Everyone seems to be on the "raise the price", "raise the taxes" band wagon these days... Food has gone up 40% due to the increase in gasoline costs.  Aloha Airlines just went out of business. My gas bill just came for the house and it's $400.00 for one month!  We purposely didn't use the gas fireplace this year nor did we turn on the heat in winter.  Basically, we use gas for the clothes dryer.  Our stove is electric and the water heater we use for showers is electric.  The other water heater only heats water for the kitchen sink.  

I just heard a report that the Department Of Water and power in Los Angeles is raising their rates as of July by 8%. They defend this move by claiming it's not that much and there is the same need they had the last 20 times they raised the rates to replace the infrastructure that never got done.  My bill is already $700.00 per month so I guess it's no big deal to tack on another $80.00.   Now 8% might not be a lot but when you add that to every other expense that has gone up 40 to 50% it's devastating.  I don't know how people on a fixed income are surviving in this corporate bleeding of America but I have an awful feeling that my prediction

of the U.S. becoming a 3rd world country is already here...

U.S. Military Deaths

All we hear is how much the war is costing us. Should we just stop fighting the enemies that want to kill us because it is too expensive? Should we pull out and leave all those that helped the U.S. in Iraq be slaughtered in mass genocide? This is what Obama and Hillary offer. Is this acceptable to you? Did you know that more of our miltary men and women were killed under Bill Clinton's do nothing administration than under Bush? Keep in mind we have been at war for 6 years...

U.S. military deaths under Bill Clinton's administration: 14,000

Under Bush 7,936

If you don't believe this you can find the statistics at: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/rl32492.pdf

Obama Drama

The greatest Speach Since Martin Luther King? Obama's speech on race. What a joke. Who the hell does the mainstream press think they are kidding here? For one, despite Obama's claim that he is so sure that everyone has heard their Pastor, Priest, or Rabbi, say things that they disagree with... I can assure you, I have never heard any Priest preach hatred for any race let alone our country in any church I have ever attended. This pathetic excuse for a man is down playing the significance of attending a church for 20 years that preached rasicsm. He has no buisness being a Senator let alone the Commander In Cheif of our armed forces. I would have left any church that preached such hatred as it has no place in religion period. Of course you won't hear any of this because no one wants to be politically uncorrect. Congress is polluted with politicians that have no balls and a country that can never advance because of it.

As if this wasn't bad enough the man is persoanl friends with a terrorist? I hope to hell that people in this country learned a lesson here. You don't vote for someone with nothing to say but promises. promises that have been recyceled time after time for the last 30 years by every lying politician that ever ran for office. It's real simple here, the banks run the country and no matter who you put into office, they aren't going to give you anything so get used to it.

A friend sent this to me today and it is a must read for anyone that thinks socialism is the answer to all our problems...

Catching Wild Pigs

There was a Chemistry professor in a large college that had some
exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab
the Prof noticed one young man (exchange student) who kept rubbing his
back, and stretching as if his back hurt.

The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student
told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while
fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow
his country's government and install a new communist government.

In the midst of his story he looked at the professor and asked a
strange question. He asked, 'Do you know how to catch wild pigs?'

The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line.
The young man said this was no joke. 'You catch wild pigs by finding a
suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find
it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are used to
coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they
are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat
the corn again and you put up another side of the fence. They get used to
that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides
of the fence up with a gate in The last side. The pigs, who are used to
the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat, you slam the gate
on them and catch the whole herd.

Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and
around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating
the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to
forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.

The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees
happening to America . The government keeps pushing us toward
socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of
programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income,
tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP),
welfare, medicine, drugs, etc. while we continually lose our freedoms -
just a little at a time.

One should always remember: There is no such thing as a free Lunch!

A politician will never provide a service for you cheaper than you
can do yourself.

If you see all of this wonderful government 'help' is a problem confronting
the future of democracy in America, you might want to send this on to your
friends. If you think the free ride is essential to your way of life then you will
probably delete this email, but God help you when the gate slams shut!

In this "very important" election year, listen closely to what the candidates are
promising you ----just maybe you will be able to tell who is about to slam the gate
on America.

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big
enough to take away everything you have." - Thomas Jefferson

What costs more per year than the the Iraq War?

All we hear is everyone screaming about the cost of the Iraq war. The cost of National Defense is talked about like it is totally unnecessary and we should be spending the money here. Well folks, we have the money being spent here. It's just not being spent on you...

What costs more per year than the the Iraq War?

I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them. I have included the URL's for verification of the following facts:

1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year.

http://tinyurl.com/zob77

2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.

http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.

http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

4. $12 Billiondollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.html

5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt..01.html

8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare and Social Services by the American taxpayers.

http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html

9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two-and-a-half times that of white non-illegal aliens.. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US .

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html

11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border. Homeland Security Report.

http://tinyurl.com/t9sht

12. The National Policy Institute, "estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period."

http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf

13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin.

http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm

14. "The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States ."

http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml

Total cost is a whooping ... $338.3 BILLION A YEAR!!!

The Flu Is Not What It Used To Be

I haven't been blogging lately due to the fact that I have come down with the flu, Twice as a matter of fact. The next question is always, did you get your flu shot? The answer, no. Why?
Because I always get the flu anyway. The next response is always, if you got your shot it wouldn't be as bad. I am so tried of hearing this.

The fact of the matter is as always the Government is asleep at the wheel again. In the past I could always bulk up on my vitamins and take my chicken soup, infused with fresh garlic to lessen the impact of the flu. Now days, nothing works. What we have is a virus that is strengthening and becoming more resistant to drugs but no word from the "health officials" that this is happening.

My wife had this before I did. She went to the Doctor and was prescribed anti-biotics two different times and nothing worked. It stayed with her for two months! I have had this for two weeks and not only are the symtptoms strange compared to when I was a kid but they are more suspicious. How can you go to bed the night before perfectly healthy and wake up with a chest infection so bad you can't get out of bed. How does a virus strike without warning or any indication that you are going to be on your back for the next two weeks to two months. This is not the type of flu we had when we were kids that lasted all of 5 days at the max. The health department needs to look into this but the chances of that happening until scores of thousands start dying is like your chances of winning the lottery.

There was a reason new immigrants were sent to Ellis Island before being allowed into the country. They screened all applicants for helth related issues With the resurgence of Hepatitis
and other life threatening diseases, it's time the Government started to go back to the days of precaution. Why doesn't this happen? Because the illegal rights activists will be screaming biggotry and racism to offset any real reform. What sense does it make to screen your pets but not screen humans?

America's Use Of Torture

I just got back from a round trip from Los Angels to New York and back. During this trip, I had plenty of time to think about how Congess could make better use of it's time. Forget
investigations about water board torture used on terrorists. The practice is totally
unneccessary. I have a better idea. Put them on a flight from L.A. to New York on any of the long established airlines! I can gaurantee they start spilling the beans halfway through the trip! Hours on the runway with nasty airline personel, irritated customers, screaming children and having to pee. They have no training to prepare themselves for this. From what I hear the food at Gitmo is better.

12 hours after leaving N.Y.C., I arrived in L.A. That's exactly how much time it takes to fly from New York to England. Clear weather patterns all over the States so no chance of blaiming that. I began to log my trips after having spent 10 hours on my birthday at the Burbank Airport trying to get to Las Vegas. That's normally a 50 minute flight.

My next trip at Christmas was to Beaver Creek Colorado. Three hours to Denver turned into 7 and 30 minutes to beaver Creek turned into 3 hours. A 10 hour total for a four hour encounter. The trip back to L.A. was even worse. 12 hours from Beaver Creek to L.A. with 3 of those hours being on the runway after landing.

It's become very clear to me that the Airline Indusrty is not capable of getting you where you are going within a reasonable amount of time. If it's not bad enough you have to go through hell at the security gates halfway stripping out of your clothes, now you get treated like your getting to fly for free. At what point is congess going to get off their "do nothing asses" and introduce a bill to force these airlines to function in a manner that represents a business model that makes people want to fly rather than dread it?

If 9/11 happened today, it would be hard for Homeland Security to figure out if the attack was against the U.S. or the lousey service of the airline industry.