Empathy? That is so Yesterday

I enjoy tooling around the internet, reading the various articles that Yahoo puts out defending B.O. on a daily basis.  Some of those invariably mention food stamps, and I almost always go straight to the comment section of those. Guilty as charged.
While there, I will read  from many, many lucky people who have never ever in their lives been dependent on assistance.  That must be the case, as they are very draconian in their allowances for what people should be able to buy with a food stamp.
If a person has paid into the system their entire working life, and then the time comes that they are down sized from their job, I think that they should be able to use the system that they were forced to support.  Is there a line of people monitoring your purchases if you receive unemployment? No. Because you paid into the system and you are simply getting some of your money back from it.
How is the food stamp program any different if you have paid into it?  Now understand, I am not talking about the professional moochers, illegals, and various other miscreants who have made government assistance a lifestyle.
I am talking about the hard working people who have lost their jobs because Obama is an idiot who didn't see the law of unintended consequences when it was staring him right in the face.  He also didn't listen as people who actually know what they are talking about told him that his socialized medicine scheme wouldn't work.
I am talking about the people who have lost their jobs, had their hours cut, or simply cannot afford food in addition to all of the other expenses that B.O. has laid on their shoulders.  You have to have a roof over your head.  You have to have gasoline in your car to get back and forth to your job.  Quite often that leaves food at the bottom of the list, and many people have run out of money before they get to that one.  Are they supposed to go hungry?  Or even if they are receiving help, are they supposed to adhere to a strict list of what they can and cannot buy with money that was forcibly taken from them and now they need back?  Please.
I've read varying degrees of stupidity that cry out for changes in the food stamp program.  They usually fall into one of several predictable categories.
The don't let them buy junk food or soda category. These gracious souls believe that any sort of non essential food stuff is a waste of (your) money and don't think that you should be able to buy it with the money that you had taken from you in case you ever needed it, and now need it.
The only let them buy nutritious foods that they make from scratch category.  These big hearted folks are the ones who think that anything you buy shouldn't be prepackaged, ( good bye tuna helper) frozen, (adios frozen dinners), or premade. (Hello cooking everything from cakes to biscuits from flour and other ingredients. I hope you have access to a cook book)
And my personal favorite The meat, vegetables, whole grains only crowd.  These are the ones who probably couldn't make a fried chicken from a regular chicken if their lives depended on it.  It is very easy to be sanctimonious and self righteous when you've never been down on your luck, isn't it?
The next time you see someone who has to use foodstamps, try thanking God that you aren't in their shoes.  Be grateful that you don't need any assistance right now.  Because you never know, with B.O.'s depression, you could be next.  Think about it.  You'll thank me later.

McCain=Romney=Christie. Enough Already!!

The msm has been writing about Chris Christie with breathless abandon.  Ann Coulter, a woman with an opinion I used to respect, has been writing about Christie with an almost giddy worshipful tone that is off putting.  She also endorsed Romney. Ick.
I think Christie has done good things for New Jersey. He has made them financially solvent again by reigning in the stranglehold that those unions had on his state.  They can keep him.
He also put him ham like arms around B.O. and tacitly endorsed him in the last election.  He knew what he was doing, because lo and behold! New Jersey got a butt ton of money to rebuild things that should have been covered by private insurances. Good for New Jersey, they can keep him.
While I want my President to have some experience in running a government organization, this is one governor that I'll take a pass on.  He's a blowhard.  He may be what they expect in New Jersey, but in reality he is an uncouth jerk who is too used to yelling his opponent down.  I don't want a delicate flower with genteel manners (see Romney,Mitt) or a guy who is one sandwich shy of a picnic (see McCain, John) I would like someone who won't embarrass me. (see, Obama/Soetoro, Barack/Barry)
I know the right person is out there.  They just have to throw themselves into the meat grinder of politics and understand that they are running against not just the Democrat but the msm as well.   I don't think that I would want to do that.  It's not that I wouldn't want to help our Republic, but look at what happened to Herman Cain.
He is a decent, intelligent great man with wonderful ideas. He was ground into political sausage.  I just don't think I would want my entire life under a microscope like that, would you?
So anyway, I am hoping for the next great conservative to step out and shine.  I am also hoping that the cheating that put B.O. in the oval office is removed by then.  There's a reason democrats like the saying 'vote early and often' and I hope that they are caught and punished for it someday.
Pray for our country and her leaders.  You'll thank me later.  Ps  Happy Birthday Ken!

John Huntsman is a Righteous Weenie

In the last election, I found myself voting for the number two position on the ticket, Paul Ryan.  He is an awesome man, a wonderful human being and an all around decent conservative.  I'm not a fan of Mitt Romney's and much like McCain, he was only the nominee because he outlasted the other, better candidates, and the GOP establishment decreed it was his "turn".  They have almost lost me.  I consider myself a conservative independent now.  Much like President Reagan thought of the democratic party, I'm not leaving the GOP, it's leaving me.
I don't quite understand the Libertarian Party either.  They seem to just want to be left alone and they have some quirky views on some things that I can't reconcile myself to support.  I understand their opinions about the war on drugs.  It's mostly an abject failure, common sense is not applied anywhere that I can see in this particular war.
But on the other hand, the social safety nets that we have in place do save many people.  I have no problem with a person in dire straights using food stamps until they can manage to get back on their feet.  Just don't make it a lifestyle, you know?  Libertarians would have all of those things removed and rely on the social programs in place.  I'm okay with that to a point, but I like the idea of a back up to the back up.
Enter John Huntsman.  He ran in the last Presidential election and he was an outside chance at best.  It has been revealed that his campaign was the one responsible for some clinton-esque leaks about two of his opponents.  One of them was Herman Cain, the man that had my initial support to be president.  When the initial mud began to be flung, I put the blame for that round of mud on team b.o.  The last thing he would have wanted to run against was a successful black man, especially one that had managed to do it without suckling at the government teat.
Ironically, the msm that had years before told me that slick willie's serial indiscretions were of zero relevance to the job he was doing, just about broke their own legs and necks to breathlessly report every drop of mud that could be scraped up about Mr. Cain and or Speaker Gingrich.  Disgusting.  One of the debates even had the lack of taste to begin with the baseless mud that was being slung at Newt Gingrich.  He did a wonderful job of dismantling that.
http://youtu.be/KxQTp07KS_k
Just a wonderful job.
So now there is evidence that Huntsman not only had his team leak the information-that is to say lies- about Herman Cain, they also released a ton of dirt about Mitch Daniels, the governor of Indiana at the time.  It would seem that he would have carved away some of the share that Huntsman was clinging to, and it was decided that releasing the very personal information about Governor Daniels' divorce and marriage would remove his entrance into the presidential race.  Let me repeat: John Huntsman is a righteous weenie.
Whatever happened to running on your own ideas, and hoping that people agreed with your opinions?  The Clinton's raised personal destruction to a new level, and Huntsman just followed right through with it.  Shame on him.
Because of that righteous weenie, we were left with Romney.  And while Romney may be an excellent man, husband, father, and human being (and I believe he is) he was never ever going to win against b.o.  The msm saw to that.
The Libertarian Party clings to Huntsman, and if they want to have a shred of integrity left, they will throw him to the wolves.  Think about it, you'll thank me later.

Obamacare Exempts Muslims But Not Catholics

I lost three weeks of my life which I will never see again.  It's my own fault, I wasted it trying to make sense of socialized medicine by reading through the legislation known as obamacare from cover to cover.  I read it all, but most of it doesn't make sense.  Much like the moronic unfinished code that comprises the actual computer code that is obamacare-it is mostly gibberish.  Did you know that muslims are exempted from obamacare?  That's correct-you read that right.
The guy who had a book written for him claimed that if the winds ever turned against them-he would stand with the muslims.  He wasn't lying.  The religion of peace doesn't have to fork over a huge chunk of money that they don't have to buy inflated insurance for things that they don't need.  And they don't have to pay a fine for it.  Nice benefit for being a muslim, isn't it?
Of course, Catholic Schools, Hospitals and Universities are still required to provide abortifacients- but hey!-that's different!  That is only forcing them to go against their core beliefs by providing access to abortions and abortion causing drugs.  Why, that would be like forcing muslims to buy insurance.  Hey! Wait a tick-isn't that a glaring double standard there?
I have asthma, so I'll not be holding my breath on this one, will I?
Further horror stories are being released about the nightmare of obamacare, and in a delicious bit of irony, the useless Senator from Indiana, Joe Connelly, aka obama's number one fan, has released the tidbit that his own son is losing his coverage thanks to obamacare.  That my friend, is karma in action.
I gave my son the advice to pay the fine.  Avoid obamacare like the plague, and it turns out that a leading consumer magazine has done the same thing.  It is warning people not to even go to the website for obamacare, as it is plagued with problems that could become a problem for the computer that is visiting the site.  Also, the hackers and other ne'er do wells are attacking the people who visit obamacare.  Talk about the gift that keeps on giving.
Team obama knew that the site wasn't going to work three years ago.  They new as little as three months before the big launch that the site was going to be a huge cluster hump and they did nothing to stop it.  Not   one    thing.  Just like in Benghazi, no?
Call your elected officials and demand that they pull the plug on socialized medicine.  The scheme didn't work and we are trillions more poor because of it.  Trillions.  With a T.
I have suggested before that they stop obamacare and all of the cancelled insurance policies (that b.o. swore wouldn't happen) and all of the slashed hours (that b.o. swore wouldn't happen) and try it out on the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of our government.  Let the politicians, their families, and their employees and their families try it out and work out the bugs.  After five years or so, it should have the kinks worked out and it'll be ready for the rest of us.  Think about it.  You'll thank me later.

I'm Racist? Not so Much.

Is there anyone who doesn't know how I feel about Obama?  I cannot imagine that someone could peruse even two of my posts and not understand that I believe he is trying wholeheartedly to destroy our Republic.  He doesn't think like an American.  He doesn't act like an American, and until someone shows me differently, I agree with Sheriff Arpaio- he isn't an American.
But the reason for the introduction is that I am so very tired of those who would disagree with me simply attempting to dismiss me as a racist to belittle my opinion.  Racist, much like homophobe, has become the go to word when a person of liberal persuasion is trying to shut down a conversation.  This is political correctness run amok.
I don't care if you want to spend your life living and loving a person of the same sex.  I don't want to see it, though.  I surely don't want to support it with my taxes or subsidize it in any way.  As soon as the Boy Scouts made their heinous decision, I pulled my sons from scouting.  Luckily, my church is involved in a new program that will be much like scouting used to be.  The membership is ballooning, and best of all, no more worries about homosexuals having access to my children.
When I voiced this opinion in no uncertain terms on facebook-I was "unfriended" by a lesbian that I knew.  She is the friend of a friend, so to speak.  She "married" some woman in Canada about five years ago, and that lasted about ten minutes.  Then, without any sort of divorce or whatever it is that two homosexuals do when they decide to stop playing married, she moved on to the next one.  My avowed belief that marriage takes one of each caught her by surprise I guess.  You can read it in a post of mine- Another Lesbian writes me off.  It's one of my favorites.  But to get back to the point I was tenuously making, I'm not a homophobe.  I don't believe that God made anyone homosexual.  No more than he made them pedophiles.  I do think that people take the wrong turn in life, that sometimes people make horrendous choices.  I would put homosexuality on that list.
As for being racist?  That accusation is a swing and a miss as well.  I don't have a problem with any color of person, so long as they are honest, fair, and hard working.  I would never invite someone to move into my home so that I could work twice as hard and give them half of my things.  I won't do that with our borders, either.  In four simple words: anchor babies, go home.  But now that I have cleared the air with my anti-homosexual, anti-illegal alien rant, I'll call it a week.  Think about what kind of nation and what kind of world you want to leave your children.  You'll thank me later.