A little license plate problem

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My license plate problem

This past Monday I had to go to the Department of Motor Vehicles to renew my tabs for my car.  At the same time I decided I would replace my brake light that had gone out a week or so previous.  I was going to kill two birds with one stone and figured I had a 20 minute job on my hands.  Alas.

I went to the DMV and waited a very short time before my number was called.  I did not notice on my renewal form, but I needed new license plates because mine were of a certain age.  A few years ago 3M made a back door deal with the state of Minnesota where they would provide brand new license plates, with 3M coating on them of course, to the state in order that law enforcement officials needed to see the plates at night, even though this was never a problem.  I thought to myself that it was a nice day, no worries, and I upped my estimated time to 30 minutes.  I then went to the auto parts store and got a new license plate holder for the plate in front, because my old one had cracked and broke into pieces, and I also picked up the brake light bulbs I needed to replace.  Life was good.

The first problem with the license plate

I got home and set about my tasks.  I went to the rear of my car and attempted to unscrew the old plate.  The old screws were made of plastic and I immediately snapped off the heads of both screws.  I trudged to my basement, muttering under my breath, and brought up my tool box and tried to remove the remaining part of the screw with a pliers.  No luck, the screws were both too short to grab.  I trudged down to my basement to retrieve my drill and I attempted to drill out the screws that were left in my rear plate.  I could not get a good grip on them and was unsuccessful in my endeavors.

Not being a man who is easily intimidated by such little interruptions, I went to the front of the car and replaced the license plate with no problems whatsoever.  I then attempted to tackle the jog of replacing my brake lights.  I opened the trunk and it was full of crap and debris that had accumulated over the years, so I went and got a trash bag and cleaned out my trunk.  I also got the wet/dry vac out and did the job correctly before I replaced my bulbs.  After Act I was completed, I removed the panels that lined the trunk and replaced the bad bulb first.  No worries, it was a simple job.

If I am going to replace one bulb I always replace both bulbs because the other one will most likely go soon as well.  I went to the other light and I tried to remove the bulb but the plastic piece would not come out of the brake light assembly.  I tired for about five minutes and had no luck.  However, when I was trying to get the socket out of the brake light assembly I did loosen the bulb and it dropped into the brake light assembly piece.  Alas.  I then had to unbolt the entire brake light assembly and I tried for about five more minutes to remove the socket from the assembly with no luck.  I ended up using a screwdriver to pry the socket lose, it broke a little plastic, but I was able to remove it from the rest of the brake light assembly.  I then spent five more minutes digging out the bulb that was tumbling inside the light assembly.  Once that was completed I put the new bulb in and bolted the assembly to the car and I replaced all of the panels I needed to remove to change the one bad brake light.

The final license plate problem and the final solution

My next task was to go online and figure out how to remove the screws that broke off in the rear license plate.  I was told I needed a special bit so I went off to the automotive store and I got the correct bit and I also bought new blots to replace the cheap plastic ones that snapped off.  I got in my car and read the back of the package on the drill bit and it suggested using another type of bit, a left-handed bit, to draw the old screws out.  I then headed off to Menard’s and I bought yet another drill bit as well as a different size of the first bit I bought.  I wanted to cover all my bases.

I got home, went to work and promptly removed the plastic bolts.  I took out my new plate and put them in place and tried the new bolts but they were too bit.  I then went into my basement again to look for different sized bolts to try and fit in the plate.  I had one bolt that kind of fit but I knew it would no hold up for any good length of time.  I then drove off to Menard’s with my tool kit and purchased two different sized bolts and proceeded to put the bolts on in the parking lot, to ensure I did not have to make another trip.  I looked at my watch and it was 4:30 in the afternoon.

My 20 minute job took me seven hours.  Good thing I buffered in an extra ten minutes in my first estimate!

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I have been writing a lot about politics

Lately, I have been writing a lot about politics. I know that for some people that this gets old. A blog about Suburban Insanity, from the suburbs, should not always be about politics but it should be about the mundane issues facing everyday suburbanites as they attack the world. I understand this line of thinking. I look back on some of my older posts and I’m amazed at how many times I write about politics and what is happening in Washington DC. I do this for one simple reason, and one reason only. Politics matter. People like to pretend that what happens in Washington will not affect them, but that is not true. It has never been more important than now to become engaged, to understand what the president is doing to this country, and to try and fix it the best we can. If you continue to have your head in the sand and ignore the politics of Washington, your lifestyle will change in a very significant way in the near future.

The United States is at a precipice. We are standing at the edge of a financial cliff that most people in this country do not understand. The world around us, especially the countries in Europe, are collapsing one after another like dominoes lined up on the table. It will kill us if we pretend that the actions of Greece, Italy, and other Eastern European countries could not possibly happen here the United States. Unfortunately this is not true. The president and the Democrats have taken politics and have racked massive amounts of debt down our throats. President Obama in his three short years in office has increased the debt by $9 trillion. People cannot even imagine how much $9 trillion actually is, so it is easy to let these politicians get away with it until it the politics of Washington continue unabated. If we do not fix the spending problem in Washington, and it is not a problem of not taxing the rich people enough, this country will default on its obligations and go bankrupt. This means a lot of people in this country will be out of work, struggling for food, trying to make ends meet, and wishing things were like they were in the old days. It will happen if we continue down the Democrats path, but most people do not realize it.

Politics bores a lot of people

I know politics can be boring to a lot of people.  The main news sources for the past 50 years have been mainstream media outlets like CBS, ABC, and NBC in the television world, and papers like the New York Times in the print world. For the longest time in our country’s history we only got information from these news sources. In the past the mainstream media did a somewhat reputable job in reporting what was going on in Washington and helping ordinary citizens understand how the politics of the country would affect them. Over time, as colleges were putting out graduates who toed the party line in regards to the Democrats, the tides have turned. Suddenly we got article after article that refused to challenge any Democratic candidate in the United States. Since the colleges were putting out students who are liberal, biased, and unable to comprehend critical thinking, the articles and information that they produced for us were biased. This was done by design by the progressives in this country. This is the politics of persuasion.

The one thing that the mainstream media did not see coming was the Internet. Suddenly anyone with a computer and Internet access could write information about what they knew what was going on the world. This meant that the mainstream media did not control content and do not control the slant of the stories that were being put out to the American public. At first they pooh-poohed the idea that the Internet would be a driving force in this country. They did not think the Internet would be a challenge. This comes from two different ways of thinking about things, the first being that they consider themselves so much smarter and more intellectual than any other person in America. It is simply arrogance. The second reason this happened, was because they were willing to rest on the laurels of the past and think that the New York Times could never be undercut by this thing called the Internet.

Matt Drudge and politics

Suddenly, there was a new player in town and his name was Matt Drudge. The Drudge Report, found at www.drudgereport.com, simply scoured the Internet for stories that would probably be labeled as conservative by most liberals and in stream media.  Yet studies have been done showing that the Drudge Report is one of the most unbiased news gathering organizations out there. The Drudge report would link stories that do not always parrot the mainstream view of politics. They do not parrot what the Democratic Party wanted them to write. Suddenly people were becoming aware of different viewpoints and different opinions, and they were able to see what actually was going on in the world. People became informed.

After Matt Drudge came along talk radio suddenly sprung up. Actually Rush Limbaugh precedes this but that is another story. With talk radio 43edb7a1356b0379df9fabda62404c7f|people were able listen to people who put conservative thoughts and ideas on the air. We were not spoon fed the dung that came out of Washington. Because of this the government wanted to shut down talk radio. They wanted to put limits on free speech. The Liberal elites tried to launch a liberal radio network called, “Air America”  and this experimentation was a colossal failure. The shows came off as government sponsored propaganda. And that is the way most people view the mainstream news media nowadays. The newspapers wonder why they lose readership year after year, day after day, and week after week.  They always blame the Internet but never look at the content of the articles that thy produce. If they would simply take on the roles they have in the past and be proactive against government and against more government in our lives, I think the newspapers would be thriving still. Unfortunately this is not the case.

Politics are tricky. Over time institutions like newspapers and media tend to gravitate towards one political party or the other. This is because they see this political party is the Savior and of all things good and fair and equal and true. It happened this way throughout history, throughout time, throughout other governments in other countries and other institutions throughout the world. The first thing that dictators do when they take over countries as they try to control the media, films, books, anything having to do with output that feeds into the public. Never once have the mainstream media in this country looked at their articles and admitted a bias. Yet, we know it is there. The average American reader and Internet cruiser quickly figures out that the mainstream media’s biased and they force-feed them a bunch of drivel. And we’re tired of it. So he simply quit buying the newspapers, we quit watching the network news, and we get our information on the Internet what is largely unfiltered.

So how does the government react all this new information coming from new news sources and the Internet? It simply tries to enact laws to control content on the Internet and claiming they’re creating these laws in the interest of piracy. That is a lie.  The government wants control over you. They do not rule for you, they rule for themselves. It is both parties doing this but the Democrats are much more adept at it. The Democrats, the party that has had a long history of racism, oppression, and who did not want us to free the slaves, give black people equal rights, has suddenly become the champions of the poor. Every position they stand for, the Democratic Party has had a history of being against. It is like a flipped switch, from one to the other; from off to on. Yet the minions in the party continue to believe their drivel. I do not understand how reporters are so fucking stupid.

The politics of Washington are as such: Obama claims he wants healthcare for all but he gives waivers to unions and other organizations that have always supported the Democrats. Now he wants to jack up the price of healthcare for all the people who have served in our armed forces. He wants to jack the rates up extremely high. The groups he leaves out of jacking up the rates, are his favorite Democratic contributors, the unions. It is disgusting. The people who go to work fighting for this country, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marines, and the Army, need to be compensated as part of our agreement with them, by having cheaper healthcare than the rest of us. Obama wants to slash their care and raise the rates that they pay.  Obama though, has to pick sides because he’s a Democrat and Democrats always make deals with the devil. The devil seems to be the unions because they always get what they want and they never get what is for the best of the country. This means the politics of Washington have not changed. The real influence coming to Washington and pressing down upon the politicians is not one of big business, or rich high rollers, rather it is the pressure of unions and the Democratic Party who hound them at every turn.

Because of this collection of corruption in Washington DC this country is going to fail in a monumental way. People who are poor now have seen nothing yet. There’ll be mass starvation, mass hunger, people will be committing suicide by the thousands every day, and the Democrats will continue to rip on the rich. It is not the rich who are the problem; rather it is the corruption of the politicians that we elect into this government. We have to stop spending now. That is the only way we’re going get out of this mess. That means cutting all social programs to the bone. That means taxing everyone equally and a low-end flat rate somewhere around 20%. That means doing things different than the way we’ve done in the past, because doing things the way we did in the past does not work. We have history to prove this to us. It is time to fix it right, fix it now and it is time to fix it for good.

If we people the suburbs did not stand up and pay attention to what these crooks, thieves, robber barons, scumbags in Washington DC are doing to this country, then we are doomed to fail  Most the people living in the suburbs will be extremely poor, extremely hungry, and extremely despondent. In Greece there are bunch of middle-class people now digging through garbage bins to find food. It is pathetic, abhorrent, and morally reprehensible what the Democrats have done this country, and to a lesser extent the Republicans. It is time to take the politics out of Washington, and return these elected officials back to their home lives. They do not know what they’re doing. We have to follow the Constitution United States, behind the men who put this document in place for us to survive and thrive in use in the future. We have to get back to this, and quit doing politics as usual.

Obama and lowered expectations

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Obama and lowered expectations

I just read an article that president Obama is going run on a platform of lower expectations for the middle class. While he has been brilliant in his attempts to decimate the United States economy, the United States in general, and bringing our standard of living down to the rest of the world in the past, at least now he has  the guts to come out and say it. It is not often that you see a president run on the platform of, “hey things could be worse.”

President Obama has a long history of failure, mediocrity, and doing things that go counter-intuitive to history and the way the world works. He continues to deny drilling and exploration permits for oil companies, and then he rails against the big oil companies for not producing enough oil. He touts green energy all the time and we throw money down that rabbit hole trillions of dollars at a time, and we don’t worry about the outcomes. Obama likes to think the end justifies the means, but in this case there is no end except bankruptcy and debt for children. Never in the history of this country has a president been so deliberate about dismantling the American dream, the American way of life, and the superiority of the way we live in the United States of America.

I’m tired of Democrats sticking up for this fraud. If Obama was a true Democrat like in the old days, he would never, ever sell out the United States of America. These people today who are in charge have no qualms about disparaging United States of America, and it is a god damned shame. The Democrats have been in charge of the House and Senate or least the Senate, for the past few years and they have yet to pass a budget. It is illegal to not pass a budget. Apparently laws apply to Democrats only in certain situations. They have the person in charge of the IRS who is a tax fraud; he cheated on his taxes.  This fraud, this tax cheater is in charge of the tax system. What kind of system is that where we put the fox in charge of the hen house?

I just read another article where Obama spokesperson claims Obama did not deny the Keystone pipeline getting built. How in the hell do these people get away with lying through their teeth day after day after day? The mainstream press should be ashamed of themselves. President Obama’s speaker should go to trial and be put under oath and be made to swear to tell the truth.  If he does not and Obama did indeed sign the bill that denied the Keystone pipeline, then he should go to prison be anally raped by prisoners everywhere. I am so sick and tired of this administration lying, cheating, using their Chicago thuggery politics, and being just mean ass ignorant people. For the first time in history we are rule of man not of laws, and when that happens elites turn into dictatorships.  Everyone should be treated the same under the law.

Obama should go to jail.

The crimes of president Obama has committed against the American people are so great and grievous that he needs to be put on trial and if found guilty go to jail. If it has been found that he has committed treason then he should be punished under the laws of treason in this country. The unmitigated gall of him letting in so many illegal people in this country is appalling. The Constitution specifically points out certain duties of the president, and the most important one is guarding the nation’s borders and protecting the citizens. Yet he has done none of these. He has put in a limp-wristed ineffectual and racist human being named Eric Holder as his Atty. Gen. This fraud does not prosecute people if they are black. Eric Holder also seems to only go after people like border agents who shoot Mexicans that are here illegally and who fire on U.S. agents.  Eric Holder seems to go after people that somehow he thinks are racist in their way they do their jobs. He is a fraud and he should be put in prison.

It is time we stopped kowtowing to these Democrat dogs. When Hitler took power in Germany, he did it through the electoral process first. He then used laws rules and arcane tricks in politics to silence his critics. Soon he had people listening in on other people, reporting other people, they were part of his little Nazi party, and this enabled him to gain more power. Obama is now doing the same things that Hitler has done. Yes, I know it is extreme to compare anyone to Hitler, but in this case history is indeed repeating itself. If we do not point out the similarities between Hitler and Obama, not the killing of millions of people, but the political maneuvering, then we are indeed deemed doomed to repeat ourselves historically.

Obama is a minion. He was put in place to push and advance the far left wing progressive agenda. This agenda and their politics have never worked in any country on earth. Communism, socialism and any other isms you name only allow people to live equally, and equally means under miserable conditions. They do not let people rise above the masses unless you’re part of the political party and political apparatus. It is a got damn shame these thugs in power today are able to get away with this. The people in Congress like Barney Frank and that other Nazi, Nancy Pelosi, should also be put on trial and should also go to jail or if found guilty of treason should face punishment under the laws of United States of America. For these idiots, imbeciles, ineffectual leaders to stand back and blame everything on the Republicans, and blame everything on George Bush, it is absolutely reprehensible.

President Bush has been gone and out of office for over three years now. Yet we still hear Obama say how he is still trying to fix the problems that President Bush created. Bullshit . This president has put us into more of a mess than any other his president in the history of the United States. He has doubled down on the debt and this alone will bring this country to its knees. He has sided with environmental groups and decided not to search for new oil, not to allow pipelines to be built for new oil, and only throwing money down that rabbit hole called clean energy. If you look at the history of Spain, they tried to invest in clean energy about 10 years ago and it bankrupted the country. For some reason Obama thinks he is better and smarter than the Spaniards, and that he and he alone can create these greener jobs and it will be effective. Green energy has never worked; Ever. Buy an electric car and drive it in Minnesota and see how many miles to the gallon, I’m sorry, see how many miles per electrical charge it gets when the temperature hits 20 below zero. That battery will drain in about three or four hours flat while you’re at work. It will leave you stranded.

On top of that Obama thinks electricity is created magically by a magician and they pull the energy out of a hat. Here’s the problem with that theory. Obama wants to put incredibly harsh taxes on coal producers so that they are forced out of business because coal pollutes the earth. I’ve never seen another human being hate other humans as much as Obama does. It is absolutely pathetic. It is time we admit that clean energy is a fraud. It was designed and built and created by politicians and people who want to take your money and control you. No better example of this exists than Al Gore. Al Gore is a fraud and he too should be put in jail. And besides that, Al Gore is uses ten times more energy than the average American and he sucks down energy like a Las Vegas casino on steroids. Electricity has to be generated from coal or nuclear in this country. Wind farms will not produce electricity in enough quantities to keep any city, county or state going. Coal energy does. Nuclear energy does. Nuclear plants does not want to get built by the environmental people because they do not like the radioactive material is left over after the nuclear process. They do not want coal because it burns too dirty for the green crowd. We have all the coal in the world in this country. We have a lifetime and our kids lifetimes and their kids, kids, kids, kids, lifetimes worth of coal in this country but the Democrats will not let us take it out of the ground. It is time to put a stop to this.

Obama will be seen as the worst President ever.

It is time we admit that president Obama is a fraud. It is time to admit that the Democratic Party is a fraud. We can do this one of two ways and I already know which way this is going to go. Right now the poor, or should I say the people who are claimed as poor, are sucking up an inordinate amount of resources from the federal government. Now they have the numbers because Obama put us here where they can tilt the field when it comes to elections. They will keep voting themselves getting more money, taking away from rich people, and the rich people leave this country is. Soon we will have nothing left in regards to money admit that this is her utter and total fraud.

It is time to cut out the excessive spending, the excessive borrowing, the excess size of the big government. We do not need bigger government, we need less government. If the Democrats think that the politicians can solve every issue in this country, they’re sadly mistaken. Oppressive governments never work in the history of mankind; they never will work in the history of mankind.  They do not produce anything; they simply take from working-class people. Politicians are the worst of the worst. They suck off of societies teat without ever giving anything of value back. They create laws upon arcane laws in order to justify the keeping their jobs. They are frauds. They create problems and then make laws to fix the problems that they created. Government now consumes about 24% of the GDP I could be wrong and that it could be 28%. This means they skim 28% off of every transaction that happens in this country.  Let’s knock it down to 15%. Let’s enact a new amendment to the Constitution saying that it cannot go above this 15%. It is time to take charge and tell these idiots to go away.

If we do not take charge, this country is done. We should actually divide this country into two parts: the Democrats can have everything left of the Mississippi and the Republicans can have everything to the right. We would have a house swap program so people could move to whatever side they want and then we can choose. The Democrats can let in all the illegal aliens that they want, they can spend their children’s, children’s, children’s money, and they can go deeper into debt to China. The Democrat side would enact laws upon laws to keep people safe from themselves and they would have a government bureaucrat for every single action that a person or individual could take. They would have bureaucrats and more bureaucrats looking over everyone’s shoulders to make sure that their lunch is packed correctly,   that people were eating correctly, that they were using the right things

On the other side we would have low government, low spending, low taxation, pro-business, and we would enact laws to get rid of those the suing and the frivolous lawsuits. In my fantasy world that people like Obama would not exist. We would base our laws on the Constitution United States of America, which was the greatest document ever written in the history of mankind. We would be a country of laws and not of men. No president would be able to do what president Obama is doing today. No president would ever create czars and arcane laws and enable the EPA and other agencies like that to put regulation upon regulation upon every single American in the country.  This this country would be business friendly, tax friendly, people friendly. We would not have subsidized healthcare, but we would have healthcare insurance pools like we do car insurance. If people got sick and did not buy insurance that would be a tough hop for them and they would die. We would become a nation of common sense. Would seat professional juries. If you bring a suit against a company and you lose, you pay the legal fees. That is the way it should work.

President Obama is the problem right now. He is also a symptom of the problem that exists in the Democratic Party. It is time we met this, it is timely fixes. It is time personal Obama gets defeated in the next election.

President Obama's budget

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President Obama’s budget

President Obama came out with his latest budget yesterday. As usual it was filled with phantom cuts, tax increases and Wizard-of-Oz-like magic. The mainstream media did not do anything to refute his budget promises. It amazes me how they continue to kowtow to this president and the Democratic Party. While the mainstream media is pretty ineffectual now, in the future it will simply vanish by the wayside as people look to the Internet and other sources for their news stories. They are literally writing themselves out of their jobs it makes me sad.

President Obama has been the worst president the United States has ever seen. He was elected simply because he is black.  He had no experience in the real world, no experience running a real business and no experience in politics so to speak. He had a Harvard education but his records are locked so no one can really look up how he got to Harvard, or what he did to deserve that degree. He has had everything in his life handed to him on a silver platter simply because of the color of his skin. He admits when he was young he did drugs, was a poor student, and did not think anything of the future. Yet somehow he managed to get into Harvard, have his school paid for, and ended up with a high paying professorship at the same school. No one is really sure if he actually wrote the books he claims have written and one of his friends actually claimed that he was the author of Obama‘s books. He has very little history in the way of passing laws, writing bills or anything else that pertains to the normal job of a Senator, let alone President.

When Obama ran for president no one looked into his background, no one looked at the church he attended, and no one looked at the people he hung around with. Because President Obama was black, he had a free pass when it came to the media sussing him for this position. If opponents brought up anything about his past, President Obama claimed racism. If they tried to write about his history and his wife’s employment, the media screamed out racism. No one who opposed president Obama could say anything negative about him without being called a racist and now look at the pickle that we are in.

President Obama and spending.

Like every other Democrat in the history of the United States, President Obama cannot say no to spending. I know he does not control the spending bills because they are generated in Congress, but President Obama puts his stamp on what he wants and how much he wants to spend. The Democrats have been spending us into oblivion. When President Bush was in charge then Senator Obama said that the debt was a crime against our children. At that time President Bush’s debt was only $4 trillion. President Obama has increases number to $9 trillion.

President Obama has also talked about raising taxes. He is the new most divisive president in the history of the United States. He always attacks rich people, people who have more money, people who work harder, and the people who actually produce for the society. He lets go the fact that 48% of the population that paid no federal income tax. He does not mind that more people are on food stamps than ever before in the history of the United States. He is trying to drive up the price of gas to at least four dollars a gallon, if not more, without the simple comprehension of a child that raising gas prices will indeed raise the price of every single item in this country. And like any other Democrat he loves choo choo trains. He wants to build high-speed rails here, high-speed rails there, high-speed rails everywhere. Yet every time I see the high-speed train run in this county, in this area of town, I know the transit and government is spending hundreds, of dollars if not thousands, on every trip; it is like flushing money down the toilet.

The people in charge of our government today sure like to spend money and our debt grows every single day. Every single day we add more money to the amount of debt we owe the Chinese. Every single day we spend more money than we take in. When president Obama took office the price of the American debt for every man woman and child in the United States was somewhere near $15,000. Since he has been in office, this number has increased to about $45,000 per man woman and child. It is a crime what he is doing to this country. President Obama should be tried for treason, and if found guilty punished per the dictates of the law.

President Obama and everything else.

President Obama also decided that he was above the law. His appointed countless czars to countless positions to control the population of the United States. He has forced healthcare down our throats. He is forcing the Catholic Church to provide contraception to women, even though it goes against all of their teachings. He has empowered the EPA to and add several thousand pages of new rules designed to keep businesses from growing. He has denied the building of the Keystone pipeline, which could have created thousands of jobs and got cheap Canadian oil into the United States. Every single act this president has done has been treasonous.

President Obama has decided that our borders are not worth defending. He lets in, and has let in, millions of undocumented workers. By undocumented I of course mean illegal. He seems to think every other country in this world has the right to their sovereignty the right to their National Heritage, and the right to be an independent nation. Yet somehow he does not think that the United States gets to observe the same rights.

President Obama had also committed an ungodly amount of gaffes in his short tenure in office. For instance, he has bowed before several leaders of other nations on this Earth. Never before in the history of our country has a President bowed before other leaders. Yet President Obama is seen bowing before every Muslim leader that he runs across, and other leaders as well. He has given the Queen of England an iPod loaded with his speeches on them. How ego-maniacal is that? He had given the Prime Minister of England DVDs from America, not realizing that the English use a different standard in their DVDs. He is like a man-child. He thinks just because he says something, that it is true.

President Obama has got to go. He’s bad for this nation, bad for this country, and bad for every person he claims to support and want to succeed. Nothing will be accomplished by taking away millions and millions of dollars from the rich to give to the poor in this country. That solution will only fix things one time. After that the rich people move away and never return and the poor people will continue to sucking the teat of government until it collapses on itself. If this happens, and I am positive it will, President Obama needs to be tried as a criminal. He needs to be tried for treason. Every step, every action, every loss, every czar, every single thing this president has done is, has been done with the goal of ruining this country. Since that seems to be his goal, then it must be said that I was wrong. President Obama, using the standards I just mentioned, is the most effective president we have ever had. And because of that he is going to bring down the greatest country in the history of the world under his leadership.

I hope President Obama is remembered as the lousiest president in the history of the United States, and is a genuinely bad person.

It is time to eliminate the IRS

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It is time to get rid of the IRS

The biggest problem we have in this country, and we have a lot of problems, is the tax code and the IRS.  Politicians use the IRS to curry favor and votes.  Other politicians use the IRS to go after their enemies.  The tax code in 2010 as 71,684 pages long.  71,684 pages long.  In 2006 the tax code was 16,845 words long.  We are creating bureaucracy upon bureaucracy to keep people employed, to go after companies in the country and to attack political enemies of those in charge.  48% of the people in this country pay no federal taxes, yet they are the ones bitching the loudest how unfair our tax system really is.  Really?  Is that the leg you are trying to stand on?  It is time to get rid of the IRS.

Let’s put a flat sales tax in place.  That means that every time you buy anything in this country you are going to pay between 15-20% more to cover the cost of government.  The IRS will hate this plan because with it you could cut positions at the IRS by 90% and you would raise more money, and everyone would be paying their fair share.  I do not want the sales tax hidden in the price.  That means if I buy a product for $20, I would pay $23 for the item with a 15% tax (this does not include any state taxes).  I do not want the tax to be a stealthy one.  I do not want an item priced at $23 so people do not know the true amount of money they are paying to the government.  Every time a person buys something I want them to feel the pain like the middle class people do, otherwise the politicians will keep raising the taxes instead of cutting spending.

So let’s get rid of the IRS.

Yes, many people will lose their jobs but tough hop.  We do not need IRS workers pushing papers and auditing the fuck out of people, we need them to go away and be productive.  Yes, the tax software business will be shot to hell as well as most tax preparers.  I do not care.  We need to simplify the code and collect more money and spend less.  Some of the IRS employees could be collection people; they would go out and collect the money that stores raised in taxes and they could perform audits.  It would be a system that would be fair because everyone would pay all the time.  You could write a check to anyone living below a certain income level once a year that would defray the cost to the poor.  You could put systems in place where the poor would pay so they would see how much money the monster called government really consumes.

The politicians would be fucked.  No more tax breaks for G.E. or any “green” projects, no more loopholes for their cronies, no more loopholes for themselves.  Everyone would pay every time they consumed something.  Easy peasy.  The IRS agents who write the tax code can go into their true line of business, being a dominatrix.

Along with the IRS they government peons keep adding thousands of words to environmental regulations.  They are trying to enact laws to drive up the price of gas so we take their choo choo trains.  They are trying to enact laws against energy companies, the ones that actually produce energy and create jobs (not the green energy companies), so they pay, and then we pay, even more to heat our homes or use our computers.  Al Gore screams like Chicken Little and is making a fortune off the scam called “global warming.”  He should be charged as a criminal.

We could still have a corporate tax but that should be slashed to 15% too so we can compete with every other country out there in the world.  Do you know the corporate tax rate in Canada is 16%?  Russia, formerly communist Russia, has a corporate rate of 20%.  We have a corporate rate of 35% and we wonder why companies are leaving the US.

The IRS would just be the start.

Once people see how much more money would come into the coffers, they would see the other inefficiencies in government.  The IRS would go away.  We should also get rid of the EPA because they are doing nothing now except to be Obama’s crony in taxing the living hell out of oil and coal companies, which in turn the costs get passed onto us.  Obama is creating a system that is the most oppressive form of government there is, one where they create so many rules and regulations that we are unable to sustain any kind of growth in this country.

Once the IRS and EPA is gone we should eliminate the Department of Education.  The DEA has been in existence since Jimmy Carter and education scores continue to plummet.  They create rules that everyone must follow and that add thousands of dollars per student per year in costs.  It is time to end the DEA.

Finally, every Democrat in this country should be ashamed, and most Republicans too.  They think government is the answer to all our woes when in fact, the government has caused all the woes.  It is time to dismantle this system and put rules in place to ensure that government gets rid of baseline accounting and goes to a real accounting system.  It is time to be fair and the best place to start would be the IRS.

Super Bowl Sunday

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It is Super Bowl Sunday and the masses are getting ready to watch some football.

The amazing thing about the Super Bowl is that the game is always way more boring than the hype.  The hype is so high that almost anything would be impossible to live up to it.  the people in this country almost treat it like it is a national holiday.  People go out and buy big TVs and then they have parties with a lot of food.  The commercials are always top-notch and it is like their debutant ball.  Life is good on Super Bowl Sunday.

I am doing absolutely nothing this Super Bowl Sunday.  I am staying home to watch the game.  It is going to be a peaceful day.  I already took my dog for a run and she is on the couch sleeping like a baby.  The kids are excited because we are going to have nachos tonight.  They love nachos.  The Super Bowl means nothing to my daughter and almost nothing to my son.  If the Packers were in the game it would mean a lot more to my wife and I.

The Super Bowl means spring is on it’s way.

We love the Super Bowl because it means that spring is almost here.  We have had such a mild winter that it hardly seems fair that it is already ending.  There has been so little snow I only had to take out the snow blower once this year.  Spring is fantastic in this state because the weather turns and things get green.  The Super Bowl is a harbinger of spring.

The Super bowl also means no more football for six months.  Viking fans should already start saying, “there’s always next year” because they epically fail every year.  It is fun to watch their hopes rise and then they are so defeated about four games into the season.  There is not a chance in hell they are ever going to go to the Super Bowl unless they bought tickets.  But like everything else, hope springs eternal.

The Super Bowl means hello Baseball!

Even though Football is all about today but tomorrow brings baseball.  The baseball season is long and warm.  We too have hope but it is not as misguided as the Viking fan’s hope.  The players meet in Florida and we look forward to summer and the season.  The Super Bowl will be another distant and foggy memory.

Why do Democrats love trains?

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Trains and the Democrats.

The Democrats are enamored with trains.  They love the high-speed trains, they love trolley cars, and they certainly love Amtrak.  No matter how shitty the economy, no matter how in debt we are as a country, the Democrats will always ask for new choo choo trains.  It is a sickness and it represents everything that is wrong with the Democratic party these days.  I have several theories on why they love trains so much.

Trains and Europe.

Europe is loaded with trains.  You can catch a train almost anywhere and get to most any place in Europe on a train.  A lot of people do not have cars, which distilled to its essence means they can control your movements.  I think the Democrats love Europe, not so much for the trains but more to the fact that the governments have all this power and they control almost every aspect of each person life.  The Europeans try to couch it in language that says they will take care of everyone, from birth to death, and as an individual you will not be responsible for any of your actions.

Europe is also a small continent.  England is very small and thus, with a lot of people living in a small space, trains make a lot of sense.  They do not make money but they make a lot of sense.  It is very easy to get from point A to point B in England on a train and when you get to your destination you simply walk or get a cab to take you the rest of the way.  The trains run on time and they are usually well-ridden.  That is not the case in the United States.

The Democrats and Obama are pushing a more trains agenda.

The Democrats have a hard-on for a high-speed light rail train in California.  The route would be from L.A. to San Fransisco.  I do not live there but there are a few things I have learned about it.  The cost as of today is going to be $117 billion dollars.  This money does not come from private businesses but it comes from the government.  Not only does it come from the government, it comes from the federal government meaning everyone in the country is paying for a train that will only run in California.  The other great thing about this story is their predicted ridership, which is inflated in every single train proposal I have ever seen, is expected to be 10 times greater the number of travelers who fly to San Fransisco today!  How the fuck is that even possible?  It does not matter to the Democrats because they love spending money on shit that does not work.

Besides the initial building costs, which will go up substantially, the cost to run the damn thing will never be recouped through fares.  This means every single time the choo choo trains are running you are flushing money right down the toilet.  You can hear the flushing sound if you listen closely.

Obama and the Democrats just killed a bill that would have built a pipeline from Canada to Texas.  This pipeline was going to be paid for by private funds.  The pipeline would have employed about 20,000 people a year to build it and then a number less than that once it was built.  It would have brought much-needed oil to this country from a country who is our friend.  Every single day this pipeline would be open it would be bringing money and products to this country, the absolute opposite of what trains will do for the economy.  The real kicker is that because the pipeline was denied, Warren Buffet is going to be bringing in the big bucks because he owns the TRAINS that will transport the oil in Canada.  Funny how it comes back to trains.

In Minneapolis and Minnesota they are building light rail to connect downtown Minneapolis and downtown St. Paul.  the cost for the choo choo trains is one billion dollars.  The ridership numbers were grossly inflated, like they always are, and every time the train runs it will be like flushing money down the toilet.  Flush.  The ridership numbers will never, ever meet projections and the Democrats will continue to lie to us and shove more light rail down our throats.  They told us when they built the Hiawatha line that the choo choo trains would help reduce traffic.  It had the exact opposite effect.  Traffic on Hiawatha Avenue is worse that ever because the lights are triggered by the trains and the trains run every 10 minutes each direction.  Thus, the cars are eternally caught in massive traffic jams and traffic sucks.

They now want to also build a high-speed rail line to Chicago.  They say the travel time will be 4 hours and 35 minutes to 5 hours and 47 minutes, depending on the route the tracks will be laid.  This can be found on the MN Department of Transportation’s web site.  Flying to Chicago takes about 1:45 minutes but that would increase by a couple of hours if you include the time spent getting anally probed by the TSA.  I can drive to Chicago in a little over 7 hours.  Where is the great savings?

It does not matter about savings because it is all about control, all about taking away our cars, and all about trains.

The YMCA

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The YMCA has been my home away from home lately.

Because I am in my diet and fitness mode I have been going crazy at the YMCA.  I go there each and every weekday, but I say this because I have only been doing this for two weeks so far.  But, a step is a step and progress is progress.  I think I wrote before that there is a weight loss contest going on and that helps me get up at 6:00 each morning to work out and try to lose weight.  I am motivated by 42″ LCD TVs.

I love the YMCA in the mornings.  When you go in the afternoon every machine is full and every inch of floor space seems to be taken up by a humanoid.  In the mornings you have mainly old people who do not work.  There are some housewives too, and they are always fun to see in the morning.  They are so damn cute in their workout outfits!  I see the ones that are serious about it because they tend to work out at amazing intensities.  It is so much fun to see them but ass.

Some things I do not like about the YMCA

I understand that you are retired and life is good and you have nothing but time on your hands.  This does not mean the rest of the world does not have their schedules to keep.  So when I go to the YMCA and see the old men sitting on the weight machines and talking smack with other older folks, it kind of puts me on edge.  I tell you what, you want to talk then I have no problem with that.  Simply get the fuck off the machines and let other people do their workouts and you talk your head off.

The next thing I hate at the YMCA is the people who do not clean off the machines when they are done using them and their DNA is spattered all over the damn place.  When you get off a machine and see a magnificent sweat stain on the workout bench, you may want to go get a towel and cleaner and clean the damn thing off.  No one, no even your wife, likes your sweat all over everything.  If you cannot clean up your sweat get the fuck out.

Naked men at the YMCA

You see them in all shapes and sizes.  Big and small, fat and tall, skinny and short, and balls that hang to the floor.  I saw a man bending over yesterday and his gut was prodigious, it was full and beefy and when he attempted to bend over it damn near was to his knees.  Unfortunately his balls hung lower than his gut.  It was an image that has been burned into my retina and I may never recover.  Even the gay group that sang about the YMCA, the Village People, they would not want to hang out there if they saw that sight.  Ick!

I love the men at the YMCA who go to the showers and leave the curtains open, buck ass naked, hanging their old and shriveled cocks out there for the world to see.  I am not sure if they are looking for a boyfriend or they just do not care anymore.  Please, for the love of God, close the curtains.  I do not want to see your wrinkly cock and I do not want to see your shriveled ass.  It does not do me any good.

You see all kinds of cocks at the YMCA.  You see men hung like horses and little wee men.  If I were gay it would be an ultimate fantasy to just be at the YMCA.  It would be like a buffet line!  I wonder if the women prance around the ladies locker rooms like the guys do?  I would love to be a bug on that wall.  There is nothing better than naked ladies.

Anyway, I am going to be off and I hope I keep up the hard work and the good work at the YMCA.

Call congress to defeat SOPA

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Defeat SOPA and PIPA today

There is a major vote coming up in congress that a lot of people do not know about because the big corporations and news organizations, as well as the government,  want these bills to pass.  It is called Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) or the Protect IP Act (PIPA).  Here is a good explanation of what is wrong with this bill:  http://multichannelmerchant.com/ecommerce/news/sopa-stop-online-piracy-act-0118tpp9/ and here is an explanation of the bill in general: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57329001-281/how-sopa-would-affect-you-faq/.

The government and big business are afraid of the Internet because for the first time in history we are not being fed news through the filters of governments and big business.  If this legislation passes the Internet as we know it will change forever.  All the government wants to do is control you, control your thoughts and control your ideas.  While they are all for social media sites when it comes to revolutions in Arab nations they are scared to death of social media in this country.  Because of the Internet we have organizations like Wikileaks out there keeping governments and the frauds in check.

I beg you to please write to all of your congress people today.  Please help keep this asinine government out of the Internet.

If you go to Wikipedia today you will see they shut down their web site in protest.  The great thing is you can plug in your zip code and get the email links to your congress people.  It is time to draw a line in the sand now and today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

People who ask for advice and do not listen

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Advice given and not taken

Have you run across anyone in your life who asks for advice and you give it to them and they promptly ignore the advice and do what they always wanted to do?  Have you noticed that most of these people are self-destructive and they usually ask for the advice in hopes that someone will tell them to do the things that they wanted to do from the beginning.  It is frustrating to deal with people like this and I have to learn to simply keep my nose out of it.

I have a specific person in mind as I write this.  This person is truly one of the nicest people you will ever want to meet.  She will do anything for another person.  She will not follow advice even when she is the one asking for it and it is given in hopes to help this person out.

This person has a couple of dogs.  These dogs are not well-mannered in any way, shape or form.  They roam the neighborhood without repercussion.  They always eat food that the family leaves on the table.  They dig up the neighbor’s yards and they shit where they want.  They are unruly, but not in a mean way, just in a way that no one controls them.

It is funny because their kids are a lot like their dogs.  Their kids have never had to live up to their mistakes.  They crash cars more than 10 times and mom and dad make sure their insurance is covered.  They go to colleges that cost $25,000 a year, they flunk out because they are dumb as fence posts, and then they sign up for year two and do not do not let the college know that they will not be coming in next year, and the parents are on the hook for another $25,000 for classes that she will never take.

This person’s daughter has been in multiple accidents.  She has had several tickets.  She looses $300 car keys, she lets her license expire and she gets tickets for driving without a license.  She got pulled over and arrested for drunk driving.  All this and she is barely over 21.  Her parents in the past asked for advice about the kids and they became defensive when you point out the flaws in their parenting styles.

The other two daughters do not flush toilets after taking shits.  They do not put food away and dinners have been eaten multiple times by the dogs.  The middle daughter has crashed her car multiple times.  If they mess up, and they mess up a lot, they are not held accountable for their actions.  It is sad because these people will be no good to themselves or society and it could have all been prevented.  On top of not taking advice they post pictures of their perfect little angels and put captions about how pretty they are or hot they are.  Excuse me?  That is a neon sign screaming “fucked up” like an all-night diner.

Advice about the dogs.

So here we are back to the dogs and advice.  We know another guy who has a dog that is almost human.  He is perfectly behaved and he even sits in the sauna with his master.  He comes when called, never jumps on his dad, would not dream of eating anything but kibble, and is the kind of dog all owners dream about.  Of course he had to put in a lot of work for all this to come together.  He trained the dog, he worked with the dog, he  did not ignore the dog.  When it came to actions and punishment he followed through with actions as well as words.  The result is perfection.

Well this woman asked for advise on how to get her dogs to behave.  The biggest advise was to follow through, to let them know their boundaries, to make sure if they do wrong that they are punished.  He suggested taking them to a dog training class.  He gave advice on how to stop the eating off counters.  He told her if he had the dogs they would be straitened out in a couple of weeks.

The woman was offended.  She did not take his advice.  Instead she went about her life in the same way that she always had, she let the dogs run roughshod over the house, they continue to eat any and all food left on the counters, they still roam the neighborhood, they still shit where they want, they still are a couple of dogs that should not be like they are.  She asked and was given advise, but she did not follow through.

No she is getting a divorce, and she asked for advice on this.

It started six months ago when she began texting an old boyfriend.  She was caught, found out by her husband, and promised to stop but did not.  Before she was caught I know she was told that if she kept it up she would get caught and shit would hit the fan.  Well now her life is falling apart and she is fighting with her ex.  She was given what she feels is a shitty ultimatum and she is going today to sign papers.  She will be destitute in a matter of a year or two.

She asked advice.  She loves to ask for advice.  I begged her and pleaded with her to not accept the agreement, to get a new lawyer and to fight for what is rightly hers.  All of her other friends have said the same thing to her.  She asks for advice and is given it all day and all night long and she does not listen.

Yesterday she claimed she saw some eagles which remind her of her mom.  She took this as a sign that she should accept the agreement that her and her ex struck up even though the world around her was screaming for her not to take the terms offered by her ex-husband.  She decided that today she would go and sign the papers and I know within a year or two she will be so fucking poor my eyes bleed thinking about it.

And I don’t care much anymore.  I am tired of giving advice to people who ask for it and then ignore it.  I am tired of beating my head against that wall.  I am tired of listening to her whine and complain that she is the victim when she brings everything she has down on herself.  I will still be her friend but I will not give advice.  I will not listen to her whine about her lot in life,  I will not let her bring the world around her down in self-pity.

My advice to myself is to shut the fuck up and get on with my own life which I have ultimate control over.  I give great advice.