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Sunday, October 4, 2009

Afghanistan.  Everyone wants a solution but no one can even explain the problem.

That's because:  It really isn't a real country.  It is part of Pashtoonland, an arbitrary group of tribes living in the most worthless piece of real estate on the planet (unless they discover oil)  which also takes in most of Pakistan.  All of this region is made up of a lot of people who don't like each other very much except in their own tribe.... except, they dislike outsiders even more.  

Their governments are corrupt.  We underwrite all of them, which is why some of them like us, this week. 

It is a Muslim country.  Anyone foolish enough to want to change that will not come back alive.  And, they have their nuts like all religions do.  That was the last government called the Taliban.  They want to become the next government, again.  They will do that by making us leave.  Anyone that helps them do that is their friend.  Everyone else is their enemy......this week.

Having interjected ourselves into this asylum and not having had sense enough to leave after six months and "Mission Accomplished", we have inherited the keys to the building, otherwise known as "nation building".  That is something we were not going to do.  We were not going to do that in Iraq either.  Or in Vietnam for that matter.

Did I mention Pakistan or the part about them having nuclear weapons?

This area is bordered by:   India who Pakistan hates.  Did I mention that India has nuclear weapons?  China...ditto, nuclear weapons.  Russia, double ditto, ie. lots of nuclear weapons and Iran, who wants nuclear weapons purportedly to destroy Israel who also has nuclear weapons, if they don't destroy Iran first.

So why are we there.  To capture the guys who blew up the Twin Towers on 9/11, except we can't find them, but say we'll stay until we do?  Meanwhile let's bring NATO into the picture.

You now have countries from just about every continent in play and all it takes is one miss step.  And leaving is, after all.... a step.  So is staying for that matter.  Feel better now? 


Posted by donburnshomepage at 6:22 PM EDT
Updated: Friday, October 16, 2009 1:37 AM EDT
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Saturday, October 3, 2009

Health Insurance.

Everybody wants it but nobody wants to pay for it. The Democrats want to divide the bill equally and everyone shares in the misery and the advantages, that is, we get equal, hopefully better and cheaper health care. The Republicans say this is socialized medicine.  The debate ends there.

The magic word is socialism. It's like saying "black is beautiful" at a Klan Convention. Tends to incite the non-thinkers in the group. It is also synonymous with the word "public". 

I'm going to go with the Republicans on this one.  Let's privatize everything.  Roads, schools, police, fire, you name it.

While we're at it lets privatize the Congress too.  Let big moneyed private interests like insurance companies come in and contribute megabucks to the legislators to buy their votes and eliminate this "public service" nonsense altogether.

Whoops.  I'm told we've already done that some time ago.

Sort of explains why we are where we are.  


Posted by donburnshomepage at 2:40 PM EDT
Updated: Saturday, October 3, 2009 4:29 PM EDT
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Friday, October 2, 2009

Seems like nobody is civil anymore, especially in that bastion of American debate and thoughtful, contemplative and reasoned argument.........the U. S. Congress.

The President is called a liar, Democrats say Republicans want people to die and all of them want their five minutes of airtime to vilify one another.  The general appearance is one of three year olds on a sugar high.

Our forefathers may have had their faults but being juvenile wasn't one of them.  They took their insults seriously and backed them up with action.

I believe a return to that traditional American institution for resolving these types of conflicts would quickly civilize an otherwise increasingly uncivil society, at least at the legislative level.  

I propose that we re-institute the duel.

I believe that for cooling tempers, bringing a sense of reality, common sense and courtesy back into our legislative proceedings, nothing will get more attention faster or work better than a good old fashioned shooting, particularly if we can get legislators that have served a couple of terms.   

The way it used to work is the two antagonistic lawmakers would show up at the appointed time to perforate each other with highly inaccurate pistols at 20 paces.  By that time the sense of their own impending mortality was usually enough to bring hostilities to an end, often by mutually agreeing to the firing of their pistols into the air.

This served three purposes.  First, it preserved their honor.  Second, it saved their lives and third, it re-inforced the general belief that a legislator with a loaded gun in their hand was far less dangerous than one with a piece of legislation.  

The rare exception to this rule was quickly buried and would serve as an example to the others to curb their tongues, hold their tempers and moderate their sense of infallability........for a while. 


Posted by donburnshomepage at 1:24 AM EDT
Updated: Friday, October 2, 2009 3:49 PM EDT
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Sunday, September 13, 2009

By now most have you have heard about Congressman Joe Wilson.  He's the guy who shouted "liar" at the President during Mr. Obama's address to Congress last week.  

He apologized, then apologized for having made the mistake of apologizing and sort of informed us there would be no more apologies.

It seems he still believes the President lied when he said that a national health care program would not cover illegal aliens.  While there is nothing in the law that says that will happen, the still conservative Republican Supreme Court will likely find that you cannot deny illegal aliens emergency health services which would have to be paid for by the government.  Congressman Wilson needs to realize that doesn't make the President a liar,  but it does make him "clever".  

If Wilson is looking for liars he had numerous opportunities with the last Administration, but he probably thought they were just being.... "clever". 


Posted by donburnshomepage at 9:46 PM EDT
Updated: Sunday, September 13, 2009 11:00 PM EDT
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Friday, September 4, 2009

Noticed all these fellows who have been showing up at Presidential speeches with handguns strapped on their hips.......When asked why they say it's because they can.

I spose' you can pour gas on yourself and light up a cigar too if you're so inclined but I don't recommend that either.

 See, what these Wyatt Earp's don't know is all the time they are standing around with their guns on their hips their forehead is in the center of about three sniper scopes with Secret Service marksmen on the other end.  About the time they unholster their weapon to impress their friends is about the time their head will disappear.

They will spout to you that the price of freedom comes high, but I would would argue that the price of stupidity is usually even higher.

 

Posted by donburnshomepage at 11:12 PM EDT
Updated: Saturday, September 5, 2009 12:04 AM EDT
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Saturday, August 22, 2009

The Congress is trying to put together a national health "something".  Not sure if it's a policy, insurance program, plan or what have you because they are not sure.

Some say it has to have a public health option. Some don't.   Republicans unanimously want a change and to have a national health program run by the insurance companies.  Then someone points out that they already have that so they declare a victory for change and do nothing.

Democrats  on the other hand agree on nothing and want to shoot the Republicans for not agreeing with nothing. So they line up their  firing squad in a circle.  The Republicans will duck.  They always do, and the Democrats end up shooting themselves.....again.

In the meantime the President says he'll support whatever comes out of the Congress.  Since he knows by now what that is....he went on vacation.

Meanwhile working class people are showing up at town hall meetings, which have nothing to do with healthcare, to protest the federal program they are most likely to benefit from because it is "socialism".  So are highways, public schools, the police, courts and practically every government agency.  Go figure.

There is an old saying that God looks out for small children, drunks, imbeciles and the United States of America.  Appears to be true. 


Posted by donburnshomepage at 9:29 PM EDT
Updated: Thursday, June 3, 2010 5:20 PM EDT
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Sunday, May 10, 2009

It's official.  Colin Powell is no longer a Republican.  

Not because he changed his registration.  He didn't.

Not because he said he no longer was a Republican.  He hasn't said that.

Not because the party expelled him......yet.

No.  He's no longer a Republican because former Vice President Dick Cheney says he isn't.  

God has spoken.

As for those few remaining voices of reason like Bill Bennett who say there is still room in the GOP for moderates.  They fail to add the part about the prerequisite of keeping their mouths shut and following the party line. 

So......If you have a masochistic bent, unquestioning loyalty to hypocrisy, enjoy being used and call yourself a moderate the New Republican Party wants you.  Well, really all they want is your vote.... and your silence.


Posted by donburnshomepage at 11:33 PM EDT
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Thursday, March 26, 2009

Chapter II "Where did all this money come from and why doesn't anybody want it?"

 In the Wiemer Republic (Germany after WWI) money became so plentiful that it wasn't worth the value  of the paper it was printed on.  Reason:  The government printed more than it could back up and people believed it was worthless.  As a result, it was.

One of the fears the Republicans (and a handful of Democrats) worry about is too much money that can't be paid for will make it worthless and it will take a wheelbarrow full of it to buy a newspaper.  The official name for this is "Inflation".

 So, between the potential for inflation where we run out of money and so much debt we can't pay it back or pay the interest on it to boot, the Republicans have a good point.  Their alternative is business as usual which was taking us into a Depression where we wouldn't have any worthless money to pay off the debt the Republicans already gave us.

If any of this is right it's a matter of picking your poison.  On the other hand, we are talking about politicians and their track record for being right.....is usually wrong. 

 


Posted by donburnshomepage at 1:07 PM EDT
Updated: Thursday, March 26, 2009 8:21 PM EDT
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Economics 101, Chapter I 

The President is starting to take a few hits about all the money we are spending to replace all the money that was lost that no one can find.

Course' the folks that lost it ain't talking about who they are or where they put it which sort of raises the question of, where did it go?

 I figure it this way.  Now suppose you own stock worth $100 bucks.  (For the big time players just add a lot of zeros to this number).  Suppose the stock drops dramatically to half its value and you now have $50 dollars worth of stock.  Where did the other fifty bucks go?

If I gambled at the casino and lost, I know where it went.  The casino and the state got it.  So who got my stock money?  Obviously the companies that sold the stock.  And they lost it to wherever they spent it and can't pay it back with dividends 'cause they lost it to someone else and their profits are down, but somebody else got it, and they're not moving it on.

So all the President is doing is shelling out replacement money for the money that isn't being spent to keep the economy moving until such time as the people holding the money decide to spend it or loan it to someone who will.

Tomorrow:  Chapter  II  "Inflation"  or "Now I got so much money nobody wants it".

 


Posted by donburnshomepage at 8:39 AM EDT
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Friday, March 20, 2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

AIG motto: 

"Never will so few take so much from so many for so little."

 

 


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