The Sequester: Living a Lie.

Don’t be fooled again. Your secretary of state, John Kerry speaking in Germany, told the world that “In America you have the right to be stupid – if you want to be.” Does he mean you? He’s counting on it.

So is Obama. If you want to please them, stop reading right now.

Are you quaking in your boots about the mysterious Sequester? Have you heard Obama saying everything is going to shut down: there won’t be police, there won’t be first responders, there won’t be air traffic control, people won’t be able to get their meds, we’ll have to fire teachers, and other educators, and meat inspectors.

To sock the point home, Homeland Security has released thousands of criminals awaiting deportation, and we’re not deploying an air-craft carrier to the Persian Gulf, where even you know all Hell could break loose any day now. If you’re scared, listen up.

Aside from the fact that this is jumping the gun, as the Sequester cuts in, the administration can do hundreds of things that will help and not hurt. Instead they choose to do the most offensive, dangerous, monstrous things, to convince you that you can’t live without the government.

To those of you who think we’ve come a long way baby, from Nixon to Obama, lets recognize that we’ve come full circle. We’re back to an Imperial president who cares only about himself, his party and his politics – the American people be damned.

Bob Woodward, has come out and called it “madness”. In case you young-uns out there don’t know your Watergate history, he’s the Washington press hero who spoke truth to power and brought down the Nixon administration. He’s a solid Democrat, and perhaps the most respected member of the mainstream press. He said that “… we now have the President … (saying) ‘I can’t do what I need to do to protect the country.’ That’s a kind of madness that I haven't seen in a long time.”

Do you know who invented the Sequester? It wasn’t the Congress, it was Obama. It was his idea that if the Reps and the Dems don’t get together and decide what cuts to make, some automatic ones will come into play. Next time you heard about it, if you watched them, was in the debates, when Romney tried to talk about it, and Obama, strangely, I thought, since it was his idea, waved him off twice, interrupting with, “That’s not going to happen,” once to him, and again as a smug aside to the audience as if to say: “Hey, look at this dummy. He thinks that it’s real.”

Then, in November, Obama said that he would do nothing to stop the Sequester; that there was going to be no easy way out of this one. Y’all are going to pay the price if those evil Republicans don’t get in line and do things my way. Sounds like he’s not on your side this time.

He wants the Sequester. He’s going to blame in on Republicans, even though they have offered many ways to prevent it. Even offered up a few budgets which Harry over in the Senate has refused to consider. (Congress hasn’t passed a legally required budget since 2009.)

Sorry, we’re not interest in preventing. We’re interested in getting rid of your party. All opposition must go so that Obama can live out his fantasies and run the nation as he sees fit. You may not like the Republicans, but right now they’re the ones standing between our form of government and an absolute monarchy.

When normal people are faced with not having enough money, what they try to do is cut out things that don’t hurt. Get rid of waste, unnecessary expenditures, luxuries. The Republicans have suggested things along these lines, but Obama will have none of it.

He’s like a family saying we’ll drink polluted water to save on the cost of bottled, while continuing to eat steak and lobster. Or saying that gas prices are so high that I won’t change my oil or keep my tires in good repair.

Whenever cities, and municipalities have to make cuts (and that happens all the time because just like you, they can’t print money) they try to do it in such a way as to not hurt the people. But this federal government is at war with the people.

For the Administration’s purposes, the Sequester has to be as painful as possible to as many people as possible. Obama is directing his agencies to do this. He wants you to feel the pain. Maximizing pain to prove a political point rather than minimizing pain to get our wasteful ways under control, is something an enemy, not a friend, would do. How else will you learn that you can’t do without ever-expanding government?

But most important of all is that even with the cuts, spending is going to be higher this year than last year, because – get this – they never cut anything. All they do is decrease the increase in spending. That’s all they are ever talking about. Amazing, isn’t it? It’s as if you were expecting a 10 percent raise this year, and instead, you got only a 5 percent raise, and went home to your family and cried that you got a 5 percent cut in your salary. Read that again; it’s hard; it’s got numbers.

This whole sequester is 2 percent of our several trillion dollar budget. You don’t think that really means we have to close down school lunches.

Even the furloughing of TSA people… they want you to think they’re all getting fired. No way. They’re going to be cut back to a four day week. You could do with that, couldn’t you? Do some stuff around the house, eat home, save on dry cleaning and gasoline… having the day off might actually save you money, and you’ll still have your health care and other perks.

Republicans have suggested getting rid of waste and fraud. Look around and find the loose change. How about fewer staff members for each of our half-thousand congressman? How about cutting a few percent out of Michelle’s travel expenditures? And if it comes to actual firing, how about some of those agency bureaucrats who do nothing but turn out endless new worse-than-useless regulations.

If we’ve come to the point where it’s impossible to make cuts, ask yourself this: Do you want to live in a country where everything in your life is totally dependent on the federal government? We have to make them stop spending the money. They wouldn’t spend their own this way, you can bet. They think they have endless funds. If we don’t make them stop, they’re going to suck us dry. Then there will be a lot more pain than that of a phony 2% decrease.

Hank Harwood Humbled

Did you watch it? Was he great? Was he beautiful? Was he sweet, sharp, appealing, confiding, encouraging, enthusiastic? Did he see all the problems and have a solution for everything?

He pleaded for support. He was charming. Endearing. No rancor, no racism. Obama’s got a new speech writer, and Cody Keenan is a GOOD one.

He said all the things about America that I learned at my mammy’s knee. He said she was great, and noble, that her people were hard-working and compassionate, that they took care of each other, that they cared. I’ve heard all these things before, from Republicans, but they sound so good coming from that lovely mouth, with those perfect teeth.

I’m so glad this guy is my president, instead of the one we had for the past four years. Thank God that guy is gone and we have this new, nice one. That other guy, did you notice? He was mean. He scolded us a lot. I felt like a bad person. I felt selfish, ungrateful. He would glower at me, and use his special “angry” voice. He was punishing.

That other guy, he never said anything good about America. He went around the world bad-mouthing her. Bad-mouthing us. He apologized for all the good things we did and called us imperial for doing them. He called us arrogant, and said we had to learn from the rest of the world. He spanked us in front of everybody.

The old one knocked big business. This one wants to start right away to prove there’s no better place to do business than the United States of America. Who needs a Republican with a Democrat like that?

That other guy didn’t lift a finger or lend an ear to our embattled ambassador in Benghazi. Just let him and his men die. This guy says he’s going to take care of Americans all over the world, and not let anything ever happen to any of them again.

That other one pretty much ignored Syria, but this one’s going to keep the pressure on.

The other one thought that rights are given by government, but this one wants to protect our God-given rights.

The other one burdened our kids with debt. This one says we should accept our obligations to future generations.

The other one talked about people who live here. This one talks about citizens.

That other one wanted to grant amnesty to illegals; this one wants to send them to the end of the citizenship line.

The other one made outrageous promises, but this one thinks our government shouldn’t make promises we can’t keep.

The other one thought that everyone should get the same. This one thinks that if you work hard and meet your responsibilities, you can get ahead.

The other one wanted top-down solutions. This one wants the government to encourage individual initiative.

The other one snubbed Netanyahu, but this one’s going to stand steadfast with Israel.

We’re going to fix the bridges at last. The other guy said he was going to fix the bridges too. He got over 700 billion dollars to fix them. And then he got it again, in each of the next three years. That’s over 3 trillion dollars, that was supposed to be fixing the bridges. And he didn’t do it. He gave it away to his friends to build gorgeous buildings for failing solar projects, and make electric car batteries that nobody wanted. Mostly, he paid off the unions that backed him.

The other guy was racist. He had an attorney general who said he wouldn’t prosecute black people. I wonder who this new guy is going to put in his place.

The other guy scorned Republicans but this one didn’t have a bad word to say about them – just counted them along with Democrats and Independents as another political group.

I feel so good. Out with the old! In with the new!

Aux Armes, Citoyens!

Let’s cut the crap. If the second amendment were about hunting, it would say, “Meat being necessary for sustenance, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.”

Instead, it says… Wait! Don’t go. It’s short. I know you think it’s complicated, maybe paragraphs or pages worth, but that’s not how they did things back then. Here it is. In toto. One sentence!

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

That’s it. I was struck, the last time I heard it, by the word “Militia,” because danged if it didn’t sound, and doesn’t look, a lot like the word, “Military.” Gee, could it be? I wondered, so I looked it up in my favorite dictionary, a giant block of thin-skinned pages, The Random House Dictionary of the English Language.

There were 3 definitions. The one that fits best is the third - a body of citizen soldiers, as opposed to professional soldiers.

The founders had just finished fighting a war for their freedom from the King of England. They’d had a bad taste of oppressive government. They did not want it to happen again, from the outside, or the inside. The Second Amendment was meant to insure against either.

There is no mention of self-protection, because there was no thought in anyone’s mind but that people needed guns to defend themselves, their children, their animals, and their land. That was their own business, but keeping a free country was everybody’s.

Old-fashioned, you say? We don’t need it anymore, the world being what it is today. And you know what? You say the same thing about free speech. We don’t need it anymore. People should not be allowed to voice their opinions if it keeps the President from instituting his agenda. Let’s get rid of Fox News and talk radio. They’re gumming up the works, making us unhappy with our rulers. We get all the news we need from NPR, MSNBC, and Media Matters.

The gun-control debate confuses three distinct, legal, and important gun-apps. Hunting, which nobody writing the constitution thought necessary to even mention, self-defense which everyone knows is an “inalienable”, and the armed populace to keep the free state secure. This last is why government, less interested in a free state than the founders had been, is so intent on “infringing”. It’s on the agenda all the time, and when tragedy strikes they exploit compassion and grief to induce us to surrender yet more freedom.

Shalom

Jews! This one’s for you. Where the hell are ya? Don’t you give a good god damn? What’s the matter with you?

Okay, I’m not a Jew; I should mind my own business. Well, maybe I would, if you’d mind yours. If you don’t mind yours, someone else has to, so I nominate myself.

Here’s what I think is wrong. You’ve gone soft, as Jews so often have in the past. Become complacent. Feel accepted. Feel Mainstream. Think things are as they ought to be. Feel safe. Well you’re not safe. Nobody is. But you least of all. Ever hear of History? Check it out. Bad things have happened to your people when they became complacent. Ever hear of the Holocaust? That wasn’t the first time. I know you know. Your parents told you. Your grandparents told them.

What do you do when you hear the word Jew-bastard? You pretend you didn’t hear. Yes you do. You talk a little louder to drown it out. Get a little happier. Where did those words come from? I plucked them from the lips of Hilary Clinton. Jews love Hilary Clinton. So she kissed Arafat’s wife. So what? That means nothing.

Then there’s Barack Obama. You didn’t accept Christ, but you do accept him. After all, Christ was one of your own – what did he know? But this man, Barack Obama, this man is a mensch. A black mensch – even better, because he allows you to prove you believe there is such a thing.

He doesn’t like you. It’s not his fault. He was formed in Muslim countries. He buys their view of things. He treats your representative, who I believe is one of your gems, like dirt. Bibi’s not your representative? He’s Israel’s? Pardon me if I laugh. You’re Jews, guys; you live or die with Israel. We don’t know yet if Barack Hussein Obama is taking the other side, or if Iran is just getting the nuclear bomb because he’s incompetent. But we may be finding out soon.

There’s Chuck Hagel, his anti-Semitic choice for Secretary of Defense. I’m not going to repeat all the monstrous remarks Hagel has made. You’ve got a computer. Google it. Don’t be afraid. Let yourself go. Find out what Hagel, who’s going to swear to defend you, thinks of you.

Oh, you say. That’s not what he thinks of me. That’s what he thinks of Israel. Well let me assure you, what he thinks of Israel, he thinks of you.

Obama’s your man; you helped put him in. Why don’t you speak up and tell him you don’t like the way the world is treating Israel? Are you afraid to, or has he brought you over to his side? Either way, you’re in bad shape.

It won’t do you any good to walk down the road whistling a happy tune and siding with Palestinians. The admin-media machine has a way of turning the populace against selected targets. When it comes to the Jewish issue, you’re the 1%.