I have no remorse or sadness for this man’s passing.  Yes, I feel for his family’s loss, as I’m sure they loved him.

Personally, this is how I will always remember Jack “Marines are murderers” Murtha.

From Pajama’s Media:

He was a great, gruff, bear of a man who was quick to anger but the sort of fellow you wanted on your side in a political fight. He was proud of his Irish-American heritage, loved the Marine Corps, and for 35 years, represented the people of Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District.

It was only later in life when John Murtha became a poster boy for much of what was wrong with Congress that the unsettling truth began to dawn on many of his former friends and supporters — John Murtha had gotten so caught up in insuring his own incumbency that he sacrificed almost everything of value to maintain and augment his power in Washington, D.C.

Oh, and do we need to mention the John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria County Airport in PA that flew only the congressman to Washington DC? Tax payer money stolen by Murtha and wasted.

John Patrick “Jack” Murtha, Jr. (June 17, 1932 – February 8, 2010)

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Queens girl Alexa Gonzalez hauled out of school in handcuffs after getting caught doodling on desk

A 12-year-old Queens girl was hauled out of school in handcuffs for an artless offense – doodling her name on her desk in erasable marker, the Daily News has learned.

Alexa Gonzalez was scribbling a few words on her desk Monday while waiting for her Spanish teacher to pass out homework at Junior High School 190 in Forest Hills, she said.

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City officials acknowledged Alexa’s arrest was a mistake.

“We’re looking at the facts,” said City Education Department spokesman David Cantor. “Based on what we’ve seen so far, this shouldn’t have happened.”

“Even when we’re asked to make an arrest, common sense should prevail, and discretion used in deciding whether an arrest or handcuffs are really necessary,” said police spokesman Paul Browne.

Common Sense gone out the window!

Tiny Toy Gun Gets Boy Suspended (Video in Story at link)

PORTLAND, Ore. (KFSN) — A four inch long toy gun has landed a little boy in big trouble. The eight year old took the gun to his school in Portland, Oregon.

It came with a GI Joe action figure he got for Christmas. When school officials discovered the toy gun, they suspended him for a day. They’ve also put a note into the boy’s permanent file. Now his father says the school is going too far.

“I think it’s a huge over-reaction, I mean, come on, it’s not .. it’s obviously not a real weapon, I mean, yeah.. I mean like I said before, if it was, you know, look like real weapon, I can understand, but common, I mean eh .. I fail to believe that that could be actually perceived as a real weapon,” said Aron Anderson, a parent.

The Portland public school district says the punishment for the eight year old fits because the toy — no matter how small — is a simulated weapon.

Are there even adults in charge anymore?

Stupidity on a scale of 100!

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After days of seething about what he said, how he said it, and what he ultimately wants for this country, I got to wondering just when was the first SOTU and what was said.

At Early America.com I found George Washington’s first State of the Union.  He gave it in the Senate Chambers on January 8, 1790.  You read the words of a man who cared about this budding nation he was honored to preside over as its official leader.   There was no calling out people who disagreed with him.  I don’t know if he had his own aerobics matren working behind him, but from what I’ve read – this man had no desire for theatrics, but wanted to get things done for his country.

I didn’t get that from Obama.

Here are a couple lines that are mentioned on this page of Early America – as the original article from the Massachusetts Spy is hard to read.

Washington considered “it expedient that the terms on which foreigners may be admitted to the rights of Citizens should be speedily ascertained by a uniform rule of naturalization.”

Sounds like the first immigration policy.

Also of importance: “Facilitating the intercourse between the distant parts of our country by attending to the post office and post roads.”

That behemoth called the US Postal Service got started then?  No wonder its broke.

“A free people ought not only to be armed but disciplined. And to be independent of others” by becoming self-sufficient domestically.

As a life-time member of the NRA – I don’t see the need to comment on this.

It was the duty of Congress to encourage “….teaching the people themselves to know, and to value their own rights….to distinguish between oppression and the necessary exercise of lawful authority….”

This is the one that stuck me the most.  This does not mean you try and re-implement the Fairness doctrine.  You don’t attack Fox News for trying to be fair with their reporting.   Washington here is stating the people need to know and value their own rights and to know when they are being oppressed.

I think that one speaks volumes when you compare the two SOTUs between Obama and Washington, the snobbery of the first is affront to the honor of the later.

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I am still trying to grasp the whole of the President’s SOTU speech from the other night.  I knew there were arogant, self-absorbed, blind to all but his world people out there … but damn!  I really think he must be reading the book Chavez gave him on how to be an ass the people.  Does Obama think we are “his” people like Chavez thinks the people of Venusuala are his?   The post will come together soon – but I’m still stunned and thinking.  Weird weird fella we put in the White House.

Here are a few links to interesting articles you may have missed:

• Afghan Men Struggle With Sexual Identity, Study Finds The SGM spent a year in Afghanistan.  He told me about this kind of stuff going on over there.
• Checking the GOP response to the State of the Union
• Google Chrome 4.0 Gets Official, Brings Extensions Going to have to upgrade this weekend.

More later .. have a great Friday!

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What can you say about someone that will not take responsibility for his actions?

I call them cowards.

President Obama has a clear agenda to  move this country to the far, far left and destroy its economic community so he can rebuild it on Alinski rules and make this country a sister of Russia’s communist nation.

Evidently Obama never learned the real history of how communism and socialsim destroyed the Soviet Union and was the basis of Hitler’s tyrannical reign.

The more Obama blames Bush for the ills of this country (and I’m not saying Bush did great with the economy here) the more he sounds like a petulant child blaming his sister for breaking the vase in the hallway that he knows he broke.

Coward.

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After quite a tough competition between three muscular hunks for the honor of being the next ‘Conan The Barbarian,’ the role finally went to Jason Momoa. The losers are ‘Twilight’’s Kellan Lutz and ‘Supernatural’’s Jared Padalecki.

Read More: ‘Conan The Barbarian:’ It’s Momoa!

Stargate Atlantis and Baywatch fans will recognize Jason Moma.

I’m in no way a follower of “Twilight” and haven’t a clue who Jared Padalecki is.  But I did look up Kellan Lutz and Jared on IMDB and Momoa is the best choice hands down.

Go look at the picture here on Wiki about Conan the Barbarian and you can see just in that adaptation, Jason is the better fit.  He just has the look.   The other two – not so much.

We all know that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger played the original Conan and Jason (in my opinion) fits closer to the original movie better.

Sure Hollywood has a way of making actors look their parts, but with Jason – they won’t have to do much I think.

Congrats Jason – will look forward to watching.

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Barney Frank seems to believe, as did Captain Kirk, you can just change the rules to fit the situation you are in.

Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) suggested that the Senate abolish the filibuster in recent interview with Air America Radio.

“It is time to shut it down,” Frank said. “God didn’t create the filibuster, it’s part of the Senate rules.”

He continued: “We have a serious constitutional problem. There has been a de facto amendment of the U.S. Constitution in an anti-small-D democratic direction.”  Via the Huffington Post

Of have no way of knowing if Captain Kirk was a Republican, Progressive, Liberal, or Conservative, but cheating is cheating no matter the time, place or situation.

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The man who drove his GMC truck around the State to campaign just thumbed his nose at Obama and his ilk …. and is the foreshadowing of what is to come in November 2010.

As Drudge noted:

THE BOSTON TEA PARTY…
SCOTT BROWN (R) 0,885,809 52%
MARTHA COAKLEY (D)D: 0,793,297 47%

Coakley conceded a race she should have won.  She got cocky and thought she was a shoe in.  But … the PEOPLE have spoken!!!

I cannot tell you how happy I am to see Mr. Brown win this against the Chicago Machine!

Congratulations Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA)!!

Man that looks great!

Now on to November and the removal of more far left liberals!!

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BUT – as was with Katrina, so it is with Haiti.  With one difference, the United States has good infastructure to get help to people – Haiti doesn’t.

Remember how people in the US screamed, ranted and raved about the help not getting to Katrina victims five minutes after all was clear? The reality of getting help into an area devastated by a storm is it doesn’t happen overnight.

Now we look at Haiti with no roads, no infrastructure even close to what New Orleans has and we wonder why people are mad the help hasn’t arrived in a Burger King moment.

The biggest thing that pissed me off during Katrina was how it was all George Bush’s fault it

1. happened, and
2. the people weren’t plucked from their homes by an all loving government within seconds of the weather clearing up.

When people rely on the Government they need to remember the Post Office and wake up to the fact the government is not the answer. The totalitarian (think Democrats) government in charge of Haiti is the reason there are no roads or facilities in place in case of disasters. Then you also have the government individuals hurt or killed in the earthquake, with no plans in place that can run without them to help the people of the country.

This is the US if we don’t get rid of the totalitarian government in charge now – but that is not for this post either.

Aide is flowing in, but with the United Nations in charge, the structure to move the aide to people who need it isn’t there.  The United Nations is a corrupt organization who feeds off of the wealthy nations and the generosity of people who give in the time of disasters.   One of the glaring realities that I have heard through all the news reports is there is no one in charge.   There is no Haitian Government official to take charge, the UN personnel are probably looking for children to rape and the US can’t take charge or people will scream we are trying to take over the country.

So the people of Haiti pray for the help they need while the countries that are helping have their hands tied by situations beyond their control.

This recovery will not happen overnight.

Only disasters happen overnight.

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“My answer is that if the private insurance companies are providing a good bargain, and if the public option has to be self-sustaining…then I think private insurers should be able to compete.  They do it all the time.  I mean, if you think about it, UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right?  No, they are.  It’s the Post Office that’s always having problems.”

Read more at the Washington Examiner: Obama’s Post Office health care disaster

So just how is the post office doing? Outside of losing more mail than it delivers, it continues to bleed tax payer money like a sieve.

The U.S. Postal Service is losing money so quickly you’d think it somehow got mixed up in the subprime mortgage business. It’s on track this year for an operating loss of between $6 billion and $12 billion, debt surpassing $10 billion, and a $1 billion cash shortfall. For any business, those are some ugly numbers.

Read more at CNN Money: Dear USPS: Consider privatizing

To the end, the Government, in a light bulb moment, is closing post offices and now a processing center in Columbus, Ga.

An AMP study was initiated to evaluate the transfer of outgoing mail processing operations from the Columbus, GA Customer Service Mail Processing Center (CSMPC) with those performed at the Macon, GA Processing & Distribution Center (P&DC).  The initial results of this study support the business case for consolidation.  This study, currently in review at United States Postal Service (USPS) Headquarters and its Area Office, is subject to change.  (File in .rtf format here)

That means mail from Columbus, GA and Fort Benning, GA will travel to Macon, GA (2 1/2 hours away), be processed and then returned to the area for delivery.   Now a letter mailed on Monday to a local address will arrive the next day to its destination.  After the center is closed, it will be traveling over the river and through the woods to another town – processed by people who don’t know Columbus like local employees, and then shipped back.

And we thought mail got lost now?  Wait until it has to be moved twice before delivery.

This is a precursor to what will happen to your health care once the Government takes over.

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