Delftsman

August 02, 2011

Gimme two trillion$ or else!

IowaHawk has contemplated what will happen if there is no debt ceiling deal by midnight tonight....as usual, insight and amusement is skillfully interwoven into the fabric of his post.

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Nuff' Said

I believe it was Ronald Reagan that said the ten scariest words in the English language were: "I'm here from the government,and I'm here to help"...

Seems the more they "help", the worse off most of us are..

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just rambling

It's another hot sunny day in Indianapolis, emphasis on HOT.

When I opened my front door to go down to the end of the driveway to get the newspaper and the mail; I was greeted by a fiery blast of heat as if I was looking down the throat of a steel blast furnace. I decided I wasn't really that concerned with whatever the latest news on the debt ceiling debate was, and I certainly didn't want to know what new bills I owed anyway, so I just retreated back into the cool of the air conditioning and went back to watching the boob tube.

One of the dogs started doing her "I GOTTA GO NOW" dance by the side door so I opened the door for her; the heat hit her and she looked at me as if to say "you're KIDDING me, right?". I just told her "if you have to do your business, go do it,but I'm not standing here letting all the heat in for more than another few seconds"....she dashed out and immediately "did her business" and dashed back in before I could shut the door on her. Now THAT is a good example of the "Dog Days of Summer"!

It's too hot for me to go riding, for those that know me, that means it's Iraqi dessert hot; I'd rather ride than do just about anything else, including sex, so I guess I'll try to buckle down to some overdue household chores...That's the real reason for this post; even though I don't really have anything to rant and rave about at the moment, it gives me an excuse for not getting started on my chores...

Did I mention that it was really HOT here today?

I'm going to go check the setting on the air conditioner, rant at all y'all later.

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July 29, 2011

Just because I like this song

Yes, it's jingoistic, yes, it's glorifying war somewhat (the one thing that true Warriors despise),but nevertheless, I really find it to be a great expression of the Warrior ethos. For all you Sheepdogs out there:

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I Can't Afford Your Charity

Another one from Power Line Blog:

Written by Jason Nyberg and performed by his nine-year-old daughter.

I put the Lyrics under the fold.

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The National Debt

Show this video to anyone that doesn't think that our $14.5 Trillion debt "isn't really a big deal"

Thanks to Power Line for engendering videos like these, so that even Progressives can understand just how much trouble our Country is presently in (due, in large part, to their policies, IMHO).

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Food for Thought

I was reading a post over at Sister Toldjah when I saw what one of her commenters, Greg, posted as a response:


Why is it that liberals always think in terms of shared sacrifice and conservatives think in terms of shared prosperity?

And it led me to pore over old speeches made in the past by both Liberals and Conservatives, and it struck me that, in almost every case, Greg was correct; the Liberal politician was calling for a sacrifice from every Individual for the common good, while the Conservative was calling more for actions that would provide more prosperity of those Individuals willing to work for it.

I think that sums up the difference between the two political philosophies pretty closely.

One is based on the idea that the People as a whole can only succeed in a collectivist manner and spreading the occurring gains and pains on everybody in the hope that any pain is smaller for the individual even though the individual gains will needfully be smaller too.

The other is based on the idea that, as long as the government provides a level playing field; it is up to the Individual to earn their own gain or pain by their own merit or failure.

Just my $.02 worth..

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News as I'd like to see reported

Here's a "news report" the way I'd really like to see on tv:

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Basic economics for Liberals

Andrew Klaven explains money in a way that even Liberals might ,just might, be able to grasp it...

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PLAY BALL


Barack and Michelle are at the White Sox game.
Sitting in the first row with the Secret Service people directly behind
them, one of
The Secret Service guys leans forward and says something to the
president.

Barack stares at the guy, looks at Michelle, looks back at the agent,
and shakes his head violently.

The agent then says, "Mr. President, it was a unanimous request, from
the owner of the team down to the bat boy. And...the fans would love
it!"

So, Barack shrugs his shoulders and says, "If that's what the people
want."

He gets up, grabs Michelle by her collar and the seat of her pants, and
drops her right over the wall into the field. She gets up kicking,
swearing, and screaming -- and the crowd goes wild, cheering,
applauding, and high-fiving.

Barack is bowing and smiling, and leans over to the agent and says, "You

were right, I would have never believed that!"

Then noticing the agent has gone totally pale, Barack asks what is
wrong.

The agent replies, "Sir, I said, they want you to throw out the first
PITCH!"

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July 28, 2011

Medical care

Want to know what's ahead of us with Obamacare? This is our future folks...

Obama claimed that none of us would lose our health care plan if it was one we liked....seems that Mr. Obama forgot the rule of unintended consequences.

Many companies are finding it cheaper to pay the "health care TAX" than to continue providing the health care insurance they had been to their employees, thus shunting them to a "government" plan that provides less coverage for more money. And the more people that become tied to a public health care plan, THE MORE PUBLIC HEALTH CARE COSTS GO UP; which will INEVITABLY lead to some type of rationing in the noble goal of saving tax-payer money.

Socialized medicine DOES NOT WORK. PERIOD. It can never provide the same level of care that a free market system does, AND, what is more, it stifles innovation in medical care.

Here in the U.S. we develop more new drugs and procedures than any other five countries combined. WHY? Because we have the incentive of profit to drive that research forward. Research is expensive and time consuming; without the incentive of profit, it just doesn't get done.

Just my $.02 worth...

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July 27, 2011

At Last

FINALLY.

I know I haven't written in a dogs decade, but, as you all know, things happen.

First, I got sick again and could barely make it out of bed. I'm doing better now, but just have to hope that that state will continue for the foreseeable future.

Then Beth had some big changes happen to her at work that necessitated that time be spent on merely surviving. You all can relate to that situation, I'm sure.

Then when everything seemed to back to "snafu"; our computer caught a particularly nasty virus and totally crashed, causing us both to lose every file we had compiled for the last 8 years or so to be lost into the Great Beyond. When we finally replaced the computer, it seems that my laziness caught up to me yet again: I had forgotten my password!! ( In the past, I had set it up so all I had to do was press one button to log on --- You try to remember one password out of twenty that YOU were using five years ago and you'll see my dilemma!)

I finally managed to get a hold of Pixy Misa and got him to issue me a new log on/password; my most heartfelt THANKS to him.

I intend to begin Blogging on a daily basis again, even if they are but short entries. I hope I can get some of my old readers to return, and gain some new ones on the way.

So, on with the great adventure!

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May 30, 2011

Another MD Tribute

Fellow Rottie sent out this E-mail me today that is the perfect tribute for Memorial Day, be warned though, watching it may put you under a CS attack.

Go to: http://www.jensensutta.com/slideshows/RTB/

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Memorial Memory

I was talking with an old grade school classmate of mine that reminded me of a song that one of out teachers, Mrs. Prichard taught us for Memorial day in the third grade:

"What shall I do on Memorial Day to show I remember them.

I will bring a rose of fiery red, a lilly of purest white And Iris, too, of purest blue.

The three will be just right.

I will proudly hail our glorious flag, for which men fought and bled.

And then right there, I'll breathe a prayer: God bless our heroic dead"

Too bad they don't teach the kids songs like that these days; instead they seem to inculcate dependence on the Government and that only "the collective" can be successful.

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May 28, 2011

Memorial Day

We now come to another Memorial Day, made all the more poignant due to the fact that we have men and women currently fighting, and dying in three areas of operation at once.

I served during the Viet Nam/Cold War era, and while I never served in combat, I had many compatriots that did. Their barracks room tales of their experiences brought the horrors of war vividly to life in a very personal way.

Those stories also made it clear just what a Soldiers life was all about.

Duty, Honor, and Faith to ones comrades and to ones Country were brought home were brought into sharp focus as not just being words in all of those that listened or told those stories.
Courage was seldom talked about; it was assumed;many times it was even discounted as a factor, real Soldiers know that courage is merely doing one's duty in the face of fear and great hardship;in keeping the honor of an obligation that one takes when one enters the Service alive in memory and actions.

I know I'm expressing my thoughts poorly, but I hope that you, dear reader, can look behind my poor wording and construction and get a sense of what I'm trying to say and my feelings towards those past and presently serving in the single greatest enterprise that a human being can do; defending what that being believes and holds dear against those that would destroy those beliefs and things held dear.

This is the one day of the year when we stop to remember the ultimate sacrifices made by ordinary men and women in extraordinary circumstances.
They were all ordinary people with hopes and dreams personal to them, but were willing to put those hopes and dreams to the test for the greater good of all, and that makes each and every one of them a true Hero.

I only hope that we as a People can ensure that they did not die in vain and that we honor their sacrifice by continuing to keep that greater good alive and well.

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May 24, 2011

Vet visit

Just got back from taking my boxer foster dog to the vet; she had had some small tumors removed last week and she had broken open a couple stitches, so she had to have them re sutured. The vet had just got the biopsy results back and the tumors were determined to be a moderately aggressive type of squalus cell tumors, for the time being she is in good form, but the vet recommended that she be seen at least every other month to monitor her progress. Good thing for me that the Humane society is paying for her vet bills!

Mariah is almost ten years old, but she has the energy of dogs half her age; most days better than mine...I can not believe that anyone would ever have given up such a great dog. She's better trained than most teenagers, and certainly more polite. If I can ever figure out how to download my photos of her from my phone camera, I'll post them here.

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May 19, 2011

Budget cutting

By making sacrificial and proportional cuts in your own personal budget, you can appreciate that budget cutting really cuts to the quick.

Please accept my apology in advance for the following post about an unpleasant subject. I tried very hard not to do it, but because it helped my perspective and made me feel much better; I thought perhaps it would do as much for you. It's tough, but we all need to do our part.

The President ordered the cabinet to cut a whopping $100 million from the $3.5 trillion federal budget.

I'm so impressed by this sacrifice that I have decided to do the same thing with my personal budget. I spend about $2,000 a month on groceries, utilities, medicine, TAXES, bills, etc., and now it's time to get out my budget cutting ax, go line by line through my expenses, and get to work.

I'm going to cut my spending at exactly the same ratio as the President - 1/35,000 of my total budget. After doing the math, it looks like instead of spending $2,000 a month; I'm going to have to cut that number downward by eight cents!

Yes, I know thats a lot and I must somehow get by with $1,999.92, but that is what sacrifice is all about. The President has requested that we get some of our own skin in the game with everyone else. So well just have to do without some things, that are, quite frankly, luxuries those eight cents normally buy us.

Hope this helps brighten your day ... and gives you a little better understanding of just how serious our current President is about his job.

Don't you feel better now?

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A Qoute we should heed

"You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot establish security on borrowed money. You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves."
--Presbyterian clergyman William Boetcker (1873-1962)

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Finally, some good news from a public school !

Not ALL of our public schools are teaching anti-Americanism, but I'm sure the teacher that wrote this song will be castigated by some on the "Progressive" persuasion as being "war mongering" and "jingoistic".

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Pat Condell Says it like it is

Pat Condell says what a lot of people, including me, wanted to, but in much better style, I especially like his suggestion on what we SHOULD have done with OBL's body, except I would have liked a total body wrap of Pork, not just a single pork chop, and I wouldn't haved cared one whit on which way the body was positioned.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzD-rnmeiH8&feature=player_embedded

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