Saturday, November 24, 2012

SHORT SHOTS


Turkey Day has just departed and it’s time for another brilliant issue of “Short Shots.”  You know how the “i” is right next to the “o” on the keyboard; I just caught a critical error on the Post headline…
  
Jesse Jackson Jr. has resigned.  I wonder if they will now release Rod Blagojevich from prison.  I simply can’t imagine that they would be investigating the son of Jesse Jackson, of all people, for campaign fraud and other dirty deeds, can you? 

Over the weekend, we had Director of National Intelligence Clapper doing a 180 and saying that he was the one who made the changes to the CIA talking points which U.S. Ambassador Rice purportedly relied upon when she insisted that the Benghazi Massacre was the result of protestors over the You Tube video.  We were then treated with Rice coming forth and again insisting that she relied on those talking points.  Petraeus, of course, has said that his version of the talking points clearly pointed to Al Qaeda, but Clapper says that both Petraeus and FBI Director Robert Mueller signed off on his changes.  I’ve been saying that the Benghazi situation was going to be maneuvered into oblivion by the Obama Administration and it’s starting to look as if it’ll be a dead issue before Obama nominates Rice as his new Secretary of State during the Congressional Christmas recess, thereby doing an end-run around otherwise required Congressional approval.  Isn’t that just swell? 

In the meanwhile, this is the first time in my infinite memory when some group, any group, got away with killing U.S. citizens in an Embassy or Consulate, let alone a U.S. Ambassador.  The proof of this conclusion is that U.S. Naval ships stationed in the region were on their way home until the fighting started between Hamas and Israel.  Just how far has this nation fallen, that we accept this? 

Residents of the Gaza Strip were so happy to hear that the military confrontation was over between Hamas and Israel; they were so sick and tired of the mortar explosions and gunfire that they celebrated the cease fire by going out into the streets and firing their guns into the air.  They must be Democrats. 

In the meanwhile, the Press and the Media are paying more attention to the demise of Hostess Baking and the Twinkie than they are Benghazi or the Gaza Strip.  Personally, I think we would be better off without those guys, spreading their misinformation and lies.  No news is better than manufactured news. 

What a great holiday weekend, what with airlines cutting back on flights and service, rental car companies being out of cars, and strikes at LAX.  I just have to wonder when all of this strife in life is going to go away.  Nobody’s smiling in this country anymore; even the comedians are having a hard time making people laugh… just ask David Letterman. 

Saw a great sign in the grocery store the other day… “Porterhouse Steaks, $3.98 per pound; With Meat, $6.00 extra.”     

Have you noticed how all of the sizes of things, the net weights that is, are going down?  The size of the container stays the same, as does the price.  Every company is playing this outright sham.  Northern Tissues sliced the width of its toilet paper many months ago and had the gall to raise the price anyway; I’m surprised they don’t make us use both sides before we flush, but the EPA is working on that possibility.   

Speaking of the EPA, did you know that the Director is using two names?  Yep, she’s known as Lisa Jackson and Richard Windsor.  I don’t know the answer… maybe she IS a transsexual.  But, that wouldn’t have any bearing on the issue unless she married herself…. Her office justifies this by saying she doesn’t want the public to know who she really is. Given her/his track record, neither would I.  
There’s absolutely no truth to the rumor that Fox’s Bill O’Reilly has accepted a job as the spokesperson for Planned Parenthood… or PBS for that matter.    

Don’t you get excited when you think about the government that runs AM-TRAK and the Post Office now scheduling your medical appointments? 

I just got a telephone call from the Tea Party asking me to make a donation.  I had to tell them that I’ve switched back to coffee.  They are almost… almost as splintered as the Republican Party.  The Party is saying that they need to take a different direction; how about out of town... lickety split

Don’t worry about the Fiscal Cliff.  Obama’s got a great strategy to fuel things up, if you’ll pardon the play on words.  He’s sending $6 billion to Asia to help them gear up their “clean energy” projects.  I’m not sure, but I hear that Solyndra has moved its headquarters to Bangkok. 

There’re a whole lot of states, (57 according to Barack Obama), that want to secede from the Union.  They’re ticked off at everything this nation is doing to itself.  I think it’s a great idea myself, but they should wait until I get my 2012 income tax refund; this year I’m claiming all illegal immigrants as my dependents.  A new twist is that you can add your name to a petition for your state’s secession at the White House website, but you have to register first; a confirmation email which contains a temporary password is supposed to be sent to you.  Ha, ha, ha, ha. 

I have now received 37 “final notice” voicemails from Credit Card Services that I must act now to reduce my credit card interest rate.  Scams have no limits in their ingenuity, do they?  But, if they get arrested and hauled off to court, Holder may get them off; he’s good at that.   

It seems to me that the “Great American Dream” has turned into a nightmare. 

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  

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