic thinkers have recognized for generations that every person has two ways to become wealthier. One is to produce more, the other is to capture more of what others produce. … Washington looks increasingly like a public-works jobs program for lawyers and lobbyists, a profit center for professionals who are in business for themselves.

Can anyone say Obamanation? (pun intended) Need I say more?