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90 Reasons to vote with less than 90 days to go (and counting) Reply

Constitution, Election 2012, Environmental, Freedom, Leadership, White House • Tags: , , , , , , ,

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I read this morning that some liberal bloggers have started a new web site to try and motivate the Obama base.

The top reasons to vote for him so far are his stances on LGBT rights, Health Care “reform”(?) and battling the most conservative candidate the Republicans have ever fielded – Mitt Romney. I nearly choked on my coffee on the last one. Frankly, I like Mitt and I think adding Paul Ryan to his ticket is a deal winner for the right. But I would not want to say he is the most conservative Presidential candidate EVER (if you know what I mean).

This inspired me to want to create a list of reasons why you may not actually want to vote for Obama.

In case you have been teetering on the edge of which way to go, here are some things to think about. The Details are not provided in full for each idea but you can probably Google them and fill in the blanks. If I have forgotten any of the reasons that are personal to you, please feel free to add them to the comments.

Here’s a bunch of reasons not to vote for Barrack Hussein Obama

  • Nobel Peace prize for voting “present” then failing to close Gitmo, change the way we fight terrorism or admit that maybe some people still want to destroy America
  • Price of Gas – Taxes, misuse of road tax funds, crippling the gas industry with overregulation and the EPA’s draconian methodology
  • Punishing the oil industry by making them pay a penalty on a type of fuel that doesn’t exist, can’t be produced, and will probably be added to the inventory
  • Jobs (over 42 months above 8%) The real number is much higher since so many have simply fallen by the wayside or are underemployed out of desperation
  • Bridges N Roads and the stimulus – payoffs to government workers and agencies; but only to selected states that happen to be colored blue on the big map
  • Keystone Pipeline – preventing the use of domestic and Canadian oil in order to keep the shortages real to support a failed “green” policy. Cost: Jobs, further dependence on foreign oil, delayed economic recovery
  • Dead Voters: preventing states from cleaning up what is obviously a fractured voting roll that supports democrats. Prosecuting states that try to clean up the mess by requiring a picture ID that is readily available to every citizen and most illegals
  • Fast n Furious, the DEA lack of accountability for a dead American and so many Mexicans they can’t even be counted
  • Saving the Car industry (?) while killing dealerships that were owned by Conservatives
  • Oil leak drama in the Gulf – using hype and fear instead of understanding the true nature of the event which allowed the manipulation of off shore drilling, a life long goal of progressives and anti-Americans everywhere
  • Windmills that don’t work since there is no concentrated plan to get the energy into the grid in a meaningful way
  • Cap n trade – pushing a phony green plan that benefits people like Al Gore who set up a false company to benefit from selling “credits” in a market that doesn’t even exist
  • TARP – yes, Bush started it, but the handing out of taxpayer dollars to cronies as payback for their support in the 2008 election should be a criminal offense of the highest order. Prosecuting it though would require an actual Justice Department and a Congress with a spine
  • START treaty and LOST treaty – a complete surrender of American sovereignty at a time when we need protection the most. The mere fact that we were at one point discussing a UN control of guns should be reason alone to shut this administration down
  • The Betrayal of our Allies in Poland and Israel
  • Health care – Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi passing a bill that no one had read, no one understood, and adds trillions to the public debt at a time when we are sinking
  • Card check – shoving unions down people’s throats despite their illegal violation of people’s rights under the Constitution
  • Arizona and Texas border – abandoned the citizens of those states in the face of unbridled gun running, drug trafficking, and invasion of illegals.
  • Global warming hoax continuation and propagation – spending needed American funds on a hoax of global proportions
  • NASA – the destruction of an American icon and surrender of our space initiative at exactly the same time as the Chinese are ramping theirs up. Will we look up someday and see the circling Chinese weapons platforms over our skies because we were too naïve to have a plan?
  • ACORN under its previous or current names, this race based organization was and is a way to support the community organizer in chief in his destruction of the American suburbs
  • SOROS – George Soros is an American and Jew hating billionaire that singlehandedly wants to destroy the American way of life only to add to his profits … the only small satisfaction one can hold is that he will stand naked before God and have to answer for his part in the Holocaust
  • Electric cars that no one wants to buy and have to be subsidized by the America Taxpayer at an egregious cost.
  • Propping up some home owners and abandoning others while allowing Barney Frank and Chris Dodd to escape from any culpability for their role in destroying the American homeownership dream
  • Supreme court appointments – appointing two of the most biased jurists in American history and being in a position to do more damage in the next four years
  • Destruction of the Military – taking a pass on fixing sequestration, shrinking the fleet, Don’t ask, Don’t tell, I could go on for weeks
  • Foreign policy that supports the rise of Islamic fundamentalists and terrorists. Sitting idly by while the Iranian freedom movement tried to fight the reelection of a Jew hating monster, leading from behind through the entire Arab spring, doing nothing while Syria burns from within… Cowardice in the face of the enemy
  • Education Department growth out of control and financial payoffs to the NEA for the electoral support. The sooner both are gone, the sooner we can recapture the position of educational superiority in the world again.
  • EPA – for its blatant destruction of the coal industry and power plants, gasoline and nuclear energy organizations, and anything else that doesn’t involve the use of pixy dust as a sole source of power
  • Solyndra and all of the other companies that took your tax dollars for a pipe dream and then went belly up
  • MF Global – the rape of Americas financial system by democratic hacks and NO PROSECUTION of the guilty bastards
  • Eric Holder – a man who blatantly bases all of his decisions on race rather than justice
  • Black Panthers no accountability because of political appointees, no prosecution, no assurance it won’t happen again
  • IRS – uncontrolled growth to support obamacare
  • Welfare – no more work requirements despite the illegality of the way Obama did it
  • Murder Rate Chicago is leading the way… four more years is plenty of time to spread this to the rest of the country
  • Entitlements
  • Cash for Clunkers
  • "You didn’t build that"
  • The Police acted "STUPIDLY" (the beer summit)
  • Open mic #1 "I have to deal with (Netanyahu) every day " (to Nicolaus Sarkosi)
  • Open mic #2: to Putin "After I’m elected I’ll have a lot more flexibility"

Finally: He Told us he should not be reelected if he couldn’t get the job done.

I take the man at his word (well maybe only this one time…)

Any other reasons I may have forgotten?

Mister Mac

 

Location, location, location 4

Agriculture, Processed Foods, Travel • Tags: , , , , , ,

Fall 2011 113

After living near the sea coast for most of my life, living in farm country is a unique experience.

What’s particularly interesting is that we live between several large chocolate companies and a number of farms. Inside the house, you can see the weather rolling in from a number of directions. But you really have to go outside the house to experience living here. The wind changes directions from time to time and you get an opportunity to fully engage all of your senses.

Sometimes you will get overwhelmed by a rolling wave of chocolate

. We watched War Horse in the theatre not long ago and one of the scenes where the soldiers in the trenches were gassed. Not to make light of it (and my deepest apologies if there are any WW1 guys reading this story) but I think we could have accomplished a lot more with the chocolate gas attack in a more humane manner. What happens is you are instantly hungry for chocolate. Any kind of chocolate. You involuntarily start taking deep breaths and forget that you were sent out back to fill the bird feeder. For a short time, you are disoriented and unable to make critical decisions.

chocolate

Not to worry, the effect passes soon enough. But it is kind of funny watching the cars in town with their windows rolled down on days when even the dogs don’t want to go out due to the chill in the air.

Other times though, the wind shifts.

Now I paid attention in school and I am fully aware of where chocolate comes from. You need beans and sugar. Apparently you also need milk and lots of it which explains the farms. When the wind shifts and you have not prepared yourself for it, the affect is opposite of the chocolate feelings. You suddenly minimize your breathing and try to imagine yourself on a beach chair in the Bahamas. Anything to take your mind off of the overpowering stench that has now permeated your neighborhood.

A big pile

The good thing is that neither smell lasts very long

.It’s just as well since we found out the hard way that either neutralizes Angus and Rufus’ sense of smell. Normally that wouldn’t be such a big thing but it can have a negative impact on all of us during skunk season. After two experiments, I am hoping both boys will refrain from playing with the black kitty with the white stripe that visits the back yard.

Being in God’s country teaches you natural lessons you wouldn’t think of much on a submarine. Something really good (chocolate) comes from something that is really bad. You really can’t have one without the other. There was a system put in place long before we arrived that makes the whole food circle operate. Even though we are responsible for making it a bit more organized, in the end you still find yourself with a large stinky pile of manure to deal with.

The Garden

Even the humble manure pile does play a role.

As we have discovered before planting season, the piles grow smaller and smaller and there are a lot less “chocolate” days. The strength of the manure is that it gives back to the land. Giving something unpleasant back to the land serves a purpose too. The rain and sun add a helping of goodness and the gloopy mess finally leads to the fantastic array of green fields. This leads to a number of things including food for those wonderful cows that are doing their best to fill up the chocolate aisle in the supermarket. They do all of that just for you and I.

Eat faster

As much as we would like to make the manure go away, it is a part of who we are.

We need it to remind ourselves that although perfect things can come from the world, they often come from imperfection. You may hide a pile of manure, but another thing I have learned is that you still know its there. Why not just recognize its role, hold your nose and just move along. The earth will do the rest.

One other thing I have learned from the farms is that a pig is still a pig no matter what you call it.

You can try to upgrade him a bit with a fancy name or a cute bandana. You can even tell people “Isn’t my dog lovely?” But he is still a pig. He may learn a few tricks but he will still have pig behaviors, eat pig food, and yes, give you a lovely pile of pig poop for all of your efforts.

I like to think that my blog is a place that I can point out the manure as well as the chocolate.

It has a fair share of chocolate (based on almost 20,000 views). It also has its fair share of manure spreading which in my mind is a way of venting about the state of the farm that affects every part of all of our lives. Some people are just going to smell the manure no matter how much chocolate I bake. I imagine they just don’t come back.

I also point it out when I see a pig

I refuse to call them dog’s no matter how many times MSNBC says “Oh look, a puppy”. While I have no personal grudges against domestic pigs, I still refuse to acknowledge something with a human sounding name that I will eventually consume.

Who are you calling a pig?

Feral pigs are a whole different matter.

They have grown up in a place that I am unable to verify. Their parental line is obscured and often mysterious. They are pushy and bossy and try and dominate the domestic pigs that have manners. They disrupt things and frankly add very little value to the farm. I am not even sure I would want to consume anything from a feral pig.

Across the country right now, feral pigs are running wild and causing untold damage to the environment. They are invasive and ruin the habitats for the turkey, grouse, deer and other critters by rooting and digging up the soil. Feral pigs are the kings of fundamental change.

Oh Deer!

They will eat nearly anything: tubers, roots, stems, leaves, fruit, bark, and their favorite – acorns – competing for mast crops with native wildlife. They also eat bird eggs and trample and kill native birds. They kill both domestic and native animals (even lambs). I have even heard recently that they have begun eating lobster. A lot of lobster.

If you want to read more about how feral pigs are damaging this country, here is the link:

http://weeklypress.com/feral-pigs-run-wild-in-pa-and-other-midatlantic-states-p1661-1.htm

An organization I belong to recently sent out a note to remind us that as military people (past and present) we should respect our troops. I was good up until that point. Then the person who wrote it started a diatribe about including the Commander in Chief in our respectful nature. Insults and bad things are not acceptable and will be deleted.

Hmmm.

No discussion, no critical thought, no choice.

Well, if you have made it this far, I want to reassure you of a few things. You almost always find interesting things when you turn rocks over. You fail to grow if you have a sanitary enclosure around you because life’s most unique surprises are often hiding under a pile of manure.

Nice Pony

And you are only fooling yourself if you think you can magically turn a pig into a pony. Especially the feral kind.

I’m going to keep writing the blog exactly as I have to this point. (or hopefully a bit better as time goes by) In the Fall this year, I intend to join many others who feel its time to eradicate feral pigs. Hope to see you there.

Mister Mac