Yeah he’s probably the loudest, most socially reactive President we’ve had in decades, but the wheels didn’t magically come off the country…
Continue ReadingHow To Pick This Year’s President
Many folks on social media are inundating me with political propaganda this month; I’ve been guilty of sharing a few tidbits myself and I get it: You want your candidate to win, or you hate both of them and want to revolt. The problem is that 90% of this stuff is pure garbage (or satire) from […]
Continue ReadingRepublican Party: On the Brink
Straddling the precipice seems to be where the Republican Party feels most comfortable this year. Between the elementary school playground slap-fights played out on the national debate stage to massive policy shifts by the party front-runner in a given day, there seems to be ample evidence that the Republican Party lacks both stability and integrity […]
Continue ReadingObama Sits Upon His Throne To Watch The World Burn
This President has abandoned this nation as no other before him has ever done. Carter? Obama outpaced Carter’s idiocy years ago.
Continue ReadingSpeaker John Boehner: A Spine At Last?
So now what? We’ve won the House again and the Senate… We still have the weakest leadership we’ve ever had and just because we have control doesn’t mean the same fools who squandered it before won’t turn around and do it all over again.
Continue ReadingMemorial Day: Promises Broken
The list of broken promises to our nations heroes is growing longer every day, the resignations within the VA will not raise those veterans who died at the hands of the own caregivers.
…And but for a proud few; as a nation we have yet to do anything but stand aside and watch it unfold… Unmoved, unstirred and apparently uncaring: United we stand, our integrity stolen, our honor besmirched, our heroes forgotten…
Continue ReadingOur Historic President
You know, when people across the country touted Barack Obama’s election to the Presidency as “Historic” I bet they never dreamed that this President would actually slap one third of the entire population right across the face and kill their medical coverage in one fell swoop…
Continue ReadingSpeaker Boehner: Deja vu all over again
I mean, how many times have we, the people been suckered by this very same bait-and-switch routine? Are we so willing to believe in the integrity of our public servants that we so blithely ignore the fact that this bill is nothing more than a con-man’s shell game? …Cave-man Boehner has once again lead the charge to certain defeat and our collective ruin by taking this budget compromise and attempting to shove it down our collective throats through intimidation and issuing threats against any republican politicians who stand up to him. Interestingly enough; in the process he has presented us with a very familiar and distasteful choice to make.
Continue ReadingObamacare: Faceplant on entry
You were warned of the impending failures inherent in the deployment of Obamacare: Warnings came from all directions, detailing missed deadlines and the lack of transparency preventing anyone from finding out just what progress was being made in all of the myriad of working pieces that make up the enormous undertaking of creating this (2x […]
Continue ReadingCave-Man: The demise of principled leadership in the House
Initially, conservative thought that we would finally see some real action on our behalf, some truly principled leadership such as we hadn’t seen since Speaker Newt Gingrich. Alas, that was not to be; we traded the daily vitriol of Speaker Pelosi for the boot-licking antics of John Boehner, and we still have Nancy Pelosi singing background to John Boehner’s never-ending surrender ballad.
Continue ReadingObamacare circling the drain
A while back (Mid 2012) I made several observations about the impending Obamacare and how it would negatively affect businesses as a whole and people individually. Let’s take a look today at where things are and how much of those predictions have come true: Businesses are declaring they will cut healthcare completely from their […]
Continue ReadingWhen good men do nothing: Speaker Boehner asleep at the wheel.
There is a time when good men should stand up and say enough is enough. Today, with new Government scandals coming to light every day, I thought that time had come to see this take place and like so many like me, I turned to the good people we elected to see if they would […]
Continue ReadingIdaho’s Insurance exchange: Giving the Feds a stick to beat us with?
Idaho has taken the first steps towards creating a health insurance exchange for the state, but many do not agree with this decision. Let’s take a look at how this looks to be playing out: The Federal government has yet to define the rules governing the creation of the state health insurance exchanges, or […]
Continue ReadingA comedy of errors: This week’s Obama gun control & child safety speech by the numbers
In his speech, Obama mentioned a number of goals and his office released the following list outlining those goals in more detail. So here’s the list and my take on what it means: Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background check system. Great. So […]
Continue ReadingBoehner retreats on taxes
Today, House Speaker Boehner sounded the clarion call for a full retreat on the conservative’s no tax pledge. According to Fox News and Politico, House Speaker Boehner has declared that if you make $1 million or more, you need to pay higher taxes. If you happen to work for one of those people, get ready […]
Continue ReadingDear Republicans: Get a clue!
Dear Republicans: Stop milling about as if your head has just been lopped off and find your backbone! OK, that may be considered a bit severe by some folks, but the message is nonetheless quite poignant for our current circumstances. Ever since the election, House & Senate Republicans have been falling over themselves in […]
Continue ReadingThe second 2012 Presidential debate: Eyeballing it from the cheap seats.
Do we truly need any further examples of media bias? Is there anyone out there who has not realized that journalists standards are sure and truly dead in the majority of media outlets in America today? I watched the debate Between President Obama & Governor Romney the other day and today I looked for […]
Continue ReadingPresident Obama’s double-eagle salute.
President Obama just flipped you the bird, now what? Today the Supreme Court ruled on the Arizona immigration bill. (found here: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/11-182b5e1.pdf) No surprises there: Some portions of the bill were struck down and one key provision was allowed to remain. What is surprising though, (Shame on me, I should know better by now right?) […]
Continue ReadingThe digital divide: The cause of poverty in America, or just the latest tscam on the poor?
Most of us have heard this claim: There exists a “digital divide” between the poor and the rich. Those who don’t have internet are getting farther behind those (the rich supposedly) who do because they don’t have access to the same internet tools that are (supposedly) so vital to their success. Let’s take a closer look […]
Continue ReadingIdaho’s backroom politics: Business as usual?
Last week, a bill requiring a sonogram for every abortion caused quite a stir. It brought activists from both sides of this topic out of the woodwork and into the streets in droves, but the bill itself made no sense at all, since sonograms are already required in order for doctors to determine the age […]
Continue ReadingAmerican Healthcare: Why so expensive? Where do we go from here?
So then we must ask ourselves: “What is causing our system of medicine to be more expensive than it should be?” And of course that leads directly into the next question: Where should we go from here? Now, certainly I am not a medical professional and this is an outline of my own thoughts and […]
Continue ReadingCuban Healthcare: A glimpse into our future?
What to do with Healthcare: Is our system of healthcare truly as broken as we are told, or is that only one side of the story? Some would argue that we absolutely must cover every person in America with some form of blanket healthcare coverage and inevitably a number of people will also pipe in […]
Continue ReadingIs your presidential candidate insulting your intelligence?
As I sit here, watching the news coverage of the GOP candidates, I am struck by the rather blithe coverage of what must seem to politicians as a way of life, but to me it seems somewhat surreal. The newscaster and pundits refer to one candidate or another as having trouble “Appealing to the conservative […]
Continue ReadingHedging your bets in 2012? (The cowardice of timed political endorsements)
Normally, when you hear from someone today about the Republican Presidential candidates, you you hear hedging and equivocation until very close to the end of the primary season. Why? Because nobody wants to be seen on the losing end and lose the public image of being an authority on all things political. Why else would […]
Continue ReadingOccupy [your city name here] Powerful movement for change, or pointless whistling in the wind?
Perhaps at some point when they (the Occupy Movement) begin to make actual sense and can articulate something other than “Rich people, bad. Give me their money!” Someone might take notice for some reason other than to fill a slow news day. So far, all I’ve seen during countless interviews is malcontents that have no […]
Continue ReadingUnpatriotic youth today? Really? In Idaho?
My letter to the Mayor of Eagle, Idaho: Dear Mr. Mayor, I am sincerely disturbed to learn that not a single day after being elected as the Mayor of the City of Eagle, you have already expressed publicly your ignorance of the community whom you serve. I am deeply saddened that you publicly regard […]
Continue ReadingThe wolf at your door. Is it your own employer?
A look at today’s job market from the inside: You’ve worked for one company for more than ten years and even in hard times it seems to continue growing. The pay is good; extremely good, until one day your email stops working. You call in to troubleshoot and find your account has been turned off and […]
Continue ReadingObama’s new Jobs Act. Will it work?
Someone asked today if I thought Obama’s Jobs Act would work. That got me to thinking… As I listened to his speech the other day I was impressed by how many things he said that sounded truly amazing. I thought to myself; “Has he finally found that bold new direction that will turn this around?” […]
Continue ReadingIs small business’s approach to healthcare turning into a full retreat?
I follow many discussions in LinkedIn, and one popped up the other day that really got me to thinking. With the economy taking top billing in the news every day and jobs nearly impossible to come by, How are businesses supposed to plan for the future? What started this whole topic was this posted article […]
Continue ReadingNet Neutrility: Why go there?
Why get the government involved? Why legislate the Internet with Net Neutrality? The impetus here was provided by a bit of tampering with the market by the ISP’s in order to undercut those like Vonage and Netflix (among others), who have been in that market all along because more people are consuming their services, causing […]
Continue Reading1984 Olympics Reagan Assassination attempt
He came home all agitated and upset, but at the same time excited. All of us were watching the Olympics on TV, but he stepped in front of the set and turned it off. “I have something really amazing to tell you. I just watched someone try to assassinate the President!”
Continue ReadingWho really supports a repeal of the 17th amendment?
I recently got into a discussion on this topic in the LinkedIn forums with Jeff Stucker.Here’s the text of our discussion: My initial question: Are we truly all that fired-anxious to abdicate voter control over senatorial appointments? Really? Contrary to the latest Tea Party talking points, repealing the 17th amendment actually does nothing to […]
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