bummer

Today is on a personal note, tonight is my last night working the wonderful overnight shift. It was less stressful and more enjoyable than the day shift, but all good things must come to an end. :( To put perspective on this, I was given a reminder that there are more important things, The son of a friend of mine was injured in a trampoline accident, his sister fell on him (he's 3, will be 4 in the fall) his left arm was broken, both the radius and the ulna. but it was able to be set without surgery and he will be fine. YAY.. Now off to go pout about my shift :)

better yet

interesting

I heard a bit about John Edwards claiming that the “Global War on Terror” is just an ideological doctrine promoted by the Bush Administration... I also heard part of a clip of him telling Bill O’Reilly that the dems would always stand with Bush on the War on Terror. I will get more details and maybe even audio/or video to compare and contrast what he is saying now, with what he said 6 years ago. The assumption that many can make is he’s in support of it when it was popular, but if it gets tough, then he jumps ship as fast as he can. Before I jump to that conclusion I will investigate. I do this at risk of at least one relative calling me a “Hater” It seems that to SOME liberals if you question their positions or the accuracy of their statements, then you must be a bigot or a hater. So much for tolerance J

On the other hand I hope we all take the time to reflect on Memorial day and honor the soldiers who gave their lives for our freedom, no matter what your political persuasion or stance on the current or any other war, these who have sacrificed all, made it possible for us to spout our opinions right or left, without fear of government retaliation or imprisonment.

Here's a link of John Edwards in 2001

I’ll try to put another post together specifically addressing Memorial day.

Amnesty

So is the so called plan for immigration good for us?  Honestly without securing the borders any other thing we do won't mean much.  I can't say that I have the answer, would it be costly and inconvenient to round up 12 million plus illegals? Yes, but should we reward them for coming here illegally? NO. I don't think having them pay a $5000 fine will work either. lets close the borders and make sure only those who come legally are coming in.  That may be impossible to completely do, but what can work is to deny assistance from the government, punish employers who hire them and those who give loans etc.  Take away the incentive to stay here and they may go back on their own.  Don't give me the argument that they are mostly law abiding people, they broke the law by coming here illegally so they are ALL law breakers. I'm not against immigration, bring them in, the ones willing to take the time and effort to come the proper way. So I guess I do have the answer, don't round them up. make it suck to be here and make the penalty for those who help them bad enough to cut it off. then have a good way for them to apply to come here legitimately.  now vote for me as president! (no don't, I don't need the stress)

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They are giving up?

What's the deal?  The Dems now say they are going to sponsor a bill to fund the troops without a timeline for withdraw?  They made their statement, which I don't believe said anything... My opinion ... Whether you agreed with going to war or not, we should fund the mission, because it has to be completed. We can't just give up and go home just because we don't like how its going. We had more soldiers die in a training mission during world war II, did we just say well too many have died, let's just pack it up? NO, we stuck it out. Now honestly I don't know if there were those politicians declaring our defeat during that time, but I would assume that people had enough respect for the office of president and for the military to not accept those who would play politics with the lives of our soldiers. You don't have to be a whole hearted war supporter to want us to win the war and then bring the troop home. Common sense does dictate that it doesn't do us any good to whimper about how bad it's going ( which I'm not convinced it is) and whine that we must bring them home... We can't become a nation of quitters, finish what you started and then come home.
Just to be clear, my hope is not in the Republican party, Government, conservative values or politics at all. My hope is in the creator of this world and His Kingdom that is coming soon.  Jesus come quickly!

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New Logo

So, today is fluff day. I have no desire to get into deep stuff today.  So just thought I'd make a logo for my blog site!!!

Biggest question of the day!

My biggest question today...... Is Lana really dead? Well I don’t know the other big question ... Is Chloe dead too? Those are at least at the same magnitude. Honestly Chloe is expendable, well in one sense, because she was not in the original story... Yes you’ve caught me, I’m talking about the only show I watch with regularity. Smallville. I’m sorry if you haven’t watched the Season Finale and I just ruined some of it for you. I’ll ponder more on this and figure out how I’m going to make it through a Bizarre summer. J

 

Approval/Disapproval

I hear over and over how low Bush's approval ratings are... Granted, I have issues with him, but as I've said before it's more that he doesn't do more of what he said he'd do. which obviously would tick off the left some more. I think Bush is not conservative enough in certain areas. The funny thing is, from the news to "The View" (I've seen it on occasion) all I hear is how low his approval rating is... or as they say his disapproval rating.... but they never mention the rest of the story. What I mean is.... the low approval rating that congress has... It has gotten lower since the Dems have started to do nothing or impede progress . They in fact have a lower rating that GWB. Read this Gallup Poll.

That's all I have to say on that. I think it speaks for itself.

activists/protesters convicted

I guess now that they are convicted we can call them protesters, the news article I read did anyway. KCRG even misspelled time in the headline, but that's not the point :) The judge thought trying to save soldiers lives was a good thing, but it didn't justify trespassing. I agree, wanting to save lives is great, but if you break the law doing it, then you should suffer the consequences.

This is a short posting today, oh well, I'll make up for that soon I'm sure.

BIAS?????

So would this be just a stupid mistake or a case of someones wishful thinking, being broadcast? Either way it really makes CNN look bad.

What happened to respect?

Interesting thoughts, why do people treat those who have different political beliefs like enemies?  I mean really, if I tell someone that I supported George W. Bush and voted for him twice, I start getting all this rage against him and me, it truly is an irrational thing to vehemently hate someone you don’t know. It’s immature to go all out and personally attack them too.  I have not seen this much bashing of anyone or at least to this extent.  The liberals who speak of tolerance and condemn people for “hate speech” seem to throw all that out the window when it comes to politics.  We are all Americans; for the most part we want to advance this country. Though there are some who seem to want to defeat it, those I will certainly take to task, but those who have a different idea of how to better this country, I can be open to discussion with.  I may not agree, but certainly won’t hate them. If you are seething with hatred for republicans and or Bush, you need to calm down, figure out why you are consumed with this hatred and give it up. That doesn’t mean scrap your opinions... unless they are deranged like thinking Bush caused 9/11/01, get real. Also the idea the Bush lied to get us to war.  He was using the same intelligence that the Dems were looking at and that President Clinton used to say the same things about Iraq, not to mention that most other countries agreed with it too (whether they agreed with going to war or not) If you still think he orchestrated all that, then you shouldn’t say anything against him, because being that powerful, you don’t want to mess with him. That also would disprove those who think he’s an idiot. Ok now that I have that out of the way... I love this country, I think defending it by securing our borders and defending it by war in other countries if necessary is a good thing. You don’t have to agree, that doesn’t make me think you are less American.  Disrespecting the President (of either party) especially as commander in chief, and rooting for us to lose a war, might make me question your patriotism. Respect seems to be a lost quality in America. Opinions can vary, but we should all treat each other with respect, unfortunately, those in Washington can’t seem to understand that either. They sadly have become a reflection of the country as a whole instead of being leaders.

Common Sense?

Do we not have any common sense anymore? We allow political games to be played by or politicians with the lives of our soldiers, we allow them to do the same with protecting our borders aka illegal aliens. Now in the news 6 people arrested for plotting to kill as many soldiers at Ft. Dix as they could. I actually heard someone call a talk show about this and say it was a bad thing the Circuit City employee reported this? WHAT?! He said this continues the bad practice of racial profiling, oh.... so because he saw video of apparent Muslims shooting weapons and shouting jihad slogans, he should have just thought to himself... gee that looks fun, just a bunch of fun loving Americans minding their own business. Hmm, How about do what he did, call police and let them look into it. If there was nothing to it, then it's over with. Obviously there was something to it and I'm glad this person reported it., and as Glenn Beck said today, We can hope all potential terrorists are this stupid. Now comes the revelation that at least three of the suspects are apparently here ILLEGALLY. Gee, I guess there might be a problem with this after all. No I don't think all illegal aliens will become terrorists, but never the less being here against the law is bad enough. Maybe this will spur people to wake up about this issue. Nah, the media who is feeding us what they want us to know hasn't really made a big deal out of it. which means it doesn't matter... Right? email me what you think about this and any of my blog entries

What do you want?

 

 

I was scanning headlines and one caught my eye, I’m not sure what the gist of the story was, but the headline itself made me think.  It was something Hillary Clinton said, Voters blame Bush for Iraq.  I’m pretty sure what I could imagine the story to say, but here’s what it made me think.

 

What do you want in a leader? Do you really want someone who voted for the war in Iraq and now speaks loudly against it, or just says we need a timetable for withdraw?  What kind of leadership is that? A leader makes the decision he/she thinks is best and sticks to that decision no matter if it’s popular or not.  Yes there is room for someone to have a change of heart, yes we can second guess the reasons why we went, but it is irresponsible to now suddenly say. “It’s too hard” and just give up... We used to have basic values that said, if you start something, finish it. These days, it’s if it’s too hard, pull out.  No one really likes war, and it is sad to see the soldiers die, by the way they know there is this possibility when they join the military, so let’s cut the bull about sending our KIDS into harms way. I keep hearing the dems and war protesters saying “support the troops... bring them home”  I agree bring them home, when they have finished their mission. I’ve heard many soldiers or family members of soldiers say “Don’t say you support the troops if you don’t support the mission” It just can’t work that way... We’ve gotten ourselves into Iraq, like it or not, agree with us being there or not, we are there and we must finish what we started... We can’t keep quitting when it gets hard, we will lose our way of life if we just cower in the corner and ignore the real threats that are out there... Do you want a leader that tells us we must be quitters?  Whether they voted for the war or not, we as a nation, must keep our commitments or we can’t be considered trustworthy. Just a quick look on the flip side, what kind of leader says they want something (like withdraw from Iraq) and then won’t back it up... Congress has the power to cut the funding for the war, they could cut it now and demand the immediate withdraw.  Why don’t they do that?  Because they know it’s the wrong thing to do, they are just using it as an issue for political gain, a practice which is just plain wrong. I want a leader that makes a decision, sticks to it, tries to right any wrongs, but just doesn’t quit because the going gets tough.. One who is more concerned with doing the right thing than what the polls tell them to do. Hopefully I will find that leader soon and hopefully that leader will be the next President.

Just what makes me think....

I often sit here thinking about what I might want to blog about, sometime, like right now, where nothing comes to mind. I told myself that I would try to do at least one post a week.... It usually is easy, I find some political thing, sometimes it's not political, but most of the time something comes to mind pretty quick. Tonight.... not so much. I guess I could say a lot about the war or the 2008 election, but gee that is a year and 1/2 away. I keep scouring the internet for news about the movie, "The Final Season" which was filmed in Cedar Rapids. last summer... It had its world premier at the Tribeca Film Festival.... They are still looking for a distributor.. I'm looking forward to it because My family and I took part as extras, my son is really hoping there will be a point where he will be seen. He would like to be a filmmaker, or I should say, he has begun his career, making some homemade films. His highlight of the "Final Season" was that he got to say "Action" and do the electronic clapboard. Well this has evolved from a complaint that I couldn't think of anything to write about into something. Well, I have fulfilled me duties of writing a new blog, it may be boring, but hey how much do I have to live up to, with a blog called, Jason's Stupid Opinions. Oh and I hate infomercials, which is all that is on broadcast tv right now.