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Is our Government over stepping it's bounds?

George Will writes today about the Chrysler bail out and subsequent bankruptcy, and then the finial insult of having to merge with Fiat. Why was this done? To feed Mr. Obama's need to feel he is in charge? Is he not the president and already elected to the highest office of our great land? Does he feel he needs to control every aspect of our lives? President Obama is on a course of taking our country into ever deepening socialism. When does our government have the right to seize assets and tell the creditors they are not getting any money for their investment in a company? This is exactly what has happened to Chrysler. The Union which has no stake in the company has been handed much of the stock. Are they investors? Where do the investors of this company go for recourse? No where the Supreme Court has remained silent to their cause. Congress has taken off for the woods to hide. It would appear the Obama administration is racing our nation to a greater bunch of lemmings thinking all people with money are evil. No one will stand up to him. Are they afraid of being called a racist? I don't believe even he would go there. No, I didn't vote for him, yet there is a side to this man which is not about the race war, it is more along the lines of class warfare. He takes aim in open forum to take shoots at the wealthy. Anyone with his education is no dummy. Educated is some of the best schools in the land. Mr. Obama has an agenda which is leading down a dirt road filled with potholes. This road is the road to Socialism. And the sheepeople are following along as if he is the Messiah. I wonder if the sheepeople in 1917 would look back today and say maybe the class warfare in their country was worth it all? When Vladimir Lenin took over Russia by class warfare. His statement "The time was still not ripe for revolution, claimed Lenin: the workers in the city were willing, but the Bolsheviks still needed to wait for the support of the peasants." Are the "peasants" in America ready to support a leader which will redistribute all the wealth? Without the wealthy there is no business out side of the government. Is government the answer? Tell me what has our government done on time, under budget, and without great problems? Nothing; our founding fathers expected the government they put together to protect the land and help keep the states together as one organism. The General Defense of our Nation is what it was all about. Not, the seizing of private assets. Let me ask one last question, when was the last time you said, "Hey, I am going down to buy a Fiat they are such great cars!"

Parting shot: Fix It Again Tony

Grand children

Well, my Caterina is still too young to know me or my wife. I am sure she recognizes her mom and dad's voice, but beyond that at one month old not a whole lot going on. The wonder of life is just that wonder. I have been grizzly ever since this little girl has arrived in the world. I was in the waiting room while Deb was in the delivery room with Jill and James. I missed the first text message of the evening stating the babies heart beat was dropping. The one I got was "She is here" I don't think I will ever forget the moment I read this little three word text. I was in a fog at that point.
I received some new pictures today from Jill. I just stared at them. And again I got grizzly, this little girl has a good mom and dad. And this too makes me think, how blessed I am to know this grand daughter is being well taken care of. I had a dread come over me many years ago when Jill was born, a dread of responsibility. I made some flippant remark to Jill when she told me she was pregnant. Yet, several days latter I was driving to work and the same dread came over me. She is not mine directly, but I still feel a need to insure she will always be well taken care of. The beauty of being the grand parent is we are not involved with the day to day stresses of making sure there is food, a roof, and any other thing which a young child needs. Parents are far too busy taking care of the needs of a family. Grand parents can reflect and watch and just enjoy. She is still to young to be away from mom, but I am sure there will come a day when both mom and dad of this little one will get on me for sending her home wound tight!
I do not know when the next will come along but I am sure I will still be filled with the same feelings. My B has already informed us she is not up for kids. This makes me sad in some ways, however I don't want her to ever think she needs to make her mom and dad happy. What will make me happy in her life is that she finds the young man of her dreams. This is most important that all my children are happy. Nicole may some day settle down, but for now she is trying to get her sails set in the proper direction in the winds of life. I think though once she settles down she will have children. David is still too young to be in this same thought process. So to Nic, David and Becky I say I LOVE YOU. Please do not think we are solely focused on Jill and the baby. We still want to insure you are taken care of too. Same dread with them too, making sure they are always taken care of. Becky has her own place and she has a good job, so I don't have to worry about a lot anymore with her. Outside of the fact she drives TOO much.

Big bad McDonalds

Well the Clown is going after Starbucks? Why? Because he too busy selling cheap burgers to the tourist in bad shorts and herds of screaming kids and are not selling as much coffee? How silly is this? The Clown's management team is going the coffee market by putting up bill boards of " four bucks is DUMB". Well if four bucks is dumb then how about Starbucks coming back with "lets all have a Big Mac Heart attack" Will the Clown try and crush the little guy as Wally world (wal-mart) has done to local communities? And we all see Wal- mart as a corner stone of society right?

If I am going to meet someone for coffee for an after dinner meeting or just go out on the town with the wife for the evening I am not going to say "hey let's go over to the Clown's joint for a cup of brew!" I think the atmosphere at a Starbucks is far more pleasant then say the kiddy play ground at the Clown shop. A clown severing coffee just doesn't seem to be conducive to pleasant quiet atmosphere. Most of the time these severs of death have their air conditioners turned down so low you don't want to stay around. They must sell more of there fatty greasy patty's of death to more and more and MORE! So they run you out with a snow storm.

To bad Mikey D's you have really lost me as a customer of your acrid brew. I have always said your brew was good, however it is not getting my dollar anymore. Starbucks is half the size of the Clown shop. Do you dare take on someone your own size? No, it is more fun to be mean today then to be competitive.

The article I picked up from Seattle tells the rest of the story. And even it is basis to a purveyor which started within it's very own city. They could not interview someone who likes Starbucks they had to find someone who didn't like them to go along with the mean spiritedness of the Clown.

Glad the death dealing Clown feels the need to go after the little guy.
Good for you Mr. Schultz for not responding to the Clown.

Please read the link below you will see what I am talking about.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/391566_sbuxrivals11.html

We have lost the fear

Our society and world have lost the fear of God. I was listening to the radio this morning and a pair of robbers took over a house, police arrive and one of the men shoot at the police. They killed him, rightly so policemen have a dangerous job and if someone is shooting at them, well too bad for the bad guy. The problem here is the robber did not have a fear of the after life. What will happen to me once I am on the other side of the curtain? Is there a God? Well the robber knows now the answer to both of those questions. A few weeks ago, my wife and daughter and I went to a fast food joint. Before we even began to eat we were heckled for dressing like Christians. Funny they know what we look like. We prayed over our food and then the harassment really kicked in. I must say I was not intimated at all. I felt sorry, these kids were not raised with a healthy fear of God. Having a fear of God is not bad is it? I know there is a movement a foot which does not believe in God. Do these people not have a fear of the system which is in place to protect all from wrong? I believe many people who do not believe in God do have a fear of the system which states thou shall not kill or steal or any other anti social behavior. However, there is a growing generation of people which have No Fear. This No Fear generation take their fearlessness too far.
I raised my hand and said I do,and joined the military for this nation, I set aside 4 years of my life to serve this great nation, so young people can have the right to be fearless. It is just too bad there are people with in our society which find it necessary to be rude to others. However they are free to do it. Because I set aside time out of my life so they could still be free. Try mocking a communist in China and see how far you get.
Everyone have a Merry Christmas, oh yeah even this is becoming a problem. Well I say it to everyone I meet at this time of year. Rarely do I get any blow back of PC talk. In fact many clerks and people just get a big smile on their face and say Merry Christmas to you too!

Steam Boat Willy

Well Mickey turns 80 years old today!

This little mouse has made millions of children smile. Along with my wife.
Maybe we will go to Disneyland before the end of the year to see Mickey.

Not everybody turns 80 you know.

What is Mc Cain thinking!

As I read the news this morning I see Mister McCain is looking to get a "pro choice" Veep?!
A passing comment I made several weeks ago in front of my wife and pastor was I am thinking of NOT voting for this "republicrat". Both insisted I was throwing away my vote. I had made mention I was looking to the Libertarian party to vote.

The Supreme Court is an issue seeing the average age of the court is 68.5 years old.( Stevens 88, Scalia 72, Kennedy 72, Ginsburg 75, Roberts 53, Sout6er 69, Thomas 60, Breyer 70, and Alito 58) Yes, I fully understand what is at stake here, however will he put in a conservative Judge? Or will he just keep leaning the same way LEFT! If I can't trust him with the nation, trusting him with the court is just not worth considering.

I fully understand what they are feeling and thinking. With Mr. Perot in the early 90's running for the pres. split the conservative vote and actually helped elect Clinton, and yes I criticized those who voted for him, however I cannot vote for this Benedict Arnold of the republican party if he insists on going down a path of leaning to the Demicommies! There are a few principles I hold near and dear to me and this guy keeps treading further from all of my core beliefs with each passing day.

If Mister McCain insists on flipping the conservatives of this nation the bird then he can send the country to hell I WON'T VOTE FOR HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!