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Friday, March 8, 2013

Front page in England.  "Lady accuses neighbor of training squirrel to rip up her flower garden.  Tears up neighbors flower garden in retaliation."

 That's a headline you will never see in the United States.  It's because we are not civilized like the English.  Here retaliation is spelled "shoot neighbor, burn down his house and sell children into slavery".

We will know we are on our way to be civilized when our flower gardens  outnumber our homicides.


Posted by donburnshomepage at 4:36 PM EST
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Saturday, March 2, 2013

It's was an interesting Friday.  We were. de-Poped, sequestrated and sinkholed all in one day.  Makes you wonder what's next.

I'm not too worried about the Pope.  They always find another one.  As for the sinkhole in Florida.  It's not the first and it won't be the last, but this sequester business is a first and before it's over we are going to hope it is the last.

Basically the Congress and the President kicked the can down the road because they did not agree on the budget and they were thinking by this point they would work something out.  What planet are they on.  

Now Speaker Boehner implies the President did this all by himself and the country is going to go to Hell in a hand basket but it's not their fault.  Meanwhile the President is saying the country is going to Hell in a hand basket but it's the Congresses fault.  

All I'm sure of is we are going to Hell and I don't have a clue about the trip or what a hand basket really is so I looked it up.  It's "a situation headed for disaster without effort".  Perfect description.  So why no effort.  Because we get the disaster part........and they get the paycheck for doing it.


Posted by donburnshomepage at 1:36 PM EST
Updated: Saturday, March 2, 2013 2:22 PM EST
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Thursday, February 21, 2013

The politicians are all playing musical chairs with the "Great Sequestration" dates.  March 1st will come and go without a deal.  March 27th will come and go without a deal and the government will start running out of money and people will go without a job, but Congress will still get paid.  They've made themselves exempt it seems.  So who is to blame.

There is an old saying, " The President proposes and the Congress disposes."  To my thinking the President has proposed everything reasonable but the kitchen sink.  The only thing the Congress seems inclined to dispose of....is the President. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Posted by donburnshomepage at 8:55 PM EST
Updated: Thursday, February 21, 2013 9:10 PM EST
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

We went through the "Great Depression", then most recently, the "Great Recession", now comes the "Great Sequestration", all of them courtesy of the US Congress.

  But what is a "Sequester".  I looked it up.  It means to look for something that is missing.  You know what is missing?.....The Congress.

They went on vacation for ten days.  When they return they only have four days left to figure out that they have been found.......or found out.  

It would be nice if what they meant by "Sequestration" is if they can't come up with a budget they go into exile, but you and I know that is not the case.  In truth it's another word for "con job".

 


Posted by donburnshomepage at 7:42 AM EST
Updated: Thursday, February 21, 2013 9:19 PM EST
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013

President gave the State of the Union Address last nite.  Didn't see it because I knew it would be good anyway.

Did watch Marco Rubio deliver, sweat and drink his way through what would have been Mitt Romney's State of the Union address.  According to the speech the President is a nice guy who has screwed up everything he has touched, the country is going to hell in a handbasket and we are all doomed......unless in 2016 we elect some young, new, son of immigrants candidate to the White House who will carry out Mitt's agenda.  He didn't mention names.

Wanted to see Rand Paul's other Republican response but couldn't find it on any channels.  Apparently it was on the Mars Channel, which I don't get.  Basically he said the same thing Rubio said about the President.  His solution is to elect some young, new, son of a Congressman to the White House in 2016.  He didn't mention any names either.


Posted by donburnshomepage at 7:45 AM EST
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Thursday, February 7, 2013

Republican Congressional Leader Eric Cantor graced us with his presence at a news conference today to plead for support for stopping violence against women, providing the legislation meets his undisclosed prerequisites of course.  Apparently he has been chosen as the Republican spokesman for the party on this issue.

Not the smartest choice considering Cantor's track record on women's rights.  Sort of like designating Joseph Goebbels (German Propaganda Minister during WWII) to speak on behalf of Nazi compassion for the European Jews.

Appears someone in the Republican Party just discovered that about 90 or so years ago Congress gave women the right to vote and he (the women have known this all along) just figured out that they aren't voting Republican.  In another 90 years they'll discover that Cantor was not the person to send to make nicey- nice with the girls either.

 


Posted by donburnshomepage at 1:43 PM EST
Updated: Thursday, February 7, 2013 2:06 PM EST
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Wednesday, February 6, 2013

The Republican Party (all versions of it) are suffering an identity crisis.  Seems Carl Rove , the mastermind of the Bush presidential elections and architect of the present Republican Party coalitions has decided he doesn't like what he has created.  Dr. Frankenstein had the same problem.

The party now has many heads.  There are the  traditional "monied people" who were fiscally conservative, except when the government was sending them money, and the Tea Party, who are also fiscally conservative but believe the government shouldn't have their money to give away in the first place.  Then there are the Religious Right who believe politics and religion make great bedfellows and the money should be printed and given to them so they can distribute it better than the government and make us all pure in the process.  Incidentally, none of the above want any taxes.

Seems the only thing that holds them together is everybody wants the money.  Trouble is....there is no money.   Good Luck Carl.

 


Posted by donburnshomepage at 8:03 AM EST
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Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Saw a headline in the paper today saying, "Republicans plan to re-think their Strategies" in light of their losses this last November.  

They still don't get it.  They don't need to re-think their strategies.  

They need to re-think their thinking.


Posted by donburnshomepage at 3:58 PM EST
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Friday, November 16, 2012

The election is over ....finally.... and the President is re-elected.  Personally I had thought it was because of a smart campaign strategy and intelligent positions on the issues.  Today I learned I was wrong.

Mr. Romney revealed in a press conference today that the President won re-election because he sent all of his supporters "gifts".  This is truly disappointing because I haven't received my "gift" yet. 

Perhaps it has been lost in the mail.  It would help if I knew what the "gift" was.  So far I have not been able to find anyone who will tell me what they got or even if they got it, whatever it is.

Perhaps Mr. Romney has a better "gift" or at least he could tell me what I was supposed to get that I didn't get....yet.  

This buying elections is a marvelous idea.  Too bad he didn't think of it first. 

 


Posted by donburnshomepage at 11:18 PM EST
Updated: Friday, November 16, 2012 11:51 PM EST
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Monday, April 23, 2012

     Down in Florida the latest political issue is the "stand your ground" law, which essentially says that if you "feel" threatened you have the right to use deadly force to defend yourself.  The result has been the Trayvon Martin tragedy where a 17 year old youth, Trayvon Martin, wearing a hoodie, drinking ice tea and eating skittles is purported to have attacked a gun carrying community watch person, who incidentally does not live in the community, and forced him to use deadly force.  Trayvon did this assault while talking to his girlfriend on his cell phone.

     According to people in the community Trayvon stopped screaming for help after the gunshot.  George Zimmerman, the vigilante who shot him, and who was told by the police to stay in his car and not to confront the boy, is arguing self defense.  The only witness to the attack by Trayvon on George Zimmerman is....the person who shot and killed him, George Zimmerman.

     Obviously this is a great law because it allows people to defend themselves and stop crime before it starts.  What is unfortunate is that Trayvon did not have his Smith & Wesson with him because he could have shot George first and rightly argued self defense.  For this law to work well it implies that everyone be armed and vigilant.  In this case, all 17 year old black teenagers and any other potential criminal.  

     Better to be jailed for an illegal gun charge and alive than innocent and dead.

 


Posted by donburnshomepage at 8:41 PM EDT
Updated: Saturday, May 5, 2012 9:10 AM EDT
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