Jumping ship?

What just happened in Iowa house of representatives is making me think... Ok a lot of things probably happened, but specifically Dawn Pettengill switching parties from Dems to the Republican side. I don't quickly jump for joy when that happens, I have to look at the reasons... It seems that the Dem leaders weren't surprised by her action, I guess politically for them it's best to say, Oh we saw it coming, she voted against our legislation anyway, in reality, it must tick them off, it cuts their majority which is slim anyway. She was known as one of the most conservative dems in the house. In looking at the quotes from her press conference, I think she was sincere and doing this after careful thought. She could no longer side with the liberal agenda they are going with in the dem led Iowa congress. Interesting apparently she said there are about 1/2 a dozen others considering the same. I personally don't like to see the Republicans regain anything this way, It should be through the electoral process, but can't begrudge anyone who has concluded they aren't represented by the Dems anymore wanting to get out. In reality, I think if the Republicans, locally and Nationally had not abandoned their message, but stuck to their principals (that is after all why they call them principals), they would have kept their majority in both state and national elections. so I'm mixed on this turn of events, but who am I.

Protestors or activists..... what's the dif?

“Activists” Occupation Justified..... comment on article from the CR Gazette.

11 “peace activists” who are in trial in Linn County for Criminal Trespass insist they were justified in staying at the federal courthouse in Cedar Rapids after hours on 2/26/07 because of the urgent need to speak to Senator Chuck Grassley about ending the war in Iraq. These “activists” are part of a group called the Occupation Project, an anti-war campaign of “sustained civil disobedience”

They say they were just participating in Democracy... First off, Senator Grassley doesn’t make the call to end the war or not, furthermore he wasn’t even at his office, he was out of the state and actually on a flight at the time. These Protesters... oops they don’t want to be called that, “activists” were told he wasn’t there and spoke to aides of the Senator. At 5pm when the courthouse was closing they were asked to leave... all but 11 of them did... What good reason did they have to stay after they had found out that Grassley was not there, nor was he coming there that day? Short answer... no good reason at all. They just wanted the publicity that it generated... I found it interesting that of those who were arrested almost half of them aren’t even from Iowa... most are U of I students, but I take it since they listed their residences as out of the state, Mr. Grassley is not even their Senator. I’m all for freedom of speech and can support the right to protest, but other than being a stunt to create publicity, there is no reason they had to stay at the courthouse after hours, since the one they claim they were trying to see was nowhere near the building. They should pay the penalty for their trespass.

Well

Insanity reigns in the USA. Pelosi and Reid's thugs waste time and make the military suffer for their stupid political ambitions... they have admitted this is all to try to retain power.. disgusting. I wish Bush would stand up for himself, If he was a communicator like Reagan was, he wouldn't be so low in approval ratings.. of course if he'd just stand up and kick butt in Iraq like we should that would help too. I'm happy for a surge, but it needs to be more of a stampede. Poor Rosie, I bet we won't know the real story why she's leaving, but It likely has something to do with her insane politics.. I don't care if you disagree,with the president, I do on many things, but if you recklessly accuse of things you have no proof of, that's where I have a problem. Apparently so does ABC.

I think Glenn Beck should run for president. He has great theories on where Pelosi and other leftists are from. more on that later.

Who should resign?

So, how screwed up can we be... they try to bring down Alberto Gonzalez for his role in firing federal prosecutors. The president has every right to fire them as he chooses. lets forget that, now who should resign? How about Harry Reid, one who can create scandal just by waking up, now has announced that we have LOST the war. Who the heck is he to determine that, and That is very close if not over the line of undermining our war effort (Treason) We should demand his resignation, in this mad dash to do that taking down Don Imus and whomever they are after next, why do they give a pass to jerks like this? I'll stop now, I'll put more up when I'm thinking more rationally and less with my emotion.. (that is a good subject to talk about soon, deciding things on emotion, especially political decisions, very scary)

Later

sad

It truly is saddening what happened at Virginia Tech. It is a shame the man responsible wasn't taken off the streets before this happened. I hope we stay away from politicizing this. We don't need anti-gun folks using this tragedy for their own gains. I will some day discuss my belief in the 2nd amendment, right now, lets just mourn.

Imus(t) confess.....

I've never been a Don Imus fan, too angry liberal for me, but you know what, I think that free speech applies to all sides of the political spectrum... Yes, we should allow him and Rosie and Al Franken to say stupid things, Just like the conservative media should be allowed to speak... I don't think CBS and MSNBC should have caved to a few protesters and fired Mr. Imus. If we let the free market (capitalism) handle it, we preserve free speech and don't create a climate of fear of being blacklisted... this fear is coming from the side of the aisle that claims to be against it... those who would say the red scare (communism blacklisting in Hollywood for example) was a bad thing are jumping on the bandwagon with this one. Let the audience decide if this is what they want to listen to... if not they will change the station and those who say the stupid things will be fired by the audience, not thugs. One more reason.... Do we think that stopping someone from sayin things that are inappropriate actually change the underlying problems? Of course they don't... at least if they feel free to say the things... we'll know where they stand.... and as I said the market will take care of them.

state of the world...

Oh well, at least the terrible oppressive United States will have someone to hold them at bay... Uh wait.... Ok. I'm over my momentary leftist insanity... (all that was a joke, except the leftist insanity) So, Iran says they are close to having the centrifuges to produce industrial grade enriched uranium... As I listened to Glenn Beck
He was talking about Iran and their nuclear ambitions, he has stated the last thing he wansts to see is us attacking them, but worse then that would be to allow them to become a nuclear power, we could be months away from them getting to the point where they could produce a bomb, which there is a point that you can still attack their nuclear sites and be ok, or if you wait too long you would create a new Chernobyl situation, so if it comes to it, we or Israel would likely take action. Not to do so would be suicide for either us or Israel. I would prefer that we don't start another world war either, but It is clear if you listen to Iran, they are at war with us and they have tested us and we may have flinched, (or at least England did on our behalf) which means they are emboldened to continue on their path. just an observation, I have no solutions at this point, either way we are going to have real problems, I guess right now the best thing to do would be to encourage sanctions, and hope the resistance in Iran is strong enough to revolt... We must be willing to support such action as well.


On a completely different subject, I'm amused at John Edwards Two Americas and his own hometown situation... read this Washington Times article. That's all for now. Whether I have something good to say or not, I am going to try to do at least one post a week, hopefully more.

Resurrection Day

Tomorrow is Easter, or a better word is Resurrection day... no matter the state of the world right now, I know my hope is in the empty tomb (James Cameron is wrong) Jesus spent 3 days and 3 nights in the heart of the earth (matthew 12:40) He died to take the punishment for ALL sin (he had no sin of his own) Easter is the day we rejoice in the fact (yes fact) that HE IS ALIVE!

Happy Easter and don't let the bunny followers fool you.. it's not about colored eggs and chocolates. (though I certainly enjoy both)

Who won?

Oh my.... did diplomacy win out this time or what? WHAT?!?!?!?!?! Oh I know it looks sooooo good to the lefties who hate war (by the way who really likes war?) and do all they can to avoid it, basically like Europe did when Hitler was trying to introduce us all to the German language. Appeasement never works, ok it does in a short sighted, short term way. In the long run, does opening "Dialog" with terrorists and hostage takers really produce peace? Iran captured Brittish sailors, kept them as prisoners (hostages) and everyone in England got ticked at President Bush for calling them hostages, even our media couldn't handle it. We are so bent on not offending anyone, we (westerners) will sell out our own military people for avoidance of conflict. Apparently these sailors were not that important. I heard 48% of Brittons were against military action even as a last resort in this situation. (WAKE UP!) This was a test to see how much resolve the world has to prevent Iran from doing whatever it wants... and who passed this test... NO ONE, well except Iran. There are other opinions as to why this ended, which MAY be at least on the part of the U.S. a fairly good sign. read this NEWSMAX article. If you think the diplomacy strategy is a GOOD idea, I'd sincerely like to hear why. I'm not interested in just name calling or attacks, but if you have a logical argument as to why it was a good thing that England handled the situation the way it did, I'd be glad to entertain the idea. email me at jason@stupidopinions.info CYA (later on traitors going to Syria)