My Brain Hurts!

So I'm sitting here during my lunch break going through the news sites and watching some videos on them and I really can't take too much more of this!

Globull Warming
Thats Right, I spelled it "Globull" because thats what it is. I don't care how many ridiculously THC saturated "scientists" you can quote per minute you will never convince me that something that ALL LIVING CREATURES EXHALE is somehow Dangerous when, if you want to combat the highly dangerous gas known as Carbon Dioxide all you need to do is plant a tree or a bush or a friggin garden of flowers! Hell, let the weeds grow in your yard! They'll get rid of it also!

The Oil Spill
Obama is an idiot elected by a nation of idiots who are so convinced that they know whats best for the country if left to their own devices couldn't manage to figure out how to sit on a toilet properly! Thats why the hole still isn't plugged! Oh, by the way, Eric Holder can kiss my ass!

Our Attorney General
Is a schmuck of the lowest order! He couldn't successfully prosecute a cheese sandwich without Obama pulling his strings. And we have all seen just how well he does that.

Our Vice President


Enough Said!

We're not smiling there Smiley!

I've always thought Tavis Smiley to be a hateful racist with an agenda and after watching the following clip I'm convinced I didn't know the half of it!




For once I'm actually speechless! What pisses me off more than anything else is the fact that PBS actually gives this hateful moron a place to spew his rhetoric! I am so glad I cancelled my PBS membership!

I guess in his somewhat glued shut eyes if you are of Christain faith and get a speeding ticket that you somehow were following God's orders to speed!

What's truely sad about this is that there are people out there in this crazy world that will believe him!

Enough with the "GREEN"

OK, I've had about all I can stand of this "Green" movement in this country. First off it's a joke as far as I'm concerned and in my usual and rather direct way I'm going to tell you why!

Reading an article on Foxnews.com I discovered today that there is a NEW Government rebate program currently being debated in congress affectionately referred to as "Cash for Caulkers"! This lovely little program will give homeowners thousands of dollars in rebates for weatherizing their homes or purchasing energy efficient appliances. Depending on what the homeowner does he/she can qualify for up to $8000 in rebates. Quite a lot of our taxpayer dollars will be used for this program also to the tune of about $6 Billion! And of course that photo negative of Alfred E. Newman we call our President says it will Create Jobs and stimulate the economy in the building and construction sector and yadda yadda yadda. You get the message.

Now, lets look at whats going on at a local level. I live on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in an area referred to as the Delmarva Peninsula. Our local Power delivery company is aptly named Delmarva Power. Delmarva Power has just struck a deal with State Regulators that would allow them to change the Delivery rates for the customers that they serve. Our fees per kilowatt hour used will stay the same but the delivery charge will be more. The problem is that people who are energy conscious and do what they can to conserve energy will be charged a HIGHER delivery charge than someone who uses MORE electricity per month!

From Delaware Online:
"Under numbers provided by Delmarva last fall, the average increase translated to about $5.47 a month for a customer who used 1,015 kilowatt-hours that summer.
But a customer who used 500 kilowatt-hours would pay $7.71 more per month, and someone who used 2,000 kilowatt hours would pay just $1.79 more."

Now this rather controversial method of punishing people for doing the right thing hasn't been approved yet but all articles that I've read point to it's inevitable passage. Are you as sick of this ridiculous B.S. as I am? I wish I had the means to run for a rather high profile public office if for nothing else to point out the stupidity and ridiculousness of the current government and the way it operates! Federal, State and Local! They are all corrupt and useless!

Is "Green" is the new "Organized Crime"?

Ok...time to Rant!

Here are some Random Musings!

So on Earth day the both the President and the Vice President will be visiting New York to attend separate events just blocks apart. The problem is that they will be taking Separate Jets, landing in Separate Airports, tieing up traffic in Separate parts of town and making every other Jet trying to enter and exit NYC airspace wait in holding patterns burning more and more fuel than necessary, on Earth Day, to focus on Conservation and saving the Planet from Greenhouse gases, the kind that are exhausted from Jets! Am I the only one that sees an issue with this? Can you say Hypocrite?


So now there is talk of a Value Added Tax or VAT to be introduced into American Society. I have but one question. Where is the Value part coming from?


Ok...see if you can believe this! The Mexican government, you know those fun lovers South of the Border with the toughest Immigration laws in the land, are SLAMMING the new Arizona Immigration law that focuses on capturing and prosecuting illegal aliens that cross the border un-documented saying that the law could in fact result in Human Rights violations and Racial Profiling against Mexicans. This from a government that is so corrupt that it can't even control the violence on it's own borders therefore allowing it to seep on into our neck of the woods, or desert in this case. Mexico wants the US to give it's citizens a free ride into the states but if you or I go to Mexico on a LEGAL VISA and over stay it by a day you will be thrown in jail for up to 9 months without a trial unless someone from the US State Department intervenes! I say if the residents of Arizona's border areas teach those illegals how to do the .30 caliber Two-Step this whole immigration problem might just go away!


And as far as South Park goes....it's pretty bad when making a cartoon about a Religion can get you killed. Whats next? Death Penalty for Parking Violations?

Till we meet again!

What a difference a day makes!

Since my last post a lot has changed. I know it's only been a few days but sometimes all it takes is one little thing to open ones eyes and connect the dots as it were.

Today is my birthday and normally I wouldn't make a big deal out of it but today was a bit different. It was a bit of an awakening actually. For the first time in my life there were people, some of which I still really don't know all that well, going out of their way to wish me a Happy Birthday. Doesn't seem like much on the outside but for someone who has close Family members that don't even make the effort to pass along this simple pleasantry having someone who barely knows you remember your birthday and take the time to say something means an awful lot! Having my son spend the night with me was an added gift!

That aside I learned something today. I've been really down on myself over the last few years thinking that I've somehow failed in my quest to become a better person. Turns out I was both right and wrong. When I think back over the past years my quest to be a better person had nothing to do with me bettering myself but more with the perception of success. My thoughts were that the more money you had or the more things that you had was a sign of success. Didn't matter what you did to acquire it just the fact that you had it was all that mattered. Problem is when that is your focus all the things that you acquired have a tendency to leave as fast as they arrived! So in my bid to achieve some sort of status I ended up losing everything I gained! It was never about appreciating what I had but more about what else I can get! Kinda selfish now that I think about it. I always thought that the more stuff you had when you got older the more comfortable you would be and therefore the happier you would be but yet when I had all this stuff I was a miserable bastard!

Today I watched a documentary on my favorite band of all time The Who. It was called "Amazing Journey - The story of The Who". Even if you are not a big Who fan it's well worth seeing! As I'm watching this I was seeing what they went though from their meager beginnings all the way up until now. How they worked hard and fought for everything they have accomplished. During the movie they talked in depth about the passing of Keith Moon and John Entwhistle. These were probably two of the most influential musicians of their time, probably still are, had all the success and fame in the world and threw it all away. Moon's passing was due to his rather insatiable partying habits and overall reckless behaviour and Entwhistles death was caused by a heart attack after doing cocaine at the age of 57. Entwhistle had spent the last 15 or so years of his life in massive debt due to his lavish lifestyle. Pete Townsend and Roger Daltry, not having been caught up in all that, are still going strong. This really put things into perspective for me.

The simple act of watching that documentary and seeing where, in some cases, my recent past kind of paralleled John Entwhistles (except for the drugs part) it made me realize that, in a physical sense, it's not about what you have but who you are! It's not about the destination and who has the most toys at the end but it's the Journey itself! You have to be able to make the journey, do the best you can, be the best you can be for yourself and others, learn from your mistakes and above all be thankful for what you have along the way. The destination matters in the spiritual sense. Where you go after you leave the physical world! For me that means building a better relationship with God and understanding that he will guide me through this life and into the next. That my happiness is in his hands and my success will not be measured by what material items I've accumulated along the way but by how I lead my life. That seems to be the thing I've forgotten over the years and now that I look back I can see where I got off track!

Just one thing can make all the difference in the world. Maybe now my low self esteem and inferiority issues will diminish as well. I'm sure it will take time. At least now I'm looking forward to the journey rather then looking for ways to avoid it!

Until next time.......

It's time I talk about myself

Someone told me once that I was a very complex person. She said that one minute I could be extremely passionate or spiritual in nature and the next very cold and distant. I used to think that she was nuts but lately the more I really look at myself I'm realizing she didn't know the half of it!

I'm told by a lot of people that I'm one of the nicest people they've ever met. That makes me feel good because I really don't like to upset or disappoint people. People also often wonder why I haven't been married before or why I seem to fail at relationships. Part of the reason is I seem to be a psycho magnet. Crazy people flock to me! But there are other reasons for it as well.

I used to think I was just shy. I wish it were that simple. You see, I seem to be suffering from a severe case of low self esteem and an inferiority complex. I'm pretty sure I know where they come from but the problem is overcoming it. It manifests itself in a lot of different ways. On one hand you are very good at certain things, for me it's computers and music, and you know what your capabilities are, in my case I know that I am extremely good at what I do, but I'm very easily intimidated by others even if I know they are not on the same level I am. It also shows when someone graces my with a compliment either on my guitar playing or whatever else. I don't believe them and will, mostly to myself, immediately downplay or degrade myself.

It's affected me in my relationships as well. I've shared my life with some very wonderful women and I've done my best to screw up each relationship. Some even before they started. I either get so scared I'm going to say something or do something wrong that I put up a wall and seem very stand-offish or if someone is interested in me I simply can't believe she could possibly want anything to do with me and turn away.

I've had a lot of negative things happen to me over the past few years and I guess that's just made the issue worse. Couple that with being in a situation where I was surround by negativity in one shape or form for almost 10 years and add to that the fact that I've been feeling the affects of these issues without even realizing it for as long as I can remember. Everything sorta came to a turning point a few years ago when I was actually so down on myself that I was contemplating ending it all. I was scared and alone and didn't know what to do or where to go. To be honest the only reason I didn't is because I didn't want to put my family through that. It was then when I set out on this journey to find out who I was and how I got to where I was. Along the way I realized that I really didn't like or think too much of myself. I still don't but I'm doing my best to turn things around.

Over the last year I've had somewhat of a spiritual awakening. I started playing guitar in a local church's Praise Band and I think it's had a positive impact on me. I've recently become a member of the church and was Baptised by our Pastor. I really admire him. He's been through a lot over the years and with the help of his faith in God he has overcome them. I still have a long way to go but at least now I'm trying. I've always been a spiritual person in one way or another. Some people have said they could see it in my guitar playing because I would seem to drift off into another world during a performance.

My hope is that some day soon I will be able to look myself in the mirror and not be disgusted by what I see. That maybe I will be able to see some of the positive things that others see in me to hopefully just someday be happy. That's all I really want. To be happy!

Let's talk about Al shall we!

I'd like to talk about Al Gore if I may.

First off I don't hate anyone. Theres quite a few people I dislike but I don't hate anyone. However, if I was going to hate someone ol' Al would be at the top of my list (his wife would be next in line!)! Well why is that you ask?

I used to think Al Gore was an idiot. Nothing more than the Democrat version of Dan Quayle. Boy was I wrong. Al Gore is actually one of the smartest people around. He has almost single handedly convinced an entire population of people that Carbon Dioxide, something that appears naturally all over this beautiful planet and something that we EXHALE with every breath, is killing the planet by collecting in the atmosphere and trapping the suns heat and therefore raising the Earths temperature causing "Global Warming". He's had a lot of backing in this crusade as numerous scientists have produced data confirming his theories. By convincing these people of this he has earned numerous awards, including the Nobel Peace Prize, and speaks regularly on the evils of Industry, fossil fuels, farming and anything else that's not "Green". He has been pushing the use of "Carbon Credits" or "Carbon Offsets" for industries and companies that release over a certain amount of CO2 into the atmosphere as a penalty for doing so. He has even convinced people that he himself purchases these credits for his personal home thereby proving that he is doing all he can to reduce his "Carbon Footprint". But here is where his genius ends!

Recently we have all seen the stories about the hacked email server and seen the emails that revealed data has been manipulated or just plain left out in order to show that there the planet is warming even though we are seeing trends of it actually starting to cool. Before that though there were plenty of stories that people just ignored about our good friend Al in reference to his crusade and when you brought them up, you were just "in denial of the facts" (I was told this a lot). First off Al Gore's investment company, Generation Investment Management, owns almost 10% of a carbon asset developer named Camco International, Ltd. This is a company that a business would have to purchase Carbon Offset Credits from in the event their production of CO2 went over their allotted amount.

That's not all, lets take a look at Mr. Gore's carbon foot print shall we! In 2006, which is the year his documentary, An Inconvenient Truth was released, Al's average electric usage was 18,400kWh per month, almost 20 times the average home! His average electric bill was $1400 per month. That's $16,800 per year, just for electric! His natural gas usage is equally ridiculous. His natural gas bill averages $1080 per month! Does this resemble anything close to the conservation and Green initiatives that he preaches? Hardly. This doesn't even take into consideration his constant use of a private jet that consumes more fuel per passenger than a commercial airline or his motorcade that takes him to and from his engagements.

And what about the "Green" movement anyway. Liberals and Progressives like Al not only don't care about the environment but they don't care much about you either. They just use the environment as a sort of Trojan Horse of Troy to make you think that they are concerned about something when in reality theres a whole lot of deviousness going on behind the scenes. Example? There was a concerted effort to build a Solar Farm in the Mojave desert not long ago and a group of LIBERAL and PROGRESSIVE activists shot it down because they were concerned that the Solar Farm would disturb the desert tortoise, a lizard and the Nelson's Bighorn Sheep. Have you ever been to the Mojave desert? I have. I was there for an entire day once (damn radiator). Never saw a tortoise, a lizard or a sheep. How disturbing can a bunch of solar panels be?

What this all comes down to is motive. What is Al Gore's motive for pushing this green initiative? Simple. It's Money and Power! Got nothing to do with the well being of anything or anyone except his wallet! And he's not alone. George Soros wants to nationalize the countries banking system. Where does he keep all of his money? Not in any banks in the US!

Wise up America! The same people that tell you to never believe everything you hear or read for some reason will believe anything and everything someone says as long as they are masking their initiatives with the Environment. Don't get caught up in the BS!

Why must these people continue to breathe?

It's been a bad day and I'm in one of my moods again so there's no telling where this post will end! You've been warned!

I have about had it with people! Not everybody, just most of them! You read the news about all the out of control spending the Government is doing and then hear them complain about the enormous debt left to them by the Bush administration. But they spend worse than he did, double the debt and then say that we need to spend our way out of debt. I know, ridiculous, but what do I know. Then I read some of these Liberal bloggers, who obviously have never had a pleasant thought in their entire lives, complain about Bush's out of control spending and in the next sentence Praise Obama for what he's doing to combat it! I know, I scratch my head in amazement too!

How about the Liberal Tree Huggers that will do anything for a smelt (thats a fish, and not a very tasty one either) even if it means depriving an entire farming community of water to grow food for us humans! Or what about that ignorrant and almost militant Republican Anit-Gay Senator from California that gets picked up for DUI after partying at a Gay Bar? Or the Democratic leader of the House Ways and Means committee, you know, the committee that writes our lovely Tax code, that just can't quite get his taxes right and forgets small things like $600,000 worth of property he has and other assorted minor oversights. Wheres that bucket? I can feel some gut rumblings coming on!

Ok, lets bring things to a local level. Today while backing out of a parking space, I'm 3/4 of the way out of the space when I have to slam on my brakes because some mental pygmy just HAS to fly through the parking lot like it's a Grand Prix course. Or how about the 300 year old lady riding the bicycle the wrong way down the street and when I patiently wait for her to go by before entering the Intersection she has the nerve to give me a look like I just kicked her dog. I should've hit the old goat!

Here's a favorite. I held the door open for someone at a convenience store today and they had the nerve to turn their nose in the air and ignore me. A simple Thank you would've been nice. Now as I'm leaving the person in front of me opens the door just enough so they can squeeze out and then PUSHES THE FRIGGIN DOOR CLOSED AS I'M TRYING TO OPEN IT!!!! What the hell is wrong with these idiotic zombies walking the streets these days? It's a good thing I'm not into guns or there would be a lot of lead flying around!

Has common courtesy been replaced by inbred rudeness? There is no wonder this country is in the shape it's in today because almost no one out there could give a tinkers damn about anyone else but themselves! It's that whole Baby-Boomer "GIMME IT IT'S MINE" mentality gone amuck! No one respects anyone but are quick to call you out for "disrespecting" them.

All I have to say is:

I'm SICK of Health Care!

So I'm reading the news today, because my social life is so full and rich, and I'll tell you, I'm about fed up with the Federal Government and their Quest for Holy Health Care! It's just like watching a Monty Python movie were the minions use coconut halves to make the galloping sounds of a horse and when they reach the first castle and are asked about the coconuts they can't give a straight answer!

Here's my problem with this whole thing. Congress currently has a roughly 20% approval rating. I'm sure the people that approve of Congress's performance don't get out much, have no Internet access and think Reagan is still in office but that's another issue entirely. My point is if you have a 20% approval rating, and you continue to push for something that it's quite obvious most of the country doesn't want then you are suffering from some deep seeded issues that NO Psychiatrist will ever be able to dig up! And people call ME crazy!

I can fix this (haven't we heard THAT before?!)! It's really very simple. If Congress can't write a bill for a proposed law that is smaller than our CONSTITUTION then the Federal Government doesn't need to stick their noses into it! It's really THAT SIMPLE! If regulating an industry requires more paperwork than the document our Founding Fathers created to run the country then the government has no business involving themselves in it!

If only they would remove their craniums from their rectums long enough to listen!

Random Stuff

Swimming with Whales

I have a question. How many people does a Killer Whale have to kill before people stop cuddling up to this beast? If this Whale was a Pit Bull he'd be barking at St. Peter right now! I can imagine swimming with this animal would be like partying with John Wayne Gacy. I'm sure it would start off all well and good but sooner or later someone is going to die! Please set this animal free!

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Stupid Americans???

Apparently I watch too much news or, in the opinions of some people, not enough. While perusing the Internets vast array of video I ran across a video of Bill Maher on Larry King Live recently claiming that Americans are "too stupid to understand the issues of today". Really Bill? I mean, I'm not the smartest person in the world but I believe I know good and well what the issues of today are and, more importantly, how your beloved POTUS is going to ruin our country! Hey Bill, did you know that Obama doesn't even craft his own policies or agendas? That's all done by John Podesta and the Center for American Progress....oddly enough a George Soros funded "think tank" and special interest group. Did you know that Obama has never really accomplished anything in his life on his own? Did you know that most "Community Organizers" are really just lazy, attention starved, money hungry low lifes that get other people to do all of their work for them while taking all the credit? You wouldn't know that because you and all of your Obama worshipers like you have your noses shoved so far up Obama's rear end that if he turned suddenly your pencil neck would snap like a twig. But what do I know....I'm just a Stupid American!

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And One More Thing

The next person that sends me a chain letter text message to my cell phone is going to get a visit from 73 blood thirsty Ninjas with Dull swords and bad attitudes! I could care less if you're lonely and depressed and need 15 people to respond back to your wretched little poem to prove that someone in this vast world loves you. Get a life, grow up, get off your ass and do something productive for the first time in your pathetic life! Spare me the drama and I'll spare you an ass kicking!

Oh, and Have a nice day! :)

Why Toyota?

I don't want to get off on a rant here but can someone tell me why Congress is attacking and reprimanding Toyota the way they are? I get it.....Toyota recalled a bunch of cars because of defects and they are doing what they can to fix them. But why does Congress have to get in on this? To make it appear that they are concerned about the safety of our citizens? Please! Don't make me vomit! The second MY safety is of any concern of Congress I can assure you the date is November 1st!

Why didn't Congress go after and demand testimony from those slave drivers in China? You know, the ones that were sending us toxic toys and poisoned dog food?! Why didn't Congress do anything when Obama sold Chevy and Chrysler to the UAW? Oh, wait a minute, they did do something. They rolled over like a bitch!

Hey Congress! Do us all a favor! Stop jumping up and down on Toyota's nuts and go back to what you're good at, you know, screwing up the nation! At least Toyota's TRYING to fix their problem!

I should be President!

Why do I think that? Well it's pretty obvious you don't need a whole lot of experience to get elected! All you need is a catchy slogan and deliver a good speech and you too can be President!

As for a slogan I'm not sure what would work. I know what I would LIKE to use, and it would be short and to the point! My slogan would be " I will GET SHIT DONE!!! "

What would I do though? Well, for starters I wouldn't need to create a bunch of new bureaucratic black holes, also known as Government Agencies, to "craft and agenda". I would do like I do in my professional career as an IT person and asses the problem, find a solution and then implement it.

For example, this mess in Iran with the bearded wacko in the Members Only jacket wanting to further enrich his stockpile of uranium. We all know, well except for the current POTUS, that he is developing nuclear weapons. Any person with a functioning cerebellum can figure this out. I say why not send him a functioning nuclear weapon, let him experience it first hand and then decide if he wants more! I guess the problem would be that he would probably not survive the initial delivery of said weapon and Tehran would end up looking like a tattered parking lot. Either way you look at it I'm sure it would deter their interests in nukes and we would have achieved our objective!

Moving right along to Al Qaeda. Screw Pakistan! I say If Pakistan won't root out these nut jobs then we are going in after them and to hell with any collateral damage! Al Qaeda doesn't seem to care if innocent civilians are killed and, in fact, use civilians as shields knowing the US forces will not attack for fear of hurting a civilian. Screw 'em! If you show the enemy that you have less remorse for civilians then the civilians will do more to combat the enemy thus helping OUR cause!

This is fun!

Next, Health care. I would leave Health Care alone with a few minor exceptions. I would enact Tort Reform basically because I hate lawyers! I would also make it possible for Insurance companies to sell across state lines. This could be done by not regulating Insurance companies at the individual state level. Instead I would impose a Federal Regulatory commission comprised of all the current state commissions and create a federal standard for Insurance regulation. This would greatly reduce the cost of both individual and group Health Insurance policies because now each company can sell to all 50 states using the same guidelines and regulations. That's how you create a level playing field!

Taxes? Lower! 'Nuff said!

Government waste? Let me just say this....there will be a mass exodus of former Federal Government workers moving to the private sector!

Till next time!

Terrorism? I can fix this!

A short time ago a friend of mine sent me a story about the late General Black Jack Pershing and how he handled a terrorist situation just before the start of World War 1. His methods were quite simple but effective in that knowing Muslims considered pigs as vile, filthy creatures and having any contact with a pig would result in them being "barred from paradise and doomed to hell". So, he slaughtered 2 pigs in from of the captured terrorists, dipped bullets in the pigs blood and the shot 49 of the 50 captured fun seekers. The 50Th he turned loose knowing he would go back to his friends and relay the horrible display he had witnessed and thereby eliminating any further terrorist acts. Strangely this got me thinking!

While watching the Military channel the other night I had a vision. Well, it was more of a perverted and vile thought but at least this one was constructive! Why not take a few KC130's outfitted with Ariel Refueling systems and fill them with pig blood, fat and any other assorted porcine pudding (hell we could even juice a pig in an industrial size juicer for that fact!) and do a few "carpet bombing" missions over hostile terrorist infested territory and, instead of dropping bombs, give them a nice saturation of pig swill! Think about what you are doing here! First, NO KILLINGS! No one will die as a result of this hog storm! Secondly, they can't hide from it! Sooner or later these suicide bomber wannabes will have to step on the ground that has been soiled by pig parts, soiling their souls thus forcing them to become unable to go to Paradise! This will surely reduce the number of potential suicide bombers and, maybe, cut down on their will to die and become a martyr. Can't be a martyr if your covered in pig punch!!! Heck, this might be the only way to finally achieve Peace in the middle east! Israelis would be able to walk down the streets of Tehran without a care in the world we wouldn't have to worry about Abdul Muhammad Allah Al Frankenfurter getting testy on any airplanes! In fact if something went wrong on a airplane these pork wine soiled boneheads will do anything they can to keep FROM dieing!

Anyways, just a thought!

B+ for Obama???

We all know that recently President Obama gave himself a grade of B+ for his first 11 months in office. Of course we all know that Obama inherited a mess from the Bush Administration and every Democrat worth his weight in manure has pounded that message down our throats since Election day! I used to consider myself a Democrat but the more I looked at some of the lunacy taking place within the party's ranks my view of the Democratic party, as well as the US, started to change (naming that nut job Howard Dean as DNC chair didn't help much either!) Now that I have embraced more Conservative views I feel that I can see the issues from both sides with more clarity than before and, to be honest, a B+ grade for the President is as ridiculous a notion as giving him the Nobel Prize!

First off I can't see what he has actually done! If you count his continuous campaigning and his apology tour of the world then I guess he has accomplished a great deal. He has given the United Autoworkers Union ownership status in two of the countries major car manufacturers concreting my position of NEVER buying a GM or Chrysler product ever again! Is he too stupid to realize that the UAW is the leading cause of these companies downfalls? I mean I'm all for fair wages but paying someone $48/hr to sweep a floor is a bit ridiculous!

Secondly, explain to me how we are supposed to "spend" our way out of recession?

Go ahead, I'll wait!

Spending your way OUT of debt is probably not the most prudent way of handling your fiscal woes. We have spent our way INTO debt! Continued spending will lead to MORE DEBT and eventually more taxes.

Next, security. We have none! Plain and simple! Not at the borders, not in airplanes, and definitely not financially and the latest story about the Nigerian airplane bomber proves that this country is taking a weaker stance on National Security than ever before and that moronic excuse for a living organism Janet Napolitano had the balls (I think shes a dude anyway) to say the System WORKED??? Well, if the system consists of making sure there is a Danish citizen with a fire extinguisher on board then I guess she's got a point!

Finally, Health Care. Yes, Obama is on the path to ruin this as well! Actually the Democrat controlled Congress is going to do this for him. See, Obama knows he is not smart enough to draft any kind of Health Care reform legislation on his own as it would interfere with his golf game, vacations or date night with his wife. Plus, Community Organizers really don't do anything themselves. They delegate the work and then take credit for it. So for now I'll leave Obama alone for this, but if he signs any Health Care Reform legislation into law his ass will take the blame!

So, all in all, if you really want to grade Obama's performance in his first year you have to ask yourself "well, what did he really do?" and after you finish scratching your head because you can't really nail down one thing just remember back when you were in school and you didn't finish an assignment or didn't complete a course. I'll bet your grade was a big fat ZERO!!!

In the immortal words of Dean Wormer from the classic movie Animal House:

"0.0. All courses incomplete!"