Happy birthday Mr Reagan

I was born and raised a democrat. When Carter utterly failed to stand up to the Iranian monsters, I knew we needed some one diffrent at the helm. In 1980 I voted anyone but Carter. In 1984 I voted nobody but Reagan.
I do not regret it. America does not regret it. We have however forgotten what it is the democrats are all about. since 1976, they have not reinvented their party, only the slogans they use to mislead us.

Two pivotal moments in Reagans presidency. One was when he fired the Air Traffic Controlers. The Russians saw that and went uh-oh. The second was when he met Gorbachev at the White House. He looked rugged and ready. It was the first time his image was ever broadcast on Soviet TV. He looked great, and Gorbachev looked old and tired. It sent a message beyond words.
As for his speaking moments, he had quite a few. He rarely minced words. There was never a chance for some spin doctor to misrepresent what he conveyed. He did not speak like a politician because he was not a politician. He was a leader.
Happy 100th Mr President.

Listen to the voters?

Who do you think we are in Washington to represent?

With apologies to Hall and Oates


Making it up is all we know
Wasting tax dollars as we go
Waking up reality?
The blizzards all around aren't the weather we want to see
Broken ice still melts in the sun
And a house that was lost can be won again
We're fools alone
And reelection really matters to me
I should take a look around

You're out of touch
I'm out of line
But I'm out of my head when it voting time

Reaching out for a new lie to hold
Looking for change when the climate is cold
Health care reform and cap and trade dreams
No living in the middle between the party extremes
Listen to the voters? Not much
things would cool down if we didn't lie so much
We're fooling arround
And soul really matters to me
Too much

Interesting stats

More food for thought on Deer Reader and the Hell Care system.
H/T Rick

A recent "Investor's Business Daily" article provided very interesting statistics from a survey by the United Nations International Health Organization.

Percentage of men and women who survived a cancer five years after diagnosis:
U.S. 65%
England 46%
Canada 42%

Percentage of patients diagnosed with diabetes who received treatment within six months:
U.S. 93%
England 15%
Canada 43%

Percentage of seniors needing hip replacement who received it within six months:
U.S. 90%
England 15%
Canada 43%

Percentage referred to a medical specialist who see one within one month:
U.S. 77%
England 40%
Canada 43%

Number of MRI scanners (a prime diagnostic tool) per million people:
U.S. 71
England 14
Canada 18

Percentage of seniors (65+), with low income, who say they are in "excellent health":
U.S. 12%
England 2%
Canada 6%


Check this last set of statistics!!

The percentage of each past president's cabinet who had worked in the private business sector prior to their appointment to the cabinet. You know what the private business sector is ... a real life business, not a government job . Here are the percentages.

T. Roosevelt........ 38%
Taft......................40%
Wilson .................52%
Harding.................49%
Coolidge............... 48%
Hoover................. 42%
F. Roosevelt......... 50%
Truman..................50%
Eisenhower........... 57%
Kennedy.............. 30%
Johnson.................47%
Nixon................... 53%
Ford..................... 42%
Carter.................. 32%
Reagan...................56%
GH Bush................. 51%
Clinton ................. 39%
GW Bush................ 55%

And the winner is:

Obama............... 8%

This helps to explain the incompetence of this administration: Only 8% of them have ever worked in private business!

That's right! Only eight percent---the least, by far, of the last 19 presidents! And these people are trying to tell our big corporations how to run their business? They know what's best for GM, Chrysler, Wall Street, and you and me?

How can the president of a major nation and society, the one with the most successful economic system in world history, stand and talk about business when he's never worked for one? Or about jobs when he has never really had one? And when it's the same for 92% of his senior staff and closest advisers? They've spent most of their time in academia, government and/or non-profit jobs or as "community organizers". They should have been in an employment line.

Pass this on. We will NEVER see these facts in the main stream media!

Its Polamalu vs Mathews

Its the run up to the Super Bowl! Every time my lady friend sees either of those guys she insists they must be female what with all that hair.

This is tough. I like both teams. Troy and Clay are two guys I really enjoy watching. Both get their kicks putting the hurt on offensive players.

My heart is rooting for Green Bay, but my head says Steelers.

I'm going with my heart, Green Bay by four.

Green energy coming to Obamas home.

Kenya is building an ocean wave power generation system. At a cost of $650,000, it is cheaper than coal, gas, wind or solar. But there are only nine so far in the world, and a 1mw system is peanuts, comparable to the average bat beater we have here on hte plains. By comparison, jeffrey EC in St Marys produces in the neighborhood of 2.1gigawatts, or 210 times Kenya's crown jewell.
Wave generation may be cheap, its lower than coal by a third, but it has limitations. Power distribution is limited to the coastal regions, meaning we in fly over contrary are stuck with our coal.
Deer reader wants the US to generate 85% of all electricity from clean sources by 2035. At first glance, that would appear to mean solar, wind, or poof PFM, but even a nitwitt knows the only way to accomplish that here is to turn us into a third world shit hole. That would solve our illegal immigration problem, Mexico and Canada would build the fences to keep US out.
So, by including nuke and clean coal, he may have a chance. Kinda like the fellow who draws an X throught the bullet holes in the formerly blank paper. never misses the mark.
BTW, we are getting scammed, WE are the marks. He is teh Marx.

Lion Tamer

A circus owner runs an ad for a lion tamer and two people show up. One is an old retired golfer in his late 60's and the other is a gorgeous blonde in her mid-twenties.
The circus owner tells them, "I'm not going to sugar coat it. This is one ferocious lion. He ate my last tamer so you two had better be good or you're history. Here's your equipment -- chair, whip and a gun. Who wants to try out first?"
The girl says, "I'll go first." She walks past the chair, the whip and the gun and steps right into the lion's cage. The lion starts to snarl and pant and begins to charge her. About half way there, she throws
open her coat revealing her beautiful naked body.
The lion stops dead in his tracks, sheepishly crawls up to her and starts licking her feet and ankles. He continues to lick and kiss her entire body for several minutes and then rests his head at her feet.
The Circus Owners jaw is on the floor.. He says, "I've never seen a display like that in my life." He then turns to the retired golfer and asks, "Can you top that?"
The tough old golfer replies, "No problem, just get that damn lion out of the way."

What illegal imigration is costing us

WHY is the USA BANKRUPT?
Informative, and mind boggling!
You think the war in Iraq was costing us too much Read this:
We have been hammered with the propaganda that it was the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us.
I now find that to be RIDICULOUS.
I hope the following 14 reasons are posted over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them. 1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments.
2. $22 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education
for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!
5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.
9. $200 Billion dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal
aliens.
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 U.S.
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 USA from the Southern border.
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.
13. In 2006, illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances to their countries of origin.
14. The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One million sex crimes committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States. The total cost is a whopping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR AND IF YOU'RE LIKE ME, HAVING TROUBLE UNDERSTANDING THIS AMOUNT OF MONEY; IT IS $338,300,000,000.00 WHICH WOULD BE ENOUGH TO STIMULATE
THE ECONOMY FOR THE CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY.

Are we THAT Stupid?
YES, FOR LETTING THOSE IN THE U.S. CONGRESS GET AWAY WITH LETTING THIS HAPPEN YEAR AFTER YEAR!!!!!

Unfortunately, many of the links in the e-mail I received were messed up, and I could not sort them all out to make them all work. Google each item and see what you get. I did several of them.