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THE MOJO MAN- JOSH BOLTEN?

I’ve heard a lot of political strategies, but I have to confess that Josh Bolten’s come up with a new one. Since he’s been made #43′s Chief of staff, he’s been doing a lot of shaking- and a little baking. However, the best is yet to come- no joshin!

The key to success for the Bush administration is to get their “Mojo workin‘ again.” Well go right a head on dude!

I’m anxious to see what that really means. If it’s just to get the President out in the public more, I don’t see it working. Right now, Josh’s definition of “Mojo” is to “refresh and re-energize”. I think he’ll need a little substance to sprinkle in as well. I’m not sure Bolten understands the gravity of what’s going on.

But, at least we’ll get to see a new face at the daily White House briefings. Tony Snow seems to keep his Mojo fine-tuned.

Oh yeah, and don’t forget. It’s MAY DAY Monday Madness. I can’t wait to see how this whole thing goes down.

WILL HE OR WON’T HE?

All eyes seem to be on Bill Frist and the question is why? Is it there for the obvious reasons: considering the nuclear option? Or, is it there because the powers that be behind the Republican scene want to increase his political stock ahead of 2008?

So, what’s up with this nuclear option anyway? Sounds pretty explosive doesn’t it: no pun intended. And I do believe we have a very valid issue at stake here. Our founding fathers were very concerned about the whole separation of powers issue; though no politician today seems to get their drift.

The real issue is over how much power the Senate (and even a committee within the Senate) should have over recommendations to the judiciary by the executive branch. Didn’t the founding fathers have in mind the intent that when the executive branch submits to the legislative branch, a recommendation to the judiciary branch, that that legislative branch would vote on it? Or did the founding fathers have in mind that a judiciary committee could prevent the legislative branch as a whole from the ability to vote?

Ahh, it’s all of the rules that we’ve come up with thinking how smart we are, and eventually showing we don’t know squat (Hebrew for nada).

So, will he or won’t he? Will Bill Frist step forward and push the red button. Or does he actually have the power (votes) to do that? Then there’s the longer-larger question. Will he or won’t he run for President in 2008?

MAY DAY- MAY DAY – MAY DAY!

This is a more sane follow up to yesterday’s comment about us having a “car inspection” strike on Monday.

Isn’t it interesting how the war in Iraq has taken a back seat to the “immigration issue”? We have one of the hottest economies (4.8% GDP in Q1) ever. Unemployment is at record lows. In fact, anything under 5% is considered full employment. We’re more than there. But with gasoline prices as high as they are, who is noticing?

I say it’s Congress’s fault.

Back in 1986 (can you say 20 years ago?) we faced the same problem- except much smaller. What in the world could we do with 3 million illegals? Congress had the answser. Give all of them citizenship and close the borders.

They got their citizenship.

The government didn’t close the borders and now that 3 million is another 12 million. I say citizenship is not the answer. Let me get real personal.

I have an employee that has been working on his “papers” for five years. He’s paid thousands in attorney fees to keep the paperwork flowing. I’ve paid hundreds for him as well. He’s now $3,300 and one year within having the arduous process completed, and being legal. What do I tell him and what do we tell the millions of others like him who have been obeying the law?

For me MAY DAY is a day for Congress to wake up, get their act together, and quit playing games! MAY DAY is a reminder that Congress has to get serious and FIX a major problem in America that they did not fix 20 years ago!

IS NOTHING SACRED ANYMORE?

I know most Americans are apalled by the numerous scandals that seem to be rampant in every phase of life nearly. It used to be that school was a safe place to send your kids: that was before Columbine. However, if kids aren’t shooting teachers, teachers are having sex with the students mom and dad send their way each day.

It’s not all happening in California, but one of the latest has a twenty-six year old teacher partying-hardy with as many of her students as she could find. And, three have come forward saying they have had sex with her.

Then there’s Al Gore’s state where having sex with a student evidently carries a lesser penalty than just touching or fondling. Say what. Must be some liberal thinking I’ve not caught the drift. Ahh, but this is becoming all too common, let’s move on.

Hw about the United Nations? You know, that bastion of intellect and sophistication where all nations gather to speak goodwill to our planet! But then, we’ve got this oil-for-food scandal don’t we, and it appears that it is heating up. Where’s a man to go where it’s safe? Surely not the church even.

I’ve got it, how about the world of GOLF? It only appeared safe. Now we’re finally getting the truth and once again it appears that the gals are catching up with the men- if not ahead of them when it comes to promiscuity these days. Maybe it is because there are a lot more women in the world these days than men.

But, the sad news hit the world today like a bucket of cold water (maybe a cold shower would have helped) as female professional golfer Jackie Gallagher-Smith is alleged to have had sex with her caddie so she could get pregnant: something her husband couldn’t do for her. Did she ever think he might be suspicious of that?

Oh, and get this. The caddie has filed a court action saying that he was “an unwilling sperm doner.” How crazy and insann will we get? Unwilling sperm donor? How about adulterer, home-wrecker, maybe even a fornicator (opps, that sounds too religious).

Alas, is nothing sacred any more?

HOW ABOUT THIS IDEA FOR MONDAY?

Who came up with this idea of having your car inspected every year? One time, the windshield wipers have to be replaced, the next year the exhaust isn’t working properly. Eventually, you have to buy a new set of tires.

Enough!

My recommendation is that on Monday we all take our cars out on the street and we park them for eight hours. We create a real gridlock. Let’s shut down Houston- for a day! Let’s show the government that we don’t have to obey the laws that we find offensive or burdensome.

Or, if you have another idea of some law(s) that you don’t like, let’s consider that as a boycott, if you find my plan not to your liking.

Of course we’ll have to compete with the Hispanic community that already have a planned BUYING, WORKING, NON-PARTICIPATING STRIKE planned for Monday. Their organizers feel that they can totally shut down several American cities. And of course in California you can always find some politicians who are in agreement.

Now that I think about it, maybe my idea won’t work as I believe their strike will not do anything but bring attention to a serious problem that needs fixing- illegal immigration. And the fix is not all is forgiven- here’s your new citizenship papers!

If we ever do come to a place where by massive demonstrations we can make things illegal, legal, we’re toast as a nation!

LIVING WITHOUT THE INTERNET

About noon on Tuesday, all of a sudden I could not pull up a web site. So, I clicked on to screen number two (I have three screens) and sure enough all I got was a garbled mess. Okay, something is terribly wrong here. Ahh, I still have e-mail, so I go to screen number three to answer one of those “waiting” e-mails. NADA!

But, I have my lap top sitting on the couch. I know, I can use it’s dial up and all will be well. Well, all was not well.

We are under-going a major, and I mean major, renovation of the interior and exterior. The South foyer looked like a bomb had hit it, with wires hanging from the ceiling everywhere. Surely that was the source of the problem! Show me the wire and I’ll tape it back together. Please!

I was assured it wasn’t US! So, on to our internet supplier- Birch. After three hours they inform us it wasn’t them! It had to be SBC. I’m beginning to think I’m back in the Garden Of Eden, where it’s not anyone’s fault- or, maybe the devil did it. A call to SBC and they say they’ll check it out. A second call yields the “we’re closed for the day” response. But, we’ll be right there at 8 am Wednesday.

I’m counting the minutes the next day. When no one shows by eight thirty another call is made only to get the response, “we don’t know what you’re talking about, what order?”. Ugh! But, alas a few hours later, two great guys from SBC on top of calling in several other experts to check other outposts somewhere “down-line” and guess what? Human error. Workers the day before had crossed some wires improperly.

Me? I just happy to be able to be connected to the world again. What would mankind do if the whole thing went down world wide? Don’t go there!

BROADBAND CUT

SBC inadvertedly cut our T1 line at noon yesterday so our Internet was off from noon Tuesday to 11:30 today. I’ll be posting again at the end of the day.

SELF DECEPTION IS SO DECEIVING

I know, that sounds rather silly doesn’t it, but, I am amazed at how blind we are to who we are; or who we think we are.

All I have been reading in the news for all of ’06 is how Iran is going to wipe Israel off the map. There will be a mushroom cloud where Israel now exists. Blah, blah, blah.

Then today, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says “Iran and its officials are peace-seekers and the Islamic republic would not invade anybody,” Really? Then what’s all the rhetoric all about? Or is it that we just change our message to fit the audience? Have we learned too much from our politicians?

How easy it is for us to see the errors in others, the mixed signals, and the conflicting lifestyles. And when you put that on a national level, serious consequences happen. It’s like America wanting (can you say demanding) democracy for those that don’t want it and will never embrace it.

Why can’t we SEE that demanding something for someone they don’t want isn’t freedom, it’s authoritarianism, no matter how good we might think the idea is.

THE WAKE UP CALL IS HERE!

Don’t look now, but it appears the Bush team is taking the field. You will not be able to tell the players because like the Dodgers, there are no names on the uniforms. Besides, this is a team in transition. Continue Reading »

WILL THEY (HE) OR WON’T THEY (HE)?

That is the question(s). Will the Republicans break the filibuster rule in the Senate, or won’t they? Will Bill Frist take two years off from the Senate and run for president or won’t he? Ahh, those are some of the questions.

Those are questions that Democrats are asking, while Republicans are asking who will oppose Hillary in 06 and 08? Everybody is asking something.

The Republicans say they aren’t trying to get even, they just want a vote on the judges. Well, DUH! Getting a vote on the judges (up or down as they say in politics- down and dirty as they say in cards) means automoctic victory for any Republican backed candidate.

The Democrats are now beginning to feel the squeeze. Could Frist be serious about breaking the Senate rules on a filibister? To help their cause they are trotting out polls that show the majority of Americans don’t want the rule changed. Listen, the majority of Americans have no clue as to what the rule is to start with! But, it appears the Republicans may have the needed votes.

Of course when he political winds blow, no one knows how long and in what direction they will blow- let alone with what velocity. Of course Dick Morris always has an opinion: he’s paid to have a couple.

What we do know for sure though is that Frist is applying the pressure and checking out which way the wind is blowing on more than just the filibuster rule: and the Democrats know it. Can you say Frist vs Hillary in ’08?

INCOMPETENCE AT THE TOP?

Being asleep at the helm of the political ship is an understatement as far as I am concerned. I don’t know about you, but I am perplexed about what appears to me to be complete incompetence on behalf of the current administration. Continue Reading »

THE GOOD NEWS – BAD NEWS GAME

If there ever was a hell hole, one of the defintions would have to include the word IRAQ in it. There isn’t a day that goes by that someone isn’t killing someone else. The GOOD news is that fewer of our service men and women are the target, or are being killed. The BAD news is that more and more Iraqis are being killed.

If it’s not the minority Sunnis killing the majority Shiites, it’s the Shiites killing the Kurds: or the Kurds killing the Sunnis. Isn’t religon a wonderful thing? Killing in the name of Allah. Makes a guy want to go out and visit a mosque, or become a Muslim.

Then we have the radical bin Laden group that just wants to kill to keep the pot stirred. And he and his henchment can find plenty of people to join their cause. There are literally hundreds of thousands of ex Republican Guard soldiers with nothing to do but die.

There’s thousands of prisoners that Saddam let out of jail just before the war began. And when nearly a third of the kids under thirty are unemployed, with nothing to live for, you have a real time bomb!

I think the guy with the best handle on this whole thing is Richard Maybury. I started listening to him five to six years ago. Basically he labels the whole region where Islam reigns supreme as CHAOSTAN (any nation ending in “stan” fits the bill). Take a look at the map someday starting with Pakistan, Afghanistan, etc.

Bottom line, as soon as we can get out of Dodge the better, but we can’t leave until there is a stable government (in terms that the Muslim world calls stable).

ARMAGEDDON AT JERUSALEM SOON?

Exactly how many Muslims there are in the world is not known. There are places where they live that one would not want to venture to take a census. Continue Reading »

LIVE BY THE SWORD AND DIE BY IT!

You’ve probably heard the expression that someone “got caught with their fingers in the cookie jar”. I’ve been there: both the catchor and catchee, if there are such words.

But, to “leave” a finger in the chile, well, that’s a whole new twist on the expression. But, guess what? Just when you think people have run out of new ways to scam people, voila! I knew a man that sued for anything and everything. I won’t go into details because he still roams the city; however, it amazed me that people would pay the guy $3,000 to $25,000 fines just to get rid of the nuisance. But you can take a good thing a little too far as well.

As it turns out, Wendy’s was not the right corporation for Anna Ayala to try and run a scam on. I am sure you’ve heard that she complained that she found a finger tip in her chile last month while eating at Wendys.

Instead of caving in to her claims, Wendy’s did a check and found out that the woman had a history of suing people. So, instead of paying her $25,000, they offered a $100,000 reward for any information anyone might have about the incident. Guess what? She allegedly told some friends (they aren’t now) what she had done, and so she now is charged with grand larceny.

Some reports say that she has been involved in a half-dozen claims. Well, she’s now the object of one of those. Once again we learn that if you live by the sword, you can either die by it,or be mortally wounded by falling on it.

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