PREDICTION TIME

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Last Year's Predictions: 

1.  The Seattle Mariners will not win the World Series.  

2.  Americans will rise up against Obama.  

3.  Congress will not reduce the deficit or spending.  

4.  Nancy Pelosi will get a face lift.  

5.  Barack Obama will say it's time he turned his attention to jobs.  

6.  Iran will acquire a nuclear weapon and Israel will do something about it.  

7.  The stock market will crash.  

8.  Assad will flip Obama off again.  

9.  Bloomberg will announce he is going to run for the Presidency in 2016.  

10.  There will be a showdown over Benghazi.

It looks to me as if I batted 60%.  Now, for this year's predictions:   

1. The Washington Redskins will not change their name.  
2. Americans will rise up against Obama... again.
3. Congress will spend more than it did last year. 
4. Nancy Pelosi will try to get a face life, but will find no surgeons willing to tackle the impossible.  
5. Barack Obama will issue an Executive Order .  
6. The Middle East will erupt in total war.  
7. The stock market will crash.  
8. Assad will flip Obama off... again.  
9. Obama will sip a beer with Fidel Castro.   
10. Hillary Clinton will announce she is not going to seek the Presidency.  
 

ONE OF MY VERY FIRST POSTS

Here I sit, plunking on a Bluetooth keyboard in front of a fully computerized entertainment system that can send digitalized sound and video into any room of my house at my mere command. It's Christmas Eve in the foothills of the Southern Cascades, and the bitter chill of the night nips at my sweatered bod, while wafts of warm wood stove heat inch their way down the hallway from living room to study.... And, as my weathered old hands slam their two principle digits upon the keys in front of me, my mind wanders back to my childhood and the cold, metal keys of a black typewriter upon which I wrote my first entry into the oblivion of time.

The mind wanders and remembers... creating my own ukulele at the local community center that was filled with those, old and young, who wanted to assemble their hearts and minds in a joint venture to fill the nights with Arthur Godfrey's music. Saturday nights were bingo nights and, sometimes, I even got to call the numbers. The key ingredient to those days, now that I look back, is that the locals all got together and did something; either it was entertaining or it was productive.

I really want to go on with this dialogue, because I feel that it has a valid point that we all need to sit back and consider. But, as I move on into the "today," I get angry. I find it difficult to express my feelings while displaying my frustrations in that we have allowed our evolution as a species to transcend our values as humans.

And, now I want to preach. About why we are who we are today, and why we are not functioning as a civilized and organized society.

Have you seen the latest iPod?

GOD BLESS AMERICA AT CHRISTMAS TIME. MAY WE RELEARN THE VALUES OF THE PAST AND RENEW OUR LIVES ON A POSITIVE PATH OF CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY STRENGTHS AND BELIEFS.  

December 24, 2007

MY VERY FIRST POST: JANUARY 31, 2007

American Politics: Lesson Lost

The plain simple fact of the matter is that we Americans were damned unhappy with the lack of responsive leadership on the part of our elected representatives. We were unhappy with the lack of border control and, specifically, the immigration issue.

We were more than damned unhappy with the constant bickering in Washington and the total lack of needed and meaningful legislation. We were even more than damned unhappy with the name-calling partisan politics and the total lack of ethical behavior on the part of our selected representatives.

So, we voted them out.
The fact that most of the incumbents sent down the street were Republicans does not imply that we like Democrats more than Republicans. The majority of incumbents up for re-election were Republicans; we were unhappy with the above described issues and the incumbent's lack of sound initiative action to deal with them. So, we voted them out.

The Democrats took that action as being a vote for their candidates and support for their platforms.

Now, it's "The borders are no problem, the Democrats are in control, and let us proceed to impeach Bush."

The borders are a problem and we're damned upset that you blind and egotistical Democrats have misconstrued the election mandates.

The rush to impeach Bush serves only to underscore the fact that you new guys are no better than the previous, because you're not addressing the real issues that we are concerned about. Politics as usual?

You folks didn't get the message. The message is that we citizens are sick and tired of having you, the representatives we selected, turn around and act as if our real wants and needs are far less important than your selfish political agendas.

Next election, I guess, well have to show you who's really in charge?

YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO TAKE MY AMERICAN TAXPAYING MONEY TO SUPPORT UNAMERICAN ILLEGAL ALIENS. YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO KEEP THE BORDERS TO MY COUNTRY OPEN TO AGGRESSION. YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO LAY THE BLAMES FOR YOUR INACTIONS AND DISSERVICES AT THE FEET OF ANYONE OTHER THAN YOURSELVES.

And, I don't care whether you're Republican or Democrat or otherwise.

THE ONLY RIGHT YOU HAVE IS TO LISTEN AND RESPOND TO THOSE WHO ELECTED YOU.  

That was MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  
After eight years, the politicians still don't get the message.

BEYOND LUDICROUS

Government overreach is intruding into our private home kitchens.  In Virginia, for example, if you make some chicken noodle soup for your neighbors who are suffering from a bad cold or the flu, and they pay you for the ingredients, the food inspectors are going to make you get a food handler's permit and have regular inspections of your kitchen.  It is likely the city and/or county is going to require you to get a business license.  

In Arlington, government inspectors recently shut down a home-based soup maker, even though no customer complaints had been registered. 

The next step?  If you grow tomatoes and give some to your friends and neighbors, you're going to need a food grower's license.  If you invite your friends and neighbors over for a free dinner, you're going to have to have a food handler's training and certificate. If you allow your friend or neighbor to use your bathroom, you're going to have to have it inspected.  If you're friend or neighbor is in a wheelchair, you'll have to put in a ramp and lower the bathroom sink so they can get to it.  

If your neighbor has a child and the neighbor is in the hospital for surgery and asks you to babysit for a day or two, you're going to have to have a background check, get a license and take some state-mandated training.  If you drive them to the hospital or pick them up after the surgery, you'll need a public transit carrier's license.  If you have a dog or a cat, you'll need a livestock permit.  If you have a fish tank with tropical fish, you'll need a seafood permit.  If you snore at night, you have to pay a noise abatement tax.  

And we allow them to do these things to us? 

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

LET'S GET BACK TO THE BASICS THIS CHRISTMAS

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PURE, UNADULTERATED HORSE SHIT

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.   
 

ACTIONS OF OBAMA, SHARPTON UNCONSCIONABLE

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Two cops were killed Saturday in Brooklyn.  

Barack Hussein Obama, Al Sharpton and Mayor DeBlasio are directly responsible for those murders.  They have all fanned the flames of racism in this country and have blamed the cops. Their harangues have contributed to the violent protests in the streets and have pushed the mentally unstable to go after law enforcement personnel. 

All three of them have the blood of those officers dripping from their hands. 

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

WHO ARE WE?

You're probably expecting a lengthy post, as would be usual for me on a Saturday.  But, I'm going to say a mouthful in very few words... words that need to be asked. 

When is this country going to grow up and start being American again? 

That's MY AMERICAN QUESTION ,respectfully submitted.
 

LIAR, LIAR, PANTS AFIRE

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According to PATRIOT UPDATE, these are ten falsehoods or failures to mention the truth that Hussein made regarding his Cuban Executive Orders:

1. No mention of the Cuban Missile Crisis, (omission).
2. Suggesting that a U.S. president can establish a U.S. Embassy on his own, (outright lie). .
3. No mention of Cuba's role in repressing democracy abroad, (omission).
4. Suggesting that Cuba does not support terrorism, (one big whopper of a lie).
5. False claim that U.S. is responsible for lack of information in Cuba, (horse shit lie).
6. False promise to consult Congress on Cuba when he has already broken that promise, (arrogant lie).
7. False claim that Cuba  agreed to release political prisoners as part of a deal with U.S., (over-the-top lie). 
8. False commitment to changing policies that do not work, (buried under the horseshit lie).
9. Conflating the collapse of the Castro regime with the collapse of Cuba, (spin).
10. Falsely identifying the U.S. as a colonial power, (putrid horseshit lie).  

Why anybody... anybody... in this country pays attention to a damned thing he says, I'll never know.  I guess some still think they can keep their doctor?  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

WHAT THE HAPS ARE

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Regardless of heated pressure from Congress and court orders on the subject, the Obama White House has only delivered 31pages of documents regarding communications between the White House and the I.R.S. pertaining to the targeting scandal. 

Might I ask: "Just what is anybody going to do about it?" 

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

FED JUDGE OPINES: OBAMA'S EXECUTIVE ORDER UNCONSTITUTIONAL

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U.S. District Court Judge Arthur Schwab of Pennsylvania has issued an opinion declaring Obama's recent Executive Order on immigration to be unconstitutional.  He said parts of the E.O. are invalid and amount to "legislation from the Executive Branch."  "President Obama's unilateral legislative action violates the separation of powers provided for in the United States Constitution as well as the Take Care Clause, and therefore, is unconstitutional," the judge wrote.  

Well, that's just fine and dandy and I agree with what the Judge said. 

Now, here's the problem:  The opinion did not come as a result of a direct challenge to the E.O. in his court.  Rather, the Judge was hearing another case regarding deportation of an immigrant and the question arose as to whether or not the issue was moot because Obama's E.O. might relieve the illegal of any need to be deported. 

The opinion is certainly a good first step in bringing the outrageous E.O. to judicial scrutiny.  But, there is one helluva lot of work to be done before the real substance of the matter gets before the Supreme Court.  The good news is that a Federal Judge seems to agree with us.  

So there, Barack.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

ABOUT THE FUZZ

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Call them the cops, the fuzz... whatever.  These are the guys who go out the door every morning leaving behind a spouse, maybe a couple of kids and knowing that they may not ever see their family again because they could lose their life that day saving yours.  These are the guys who show up at 2:00 AM to domestic violence cases, who watch people die from drug overdoses, who see the blood and guts of mayhem on a regular basis.  These are also the guys who deliver babies in the back seats of patrol cars.  

These are the guys who have to have a degree in criminal justice to get their jobs, followed by an intensive Peace Officer Standard Training course and they have to pass a probing psychological exam.  

When you get a venomous, foul-mouthed, meathead of a mayor like De Blasio who rants outrageous accusations that all cops are no-good racists, it's no wonder that the Police Union sends out notice that he'd better not ever show up at any funeral for any cop.  Having a man of such prominence make such accusations shows not only disrespect for the men and women in blue, but encourages civil disobedience and further endangers police lives.  

Law enforcement personnel should be held to high standards; I agree with that.  But, they should also be held in very high esteem.  

If you want t accuse anybody of racism in this country, you have to first start with the White House.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

TORTURE

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Virtually every dictionary I can put my hands on uses the words "pain or physical injury" when defining torture.  That rules out water boarding, sleep deprivation, continuous loud music and isolation.  

It seems to me that we have allowed the bleeding-heart liberals to change the definition of "torture" with even consulting Webster.  They would have you believe that giving someone a dirty look is torture.  On that basis, Obama inflicts torture on all Americans every time he takes the podium on TV.  

Get real, folks.  If you want to know what torture really is, watch someone with their head in a vise getting tighter and tighter until the brains suddenly just pop out.  How abut taking a hot iron and pressing it against the flesh?  

This is why I favor returning to the draft.   More Americans need to find out what war really is all about.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

IS GOD DEAD IN AMERICA?

The Lake Worth, Florida City Council Meeting opened with a prayer to pagan and Satanic Gods and a thanks to atheists and agnostics.  Many, but not all of the council members walked out.  

There has been a growing national movement toward the removal of Christianity and Judaism in this country for decades.  But there has been nary a peep of protest from any organized religion. I guess they simply don't care. 

History shows, time and time again, whenever a country loses its religious elements, moral decay follows, anarchy eventually reigns and revolution ensues.  

The silence is ominous. 

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

ONAMA NEEDS EBOLA; MUSLIMS ARE GOAT F@&%%RS

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A third grade schoolteacher in Houston is on the hook for making those statements.  Angela Box made those remarks on a local television show and has since tendered her resignation. 

Let me say from the outset that she has every right in this country to say what she said, whether it was in good taste or not.  But the fact that she did say it and that countless others have been making insensitive and inflammatory remarks over the last few years points to a total decline in this country for mutual respect and decorum.  

In other countries, of course, they would just haul her out onto the street and stone her to death.  Maybe we should get back into stoning such idiots, but I somehow don't think we have enough rocks in this entire country to resolve the problem.  The chief instigator?  Barack Hussein Obama.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

HEY BUDDY! DO YOU HAVE AY SPARE CHANGE?

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The time has long passed when we should have been demanding an answer to the question: Just who is going to pay for this astronomical national debt?  

David Stockman, White House budget chief under President Reagan, notes it took the United States 205 years to reach $1 trillion in debt, but only 33 more years to get to the current $18 trillion debt mountain. And he says things are about to get worse. 

According to a report in NEWSMAX.COM, Stockman estimated today's federal debt amounts to 106 percent of GDP, and when state and local debt is factored in, total government debt is 120 percent of GDP – a load that would put many Americans in a homeless shelter if they owed it money on an individual basis.  That would be over $60,000 for every man, woman and child in the country.  Oh, I forgot: once you factor in the new illegal aliens, it would probably drop to $58,995 per person.  

If you had to pay your share tomorrow, what would you do?  

Considering what Moody's, Standard & Poors,  and other companies have said about our mounting debt,  I'm flabbergasted that this subject is not first and foremost in our national discussion.  

Oh well, who cares?  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

GETTING EVEN

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So, why does Feinstein come forward now and make public the results of an Intelligence Committee investigation that has taken place ever since 9/11 and which basically reached its conclusions several years ago?  To answer that question, you have to answer another:  Why did Obama announce his Executive Orders on immigration within a couple of weeks after the Democrats suffered their worst political defeat in history?  To answer that question, you have to ask why the Democrat staffers at the White House trashed the computers and offices as they were leaving the premises and George W. Bush was literally moving in? 

It's all about getting even. 

Isn't that interesting?  It's not about learning a lesson; it's not about working together to do what is best for the country; and it's not about meeting the modern-day challenges of navigating America through so many troubled waters.  It's about getting even.  

This makes me sick.  What in the world have we become that we even think of doing these things, let alone actually doing them.  What's worse, we are tolerating them. 

Bush had every right and obligation as far as I am concerned, to charge those who destroyed government property at the White House.  Failing to do so is by default, approval of those actions.  Just as the failure of Republicans to deal with Obama's Executive Orders, (several of them outright unconstitutional), in a prompt and proactive manner.  If you tolerate the bully in the sandbox, you are complicit when he throws a rock and injures another kid.  

Evidently, we're going to have to do some more house cleaning in 2016 and finish routing out these anti-Americans children who are bastardizing our government.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

HAVING A REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL MAJORITY MEANS NOTHING

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With the expected defeat Saturday of Mary Landrieu, Republicans gained another seat in the Senate and are now in their best position in my lifetime to do some good for the country.  But... will they?  

Historically, at least over the last 30 years,  the Republicans have fumbled the ball whenever they take possession.  Whenever they have controlled Congress and the White House, they have historically done little of any significance.  The major question is... why not?  

Republicans have been a divided camp ever since before Reagan.  Reagan was a great uniter, but when he left office the party fell apart... again.  Basically, you have two camps: the Good Old Boy moderates, and the Conservatives.  The Conservatives have been outwitted and out-maneuvered, leaving the GOBs in charge; the GOBs enjoy shooting, shooting, and shooting.... themselves in the feet.  That's how we end up with the Doles, Bushes, Romneys and McCains of the world running for high office.  Even one of the country's best Presidents in history, Ronald Reagan, was shunned and marginalized by the Republican old guard until Reagan's popularity among the voters overcame their tactics.  

The country delivered a loud and strong message to Washington in the last election: they're damned tired of the way things are being run.  The Republicans were also handed a mandate: change the way things are being done.  So far, however, I haven't heard any chorus arising among the Republicans saying they are willing to take that torch and run with it.  Right out of the gate, they have looked like total jackasses when it comes to Obama and his Executive Order on immigration.  I see no unified party ready to take Obama head-on.  Instead, all I have seen is hand wringing and statements about what they can't do. 

Having seized an outstanding majority, the ball is in their court.  But, having the majority doesn't mean a damned thing.  They have to take that ball and move it firmly down the field of play, and in order to do so they are going to have to mend some fences and find common ground upon which to unite.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

HOW OBAMA WILL CLOSE GITMO

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Barack Obama doesn't give a damn what you, I, the Congress, the Supreme Court or the Constitution says;  he intends to run this country his way and to get whatever he wants... through subterfuge, threats, Executive Orders, stealth or any other method within reach.  The country has voiced its opinion time and time again: it does not want Gitmo to be closed.  It doesn't want the resident terrorists transferred to U.S. soil and it doesn't want them sent home. 

The administration has just quietly released another six Gitmo terrorists.  Their release brings the total number of prisoners at Guantanamo to 136 — the lowest number since the first month the prison opened in January 2002.  All Obama has to do is to continue to quietly release terrorists until he gets the number down to one or two.  Who is going to stop him when he closes Gitmo after that?  

This will be just one more time that Obama has hoodwinked the country and gotten away with it.  Obama the Thug wins again.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

THE END OF "P"

I can vividly remember one of the first lessons I learned in life: my pappy said to me, "Son, it doesn't make any difference whether you agree with him or not, you always show due and proper respect to the President of the United States because he is our elected leader."

I've always done that.  Whenever I have been discussing a particular President, or the office of the President, I've always shown my respect with a capital "P."  Not everyone in journalism does that; they refer to the office of President as president.  They don't talk about the former President, for example; they talk about the former president.  Not me; I've always used the capital "P."  

Even with Obama, I have shown the respect of using the capital "P."  And from now on, whenever I'm talking about the office of the President, I'll continue to use the capital.  But, when I'm referring to Obama in particular, there's not  going to be any more capitalization.   I have absolutely no respect for this thug, this charlatan who pretends to be an American.  He's proven beyond all doubt that he is unworthy of any respect.    

From now on, it's president Obama and if he doesn't like it, he can go P up a rope.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

BROWN VS. GARNER

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What a contract there is between Wilson's shooting of Brown in Ferguson and Pantaleo's choking of Garner in Staten Island; it's like night and day.  

After review of the Grand Jury evidence and testimony in Ferguson, there is not even a sliver of doubt in my mind that the shooting of Brown was justified.  Yet, there was rioting, burning, looting, shooting and pure anarchy after the verdict was announced.  

Of course, I haven't yet seen any Grand Jury evidence or testimony in the New York case.  But, based on what I do know, there is a whole lot of doubt in my mind as to whether or not the Grand Jury reached the right conclusion in deciding not to indict Pantaleo on any level of charges at all.  Yes, there was protesting after the announcement, and I think the protest was justified.  But, as of this writing there is no rioting, looting, burning, shooting or other evidence of anarchy.  Good for them. 

One big difference, of course, is that Al Sharpton, Eric Holder and Barack Obama have not been using the Garner case as a platform to stoke racial fires in the country.  Another major difference is that the media wasn't creating an atmosphere of expected rioting for weeks on end before the Pantaleo verdict.  

It has been said by numerous people that we need to have dialogue about cops vs. Blacks.  While I welcome dialogue on any subject at any time as a means to resolve differences and to make things better, I really think we should be looking at cops... period.  I have great respect for the officers who protect us in our cities and states.  They put their lives on the line for us every day.  

But, I have a problem with cops having tanks, armored Humvees and other military equipment.  I have a problem with the growing reports of cops invading private residences in the middle of the night to confiscate lawfully owned guns, and an endless litany of other police wrongdoings or excessive uses of power. 

I don't see this as a white cop versus Black issue.  I think the problem runs deeper than that and we do need to investigate it, find the root causes of it, have dialogue about it and resolve it.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

GUN CONTROL AGAIN SHOWS ITS UGLY HEAD

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PATRIOTUPDATE.COM is reporting on a plot by the State of New York to totally gut the Second Amendment.   "On Dec. 9, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit will hear oral arguments in the case of Nojay v. Cuomo. At stake is nothing less than whether the Second Amendment grants substantive gun rights to American citizens, or is meaningless rhetoric that allows the government total control over what firearms citizens may or may not possess."  

"The SAFE Act was rammed through both houses of the New York State Legislature and signed into law within 24 hours. Legislators were given the 39-page bill only fifteen minutes before a floor vote at 2 a.m., and Cuomo waived the state’s mandatory three-day waiting period for public input on new legislation so that the law could take effect immediately upon his signature."  The law, if it is upheld in the courts, is intended to be the forerunner of a national gun control law. 

Information coming out of Ferguson is that the businesses which have not been burned to the ground were protected by armed store owners.  Information coming from the F.B.I. confirms that violent crime in areas where gun control is loose or non-existent is far below the national average.  In Chicago, where gun ownership is now legal due to Supreme Court decisions, the murder rate is plummeting.  

The Supreme Court has ruled time after time after time that the Second Amendment is the law of the land.  But, I have every reason to believe, and you should too, that our renegade President is going to use the U.N. Small Arms Agreement as a tool to excuse another Executive Order banning private gun ownership within the next few months; the issuance of his Executive Order on immigration is merely to test the waters.  

We're in for some tough times ahead in this country.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

U.S. TAXPAYER TO PAY FOR FERGUSON RAMPAGE?

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The fires aren't even out yet; the rioting and looting continues and, already, the cry from the bleeding-heart liberals has begun: "We need to fund money in Congress now to pay for the rebuilding of Ferguson." 

You know what?  For decades now, as long as I can remember, the Blacks in this country have been burning and rioting and asking the rest of the country to pay for it. 

To hell with you.  You burned it; you rebuild it.  Any Judge in the country would order that as part of your restitution for your illegal, criminal acts.  If you don't like it, get out.  Go live in Iran or Iraq where you can do these things and be a hero. 

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

IS ANOTHER CIVIL WAR IMMINENT?

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Ferguson won't die.  Al Sharpton and the renegades are bound and determined to exploit Obama's claims of racism in the country.  They don't give a damn what the Grand Jury heard or deliberated on for three months, they want Officer Wilson to go to hang and they want the hanging broadcast live on national television.  

They're not going to settle for anything less.  

Sharpton said the resignation of Officer Darren Wilson on Saturday is not enough. “Reporters started calling me, saying the officer had resigned from his job and said that he hopes it would lead to healing the city,” Sharpton said. “But you can’t heal leaving the injured out of the process.” Brown’s family still has “open wounds” from his death, Sharpton said; “taking his job” was never the objective of protesters. They want a federal investigation.  And they obviously want someone to hang.  

They don't give a damned about what kind of a thug Brown was.  They do not care about all of the evidence.  They dismiss the Grand Jury as being incompetent. 

What's more, they're stoking up for riots across the country until they get their way. 

No wonder gun sales are skyrocketing again.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

CAN OBAMACARE SURVIVE?

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The American public was never for it; it never had even 51% of the country in favor of it.  When it was enacted in the middle of the night, 70% of Americans were against it.  

Obama, Pelosi and Reid went on the offense.  In the face of most of the states coming out against it, they twisted the arms of unions, politicians and business alike.  They made so many promises no one could possibly keep track.  They gave concession, after concession, after concession and finally worked the opposition down to about 55%. 

Then, it's provisions started to kick in.  We got a chance to see it for what it really was, and why even Pelosi and Reid did not want to read it before they passed it.  It was full of lies, contradictions and broken promises.  The costs skyrocketed, the website failed and temporary concessions made started to run out of time.  Finally, the bombshell revelation came that it was all built on lies from the outset.  

More recently, union and business leaders alike have started to withdraw support, even coming out in opposition.  Several strong supporters of Obama and his signature health care act, including Senator Chuck Schumer,  have done a 180.  There is certainly no doubt that it played a significant role in the Republican rout of Congress in November.  For the first time, its mere existence has become a huge thorn in Obama's side. 

Maybe Obama would prefer that we now start calling it GruberCare? 

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

NEWS YOU HAVE NOT HEARD: OBAMA IS A TRAITOR TO AMERICANS

The rest of unemployed Americans be damned: Obama's new Executive Order provides that businesses will be paid $3,000 for every illegal they hire, according to FOX NEWS.  

And guess what?  Because of a kink in ObamaCare, businesses will NOT face a penalty for not providing illegal immigrants health care.    

Happy Holidays, America.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  

THE REAL AND OMINOUS DANGER ABOUT DRONES

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You have probably heard of the growing concern about drones in America, especially around airports.  Many pilots are reporting increasing near collisions with drones; one of those things sucked into a jet engine intake, especially during takeoff, could prove very fatal. 

But, that's not what concerns me most. 

You might be under the mistaken impression that these small drones are somewhat akin to flying model airplanes.  In a sense, they are.  But, they are far more sophisticated,  being able to fly much higher and longer and... able to carry a payload.  With an on-board video camera, the on-ground "pilot" can virtually fly a drone anywhere within fuel range.  

Picture one of these with a mere five-pounds or less of plastic or otherwise high-explosive on board.  That could do very significant damage to a structure, and I don't imagine that these small aircraft can be picked up on radar.  It sounds like a terrorist's dream machine to me. 

I'm wondering if these flights around airports are simple "test runs" to see what response they might attract.  The pilots could be gearing up for much bigger things and we all know that terrorists are sneaking across our southern border and, Lord knows, we have countless domestic terrorists already here. 

So, who really needs to hijack a jetliner these days? 

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

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WHY BLACKS SHOULD REALLY BE ANGRY

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What we hear coming out of the discussion about the Ferguson riots is a profound sense that the rest of us Americans are picking on blacks and that it has to stop.  I don't see that in my empirical world, but I don't live in Chicago, Philadelphia or Ferguson, ether.  

What I do know is that unemployment among blacks is far higher than it is among whites.  To me, that means not only that they are not getting adequate training for the job marketplace, but the current market for the jobs they are currently qualified for does not exist in sufficient numbers.  

Now enters the Obama immigration dictate, adding five million more unemployed bodies looking for the same jobs. 

If I were Black, I'd be damned angry, alright... at Barack Obama.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

OBAMA'S REVENGE CONTINUES

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Obama's nasty temper continues to flare at the temerity of the American public to so solidly rebuke his policies in the November 4th elections. Angered beyond words, Obama fired back at America by using an Executive Order to go around Congress, seize control of immigration from Congress and violate his oath of office by refusing to enforce previously enacted Congressional and Presidential approved  laws.   

Yesterday, Obama continued his rampage.  Noting that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel was gaining favor among Americans for telling it like it is with I.S.I.S. and elsewhere in the Middle East, Obama summoned him to the Oval Office where it appears a blistering argument ensued over Hagel's I.S.I.S. policy and remarks, and Hagel was summarily fired.  Then, fearing another lashback from the public, the White House announced that Hagel had resigned. Indeed, Obama went overboard in gushing praise of Hagel when he went to the press and made the announcement. 

Still in Obama's crosshairs: gun control; scuttling of the Keystone Pipeline; releasing remaining terrorists, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Rashid, while closing Guantanamo and installing his global warming initiatives.  

It appears that we have unleashed the real Obama.  One thing is certain: If you're not a "yes" man, you have no place in Obama's Washington.    

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.