It's About One Point Three B's to Nowhere Thing

Dear America,

"Peace, Commerce, and Honest Friendship 

with All Nations -- 

Entangling Alliances with None." 

Thomas Jefferson

that was then, this is now.

so you will be happy to know, the yellow crime tape has been sliced, diced, and removed --

just take Hillary's word for it -- there is no need for alarm any longer.  Egypt is on the right path now; the democratic process is fully underway as we speak.

We have been talking about "secret deals" this week.  Anyone recall the days leading up to Mubarek's fall from grace (if he ever had any)?   Our State Department was in there, having secret sit downs with Mubarek and his entire crew.  We nudged.  We interfered.  We shoved.  We meddled.  Call it what you will, but deals were made way back when solidifying days like this:

"As the U.S. State Department prepares to waive democracy requirements and release as much as $1.3 billion in aid to Egypt, a new Gallup poll shows that the majority of Egyptians would rather cozy up to countries like Iran and Turkey than embrace the United States.

Congress passed legislation in 2011 that tied funding in Egypt to progress on democracy and human rights issues. The law, however, also included a waiver provision that allows the state department to overlook the requirement if it is necessary for 'national security interests'.”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/28/state-dept-memo-excuses-islamist-egyptian-govt-clears-path-for-1-3-billion-in-aid/#ixzz1qQF8umQe

Just how secret?  And just who are the players involved?  No need to go any further than one of Hillary's left hand women:  Huma Abedin

[linking Huma with policy based on six degrees of separation, we get down to two rather quickly...]

[why do you think the democrats didn't rush right in to save Anthony Weiner's sorry a$$....purely rhetorical]

As we have previously mentioned here, Egyptians may have been wooing Americans to visit -- as tourists -- but make no mistake,  they don't want you to stay and take up residence  [for they do not likey-likey the US of A at all] We wheeled and deal-ed with Mubarek for so long -- overlooking a number of transgressions -- that even when we wanted to... DO the RIGHT thing...the Egyptians had lost all faith in us.

[of course, there is wide debate on what Doing the Right Thing looks like...both here and abroad...]

The thing is, only 28% of Egyptians view strong relations with the United States as a good thing. They would rather, as the Daily Caller article points out, "cozy up" to Turkey or Iran.

As predicted over a year ago, the Muslim Brotherhood is running the "democratic process" in Egypt.  And more important, they are not our friend.

AND the United States is giving them 1.3 BILLION dollars to bolster up their military to ensure the peace?

Is this what "peace" and "democracy" looks like?

And here's what the region really thinks about the 1.3 B's...
is the U.S. choosing stability over democracy yet again?

[but then again -- define democracy first, aljazeera...oooh snap]

and let's separate this 1.3 billion from the various miscellaneous funding sources also available, like through USAID funds; an article from the Washington Times (August 2010) illustrates how this has been working out for us:

"Americans also may be surprised to learn that the United States has been an active participant in mosque construction projects overseas. In April, U.S. Ambassador to Tanzania Alfonso E. Lenhardt helped cut the ribbon at the 12th-century Kizimkazi Mosque, which was refurbished with assistance from the United States under a program to preserve culturally significant buildings. The U.S. government also helped save the Amr Ebn El Aas Mosque in Cairo, which dates back to 642. The mosque’s namesake was the Muslim conqueror of Christian Egypt, who built the structure on the site where he had pitched his tent before doing battle with the country’s Byzantine rulers. For those who think the Ground Zero Mosque is an example of “Muslim triumphalism” glorifying conquest, the Amr Ebn El Aas Mosque is an example of such a monument - and one paid for with U.S. taxpayer funds.

The mosques being rebuilt by the United States are used for religious worship, which raises important First Amendment questions. U.S. taxpayer money should not be used to preserve and promote Islam, even abroad. In July 2009, the Office of the Inspector General published an audit of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) faith-based and community initiatives that examined whether government funds were being used for religious activities. The auditors found that while USAID was funding some religious activities, officials were “uncertain of whether such uses of Agency funding violate Agency regulations or the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution” when balanced against foreign-policy objectives.

For example, our government rebuilt the Al Shuhada Mosque in Fallujah, Iraq, expecting such benefits as “stimulating the economy, enhancing a sense of pride in the community, reducing opposition to international relief organizations operating in Fallujah, and reducing incentives among young men to participate in violence or insurgent groups.” But Section 205.1(d) of title 22 of the Code of Federal Regulations prohibits USAID funds from being used for the rehabilitation of structures to the extent that those structures are used for “inherently religious activities.” It is impossible to separate religion from a mosque; any such projects will necessarily support Islam.

[and my apologies for the long read here...I intended to nip and tuck this section to smithereens, but just couldn't do it...choosing whole context over chopped up talking points...now let's move on...]

Sure, this community building via mosque reconstruction is kinda old news.   But just where are the atheists fighting this one?

Certainly, if they take issue with a simple cross on federal land, just imagine how cross they must be building mosques with American tax dollars in a foreign country, of all people, places, and things.  Separation of church and state -- mosque and state -- across the pond, anyone?

Or does this just fit naturally into the anti-American narrative, marching against western colonialism any which way but loose, and thus, paving the way for a new, new world?

oh, but let's re-wind for just a quick sec:

"expecting such benefits as 'stimulating the economy, enhancing a sense of pride in the community, reducing opposition to international relief organizations operating in Fallujah, and reducing incentives among young men to participate in violence or insurgent groups.'"

that is priceless, isn't it? Was it worth it...rebuilding that mosque in Fallujah...did it enhance a sense of pride, reduce opposition to foreign aid, promote able bodied young men to flee from a life of gang violence...did it make them 'like us' on facebook...?

The Middle East is a different breed altogether; complicated relations between the radicals and the moderates, between sunni's and shia's, Muslims and Christians, East and West, stifle any true democratic process (according to American standards, that is) from ever gaining a foothold.

It's a crime scene, with yellow tape run amuck (still).

This action by the State Department isn't just some slip of the tongue misdemeanor caught on a live mic; it's a felony against our national security -- compromising OUR peace, OUR democracy, OUR future, and immediately becoming a direct threat to Israel -- while all accomplished with OUR money, the people's money, hardly in secret and hardly a best interest at heart.

Aljazeera knows exactly how this 1.3 B's gets played out in Benefits.
But make no mistake, our "security" is not one of them.
....it's more like 1.3 B's to nowhere.

BBBBBut what do I know; I'm just a girl.

Make it a Good Day, G

Dear America,

this is a time when things get a little fuzzy around the edges.

We forget, or we fail to recognize, that out of our inherent civility and political correctness, our president has deep seated allegiances, in blood, with Muslims around the world.

Anyone care to discuss this itty bitty factor, or is our new start, domestic meets foreign policy strategy simply to ignore it?

Just to be clear -- this isn't a put down; this isn't a "mark" against the man, as if I pronounce all Muslims, and their intent, bad.  I do not feel that way at all; and you would have me and what I am saying entirely wrong.

It is simply a fact, based upon our president's life experiences and family heritage -- he is, whether we want to discuss all of the idiosyncrasies and propensities about it aloud, or not, half Muslim.

Now you know I love The Daily Bell -- a place where profound libertarian, free-thinking opinion is shared with the world, and sometimes with a deafening pitch; at times though, their perspective seems so outlandish, often I find myself faced confronting the difficult task of believing every word -- truth has a funny way of creeping up on us like that. But quite honestly, there are numerous times I simply surrender with the greatest of ease thinking, oh my gosh, no way, that's radical, dude, everything makes so much sense now.

And the last few days have been no exception. can we get a whoa, far out, on this little number.

So, think about it...there are so many levels of not knowing the reality behind closed doors... happening all around us... everyday.

Much like the Bell's articles of late hemorrhaging on the antics of the Federal Reserve, the Davos meetings, and anything else going on around the world that screams raw western elitism at play -- or how America's juvenile European jealousies, with tendencies immediately to follow, wreak havoc on the global front.  Everyday, according to the staff and the guest editorials, The Daily Bell paints a vivid, sometimes gruesome picture, traveling the unpredictable mine-fields, and MIND-fields, of the times.

Egypt, and the entire Middle East, is a powder keg of conflicting energies of resistance and rebellion, relationships and revolution, seeking change.  What happens in the coming days may change everything
...did the U.S. really promote the uprising? is this for the betterment of future diplomacy, or a  break up? are we letting go of the past alliances and making new friends, or just making more enemies?

Who are our friends, really? For another interesting take on Egypt...and the Muslim Brotherhood...read this.

Is this a time when a half Muslim president rides in on a white horse and saves the world, demonstrating the very attributes bestowed upon him, as the Nobel Peace Prize recipient, before ever really doing a thing -- based solely upon the 'perception' of a man, rather than gut reality of a true leader?  Time will tell, right?


I was amused watching a really old movie over the weekend -- Nighthawks, from 1981 -- by the looks of the bad cinema lighting, the disco dancing, and the clothes, it still reeked of more the mid seventies than parading in what would become a decade of over indulgence and the uprising of the young, upwardly mobile, professionals... use of the word 'professionals' highly suspect; now that it's over, and coming from the heart of the movement myself...looking back, I fear we have grounds to make such claims of professionalism seem downright absurd.  Everything came way to easy, and way to fast, if you ask me...

for now look at us.

Anywho, getting back to the flick, what a little wonder this turned out to be.  First, the players, Sylvester Stallone, Rutger Hauer, Billy Dee Williams, Lindsey Wagner, it dripped handsome super power heroes and villains.  But hey, that was just the packaging --  the substance,  the lines, the story brought to us thirty years ago! priceless.

After quickly setting us up with the plot, to catch a terrorist,  a British Interpol officer comes to New York City to instruct a couple of undercover guys and apparently, NYC's finest -- partners, Sylvester and Billy Dee -- on how to catch the bad guy, Rutger Hauer; and when I say  bad guy I really do mean, one, bad, guy.  Just one guy.  It's just the way it was played out, back then, in the aftermath of the Weather Underground, and all.

At one point, Wolfgard, Rutger Hauer,a.k.a the terrorist, says "I speak for the oppressed... I am a liberator!"  Nearly capturing the essence of the Weathermen of yesteryear in one fell swoop --  that the wealth of an empire belongs to the people, to the oppressed who made the wealth... redistribute the wealth!  redistribute the wealth! (and if you say it like Van Jones, it makes it really fun to say) or we will rise up against you and bomb bridges, buildings, babies -- whatever it takes.

The Interpol Brit outlines the mission saying things like, "[you] might have only one time...to catch him vulnerable...gotta take the shot..."  or something like that.  The point he was making to Sylvester and Billy Dee, was that we have to be just as ruthless as the terrorist -- for they are banking on our civility, our rules of engagement, our pledge to treat others the way we want to be treated; and basically -- flipping things around a bit -- terrorism is always waiting for our vulnerability to show first.

He added a sounding alarm, saying "[they will] come after what we love...", before sending the good guys off on their way, against all odds, not even knowing what this guy would even look like anymore (following the way of Hollywood and the oldest terrorist story in the book: just before leaving London, or was it Paris? Wolfgard had plastic surgery to protect his identity, leaving a murdered doctor in his wake... like we didn't see that coming...).

The thing is, that was made for Hollywood, thirty years ago -- what have we learned?  what has changed?  Something tells me the seriousness of the matter has elevated to way beyond a couple of beat cops from New York City, and you?

But more enlightening is coming face to face with the reality of the what we knew THEN, as general knowledge and movie research begs to tell us everything we ever imagined, and more, three decades ago.

I'm just saying, as elementary as it may seem, if we were supposedly "thinking like a terrorist" then -- what, pray tell, is our excuse now?

I don't want terrorists having a foothold anywhere in the world; I don't want radical extremism leading the way, and coming after the things we love, for any country around the globe -- whether it be Egypt, Tunisia, Lebanon, or New York City.

The movie declared something stark and unimaginable -- "gotta come at the violence with greater violence..." or something like that.

For just a girl, who really only wants to live in a world that values world peace, the very thought of that seems utterly frightening -- and even though I know it was just a movie -- I am left with wondering, what if it's true?

Hearing the Interpol Brit preaching in my ear again, he said "that's the technique of terror, how do you like it?"

ugh.
wish we could all have milk and cookies and talk about it like reasonable people.

Make it a Good Day, G

and really, if a half Muslim, half Christian, president can't get this right...what are our true hopes, and future, built on?  sand?

Adele, rolling in the deep, is playing on GTV, with a click on Dear America.  REALLY hot song...love love love this girl  -- just trying to leave you on a high note... with a song that won't get out of my head...and it ain't disco.  enjoy.

Dear America,

i'm not ready to make nice...even though we are a healing nation, a forgiving one, a trusting lot that just thinks the better of people naturally, or because we were raised that way perhaps...still, no.  Not ready.

Remember when the Dixie Chicks came up with that line -- that song.  It was answering to a President, disrespectfully of course.

It came after a war torn and patriot President George W. Bush was getting it from all sides, having just committed troops, and a very public anti-war sentiment rang out across the stage and all over the world with this: "Just so you know, we’re on the good side with y’all. We don't want this war, this violence, and we're ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas".

That was roughly a week before going into war in 2003 with Iraq.

Talk about a shot heard round the world; that caught fire in the hearts of all Americans, true Americans that is, and raised such an uproar. The band was dissed, concert attendance plummeted, record sales tanked, and then those happy go lucky Texan girls quickly learned what its like to suffer a little PTSD in the aftermath.  It was a free for all really...it made national news, the London Times... MSNBC just loved it at the time...of course, on the side of pretty girls from Texas.

Even though she (Natalie Maines) ended up begrudgingly apologizing for disrespecting her President on a world stage on foreign ground along side a European audience who ate it up...it would be a few years later, she took it back and was a featured article on MSNBC in 2006.  Yup, she dumb dare took it back in her sweet southern drawl..."I don't feel that way anymore..." yadi yadi yada...  From one chick to another, typical. When the going got tough, people bailed on Bush, congress included; why not throw a few dixie chicks back into the ring, whatever sells records, ya know.  But that's beside my point.

Free speech anyone?  There are consequences and benefits to having that kind of freedom; and the more power to us all for having it.  No matter what the issue, America has always been the land of the eloquent and the trashy mouth -- and by golly, as a cornerstone to not only great entertainment, our ability to speak freely as a country is a liberty most of the world does not know or recognize without repercussions.

The bad news, we are becoming a censored society.

What happened when a few inmates in Guantanamo hold up signs reflecting Obama a communist?  The administration limits journalists and cameras from areas throughout the compound and only allowed to see what the government wants them to see.

What happened when a company (HUMANA) who specializes in offering additional health insurance to medicare recipients sends a letter of information about the future welfare of its program and how it may affect senior citizen benefits to its clientele? 
The administration chastises Humana's gall to question authority and their enterprising techniques to raise suspicions and influence seniors.

What happened when the National Chamber of Commerce, who after supporting the administration on most everything up until now, raised concerns with the President with regards to the economy and health care combined -- and just how much the current bill will adversely affect small businesses nationwide?
The administration took a few swipes at Bruce Josten and vilified the organization for not bending over like the good boys and girls of the AARP or AMA (which of course is only by acronym, the real body and souls are not behind it).

Tea Parties.  Teabaggers we're called now, and being hung out to dry by the administration.

Town Hallr's.  Depicted by Nancy Pelosi as Nazi's, carrying swastikas and machine guns...ignored by a condescending administration and labeled as UN-American

Marching on Washington in droves, twice now.  Totally dissed by the President, he either leaves town or ignores the call for his earnest attention and honest discussion altogether.

Does this administration have issues or what?

You know, honestly, we did it to him.  It was the power of the people and the weird warped attention to a man who really didn't stand for anything other than HOPE.  We did it.

Oh sure, the Democratic National Committee carried the torch first; but this Obama world was created and molded and formed into an ever perfect embodiment of soul, charisma, and cool sense of calm. 

He would mesmerize us, the lost and forlorn, and lead us not unto temptation, but save us from the evils of a government run amok.  He captured our hearts; he was sharp, funny, hip to the times and used a palm pilot.  He was going to change Washington and fundamentally transform America (we all know that clip, I'm not going to play it again, just not that into it today).

But today, we have this President doing whatever it takes to shut anyone up -- large or small -- who does not abide by Him.

And let me tell you, this thing with Major Nidal Malik Hasan is part of another growing issue, having absolutely no place for political correctness and censorship and everything to do with our civil liberties and ability to speak freely -- no matter what.

We will come to find out that even our military is afraid to speak candidly and ask questions when it comes to certain realities of growing aggressions and radical Islam infiltrating our troops, restricting it's ability to properly protect America and the men and women who serve their country.

Organizations like CAIR are actually set up to shush people across this great land of ours; and they are here to freely operate and do as they please without harm or backlash.  They insist it is for the betterment of race relations, but really all they want to do is censor any negative chatter or any racial profiling of it's people and propensity to harm, and proliferate the growth of the radical Muslim community in America. 

Look, just as the family of Rifqa Bary has come to exemplify, a father will do anything to control his family, especially if you are just a girl.  In the Muslim world, a girl is a second class citizen -- she has no rights of her own and can only do what the men in her world allow her to do -- and converting to Christianity is certainly not one of them. 

CAIR will do anything to control the message, the propaganda, the truths and the untruths and will shelter Islamic followers from all harm or defamation -- even if those very same people only wish to do harm to America.  They are financially supported by drug lords and sheiks, even Saudis.

I'm just not sure what this country is doing anymore to tell you the truth. We let the Muslim world in, as we are just that kind of country of nice people, who trust other people with our whole heart and where does it get us?

It was the Army Chief of Staff George Casey who said "if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that's worse."  Really George?  Are you really willing to risk life and limb protecting diversity over honor and allegiances?  Are you not in the business of protecting ALL of America, as well as the welfare of all your troops -- even if it comes at the expense of a few good men getting a few extra questions, a few more surprise inspections, a few more feelings getting bent out of shape for the sake of the whole?

Now I'm sure there are Muslim boys who wish to do no harm to America or to his fellow troops. There are currently 3,557 Muslims in the military; actually, let me note, that we would know that only if they labeled themselves that upon application and their religious affiliation -- should also note, Major Hasan listed "none".  SO besides being a psycho killer Islamic martyr on a rampage, he is also a LIAR!  But I digress.

So there are 454 Muslim Marines, 661 Muslim Air Force, 732 Muslim Navy and 1,710 Muslim Army; out of the entire armed forces of 1.4 million troops, 0.3% are MUSLIM. 

Don't you think we could take the time to talk to the few and the proud, for peace of mind if anything else, for the troops who accompany these men and the families that share their lives and future in the hands of people whom they do not know? 

Wouldn't that be better, George?  You know, to help the wives and the children get a better night's sleep, wouldn't it be worth it?  Wouldn't it be the right thing to do as one American protecting the lives of another, or 1.4 million?

How about this for a little diversity regulation, it's a different angle, but I promise you it will not disappoint: 

This is President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad responding to the three young tourists who accidentally crossed over the border of Iran, and of their pending trial for espionage of which the punishment is death,

"Unfortunately, they crossed the border illegally.  Every country has a punishment for those who cross borders illegally. [yeah right] We are not happy about that [aw, I see the corner of your mouth, Mahmoud, you're so cute...], but now they will have to go to the court and convince the judge that they did nothing illegal [guilty until proven innocent].   I hope this is not a problem, but it is up to the judiciary to judge them [good luck with that]."

Today, I think this girl is really pissed off and I can't seem to shake it.

We are so politically correct when it comes to issues of the left; while the right gets continuously degraded and dismissed.

Well by George, G respectfully requests the full investigation of all 3,557 if it's not too much trouble, just to be sure.  

Just tell them, 'we are not happy about that.'


I'm sure they will understand.
 
Make it a Good Day, G
 
Good thing the right is a resilient and mighty bunch...and I got just the thing to inspire your day...its really just about the music...and anyway, we're just not ready to make nice.

Dear America,

Okay up until now it's been all fun and games.

Just another administration, hellbent on it's agenda and making it's mark. Most would say it has already crossed a line; a line in which none of us expected -- yet others would say it still hasn't done nearly enough.  But up until now, it has been somewhat predictable (for those of us who saw this coming). 

None of it matters anymore -- not even health care.

None of it matters because last Thursday marked the day where this Presidency really began; all else is social networking and community organizing and fundraising and parties -- now is the time when we will see our President really show up.

...and we all thought he was having trouble with the war in Afghanistan a week ago...

...and we all thought he was questioning the mission, the reasons, the strategy and how in the world he could find a way out, practically since his Presidency began, over the last several months...

... and we all thought we saw a President having a hard time committing to anything more when it came to the war on terror, whether it came in 80,000 more, 40,000 more, or 20,000 more troops, or two...

...we all thought we witnessed a President having a really, really hard time deciding under "normal" circumstances, let alone do so in the midst of a terrorist act on American soil...

And now this.

That was then and this is now, and lest we forget that this President IS still half Muslim (just a fact) -- whether he calls himself Christian today or not.  He was born of a father of Muslim faith and IS in part Muslim by birth.   He studied the faith.  He read the Koran.  He went to mosque in his childhood on occasion.

Couple this with witnessing our President dissing America worldwide and we've got issues showing -- albeit HIS issues not ours, but needless to say they may become our issues depending upon how he proceeds. 

Well into the aftermath he quickly wanted Americans to refrain, asking us not to jump to any conclusions about what happened at Fort Hood -- but I wonder being as smart as he is -- had he already jumped to a couple himself?  Is he positioning himself to the side of political correctness and keeping the Muslim world ingratiated before we really piss them off?  Which heritage will he find his allegiance?  And for us, how do we find a way to give him the benefit of the doubt today and even give him some room to breathe and respond in a Presidential fashion after so much disappointment already?

This Hasan is a test.  And from here on out, we will know just what our President is made of by how he comes to America's side  -- for her good favor, for her well being and for her ultimate protection.  This is a skill that our Commander in Chief must not only already have, but must demonstrate and truly embody for the strength of a nation and America's future.

Hasan's personal actions and deliberate choices were not just the typical "good American" gone bad, or Muslim patriot going south, or U.S. Soldier going wacko -- these conscious actions fell under the book and beliefs of Radical Islam; there is no other excuse necessary or motivations reguired if you know Islam and what it asks of it's followers. 

While the media searches for answers or tries to make the Army libel to any cause or action not taken by the military, castrating it for not seeing this coming -- Americans must stop and pay attention to the dialog and question how this Hasan is portrayed.  It doesn't take an Al Queda or Taliban connection to elicit the motivation or support of a single act of terror.  It only takes one follower; even if it is only that one and that one martyr standing alone.

On February 23, 1998, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, a leader of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, along with three other Islamist leaders, co-signed and issued a fatwa (binding religious edict) calling on Muslims to kill Americans and their allies where they can, when they can.[73] Under the banner of the World Islamic Front for Combat Against the Jews and Crusaders they declared:

[T]he ruling to kill the Americans and their allies—civilians and military—is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it, in order to liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque [in Jerusalem] and the holy mosque [in Makka] from their grip, and in order for their armies to move out of all the lands of Islam, defeated and unable to threaten any Muslim. This is in accordance with the words of Almighty Allah, 'and fight the pagans all together as they fight you all together,' and 'fight them until there is no more tumult or oppression, and there prevail justice and faith in Allah'.[74]
Fine Print from G:  The above reference is taken from Wikipedia: Al-Queda. I try not to use wiki, but it was right there and I just pulled a jihad and took it word for word; but there are references linked if you feel the need to go back and research some more on your own.

When America finally catches on, just how will our cool, young President respond? 

That is what G is waiting for.

I mean really -- everything being what it is, being such a mess and all -- going to hell in a hand basket -- a people becoming so partisan and divisive...what's one more thing like a little terrorist act on American soil? The President will probably use this to his advantage, all that more of a reason to follow him and his administration -- for he can save us. 

And looking at the President's track record, he kinda likes doing it all, like yesterday -- why not add this to the mix.  Heck,

he's not getting tired, he's just getting started... 

He's probably sitting there pondering what he's gonna do right now...ever so slowly... and methodically...yeah, that's it...over a beer no less, yeah yeah, with the basketball game on in the background.   Matter of fact, he could probably figure out a way to use this Hasan ordeal as a means to get out of making any troop decisions for quite some time now, why not.

Totally switching gears, you know California is in a heap of doodoo.  You know what our State Legislature did over the weekend? They implemented a new payroll tax just like that.

It gets better.  You know how much the legislature obligated automatically without discussion (that is without the people) -- a 10% tax hike.  That is 10% additional taxes to the already sliced and diced paycheck Californians take home.  Hey, lucky for G -- as I don't have a job, right? 

And get this, they also claim everybody will get back whatever they take come April.  Yeah right!  We're so broke, if you believe that then I've got some lovely swamp land in Florida to show you.

Isn't that a riot.

Kind of in the same realm as our President telling us there won't be any new taxes under his 1.2 trillion dollar health care package  - - like as if small businesses will be totally safe and that there is absolutely nothing to worry about  -- as if.   Mr. President, have you ever had to make a payroll or provide health care for anyone other than your family -- in California, Illinois, or anywhere?

Couple California woes and the new Health Care Legislation, our sunny disposition will be long gone; and so will the businesses and taxpayers.  We will just pull a jihad, as that seems to be the norm against an overzealous government, packing our bags and bibles to go live somewhere else. 

Question is just where...
Middle East is definitely out;
Africa is out;
Europe is out;
Brazil, Venezuela, Honduras never got on the list;
Detroit, New York and Newark are out;
anywhere in America where there are pockets of Al-Queda living and orchestrating their next move is out (you know, nice places like neighborhoods of Chicago, Brooklyn, Queens, Columbus, Seattle, Denver, Atlanta...Silver Spring MD...)
And really, even looking into my own back yard I'm alarmed -- basically all of southern California is a stomping ground for the Al-Queda terrorist network.

By the looks of things and a trip around google earth...I would have to build a log cabin alone in the woods of Alaska to find an Al-Queda free zone; keeping the lights off, of course, so that nobody would find me.

And if you stay with me here, what's interesting is a look at what happened with the lone Republican who voted for Health Care this past weekend-- Joseph Cao. 

He chose to dismiss being a financial conservative -- if in fact he is one -- making it personal and not good business when he brokered a deal for his district and neighborhood of New Orleans.  Cao let the President twist his arm into socialized medicine no less losing all common sense of showing any fiscal responsibility, apparently allowing himself to be wooed with special favors for his neck of the woods as any pork bellied representative will do if given the chance-- and threw all the rest of America under the bus to do it (in a hurricane no doubt). 

Just where were his fellow Republicans working him over begging for his attention and vote another direction? Where was the counter-insurgency pointing Cao to the bigger picture, the larger issues, the life of the American Dream as we know it falling to pieces?  Not that it would have made any real difference, the newly pinned congressmen from California and New York put the House over the top while we were amused by the recent Governorship races.

Sure, in America we allow all kinds of people to come here, legally, and settle in to make something of themselves and to build a family.  We allow all faiths to come to America's shore for freedom to live under whatever God you choose (or not) -- while this was the cornerstone to our creation as evident by our Declaration of Independence from the tyranny of England.

What doesn't work is when one of those religions chooses to rise up against the very freedom we Americans were given by our birth right -- and Muslims who choose to follow the ways of radical Islam do just that. 

It's not time to make nice; it is time to kick these people to the curb and get them out of America.  If you cannot live here peacefully under Muslim, Jewish, Protestant, Catholic, Mormon, Baptist, Hindu, Buddhist, or None of the Above faiths, then you must leave.  It is as simple as that.

America's jihad was called the Revolutionary War.  It's done.  Over. Been there, done that.

Mr. President, are you on the side for America and do you have the guts to fight back?

It may be inappropriate, considering the circumstances and we aren't a christian country and all, to ask WWJD;  but in a similar sentiment we must ask ourselves what would an American do -- WWAAD?

We will see now won't we.

Make it a Good Day, G

Tell me America is just getting started. 

It is the 20 year anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down today;
perhaps it's a good day for America to put one up. Just a thought.