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Thursday, August 5, 2010
Here is Michelle Obama living life large in Spain. Her entourage requires 60 rooms at one of the world's most expensive resorts, flights for that many across the Atlantic to Spain, and the shopping spree pictured above. While there, she will make the obligatory visit with the King and Queen of Spain, which allows these grifters to stiff the American taxpayer for the bill. And didn't they just get back from a weekend in Maine? Question: Did you or anyone you know just go to Maine and Spain in one month's time, during a period of severe nationwide recession and hardship, and then send the bill to their neighbors? No? Then I guess you aren't American royalty.
November can't get here soon enough, and afterwards, 2012.
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Over the weekend, it also emerged that for the first time in his six year national political career, Mr. Obama is being told by White House aides that there are certain areas of the country where he is being advised not to visit because his approval rating and the local political environment is too hostile. The locations of the areas have not been disclosed.
Monday, August 2, 2010
The other day the 14 year old and I were driving past the local stripmall when we spied this display of old timers in the parking lot. Naturally, we had to stop and gawk.
My Granddad drove an old Ford like this red one, only his was black. Maybe this is the same one only repainted!
Here is the 14 year old in front of a Mack truck, built when Mack trucks were real .... well, Mack trucks. This one was in fact running (you can see a small pool of truck juice under the motor) and it was a chain drive! That's as in sprocket and chain, just like a bicycle. In fact, if you look closely, you can see the chain hanging down next to the back tires. This thing probably had a maximum speed of about 35 mph. You can see the crank on the front bumper, which for those who have never seen one was the way you started the motor. Grab on and spin it! Once I started a tractor like that while it was in gear, unbeknownst to me, and it jumped at me as soon as the engine began to run. Nothing like a frantic leap to the side and then a dive for the clutch, as it was headed straight for my car. Good thing it was first gear!
And that item hanging from the back of the cab with the three yellow ovals, that is the turn signal, which was operated by pulling a line in the cab. It is used just like hand signals. Straight out would be a left turn, while up meant a right turn. Just plain cool.
pajamasmedia.com/michaelledeen/2010/08/01/the-hikers-the-mullahs-and-their-friends/
This article illustrates an interesting mental disorder of a sort that I believe brought us the election of Obama, a man both politically inappropriate for the US as well as a candidate that was uniquely unqualified for the office of President.
That disorder, if I might call it that, is a combination of mental weakness in the sense of an inability to think beyond the superficial, a naive belief in people are the same everywhere and are by and large good at heart, and that good intentions will be recognized and honored by even the most evil and wicked.
In the case of the election of Obama, I remain in awe of the ability of otherwise intelligent people to ignore the obvious faults of this man, and to instead believe the most inconsistent statements made by him, as long as those statements are delivered smoothly and seemingly intelligently. They see and hear what they want to.
"I heard him talk, and he is a very inspiring speaker," is what I heard during the election. There was no effort to consider how he planned to actually be a "post racial President," nor how he was planning t0 actually succeed in "reaching across the aisle" and eliminate partisanship. No matter that he had spent 20 years attending a church headed by a racist, radical preacher. No mention of why he expected to be successful in his supposed post partisanship when generations of politicians had not and really did not even want to make that happen.
It's a crazy way to think. You almost have to turn off your ability to think, to analyze, to find and consider facts in support or in opposition to what you are hearing. Like the hikers, who couldn't imagine that the Iranians wouldn't see their good intentions, wouldn't appreciate their solidarity with the mullahs, those who voted for Obama had to willingly refuse to see what was right in front of them.
So, it should be no surprise now that Obama is entirely incompetent in his job (because he was singularly without accomplishment that was earned, as opposed to simply given to him through affirmative action ... and what about that Nobel Prize?), or that he is anti American, and even anti Western (when it was obvious that he had long associated with radical anti Americans like Rev. Wright and Bill Ayres).
This mental issue is in fact widespread in our society, and I suppose the only way to get people to recognize they suffer from it is, like the youthful hikers, to get arrested and imprisoned without sympathy. Here in the states, some are losing their naive ideas as Obama wrecks the county, the economy and fails to do what he said he would during the campaign, all to their shock and horror. The only question is whether that will be enough to make them think for themselves the next time a smooth talker comes along with honeyed words and ideas that seem so beguiling, so attractive.
I hope so, for all our sakes, lest we be trapped here in a prison of poverty and totalitarianism, which indeed seems to be just on the horizon, just like those foolish hikers in Iran.
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Here are some lazy Sunday images from the homestead. First, the 14 year old decided he needed more than one burger, so I grilled up two for the kid. Yum.
The blackberries are going strong right now. The ones on our property are a bit small because they don't get unlimited water, but they are still pretty good if you get them at the right ripeness. A few minutes out back picking will get you the perfect amount for a bowl of ice cream.
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