NEW JOB!!

I JUST GOT A NEW JOB!

BACK TO PAYING IN TO MY OWN SOCIAL SECURITY!

BACK TO PAYING IN TO MEDICARE!

BACK TO PAYING IN TO THE GOVERNMENT COFFERS!

BACK TO TAKING HOME PART OF WHAT  I EARN!

I'M SO EXCITED!

NOT THE EMPEROR? WHAT A PROBLEM!

Emperor Penguins

In a letter to Lewis Nicola dated May 22, 1782 on the subject being made king of the new country, General Washington wrote:

"With a mixture of great surprise and astonishment I have read with attention the Sentiments you have submitted to my perusal. Be assured Sir, no occurrence in the course of the War, has given me more painful sensations than your information of there being such ideas existing in the Army as you have expressed, and I must view with abhorrence, and reprehend with severity. For the present, the communication of them will rest in my own bosom, unless some further agitation of the matter, shall make a disclosure necessary. I am much at a loss to conceive what part of my conduct could have given encouragement to an address which to me seems big with the greatest mischiefs that can befall my Country. If I am not deceived in the knowledge of myself, you could not have found a person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable; at the same time in justice to my own feelings I must add, that no Man possesses a more sincere wish to see ample justice done to the Army than I do, and as far as my powers and influence, in a constitutional way extend, they shall be employed to the utmost of my abilities to effect it, should there be any occasion. Let me conjure to you then, if you have any regard for your Country, concern for yourself or posterity, or respect for me, banish these thoughts from your mind, and never communicate, as from yourself, or anyone else a sentiment of the like Nature." 

(Volume 24, p. 272, John C. Fitzpatrick ed., The Writings of George Washington  1745-1799(39 vols), Washington, D.C.: United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission)

In other words, George Washington rejected the idea of a government such as the one the colonists had just left, headed by King George III.

On February 14, 2013, President BO (the amateur president) recently complained: ""This is something I've struggled with throughout my presidency," said Obama. "The problem is that I'm the president of the United States, I'm not the emperor of the United States. My job is to execute laws that are passed."

Some might be tempted to conclude that he did not mean that he wants to be emperor, rather was recognizing that he was not.

The problem is that in the context of his behavior and in the accumulation of his various statements, he really wants to be able to state what he thinks needs to be done and then to get it done with or without Congress. He has said so.

But, liberals will continue to fool themselves into believing that President BO (the amateur president) is a man of good character, devoid of influence by his friends and mentors from his early years and just wants what he believes is "good for the country."

There is no one as blind as someone who refuses to see the truth when it stares them right in the face.

LEGAL TO HUNT WHAT?

If you listen long enough to liberals, you actually learn things you never knew before.

Here, Dianne Feinstein of California has educated me about hunting. I never knew it was legal to hunt humans.

I have seen some movies about people hunting people, but I didn't realize you could actually do it.

DOING BETTER ALL THE TIME

Who knew it was working so well?

The Obama administration has bragged about the success they have had in increasing the high school graduation rate under his "plan." According to the Huffington Post it is going swimmingly.

Well, maybe not so much.

What he doesn't tell you is how much the standards for graduation have been lowered. In fact, they have been lowered so much that 80% of high school graduates in New York City have to undergo remedial courses to make it in the first year of the City University's community college system.



There is nothing like good leadership from the President. And this is...nothing like good leadership.

He is, after all, the amateur president.

SUNDAY RESPITE-Jesus Messiah-Chris Tomlin

SO WHICH WAY DOES HE BELIEVE?

Uh, yes. Uh no.

In a one-page letter dated Monday, Holder said: "The U.S. government has not carried out drone strikes in the United States and has no intention of doing so." The attorney general argued that law enforcement is best suited to resolve such threats "in this country."

However, Holder says that in situations akin to the 1941 assault on Pearl Harbor or the September 11, 2001 attacks, the president might have to order the use of deadly force in the U.S.

"The question you have posed is entirely hypothetical, unlikely to occur, and one we hope no President will ever have to confront," Holder wrote. "It is possible, I supposed, to imagine an extraordinary circumstance in which it would be necessary and appropriate under the Constitution and applicable laws of the United States for the President to authorize the military to use lethal force within the territory of the United States. For example, the President could concievably have no choice but to authorize the military to use such force if necessary to protect the homeland in the circumstances of a catastrophic attack like the ones suffered on December 7, 1941, and September 11, 2001."

Then, on Tuesday March 5, 2013, in a letter from Eric Holder to Sen. Paul this afternoon, the attorney general said that the president could use lethal force against American citizens on U.S. soil in “an extraordinary circumstance,”

On Wednesday, March 06, 2013 , testifying before a Senate panel, Holder was prodded repeatedly about this assertion by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). Holder eventually admitted that it would not be constitutional to execute an American citizen without due process.

Really? An American citizen should not be prosecuted without due process with, say, a drone?

Holder had to be pressured to come to this conclusion?

Why?

Shouldn't that be so basic as to not even be questionable?

CAN WE LEARN THE LESSON?

Love those self-imposed awards!

Venezuela’s Dictator and President for Life, Hugo Chavez has died.

Even though he got treatment in the universe’s finest medical system (according to Michael Moore), Cuba, he died. And here he thought he was invincible.

Chavez’s first attempt to gain power was in 1992, but his “coup” failed. In 1998 he was “elected” president in what the liberal establishment called a “fair and honest election.”

In 2002 the coup tables were turned and an attempt was made to throw him out of office. He made it through that coup, thinking there was now nothing that could prevent him from owning everything in Venezuela.

During his tenure, he took over the country’s oil resources, took money from the wealthy to fund government food programs, as well as to provide “free” housing, “free “education and various other “free” government redistribution activities.

None of that did anything to reduce poverty in Venezuela. How can that be? In the U.S., our president has told us that the top 1% of our wealthy (anyone earning over $250, $200 or is it $150 thousand) should help pay for poor people’s needs because that’s fair. Yet, in Venezuela, as in every other country that has tried it, it did not work.

Of course, we all know that if it had been handled by the right people, people like President BO (the amateur president), it would have worked.

Chavez loved Fidel Castro and wanted to be just like him. Only Chavez wanted to oversee and rule a socialist “United States of South America.”

He routinely jailed anybody who dared speak out against him and denounced and intimidated those who disagreed with him.

He preempted scheduled media programming to fill the airwaves with his talk of community and equality, while busying himself seizing property, giving it to members of his own family, most of whom are now billionaires.

I wonder whether the citizens of the United States of America are capable of learning any lessons about government in general and their government in particular when it comes to redistribution of wealth and government regulations.

I am very afraid not.