<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417</id><updated>2012-02-19T14:26:09.930-08:00</updated><category term='http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif'/><title type='text'>Ray's Shorts</title><subtitle type='html'>Not your usual blog. A series of short, pithy comments on the world from an objective (not Objectivist) view usually without the usual links to other sources. I'll include links when I can. This blog was originally on Word Press/Blogivists, but it disappeared suddenly so I moved it here. It has come back there, but it's too late.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>626</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-3340967585522676620</id><published>2012-02-19T14:22:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-19T14:26:09.944-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Iran Says: "Let's Talk"</title><content type='html'>And our ignorant politicians dance for joy. Iran thinks our politicians are stupid, and they’re right. N. Korea used the same “let’s talk” scam and what happened? They now have their own nukes. We’ve fallen for this scam over and over again, and no amount of telling our ignorant politicians this will get through their thick skulls. We talk and talk and talk, and the result is what the enemy wants to happen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;HOMEGROWN TERRORISM:&lt;/span&gt; We had ONE case of terrorism by an American last year; but this year we had TWELVE. They call it “homegrown terrorism,” but those found to be the perpetrators seem to all spout the same things Islamic terrorists spout when caught. Does that tell you anything about the origin of their thinking? It tells me a lot. And we’re allowing it, right under our noses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;DOESN’T WORK FOR SANTORUM:&lt;/span&gt; Foster Friess doesn’t work for Rick Santorum. He’s not one of his volunteers. His only connection is as a CONTRIBUTOR to a PAC that gives money to the Santorum campaign. Santorum has NO responsibility for things he says. If Democrats have nothing more than that to throw at Santorum, I feel sorry for them. They must be very desperate. They have NOTHING.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;KEEPING HIS CONSERVATISM SECRET:&lt;/span&gt; Democrats say Santorum has done nothing to “keep his conservative views secret.” What the hell are they TALKING about? Conservative views are something to be shouted from the rooftop, not kept secret, as are those views held by Democrats.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;NO PUNISHMENT:&lt;/span&gt; There’s no punishment for violating the Constitution unless somebody gets the GUTS to do something about it. Until they do, Obama will continue to violate it with abandon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ANY DEFENSE?&lt;/span&gt; People ask if the Republicans have ANY defense against Obama? They must have not been listening as Obama time after time violated the Constitution and spent like a drunken sailor (apologies to drunken sailors, who are at least spending their own money). They didn’t even notice how much of their children and grandchildren’s money he has spent. Or about the many rights he has usurped.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-3340967585522676620?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/3340967585522676620/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/02/iran-says-lets-talk.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/3340967585522676620'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/3340967585522676620'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/02/iran-says-lets-talk.html' title='Iran Says: &quot;Let&apos;s Talk&quot;'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-8789199351883268242</id><published>2012-02-18T15:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-18T15:38:36.624-08:00</updated><title type='text'>What Good is the FDA?</title><content type='html'>Every day we hear about yet another FDA approved drug that is killing people. What’s WRONG with them? They add millions of dollars and years of delay in distribution of live-saving drugs and STILL too many killers get through. Meanwhile they allow deadly killers to be distributed and they bear no responsibility for those unnecessary deaths. Why?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WE’RE DOING IT TO OURSELVES:&lt;/span&gt; Americans will not pay the high prices required to manufacture goods in this country, so we go to other countries that do not have the unnecessary charges manufacturers must pay in this country in order to make them here. Expenses such as excessive union agreements, like the $30 an hour that has been paid to auto workers to spend their days turning one screw over and over. And they wonder why communist china has “cornered” many markets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;CUT THE DEFICIT IN HALF IN HIS FIRST TERM?&lt;/span&gt; Obama promised to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. He didn’t even come close! Instead, he TRIPLED it or more. He spent more money than there IS! What the hell is WRONG with this fool? But he doesn’t answer questions about why he hasn’t lowered the deficit as he promised. Or he lies and says he has or blames it on what he calls “a bigger recession than any of us thought.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“IT’S NOT MY FAULT”:&lt;/span&gt; This is now Obama’s economy, but he will not admit it. He still blames Bush for everything, even though he has been president for almost four years. Nothing is his fault; it’s all Bush’s fault, or the fault of other presidents before Bush.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WHAT ARE HILLARY’S QUALIFICATIONS?&lt;/span&gt; They’re talking about appointing Hillary Clinton as head of the World Bank after the current head steps down. What makes her qualified for the post among all the other people with better qualifications? For that matter, what qualified her to be Secretary of State? Some of these Obama appointments mystify me in their stupidity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;HE’S IN FOR IT NOW:&lt;/span&gt; Santorum is now the front-runner in the Republican primaries. As a “come-behinder,” he has escaped much of the criticism Romney and Newt have endured. But now he is  front-runner, he will soon be fielding criticism the like of which he has never seen before against him. It’s starting now with the claim he’s not the conservative he claims to be.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-8789199351883268242?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/8789199351883268242/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/02/what-good-is-fda.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/8789199351883268242'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/8789199351883268242'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/02/what-good-is-fda.html' title='What Good is the FDA?'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-7948056472694083481</id><published>2012-02-16T15:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-16T15:23:29.901-08:00</updated><title type='text'>They Think They're Owed It</title><content type='html'>The trouble with governments giving things to their citizens at the expense of other citizens, as our government is doing in ever-increasing amounts, is that soon you run out of other people’s money and have to “take the goodies back.” When you do, the people you’ve been giving things to, who now consider that their due, will fight you, as they are in Greece right now; as they did in France a few years ago. Another few years and it will happen here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;CONSIDER THE SOURCE:&lt;/span&gt; Obama is setting up a “truth team” by telling people to let him know about any lies (as per his definition) told about him so he can “deal with it.” Only problem is, who decides what is lies and what is truth? Obama or his people, of course. The biggest liars on this Earth today; at least in this country. I expect to hear from his people any time. People will believe him or his people because they’re “the government,” of course.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ALL THEY WANT IS THE NAME:&lt;/span&gt; All the controversy over the “gay marriage” thing could be solved simply by gays accepting what amounts to exactly what they want, except they don’t call it “marriage.” They’ve been offered everything they want except the name “marriage,” many times. They’ve refused it every time if the word “marriage” doesn’t go with it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;1.8 MILLION DEAD PEOPLE REGISTERED TO VOTE:&lt;/span&gt; That’s according to the Pew Center. How many of those do you suppose are Democrats, do you suppose? And I’d bet a large percentage of them lived in Chicago. Not only that, 24 million registrations are fraudulent or incorrect (probably on purpose). This is how Democrats stay in office with all their abhorrent policies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“NO PEACE WITHOUT AID”:&lt;/span&gt; That’s what the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt is telling us. Sounds like blackmail or extortion to me. But they won’t call it that, and nobody over here will, either. Except for intelligent people like me, and who listens to me? Think about it: the Islamic terrorists take over in Egypt and violence intensifies. Then they say, “Give us money or the violence will continue.” That’s patent extortion, isn’t it? If you’re intelligent, you realize it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WORDS THEY HATE:&lt;/span&gt; Santorum is telling the “Occupy Everywhere” fools to “get a job.” Of course, the typical response is, “Easy for you to say.” But if these fools would spend nearly as much time looking for a job as they do being obnoxious, they’d soon find one. Maybe not one paying $50,000 a year, but I see “help wanted” signs all over the place.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-7948056472694083481?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/7948056472694083481/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/02/they-think-theyre-owed-it.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/7948056472694083481'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/7948056472694083481'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/02/they-think-theyre-owed-it.html' title='They Think They&apos;re Owed It'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-1160671268685939064</id><published>2012-02-15T13:34:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-15T13:38:38.110-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Is Iran Targeting Israel?</title><content type='html'>What a STUPID question! Israel says yes. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;So does Iran.&lt;/span&gt; Iran has been talking about “pushing Israel into the sea” for many years. Yet people still ask the QUESTION, “Is Iran targeting Israel?” Are they just stupid, or have they got their blinders securely on?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;NO POWER:&lt;/span&gt; Obama has NO POWER to “order” the Catholic church to provide, at their expense, contraceptives and abortion, OR to ORDER insurance companies (paid for by the Church) to do so. There should be a punishment for a president issuing unconstitutional orders. There is: impeachment. But that requires somebody with “intestinal fortitude” (guts) to bring those charges, and the same on more congresspeople to make it happen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“CHAMPION OF CHANGE”:&lt;/span&gt; Carolyn Buhm, Community Relations Specialist for the city of Denver, Colorado, has been named “Champion of Change” by Obama. That’s about as meaningless as was Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize for NOTHING he ever did, but for what they figure he WILL do. What a bunch of FOOLS we have in places of importance!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;DEMOCRATS ARE ECSTATIC:&lt;/span&gt; The Republicans are ripping each other to shreds in front of the world and giving the Democrats a lot more material than they ever should have had. Meanwhile the Democrats are “sharpening their swords” for the general election, using revelations the Republicans gave them in the primaries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;TAKING IN TOO MUCH TERRITORY:&lt;/span&gt; In N. Carolna, a school sent a note home to a student’s other telling her she didn’t send the right stuff with her child for lunch. They told her that her lunch “didn’t meet state standards and  SOLD her a tray of food (which included chicken nuggets) for which they will charge the mother $1.25, while thousands of other children eat FREE. Where the hell does the government get off telling people what to pack for their children’s lunch?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;THE BANK’S FAULT?&lt;/span&gt; Obama is now instituting a new department at the cost of millions to “investigate” and make sure they don’t again do what caused this economic slowdown. How is that possible? They only did it on the ORDERS of the feds under pain of an expensive “investigation.” Now they get that “investigation” anyway.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-1160671268685939064?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/1160671268685939064/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/02/is-iran-targeting-israel.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/1160671268685939064'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/1160671268685939064'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/02/is-iran-targeting-israel.html' title='Is Iran Targeting Israel?'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-210338631154488241</id><published>2012-02-14T13:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-14T13:22:47.572-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Where The Hell Does He Get Off?</title><content type='html'>Tricky Dickie Lugar, congressman from Indiana, for whom I used to work when he was mayor of Indianapolis, says “If you don’t like the gun ban, you lack common sense.” What? What makes “Tricky Dickie” think he has the brass ones to say who does and who does not have “common sense?” Actually, it’s those who think making a law against gun ownership will stop criminals from having guns when they break laws for a LIVING that have no common sense. I know “Tricky Dicky” and he’s always been a FOOL. I see he hasn’t changed a bit. Once a fool, always a fool.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ANOTHER CZAR:&lt;/span&gt; Obama is appointing a “shakedown czar” to “regulate” banks to make sure they don’t make the same kind of “predatory loans” the “Community Reinvestment Act” FORCED them to do. And I’m sure they will be able to grant “waivers,” too. Yet another power grab based on a LIE. Obama is slowly “taking over” all facets of our lives while nobody notices. Like the frog in the slowly boiling water.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WATCH THE OTHER HAND:&lt;/span&gt; “Magicians” focus your attention on one hand while doing the trick with the other. That’s what Obama is doing with his “Attack” on the Catholic church. He hopes to keep us focused on that while he continues to spend money like water as the election approaches.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PRO ABORTIONISTS SAY ;IT’S FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS: &lt;/span&gt;But it’s not. Abortion is DEATH to an innocent infant who never gets a chance at life. Pro-abortionists are the best argument for retroactive abortion of some people. Death is death, and pro-abortionists are FOR death to infants. That’s infanticide and MURDER—and that’s not arguable to people with any degree of INTELLIGENCE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WHAT IS SUCCESS?&lt;/span&gt; Success is accomplishing what you set out to do. Under that definition Obama has had an unbroken string of successes. Unfortunately, under mine (and that of most people of intelligence), they’re failures. Like Rush said, I hope he FAILS at everything he tries to do so this country can survive his presidency.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WHY NO BUDGET:&lt;/span&gt; I think I’ve figured out why Obama’s administration hadn’t passed a budget, even though he is required to do so by law. He is able to just PRINT all the money he needs, so what’s the need for a budget? If he needs more money, he can just PRINT it. When you have an unlimited money supply, why bother passing a budget?&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-210338631154488241?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/210338631154488241/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/02/where-hell-does-he-get-off.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/210338631154488241'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/210338631154488241'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/02/where-hell-does-he-get-off.html' title='Where The Hell Does He Get Off?'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-4751598265403749690</id><published>2012-02-12T13:10:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-12T13:14:07.429-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Ginsberg Is A Damn Fool</title><content type='html'>Ruth Bader Ginsberg swore to “uphold the Constitution of the United States” when sworn in as a Justice in the supreme court. Advising other nations to look elsewhere for help in writing their own constitutions is NOT “upholding” OUR Constitution. She should be impeached for cause.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;I JUST DON’T CARE!&lt;/span&gt; So Trump endorses Romney. So what? I don’t care what other people think about ANY candidate. I don’t use that to make my decision on who should get my vote. I research the candidate and see what he/she DOES; and I WATCH to see what he/she actually DOES. Not what he/she SAYS he/she will do. I don’t believe ANYTHING said in a political ad because it’s usually a lie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;OBAMA SAYS: “DON’T MUCK UP THE ECONOMY!”&lt;/span&gt; We can’t! Obama’s already beat us to it by spending more money than there IS, while gaily printing more every day, calling it “Quantitative Easing.” What FOOLS he must take us for!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;KOMEN CAVES:&lt;/span&gt; They first announced they would no longer be giving money to Planned Parenthood because it was “under investigation.” Then Planned Parenthood, which has come to believe that money BELONGS to them, “put out a hit” on the Komen Foundation and the foundation, being unable to stand the “heat,” folded.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;THE “FAST &amp;amp; FURIOUS “INVESTIGATION”:&lt;/span&gt; What investigation? The only “investigation” that appears ANYWHERE in the news is Issa’s committee in the House, which has, and will come to nothing. The only thing the AG is doing is “covering his ass.” If he ever finds the REAL culprit and not a scapegoat, I’ll be surprised.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;DON’T RE-ELECT THIS FOOL!&lt;/span&gt; Obama (and a lot of other Democrats) seem to think Obama is going to win re-election by a landslide. Not so! If he wins by ONE vote it will be a disaster. This country cannot survive another four years of Obama’s lies and moves toward socialism.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-4751598265403749690?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/4751598265403749690/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/02/ginsberg-is-damn-fool.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/4751598265403749690'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/4751598265403749690'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/02/ginsberg-is-damn-fool.html' title='Ginsberg Is A Damn Fool'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-1872803072651867690</id><published>2012-02-11T16:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-11T16:08:59.939-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Count On Obama</title><content type='html'>Bush started negotiations to open 38 million acres to oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and it was “put on hold” when Obama stopped all drilling in the gulf after the BP oil spill. Now it is being resumed and Obama is taking credit for opening up that oil drilling as if he started it. What an opportunist!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;THEY’RE REALLY STUPID:&lt;/span&gt; I just Googled J. J. Johnson, former owner of the Sierra Times, for which I used to write. One of the articles that came up concluded ST was a “liberal screed.” How do you deal with such stupid people? Anybody who ever read ST knows it was a CONSERVATIVE screed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;HOW STUPID ARE THEY?&lt;/span&gt; It’s STUPID to tell your enemy you’re going to “pull out” on a date certain in the future so they can just “hide out and wait” and start killing again as soon as you leave. This is Obama’s “modus operandi” in war. This is why we’ve been losing wars steadily ever since the liberals have been running them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;THE MAJORITY RULES:&lt;/span&gt; Why hasn’t Senator Grassley done something about “Fast and Furious” beyond asking questions that haven’t been answered? Because his party (Republican) is in the minority and he can’t. So why is it set up that way? Why can’t a member of the minority institute an action against a member of the majority party? It has always been thus, and will probably always BE thus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;3 MILLION JOBS? &lt;/span&gt;Where? Obama says he’s created 3 million jobs, but he can’t tell us where they are. This guy lies and lies and doesn’t care if anybody believes him or not. He just goes on as if you do. What a FOOL we’ve got with his butt in the office chair in the “Offal Office.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WHAT HAVE WE DONE?&lt;/span&gt; Why did we elect such a stooge to the White House? Why did we elect so many people like him to the Congress (Samuel Jackson says he voted for hm just because he's black)? Why didn’t we ask more questions of him when he was just a Senator running for the presidency? Why did we nod our heads and say “yes” when he made such stupid claims as to “lower the sea level?” Why do we do such things? I didn’t. I did not vote for this FOOL and I did not vote for Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter either. But they got in anyway. Why?&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-1872803072651867690?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/1872803072651867690/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/02/count-on-obama.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/1872803072651867690'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/1872803072651867690'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/02/count-on-obama.html' title='Count On Obama'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-1255569614914922988</id><published>2012-02-09T13:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-09T13:10:04.032-08:00</updated><title type='text'>"Old Constitution" Outdated?</title><content type='html'>The ultra-liberal New York Times says “The ‘old Constitution’ is outdated for not guaranteeing today’s ENTITLEMENTS. What ARROGANCE and stupidity to even THINK the Constitution should be used for institutional THEFT.  NYT is “slowly fading away,” and I think they should “fade away” faster with every stupid comment like this one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;NO “LIVING DOCUMENT!”&lt;/span&gt; The New York Times thinks the Constitution is a “living document” that can be changed at will by politicians of the time, WRONG! The Constitution was written to be THE guidelines on ALL of our laws for an eternity. There is a specified way it can be changed if part of it DOES go “out of date,” within the document itself. Any attempt to change it without using that process is ILLEGAL, and IMMORAL, and should be prosecuted if anybody has the backbone to do so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SO IMPORTANT:&lt;/span&gt; Did Rush Limbaugh actually pick his nose at the super Bowl? Who cares? Liberals care. They think anything they can use to poke fun at a famous conservative is VERY important. More important than Iran getting nukes; more important than Obama spending more money than there IS while moving us ever closer to socialism. Somebody needs to give them an “attitude adjustment.” They're ever alert to find things to discredit him, important or not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;BUT HE DOESN’T TELL IT ALL:&lt;/span&gt; Obama is running against the Congress, calling it a “do-nothing Congress.” But the REASON it is a “do-nothing Congress is that the Democrats in the Senate, where the Democrats still have control, will not allow ANY of the MANY House-passed provisions to be voted on. This is typical Obama. Cause a problem, then blame it on someone else. If Obama would tell the Democrat-controlled SENATE to “end the logjam,” maybe Congress could DO something.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SANTORUM NOW THE TARGET:&lt;/span&gt; After winning three events in one day, Santorum is now an official target for everybody: Republicans and Democrats alike. Watch for the negative ads from both sides against him to increase exponentially. They’ve left him alone up to now because they didn’t really take him seriously.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;CHILD ESCAPES KIDNAPPER:&lt;/span&gt; Seven year-old Brittney, who was taught how to get away from somebody who was trying to kidnap her, did it the other day when she was “grabbed” in the toy department of a Wal-Mart store. He thought it would be easy to just “grab her and run” until she kicked him in the crotch and almost “unmanned” him. He screamed and let go, and she ran. So did he, but he did run funny. The cops found and arrested him soon after. Good on ya, Britney!&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-1255569614914922988?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/1255569614914922988/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/02/old-constitution-outdated.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/1255569614914922988'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/1255569614914922988'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/02/old-constitution-outdated.html' title='&quot;Old Constitution&quot; Outdated?'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-7459984372740902190</id><published>2012-02-08T14:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-08T14:24:17.589-08:00</updated><title type='text'>You Will Have No Rights</title><content type='html'>All it takes is for a fed or even a local cop to “deem” you a terrorist for you to lose our rights and be sent to Gitmo for a term only they can decide. No court; no proof is necessary and there is no “guideline” on just what constitutes a terrorist. Nor is there a “system” you can use to prove you’re not a terrorist. You’re guilty until proven innocent. Forget the constitutional principle of “innocent until proven guilty.” They don’t care about that, and it no longer applies, according to the feds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;EASTWOOD SAYS WE “GET BACK UP”:&lt;/span&gt; He says it’s the beginning of the second half and we will not only get back up, you will “hear our engines.” But only if we rid ourselves of our weakest point: the fool in the White House. I think Obama put Eastwood up to this misleading Super Bowl ad, and it pains me that WE spent millions of dollars to run it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;EGYPT IS THE NEW IRAN:&lt;/span&gt; Egypt has been “taken over” by Islamic extremists and Obama still hasn’t realized it. He still thinks Egypt is now a “democratic” country, ignoring the fact that the “Islamic Brotherhood” won so many seats in Egypt’s government that Islamic extremists are now in control. And, like Iran, they will do all they can to “tweak our nose” every chance they get.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SANTORUM FINALLY GOT IT ON:&lt;/span&gt; He won in Colorado, Missouri, and Minnesota, all at the same time, thus showing the muscle nobody saw before. I like Newt, but I lost confidence in his judgment when he sat on that couch with Nancy pushing the global warming swindle. Romney is a “closeted” liberal. So maybe Santorum is the answer. I sure hope so, so we can get rid of that fool in the White House before he finishes destroying this country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MADDOW DISSES ANTI-ABORTION PEOPLE:&lt;/span&gt; NBC brought her in to discuss the hooraw over Obama’s high-handed and illegal mandate for Catholic hospitals to provide birth control and, of course, she “dissed it,” saying it was “a pretty far-right perspective” and “anti-abortion politics.” On the second point she may be right. “Anti-abortion politics” may be the only thing that saves the lives of countless unborn, innocent infants from their infanticide (a/k/a: murder). Abortion is MURDER, no matter how much they may ridicule people who say otherwise. It “stills a beating heart.” Maybe somebody should have aborted Maddow. Is there still time?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;EVEN CHRIS MATTHEWS:&lt;/span&gt; Obama’s birth control mandate is so FAR OUT THERE, even Chris Matthews, who almost had an orgasm once while listening to his hero speak, is criticizing him for it. I think it’s a big mistake on Obama’s part. It will turn ALL Catholics against him when he needs every vote he can get. One wonders at his sanity for doing this now, just before an election to decide his political fate. But I'm cheering him on to his own destruction.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-7459984372740902190?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/7459984372740902190/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/02/you-will-have-no-rights.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/7459984372740902190'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/7459984372740902190'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/02/you-will-have-no-rights.html' title='You Will Have No Rights'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-6662155140662320761</id><published>2012-02-07T12:45:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-07T12:50:50.525-08:00</updated><title type='text'>More Votes Than Residents</title><content type='html'>It’s that way often in Nevada, and was when “Dirty Harry” Reid was elected. It always seems to benefit the Democrats in the race—or in the Republican primary, the most liberal of Republicans, Mitt Romney.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;LOOKS LIKE IT’S GONNA BE ROMNEY:&lt;/span&gt; And that’s a shame; we need to WIN this election more than any in my memory, and Romney is the “next in line” to get the Republican nomination, as McCain was, and as Dole was. That neither were electable didn’t seem to make any difference to the GOP. The Republicans are masters at nominating losers, as they have proven in many of the last elections.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“GIVING YOU RIGHTS”:&lt;/span&gt; The government tells you they can “give you rights.” But when they do, they tell you how to EXERCISE those “rights.” Don’t buy their bullsh-t. It’s always bad for you and everybody else. Government doesn’t “GIVE” rights. They can only RECOGNIZE rights that are naturally ours. What they’re telling you is a LOAD!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;COCKY BASTARD:&lt;/span&gt; AG Holder thinks people from Idaho (“or wherever you’re from”) aren’t smart enough to question him, and he said so when he plainly insulted the Member of Congress who was questioning him about his criminal lack of knowledge of what was happening in the “Fast &amp;amp; Furious” scandal. This is how elite liberals ALL think. “Nobody is smart enough to question them.” If they do, just insult them and they'll shut up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;CUT OFF KOMEN:&lt;/span&gt; I didn't know the Komen Foundation was giving a lot of money that COULD have been dedicated to curing breast cancer to Planned Parenthood, an outfit dedicated to murdering unborn infants. So I guess it’s time to take Komen off my list of foundations I would donate money to. If they’re channeling money to Planned Parenthood, they don’t deserve ANY support.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;53 MILLION BABIES MURDERED!&lt;/span&gt; Since Roe vs. Wade was enacted, America has murdered 53 MILLION of its helpless infants before they have a chance at life. How many potential geniuses have we killed? I’m not against contraception INSTEAD of murdering LIVING fetuses. Mostly it’s done for the CONVENIENCE of careless people who won’t use rubbers or other means of contraception when having sex.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-6662155140662320761?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/6662155140662320761/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/02/more-votes-than-residents.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/6662155140662320761'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/6662155140662320761'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/02/more-votes-than-residents.html' title='More Votes Than Residents'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-7686102063127227940</id><published>2012-02-05T15:47:00.003-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-05T15:55:09.748-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Obama's 50% Approval Rating</title><content type='html'>Obama’s approval rating approaches 50%. Does anybody wonder why? Maybe the fact that his approval numbers are almost identical to the percentage of people who receive a government check every month might have something to do with it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;LOTS OF LOST JOBS:&lt;/span&gt; “News Busted” anchor Jodi Miller said that Treasury Secretary Tim Geitner has announced he is resigning at the end of the year. She and I both have a feeling other job holders such as Barack Obama and Joe Biteme won’t be back, either, along with a lot of other liberal Democrats.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;TAX CHEATS:&lt;/span&gt; Speaking of tax cheats, government employees are the worst of the bunch, maybe because they figure the current administration won’t come after them because most of them are in the tax hole, too. They owe a total of THREE BILLION DOLLARS. But don’t expect to see this reported in the liberal media.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;HER JOB IS DONE:&lt;/span&gt; Secretary of state Hillary Clinton has said she, too, will resign soon. Mexico is now run by drug cartels, Egypt is now in the hands of Muslim extremists, and Iran is soon to have a nuclear bomb. I guess her work IS done.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WHY ROSIE IS GAY:&lt;/span&gt; Jodi also put my mind at rest about another thing: Why is Rosie O’Donnell gay? Jodi says it’s because no man in his right mind ever wants to see her naked. Women don’t care.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;TWIDDLING THE NUMBERS:&lt;/span&gt; It’s a known fact that NO President has ever been re-elected with an unemployment number higher than 8%. So who thinks it won’t be below 8% by November however much “numbers twiddling” it takes?&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-7686102063127227940?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/7686102063127227940/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/02/obamas-50-approval-rating.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/7686102063127227940'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/7686102063127227940'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/02/obamas-50-approval-rating.html' title='Obama&apos;s 50% Approval Rating'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-3292609235515387930</id><published>2012-02-04T14:11:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-04T14:16:10.607-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Decision Stupid</title><content type='html'>&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:donotoptimizeforbrowser/&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;Nancy Peelosi says she will stand with Obama on his decision to try and force the Catholics to act against their most deeply-held faith. She says it’s “courageous.” I think it’s STUPID and something only a dictator wannabe would try. He won’t get away with it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;HOLDER WANTS CREDIT:&lt;/span&gt; He says he wants “some credit” for what his Justice Department has done. But it hasn’t done anything! So he has gotten as much “credit” as he deserves. Maybe we should give him "negative credit."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;HOLDER GIVES COMMITTEE MEMBER HELL:&lt;/span&gt; I guess the best defense is an offense. First, he insulted the committee member who was questioning him by intimating he is new and from Idaho (the backwoods), so he must be incompetent, completely ignoring his own incompetence. He should be held in contempt for that. This is how elites think about other people. If he’s allowed to get away with that, this congressional hearing is USELESS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;HOMELESSNESS DOWN ONE PERCENT:&lt;/span&gt; Just slightly, just in time for the election. If Obama gets re-elected, this “trend” will continue. If a Republican is elected, the numbers will go right back up. the liberals will see to it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;IT WAS NOT A GAFFE:&lt;/span&gt; Liberals are railing about Mitt Romney’s “gaffe” in saying, “corporations are people.” It’s NOT a gaffe. Corporations ARE people. What else could they be if you use logic. Of course I realize liberals (Democrats) don’t use logic. They don’t even know what it means when they say, “Logically, there is no logic.” Just like they say “There are no absolutes!” That’s with a statement of an absolute.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“CLOSETED” MORMON? &lt;/span&gt;The “slimedia” says Romney is a “closeted Mormon,” which presupposes being a Mormon should be kept secret, like being a closeted gay. As if his being a Mormon WAS a secret. I don’t recall Romney ever denying being a Mormon. Typically stupid liberal media crap.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-3292609235515387930?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/3292609235515387930/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/02/decision-stupid.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/3292609235515387930'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/3292609235515387930'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/02/decision-stupid.html' title='Decision Stupid'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-5309495563471051262</id><published>2012-02-02T13:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-02T13:33:29.523-08:00</updated><title type='text'>What Happened to Freedom of Speech?</title><content type='html'>General Boykin pressured by CAIR to withdraw from making a speech to West Point because they thought he was “guilty of defaming Islam.” So WHAT? Islam NEEDS defaming! Islamic terrorists are KILLING AMERICANS all over the world. His problem is he didn’t add the word “radical” to his earlier comments. But he has the right to make those comments. We’re becoming WAY too “concerned” with “insulting” Islam.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;RAISING TAXES IS NOT THE ANSWER:&lt;/span&gt; Obama’s (and all liberals) answer to EVERYTHING is higher taxes, and this shows their complete incompetence at governing. To make the economy better, you increase TAXABLE INCOME, which increases the amount of tax money the government can collect. Reagan did it by reducing the “marginal tax RATE” and almost DOUBLED the “tax take.” But don’t point this out to a liberal. They can’t see things like this. They’ve got their blinders firmly in place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ROMNEY IS “BUYING THE ELECTION”:&lt;/span&gt; He spent $20 million dollars in Florida alone! That’s more money than presidential candidates used to spend in the entire election! Why is he spending so much money to get a job that only pays $200,000 a year? Because he wants to CONTROL the TRILLIONS of dollars in the federal budget. Unfortunately, we’re BROKE and that WILL effect how he can govern if he is elected.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;REDUCE THE REQUIREMENTS:&lt;/span&gt; 80% of our schools fail to attain the “No Child Left Behind” requirements, and they’re very disturbed about that. So they’re going to reduce the requirements so they can make it. Typical liberal government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;IT HAPPENED ANYWAY:&lt;/span&gt; What is happening today is exactly what we were told would happen if we defaulted on our debt. So what GOOD is our current government? Drug use is today MORE than it was when the “war on drugs” began. So what good is the “war on drugs?” All it does is give government an excuse to limit our rights even more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;THEY HATE THE TEA PARTIES:&lt;/span&gt; The Washington establishment (Republican AND Democrat) hate the Tea Parties because we threaten to “overturn their applecarts.” We’re EFFECTIVE. Just ask the 57 members of Congress that no longer have jobs because of them.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-5309495563471051262?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/5309495563471051262/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/02/what-happened-to-freedom-of-speech.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/5309495563471051262'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/5309495563471051262'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/02/what-happened-to-freedom-of-speech.html' title='What Happened to Freedom of Speech?'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-3331054819443139775</id><published>2012-02-01T13:59:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-01T14:03:25.461-08:00</updated><title type='text'>What A Loser!</title><content type='html'>Obama’s White House says there is “no constitutional issue” in their ORDER for Catholic hospitals to provide contraception, which is against their DEEPEST-HELD beliefs. Has he never heard of the government staying out of church beliefs? Damn; how STUPID is this president!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;INCOMPETRENT POLITICIANS:&lt;/span&gt; How do we get so many incompetent politicians elected to office? The answer is simple, but they will never see it. We elect them on the basis of how they look, what they sound like, and what they promise; notwithstanding the fact that they don’t know what it is possible to do when they finally get into office. Like Obama talking about “lowering the sea level” when he was running. We (not me) bought his bullsh-t and elected him. Now we’re stuck with him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;HATING BECK AND LIMBAUGH:&lt;/span&gt; People say they hate Limbaugh and Beck, and scoff at what they say. But they can’t articulate just what it is about them they don’t like. They’re going by what they’ve heard from liberals. What they need to do is listen to what THEY say and apply some LOGIC, if they have any.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ENOUGH IS ENOUGH:&lt;/span&gt; A former police officer in Washington, DC tried to take down the OWS  tarp covering the Gen. McPherson statue. He was told he had no right to do that by people who have no right to COVER the statue. The shaggy old man who tried to bar his way got simply pushed aside as he returned to cutting the strings holding the tarp in place. What they don’t understand is that there is a law against what THEY are doing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;THE COMATOSE MAJORITY:&lt;/span&gt; President Nixon referred to the “silent majority.” But that same group is now the “comatose majority” who “recognize the right” of the OWS jerks to sleep in the parks (which they don’t have) when the cops would quickly remove ME if I tried it—and they would be right to do so. Someone else OWNS those parks and the OWS jerks are violating THEIR rights.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;HE “HASN’T DONE ENOUGH”:&lt;/span&gt; Many Democrats (liberals) think Obama is a wimp; and hasn’t “done enough” to move us closer to socialism. What a bunch of FOOLS we have living in this country!&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-3331054819443139775?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/3331054819443139775/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/02/what-loser.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/3331054819443139775'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/3331054819443139775'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/02/what-loser.html' title='What A Loser!'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-7191164427447011594</id><published>2012-01-31T14:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-31T14:05:51.804-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Obama: Champion Spender</title><content type='html'>Candidate Obama criticized Bush for his spending. According to figures released by the White House itself, Obama spent more in ONE YEAR than Bush did in his entire EIGHT YEARS in office. He’s been asked about that many times and has yet to give a satisfactory answer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;POLLS ARE BULL:&lt;/span&gt; I don’t believe ANY polls that come out showing Obama TIED with Romney or Gingrich unless it is put out by a GOP source. Democrat source polls have been PROVEN to be purposely skewed by polling ONLY Democrats or likely DEMOCRAT voters and asking questions guaranteed to get the answer they want. I don’t fully trust those with GOP sources, either, except when they show a result the GOP might not like. They’d hardly skew a poll in that direction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;NOT WORTH GETTING ANGRY:&lt;/span&gt; Romney says a national health care swindle with a mandate that you MUST buy health insurance, even if you can’t afford it “isn’t worth getting mad about.” I say it IS “worth getting mad about” and I’m MAD about it. Obama can pee up a rope if he figures on getting any money from me for his swindle What part of “can’t afford it” does he not understand? If you can’t afford it, no amount of laws made will change that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;HARRY SAYS WE’RE “EXTREMISTS”:&lt;/span&gt; It tells me a lot about the intelligence of “Dirty Harry” Reid (or the lack of it) when he calls Tea Party people “extremists.” It is really extreme to want the kind of government the Founders envisioned instead of the top-heavy government we now have that interferes in every facet of our lives?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;IT’S RACIST!&lt;/span&gt; Every time I hear someone saying that I cringe. It’s the “position of choice” for liberals who have no argument with which to answer what conservatives say and want to cut off the debate without anybody noticing. Obama said electing him would forever get rid of racism in this country, but Obama himself has consistently used the racism charge to avoid answering hard questions and by doing has made race relations a lot WORSE than they were before his election.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK:&lt;/span&gt; Obama constantly demands that REPUBLICANS release their tax records while he continues to hide every single record there is about his own past. There must be something there he doesn’t want us to find out. Following his usual pattern, he (or his surrogates) will call ME a racist for using the word “black.”&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-7191164427447011594?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/7191164427447011594/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/obama-champion-spender.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/7191164427447011594'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/7191164427447011594'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/obama-champion-spender.html' title='Obama: Champion Spender'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-1603755945035810601</id><published>2012-01-29T13:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-29T13:53:40.009-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Warren Buffet is STUPID</title><content type='html'>Yes, he’s a billionaire, and billionaires can’t be stupid, CAN THEY? But they can. Buffet is the kind of “rich guy” who DEPENDS on his government contacts to get, and STAY rich. THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF BUSINESSPEOPLE: One, those who simply work hard and EARN their riches; and Two, the kind who DEPEND on their government contacts to “pave the way” for them. Buffett is this kind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;UNSAFE IN EGYPT:&lt;/span&gt; Egypt’s new Islamic-dominated government has started restricting Americans. One of those they started with is the son of an American government official, Ray LaHood. They have banned him from leaving Egypt. They seem to forget that people like this have diplomatic immunity. You don’t just “roust” the family members of a foreign government official—not if you’re smart. But then Islamic extremists have never been known to be smart.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WASHINGTON HATES HIM: &lt;/span&gt;So maybe we want him. If Washington loved him, I’d “shy away” from him. They’re telling us they’re afraid of Newt with their massive campaign against him in Florida; which began in earnest the very day the North Carolina primary was over. I’m not much in favor of Newt myself because of his “coming out” with Nancy Peelosi in favor of global warming, but if Washington hates him, can he be so bad?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;LIBERALS JUST DON’T HEAR TRUTH:&lt;/span&gt; Bob Beckel, one of the liberals on the panel of Fox’s “The Five,” was told, in detail, WHY “the rich” should not be taxed at a higher rate than “average” people and he immediately said, “I want to know WHY rich people shouldn’t be taxed at a higher rate,” just proving that liberals just don’t hear anything that would shatter their preconceived notions. And this guy is a PROFESSOR, teaching our young. Sheesh!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;DO IT NOW!&lt;/span&gt; Don’t wait long enough to think about it, you might actually discover it’s a stupid move, That’s Obama’s modus operandi: everything is an EMERGENCY and you can’t EVER wait long enough to examine his proposals in detail. Frankly, that’s how we got this incompetent fool as president. Some of us asked what he had ever done to deserve to be president, but were ignored. Nancy Peelosi revealed it with her comment, “We have to pass the bill to find out what's in it.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PALESTINIAN TV PRAISES “HONOR KILLING”:&lt;/span&gt; Palestinian television has run a show PRAISING the man and woman who MURDERED their three daughters for dating the wrong kind of man or “being too westernized.” This is how Muslims THINK. And people want to b=ring their system of laws (Sharia law) here? Not a chance!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SOMEBODY HAS TO EARN IT:&lt;/span&gt; Socialism doesn’t work. It has a fatal flaw: somebody has to EARN the money before the government can steal it and give it to people who DON’T earn it. But point this out to a liberal and they “go deaf.” They just don’t hear things that might prove them wrong.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-1603755945035810601?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/1603755945035810601/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/warren-buffet-is-stupid.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/1603755945035810601'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/1603755945035810601'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/warren-buffet-is-stupid.html' title='Warren Buffet is STUPID'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-1754616645660772698</id><published>2012-01-28T15:03:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-28T15:12:03.190-08:00</updated><title type='text'>"Secretive?"</title><content type='html'>Obama directly attacked the “Americans for Prosperity” organization after the State of the Union, calling them a “secretive organization.” I got this in open e-mail from them soon after: “President Obama forgot to mention his biggest 'accomplishments': sticking the American people with liberal policies, like ObamaCare and the $814 billion dollar Stimulus, that destroy jobs, pile up debt, burden our small businesses with runaway regulations, and focus on redistributing wealth rather than make our entire economy stronger.” Does that sound like “secretive?” Obama tells lies upon lies!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ELITE SUPPORTS ELITE:&lt;/span&gt; Bob Dole, who only got to run for president because it was “his turn,” is now supporting today’s elite Republican, Mitt Romney. I don’t know if Newt can win against Obama or not; I certainly hope so if he’s nominated. But I KNOW Romney can’t, and if he does, I don’t want the kind of government he would bring us. Sarah, where ARE you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;GOVERNMENT THE WORST KILLER:&lt;/span&gt; Thousands of people, in many countries, are shot, stabbed, beheaded, starved, and otherwise killed; at the hands of their government, who previously made it illegal for them to act in self-defense, and to own and use the means to that end, a gun. Our own government is fast accomplishing the same thing. How long will it be before they are murdering us? Truth be known, they’re already doing it, and the “enemedia” is covering it up. They call it “police actions.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PUNISHING ACHIEVEMENT:&lt;/span&gt; Limbaugh calls it “class warfare.” I call it stupidity. Obama wants to tax people who have EARNED more than others at a higher rate, thus PUNISHING them for their achievement and causing a DIS-incentive to achieve. He denies “the rich” pay 86% of the income tax collected while almost 50% of non-rich Americans pay NO income taxes at all and are “net tax RECIPIENTS.” This is the kind of STUPIDITY Obama engages in on a regular basis. And he expects to be re-elected? If he is, it is AMERICA that is stupid!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;TURNING HIS BACK:&lt;/span&gt;  Rick Lazio did nothing more than APPROACH Hillary Clinton with a piece of paper and his political career was OVER. Obama turned his back on the governor of Arizona in front of the media and walked away while she was still talking to him. What will happen to him for that? Nothing. He’s a DEMOCRAT, after all. They get away with many things a Republican wouldn’t dream of trying.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SHAKING HER FINGER AT OBAMA:&lt;/span&gt; If anybody ever deserved to have the governor of Arizona “shake her finger” at him, it is Obama. He refuses to enforce his own federal immigration laws and by so doing causes many deaths. When she tries to do it, he SUES her and the state to PREVENT it. What does he have against enforcing immigration laws?&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-1754616645660772698?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/1754616645660772698/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/secretive.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/1754616645660772698'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/1754616645660772698'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/secretive.html' title='&quot;Secretive?&quot;'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-4533306024671979557</id><published>2012-01-26T14:07:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-26T14:11:24.834-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Stupid!</title><content type='html'>People say I use that word a lot, and there’s a good reason why I do. Obama and his cohorts are STUPID. The things they do are stupid. Yet they persevere in their stupidity. The difference between ignorance and stupidity is simple: ignorant people simply don’t have all the facts, but don’t know it. Stupid people HAVE all the facts, but adhere to their stupid opinions in spite of it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;AN EXAMPLE OF STUPIDITY:&lt;/span&gt; Blocking the Canadian pipeline. He used a flimsy excuse that blamed REPUBLICANS, saying they applied a time limit that was too short for him to finish the examination of the project that was necessary, when that time limit was imposed by ENVIRONMENTALISTS, and could have been “swept aside” if he so desired. Thus we have lost thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in oil imports from a close, FRIENDLY country in favor of continuing our importation of oil from people who hate our guts and, one day, will cut us off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;AND SO IT BEGINS . . .&lt;/span&gt; Obama has announced in the State of the Union speech that he intends to “consolidate power” under the Executive Department. Do you know what that means? He means to become a Hitler-like dictator with no “reins” on what he does. I’ve always figured the only GOOD thing about government is its inefficiency. This is a major power-grab and Congress should tell him to “go to hell.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;IT’S A TYPICAL LIBERAL LIE!&lt;/span&gt; Warren Buffet’s secretary does NOT pay more taxes than her boss. They are “comparing apples and oranges,” as usual. She only pays a higher tax RATE then he does, because she, like most people, pays taxes on WAGES. Buffet, like most rich people pays taxes on CAPITAL GAINS, at a much lower rate. But since makes millions a year while she does not, he still pays a lot more MONEY than she does. Don’t buy Obama’s bullsh-t!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;CONGRESS STILL BLAMING PRIVATE ENTERPRISE:&lt;/span&gt; They have called in members of the Coke (Koch?) Brothers to ask them how THEY would profit from the Canadian pipeline. Forget they have NO PART in this fiasco. Even if they did, it’s none of Congress’ business how they would profit from ANYTHING. Congress should be asked how THEY would profit from being legally allowed to engage in “insider trading.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“BUSINESS INSIDER” ON BOTH SIDES:&lt;/span&gt; They ran articles saying that Congress members COULD, and COULDN’T engage in insider trading legally. Is this a magazine we’re depending on to tell us the truth? They don’t even know it themselves! I guess this is how they “muddy the waters” so we don’t really know what’s going on.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-4533306024671979557?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/4533306024671979557/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/stupid.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/4533306024671979557'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/4533306024671979557'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/stupid.html' title='Stupid!'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-5778800199467321357</id><published>2012-01-25T13:31:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-25T13:35:55.109-08:00</updated><title type='text'>"Ask The Rich to Pay More?"</title><content type='html'>That’s what they’re doing, now! They pay 86% of all &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;income&lt;/span&gt; taxes paid, while almost 50 % of “the others” pay NO TAXES at all! How twisted can it get? I really get tired of politicians (chiefly Obama and Schultz today) lying and twisting the truth to suit their agendas. I wish the media would wake up and do their job.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;DO IT NOW!&lt;/span&gt; Don’t think about it! You might then realize that it’s a stupid thing to do and will make our economic problems worse. Just DO it! Why do we fall for this idiot scam all the time? Why do we allow ourselves to be stampeded into doing stupid things? Why are we such FOOLS?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;NOT REQUIRING ID TO VOTE IS STUPID!&lt;/span&gt; We have to show ID to buy a pack of cigarettes; or to get on an airplane. Or any of many other things, but Democrats fight “tooth and nail” to AVOID people having to show ID to do one of the most important things in their lives, to vote. No ID means it’s easy to vote more than once, something we’re not supposed to do. Democrats are the best sat stealing elections, mostly close ones, because of no ID being required. Why should we continue this farce?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;USING THE SAME LINES:&lt;/span&gt; Obama fed us the same lies he told us in 2011 and 2010 in his “State of the Union” speech last night. He was lying then and is lying now. What surprised me is that supreme Court justices were there, regardless of his “spitting on them” last year. Why? They are Supreme Court Justices for life. He can’t fire them. Why did they waste their time listening to his blather?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MICHELLE’S CLOTHES BUDGET:&lt;/span&gt; I think Michelle Obama’s budget for her own clothes exceeds the entire United states budget for the first few years, and a few more besides. She SAYS she is “concerned for the middle class” as is her husband. I don’t think so. I think she will spend a fortune on her clothes as long as she can, until Obama’s money runs out. She’s a worse spender on her OWN wardrobe than Obama is on everything, period.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;OBAMA TAKES CREDIT:&lt;/span&gt; He took credit for bin Laden’s death and the more recent rescue of several Somali pirate prisoners because he “approved” the missions, just in time for it to be good for his re-election. He also took credit for “ending the war in Iraq,” when actually it was Bush who won it, and all he did was end the occupation of Iraq. What FOOL he is to think we’ll believe that crap!&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-5778800199467321357?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/5778800199467321357/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/ask-rich-to-pay-more.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/5778800199467321357'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/5778800199467321357'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/ask-rich-to-pay-more.html' title='&quot;Ask The Rich to Pay More?&quot;'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-7266950057054520804</id><published>2012-01-24T15:38:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-24T15:42:48.160-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Obama Is A Fool</title><content type='html'>But we knew that going in. His action in rejecting the Keystone Oil shows that he doesn’t WANT us to be oil independent so he can keep gas prices high and claim the free market doesn’t work. Actually the problem exists because of government interference in the free market. He doesn’t think we can see that. Can you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WILL OBAMA GET HIS WAY?&lt;/span&gt; He wants to run against Romney because he thinks Romney is “easy meat,” and he’s right. Though it might not work this time. I think we could run Bugs Bunny against him and win going away. He’s made way too many mistakes and the American people want only to “get rid of him” as they would a cancer. In November, they’ll “cut him out,” no matter WHO we run against him. The only problem I see it the caliber of his opponent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;THEY TELL US WHO SCARES THEM:&lt;/span&gt; The Democrats are very dependable, in that they reliably TELL s who scares the hell out of them. They “slime” them early and often. They did it with Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman, and Herman Cain. Meanwhile, they touted Romney, who they think they can easily defeat. I think they’re wrong this time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MOORE NEEDS TO BE GONE:&lt;/span&gt; Michael Moore hates America. Even though it’s the American system that made him rich, he slimes it every day, in every way. If he doesn’t like it here, maybe he should search for a better place and GO there. I’d even pay his fare to get rid of him if he promised to stay away. If he ran for office, stupid liberals would probably even elect him. He’s the kind of fool they like.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;FLIMSY EXCUSE:&lt;/span&gt; Obama says he can’t approve the Canada Pipeline because the REPUBLICANS (don’tchaknow) imposed a two month time limit he couldn’t meet. Truth be known, this limitation was one made by environmentalists (not the Republicans), and as president, he could have “swept it aside” easily, as he has done in many other cases. What he doesn’t want to say is he doesn’t WANT the Canadian Pipeline and wants to blame the Republicans for rejecting it. He wants to continue our dependence on foreign oil for his own reasons and this was a good way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WHO CARES?&lt;/span&gt; In one example of the “enemedia” trying to make Republican candidates look silly George Stephanopolous (Snuffalopagus?) pestered candidates with questions about contraception. Who cares about contraception? The only people who do are the partisan jerks who want to control what goes on in the bedroom. Nobody has even been TALKING about contraception, but Steph kept on asking every candidate about his view on banning it.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-7266950057054520804?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/7266950057054520804/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/obama-is-fool.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/7266950057054520804'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/7266950057054520804'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/obama-is-fool.html' title='Obama Is A Fool'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-1779207086832096582</id><published>2012-01-22T15:26:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-22T15:33:17.821-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Congress Profits From Insider Trading (Legally)</title><content type='html'>They sent Martha Stewart to PRISON on just the SUSPICION of insider trading, but they do it every day, LEGALLY since they (quietly) passed a law MAKING it legal for members of Congress to do it. Should it be legal for congresspeople, who are privy daily to information that can make them a lot of money by trading on that knowledge, to profit from it while us “peons” get sent to prison for doing the same thing?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;I THOUGHT OBAMA LIKED OWS:&lt;/span&gt; So why are they demonstrating in front of the White House? Why are they throwing smoke bombs over the fence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? Maybe it’s because they don’t know what they want, except to foment violence and confront the cops. An OWS demonstrator was even arrested the other day for LYNCHING a man! And they try and say they’re “just like the Tea Parties.” What a bunch of FOOLS!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“APPLES AND ORANGES?”&lt;/span&gt; Debbie Wasserman Schultz, America’s best-known liar and Democrat Party Chair, says Fox is “the apples and oranges network.” Implying that Fox constantly compares apples and oranges, lying by misdirection. Debbie doesn’t do that; she lies straight out and while doing so, quotes phony statistics we ALL know are false as though they were true. She’s got a lot of gall. Maybe one day she’ll even comb her hair.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;THEY TRIED IT, AND FAILED:&lt;/span&gt; They tried to make a law that would allow them to control much of the Internet, but after a MASSIVE amount of opposition, they’re pulling the two bills “for a rewrite” because they were “too vague” (as usual). They usually write such bills in a vague manner so they can slip things by us. It didn’t work this time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;DEFENDING THE INDEFENSIBLE:&lt;/span&gt; Obama’s first campaign ad DEFENDS his disastrous “investment” of $535 billion of taxpayer money in a failing industry (where he continues to drop money in a deep, dark hole, investing in other “green industry” companies). But actually, there’s nothing he CAN defend about that money giveaway to his friends and campaign money donators, even if SOME of the other investors ARE conservatives. They probably got snookered, too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SIGN THE PETITION?&lt;/span&gt; Dick Armey has sent out a plea for people to sign a petition demanding an apology from Debbie Wasserman Schultz for her lie blaming the Tea Parties for last year’s Arizona shooting that nearly took the life of liberal congresswoman Gabby Giffords. If we put out a petition to demand apologies for every lie Schultz tells, that’s all we’d be doing and I just don’t have time for that.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-1779207086832096582?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/1779207086832096582/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/congress-profits-from-insider-trading.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/1779207086832096582'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/1779207086832096582'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/congress-profits-from-insider-trading.html' title='Congress Profits From Insider Trading (Legally)'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-6861851450242681613</id><published>2012-01-21T13:47:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-21T13:51:46.454-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Mickey Mouse President</title><content type='html'>Obama is going to go to Disneyland, and they’re shutting down most of their park the day of his visit. This is the president, remember, who pledged to be “close to the people,” and they close down almost all the park because he will be in it. Does this tell you anything about him?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ABC RUNS CRITICAL INTERVIEW RIGHT BEFORE PRIMARY:&lt;/span&gt; ABC hates Newt; that is proven by their decision to run a controversial interview with his ex-wife just BEFORE the S. Carolina primary: a time when it could have the most detrimental effect on his campaign. I don’t think it will, because Americans are smarter than the average liberal. But they think so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“HE’S A RACIST!”&lt;/span&gt; When you hear liberals say that about a conservative, you know that’s all they’ve got. That’s the “reset option” whenever they want to criticize someone for having the temerity to actually CRITICIZE their pet president, Obama. I guess they’ll call me a racist if they notice this item.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WHAT ROMNEY SHOULD HAVE SAID:&lt;/span&gt; “I’ll release my tax records when Obama releases his school records.” (Rush Limbaugh) That would make this a “teachable moment,” rather than Republicans using Democrat tactics, joining the “war against the rich.” Damn, I hate it when I hear Democrats doing it! I hate it even more when Republicans do it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;APPLE NOT FAR FROM TREE:&lt;/span&gt; Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s parents go to prison for corruption and not a peep in the “enemedia” about it (Atlas shrugs). Many people are surprised. I’m not. That would cast aspersions on one of the most blatant liars in the Democrat Party, so they stay away from it. Is she the same as her parents? I don’t know. Even if she was, we’d never know about it if the “enemedia” had their way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;STEALING FROM PENSION FUNDS:&lt;/span&gt; Obama “dips into” (steals from) federal pension funds (Reuters) to pay for his “flights of fancy” in Washington. He has lost so much money to his Solyndra-type “investments” of our money that he needs to find more. So now he’s stealing money from federal pension funds so he can “invest” even more into losing propositions.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-6861851450242681613?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/6861851450242681613/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/mickey-mouse-president.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/6861851450242681613'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/6861851450242681613'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/mickey-mouse-president.html' title='Mickey Mouse President'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-8316503901144565041</id><published>2012-01-19T13:11:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-19T13:15:27.608-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Obama Forgets</title><content type='html'>He forgets that he now OWNS the problems we have, “The President always seems to conveniently forget in his speeches that he has been president for the past three years. We can expect him to refuse to take responsibility for how his big spending policies have contributed to our economic woes. Instead, the President will promote class warfare to gain support for his tax increases and bigger government. (Americans For Prosperity)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ISRAEL DOESN’T NEED PERMISSION:&lt;/span&gt; Obama has told Israel not to attack Iran’s nuclear sites and Israel has told Obama to “go to hell.” Israel has never asked America to send any of its sons to die for it, and needs not ask for our permission to defend itself. It will do what it has to do, and America be damned. And I agree that's a good thing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WOULD HIS EX-WIFE BE A GOOD WITNESS?&lt;/span&gt; Newt Gingrich’s ex-wife says “he lacks the moral character to be president.” But does he? I wouldn’t take the word of ANY of my ex-wives on my “moral character” and there’s two sides to every story. I have my own problems with Newt, beginning with his “couch” ad with Nancy Peelosi promoting global warming. That caused me to doubt his judgment, and that’s more important than “moral character” in my view. But I still think an ex-wife is not a good source.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;IT DIDN’T HAPPEN:&lt;/span&gt; You don’t get very far into a discussion of Newt with a liberal before they trot out that old saw about Newt serving divorce papers on his sick wife, IN the hospital while she was “on her death bed.” But it didn’t happen. He filed well before she was diagnosed, and she is NOT dead. She’s still very much alive, which makes their words a LIE; as usual.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WHERE DID WE FAIL?&lt;/span&gt; A copy of “Inspire,” an Islamic terrorist magazine that contains tips on how to kill Americans, was found in the cell of a terrorist in GITMO. How did that happen? Was it in the GITMO library? Or did somebody smuggle it in?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PERRY PULLS OUT:&lt;/span&gt; Throws his supporters to Newt. Which makes me wonder about PERRY. I would wonder even more if he told us to support Romney. Actually, there’s nobody left in the Republican side that I would want to vote for, and I’m not going to “grit my teeth” and vote for someone I don’t like, just because it’s not Obama. Sarah, where ARE you?&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-8316503901144565041?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/8316503901144565041/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/obama-forgets.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/8316503901144565041'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/8316503901144565041'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/obama-forgets.html' title='Obama Forgets'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-5869952770419130825</id><published>2012-01-18T13:41:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-18T13:45:37.129-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Eight Democrats Indicte for Voter Fraud</title><content type='html'>In New York, no less than EIGHT Democrats have been indicted for voter fraud. More Democrats have been accused in Indiana for the same thing. Wonder how many more we’ll find as we work harder to find them? I guess we know now how so many Democrats get elected, even though the majority of voters in this country “swing right.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;OBAMA CREATED MANY JOBS:&lt;/span&gt; All of them government jobs. Now, in an election year, he’s making a big thing about eliminating 1,000 government jobs and “shrinking government” &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;one-third of one percent.&lt;/span&gt; Big deal! The real  “dog and pony show” is beginning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PRICE GOUGING vs. RENT CONTROL:&lt;/span&gt; New York city has something I don’t think any other city in the United States has (I could be wrong): rent control; where the government tells the owner of a property, who has invested his money, how much he can charge for rent. This is WRONG. It usurps the property owner’s right to decide what to do with his own property, by an agency that has NO financial interest in that property. Yes, price gouging is wrong, too, but there are other ways to deal with that, including leaving his properties empty. Other property owners would see that and adjust their prices accordingly, or go out of business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;IRAN “NAVY” HARASSES US SHIPS:&lt;/span&gt; Do they really think they’re frightening us? How stupid ARE these people? Harassing a navy ship with a few tiny boats? I know Ahmadinijerk is stupid, but I didn’t think he was that stupid. A single word from the Secretary of the Navy and those teeny boats would cease to exist. Damn, they think we’re stupid and easy to frighten! We need to blow a few of them out of the water as an object lesson to Ahmadinijerk.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ARE WE SURPRISED?&lt;/span&gt; After themselves conning gun dealers into selling guns to the drug cartels in Mexico to make it LOOK like they’re wantonly selling guns to them, the BATF is now making the predicted “tighter rules” for such sales in the future. Those dealers sold those guns at the behest of BATF, “so we can trace where they go.” A good “cover story,” of course, which the government denies. Of course, now we get those “tighter gun laws” they wanted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;NATIONAL PEE ON A TERRORIST DAY:&lt;/span&gt; That’s what a blog called “The Political Jungle” has declared January 14, 2012. I agree. Many people think peeing on a terrorist is a bad thing, and maybe it is; but it’s not nearly as bad as the things they do to our dead. So if I got a chance to pee on a dead Islamic terrorist (Especially if I had killed him), I would do it gleefully with my foot on top of his head to hold his mouth open.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-5869952770419130825?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/5869952770419130825/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/eight-democrats-indicte-for-voter-fraud.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/5869952770419130825'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/5869952770419130825'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/eight-democrats-indicte-for-voter-fraud.html' title='Eight Democrats Indicte for Voter Fraud'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-9115853349156724427</id><published>2012-01-17T13:45:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-17T13:48:50.355-08:00</updated><title type='text'>You Can't Make This Stuff Up!</title><content type='html'>The very same woman (Froma Harrop) who said Tea Partiers were “terrorists” without being able to name ONE instance of proof has been named to lead a group to advance “civility.” How STUPID are these executives?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;BUSH THE SPENDER:&lt;/span&gt; That’s what the Democrats say about Bush, who spent $1.7 trillion in 8 years, vs. Obama, who has spent &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;$6.2&lt;/span&gt; trillion in three years.&lt;/span&gt; These people just don’t care that their lies are so transparent. They are either abysmally stupid or they think WE are.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;TAKE OVER ITS HEALTH CARE:&lt;/span&gt; Vladmir Lenin (father of the communist Soviet Union) once said, “Before you can socialize a country you need to take over its health care system.” Obama is well on his way. He must have been learning from Lenin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SHE HAS NONE:&lt;/span&gt; Newsweek slams a liberal reporter for ignoring an angry Michelle Obama’s grace, charm, and intellect. I guess that’s because she has none. She’s brash, opinionated, and a racist who hates white people. She and Barack learned that at the knee of “Rev. Wright,” no matter how much they lie and say they didn’t.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;THREE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD MEMBERS:&lt;/span&gt; Obama has THREE members of the Muslim Brotherhood in his administration as “advisors,” which don’t need to be vetted and approved by Congress. How many will there be next year?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;FIRE ‘EM ALL:&lt;/span&gt; Incoming administrations usually don’t fire every appointee of the previous administration, but the next one needs to do just that. Fire EVERY Obama appointee they can so they won’t be undermined from within.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-9115853349156724427?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/9115853349156724427/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/you-cant-make-this-stuff-up.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/9115853349156724427'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/9115853349156724427'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/you-cant-make-this-stuff-up.html' title='You Can&apos;t Make This Stuff Up!'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-3670432060699715871</id><published>2012-01-15T13:52:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-15T13:56:14.465-08:00</updated><title type='text'>No Ideology?</title><content type='html'>Some politicians say you can’t win an election with ideology. What a LOAD that is! All politics is ideology. Ideology is either truth or lies. The people I respect have TRUTH as our ideology. Liberals have LIES as an ideology. But they don’t want us to realize it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A PATTERN DEVELOPING:&lt;/span&gt; Obama loaning BILLIONS of dollars to what he calls “green startups,” but which are all run by his big donors and friends, who quickly “take the money and run,” and soon go bankrupt while he says, “Oh, well.” Meanwhile, the money is gone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;OWS SUPPORT:&lt;/span&gt; The “Occupy Wherever” movement now has the support and solidarity of the Communist Party USA. They already have the support and solidarity with the Nazi Party. Doesn’t that tell you something about them?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SOCIALISM NEEDS CAPITALISM:&lt;/span&gt; Socialism DEPENDS on the free market to EARN the money they STEAL to give to the moochers of society. Without it, there would be nothing for them to steal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;HE CONTINUED EVERYTHING:&lt;/span&gt; Everything CANDIDATE Obama criticized when Bush did it, PRESIDENT Obama either continued or INCREASED after the REALITY of actually BEING president set in. Then he claimed it as his own idea. When he pulled our troops out of Iraq (“cut and run”), he claimed victory, when all it was is QUITTING in the middle. Bush actually WON the Iraq war when he toppled Saddam and caused his execution and the creation of a different government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;CREDIBLE BUT UNCONFIRMED:&lt;/span&gt; New York Mayor Boobburg talks about “credible, but unconfirmed” reports of terrorism in New York. What a BOOB! If it’s “UNCONFIRMED,” How could it POSSIBLY be credible? Are they really stupid enough to think we will buy this crap?&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-3670432060699715871?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/3670432060699715871/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/no-ideology.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/3670432060699715871'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/3670432060699715871'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/no-ideology.html' title='No Ideology?'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-6939049372823177642</id><published>2012-01-14T17:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-14T17:07:05.545-08:00</updated><title type='text'>To Hell With the Courts!</title><content type='html'>A court in Oklahoma has reversed an earlier court order that banned Sharia law from being enforced in America. What FOOLS these justices be! For my part, I will NEVER submit to ANY law based on Sharia law and will "put down" anybody who tries to enforce it upon me. This court might have struck down the ban on Sharia law, but Sharia law is patently UNCONSTITUTIONAL and cannot be enforced in America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;DOJ “DEEMS” OBAMA’S APPOINTMENTS LEGAL:&lt;/span&gt; So what? The Department of Justice is NOT a court and cannot “deem” ANYTHING legal or illegal. His appointments, made while Congress was IN session, are NOT legal “recess appointments” and he should be “brought up short” on them, DOJ notwithstanding. Indeed, he should be IMPEACHED for them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;THE “FREE-SPENDING GEORGE BUSH”:&lt;/span&gt; I have to laugh whenever I hear a liberal talk about the “free-spending George Bush” when Bush spent less in eight years than Obama did in his first two years in office and is on course to spend a lot more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;IT’S AN ELECTION YEAR:&lt;/span&gt; So all of a sudden Obama wants to “reorganize” our government and “make it smaller and more efficient.” What a LOAD of stinking brown stuff that is! What FOOLS Obama must think we are if we believe this lie! Gawd, what a FOOL he is!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;THE NUMBER ONE CAUSE OF DEATH:&lt;/span&gt; Scientists all over have tried and tried to “nail down” the biggest cause of death, but I’ve done it: The number one cause of death ANYWHERE is—wait for it—birth. Everybody who was ever born is either now dead or will someday die.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;THE OWS CHANT:&lt;/span&gt; “What do we want? We don’t know. When do we want it? NOW. That pretty much sums up what OWS is all about. In reality, all their many demands boil down to one thing: a “free ride” at someone else’s expense. And they want it NOW!&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-6939049372823177642?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/6939049372823177642/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/to-hell-with-courts.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/6939049372823177642'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/6939049372823177642'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/to-hell-with-courts.html' title='To Hell With the Courts!'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-5909364176483294234</id><published>2012-01-11T16:06:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-11T16:10:32.951-08:00</updated><title type='text'>"Stop Calling Obama A Socialist!"</title><content type='html'>That’s what the Socialist Party of America is saying. Why? Are we getting too close to the truth? Do they not want us to “let the cat out of the bag?” Obama IS a socialist, no matter how hard they try and deny it. I will keep shouting it to the skies, no matter how much they try and stop me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WE DON’T DO THAT:&lt;/span&gt; Iran is accusing us of being behind the assassination of two of its nuclear scientists. This completely ignores the fact that there are MANY countries that don’t want them to become a nuclear-armed country. Some will say the killing of bin Laden says otherwise. That was not an assassination; it was an attempt to take a mass murderer into custody that failed. We did not go there to kill him, but to simply apprehend him for his crimes against humanity. He forced us to kill him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MEDIA ASKS STUPID QUESTIONS:&lt;/span&gt; Instead of asking about the economy, or Obama’s massive spending spree and how we’re going to get out of it and keep him from making this into a socialist country, they ask about what he thinks about states banning condoms—as if that were of more importance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;LIBERALS WANT US TO COOPERATE WITH DEMS:&lt;/span&gt; So why can’t democrats cooperate with US once in a while? Why must it always be the Republicans discarding their principles and doing what the Democrats want? Frankly, I think the very word “bipartisan” is a scam.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;DINGY HARRY SAYS DEMS WON’T COOPERATE WITH GOP:&lt;/span&gt; They’re constantly saying WE have to cooperate with THEM, yet “Dingy Harry” says they will in NO WAY cooperate with Republicans. In fact, they will actively FIGHT us tooth and nail. That pretty much reveals their perfidy, doesn’t it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“NO IDEOLOGY”:&lt;/span&gt; That’s what the Democrats say. “You can’t win an election with ideology. But ideology is ALL they spout, and it’s FALSE ideology. All politics is ideology. Ideology can be truth or lie. Conservative ideology is truth. Liberal (Democrat) ideology is based on LIES.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-5909364176483294234?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/5909364176483294234/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/stop-calling-obama-socialist.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/5909364176483294234'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/5909364176483294234'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/stop-calling-obama-socialist.html' title='&quot;Stop Calling Obama A Socialist!&quot;'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-2940194528108930852</id><published>2012-01-10T14:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-10T14:46:28.281-08:00</updated><title type='text'>SOPA</title><content type='html'>SOPA UNCONSTITUTIONAL: They SAY it’s to protect people against copyright infringement, but that’s not what it’s for. Any time a blogger links to another site, that site then gets more “hits” and their advertisements along with it. The whole idea of HAVING a site is to “get hits,” and bloggers linking to them helps this. It’s NOT “copyright infringement.” This law is a way to shut bloggers up by being able to DEFINE their activities as lawbreaking. Simple as that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THEY ACCUSE US OF RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE: But Muslims, especially Muslim extremists, are the most religiously intolerant people in the WORLD. They don’t just dislike Christians (and members of ANY other religion), they want to KILL them. And they wonder why we “look askance” upon Muslims.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE? “Feminazis” are mad at Rush for his “menstrual cycle” crack. What’s the difference between that and women saying, “men are ruled by their penises?”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NOT RUINED RIGHT AWAY: The media was mad because Herman Cain was not ruined IMMEDIATELY by their phony sexual harassment claims. They thought just a BREATH of such a scandal on a black man would be enough and they couldn’t understand why people believed in Cain and not their phony accusations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IT STARTED AFTER DEMS TOOK OVER: Everybody, including some conservatives, give Clinton credit for “changing welfare” as we knew it when he was dragged, kicking and screaming to the signing table to sign the Republican bill that actually DID it. They also believe that the recession was Bush’s fault, when the “groundwork” for it started in 1977 with the passage of the Democrat bill (Citizen’s Reinvestment Act of 1977) that FORCED lenders to loan money to people who could not afford to pay it back, a “recipe for disaster.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG: Something’s wrong in this country when the site of the World Trade Center massacre is still a “hole in the ground” and serious consideration is being given to the usual Islamic building of a Mosque on the site of their “greatest victories” over their enemies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TAX AND SPEND: That’s Obama’s ONE plan to get us out of the economic hole HE got us into. All he knows is “tax and spend,” and “tax the rich” to pay for HIS “flights of fancy.” That has always been the Democrat (liberal) way, and Obama is a consummate liberal (Democrat).6&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-2940194528108930852?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/2940194528108930852/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/cult-of-personality_10.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/2940194528108930852'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/2940194528108930852'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/cult-of-personality_10.html' title='SOPA'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-5322477475417811138</id><published>2012-01-08T15:18:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-08T15:23:04.495-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Cult of Personality</title><content type='html'>Didja notice that the N. Korean government is STILL pushing Kim Jong Il, even though he’s dead? The picture on top of one of the cars in his funeral procession is almost bigger than the car. It’s a good thing it’s not a windy day or that car would be blown away. And his third son, the one who is SUPPOSED to be “taking over,” but who is now “sharing power” with his uncle gets to WALK along beside the hearse. I figure he’ll last a few months before his uncle decided he’s outlived his usefulness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;N. KOREANS CRY FOR KIM:&lt;/span&gt; They have a really big funeral, in which the biggest picture of a dictator I’ve ever seen is mounted on the top of one of the cars in the procession while his third son, now “sharing power” with his uncle WALKS beside the hearse. And N. Koreans cry loudly for Kim. They’d damn well BETTER, or the army will seek them out and KILL them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;NO PARADES FOR IRAQ TROOPS:&lt;/span&gt; At least ignorant people aren’t spitting on them as they were after Viet Nam. But not too many wars got less appreciation from Americans OR the people who benefited from it than this one. We got rid of a murdering dictator and weakened significantly the al-Qaida elements in Iraq. But they waited and bided their time until our wimpy president declared the war “over” and pulled his troops out on a scheduled date, the day after which the Islamic terrorists killed a lot of people we should have been protecting. It’s no wonder the troops’ return was underwhelming.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;LESS THAN NOTHING:&lt;/span&gt; While our liberal “leaders” are throwing money around as if we had some, we need to remember that we need to pay back $15 TRILLION dollars, just to get to the point where we HAVE nothing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“NOT TO SCARE AMERICANS”:&lt;/span&gt; Obama says “We made a decision not to scare the American people,” and then spent most of his days doing just that. As usual, what happens is just the OPPOSITE of what this “serial liar” says.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“BUYING OFF AMERICANS”:&lt;/span&gt; Obama figures he can “buy off” Americans for $20 a week. And that’s what he did with his insistence on retaining the reduction in the Social Security “tax” taken from everybody’s paycheck. He now CALLS it a “tax,” but it ISN’T. It is the money the government takes from us at the point of a gun from every paycheck to pay for Social Security (If you don’t believe that gun bit, just try not paying it).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-5322477475417811138?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/5322477475417811138/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/cult-of-personality.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/5322477475417811138'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/5322477475417811138'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/cult-of-personality.html' title='Cult of Personality'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-833181476594128653</id><published>2012-01-07T13:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-07T14:01:17.523-08:00</updated><title type='text'>America "On the Skids"</title><content type='html'>When George Bush (the younger) left office, it was at the end of the longest-lasting boom we’ve ever experienced and that was because of (conservative) Reagan’s lowering the tax base rate and almost DOUBLING the “tax take.” The “crash” was caused by the Democrats passing a law forcing lenders to loan money to people who could NEVER repay it, an exercise in disaster. We are now “on the skids” because of that, and the silly socialistic policies of Barack Obama. We need to GET RID of Obama and his henchmen if we are to survive economically. Somebody PROVE to me that I’m wrong, if you can.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;IT’S NOT A TAX CUT:&lt;/span&gt; Obama bills his “$40 a month buyout” of the American people as a “tax cut.” It’s not. It’s a RAID on Social Security money. It takes NO money from the general fund, as taxes do. It takes its money from that imaginary “Social Security fund.” Fortunately his is only a two-month raid, while that of the GOP is a 12-MONTH raid and is well beaten down. But Obama’s raid should have been defeated, too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WHAT FOOLS THEY BE!&lt;/span&gt; Didja know that the top 25 backers of the “Occupy Wall Street” protests are BILLIONAIRES, according to Brent Bozell? What a bunch of hypocrites!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;DEFENSE DEPT. “FOLDS”:&lt;/span&gt; It’s going to allow a Muslim woman to wear her hijab while marching in formation. Would they allow a Hassidic Jew to wear his funny-looking hat and his black suit while keeping his hair do so that a small pigtail fell down around his head? Not in this lifetime, anyway. Only for Muslims. I’m getting very tired of hearing about special arrangements being made for Muslims that are not made for others. Like Muslims being allowed to pray in the middle of the street in some towns. Sheesh!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;DEMOCRATS HATE BEING CALLED “LIBERALS”:&lt;/span&gt; Mostly because they have become aware that we’re now “onto them.” We now know what liberal means. So now they’re going back to the term, “progressive,” thinking we have forgotten what THAT means. So now when you say “liberal,” they correct you, wanting you to say “progressive.” They don't get away with that with me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;OBAMA "ONLY" WANTS ANOTHER $1.2 TRILLION:&lt;/span&gt; He’s spent more money than there IS, and now he wants to raise the debt limit another $1.2 TRILLION. We’ll be paying this off for the next 200 years! Stop him! Tell your congresscritter to vote it DOWN!&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-833181476594128653?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/833181476594128653/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/america-on-skids.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/833181476594128653'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/833181476594128653'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/america-on-skids.html' title='America &quot;On the Skids&quot;'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-7986099439362681977</id><published>2012-01-05T14:06:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-05T14:11:31.604-08:00</updated><title type='text'>"Progressives" Are AGAINST Progress</title><content type='html'>As in George Orwell’s classic “1984,” the government calls everything the exact OPPOSITE of what it IS. The people now running this government call themselves “Progressives,” but are totally AGAINST progress. Just look at what they promote and use your own logic and common sense. If you think I’m wrong, PROVE it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“TAX THE RICH!”&lt;/span&gt; Liberals want to tax the rich by taking away as much money as they can in taxes, thinking they can fund their “flights of fancy” by that method, forgetting there aren’t ENOUGH rich to do that for very long, and the more they tax them, the less INCENTIVE they will have to EARN more money—which will mean less taxable income, and less money for the liberals to tax away from them. Everything they do is “counterproductive” to what they profess to want. If they keep up on the path they’re taking, there will one day BE no more “rich” for them to victimize for their own ends. Then the “moochers” of society will than start looting THEM.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;REFUSING TO USE OIL WE OWN:&lt;/span&gt; I can’t blame this entirely on Obama. Both Bushes and Clinton alike refused the obvious solution to high gas prices: drilling for our own oil in places where WE make the rules. Meanwhile, Obama is FINANCING oil drilling in other countries, and will be BUYING that oil from them at high prices. How STUPID is this?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;BILL MAHER IS STUPID:&lt;/span&gt; He just showed his complete MISunderstanding of Christianity by Tweeting, “Jesus just fu-ked Tim Tebow on Christmas Eve.” Jesus doesn’t help Tebow win football games. If He did, what about the other Christians who play for, or watch football games who are praying just as hard? Jesus is interested in one thing: Tebow's belief in HIM while living well. He will be judged after he dies, no matter how many football games he wins or loses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;DOES HE REALLY THINK SO?&lt;/span&gt; Ahmadinijerk says, “The U. S. is not in a position to give us orders.” Really? Does he really think he can beat us? He couldn’t even beat Iraq in EIGHT YEARS, while we did it in less than a week. What a jerk this guy is! He has a very high opinion of himself and his tiny country’s ability to beat the most powerful nation in the world, even with that wimp Obama at the helm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;IS IT WORKING?&lt;/span&gt; David Borden, Executive Director of “Stop the Drug War.org” reminds me that the “drug war” has not worked, while costing us a lot of money and giving the government an excuse to enact many onerous laws. The DEFINITION of insanity is “doing the same things over and over and expecting a different result.” There are more people abusing drugs today than there were when this “drug war” started. That’s logic and common sense, not ideology.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-7986099439362681977?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/7986099439362681977/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/progressives-are-against-progress.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/7986099439362681977'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/7986099439362681977'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/progressives-are-against-progress.html' title='&quot;Progressives&quot; Are AGAINST Progress'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-2899842531396232498</id><published>2012-01-04T14:13:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-04T14:17:47.315-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Four More Years of THIS?</title><content type='html'>That was one of the themes Obama used in 2008 to get elected, but you don’t hear those words coming out of his mouth now because he doesn’t dare utter them. He knows what the answer would be: a resounding NO! This is a “mantra that ought to be taken up by the Republicans in 2012. It would be TELLING.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;TAKE THIS JOB AND SHOVE IT!&lt;/span&gt; That would be my answer to the owner of a New York deli if he told me (if I were a woman, of course) to have an abortion or be fired. That actually happened in New York recently and the woman did have the abortion so she could keep her job. There is NO job sufficiently worth keeping for me to commit MURDER to keep it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;IF HE COULD:&lt;/span&gt; Newt says Romney would buy the election if he could. Ya think? I think every one of them would buy the election if they could, including Newt. C’mawn, folks! Get real! Quit slapping each other around with ridiculous charges and start discussing the REAL issues.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A “RECESS APPOINTMENT”:&lt;/span&gt; That’s what dictator Obama calls the appointment of the head of what will become yet another huge bureaucracy to “look over the shoulders” of bankers in everything they do. This is to “control” them so they can’t create another recession. Of course, Democrats created THIS one and BLAMED it on the bankers so it’s a case of “the fox running the henhouse.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WHAT’S A “PREDATORY LENDER?”&lt;/span&gt; I can’t see where ANY lender can profit from lending money to people who CANNOT possibly pay it back. Lenders were FORCED to do it on pain of expensive "federal investigations," so the Predator in this plot is the feds. Obama has appointed Richard Cordray as the “Consumer Watchdog,” which gives him a whole lot of power—and he did this with a PHONY “recess appointment”  unconstitutionally while Congress was still in session.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SUPPORT? WHAT SUPPORT?&lt;/span&gt; The dictator says Cordray has the support of a majority in the Congress. Why then, will they not even allow his appointment be brought to a vote? This is yet another Obama LIE. He said he would “go around Congress.” This is one of the first instances of him doing that.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-2899842531396232498?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/2899842531396232498/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/four-more-years-of-this.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/2899842531396232498'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/2899842531396232498'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/four-more-years-of-this.html' title='Four More Years of THIS?'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-5388601148447503496</id><published>2012-01-03T13:03:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-03T13:08:39.359-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Did Bo Have His Own Plane?</title><content type='html'>Obama’s dog, BO was supposed to have been in Hawaii with Michelle, but here he was with Obama in a pet store in Washington. Which raises a number of questions: first, is this really Bo in the photo? Or is it a “body double?” Did Bo fly back in his own plane if it IS him? Or did he come back in Michelle’s plane as it returned after ferrying her to Hawaii? Or did he not go at all? We’ll probably never know, because Obama tends to keep EVERYTHING regarding his personal activities secret unless he WANTS a “photo op.” He's not even above LYING about it, as he is with everything.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;TOO BIG FOR HIS BRITCHES:&lt;/span&gt; Ahmadinijerk really thinks he can get away with blocking the Straits of Hormuz and can “beat back” any attempt by U. S. forces to stop him. How STUPID is this jerk? A country that couldn’t even beat Iraq in EIGHT YEARS couldn’t possibly “beat back” a country that did it in a week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“MISGUIDED”&lt;/span&gt; That’s the most polite description of what GM spokesman Michelle Bunker said about Volt sales. She said the Volt was “consistently sold out.” That was NOT a “misguided” statement, it was a LIE. I’m really tired of the “weasel words” people use to avoid using certain words like “lie.” The only way that statement could be true is if they only MADE 125 of them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;HE’S ENTITLED TO HIS OPINION:&lt;/span&gt; NASCAR driver Kasey Kane doesn’t like breast feeding and said so on Twitter. Now he’s hastily apologizing to the breast feeders of the world, who appear to be very well connected and organized. But he has nothing to apologize for. He’s entitled to his own opinion, just as the breast feeders of the world are. Don’t try and get an apology from me about this post because it ain’t gonna happen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;JOBS DIDN’T CREATE JOBS?&lt;/span&gt; What a STUPID statement Henry Blodgett (business insider) made. Does he think Apple was run by Steve Jobs ALONE? That he never hired a single employee to help him do that? That’s almost as stupid as Harry Reid saying those ubiquitous “rich folks” are not creating jobs in their quest to become rich. But then, I expect stupid statements from Democrats and liberals (a redundancy, that).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;I’D VOTE FOR RON PAUL:&lt;/span&gt; I don’t like Ron Paul. What I’ve heard about his foreign policy ideas tells me he’s dangerous. But I would hope he’d learn quickly if he were president. I do like his domestic policy ideas and I WOULD vote for him against Obama if he were the GOP nominee. I’d vote for Bugs Bunny if Obama was on the other side.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-5388601148447503496?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/5388601148447503496/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/did-bo-have-his-own-plane.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/5388601148447503496'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/5388601148447503496'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/did-bo-have-his-own-plane.html' title='Did Bo Have His Own Plane?'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-2956241254099747764</id><published>2012-01-01T15:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-01T15:19:26.490-08:00</updated><title type='text'>SOPA Unconstitutional</title><content type='html'>They SAY it’s to protect people against copyright infringement, but that’s not what it’s for. Any time a blogger links to another site, that site then gets more “hits” and their advertisements along with it. The whole idea of HAVING a site is to “get hits,” and bloggers linking to them helps this. It’s NOT “copyright infringement.” This law is a way to shut bloggers up by being able to DEFINE their activities as lawbreaking. Simple as that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;THEY ACCUSE US OF RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE:&lt;/span&gt; But Muslims, especially Muslim extremists, are the most religiously intolerant people in the WORLD. They don’t just dislike Christians (and members of ANY other religion), they want to KILL them. And they wonder why we “look askance” upon Muslims.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?&lt;/span&gt; “Feminazis” are mad at Rush for his “menstrual cycle” crack. What’s the difference between that and women saying, “men are ruled by their penises?” I can't see any, but they do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;NOT RUINED RIGHT AWAY:&lt;/span&gt; The media was mad because Herman Cain was not ruined IMMEDIATELY by their phony sexual harassment claims. They thought just a BREATH of such a scandal on a black man would be enough and they couldn’t understand why people believed in Cain and not their phony accusations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;IT STARTED AFTER DEMS TOOK OVER: &lt;/span&gt;Everybody, including some conservatives, give Clinton credit for “changing welfare” as we knew it when he was dragged, kicking and screaming to the signing table to sign the Republican bill that actually DID it. They also believe that the recession was Bush’s fault, when the “groundwork” for it started in 1977 with the passage of the Democrat bill (Citizen’s Reinvestment Act of 1977) that FORCED lenders to loan money to people who could not afford to pay it back, a “recipe for disaster.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG:&lt;/span&gt; Something’s wrong in this country when the site of the World Trade Center massacre is still a “hole in the ground” and serious consideration is being given to the usual Islamic building of a Mosque on the site of their “greatest victories” over their enemies; and that's what it is, no matter how much Muslims and their friends deny it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;TAX AND SPEND:&lt;/span&gt; That’s Obama’s ONE plan to get us out of the economic hole HE got us into. All he knows is “tax and spend,” and “tax the rich” to pay for HIS “flights of fancy.” There aren't ENOUGH rich to victimize to finance all his dreams. That has always been the Democrat (liberal) way, and Obama is a consummate liberal (Democrat).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-2956241254099747764?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/2956241254099747764/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/sopa-unconstitutional.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/2956241254099747764'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/2956241254099747764'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/sopa-unconstitutional.html' title='SOPA Unconstitutional'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-8916650941535337738</id><published>2012-01-01T15:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-01T15:01:22.962-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-8916650941535337738?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/8916650941535337738/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/blog-post.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/8916650941535337738'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/8916650941535337738'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2012/01/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-6753354417344887498</id><published>2011-12-31T14:48:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-31T14:54:54.092-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Govt. Looking for "Key Words" on Twitter</title><content type='html'>They’re now actively monitoring Twitter and the rest of the “social media” looking for “key words.” To pique their interest. I tried hard to find out what those words were so I could use them in something and make them look like the FOOLS they are “Fool” is probably one of them. Assassinate and Obama are probably two more, although as long as Joe is right behind him, he has assassination insurance. Not as much as when Nancy was right behind Joe, but good enough.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;FED WORKERS MAKE MORE THAN ANYBODY:&lt;/span&gt; I know I’m revealing my age when I say I remember when a government worker made less than a worker in private industry. But that’s in the past. More than HALF of workers in this country work for the government now, and ALL make more than workers in private industry “Federal workers made an average $75,296 in pay last year, plus $28,323 in medical, pension and other benefits,” a USA Today analysis found.” That’s USA TODAY, not known to be a bastion of conservative thinking. That’s about 60% higher than in private business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;OBAMA’S “DEFENSE OF THE MIDDLE CLASS”:&lt;/span&gt; That’s the word. He can’t campaign on what he has DONE, so he will campaign on what he HASN’T done and can't be proved or disproved. As usual, something nobody can define nor really discredit because it contains nothing concrete. What has he actually done for the middle class except to put most of them out of work and thus add to the myth of “the rich getting richer while the poor get poorer?”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;BLACKS EXPELLED 5 TIMES MORE THAN WHITES:&lt;/span&gt; Does that mean they are being discriminated against? Probably not. What it probably means is that black students get in trouble five times as much as whites. That’s not racism if it’s built on the activities of those black students. Just like the fact that more black people are in prison than whites? Does anyone think it just MIGHT be that black people get in trouble more than whites? Call me racist if you want, but I think taking these figures to IMPUTE racism is racism itself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;TALIBAN’S MESSAGE:&lt;/span&gt; “The U. S. should stop harassing people who wear turbans.” But it’s more likely to remind us of Muslims murdering 3,000 innocent people in the world Trade Center. Not to mention the many innocent people Islamic terrorists (sorry, Obama) who have murdered thousands more since.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“HE’S CLOSE TO THE TEA PARTY”:&lt;/span&gt; Some politicians throw that out as a smear, but it’s not. The “Tea Party” is the way of referring to people who want government OUT of our lives while we make our own decisions. Fewer taxes so we can keep more of what we EARN. The Tea Party is not an organization, it is a way of THINKING. It’s people who are tired of the government taking most of what we earn with tax on top of tax until we’re all broke.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-6753354417344887498?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/6753354417344887498/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/12/govt-looking-for-key-words-on-twitter.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/6753354417344887498'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/6753354417344887498'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/12/govt-looking-for-key-words-on-twitter.html' title='Govt. Looking for &quot;Key Words&quot; on Twitter'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-2169761124860229893</id><published>2011-12-29T13:55:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-29T14:00:18.248-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Liberal Bigoted Lie</title><content type='html'>The absolute proof that shows the bigoted lie liberals are pushing when they accuse the “Tea Parties” of being racist is Herman Cain winning the Florida Straw Poll. No longer can the Obama forces say the “Tea Parties” are racist (but that won’t stop them from lying). The Tea Parties had their own black candidate and without a word about voting for him BECAUSE he’s black. that is, until the liberals "took him out" with lying accusations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;NO AWARDS FOR CONSERVATIVES:&lt;/span&gt;  Justin Timberlake is being “honored” for his “environmental efforts.” Conservatives don’t get such awards because we don’t care about such things as “awards.” We just “do our thing” and if we get an award for it (we usually don’t), okay. Most “awards” are given out by liberal organizations for liberal reasons, such as AlGore’s “global warming” (now called “climate change” to confuse us) swindle, from which he has made $MILLIONS; maybe even $BILLIONS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;TAXING THE RICH:&lt;/span&gt; That’s the most idiotic plan going, but I expect stupid plans from liberals. It’s common for them to wish to eliminate and harass those whose work and ideas are ESSENTIAL to our nation’s continuation as the richest nation in the world; the destination of choice for people who want to better themselves. So much so they come here illegally because we make it so hard to do so legally. Taking money away from the very people who create ALL the jobs. Their policies are ALL idiotic because their ideology it that of a FOOL.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;REGULATING SHOWER NOZZLES:&lt;/span&gt; Only liberals would do such a stupid thing. Supposedly to “conserve water,” which is NOT in short supply. You cannot destroy water. You can only cause it to evaporate, only to reappear somewhere else. This is the kind of stupid thing liberals do, and will lead to more water being used in longer showers or people being dirtier than before.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;THOUSANDS OF SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILES MISSING:&lt;/span&gt; I’d be surprised if this globe survives another 100 years because we are so dilatory in keeping control of our weapons. One day we will lose any number of nuclear weapons to the Islamic terrorists and they will set them off to kill as many “non-believers” in Islam as they can. What will happen is they kill the entire population of the world, including themselves. Good riddance to them, but not to us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;EVERYBODY KNOWS MORE ABOUT CAPITALISM:&lt;/span&gt; Harvey Golub, former CEO of AMEX, says, “My grandson knows more about capitalism than Obama.” Hell, EVERYBODY knows more about capitalism than Obama! We properly call it “the free market,” not that derisive term, “capitalism.” It’s common for liberals and other socialists to be ignorant of what the free market IS. That’s why they hate it.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-2169761124860229893?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/2169761124860229893/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/12/liberal-bigoted-lie.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/2169761124860229893'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/2169761124860229893'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/12/liberal-bigoted-lie.html' title='The Liberal Bigoted Lie'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-2512087706816068549</id><published>2011-12-28T14:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-28T14:06:22.454-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Herman Cain Was Wrong</title><content type='html'>People say those who attack Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 program just do not understand it. I understand that it is 27% of our income he wants to tax, and that’s too much. With a flat tax OR a sales tax, EVERYBODY is paying, not just SOME, as with the Income Tax. So they don’t NEED to tax us at such a high rate to suck the same amount of money out of us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;FALSE ACCUSATION:&lt;/span&gt; Supposedly, several women have “accused” Herman Cain of “sexual harassment” and one has even received a huge settlement from the restaurant association he headed then, and without his knowledge, since he had “recused” himself from the case and did not even know how it was resolved. Such vague and undefined “accusations” should not even be considered, and WOULD not if the accused were a Democrat. I remember all the SPECIFIC accusations against Bill Clinton that were “resolved” by ruining the reputations of the women involved. Only one of them keeping her dress with the damning sperm stain containing his DNA allowed the case to be proved.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;1000 TERRORISTS EQUALS 1 ISRAELI:&lt;/span&gt; I guess Islamic terrorists aren't worth much if Israel traded 1,000 of them for ONE Israeli soldier. But that IS a bad idea. Already the Islamic terrorists are planning on kidnapping many more Israeli soldiers. Which is to be expected. You name the evil action and they do it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;AMMUNITION:&lt;/span&gt; The Republican debates actually do nothing but give Democrats ammunition to use against whoever finally emerges as the winner of the Republican nomination to run for president. The current false accusation of Herman Cain of sexual harassment is a good example. He was cleared then, but you can bet it will be brought up again and again during the election, regardless, even if he is not the nominee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“OVERWHELMING THE TRULY WELL INFORMED”:&lt;/span&gt; The AlGore fools are planning on releasing a huge amount of false information. Hoping to “overwhelm” those who are “truly well-informed.” Thus, they hope their lie will prevail over the truth that “climate change” (their most recent name for their “global warming' con) is NOT “man-caused,” but is “cyclical” changes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;RUN BY LIBERALS:&lt;/span&gt; The people who RUN the debates and decide what questions to ask can make a candidate look good or bad. Why then do the Republicans allow so many of the REPUBLICAN debates to be run by liberal organizations such as CNN?&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-2512087706816068549?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/2512087706816068549/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/12/herman-cain-was-wrong.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/2512087706816068549'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/2512087706816068549'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/12/herman-cain-was-wrong.html' title='Herman Cain Was Wrong'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-6935338389041011618</id><published>2011-12-22T14:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-22T14:22:05.438-08:00</updated><title type='text'>"Outstanding Leader"</title><content type='html'>That’s what they’re now calling Kim Jung Un, Kim Jong Il’s third son, who has been relegated to “sharing power” with his uncle—which means the uncle is really the “leader” while Un will be forced to agree with everything. They’re doing this two days into his “leadership,” after he has done NOTHING. Like Obama getting a Nobel before HE did anything, good or bad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;FED TAKEOVER OF LOCAL JAIL:&lt;/span&gt; The Feds have “taken over” Joe Arpaio’s jail because he doesn’t discriminate IN FAVOR of Hispanics. This is patently unconstitutional, but Obama doesn’t care. He makes it LOOK legal. He’s “got it out” for Arpaio because he doesn’t “tug his forelock” to Obama. Watch for Arpaio’s prisoners to lose the pink shorts and live a LOT better for a while.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MORE LIES:&lt;/span&gt; Obama goes on television claiming he has spent more money to secure our borders than his predecessor. Why then, is our border still so porous? Why do ILLEGAL aliens still come through every day by the hundreds, maybe even THOUSANDS? He goes on television every day and LIES. And the liberal (socialist) media lets him get away with it because they are “in his back pocket.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;OBAMA THINKS HE’S BETTER THAN ALL BUT 4 PRESIDENTS:&lt;/span&gt; What a monumental ego this jerk has! His level of chutzpah is unparalleled. He thinks it’s all about his color. Frankly, I don’t care if he’s GREEN! He’s a socialist, and he is working HARD to make this into a socialist country. That’s why I don’t like him. He has spent more money than there IS, and a lot of it came out of my pocket. He would be a joke if it weren’t so serious.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;LESLIE MARSHALL HAS HER BLINDERS ON:&lt;/span&gt; Nothing Obama does to us apparently will penetrate her noggin and cause her to criticize him. She blatantly says she is “the only true democracy on talk radio,” and she’s right. Too bad this is not a democracy and she doesn’t understand that. Anybody with any smarts knows this is a REPUBLIC. We don’t ALL vote on all issues: we send representatives to Washington to vote for us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;IT’S NOT A TAX CUT!&lt;/span&gt; Obama, and even the GOP insists on calling that tiny reduction of the amount of money the government takes out of your paycheck for SOCIAL SECURITY as a “tax cut.” It is NOT! It is a further tightening of the amount of money that goes to support that Social Security pyramid scheme FDR conned us into. Consequently, the time that system goes broke is even nearer than those keeping track of such things think. That $40 a week isn’t going to break you, but it MAY break Social Security.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-6935338389041011618?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/6935338389041011618/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/12/outstanding-leader.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/6935338389041011618'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/6935338389041011618'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/12/outstanding-leader.html' title='&quot;Outstanding Leader&quot;'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-6208317074448527911</id><published>2011-12-21T14:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-21T14:24:10.536-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Stupid, Stupid, Stupid!</title><content type='html'>Extending  the reduction in Social Security taxes for TWO MONTHS! Nothing EVER gets done in Washington in two months! It takes THREE months just to reprogram the computers! What FOOL thought extending them for TWO MONTHS would do anything?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;OBAMA REJECTS ALL JOBS PLANS:&lt;/span&gt; One example is the AT&amp;amp;T/T Mobil merger, which would have created many jobs. Then there’s the oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf, which would have created thousands of jobs. What’s WRONG with this jerk? We need to get him OUT of there so we can make some progress! There are many more instances, but I think you get the idea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PERFECT SENSE TO A FOOL:&lt;/span&gt; Whoopee Goldberg who is a pretty good comedienne, but not much else, says “Communism is a great concept that makes perfect sense.”  Of course it would make perfect sense to a fool, and like most Hollywood “stupid spouters,” she IS a fool and illustrates her ignorance every time she opens her mouth. She doesn’t even realize that under communism she wouldn’t be as rich as she is. The government would take it all away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“AN EMBARRASSMENT”:&lt;/span&gt; I never thought I’d agree with Hugo Chavez, but when he said “Obama is a clown and an embarrassment,” I DO tend to agree with him. Obama IS a "clown and an embarrassment." But I think I have different reasons for thinking so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“KILL ‘EM ALL!”&lt;/span&gt; In Syria, Assad’s son is doing the same thing his father did when opposed. He kills ‘em all indiscriminately. His troops go into neighborhoods where some of his opposition lives and kills everybody there, whether or not they’re involved. I predict he will soon be overturned, and shot, just as the Libyan tyrant was. He won’t even get a trial as Saddam did after being pulled out of his “spider hole.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;LOST OUT ALREADY:&lt;/span&gt; I’d hate to be Kim Jong Il’s third son right about now.  Word was he would be the undisputed leader after Kim’s death. But several days later, word is he will “share power” with his uncle. What’s going on? I’d say he has a short life expectancy right now.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-6208317074448527911?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/6208317074448527911/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/12/stupid-stupid-stupid.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/6208317074448527911'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/6208317074448527911'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/12/stupid-stupid-stupid.html' title='Stupid, Stupid, Stupid!'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-711461541758813414</id><published>2011-12-20T13:36:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-20T13:40:43.182-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Kim Jong Il</title><content type='html'>Good riddance to bad rubbish again. I hear he died from holding his breath waiting for Obama to come and bow to him, as promised. Doesn’t he know Obama NEVER keeps a promise? One more dictator down, several more to go. Kim’s kid is as fat and ugly as he is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;IRAQ WAR’S OVER:&lt;/span&gt; Hooorrraaayyy! They’re making a big thing about it as the last military trucks and troops cross the border out of Iraq (and into another country with whom we are “at war.” But the “war in Iraq” was over a long time ago by my reckoning. It was over when Saddam Hussein was overthrown and forced to flee while another government was formed to replace him. But we stayed there so we could keep our influence alive. We’re doing the same thing in Afghanistan and will continue until the pressure becomes too great, as we did in Iraq.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!”&lt;/span&gt; That’s what George Bush said after his forces dumped Saddam Hussein into the trash heap of history, and it was. But we stayed there for another many years while the liberals set it up so they could claim victory when they finally allowed our soldiers to flee and stop dying because of impossible “rules of engagement.” What a load of crap. What if we’d called it “still at war” after WWII while we “occupied” Germany and Japan?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MEMBERS OF CONGRESS BARRED FROM SAYING “MERRY CHRISTMAS”:&lt;/span&gt; That’s right; the very people who make the laws in this country have been BARRED from saying “Merry Christmas” in their mailings to constituents. Funny: I thought the Congress was an EQUAL branch of government to the Executive and its members were not subject to COMMANDS from the president or his henchmen. I'd tell Obama to go to hell.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;BETTER THINGS TO DO THAN BEAT HER:&lt;/span&gt; Didja see that picture on the Drudge Report (and elsewhere, I’m sure) of the woman on the ground with an Egyptian cop ripping her shirt off while another one stomps on her? You’d think the crowd, which I’m sure outnumbers these thugs in uniform, could “put it to” those cops if they got together and stopped being a bunch of individuals. I know if I saw a cop doing that, I’d certainly take his baton away and bash him with it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“PRESIDENT” ROMNEY?&lt;/span&gt; Not a chance. If Romney was my only choice other than Obama I simply would not vote. Hopefully that will not give Obama a victory. I certainly hope there are enough newly-awakened Americans to stop that from happening. But Romney is “the old guard.” If any Republican is one of Washington’s denizens, it is Romney. He may not be as much of a “progressive” (liberal, socialist) as Obama but he IS a liberal, no matter how hard he tries to hide it. If we can’t get a REAL conservative like Bachman in there, I give up. America will be known then to be STUPID.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-711461541758813414?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/711461541758813414/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/12/kim-jong-il.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/711461541758813414'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/711461541758813414'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/12/kim-jong-il.html' title='Kim Jong Il'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-8572067714169564912</id><published>2011-12-18T14:11:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-18T14:17:28.494-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Washington Stupidity</title><content type='html'>I get so tired of the abject STUPIDITY in Washington, and I don’t mean just among Democrats. I hear just as much stupidity coming out of Republican mouths as I do Democrat. Just not as often. Such things as “tax the rich” and “make it harder on big business.” How about “I’ll bankrupt the coal industry.” All this involves a complete lack of understanding of how things work. That’s INCOMPETENCE, and we (not me) have elected these incompetent people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;LIBERALS ARE AGAINST PROGRESS:&lt;/span&gt; Liberals simply don’t understand that “big business” is the reason we’re prosperous. Without “big business” we wouldn’t have cars; or homes to live in; or furniture to put in our homes; televisions, computer games, and other things to entertain us. We’d have no electricity to power those entertainment items or give us light. All these things liberals are against are ESSENTIAL to our life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WE NEED THE RICH:&lt;/span&gt; “Getting rich” is the ultimate goal for EVERY person on earth, no matter how much they lie, and deny it. People who get rich inevitably hire many people to help them. Thus, they create the jobs we all need. That’s NOT a “myth” as liberals try to sell us. Many create other rich people along the way as THEY get rich. My own son sells pizzas and frankly hopes to be rich before I die.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;THE RICH TAKE NOTHING FROM THE POOR:&lt;/span&gt; How COULD they? The poor HAVE nothing, so how can the rich take anything from them. Liberals say the rich “suck up all the money” so there’s none left for the poor. That’s SILLY! All the “poor” have to do is make the right decisions, go to school and learn something, then use that knowledge to provide a product or service many of us want to buy; then sell it to us. But too many just want to live at the expense of the ones who DO those things, and REMAIN “poor.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;OBAMA’S ANTI-GUN SCAM:&lt;/span&gt; Liberals (including Obama) have always wanted stiffer gun laws. So they hatched a scheme (“Fast &amp;amp; Furious”) to con gun dealers into selling guns to Mexican drug lords  so they could CLAIM that most guns there COME from America so they could “tighten” gun laws in America. But it backfired, and killed people, including at least ONE border guard. When (if) America realizes the death-dealing scope of this scam, there’ll be a revolution and Obama will go first.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;OBAMA “NECK-DEEP”:&lt;/span&gt; This “Fast and Furious” scam could NOT have happened without the knowledge and aid of one Barack H. Obama. He denies it, of course. But without his approval, it couldn’t have happened. Nixon knew about the breakin at the Democrat headquarters in the Watergate and that was enough to do him in. At least nobody died there. When (if) America realizes the scope of his deadly scam, he will be gone; one way or the other.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-8572067714169564912?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/8572067714169564912/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/12/washington-stupidity.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/8572067714169564912'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/8572067714169564912'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/12/washington-stupidity.html' title='Washington Stupidity'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-6693687021768895089</id><published>2011-12-17T15:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-17T15:04:52.335-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Atheism A Religion</title><content type='html'>They insist it’s not, but it is. Not just not believing in god, but doing such things as filing lawsuits to get rid of a sign stretched across a small town street and working to remove any vestige of religion from as many places as possible. If it were not a religion in itself, they wouldn’t give a damn about such things. They just wouldn’t believe. It’s a good thing Christians are not like Muslims; they’d be killing these atheists for not believing in THEIR religion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;BLAMING EVERYONE ELSE:&lt;/span&gt; Obama blames George Bush, automation, and what he calls “stupid businessmen” and many other things (except himself) for the recession we’re in that is threatening to become a DEpression. He has caused a massive liberal (socialism) explosion, having gotten everything he wanted passed in the three years he’s been in power. It’s time he takes SOME responsibility for it, but that, he’ll never do. He doesn’t even THINK he’s responsible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“FREE MARKET IS A MYTH”:&lt;/span&gt; That’s what those predisposed to collectivism say, ignoring ALL evidence to the contrary, Why else has this country, in little more than 300 years, exceeded the production of every other country in the world and become the destination of choice for those who want to better themselves from all over the world? Collectivism CANNOT equal what the free market has done, and they deny the evidence of their own eyes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;IN TROUBLE FOR THE TRUTH:&lt;/span&gt; Republican Allen West says the Democrats “would be very proud of Hermann Goebbels” and they hate that. They’ll soon be twisting it to say he wants to “smear” them by calling them Nazis. But how do you “smear” somebody with the truth? He specifically mentioned their efforts to make Republicans the cause of our financial problems when it was a law passed by the Democrats to force lenders to loan money to people who could never pay it back that did it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;NO GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN:&lt;/span&gt; The current “dog and pony show” in Washington to con us out of more money is over. The president signed the bill to finance the law (until next time) into law that will keep the government open. They haven’t said how long it will last this time, but I’m sure we will hear about the next “budget shortfall” soon, and the pressure will again mount until a new spending bill is passed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;JESSE JERKSON SAYS “JESUS WAS AN OCCUPIER”:&lt;/span&gt; What is it with stupid people like Jesse? Does he think he can make stupid statements like this and have anybody with any intelligence believe him? Where was Jesus’ army? What war did he win? Or was he simply a man people FOLLOWED willingly? Somebody needs to slap Jesse silly. I know; he’s silly already. He just needs to be slapped.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-6693687021768895089?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/6693687021768895089/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/12/atheism-religion.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/6693687021768895089'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/6693687021768895089'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/12/atheism-religion.html' title='Atheism A Religion'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-5740498403553333377</id><published>2011-12-15T11:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-15T12:04:54.890-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Illegal is Illegal is Illegal</title><content type='html'>Call it what you want, an illegal alien is an illegal alien. A newsman got “hollered at” the other day for calling an illegal alien an illegal alien. The liberals don’t like that. They want to control the very words we use and they want us to use “undocumented alien” instead. Screw ‘em. I don’t take orders from liberals on what words I may use. I “call a spade a spade,” even if liberals want to call it a “manual dirt scraper” or some such. They can call things what they want. They don’t get to “instruct” me on what words to use. I “call ‘em as I see ‘em, and if they don’t like that, they can just get used to it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;CORZINE LYING OR INCOMPETENT:&lt;/span&gt; Former governor Corzine, also former CEO of MF Holdings, the company that “lost” (probably into some executive’s bank account) BILLIONS of dollars in customer money, is either lying or is incompetent. You decide. He was “in charge.” Those “in charge” are expected to KNOW everything that goes on in the companies they run. If not, they’re incompetent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;BANKRUPTING COAL:&lt;/span&gt; Obama has pledged to BANKRUPT the coal industry, regardless of the fact there is nothing to replace it. Without it, our energy industry “goes under.” How does he answer that? He doesn’t; he just ignores questions about it. How STUPID is that?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;IRAN IS NEXT.&lt;/span&gt; It’s inevitable; Ahmadinijerk is working too hard to "pick at us" and become an even bigger thorn in our side than even Saddam was. And you know what happened to Saddam. Liberals will howl about it because they’re stupid. But eventually we WILL “take him down.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PAYROLL TAX CUT A CON:&lt;/span&gt; It’s not a “tax cut.” It’s a TEMPORARY reduction in the amount of money they take out of your pay THIS WEEK and next to support Social Security. It MUST eventually be replaced or Social Security will go broke way ahead of schedule. It’s a con to get votes now, for Obama. That it will hurt Social Security, Obama just doesn't care.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;GOP DEBATES A “DOG AND PONY SHOW”:&lt;/span&gt; It’s designed to get the names of the serious candidates in front of you and give you SOME idea of what they’d like you to think they’re for or against. Does it really tell you anything? Not a chance. You’ll learn a lot more about them during the general election. Maybe not the truth, but more about them.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-5740498403553333377?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/5740498403553333377/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/12/illegal-is-illegal-is-illegal.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/5740498403553333377'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/5740498403553333377'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/12/illegal-is-illegal-is-illegal.html' title='Illegal is Illegal is Illegal'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-8058847877642208278</id><published>2011-12-14T13:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-14T13:44:06.476-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The "Long Knives" Are Out</title><content type='html'>As Rush said, Newt is now the “official Republican front-runner” now because they have “dug up” somebody who CLAIMS Newt had sex with somebody 34 years ago. It’s beginning, folks. The Democrats’ system of “personal destruction” of their enemies is beginning. It’s funny (ha, ha) to me they would continue to use this system since Democrats are the most vulnerable to accusations of sexual misconduct and other forms of corruption. It is a fact that more Democrats than Republicans have been sent to prison for corruption in recent years. The most recent being former Democrat Illinois Governor Blogojevich, who got 14 years, and his Democrat presecessor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;HOW MUSLIMS SEE JEWISH WOMEN: &lt;/span&gt;“[T]hat conspicuous moderate, Sheikh Saad al-Beraik, who has reportedly stated: 'Muslim brothers in Palestine, do not have any mercy neither compassion on the Jews, their blood, their money, their flesh. Their women are yours to take, legitimately. God made them yours. Why don't you enslave their women? Why don't you wage jihad? Why don't you pillage them?' ” (Atlas Shrugs)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;THEIR FINEST HOUR:&lt;/span&gt; One of my finest memories is the sight of a Jewish woman standing over an Islamic terrorist pumping bullets into him before he could set off the bomb he had strapped to himself. He wanted to become a “martyr” and she was happy to make him into one before he could hurt anyone else. And Muslim terrorists wonder why they need to change their name.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A CONSERVATIVE FOOL:&lt;/span&gt; That’s Ron Paul. He thinks Bush WANTED to invade Iraq and was “gleeful” when 3,000 people were murdered on 9/11. How STUPID is this? And this guy wants to be president. I am grateful that he has NO chance of even being nominated. With a president like him we don’t need enemies. He might have conservative ideas otherwise, but it is this kind of thinking that will SINK us if he is elected.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PUT ALL THE CROOKS TOGETHER:&lt;/span&gt; There’s a move afoot to make Chicago a state. I agree. That’lll keep the crooks out of the rest of a good state that has had TWO crooked governors recently. I’ve been in Chicago twice in my life. Once as a baby and once as an adult. I won’t be going back; ever. I felt threatened, just by being on the street in Chicago. I managed to stay at a very questionable hotel because I knew nothing about that corrupt city.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;THIS IS SEXUAL HARASSMENT:&lt;/span&gt; Herman Cain told a woman years ago she was the same height as his wife. This woman took that as "sexual harassment." That's how easily a woman can stain a man without ANY kind of proof of any wrongdoing. We need to get rid of such SUBJECTIVE laws that are subject to DEFINITION by the supposed "victim" or by the enforcer.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-8058847877642208278?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/8058847877642208278/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/12/long-knives-are-out.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/8058847877642208278'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/8058847877642208278'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/12/long-knives-are-out.html' title='The &quot;Long Knives&quot; Are Out'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-2232574801477322499</id><published>2011-12-13T13:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-13T14:03:54.541-08:00</updated><title type='text'>"Tax the Rich!"</title><content type='html'>Liberals want to tax the rich by taking away as much money as they can in taxes, thinking they can fund their “flights of fancy” by that method, forgetting there aren’t ENOUGH rich to do that for very long, and the more they tax them, the less INCENTIVE they will have to EARN more money—which will mean less taxable income, and less money for them to tax (steal) away from them. Everything they do is “counterproductive” to what they profess to want. If they keep up on the path they’re taking, there will one day BE no more “rich” for them to victimize for their own ends. Then the “moochers” of society will than start looting THEM.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;CORZINE “LOST” MORE THAN $100 BILLION:&lt;/span&gt; Why then, is he being considered to be appointed to a high government post &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;managing our money&lt;/span&gt; instead of being “perp-walked” into court to answer charges? Corzine was one of the first people Obama called on for financial advice after he was elected president; the man who “lost” billions of investor’s dollars!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;RULES DON’T APPLY TO HIM:&lt;/span&gt; Alec Baldwin, star of “30 Rock,” and outspoken liberal, apparently thinks that, like with other “elites” (or those who think they are elite) the rules don’t apply to him. He felt it was so important for him to continue playing his computer game that he didn’t have to stop, according to federal regulations. So they kicked him off the flight and he later slurred flight attendants in his Twitter account. This is they guy who thinks conservatives are dirt. Frankly, it is Baldwin who carries the most dirt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“ASSUMING MANIPULATION”:&lt;/span&gt; In Russia, citizens don’t get too excited about elections because they “assume” the results will be manipulated, anyway. And, if you pay attention to what happened in Indiana and probably in many other states in this country (when Obama was elected), it’s becoming the same here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“WE DIDN’T GET THE MEMO”:&lt;/span&gt; That’s the refrain from ALL the top officials (right up to Obama) who are questioned about “Fast &amp;amp; Furious” from the LEADERS, who, if they are COMPETENT, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;should&lt;/span&gt; definitely have known. So it comes down to this: either they knew about it and are covering it up, or they are INCOMPETENT. Which is it? They SAY they will “hold people responsible” for it, but so far, not a single person has been fired or charged with a crime. Surprise, surprise!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;FORGET THIRD PARTY:&lt;/span&gt; People are pushing for a third party, and Huntsman is their man so far. It’s a mistake. If Huntsman could win he can do it as a Republican. A third party will split the GOP vote and guarantee 4 more years of Obama. There is no telling what he can accomplish, moving us ever closer to socialism in 4 more years. And with the money he has spent already, he will put us into debt for all eternity with 4 more years, raising our taxes to the stratosphere in the bargain.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-2232574801477322499?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/2232574801477322499/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/12/tax-rich.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/2232574801477322499'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/2232574801477322499'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/12/tax-rich.html' title='&quot;Tax the Rich!&quot;'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-2701336440601512297</id><published>2011-12-11T13:37:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T13:42:11.935-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Are Tea Parties Like OWS?</title><content type='html'>Not a chance. There have been 5,214 arrests at OWS events. None at Tea Party events. Tea Party people are law abiding; OWS people are NOT. TP people clean up after themselves. OWS people not only do not, they pee on cop cars and take dumps in the street, right in front of the world—and they don’t even wipe, leaving brown stains in their stinking pants. They delight in pushing cops to the edge until they “lose it,” preferably in front of cameras.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MAKING A LIBERAL MAD:&lt;/span&gt; Tell the truth. To make a conservative mad, tell a lie. That’s one major difference between the two. They try and make you think the only difference is in “ideology,” but the main difference is adherence or non-adherence to the truth. Or maybe it’s belief in individual responsibility or belief in somebody else being responsible for them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;CHINA'S "PROSPERITY":&lt;/span&gt; China has a VENEER of prosperity layered over a massive amount of poverty. Get out of the “big cities,” which are very wobbily built and go to the countryside to see the ox-drawn carts and horse-drawn plows (if the farmer can afford a horse, without which he pulls the plow himself) and candle-lit homes. Living in the China countryside is like living more than 100 years ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;OBAMA WANTS TO TAX THE RICH:&lt;/span&gt; Does that mean he wants to raise his own taxes? I don’t THINK so. I’d bet he has ways for himself and other rich liberals to avoid higher taxes on the conservative rich. They always exempt themselves from the things they impose on us “peons.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;POST OFFICE GOING BROKE:&lt;/span&gt; Like the rest of the government, the Post Office is going broke. But unlike the rest of the government, they cannot print money to “paper over” their bankruptcy. They have to provide a service and without money they can’t. Like the buggy whip makers of old, they are an obsolete entity and will soon go down.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;REFUSING TO USE OIL WE OWN:&lt;/span&gt; I can’t blame this entirely on Obama. Both Bushes and Clinton alike refused the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;obvious solution&lt;/span&gt; to high gas prices: drilling for our own oil in places where WE make the rules. Meanwhile, Obama is FINANCING oil drilling in other countries, and will be BUYING that oil from them at high prices. How STUPID is this? Yes, Reagan maintained the oil drilling ban, but our dependence on foreign oil wasn’t a problem then.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-2701336440601512297?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/2701336440601512297/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/12/are-tea-parties-like-ows.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/2701336440601512297'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/2701336440601512297'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/12/are-tea-parties-like-ows.html' title='Are Tea Parties Like OWS?'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-4274505704585273979</id><published>2011-12-10T14:05:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-10T14:10:59.060-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Don't Let Media Choose Our Candidate</title><content type='html'>The liberal media is working hard to choose the Republican candidate, choosing Romney, the easiest one to defeat. Don’t allow it. They chose the GOP candidate last time and look what happened. We got Obama. I’ve always known Romney was wrong, and the liberal media  touting him cements it. Sarah, where ARE you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;LIAR-IN-CHIEF:&lt;/span&gt; Obama told a bunch of lies the other day, chief among them is that he is not practicing “class warfare” when he is easily seen to be doing just that. How can you tell when Obama is lying? His mouth is moving and sounds are coming out. Just like Clinton, only worse. He wants you to think he wants to “create jobs,” but he doesn’t. He wants unemployment to remain high, right along with inflation and the national debt. All the better to make this country into “Soviet Socialist America.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;DEMS CAUSED ECONOMIC DISASTER:&lt;/span&gt; When they passed the “Citizen’s Reinvestment Act of 1977”, that forced lenders to loan money to people who could not ever repay it or have to fight off an expensive “investigation.” Fannie and Freddie were created to obfuscate the expected results. Now Obama is saying lenders “should have known” these people couldn’t pay. He’s right, but under government pressure they had no choice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;CORZINE IS INCOMPETENT:&lt;/span&gt; Like most of the politicians today in Washington. That’s the reason we’re in so much trouble now. They ACT like they know what they’re doing, but they don’t. They adhere to the Keynesian economics that has been debunked many times in the past and will not consider anything else. That’s incompetence. There’s no way around it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WHY NOT SELF-DESTRUCT? &lt;/span&gt;We’re worrying a lot about Iran reverse engineering a drone that went down in their territory. Why? If we can control that drone sufficiently at distance to attack a bunch of terrorists, why not build a “self-destruct” into it so if it goes down in enemy territory we can just blow it up or release acid to destroy it before that can happen?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;CORZINE A CRIMINAL:&lt;/span&gt; Commingling company money and customer money is a crime. Corzine is guilty of that crime. He should not even be CONSIDERED to be appointed to ANY federal job, especially not one involving custody of other people’s money. But that is exactly what Obama (Mister Stupid) is still proposing, even while Corzine sits before Congress trying to explain what happened to BILLIONS of dollars in customer money. This is NOT a “bankruptcy” case, it is a THEFT case.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-4274505704585273979?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/4274505704585273979/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/12/dont-let-media-choose-our-candidate.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/4274505704585273979'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/4274505704585273979'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/12/dont-let-media-choose-our-candidate.html' title='Don&apos;t Let Media Choose Our Candidate'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-3138336263160992979</id><published>2011-12-06T11:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-06T11:34:46.680-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Merry Christmas!</title><content type='html'>Not “Happy Holidays” or “Season’s Greetings.” I will not join the chorus to remove CHRIST from Christmas. It’s HIS birthday. I am not big on organized religion, but I believe people who are should be able to observe their religion without interference from atheists. Atheism is, itself, a religion, regardless of their denials. And its practitioners should not be allowed to dictate to members of another religion how they should be able to observe their religion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WAS IT BUTTON OR THE CAR?&lt;/span&gt; People who couldn’t hope to drive a Formula One car are suggesting World Champion Jensen Button would not have been world champion without a superior car. Which brings up the question; would seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher have been so unbeatable without a superior car? The fact he is back in it on another team without being nearly as competitive might add to the question. I know this has nothing to do with politics, but it DOES serve to show how different people can read different things into the same set of facts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;CAIN “SUSPENDING” HIS CAMPAIGN:&lt;/span&gt; Because of UNPROVEN sexual misconduct accusations, the most detailed of which came from a woman who is a KNOWN stalker. Stalkers are well known to believe their own imaginary “connections” to the people they are stalking. They could even pass a lie detector test telling their lies. Yes, Cain did pay some of her bills. That’s the kind of person he is. That is in no way proof of a sexual liaison. And she repays him by destroying his campaign with the help of the Democrats&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ARE YOU RICH?&lt;/span&gt; By the standards of most countries, the people we consider “poor” are “filthy rich.” The poor in places like Biafra think our poorest people are rich beyond their dreams. So does Obama’s brother living in his hut. Put things in perspective, people!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! VOTE DEMOCRAT! &lt;/span&gt;That’s the bumper sticker I’ve been seeing, and it raises the question, “Enough WHAT?” Sounds like typical Obama bullsh-t. All sound and fury with no substance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;NO MORE VIRGINS!&lt;/span&gt; Jeez! How horrible! Saudis say allowing women to drive means the end of virginity. How they make that connection is beyond me; but how they make MANY connections is also beyond me. My guess is they make it up as they go along and put it out as “gospel.” I guess this means that there are NO virgins in ANY country but theirs, since theirs is the ONLY country that bans women drivers.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-3138336263160992979?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/3138336263160992979/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/12/merry-christmas.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/3138336263160992979'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/3138336263160992979'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/12/merry-christmas.html' title='Merry Christmas!'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-8064920892826039108</id><published>2011-12-04T13:52:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-04T13:56:51.096-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif'/><title type='text'>He's Already Decided</title><content type='html'>Leon Panetta, our erstwhile Sec. of Defense, recently gave a “tongue-lashing” to Israel in which he blatantly told them to “come to the table” with the Palestinians” and “agree to a two-state solution” to the problems CREATED by the Palestinians (and other Muslims, especially the extremists). Where the hell does Panetta get off giving ORDERS to a sovereign nation?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“TALKING DOWN THE ECONOMY”:&lt;/span&gt; Liberals keep accusing the Republicans of “only wanting to talk down the economy,” when what they’re doing is telling the TRUTH about it, while liberals are LYING. The unemployment numbers are down “slightly” mostly due to the fact that the government is no longer COUNTING 315,000 people who have simply GIVEN UP on ever finding a job in Obama’s economy. They’re “fudging the numbers,” as usual.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PUNISHING THE WHISTLEBLOWERS:&lt;/span&gt; The government promised not to “punish the whistleblowers” in the “Fast and Furious” scandal, but they did. The lower level agents have been transferred to what amounts to “Siberia” posts while the top tier bureaucrats who STARTED it and gave orders NOT to interfere were transferred to better, higher-paying jobs. I keep saying this and nothing ever gets done. They just ignore it and go on as if nobody had spoken.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;DEMS SUPPORT OWS:&lt;/span&gt; “Occupy Wall Street” (or wherever) purposely piss of the cops to the point where they sometimes go too far in their response. This makes OWS protesters happy. Obama, Biden, Peelosi, and many other Democrats SUPPORT these ignorant “signifiers.” Sounds like a White House sponsored demonstration, to me. These demonstrations are identical to the liberal demonstrations in the sixties. Most of whose people are now IN power.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ARMY REMOVES CROSS FROM BUILDING:&lt;/span&gt; This in response to demands from &lt;a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/some-soliders-up-in-arms-after-officials-remove-cross-from-u-s-military-chapel-in-afghanistan/"&gt;Muslims&lt;/a&gt;. Has anyone successfully gotten a Muslim image removed from a Mosque? Doubtful. Muslims are quick to take offense at crosses, but they ignore all demands (if any arise) to remove ANY of THEIR images. Next they’ll be demanding we take them down INSIDE of the chapel. Army says it came down because of ARMY regs, but that’s simply CYA crap.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;CLASS WARFARE A STAPLE:&lt;/span&gt; To hear Obama and his henchmen speak, ALL our troubles are caused by those eeeevil rich when it is the rich that provide ALL the investment money required to create jobs. If you take more and more money away from them, soon there will BE no investment capital to create jobs. God knows, the GOVERNMENT can’t create jobs (except for government jobs, paid for by our tax dollars, and creating NO new money). All it can do is make it impossible.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-8064920892826039108?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/8064920892826039108/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/12/hes-already-decided.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/8064920892826039108'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/8064920892826039108'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/12/hes-already-decided.html' title='He&apos;s Already Decided'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-8074172223501101830</id><published>2011-12-03T15:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-03T15:10:18.721-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Freedom Works Barred From Senate Room</title><content type='html'>Freedom Works, frustrated by the failure of Obama’s administration to put forth ANY budget since he was elected, reserved (through Sen, Mike Lee) a room to hold a meeting. Some people came hundreds of miles to attend, and moments before the meeting was to begin, “officials” removed the microphones and told them they could not enter the room because of a “suspicious package” that had appeared in the next room. Maybe it fell out of an “official’s” bag.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;GOP “DOG &amp;amp; PONY SHOW”:&lt;/span&gt;  All the Republican “debates” are, is a “dog and pony show” to benefit the DEMOCRATS. Notice most of them are RUN by Democrats or liberal outfits such as CNN. That way liberals get to form the questions asked the Republicans so that any answer they give makes them look like fools. They ask questions like, ”Do you still beat your wife?” so any answer the candidate gives makes him look bad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;CHINA NO LONGER COMMUNIST:&lt;/span&gt; Russian communism failed, necessitating that they “take a step back” into simple socialism where the same people are still “in charge,” but SAY they’re “no longer communist.” Communism is failing in China, too; but at a slower rate. They still SAY they’re communist, but the basis of their current “thin layer” of prosperity is NOT due to communism; it is due to their moving AWAY from communism and “experimenting” with the free market.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WHY DID COMMUNISM FAIL IN RUSSIA?&lt;/span&gt; Most people can’t understand it. Not even our erstwhile politicians. Yes, Reagan’s “pushing them to the wall” on building arms until they couldn’t afford to compete any more had a profound effect, but what really killed it is Gorby’s attempts to COMBINE a little free market with communism. As China is discovering, you can’t combine two OPPOSITES. Give people a LITTLE freedom and they’ll soon want it all. Yes, lack of INCENTIVE is a big factor, but not by itself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“ANOTHER TERM”:&lt;/span&gt; Obama is saying, “I’m going to need another term to finish the job I’ve started.” What BETTER reason to get rid of him as soon as possible?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;CAIN ACCUSER A STALKER:&lt;/span&gt; She has been found to be a stalker before and has accused another man of sexual misconduct. She’s a “serial accuser.” Stalkers are well known to be absolutely CONVINCED that people who have never heard of them are in love with them. “They just don’t realize it yet,” is a common statement when they’re called on it.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-8074172223501101830?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/8074172223501101830/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/12/freedom-works-barred-from-senate-room.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/8074172223501101830'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/8074172223501101830'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/12/freedom-works-barred-from-senate-room.html' title='Freedom Works Barred From Senate Room'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-7541578976115275529</id><published>2011-12-01T14:05:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-01T14:10:33.510-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Herman Cain Is Wrong</title><content type='html'>People say those who attack Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 program just do not understand it. I understand that it is 27% of our income he wants to tax, and that’s too much. With a flat tax OR a sales tax, EVERYBODY is paying, not just SOME, as with the Income Tax. So they don’t NEED to tax us at such a high rate to suck the same amount of money out of us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;FALSE ACCUSATION:&lt;/span&gt; Supposedly, several women have “accused” Herman Cain of “sexual harassment” and one has even received a huge settlement from the restaurant association he headed then, and without his knowledge, since he had “recused” himself from the case and did not even know how it was resolved. Such vague and undefined “accusations” should not even be considered, and WOULD not if the accused were a Democrat. I remember all the SPECIFIC accusations against Bill Clinton that were “resolved” by ruining the reputations of the women involved. Only one of them keeping her dress with the damning sperm stain containing his DNA allowed the case to be proved.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;1000 TERRORISTS EQUALS 1 ISRAELI:&lt;/span&gt; I guess Islamic terrorists aren't worth much if Israel traded 1,000 of them for ONE Israeli soldier. But that IS a bad idea. Already the Islamic terrorists are planning on kidnapping many more Israeli soldiers. Which is to be expected.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;AMMUNITION:&lt;/span&gt; The Republican debates actually do nothing but give Democrats ammunition to use against whoever finally emerges as the winner of the Republican nomination to run for president. The current false accusation of Herman Cain of sexual harassment is a good example. He was cleared then, but you can bet it will be brought up again and again during the election, regardless.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“OVERWHELMING THE TRULY WELL INFORMED”:&lt;/span&gt; The AlGore fools are planning on releasing a huge amount of false information. Hoping to “overwhelm” those who are “truly well-informed.” Thus, they hope their lie will prevail over the truth that “climate change” (their most recent name for their “global warming” con) is NOT “man-caused,” but are “cyclical” changes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;RUN BY LIBERALS:&lt;/span&gt; The people who RUN the debates and decide what questions to ask can make a candidate look good or bad. Why then do the Republicans allow so many of the REPUBLICAN debates to be run by liberal organizations such as CNN?&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-7541578976115275529?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/7541578976115275529/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/12/herman-cain-is-wrong.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/7541578976115275529'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/7541578976115275529'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/12/herman-cain-is-wrong.html' title='Herman Cain Is Wrong'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-7448829770724024583</id><published>2011-11-30T12:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-30T12:36:41.172-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Scamming the Public Again</title><content type='html'>Obama is talking as if the Republicans want to “raise taxes” in Christmas season when what they want to do is stop OTHER things that are in that bill he is pushing that HAPPENS to reduce the money taken from people’s paycheck, but does nothing to reduce the taxes they’re paying. In fact, it may make things worse when time comes to “pay up” on April 15th. Not only that, his extension of the payments to the unemployed is simply a BANDAID to temporarily reduce the effect of his UNEMPLOYMENT problem without doing ANYTHING to solve the problem. And it IS “his” unemployment problem. The time for it to be blamed on Bush is long past, if it ever was.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;POLITICIANS INSULT MY INTELLIGENCE: &lt;/span&gt;They do it every day. Obama promises me he’ll give me $2,500 if I’ll commit to spend $50,000 to hire a new employee I don’t need. Hillary praises al-Jazeera as a “superior news agency” to what we have in this country. I’ll admit we don’t have much in the way of competent news reporting, but al-Jazeera? The &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;“mouthpiece”&lt;/span&gt; of the Islamic terrorists? C’mawn! What kind of hash has she been smoking? There are numerous other instances I could cite, but I won’t.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A FAILURE IN INTELLIGENCE:&lt;/span&gt; “Ye shall be known by the company you keep.” That’s a well-known saying, and it’s true. Obama has surrounded himself with known socialists, communists, home-grown terrorists, corrupt politicians and the like. Yet Americans may be in danger of falling for his bullsh-t again. I sure hope not. I may not live to see the end of a second Obama administration, and I’d dearly hate to die with him still in office, still screwing up this country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“CAN’T HIRE”:&lt;/span&gt; A Georgia company is putting signs on all its trucks saying “We won’t hire anybody until Obama is gone.” But a sign reflecting reality would say “We CAN’T hire anybody until Obama’s gone.” The truth is, Obama has done everything he can to INHIBIT hiring so as to destroy the American economy and blame it on the free market. Then he can work harder to instill SOCIALSM as the economic model in this country, which has been his aim, all along.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SUCKED NATO RIGHT IN:&lt;/span&gt; NATO should be more careful to whom they listen. Looks like the terrorists “sucked them right in” and caused them to kill a bunch of Afghan soldiers instead of the terrorists they thought they were killing. That sounds like a failure of intelligence to me, not purposeful targeting by NATO. What better way to reduce the effectiveness of NATO than to con them into killing the wrong people?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ATF: WE WON’T PUNISH WHISTLEBLOWERS:&lt;/span&gt; But they did. Everybody who complained about the guns being sold to the Mexican drug cartels has suffered from “punitive action” while the men who were “in charge” during “Fast &amp;amp; Furious” have been kept in place or promoted. They claim they weren’t “promoted,” but were simply transferred. Not so. Each of them who were transferred got a pay raise and/or a better job with the “transfer” while the “whistleblowers” were “transferred” to the equivalent of Siberian posts and their pay lowered.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-7448829770724024583?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/7448829770724024583/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/11/scamming-public-again.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/7448829770724024583'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/7448829770724024583'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/11/scamming-public-again.html' title='Scamming the Public Again'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-3900923780392915326</id><published>2011-11-29T13:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-29T14:02:04.961-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Liberal Bigoted Lie</title><content type='html'>The absolute proof that shows the bigoted lie liberals are pushing when they accuse the “Tea Parties” of being racist is Herman Cain winning the Florida Straw Poll. No longer can the Obama forces say the “Tea Parties” are racist (but that won’t stop them from lying). The Tea Parties now have their own black candidate and without a word about voting for him BECAUSE he’s black.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;NO AWARDS FOR CONSERVATIVES:&lt;/span&gt;  Justin Timberlake is being “honored” for his “environmental efforts.” Conservatives don’t get such awards because we don’t care about such things as “awards.” We just “do our thing” and if we get an award for it (we usually don’t), okay. Most “awards” are given out by liberal organizations for liberal reasons, such as AlGore’s “global warming” (now called “climate change” to confuse us) swindle, from which he has made $MILLIONS; maybe even $BILLIONS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;TAXING THE RICH:&lt;/span&gt; That’s the most idiotic plan going, but I expect stupid plans from liberals. It’s common for them to wish to eliminate and harass those whose work and ideas are ESSENTIAL to our nation’s continuation as the richest nation in the world; the destination of choice for people who want to better themselves. So much so they come here illegally because we make it so hard to do so legally. Taking money away from the very people who create ALL the jobs. Their policies are ALL idiotic because their ideology is that of a FOOL.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;REGULATING SHOWER NOZZLES:&lt;/span&gt; Only liberals would do such a stupid thing. Supposedly to “conserve water,” which is NOT in short supply. You cannot destroy water. You can only cause it to evaporate, only to reappear somewhere else. This is the kind of stupid thing liberals do, and will lead to more water being used in longer showers or people being dirtier than before.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;THOUSANDS OF SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILES MISSING:&lt;/span&gt; I’d be surprised if this globe survives another 100 years because we are so dilatory in keeping control of our weapons. One day we will lose any number of nuclear weapons to the Islamic terrorists and they will set them off to kill as many “non-believers” in and out of Islam as they can. What will happen is they kill the entire population of the world, including themselves. Good riddance to them, but not to us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;EVERYBODY KNOWS MORE ABOUT CAPITALISM:&lt;/span&gt; Harvey Golub, former CEO of AMEX, says, “My grandson knows more about capitalism than Obama.” Hell, EVERYBODY knows more about capitalism than Obama! We properly call it “the free market,” not that derisive term, “capitalism.” It’s common for liberals and other socialists to be ignorant of what the free market IS. That’s why they hate it.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-3900923780392915326?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/3900923780392915326/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/11/liberal-bigoted-lie.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/3900923780392915326'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/3900923780392915326'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/11/liberal-bigoted-lie.html' title='The Liberal Bigoted Lie'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-4356378572492161910</id><published>2011-11-27T14:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-27T14:07:19.207-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Obama's Retaliation</title><content type='html'>This is how Obama operates; Ohio voted to “opt out” of Obama’s health care swindle, so he shut down their shale oil business, costing this country 200,000 jobs, in retaliation. This man is DANGEROUS! We need to get rid of him at the first opportunity, without fail!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“PARTISAN BICKERING”:&lt;/span&gt; Why is it always “partisan bickering” when Republicans so it, but when Democrats do it, it becomes “sticking to their principles?” Why don’t Democrats recognize that Republicans have basic principles? Never mind. I know the answer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;IT’S THEIR JOB, STUPID!&lt;/span&gt; The Founders constructed the Congress so both sides of every issue could be “discussed” and, if possible, agreement reached. It’s not “partisan bickering” when Republicans stick to their principles and refuse to “knuckle under” to Democrats.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ISN’T $7,500 A MONTH ENOUGH?&lt;/span&gt; A retired teacher was heard to say at an “Occupy (Whatever)” meeting, that it would take the overthrow of the government to attain the goals (whatever they are) OWS has set for itself. Why? Isn’t it enough this teacher makes more in RETIREMENT than most of us EVER have?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;KILLING KHADDAFFI:&lt;/span&gt; The left is giving us a hard time for killing Khaddaffi. His family wants to sue. What if all of his victims sued &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;his&lt;/span&gt; family? There isn’t enough court time available to hear all those cases. Gimme a break! Some people (like Khaddaffi) don’t deserve to BE alive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“HATE CRIMES”:&lt;/span&gt; Liberals always want to call things they disagree with “hate crimes” when they aren’t. Bob Beckel, on “The Five” (Turkeys) wants to call it a “hate crime” when an employer declines to hire somebody who has been unemployed for a long time. Maybe I’ll make a list of all the stupid things liberals want to label as “hate crimes.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;HOW TO STOP GUN RUNNING TO MEXICO:&lt;/span&gt; I saw a show on Fox recently with the theme, “How to stop Mexican drug lords from getting American guns? Actually, the answer is simple: Stop Obama and his henchmen from selling guns to them!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;OXYMORON:&lt;/span&gt; “Occupy (Whatever)” wants to start their own bank. Aren’t bankers one of their prime targets? With whose money are they going to start it? Yours? Mine? Who is going to run it? Wouldn’t that be WORK? From what I’ve seen and heard, “work” is a “dirty word” to them.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-4356378572492161910?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/4356378572492161910/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/11/obamas-retaliation.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/4356378572492161910'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/4356378572492161910'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/11/obamas-retaliation.html' title='Obama&apos;s Retaliation'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-3887112493382646874</id><published>2011-11-26T14:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-26T14:16:40.059-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Go Straight to Hell!</title><content type='html'>Some critics are telling Denver Bronco’s quarterback to “lose the Jesus talk.” He basically told them to go straight to hell (though not in those words; I’m not as nice as he is), and I agree with him. NOBODY has the right to tell him to stop talking ABOUT his religion or anything else. It’s none of their business what, or who he talks about. If they don’t like it, just go somewhere else.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“REPUBLICANS ALWAYS HAVE TO CAVE”:&lt;/span&gt; That’s all I hear when there is a stalemate in Washington. Why is it the DEMOCRATS never get pressure to “cave” on any issue? It’s always the Republicans. Who is it that decides who has to “cave” on one issue or the other? Why is it nobody ever says the DEMOCRATS have to cave on an issue?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED EVERYTHING IS AN EMERGENCY?&lt;/span&gt; Why is everything always an emergency in Washington? Because everybody we send there is incompetent. They don’t know what they’re doing, so we have to “bail them out” of their own ignorance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;BASELINE BUDGETING IS A SCAM:&lt;/span&gt; Why does nobody ever talk about the fact that “baseline budgeting,” where every budget in Washington gets an AUTOMATIC 10% INCREASE every year, regardless of it’s efficiency? This allows them to claim a 7% INCREASE as a3% CUT! The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) will score the expiration of the Bush tax rate reductions as $5 trillion INCOME while its extension will be scored as a $5 trillion dollar EXPENDITURE! We BUY that crap, and always have.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;STUPID IDEA:&lt;/span&gt; Why would ANYBODY hire somebody if he needs no new employees when every employee costs him up to $50,000 a year to “earn” the $2500 “bonus” Obama promised? Does Obama really think people smart enough to be in business are STUPID enough not to have “done the math” on this? I knew Obama wasn’t too bright, but I didn’t think he was that stupid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;UN IS USELESS:&lt;/span&gt; Syria murders 2,000 of their citizens for demonstrating against them and not a peep out of the UN. They’re too busy with their dog &amp;amp; pony show in favor of the terrorist Palestinian state. How much more transparent must they be before we figure them out and get rid of them? We provide most of their money, anyway.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-3887112493382646874?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/3887112493382646874/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-straight-to-hell.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/3887112493382646874'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/3887112493382646874'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-straight-to-hell.html' title='Go Straight to Hell!'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-3781799914214124126</id><published>2011-11-24T13:39:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-24T13:47:25.564-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Myth  of Thanksgiving</title><content type='html'>Historians lied about it and Rush Limbaugh corrected it. Their original system was patently communist and killed half the colony. Gov. Bradford changed to the free market and saved it. The Indians had nothing to do with it and were only invited to the dinner because they were friends.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;IT STARTED AFTER DEMS TOOK OVER:&lt;/span&gt; Everybody, including some conservatives, still give Clinton credit for “changing welfare” as we knew it when in fact,  he was dragged, kicking and screaming to the signing table to sign the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Republican&lt;/span&gt; bill that actually DID it. They also believe that the recession was Bush’s fault, when the “groundwork” for it started in 1977 with the passage of a &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Democrat&lt;/span&gt; bill (Citizen’s Reinvestment Act of 1977) that FORCED lenders to loan money to people who could not afford to pay it back, a “recipe for disaster” on its face.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG:&lt;/span&gt; Something’s wrong in this country when the site of the World Trade Center massacre is still a “hole in the ground” and serious consideration is being given to the usual Islamic building of a Mosque on the site of their “greatest victories” over their enemies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;TAX AND SPEND:&lt;/span&gt; That’s Obama’s ONE plan to get us out of the economic hole HE got us into. All he knows is “tax and spend,” and “tax the rich” to pay for HIS “flights of fancy.” That has always been the Democrat (liberal) way, and Obama is a consummate liberal (Democrat).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;DEMOCRATS HATE BEING CALLED “LIBERALS”:&lt;/span&gt; Mostly because they have become aware that we’re now “onto them.” We now know what liberal means. So now they’re going back to the term “progressive,” thinking we have forgotten what THAT means. So now when you say “liberal,” they correct you, wanting you to say “progressive.” Both words mean the same.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;OBAMA SAYS WE’RE LAZY:&lt;/span&gt; He’s got his nerve, since he’s the reason we’re “lazy” and don’t invest our money in jobs and profit-producing projects. When we know any profit we make will be taken away, why bother? This is not “laziness,” it’s common sense.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SOCIALISM CREATES NO WEALTH:&lt;/span&gt; All it does is TAKE the wealth earned by those able and willing to work and give it to those who don’t. Only the free market creates wealth and under Obama’s socialist policies, it cannot. It’s time Obama quit blaming all his troubles on us, and starts blaming himself. But this will never happen. He has no ability to see life as it IS, only as he would like for it to be.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-3781799914214124126?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/3781799914214124126/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/11/myth-of-thankgiving.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/3781799914214124126'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/3781799914214124126'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/11/myth-of-thankgiving.html' title='The Myth  of Thanksgiving'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-5897334415840538042</id><published>2011-11-23T14:51:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-23T14:56:14.897-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Failure of Socialism</title><content type='html'>The “first Americans” first tried collectivism, putting all their production into a big pile to which people were supplied according to their “need.” Nobody worked very hard because they thought their needs would be supplied by the group. They were wrong, and half of them died that next winter. Next year they tried the “free market” where each person got to keep the fruits of his own production and they prospered. That’s the best Thanksgiving message ever.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;I WILL VETO EFFORTS TO SAVE THE MILITARY:&lt;/span&gt; This is what Obama has promised. The excessive cuts to both the military and Medicare will destroy both, while he blames the Republicans for it. With such large cuts he military will be UNABLE to defend this nation, and the Islamic terrorists will take full advantage of that. These big cuts to Medicare will work a hardship on people who have paid in for years (at the point of a gun) on the PROMISE of support in their old age. That promise will not be kept under Obama.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ALWAYS POLICE BRUTALITY:&lt;/span&gt; When demonstrators work hard to piss cops off, there WILL be “police brutality. It’s inescapable. Even if the cops don’t “crack” and crack some heads, they will claim they have done so. So much so, nobody believes them any more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;AL-ZAWAHIRI NOW A TARGET:&lt;/span&gt; He has been named as the new HEAD of al-Qaida and, thus is now the top target in the Middle East. When he is killed or captured, whoever replaces him will then be the top target, and so on, until al-Qaida no longer exists, no matter how long that takes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;TALIBAN AND AL QAIDA THE SAME:&lt;/span&gt; Yes, they’re two different organizations, but they both have the same goals: death and destruction to ANYBODY who does not believe the exact same way they do. Even other Muslims.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;LIBERALS ARE PARASITES:&lt;/span&gt; They want to feed on us and our productivity. What they don’t know, and will never admit, is that under socialism, productivity “goes away” and soon there is nothing for them to steal.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-5897334415840538042?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/5897334415840538042/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/11/failure-of-socialism.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/5897334415840538042'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/5897334415840538042'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/11/failure-of-socialism.html' title='The Failure of Socialism'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-6332106080480486099</id><published>2011-11-22T14:15:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-22T14:19:46.370-08:00</updated><title type='text'>An Old Swindle</title><content type='html'>Threatening to cut the most visible and important things (like defense AND Medicare) while ignoring such things as “studying the sex lives of Tse Tse flies. This gets the populace “up in arms” so the government can make changes it couldn’t make before.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!”&lt;/span&gt; That’s what one Democrat bumper sticker says. My question is this: “Enough of WHAT? Enough massive unprincipled spending, tighter regulations? And movement toward socialism?”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;OBAMA SAYS HE HAS CREATED 250,000 JOBS&lt;/span&gt;: What planet is HE living on? There has not BEEN 250,000 new jobs, ANYWHERE except possibly in the government. How does this jerk get away with his lies?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“SHUT ‘EM DOWN!”&lt;/span&gt; Freedom works went to Washington to present their suggestions for TEN TRILLION DOLLARS in feasible cuts and Washington “shut them down” with a thin excuse that this meeting “was a hearing,” which private organizations are not allowed to hold. But is was NOT a “hearing.” It was only CALLED such by Senator Schumer (who has called many other meetings which WERE held “hearings without shutting them down) and other lawmakers for the purpose of shutting it down. The people have been muzzled again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“THERE’S NOTHING WE CAN DO”:&lt;/span&gt; He has a right to express himself. Now Larry King (not THE Larry King), a confused 17-year-old who came to school wearing dresses and propositioned boys has been shot to death. School “authorities” would expel a five-year-old child for kissing a girl, but “they can’t do anything about a child expressing his sexuality.” What’s the difference? The five-year-old is not a gay “expressing” sexuality that agrees with their agenda.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;GOING CRAZY ON SEXUAL HARASSMENT:&lt;/span&gt; Sexual harassment has become common everywhere. Mostly because it is so easy for the “victim to DEFINE what CONSTITUTES sexual harassment and the accusation is now commonly used any time somebody wants to make trouble for someone else. It’s a SUBJECTIVE law, DEFINED by the enforcer and the “victim.” Soon nobody will even BELIEVE someone who has been REALLY sexually abused because it has been used too much; like the boy “crying wolf.”&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-6332106080480486099?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/6332106080480486099/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/11/old-swindle.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/6332106080480486099'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/6332106080480486099'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/11/old-swindle.html' title='An Old Swindle'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-746748461456252931</id><published>2011-11-20T11:51:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-20T11:57:21.066-08:00</updated><title type='text'>It Started After Dems Took Over</title><content type='html'>Everybody, including some conservatives, still give Clinton credit for “changing welfare” as we knew it when he was dragged, kicking and screaming to the signing table to sign the Republican bill that actually DID it. They also believe that the recession was Bush’s fault, when the “groundwork” for it started in 1977 with the passage of the Democrat bill (Citizen’s Reinvestment Act of 1977) that FORCED lenders to loan money to people who could not afford to pay it back, a “recipe for disaster” on its face.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG:&lt;/span&gt; Something’s wrong in this country when the site of the World Trade Center massacre is still a “hole in the ground” and serious consideration is being given to allowing the usual Islamic building of a Mosque on the site of their “greatest victories” over their enemies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;TAX AND SPEND:&lt;/span&gt; That’s Obama’s ONE plan to get us out of the economic hole HE got us into. All he knows is “tax and spend,” and “tax the rich” to pay for HIS “flights of fancy.” That has always been the Democrat (liberal) way, and Obama is a consummate liberal (Democrat).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;DEMOCRATS HATE BEING CALLED “LIBERALS”:&lt;/span&gt; Mostly because they have become aware that we’re now “onto them.” We now know what liberal means. So now they’re going back to the term, “progressive,” thinking we have forgotten what THAT means. So now when you say “liberal,” they correct you, wanting you to say “progressive.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;OBAMA SAYS WE’RE LAZY:&lt;/span&gt; He’s got his nerve, since he’s the reason we’re “lazy” and don’t invest our money in jobs and profit-producing projects. When we know any profit we make will be taken away, why bother? This is not “laziness,” it’s common sense.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SOCIALISM CREATES NO WEALTH:&lt;/span&gt; All it does is TAKE the wealth earned by those able and willing to work and give it to those who don’t. Only the free market creates wealth and under Obama’s socialist policies, it cannot. It’s time Obama quit blaming all his troubles on us, and starts blaming himself. But this will never happen. He has no ability to see life as it IS, only as he would like for it to be.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-746748461456252931?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/746748461456252931/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/11/it-started-after-dems-took-over.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/746748461456252931'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/746748461456252931'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/11/it-started-after-dems-took-over.html' title='It Started After Dems Took Over'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-6496362951569715618</id><published>2011-11-19T13:38:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-19T13:46:23.306-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Democrat "Smear Machine"</title><content type='html'>Why hasn’t Romney been the subject of a Democrat “smear?” Because he is the most liberal Republican running, and is the one they WANT to run against. They figure they can easily beat him. Too many times has the liberal media told us who they want to run against them. I figure their “big guns” against Romney won’t come until the general election.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;NO BUDGET:&lt;/span&gt; Obama hasn’t only NOT “balanced the budget,” he hasn’t even PROPOSED one in the 2-1/2 years he has been in office. Isn’t there a law that says the president MUST present a budget to Congress every year? If so, he’s violating it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;THE REAL RACISTS:&lt;/span&gt; I heard a liberal television commentator whining about Herman Cain “not being able to leave our women alone." And he thought it was worse that it was a BLOND woman. That’s almost a caricature for white racism against blacks. Going after a BLOND white woman. They have no idea how they reveal themselves with every word they speak.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;LACK OF SECURITY:&lt;/span&gt; Why did it take THREE DAYS for the Secret Service to “notice” bullet holes in the White House windows? Why do people who do things like this consort with the kind of people who are in “Occupy DC?” They never get “associated” with such people by the biased liberal press. They threaten to “fire bomb” Wall Street and expect the cops to NEVER use violence on them as they use violence on the cops.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“A SUCKER BORN EVERY MINUTE”:&lt;/span&gt; P. T. Barnum was right. And Obama and his henchmen in the Democrat Party are ready to con them. They “lap up” his bullsh-t like a thirsty dog laps up his water. That’s why we’re in the fix we’re in, now. We’re broke and printing money hoping to fool the world into thinking we still have some.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;STUN GUN IS NOT A WEAPON:&lt;/span&gt; The NFL is now “patting down” every football fan as they come into the stadium for a game because an elderly fan used a stun gun in SELF DEFENSE when several fans of the team opposing his attacked him. Should we always be without the means to effective self defense of any kind when drunken fools attack us for foolish reasons?&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-6496362951569715618?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/6496362951569715618/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/11/democrat-smear-machine.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/6496362951569715618'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/6496362951569715618'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/11/democrat-smear-machine.html' title='Democrat &quot;Smear Machine&quot;'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-3487805481458576115</id><published>2011-11-17T13:55:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-17T14:00:28.977-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Politicians Insult My Intelligence Daily</title><content type='html'>Like “Princess” Nancy Peelosi saying, “We must pass this bill to find out what’s in it?” Somebody needs to tell this ignorant woman that’s not how it works in this country. Here, we KNOW what’s in ANY bill we’re asked to support. We don’t “buy a pig in a poke,” not knowing what we’re buying.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“THEY DON’T NEED MORE MONEY”:&lt;/span&gt; That’s what a Hollywood millionaire who just built a $36 MILLION DOLLAR home just said about people who do actual WORK to make their money. What the hell makes this “too rich” actress think she has the right to say how much money is “too much” for people other than her and her rich Hollywood friends?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;TEACHER SAYS PEOPLE MAKE TOO MUCH MONEY:&lt;/span&gt; This teacher is in the OWS demonstration and thinks it’s going to take overthrowing our government to “solve our problems.” This teacher is RETIRED with a $7,000 a MONTH income. That’s $84,000 a year! How many of YOU made that kind of money, EVER in your lives?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“OCCUPY WALL STREET WANTS A FREE RIDE”:&lt;/span&gt; They’re collectivists(communists, socialists, Fascists, progressivists) all. They don’t want what’s best for AMERICA, but only what’s best for THEM. They want to TAKE from those who work and EARN their own way for themselves, so they can live without the bother of working.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“SUPER COMMITTEE” GETTING ADVICE FROM THE TEA PARTY:&lt;/span&gt; So what? The Tea Party is the only legitimate non-Congress representatives of REAL people in the United States. It is NOT an “organization; it is a compendium of people who are “fed up” with politicians stealing their money to give to those who won’t work, taxing us into oblivion, spending more money than there IS, more money than ALL presidents before Obama. Imposing collectivism on us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“SUPER COMMITTEE” A SCAM:&lt;/span&gt; They have no intention of actually coming up with enough cuts to satisfy the demands made of them by Obama, which will result in MASSIVE, unsustainable cuts to Medicare and the military, This is a standard swindle. Do something to make Americans “rise up” and demand a “solution” so you can “offer” a solution that involves higher taxes and more governmental control of our lives. They did it with Prop 13 in California by threatening police, fire, and school cuts.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-3487805481458576115?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/3487805481458576115/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/11/politicians-insult-my-intelligence.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/3487805481458576115'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/3487805481458576115'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/11/politicians-insult-my-intelligence.html' title='Politicians Insult My Intelligence Daily'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-4218940010261928118</id><published>2011-11-16T13:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-16T13:08:31.979-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Keeping Cops Safe, To Hell With You</title><content type='html'>There is a movement afoot to ban people from filming a policeman “doing his duty” in this country. That will keep the public from knowing about the excesses of some cops in stress situations. That way there will never be ANY video or photographic evidence when a cop oversteps his authority (except that on his own dash camera, which HE controls). That’s what they hope, anyway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PERFECT TIMING:&lt;/span&gt; “Shutting down” Fannie and Freddie (the liberal “safety valve” for the “Citizen’s Reinvestment Act of 1977 that forced lenders to loan money to people who could NOT repay it, causing an economic disaster they could blame on Republicans) almost GUARANTEED a stunning victory for Democrats (socialists) in the 2008 elections and a Democrat “takeover” of the federal government. Now we just have to reverse their advances in 2012. Something we started in 2010 by nulling Obama's complete control of Congress.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;LOSING PAKISTAN:&lt;/span&gt; Recent events have “strained” out relations with Pakistan. Who cares? It’s more to Pakistan’s benefit to have a good relationship with us than it is ours. So who cares if Pakistan no longer likes us because we discovered their hiding of and financing of terrorists?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;OWS DECLARES VICTORY:&lt;/span&gt; After several instances of violence against police officers, and even deaths at their “gatherings,” Occupy Wall Street protesters have “declared victory.” What IS “Victory” to them? The number of people killed at their demonstrations? The number of police officers injured trying their best not to injure protesters when protesters get “in their face?” Have you noticed that few of them will show their faces while Tea Party demonstrators have no such problems?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;REPUBLICANS “SCHOOL” NBC QUESTIONERS:&lt;/span&gt; Maria  Batriromo and Jim Cramer were profoundly embarrassed many times (but didn't tumble to it) when they asked question after question not based on facts and the Republican candidates “took them to school.” One such was when Newt explained the difference between an “enemy combatant” and a simple criminal and how terrorists were NOT entitled to the rights of Americans, no matter where they were born.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN”:&lt;/span&gt; Obama says if a Republican is elected to replace him “you’re on your own.” He actually says that as if it were a BAD thing. What a DOLT! It's not if you don't wish for the government to take care of you "from the cradle to the grave." Way too many Americans want just that.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-4218940010261928118?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/4218940010261928118/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/11/keeping-cops-safe-to-hell-with-you.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/4218940010261928118'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/4218940010261928118'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/11/keeping-cops-safe-to-hell-with-you.html' title='Keeping Cops Safe, To Hell With You'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-1785469846297807441</id><published>2011-11-15T14:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-15T14:51:11.501-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Helen Thomas: Dinosaur</title><content type='html'>Helen Thomas, the ancient old bag who used to dominate presidential press conferences, is WAY past her time. She is rumored to have actively raised money for the group running the “blockade runners” going to Gaza (but that’s not proven, though I’m not surprised). She told a group of Jews that they should “get out of Gaza and go back to the other countries from which they came.” The ONE THING the UN did right was to create the Israeli state. The Israelis aren’t going anywhere. Live with it, Palestinians. Meanwhile, let Helen go home where she can make caustic comments to her “handlers.” You know, the people who change her diapers and feed her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ONE SQUARE MILE:&lt;/span&gt; Israel has “given back” lots of territory in hopes that the Palestinians will shut up. Every time they do, the Palestinians want more. If they gave back all but ONE SQUARE MILE in downtown Jerusalem, the Palestinians would be shelling that one sq. mile, killing men, women, and CHILDREN and demanding they give that to them, too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;400,000 NEW JOBS:&lt;/span&gt; All but 45,000 of them in the construction industry are temporary GOVERNMENT jobs. Others are with the IRS, out to get more of your money. Yet Obama touts these as “proof” the recession is over and “good times are here again!” Who the hell does he think he is fooling? Mostly only himself and other liberals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“TWO WARS”:&lt;/span&gt; Politicians keep talking about “two wars;” one in Iraq, one in Afghanistan. That is false: We are fighting ONE WAR with two theaters. It is the war against Islamic terrorism. Obama doesn’t even allow his subordinates to SAY the words “Islamic terrorists.” He won’t even admit we ARE “at war.” We need to GET RID OF this fool before he allows those Islamic extremists to come here and bomb our cities (again).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;BUNGLING COPS KILL ANOTHER GIRL:&lt;/span&gt; Yoram Vandersloot kills again. He thought he could get away with it in Peru as he did before in Aruba. If the cops in Aruba had been just a little bit more competent, this girl would still be alive. He says he “went into a rage” when he found her “checking up on him.” That is not a “reason.” He just thinks he can kill at will, that the cops are too stupid to catch him. And in Aruba, he’s right. He made the mistake of trying the same thing where they WERE a bit more competent and now he will spend the rest of his miserable (hopefully short) life in prison.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;HELEN THOMAS UGLY?&lt;/span&gt; Glenn Beck says “Helen Thomas got ugly.” He’s way behind times. She’s been ugly for a long time. Not because of that bulldog face. Mostly because of what comes out of her mouth, and from her computer (or does she use a manual typewriter?&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-1785469846297807441?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/1785469846297807441/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/11/helen-thomas-dinosaur.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/1785469846297807441'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/1785469846297807441'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/11/helen-thomas-dinosaur.html' title='Helen Thomas: Dinosaur'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-649630452374433181</id><published>2011-11-13T11:51:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-13T11:57:22.376-08:00</updated><title type='text'>No Such Thing As Bi-Partisanship</title><content type='html'>There is no such thing in real life; only in the feeble minds of liberals. This government was DESIGNED to be two completely DIFFERENT views of life; those who thought government should run everybody’s life and those who believe otherwise. There are many “shades” of opinion between these two extremes, but brought down to the very BASIC premise, it has always been, and always WILL be, a fight between different levels of these two extremes. Any politician who tells you different is LYING to you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;HERE WE GO AGAIN:&lt;/span&gt; The House just refused to pass the latest temporary spending bill to keep the government from running out of money in November. Are we going to get yet another “dog and pony show” over it? You know, where Obama blames the Republicans for it while he “stonewalls” it himself while demanding “compromise” with his idiotic measures? As usual&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;TYPICAL LIBERAL POLITICS:&lt;/span&gt;  Congress is set to honor Charlie Rangel just six months after it censured him in an “ethics scandal.” This is common for Democrats. Failure or corruption is a “resume enhancement” for Democrats while it is the END of their careers for Republicans. And nobody (except people like me who pay attention) notices. We need to get Charlie (and Barney Frank) OUT of the Congress so he (they) can no longer screw us “legally.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;LOUSY SECURITY:&lt;/span&gt; Messages in Arabic appear on the bellies of SouthWest airplanes, proving there is NO security, at least at that airport. If they can do that, they can do other things to those planes. And does this happen at only ONE airport, or can it happen at airports all over the world? Next question: how long before this results in yet another Islamic terrorist created tragedy?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“POLITICS OF ENVY:&lt;/span&gt; Class warfare, which is what Obama is pushing, no matter how much he protests otherwise, is “the politics of envy.” He’s hoping to gain voters by making “average people,” which are the largest in number anywhere, ENVIOUS of those who make more money than they do. “Class envy” ignores an important factor; under our free enterprise system, only those who EARN it make a lot of money. Not so under socialism, where government steals from those who EARN and gives to those who do not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SOMETHING WRONG HERE:&lt;/span&gt; Ahminidinijerk, a former (current?) terrorist who was involved in the kidnapping of Americans, and now the president of his country, is welcomed with open arms by college students as well as the UN. Meanwhile, at least one college has cancelled a speaking engagement by George Bush, former President of the United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SAME OL” SAME OL”:&lt;/span&gt; Obama is touting his new “jobs (spending) plan” as something completely new, but it isn’t. It’s exactly the same thing he has tried at least TWICE before, and failed to create ONE JOB. All he succeeded in doing is cause us to go deeper in debt when our money is gone, anyway.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-649630452374433181?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/649630452374433181/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/11/no-such-thing-as-bi-partisanship.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/649630452374433181'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/649630452374433181'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/11/no-such-thing-as-bi-partisanship.html' title='No Such Thing As Bi-Partisanship'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-1725789696649809841</id><published>2011-11-12T11:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-12T12:03:27.676-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Call Him On It!</title><content type='html'>I'm getting sick and tired of Obama calling his latest “tax and spend program” a “jobs bill” while NOBODY “calls him” on it. This is the reason why he gets away with such blatant lies while the press “laps it up” like a thirsty dog does in his water bowl.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; “FRANKLY, I ENJOYED IT”:&lt;/span&gt; Gloria Allred (that ubiquitous “attorney” who always appears when Democrats want to hurt Republicans has “surfaced” with yet another put-up job “accusation.” This time with specifics. All of which are her unsupported word of an action FOURTEEN YEARS AGO. Allred described her experience of being “felt up” by a TSA Agent at the airport: “He touched places nobody but me has touched in years/ Frankly, I enjoyed it.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SEXUAL HARASSMENT IS SUBJECTIVE:&lt;/span&gt; By its very nature sexual harassment is very personal. Usually there are no witnesses and no objective proof of anything (except in the Gennifer Flowers case where Bill Clinton actually HURT her in the process of raping her). So they are the easiest way to discredit an innocent candidate without having to come up with any actual PROOF of anything untoward. Then there was the "blue dress."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;DEMS IN SENATE BLOCKING JOBS BILLS:&lt;/span&gt; The Republicans, with the help of many Democrats, have passed no less that 20 bills out of the House that would help the jobs picture. Harry Reid and other Democrats in the Senate, where Democrats still hold a slim majority, have BLOCKED all action on these bills. Meanwhile, Obama daily blames the Republicans for blocking legislation to help the jobs picture, which they have NO POWER to do. If you don’t believe it, Google it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;IRAN SETTING ITSELF UP:&lt;/span&gt; Looks like they &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;want&lt;/span&gt; to be the next target in the war against Islamic terrorism. They support Islamic terrorism in many countries, they give “aid and comfort” to Islamic terrorists; they make no secret of the fat they want to “push Israel into the sea.” Now they’re making big noises about being “on the brink” of having a nuclear weapon and have even tested a ballistic missile capable of reaching Israel. Do they really think efforts won’t be made to put a stop to them? How stupid ARE they? Some liberals say Iran is our next target and they’re right; but for all the wrong reasons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WITH THE REST OF THE GARBAGE: &lt;/span&gt;The aircraft carrier Carl Vincent was the ship used to carry the body purporting to be bin Laden to the point where it was “dumped with the rest of the garbage.” I still maintain bin Laden was ”made into a crispy critter” long ago when Bush bombed one of his caves with him in it. Terrorists have been trying hard to convince us he was still alive ever since.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-1725789696649809841?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/1725789696649809841/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/11/call-him-on-it.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/1725789696649809841'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/1725789696649809841'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/11/call-him-on-it.html' title='Call Him On It!'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-1261881399039277944</id><published>2011-11-10T13:55:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-10T14:03:30.628-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Occupy Wall Streeters IGNORANT</title><content type='html'>The people involved in “Occupy Wall Street are ignorant. They have no idea what they want. When you ask them, all they can do is quote the “bumper sticker” comments the left spouts all the time. If you ask them to go into detail, they can’t. Most of them haven’t been on this earth as a sentient being long enough to know anything. They need to shut up and go find out what’s what before they open their mouths.  They need to change the name of their organization (yes, it's an "organization") to "The Free ride Coalition." Because that's what they're after.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;GOOD AND FOOLED:&lt;/span&gt; I ran into a man yesterday who says he READ Obama’s health care swindle bill and thinks it’s a great thing. He says he has cancer and owes $50,000 for the treatment he has received, and can’t get any more. I doubt that. I certainly can’t afford a quadruple bypass and I got one in 2005. I still owe for it because I don’t have that kind of money lying about. I suspect all he has to do is go somewhere else and he’d get a better answer. Refusing life-saving treatment is against the law in this country. All they can do is bother you a lot to collect the money for a while until they give up, as some are doing to me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;GREEN JOBS COST TOO MUCH:&lt;/span&gt; Obama touts “green jobs” like those of the failed Solyndra plant as a “big success.” But the reality is, most of the programs he touts provide new jobs, all right, but at the cost of about $600,000.00 (or more) per job. And that’s IN ADDITION to the salaries paid to those holding those jobs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SELF ESTEEM UP, PERFORMANCE DOWN:&lt;/span&gt; That’s what a recent study discovered, and they were surprised. I wonder why. Could it be the liberals’ effort to “raise self esteem” by keeping their shortcomings from teens? Self esteem is their opinion of their talents and abilities, based on LACK of information. Self IMAGE is their opinion of their talents and abilities based on TRUTH about them. They have set out on a course to HIDE their shortcomings from teens so as not to REDUCE their self esteem. It doesn’t work. The “chickens are now coming home to roost.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MAJORITY IN CONGRESS SUPPORT ISRAEL:&lt;/span&gt; Did you know that 87 out of 100 senators (almost 90%) wrote a letter to Obama CITING that support? This letter was also signed by 307 members of the House! Can Obama ignore that? No, but he did. Did you see ANYTHING about this in the liberal media? I thought not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;BOXER IS AN IDIOT:&lt;/span&gt; Barbara Boxer thinks the way to create jobs is to raise taxes and grow government. But then, we all know Boxer is an idiot, and BEING an idiot is an advantage in the Democrat Party. How else would we get people like Obama, Barney, and HIS ilk (I don’t mean gay, I mean stupid), and Bill Clinton, otherwise known as “zipper down!”?&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-1261881399039277944?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/1261881399039277944/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/11/occupy-wall-streeters-ignorant.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/1261881399039277944'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/1261881399039277944'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/11/occupy-wall-streeters-ignorant.html' title='Occupy Wall Streeters IGNORANT'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-1218321857674317215</id><published>2011-11-09T08:36:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-09T08:45:35.261-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Ayn Rand "Disciple" Wants toEnd Bush's Tax Rate Cuts</title><content type='html'>The liberals want to make a big thing about that. What they don’t tell you is that Greenspan and Ayn Rand “broke up” over his changing of his financial views, and especially over his taking the job in our REAL government that the government in her book offered to Jon Galt (financial czar) and which he refused.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;IT WOULD HAVE BEEN WORSE WITHOUT US: &lt;/span&gt;That’s the left’s answer whenever we call attention to the fact that NOTHING Obama has done has done any good in the effort to reduce the joblessness figures. What a load of sh-t. They can’t prove it, and we can’t DISprove it. So they think they win the argument—but they haven’t.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;TOLERANCE:&lt;/span&gt; Now, ten years after Islamic terrorists pulled off one of the bloodiest, most brutal accidental attack upon Americans ever, we’re told we must now “have tolerance” for this racist, genocidal ideology or be called “Islamaphobic” (a “made-up word”). I got news for them. I don’t give a damn what they call me. I’m going to look CLOSELY at every Muslim I come into contact with, and if that INDIVIDAL looks like he/she is a terrorist, I’m going to take action. If not, I will not. If I see something a Muslim does that looks suspicious, I’m going to say something, and they can call me what they want.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“CREDIBLE, BUT UNCONFIRMED THREAT.”&lt;/span&gt; What? If it’s “credible,” it CAN’T be “unconfirmed.” If it’s “unconfirmed,” it can’t be “credible. Who the hell do these insipid politicians think we are to give us this kind of “mumbo-jumbo” and expect us to take them seriously? What a bunch of FOOLS have we (not me) elected?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;THEY HAVE MANY NAMES:&lt;/span&gt; Taliban, HAMAS, al-Qaida, etc. Different names in different areas. Like the liberals, they know the value of changing their names to fool others. Like they do for themselves, too. Have you ever seen a Muslim terrorist who didn’t have fifteen different names? All these groups have the same goals and methods. They’re ALL Islamic terrorists, even if Obama doesn’t want to use that name any more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;HE’S GOT HIS NERVE:&lt;/span&gt; Van Jones, self-described COMMUNIST, says he’s going to “break that unpatriotic, crazy Tea Party (people who simply want their country back) bubble.” What a FOOL this man is to think America will believe HE is the “patriotic” actor in this script. He spends his days (and nights) pushing socialism and communism while calling REAL patriotic people (with no proof) unpatriotic. What a jerk this guy is. This is the kind of man Obama appoints to be his “czars.”&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-1218321857674317215?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/1218321857674317215/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/11/ayn-rand-disciple-wants-toend-bushs-tax.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/1218321857674317215'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/1218321857674317215'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/11/ayn-rand-disciple-wants-toend-bushs-tax.html' title='Ayn Rand &quot;Disciple&quot; Wants toEnd Bush&apos;s Tax Rate Cuts'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-6481807834305984253</id><published>2011-11-08T13:59:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-08T14:09:40.262-08:00</updated><title type='text'>They're NOT Patriots!</title><content type='html'>The “Occupy (Wherever”) crowd are trying to label themselves as “patriots,” but they’re NOT! Their “demands" all come down to one thing: they want a “free ride” at the expense of others. They should change their name to “The Free Ride Coalition.” That would better describe their goals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;IT'S THE SOCIALISM, STUPID!&lt;/span&gt;  Liberals blame the Republicans and the Republicans blame the liberals for the economic disaster we're now suffering. Actually, it's BOTH of them. Democrats passed the Citizen's Reinvestment Act of 1977, forcing lenders to loan money to people who CANNOT pay it back to avoid a "redlining" investigation which, even if nothing could be proven could cost them billions in legal fees. The Republicans did not identify it for what it was and thus the Democrats got away with it. This was a socialist idea and, like most socialist ideas, it created havoc; which was what Democrats were after, so they could steal the 2008 election.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;THEN THEY HAD TO PERFORM:&lt;/span&gt; Which they could not. The politicians in charge are incompetent to govern. They are only good at conniving to get elected, but they're spectacularly INcompetent at governing. They are IGNORANT of the fact that socialism and Keynesian economics do not work and work hard to institute both. When they DON'T work, they get thrown out of office. But they're patient. They sit out there, picking at everything we do, until they finally get back in office so they can create some more chaos through their incompetence to govern.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PEELOSI LIKES THE 9% UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURE”&lt;/span&gt; She says it would be a lot higher if not for Obama’s “spending programs.” What a LOAD of steaming, stinky brown stuff THAT is! Obama’s spending programs have not done a THING to make it come down, and they have done a lot to keep it up, and make it higher. It came down ONE PERCENT last month, but I expect it to go up again a LOT in the near future as Obama tries to SPEND his way out of financial trouble.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;THREATENING SOCIAL SECURITY PAYMENTS:&lt;/span&gt; If Obama would quit loaning money to RUSSIAN businessmen while guaranteeing loans to “green energy” con men like those in Solyndra, maybe he wouldn’t need to threaten to cut off Social Security payments. His threat is only good because politicians have LOOTED the “Social Security Fund” almost before the ink dried on FDR’s signature on the law that created it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;THE CAIN LYNCHING:&lt;/span&gt; Now a woman has come right out and described things Herman Cain is supposed to have done. Putting his hand under her dress and pulling her head toward his crotch. A sure signal he wanted oral sex (a la Bill Clinton). My question is this: why did all five of these women wait until NOW to “come forward” with these mostly vague (until now) accusations? Yes, ONE got a money settlement from the National Restaurant Association, which often happens when they figure that the accusation and a resulting lawsuit will cost them less than fighting a lawsuit, and without his knowledge.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-6481807834305984253?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/6481807834305984253/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/11/theyre-not-patriots.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/6481807834305984253'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/6481807834305984253'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/11/theyre-not-patriots.html' title='They&apos;re NOT Patriots!'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-5410081207860258485</id><published>2011-11-06T10:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-06T11:05:05.712-08:00</updated><title type='text'>False Charge</title><content type='html'>In Florida, a state trooper gave a man a $100 ticket for “flashing his lights,” supposedly to warn other drivers about the trooper’s whereabouts. The “charge” was “obstructing a police officer from his duty.” There’s only one problem. This cop cannot PROVE that’s what he was doing. He can only INFER it. We don’t enforce laws in that way in this country He’ll probably be convicted because such cops usually work in a “friendly court” which usually does what he wants them to do. The guy will be well advised to appeal to a higher court; one that is not quite so friendly to this particular cop.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;NOT “BAIL”; RANSOM:&lt;/span&gt; Ahmadinijerk says he let those Americans his thugs caught two years ago and accused of being spies go because America paid a $million dollars in "bail.” But it’s not bail he’s after, it’s RANSOM. Payment for returning the victims of his “official kidnapping.” What we need to do is get out of Iraq and INTO Iran. Wait until all the top “officials” are in their government buildings, then level THEM.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WHO’S PAYING?&lt;/span&gt; The Iran “judiciary” (read: Imams) reversed Ahmadinijerk’s word that he’ll “let the kidnapped Americans go” as soon as we pay a million dollars, but the question remains: if they DO decide to let them go if we pay a million dollars, WHO PAYS that million dollars: The American government, or the families of those victims? We paid. He let them go. Who is a million dollars poorer?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;LIBERALS “PUSHING” THEIR OWN CANDIDATE ON US:&lt;/span&gt; They want to have an election with Obama (a “hard-left” SOCIALIST) candidate on one side and a RINO Republican who doesn’t want to “rock the boat” (Romney) on the other, so we will have to again “grit our teeth” if we vote for the Republican, as we did in 2008. There will be only a difference in DEGREE between them, which Obama can win, with ALL his “negatives.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ADMISSION OF FAILURE:&lt;/span&gt; Extending unemployment benefits is an admission of failure on Obama’s part, and he has done it twice. He’s talking about doing it AGAIN. This is NOT a “solution” to the unemployment problem, it is a BANDAID to delay the consequences.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;LAW AGAINST “OFFENDING” PEOPLE:&lt;/span&gt; That’s what the liberals are trying to do today; make a law against saying or doing ANYTHING that “offends” somebody. And “who decides” what IS “offensive?” If such a law ever gets made, I will become an “instant criminal” because I “offend” liberals every day. That’s what they want. The ability to SILENCE such as me and Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, O’Reilly, etc.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-5410081207860258485?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/5410081207860258485/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-many-drug-dealers-in-tea-party_06.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/5410081207860258485'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/5410081207860258485'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-many-drug-dealers-in-tea-party_06.html' title='False Charge'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-2293128730445465190</id><published>2011-11-03T07:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-03T07:53:00.951-07:00</updated><title type='text'>How Many Drug Dealers In the "Tea Party?"</title><content type='html'>A drug dealer was found living in a tent with a six-year-old child at the “Occupy Boston” dog and pony show. The cops didn’t mention the mess they were most likely living in because they expect it from this crowd. Drug dealers stay away from the Tea Party events because they know they’d last about ten seconds before they were “turned in” by their people. They’re a “breed apart” from the OWS crowd.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;THEN THEY HAD TO PERFORM:&lt;/span&gt; Which they could not. The politicians in charge are incompetent to govern. They are only good at conniving to get elected, but they're spectacularly INcompetent at governing. They are IGNORANT of the fact that socialism and Keynesian economics do not work and work hard to institute both. When they DON'T work, they get thrown out of office. But they're patient. They sit out there, picking at everything we do, until they finally get back in office so they can create some more chaos through their incompetence to govern.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ACCEPTING CONSULAR CARDS:&lt;/span&gt; Folsom County, California is now accepting Mexico’s “Consular cards” as valid ID for illegal aliens, thus announcing to the world they will no longer be enforcing the immigration laws. I guess they’re saying to the Islamic terrorists who want to sneak in and blow us up, “Come on! We don’t care! Come in and kill us!” What happens first in California truly will spread to all America, including bankruptcy and ignoring immigration laws.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;FEMA HAS ENOUGH MONEY AFTER ALL!&lt;/span&gt; “Oops, forget it! We got enough money after all. We just lost track of several billion dollars, is all. Forget we’re incompetent to keep track of all the money we have.” I wonder how much MORE money has been “lost” by other government agencies, run by the usual incompetent people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WHY ARE WE LENDING MONEY TO RUSSIANS?&lt;/span&gt; Word is we’ve loaned $700 million to a Russian businessman when we’re BROKE. Why is that? Shouldn’t we be using any money we can (whether or not we have it) to help OUR OWN PEOPLE? Not Russian millionaires? Damn, these politicians are incompetent and inept!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;COST OF EDUCATION TRIPLES:&lt;/span&gt; While the value of it sinks; and the liberal answer is for us (US! Not them!) to spend more money on education. Spending more money on something as faulty as our education system has become since the federal takeover will do NOTHING to improve it. The extra money will just allow the liberals to better indoctrinate our children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ACORN BEHIND “OCCUPY (WHATEVER)”:&lt;/span&gt; Yes, it’s true. It’s the way they operate. They see something good (for them) and they “worm their way” into it. Today, their part of it is just a rumor. When it becomes fact, remember I said it first, here.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-2293128730445465190?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/2293128730445465190/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-many-drug-dealers-in-tea-party.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/2293128730445465190'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/2293128730445465190'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-many-drug-dealers-in-tea-party.html' title='How Many Drug Dealers In the &quot;Tea Party?&quot;'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-142604268026283863</id><published>2011-11-02T12:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-02T12:34:53.691-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Dictator Speaks</title><content type='html'>Obama says if Congress won’t pass his latest spending and tax bill (that he falsely calls a “Jobs Bill”) he’ll do it himself administratively. What he means is he’ll create an “executive order” to accomplish what that bill was supposed to to, and which our representatives rejected. Only problem is, an executive order is SUPPOSED to only affect what is done by members of the executive branch of the federal government, not the American citizens. So anything he directs this way is NOT enforceable on ANYBODY but members of the executive branch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;COMPUTERS DOWN:&lt;/span&gt; Yes, that's right: COMPUTERS (plural) have been down since last Thursday. All told, I have lost FOUR computers in the last two weeks. The first one was the one loaned me by my tech when he LOST my NEW computer. Then the one he gave me to replace that one went down immediately, as did the next one, and the next one in quick succession. If I didn't know better I'd think somebody has been sending me virulent viruses to shut me up. Fortunately, all were still under warranty so all it cost me was time and frustration. If you see this, the latest computer has not gone down.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;STOP TELLING THE TRUTH?&lt;/span&gt; Herman Cain said China “is a military threat,” and is being “raked over the coals” for it. One commentator on Fox even said, “now he is a front runner he has to stop saying such things.” What? Stop telling the truth because he is a front runner? Communist China IS a “military threat.” Politicians need to start telling the truth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;INVESTING IN A LOSER: &lt;/span&gt;People are asking why the private sector doesn't invest in “green energy” and why the federal government has to do it. Maybe the private sector is smart enough to realize “green energy” is a loser based on a con. NO “green energy” investment is ever going to make a profit for ANYBODY but the promoters, who “take the money and run,” leaving the investors (in this case, the taxpayers) to take the loss.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;JUST GIVE US THE MONEY:&lt;/span&gt; That's basically what the “Occupy Everywhere” idiots are demanding. They want those who financed their education (otherwise known as conditioning) to “forgive” the debt they incurred, completely ignoring that the money had to come from SOMEWHERE and that those people, who WORKED for that money, would suffer. What they're demanding is a “free ride,” which is what the communists promised the people before the Bolshevik revolution and we're heading in the same direction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;RAISING TAXES FOR EDUCTION:&lt;/span&gt; Colorado's governor is proposing DEEP cuts in education funding while promoters re pushing Prop. 103, a badly written measure SUPPOSEDLY to give more money to education, which is really “cash-rich.” They just won't admit it. Funny this measure is being promoted at the SAME TIME education is “taking a hit.”4&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;CALL HIM ON IT:&lt;/span&gt; I'm getting sick and tired of Obama calling his latest “tax and spend program” a “jobs bill” while NOBODY “calls him” on it. This is the reason why he gets away with such blatant lies while the press “laps it up” like a thirsty dog does in his water bowl.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-142604268026283863?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/142604268026283863/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/11/dictator-speaks.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/142604268026283863'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/142604268026283863'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/11/dictator-speaks.html' title='The Dictator Speaks'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-7856970558320012423</id><published>2011-10-26T11:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-26T11:57:31.678-07:00</updated><title type='text'>"Insider Trading" is Legal</title><content type='html'>Did you know that it is NOT illegal for members of Congress to do “insider trading?” Yet another way for those who MAKE the laws to ignore them for themselves. They are daily privy to information they could use to enrich themselves by engaging in “insider trading.” Like “counterfeiting,” it’s only illegal if WE do it. Nobody (but people like me) even SUGGESTS they might be “stacking the deck” in their favor. No matter they’re all rich, no matter if they were poor when they came there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;OBAMA TO “GO IT ALONE:”&lt;/span&gt; If Congress won’t okay his stupid policies, he will institute them himself without congress, by “executive action.” Did I miss the memo? When did Obama become a dictator? Seems to me he is taking in a little more territory than he is allowed by law. That makes him a CRIMINAL subject to impeachment. But will anybody do it? Doubtful. Democrats won’t, and the Republicans don’t have the backbone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;DO TEA PARTY MEMBERS HIDE THEIR FACES?&lt;/span&gt; I wonder why “Occupy Wall Street” (or whatever else they can occupy) hide their faces? Tea Party members don’t, because they know they’re not breaking the law. OWS members PLAN on breaking the law so they break the law by using American flags as masks. Breaking the law is what the kind of people in the OWS “movement” do; thus, the masks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;FIRST LADY EATS UNHEALTHY:&lt;/span&gt; Despite her campaign to force us to “eat healthy,” she gorges herself on deep fried French fries, fried shrimp, and other fried foods. And she’s livid that Paula Dean revealed that fried shrimp was her favorite food, and on television. She hates it that she has been revealed to be a “high calorie gorger.” She thinks that, like her husband, she can tell everybody else what, how, and how much to eat (or do) while gorging herself on deep fried shrimp and “hot wings” (or do what SHE wants) .You know, “do as I say, not as I DO.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;LIBERALS HATE “BIG CORPORATIONS”:&lt;/span&gt; But without “big corporations” and what they produce, we could not survive. OWS demonstrators get to their demonstrations in autos, made by them; they eat food provided by them. They organize by use of cell phones, produced by them. Then they get on buses or in their cars, both of which are provided by big corporations. It is the big corporations that invest money in projects that create jobs for all of us by investing their money. They’re not like “Scrooge McDuck.” They don’t keep their money in a big warehouse and play in it all day. They USE it to make more money—for themselves, and as a by-product, for others. They’re “killing the goose that lays the golden egg.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;OBAMA IS A “CANCEROUS TUMOR”:&lt;/span&gt; And we need to cut him out. We have been going downhill faster and faster since he got elected and the only way to stop our downward slide is to GET RID OF OBAMA. No, I don’t mean assassinate him. He’s got too many like him right in line behind him. That’s good insurance against assassination. We just need to “cut him out” at the next opportunity, which is the 2012 election.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-7856970558320012423?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/7856970558320012423/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/10/insider-trading-is-legal.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/7856970558320012423'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/7856970558320012423'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/10/insider-trading-is-legal.html' title='&quot;Insider Trading&quot; is Legal'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-4786517619103207856</id><published>2011-10-25T13:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-25T13:55:18.367-07:00</updated><title type='text'>SOLYNDRA Paying Off Democrats</title><content type='html'>We know already that Solyndra execs have “donated” $20,750.00 to the Democrats. Small price to pay to get a half BILLION dollars of taxpayer money. I’m sure as time goes on, we’ll find that figure getting a lot larger. Not only from Solyndra, but from the other “green energy” companies to whom Obama has given our money. This is such a transparent theft of our money it amazes me more people don’t see it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PAYING THEM OFF:&lt;/span&gt; Obama’s spending programs are simply the way he pays off his “contributors.” Somebody needs to check and find out how much the owners of Solyndra and other “green energy” companies to whom Obama gave $BILLIONS contributed to his election campaigns.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ALL THE PRESIDENT’S LIARS:&lt;/span&gt; They made a movie about a Republican president’s undoing, and he did deserve it. He knew about, and did “sponsor” a “break-in” at the Democrat National Committee offices. There have been SEVERAL Democrat presidents who have committed corruption just as bad, or maybe even worse; but not a peep out of the liberal media about it. There should be a movie called, ‘All The President’s Liars,” about the Obama administration (and probably the Clinton presidency), but there never will be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;20% IS TOO MUCH:&lt;/span&gt; Rick Perry has announced his plan for a 20% flat tax, again ignoring the fact that they don’t NEED such a high rate, since EVERYBODY would be paying it, including illegal aliens and that ubiquitous 50% who pay NO income taxes. They don’t need nearly that high a percentage. They could INCREASE their “take” with less than 5%.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;AFGHAN COCKINESS:&lt;/span&gt;  The President of Afghanistan has announced that Afghanistan would “come to their aid” if Pakistan is attacked by ANYONE, including the United States. This from a country that couldn’t even fight off their own Islamic terrorists and had to depend on the United States to “bail them out.” Do they really think they would be any real help to Pakistan against US?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WHAT FOOLS WE HAVE IN GOVERNMENT:&lt;/span&gt; Joe Biden says “private sector jobs” are okay. It is “PUBLIC sector jobs” that need to be increased. They are NOT. Only in this guy's dim mind. This guy needs a “brain transplant,” if there is a brain in there, at all. He also says if Obama’s latest spending plan (he CALLS a “jobs program”) isn’t passed, murders and rapes will go up. I got a clue for ya, Joe; they’re going to go up, anyway. They always do. Maybe if you stop the studies of the sex lives of the Tse Tse fly instead of firing cops and firemen, it wouldn’t be so much.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-4786517619103207856?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/4786517619103207856/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/10/solyndra-paying-off-democrats.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/4786517619103207856'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/4786517619103207856'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/10/solyndra-paying-off-democrats.html' title='SOLYNDRA Paying Off Democrats'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-7031653422920396840</id><published>2011-10-23T09:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-23T09:59:17.760-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Reuters Caught In the Act</title><content type='html'>They’ve been “doctoring photos” to make Israel look bad for a long time and have been caught before. This time we can show doctored and undoctored photos side-by-side. We don’t know yet what their excuse will be, but it’ll be a good one, I can assure you. They’ve long been known as supporters of the Palestinians.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;LIBERALS HECKLE PEELOSI:&lt;/span&gt; Nancy Peelosi spoke before a bunch of LIBERALS, trying to sell Obama’s health care swindle and was heckled. It’s pretty bad when you’re heckled by your SUPPORTERS. She told them they had “made their point.” But will she be listening? I doubt it. Members of this administration have shown a positive TALENT for ignoring people who don’t agree with them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“SHE DESERVES RESPECT”:&lt;/span&gt; Hugh Hewitt says Nancy “deserves respect.” He’s wrong. She only deserves respect when she actually does her job and does things the people who voted her into office wish. When she actually LISTENS to them, not just pretending to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;THE “BLAME GAME”:&lt;/span&gt; Obama criticizes Americans for practicing “the blame game,” but he is the biggest “blamer” of others besides himself, mostly Bush and “the last administration.” He can’t seem to open his mouth without blaming someone else for the things HE has done.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“THEY’VE LAWYERED UP”:&lt;/span&gt; Obama gave BP a hard time because they’ve “lawyered up” after he threatened them with criminal charges because of the oil spill. What the hell does he EXPECT them to do? Jeeze, how STUPID he is! When threatened, you “circle the wagons.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WHY AYN RAND WAS RIGHT:&lt;/span&gt; Today’s liberals keep saying Ayn Rand didn’t understand Russia and collectivism (communism). This woman LIVED under collectivism all her early life. And when she finally escaped and came to this country, she saw the beginnings of the same kind of thinking that PRODUCED the Soviet Union and wanted to try and “wake up” Americans to the danger she saw. How could she NOT “understand” Russia OR communism?&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-7031653422920396840?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/7031653422920396840/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/10/reuters-caught-in-act.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/7031653422920396840'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/7031653422920396840'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/10/reuters-caught-in-act.html' title='Reuters Caught In the Act'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-3653267992872652813</id><published>2011-10-22T10:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-22T10:49:12.318-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Computer Down all Week</title><content type='html'>I lost the second hard drive in two weeks last Sunday (10/16/11) and haven’t been able to post until now. I’m in the process of reloading all my software on this new computer and it might be a while before I can post again. Please excuse the inconvenience. I may be able to post something tomorrow.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-3653267992872652813?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/3653267992872652813/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/10/computer-down-all-week.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/3653267992872652813'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/3653267992872652813'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/10/computer-down-all-week.html' title='Computer Down all Week'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-4517990240635385138</id><published>2011-10-15T11:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-15T11:10:01.568-07:00</updated><title type='text'>"Capitalism Is Foolishness"</title><content type='html'>That’s what the left says, because they want to push collectivism (otherwise known as socialism, Fascism, communism, progressivism, and many other “isms,” ALL of which are, in one form or another, collectivism). They SAY it as if it were true, which is their “modus operandi”: repeat a lie over and over until people come to accept it as truth and will fight you if you try and correct them. Actually, it is COLLECTIVISM that is “foolishness,” not capitalism, and I CAN prove that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;THE “GREAT PRETENDER”: &lt;/span&gt;That word adequately describes Obama. He PRETENDS to know how to solve this nation’s problems while he works hard, behind the scenes to make it worse so he can impose SOCIALISM on us. He PRETENDS to be “confident” of re-election when he is “deathly afraid” the Tea Parties are going to unseat him. He PRETENDS to be able to “lower the sea levels” and stop the glaciers from melting. He is ALL pretense, and NO substance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“PRICE FIXERS”:&lt;/span&gt; There are laws against businesses “fixing prices,” while allowing their WORKERS to “fix prices” when it comes to the wages they must pay them when unions represent them. So they’re caught between the “price fixing” unions that keep wages high and the laws that prevent them from raising their prices to compensate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“ASKING” THEM TO PAY THE SAME: &lt;/span&gt;The liberals say, “Is asking the rich to pay the same amount of taxes as the poor too much?” NO, it’s not. But they’re DEMANDING they pay MORE than “the poor.” They SAY “the rich don’t pay their fair share,” but they DO. They pay MOST of the income taxes paid! The top 25 of taxpayers pay 86% of income taxes paid! But don’t quote that to a liberal. He’ll call you a liar and insult you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;TAX AND SPEND:&lt;/span&gt; all Obama (and other liberals) know is “tax and spend.” That’s all they can do. Tax you more and more, and spend every dime they can get their hands on. Notice that EVERY suggestion they make involves SPENDING more and more of your money. They hide that as bet they can with flowery words, but that’s all they know.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“THOSE NASTY CORPORATIONS!”&lt;/span&gt; Next time somebody gripes about “those nasty large corporations,” ask him/her what kind of car he/she drives. If he/she has a cell phone; or a job. Or how much gasoline he/she uses to get around; or how often he/she flies somewhere. Does he/she have a computer? Use electricity? How does he/she heat his/her house or apartment? Funny; seems like we NEED large corporations and the products/services they provide, to SURVIVE. If we got rid of them, we’d be back in the 1800s now. Funny how all those “Occupy Wall Street” protesters don’t seem to have jobs, but many have computers or Blackberries, or iPhones.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-4517990240635385138?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/4517990240635385138/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/10/capitalism-is-foolishness.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/4517990240635385138'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/4517990240635385138'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/10/capitalism-is-foolishness.html' title='&quot;Capitalism Is Foolishness&quot;'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-4288811896091322347</id><published>2011-10-13T13:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-13T13:18:16.677-07:00</updated><title type='text'>An "Offensive Law"</title><content type='html'>The federal government is trying even now to make it illegal for me to “offend” you, or anybody else. But what CONSTITUTES “offending” someone? Liberals offend me every day by the stupidity of their statements and actions. I’m sure I offend them just as often by “calling them” on their lies to the world. Am I to be punished for it? And who decides? This is, like the sexual discrimination laws, something that is decided by the ENFORCERS, just what CONSTITUTES a violation of the law. The same act can be decided to BE, or NOT to be, “offensive,” because of the OPINIONS of the persons DEFINING it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“OCCUPY WALL STREET” LIKE THE TEA PARTIES?&lt;/span&gt; Not a bit. The Tea Party people know what they want and are very specific. The OWS people do not, and are not. They’re OPPOSITE POLES” of two completely different magnets. Most of those in the Tea Parties have jobs and earn their own living besides their TP work. Most OWS do not. They live off the very government they’re demonstrating against, and at the pleasure of the very PEOPLE they criticize.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;LIBERALS NEVER LEARN:&lt;/span&gt; Just before Solyndra declared bankruptcy, the feds were ready to AGAIN guarantee loans for MORE money for them. At the same time, and STILL, the feds are ready to guarantee yet ANOTHER loan to another “green energy” company (Solar Reserve, in Nevada—Harry Reid’s state).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;NUMEROUS SCANDALS IN DC:&lt;/span&gt; The scandals in DC right now are so numerous they can’t even be counted, let alone be given the attention they need to be given. There’s the “Solyndra” scandal, the upcoming “Solar Reserve” scandal, the “guns walking” scandal designed to buttress Obabma’s claim that 99% of guns in Mexico came from the United States. There are so many scandals there they “fade into the atmosphere” and nobody gives them the attention they merit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;BELAFONTE SHOULD KNOW PHONIES:&lt;/span&gt; He is one, and hangs around with them all the time. What makes him think he is an “authority” on who has a chance to run for president? He says Herman Cain is a phony and doesn’t mean a thing he says. Bellafonte is a FOOL. He can’t even sing any more. He can’t even TALK!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS:&lt;/span&gt; Jerry Brown knows what’s the most important thing out there; it is tanning beds. He recently (as again governor of California) signed a bill into law banning children from using tanning beds. Nothing is more important to the State of California, you know. California is bankrupt, but he signs this bill causing California to spend more millions of dollars to start a bureaucracy to control children’s use of tanning beds.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-4288811896091322347?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/4288811896091322347/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/10/offensive-law.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/4288811896091322347'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/4288811896091322347'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/10/offensive-law.html' title='An &quot;Offensive Law&quot;'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-7812517392106481799</id><published>2011-10-12T12:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-12T12:57:00.399-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Same Old Crap!</title><content type='html'>The Senate killed Obama’s newest SPENDING bill (the one he calls his “jobs bill”) and he brings out that tired, moldy old crap about m”the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.” Sometimes I wish politicians would come up with something new and stop insulting our intelligence with this kind of crap.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;GOOD COMBINATION OF CHOICES: &lt;/span&gt;The head of the AFL-CIO says his heroes are Che Guevara and Cynthia McKinney and nobody in the media not9ices or comments. Those are good choices if you’re a “closet communist” or socialist. Both are the same kind of FOOL, but one is a former elected member of Congress. Apparently Americans in her state “woke up” to what she is, and “threw her out.” What I can’t understand is the people who want her to run for president! There are certainly a lot of STUPID PEOPLE in this country!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;IRAN THREATENING TO DEPLOY THEIR NAVY OFF U. S. COAST:&lt;/span&gt; How arrogant ARE these fools? Do they actually think we will allow their navy ships near the United States border? Yes, if they try it, we will first warn them off, then if they persist we will blow them out of the water—and they will have it coming for their stupidity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ACCUSING US OF WHAT THEY DO: &lt;/span&gt;Van Jones, self-admitted COMMUNIST, and formerly one of Obama’s “czars,” (quickly fired) says the Tea Party is “fighting to take away our civil rights.” What an amazingly STUPID statement for him to make! He has no proof of this, but proof is not required for a liberal to lie to us. They just make their lying pronouncements and expect us to believe them. Then they go on as if we did. If ANYBODY deserves to lose his credibility, this guy does.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;OBAMA CAME TO DIVIDE:&lt;/span&gt; He talks eloquently about ”bringing us together,” but what he does every day is do everything he can to DIVIDE us. That’s his “modus operandi.” Divide us into smaller groups because we’ll be easier to control that way. Hopefully, we’re sufficiently awake to realize what he’s doing and not allow him to succeed. That way maybe, we’ll be able to get RID of him in the next election and continue in freedom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WHAT IS COLLECTIVISM? &lt;/span&gt;This is at the base of most of our problems today. But it is a little-known word, not as well known as is “socialism,” which is just ONE FORM of collectivism. The liberals use different “code words” that mean collectivism to them, but, they hope, not to us. Words like Fascism and “Progressivism.” They all mean taking from EARNERS and GIVING to NON-earners. Their mantra is, “FROM each according to his ABILITY, and TO each according to his NEED” and require a dictatorship.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-7812517392106481799?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/7812517392106481799/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/10/same-old-crap.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/7812517392106481799'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/7812517392106481799'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/10/same-old-crap.html' title='Same Old Crap!'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-6575659519751025114</id><published>2011-10-11T13:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-11T13:11:03.938-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Nothing From the U. N.</title><content type='html'>Syrian rulers kill 2,000 citizens who were protesting their leadership, and not a WORD of criticism from the United Nations. I guess they’re too busy with their “dog and pony show” over the approval of the Palestinian application for membership as a “sovereign state.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;GOLLY! IT WAS AN AID SHIP! &lt;/span&gt;Really? Then why were the soldiers on it armed, and why did they fight when the Israelis (who were entitled, after all the Palestinian atrocities they’ve suffered) wanted to inspect the ship to make sure they were not allowing an army into Gaza. If they had not attacked the Israelis, maybe they’d have just been inspected and allowed to go on their way. We’ll never know, now. Now they’re sending yet ANOTHER ship to “run the Israeli blockade on Gaza.”  Looks to me like they’re simply PROVOKING Israel, which they do routinely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;UN CONDEMNS ISRAEL:&lt;/span&gt; And they want us to do likewise, because of their response to the Turkish “setup” in which 9 people died after ATTACKING people who only came aboard to INSPECT their ship, as they TOLD them they would, to make sure it WAS a “help” mission, not an act of war.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;NOBODY BELIEVED CHRISTIE:&lt;/span&gt; People just kept asking Gov. Christie if he’s going to “throw his hat in the ring” and run for president. He kept saying no. Well, maybe. Why does nobody believe him and keep asking? Because nobody believes what politicians say any more. So many have denied they were running and then ran, nobody believes them any more. Now Christie is supporting Romney, the candidate the liberals want to run against.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;DIED OF STUPIDITY:&lt;/span&gt; Did you hear about the guy who led cops on a hundred mile and hour chase, then lit a crack pipe and threatened them with a PELLET GUN? After which he resembled a slice of Swiss cheese after about thirty cops put bullets in him. Of course, they couldn’t tell it was a pellet gun from a distance. This guy definitely died of stupidity; or “suicide by cop.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;DOESN’T EVEN KNOW THE MEANING OF WORDS HE USES:&lt;/span&gt; Iva Radivojevic, who created a video praising leftist demonstrations, doesn’t even know the meaning of the words he uses and tosses around so blandly. He talks about seeing Corporatism (what IS that?), Fascism, (a form of SOCIALISM), crony capitalism (what the hell is THAT? Any form of capitalism is the OPPOSITE of Fascism), while a “police state” is impossible under a capitalist (free market) system. He just chooses words that sound good to him and throws them around, meaning NOTHING.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-6575659519751025114?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/6575659519751025114/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/10/nothing-from-u-n.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/6575659519751025114'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/6575659519751025114'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/10/nothing-from-u-n.html' title='Nothing From the U. N.'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-3182489444593172078</id><published>2011-10-09T12:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-09T12:09:05.303-07:00</updated><title type='text'>As Usual, A Democrat Won</title><content type='html'>Democrats ALWAYS win whenever the election is a close one. They’re experts at stealing elections that are close. So I predicted the Democrat would win in the recent election for governor in W. Virginia, and he did. So what else is new? Remember a recent Senatorial election in Minnesota where they kept “finding” more and more Democrat votes for MONTHS after the election and the Democrat comedian finally won?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“ISLOAMAPHOBE” A CON:&lt;/span&gt; It’s a word manufactured in an attempt to discredit ANYBODY who tells the truth about Islamic terrorists by calling them “Islamaphobe,” intimating that they are somehow “mentally deficient” and possibly bigoted by saying it. This is a con that has been used in the past many times, and used successfully because people just don’t “pay attention to politics” and thus believe the contention this word represents. It is in use by gay activists to discredit truth told by their critics who tell the truth about the scam gay activists run to teach our school children that being gay is “normal and natural.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;HOLDER LIED:&lt;/span&gt; He lied in the face of sure proof he was lying, or he is plainly incompetent. People are calling for a “special prosecutor” to determine if he actually WAS lying, but as yet, nobody has asked for his resignation. Obama’s “press hack” belittles those calls for a special prosecutor by saying this congressman calls for one for SOMETHING every six months. Of course that doesn’t mean there IS no need for a special prosecutor, just that he has been ignored.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“WEASEL WORDS”:&lt;/span&gt; I really get tired of all the “weasel words” politicians use to avoid calling someone a LIAR. Words such as “disingenuous.” When politicians start using REAL words like “lied,” maybe they’ll get more attention from people who should BE “paying attention to politics.” Why are they afraid to call a liar a liar?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“HE’S A RACIST!”&lt;/span&gt; That’s the liberal response, ever since Obama was elected, to EVERY criticism of Democrat policies. They don’t argue on the issues—ever. They just brand you as a racist for having the temerity to (shudder) criticize Obama or any of his policies. What I can’t believe is that supposedly smart people are still actually DEBATING that issue. It’s a cheap con to avoid arguing on the issues.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;STEVE JOBS IS TODAY’S THOMAS EDISON:&lt;/span&gt; There are few people who made as much of an impression on society as did Thomas Edison. Aside from inventing the light bulb and the record player, he held many other patents. Some say Steve Jobs’ inventions didn’t make as much of a difference as did Edison’s, but they did. He “invented and masterfully marketed gadgets that transformed everyday technology." (Paul Sakuma/AP) There is NO single person today who has had, PERSONALLY, as much effect on the way we now live our lives than Steve Jobs.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-3182489444593172078?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/3182489444593172078/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/10/as-usual-democrat-won.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/3182489444593172078'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/3182489444593172078'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/10/as-usual-democrat-won.html' title='As Usual, A Democrat Won'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-578170534239734397</id><published>2011-10-06T12:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-06T12:30:59.923-07:00</updated><title type='text'>"Conventional Wisdom" Usually Wrong</title><content type='html'>“Conventional wisdom has it that Attorney General Holder didn’t know about “Fast and Furious” until the last two weeks (from today, October 4, 2011). That’s a patent lie, and he was talking about it as much as a year ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WHOSE FAULT &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;IS&lt;/span&gt; IT?&lt;/span&gt; Bank of America or the Dodd-Frank bill? B of A has announced it would heretofore charge debit card users $5 a month to use their cards because of the new requirements in the Dodd-Frank bill, specifically. That’s not a generality, it’s a SPECIFIC. Now Obama says it is the REASON for the Dodd-Frank bill. "Circular reasoning" if I ever saw it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;THE “RELIGION OF DEATH”:&lt;/span&gt; The Muslims want to paint a picture where theirs is a “religion of peace.” That’s a LIE. They will not be satisfied until everybody in the world is Muslim, or DEAD. And that’s not just the Islamic extremists; it’s in the Koran that every Muslim has a DUTY to convert everybody they can, even if they don’t want it. Also there is the order to KILL “Infidels.” Maybe all Muslims don’t follow that, but it’s in there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WHO’S GOING TO PAY FOR IT?&lt;/span&gt; Liberals want to give everything away FREE. But they can’t, because they don’t own it. But they either don’t know this or just don’t care. They want to make things better for all (mostly themselves), whether or not they work for it. But SOMEBODY has to work for it, or it won’t be there for them to steal and give away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;COMMUNIST PARTY USA TO RIOT:&lt;/span&gt; They say they’re going to “riot” for Obama’s “jobs bill,” which is already dead. I’ll tell ya what: anything the Communist Party USA would riot FOR, I don’t want. If they think they’re helping Obama pass a socialist bill by rioting, they’ve got another think coming. NO wonder communism collapsed in Russia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;HOLDER LIED TO CONGRESS:&lt;/span&gt; When he said he only knew about “Fast and Furious” for a couple of weeks when they have a memo sent to him, describing it over a year ago. This is the kind of lies and obfuscations rampant in this administration. Under the rules, now he has been found to be lying he can say “I misspoke” and all is forgiven.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-578170534239734397?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/578170534239734397/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/10/conventional-wisdom-usually-wrong.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/578170534239734397'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/578170534239734397'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/10/conventional-wisdom-usually-wrong.html' title='&quot;Conventional Wisdom&quot; Usually Wrong'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-7344504964745631674</id><published>2011-10-05T11:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-05T12:00:25.628-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Who's Van Jones?</title><content type='html'>You’d think the holder of the second highest office in the land; the man who would become PRESIDENT if anything happened to Obama, would at least have an idea of just who the COMMUNIST who was appointed as the “Green” czar in Obama’s administration is. But Joe “BiteMe” hasn’t a clue. I suspect there’s a lot more about which Joe “doesn’t have a clue.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;IT ISN’T THERE!&lt;/span&gt; Liberals keep talking about the “separation of church and state” and insisting it is in the Constitution. It is NOT. The term was used in a letter to Thomas Jefferson by another of the “Founders” of our country, but does not appear ANYWHERE in the Constitution OR the Declaration of Independence. They like to keep up this fiction as they do with many other fictions that help their “cause.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;OBAMA “HAS NO REGRETS”: &lt;/span&gt;No regrets about foolishly spending $535 million of OUR dollars on Solyndra. Of COURSE he “has no regrets.” It wasn’t HIS money he lost, it was YOURS. So he just doesn’t care. I wonder how many MORE “Solyndras” there are out there that we haven’t learned about yet. Any time there is a chance to waste taxpayer money, Obama is right there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ASSASSINATION OF OBAMA?&lt;/span&gt; A Muslim web site asks if that would be illegal in light of “his horrific killing of Muslims all over the world.” What about the “horrific killing of NON Muslims all over the world for not believing the right way? Do they even recognize THAT as bad? Not according to their reading of the Koran.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;FILMS I’LL NEVER SEE:&lt;/span&gt; I’m making a list of actors and actresses whose films I will never see again. It is headed by “Hanoi Jane” and many others who have made embarrassingly STUPID statements. The latest name added is that of Sean Penn, who has popped up in Libya to support Islam. They think they can say ANYTHING without consequences. But the consequences could be immense if a lot of people make a similar list and stay away from everything they do. Forget the Constitution; I’m not the government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;HE DOESN’T DESERVE IT:&lt;/span&gt; A convicted murderer who happens to be MUSLIM IS suing OVER THE LACK OF “Halal meals” in prison. Well, I GOT NEWS FOR HIM. He doesn’t deserve ANY consideration for ANYTHING, religious or otherwise. He’s lucky he has lived this long. He wouldn’t have if he murdered someone (other than an “Infidel”) in a Muslim-run country.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-7344504964745631674?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/7344504964745631674/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/10/whos-van-jones.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/7344504964745631674'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/7344504964745631674'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/10/whos-van-jones.html' title='Who&apos;s Van Jones?'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-3336981502777578552</id><published>2011-10-04T12:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-04T12:20:40.958-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Are You Better Off Now?</title><content type='html'>The question Ronald Reagan used to win an election is now a “referendum” on the current occupant of the White House, and Obama answered it with a lie, as usual. He said, “No, but it ain’t my fault.” But it IS his fault. It is HIS policies that have brought us to today’s point, no matter how much he tries to blame it on Bush and everyone else that came before him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;REPUBLICAN DOESN’T MEAN CONSERVATIVE:&lt;/span&gt; Many people think all Republicans are conservatives. They aren’t. I could give you many examples, but I’ll only give you one: Rockefeller (all of them). Rockefeller is one of the “super-rich” and always votes with the Democrats (He’s one the Democrats PRETEND to hate). He is a DECIDED liberal. There are many more like him in the Republican Party. That’s why even many Republicans hate and revile Sarah Palin. They’re AFRAID of her. They know she will “upset their applecart” if she gets elected, like she did in Alaska.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“OFFENDING” MUSLIMS:&lt;/span&gt; BBC now bans “Christ Centric Timestamps” and says, “It is appropriate that we use terms that do not offend non-Christians.” What about CHRISTIANS? Your country and ours are CHRISTIAN nations! I NOTICE Muslim countries aren’t squeamish about “offending Christians.” They KILL them. Who the hell cares what “offends non-Christians?” (a/k/a” Muslims) Muslims SAY they want “religious freedom” in the United States but do not extend the same thing to Christians or members of ANY other religion in countries they control.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SELF ESTEEM vs. SELF IMAGE:&lt;/span&gt; Liberals talk a lot about “self esteem” when they try and limit competition as much as they can. But “self-esteem” is not what we want to instill in our school children. Let’s define both terms: “self esteem” is their opinion of their talents and abilities through HIDING their deficiencies from them; “self-image” is their opinion of their talents and abilities from KNOWLEDGE of their talents and abilities. That’s why liberals want to eliminate “score-keeping” in sports.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ROSEANNE BARR: “BEHEAD THE RICH”:&lt;/span&gt; You know, the ones who won’t give up what they’ve EARNED to those who did NOT earn it. Okay, Roseanne, you’ll be first, and hopefully the last to lose her head because you’re rich and won’t give up what you’ve EARNED. Roseanne speaks gibberish in her interview with “Russia Today.” What else? Where else? They agree with her, except for the rich bureaucrats and politicians. In Russia, that’s the only kind there is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;EASY TO PROVE THE LIE:&lt;/span&gt; Why do liberals and other Democrats keep talking about “the rich paying their share” when it is so easy to prove the lie simply by citing the IRS figures that show that the top 25% of earners pay 86% of all income taxes paid? How stupid ARE these people? If you cite these numbers they just accuse you of lying while refusing to do their own research.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-3336981502777578552?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/3336981502777578552/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/10/are-you-better-off-now.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/3336981502777578552'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/3336981502777578552'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/10/are-you-better-off-now.html' title='Are You Better Off Now?'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-1855785874451240858</id><published>2011-10-01T16:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-01T17:04:37.508-07:00</updated><title type='text'>"Crony Capitalism"</title><content type='html'>Leftists like to misuse words like “crony capitalism” while their “figurehead” and “mouthpiece,” Brrraaacckk Obama PRACTICES it. He “invested” $737 million dollars in a project that will PROFIT Nancy Peelosi, the former Democrat House leader. This is the kind of politics we can expect from Democrats on a regular basis. From Republicans occasionally. Of course, Republicans found out get prosecuted while Democrats get “hand-slaps” and remain in office.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;CALL THEM ON IT:&lt;/span&gt; Liberals (Democrats) and even some RINOs (Republicans in name only) like to call Tea Party people racists, terrorists, homophobes, Islamaphobes, and any manner of other insulting names. Funny thing: they never come up with any EXAMPLES of whatever it is that has them convinced of this. That’s because they can’t; there isn’t any example they can cite. So when somebody who doesn’t like the Tea Parties makes such a comment, make them prove it or shut up. The Democrats can’t fight them fairly, and “name-calling” is all they’ve got.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;POLITICS IS THEIR JOB!&lt;/span&gt; Some people, (mostly liberals) are saying to Congress, “put politics aside and do your job.” As if that’s not what they’re DOING. Obama is doing things that will DESTROY this country. His opponents (even some Democrats) are opposing him. That’s politics. It’s their JOB! To “put politics aside” would NOT be doing their job.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;OVERCOME BY STUPIDITY:&lt;/span&gt; First it was the Pledge of Allegiance, then the words “God” or “Jesus” in their graduation speeches, and any number of other outrages. Now one teacher is BANNING the words, “God Bless You.” He says the saying is outmoded because it used to be said to “thank the sneezer for expelling the evil spirits” when he/she sneezed. So what? Does that give him the right to BAN it? Not in this country. We still have the right to say what we wish.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;CUT DOWN ON THE TOUCHDOWNS:&lt;/span&gt; That’s what one school football player who makes a LOT of them has been told. How STUPID is that? A football player who makes a lot of touchdowns should be HONORED and paid a lot of money when he gets to the NFL. Not chided for being “too good.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;TYPICAL LIBERAL:&lt;/span&gt; Obama wants to BAN asthma inhalers. This is the kind of STUPID things liberals are always trying. The fact that the power to ban such things is not in the Constitution ans can cause the deaths of some people seems not to matter to them. Of course, they ignore the Constitution ANY time it conflicts with what they wish to do. We have countless unconstitutional laws on the books because to get rid of them, somebody has to come up with a lot of money to “make a federal case out of it.”&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-1855785874451240858?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/1855785874451240858/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/10/crony-capitalism.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/1855785874451240858'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/1855785874451240858'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/10/crony-capitalism.html' title='&quot;Crony Capitalism&quot;'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-4919414515759224700</id><published>2011-09-29T13:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-29T13:49:55.636-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Should We "Settle?"</title><content type='html'>ANY of the current Republican candidates would be better than Obama. But far above ALL of them is Sarah Palin and she isn’t even running (yet). We should not “settle” for somebody just because he/she has an (R) next to his/her name as a rule. But that doesn’t mean we should EVER vote for a Democrat because almost ALL of them will inevitably push the socialist line. Democrats, as a party, ARE socialists, even some Marxists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A “MEMBER OF THE TEA PARTY”:&lt;/span&gt; There is no such thing! The “Tea Party” is an IDEA, not a political party. So anybody who says his opponent is “a member of the Tea Party” is lying, or is misinformed. The “Tea Party” is what is used to describe people who want their country back, and for this government to move back toward small government, lower taxes, and AWAY from socialism. Something that will never happen under a Democrat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;CARTER IS SENILE:&lt;/span&gt; I have no other choice but to declare former president Jimmy Carter senile. Only somebody who IS senile would support the Palestinian terrorists, as he is. I’ve been watching him for a long time and I’ve seen the signs for a while. Some of the decisions he has made recently defy reality. So I have to declare that he no longer sees things in a “real world,” but nobody wants to say it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;FLED “SHARIA LAW”:&lt;/span&gt; Many Muslims fled Muslim countries to get away from Sharia Law and don’t want it enforced upon them in America. But the Muslim “spokesmen” don’t listen to them. After all—they’re Infidels who have “turned their backs on the faith.” These are the Muslims a lot of people don’t think exist because many are afraid to speak up for fear of being killed by supporters of the “religion of peace.” The “peace” of which they speak is the “peace” of death.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;NOT BAIL—RANSOM:&lt;/span&gt; Ahmadinijerk calls it “bail” for the release of the hikers they kidnapped while they were hiking on the Iran border and called “spies.” It’s not “bail,” it’s a million dollar RANSOM. Don’t doubt it. This is the same “modus operandi” that used to be used by the Soviet Union and their “henchmen.” Grab somebody that strays into your territory and “ransom” them with a lot of fanfare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;REPLACING HIM WON’T HELP:&lt;/span&gt; Democrats are twittering about replacing Obama and “The Gawker” is saying he is “tired” and maybe even “depressed.” But replacing Obama with more of the same is not going to help their fortunes. He has gone too far toward destroying this nation’s economy and Americans know that another Democrat is going to only do more of the same. Yes, I’d like very much to “replace” Obama; but not with another Democrat approved by the “elite.”&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-4919414515759224700?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/4919414515759224700/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/09/should-we-settle.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/4919414515759224700'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/4919414515759224700'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/09/should-we-settle.html' title='Should We &quot;Settle?&quot;'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-8507533840237821569</id><published>2011-09-28T12:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-28T12:52:13.719-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Arizona's "California Law"</title><content type='html'>California has had an almost identical law to that recently passed in Arizona for a long time, and nobody has said a word. At the same time, nobody has done anything to enforce California’s law. Are California politicians in VIOLATION of this law? Meanwhile, California politicians are calling Arizona’s law unconstitutional, obviously never having read it, and not knowing about their own law. What a FIASCO!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SNUBBING ISRAEL:&lt;/span&gt; One of the first “state visits” Obama made as president was to an Islamic country. Since then, he has made MANY visits to Islamic countries. Has he EVER visited Israel? No once. That pretty much tells me how he feels about Israel, one of our staunchest allies. And about Islamic countries, most of whom HATE us for BEING us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WHO WAS ADOLPH HITLER?&lt;/span&gt; Fully one-fourth of 17-year-olds don’t know who Adolph Hitler was, OR what he did to six million Jews (or deny it happened). Will we be forced to repeat history because of this? Politicians in Washington “scream bloody murder” if you accuse them of using the same methods as Hitler used. But they are. Should we just ignore that and let them create the same kind of dictatorship in America that he did in Germany? Sheesh!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PUSHING JEWS INTO THE SEA:&lt;/span&gt; That’s what today’s Islamic extremists openly say they want to do. At least, they don’t have any “ovens” in which to murder them. They only want to drown them or shoot them, and replace Israel with a “hard-line” Islamic state. What’s the difference between what they want, and what Hitler DID?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WHY DID ISRAEL BLOCKADE GAZA?&lt;/span&gt; Because the Palestinians (who ARE Islamic extremists) are using it as a base from which to shoot rocket bombs into Israeli neighborhoods, indiscriminately killing innocent women and children. Israel has the INHERENT right to defend itself, whatever it takes. It follows Israel would want to stop them from bringing in munitions from outside Gaza.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WHY DOES OBAMA HATE ISRAEL?&lt;/span&gt; He denies it. But he has visited Islamic states many times, and Israel not once. I don’t know why he hates Israel. Maybe it’s his Islamic upbringing. But he does, and his every movement toward Israel shows it. Maybe he’s not “officially” a Muslim, but in his formative years he LIVED a “Muslim life,” You tell me what he “learned.”&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-8507533840237821569?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/8507533840237821569/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/09/arizonas-california-law.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/8507533840237821569'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/8507533840237821569'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/09/arizonas-california-law.html' title='Arizona&apos;s &quot;California Law&quot;'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-2577611780555222119</id><published>2011-09-27T13:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-27T13:06:58.419-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Our Insane Government</title><content type='html'>This government is now being run by people who are INSANE! Israel boards a vessel run by Hamas, an Islamic terrorist organization, to INSPECT it. They TOLD them up front that ANY vessel going to Gaza was subject to inspection. But the people on board attacked the boarders, causing nine to be killed. So the United Nations condemned the Israeli action and we did not veto it. This is INSANE! Israel HAS the inherent right to defend itself from people who want to kill every Jew in existence. And the UN "condemns them" for it. So who cares what an organization MADE UP OF dictators and despots thinks?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;NO OUTRAGE FROM MEDIA:&lt;/span&gt; When Saddam Hussein set Kuwait’s oil rigs on fire and opened the taps on their oil tankers and pipelines to reduce the world supply of oil and raise the world price on oil after we whipped him the first time, and there was no outrage from the American media. The oil leak in the gulf of Mexico wouldn’t be a pimple on the butt of that disaster, but outrage is all the liberal media can talk about. The difference? BP is private enterprise and Obama has taught them to hate private enterprise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;NOT INVENTED HERE SYNDROME:&lt;/span&gt; Shell Oil has a system in use elsewhere in the world, notably in Saudi Arabia, to separate the oil and water, salvage the oil, and clean up the water. It works. It has been offered to the Coast Guard (meaning the feds), but they can’t get an answer on whether it can be used here because it wasn't invented here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;NOT THE BIGGEST OIL SPILL:&lt;/span&gt; We keep being told the Gulf oil spill is the biggest oil spill in the history of the world, but that’s a lie. There was a bigger oil spill in Mexico, and people are still there trying to manage it. The things our government wants us to believe! Sheesh!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;GLOBAL WARMING “SCIENTISTS?” &lt;/span&gt;Obama wants global warming “scientists” to look at the Gulf oil spill. Why? They can’t even get it right concerning global warming! What does he expect of them in this? Jeeze, how stupid IS this man? I wouldn’t believe it if I hadn’t seen it for myself!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;OBAMA’S “TRANSPARENCY”:&lt;/span&gt; Obama promised us “transparency in government,” and he has given it to us. He is as “transparently corrupt” as any politician I have ever seen. His latest crime is offering jobs to Democrats running against his “pet” candidates if they'll pull out of the election to get them out of elections and minimize the damage his own excesses have done to the Democrat Party. He is the most “transparent” crook ever to hold the Oval Office in my lifetime. Bill Clinton is second, and Jimmy Carter third.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-2577611780555222119?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/2577611780555222119/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/09/our-insane-government_27.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/2577611780555222119'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/2577611780555222119'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/09/our-insane-government_27.html' title='Our Insane Government'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-3871288971679120154</id><published>2011-09-25T12:12:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-25T12:19:14.871-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Apples and Oranges</title><content type='html'>When Warren Buffet says his secretary pays taxes at a higher rate than he does, he is LYING. Lying by comparing two different kinds of taxes: Income taxes and capital gains taxes, which have a lower rate FOR EVERYBODY. If his “secretary” sells her house she will pay taxes on it at the SAME RATE as he does. Buffet makes very little on which he pays INCOME taxes, and if he does, he and his secretary pay the same as EVERYBODY.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;CASS SUNSTEIN’S POWER:&lt;/span&gt; The “Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs” (what a “Soviet-style title!). With it, he can screw over people like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and even me. When he was told about it, his eyes got very big and he groaned as if he was having an orgasm because he knows how much power that gives him. Power is an aphrodisiac to liberals and his reaction proves it. I may be committing literary (maybe literal) suicide by writing this item.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;OBAMA SEES DEAD PEOPLE:&lt;/span&gt; At a recent ceremony to honor America’s “fallen,” Obama said he “saw some of them here today. How is that possible unless he can see dead people? Does this guy ever READ what’s going to be on his teleprompter before he gives yet another speech? What JOKE this idiot is!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;FIGHTING CONSERVATIVE MISINFORMATION:&lt;/span&gt; That’s right at the top of the “Media Matters” home page on their web site. My question here is, who fights MEDIA MATTERS’ (liberal) misinformation, which involves just about everything they publish? To hear them tell it, the only place there IS “misinformation” is from conservatives. From what I can see, ALL the misinformation is coming from LIBERAL sources, Media Matters included. In the forefront, in fact.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;NO PROVOCATIONS AT ALL:&lt;/span&gt; The “Arab World says Israel “attacked a Palestinian ship with “no provocation whatsoever.” Who do they think they’re fooling? On ANY given day, at ANY given time, Israel has a “provocation” to kill Palestinians after all the unprovoked attacks the Palestinians have made on Israel. Do they really think the rest of the world are fools?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;EXAMPLE OF THE TWIST:&lt;/span&gt; Rush Limbaugh famously said, “I want Obama to fail.” The liberals twisted that to have him saying, “I want the country to fail.” This is how they twist what we say and then criticize us for saying it. What Limbaugh actually wants is for OBAMA to fail in his quest to socialize this country and take over permanent leadership of it. Such failure will cause the COUNTRY to succeed. To want OBAMA to fail is a GOOD thing, since everything he wants to do is BAD for this country.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-3871288971679120154?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/3871288971679120154/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/09/apples-and-oranges.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/3871288971679120154'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/3871288971679120154'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/09/apples-and-oranges.html' title='Apples and Oranges'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-2823969970629776736</id><published>2011-09-24T14:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-24T14:22:55.046-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Romney Is A Fool!</title><content type='html'>He not only denies what’s before his eyes when he criticizes Perry for saying Social Security is a Ponzi (pyramid) scheme when it obviously IS and always has BEEN. Being MANDATORY doesn’t change that It WORKS like a pyramid scheme. Then he compounded his stupidity by saying SS is “not a failure.” It IS a failure and has only a few years yet before it is entirely BROKE and it will never recover. This IS failure. I certainly hope I won’t be around to see it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“CLOSE TO THE TEA PARTY”:&lt;/span&gt; Being “close to the Tea Party” as Democrats say about some candidates, is NOT a “bad thing.’ The Tea Party is NONE of the things they SAY they are, and the nasty things they say about them is ample evidence to me they’re sorely FRIGHTENED of them. The Tea Party is NOT an organization (even though some organizations have taken that name). It is an IDEA. The idea that “we want our country back” and are going to GET RID OF the Democrats and other liberals who are trying to steal it from us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;JUST BREAK OFF THE ANTENNAE:&lt;/span&gt; Glenn Beck recently told the world that “On Star” is keeping track of all of us. Those of us who have On Star on their cars, of course. They say we can’t “turn it off.” But we can. You know that little antennae on top of those cars with that service? Just remove it. Without that antennae On Star doesn’t work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SUSPENDED FOR HIS OPINION:&lt;/span&gt; An “honors student” in Ft. Worth, TX was suspended after he told a fellow student he thought homosexuality was wrong. I guess having an opinion contrary to the liberal position is something to be punished for in Ft. worth. What happened to the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America? I have no opinion about homosexuality, but I think he is ENTITLED to his own opinion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;NO SURPRISE THERE:&lt;/span&gt; Putin is running for president again. Will he win? Does a bear crap in the woods? In Russia, ALL “elections” are a setup to fool the masses into thinking they have some input. I don’t think they’re fooled any longer. Russia may not be “communist” any more (yeah, right!) but they’re still socialist. Semantics. He could win by 100% of the vote, but Russians are smarter than people like Saddam, who actually thought people would believe it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;AMAZING STUPIDITY:&lt;/span&gt; I just saw our political parties described as a “center-right party” and a “far-right party.” How STUPID is THAT? There is nothing “right” about the Democrat Party, and “not so much” right about the Republicans. When a REAL “right-wing bunch” comes along (The Tea Party) BOTH parties attack them and lie about them.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-2823969970629776736?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/2823969970629776736/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/09/romney-is-fool.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/2823969970629776736'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/2823969970629776736'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/09/romney-is-fool.html' title='Romney Is A Fool!'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-8171744178854101333</id><published>2011-09-22T12:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-22T13:00:12.917-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Making Our Own Decisions</title><content type='html'>That’s what the battle is all about. Obama wants the power to make all our decisions FOR us. He wants us to have to go to one of his “hand-picked bureaucrats,” hat in hand, to ask PERMISSION to do things we should have the right to do WITHOUT asking permission from someone who should have NO power over our lives. That’s basically ALL we want.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;BLITHERING IDIOTS:&lt;/span&gt; Those are the words that best describe the Aruban “authorities.” Joran Van Der Sloot murdered a girl there, and they couldn’t get him for it. so he continued his meandering ways, traveling the world, gambling, whoring, drinking, etc., and whenever someone displeased him, he killed them. How many other people has he killed in the five years since his first “known” murder?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;THAT GIANT SUCKING SOUND:&lt;/span&gt; That’s coming from Canadian soccer games. The Canadian Youth Soccer League made a new rule: &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;“Any game won by more than five points will cause the winner to lose by default.”&lt;/span&gt; You read that right. The idiots have taken over soccer in Canada, and it sucks. That kind of thinking is gaining traction here, too. Soon we’ll have auto races with NO winner; baseball and football games likewise; and what will be the purpose of PLAYING them?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PROCLAIMING THEIR IGNORANCE:&lt;/span&gt; Every time I see a car with an Obama sticker on it, I think: “Is this guy STUPID?” Does he STILL support the guy who is plundering us? If I had voted for that dolt of a president (I didn’t) I would want to hide it, not continue to proclaim my ignorance to the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;AHMADINIJERK A HERO?&lt;/span&gt; That’s the way they’re playing it; making the Iran chief thug into a hero for letting those innocent hikers who have been in his prison for two years go just as he appeared at the UN in support of a statehood petition for a bunch of terrorists. But he’s not. He’s a criminal for robbing these people of two years of their lives for political reasons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SPEAKING TO AN EMPTY ROOM:&lt;/span&gt; Ahmadinijerk spoke to a mostly empty room when he gave what I’m sure was an inflammatory speech filled with lies, misinformation and idiocy. I don’t know; I shut off the sound on my television when Fox said next up was Ahmadinijerk’s speech. I don’t want to waste a MINUTE of my life listening to the ravings of this imbecile, just as I don’t waste my time listening to that other imbecile, Obama.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-8171744178854101333?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/8171744178854101333/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/09/making-our-own-decisions.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/8171744178854101333'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/8171744178854101333'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/09/making-our-own-decisions.html' title='Making Our Own Decisions'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-4674071651729747981</id><published>2011-09-21T12:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-21T12:32:51.930-07:00</updated><title type='text'>"Jew-Free Zone"</title><content type='html'>That’s what the Palestinians promise if the UN approves their application for a “Palestinian State.” How does ANYBODY justify THAT? Do they really expect the UN to allow them a “Palestinian State” with such a promise? Yes, they do; because the UN is filled with dictators and socialists and communists who think the same way they do. And they can't imagine anybody thinking differently.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;FREEDOM OF SPEECH:&lt;/span&gt; Muslims interrupt an Israeli speaker and call it “free speech.” It is not “free speech” to interrupt a scheduled speaker and keep HIM from speaking. Like Reagan said when they tried it on him: “I paid for this microphone!” They need to learn just what “free speech” IS. They’re free to stand outside and say what they wish; or hold their own meeting likewise. Or they could print a flyer or a newspaper, or write a blog and no one can bother them (yet). What they did is NOT “free speech. The guy who paid for the microphone has a right to free speech also.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;BUFFET IS A FOOL:&lt;/span&gt; And he’s lying. When he gets paid WAGES, he pays exactly she same percentage as does his secretary. But that normally doesn’t happen. He eschews wages in favor of “capital gains,” which it taxes at 15%, for EVERYBODY. Obama knows this, but he still uses Buffet’s statement to back himself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“RESPECT”:&lt;/span&gt; People don’t LIKE Obama, and most of us don’t RESPECT him. I have no USE for the kind of person he is, and that has nothing to do with his race. I don’t care about that. I have backed black candidates in the past and will in the future if I agree with their plans. He’s a con man and a serial liar. He tells whopper lies at the drop of a hat, and sometimes he even “drops the hat.” If you want to know what’s happening, LISTEN to what he says, then DISCOUNT it, believing just the opposite is true. I have NO “respect for the office” as long as he’s in it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“IT’S NOT CLASS WARFARE!”&lt;/span&gt; That’s what Obama shouts loudly in one of his latest speeches, and it’s a LIE! What Obama proposes IS “class warfare” and he knows we realize it. But he doesn’t care. He thinks the power of his shouting that it isn’t is powerful enough to “rise above” our knowledge of the truth. He doesn’t care that we know it. He figures if he shouts it enough we’ll doubt our own knowledge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;TEA PARTY “EXTREMISTS?” &lt;/span&gt;Liberals say any number of derogatory things about the “Tea Parties,” including that they are racist, extremists, and such. What I want any liberals seeing this to do is give me ONE (provable)  example of racism on the part of the “Tea Parties,” or a single (true and provable) example of their “extremism.”&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-4674071651729747981?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/4674071651729747981/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/09/jew-free-zone.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/4674071651729747981'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/4674071651729747981'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/09/jew-free-zone.html' title='&quot;Jew-Free Zone&quot;'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-4465646388227509079</id><published>2011-09-20T12:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-20T12:51:22.236-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Our Insane Government</title><content type='html'>This government is being run by people who are INSANE! Israel boards a vessel run by Hamas, an Islamic terrorist organization, to INSPECT it. They TOLD them ANY vessel going to Gaza was subject to inspection. But the people on board attacked the boarders, causing nine to be killed. So the United Nations condemned the Israeli action and we did not veto it. This is INSANE! Israel HAS the inherent right to defend itself from people who want to kill every Jew in existence. And the UN “condemns them for it. So who cares what an organization MADE UP OF dictators and despots thinks?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;NO OUTRAGE FROM MEDIA:&lt;/span&gt; When Saddam Hussein set Kuwait’s oil rigs on fire and opened the taps on their oil tankers and pipelines to reduce the world supply of oil and raise the world price on oil after we whipped him the first time, there was no outrage from the American media. The oil leak in the gulf of Mexico wouldn’t be a pimple on the butt of that disaster, but outrage was all the liberal media could talk about. The difference? BP is private enterprise and Obama has taught them to hate private enterprise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;NO PROVOCATIONS AT ALL:&lt;/span&gt; The “Arab World says Israel “attacked a Palestinian ship with “no provocation whatsoever.” Who do they think they’re fooling? On ANY given day, at ANY given time, Israel has a “provocation” to kill Palestinians after all the unprovoked attacks the Palestinians have made on Israel. Do they really think the rest of the world are fools?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;EXAMPLE OF THE TWIST:&lt;/span&gt; Rush Limbaugh famously said, “I want Obama to fail.” The liberals twisted that to have him saying, “I want the country to fail.” This is how they twist what we say and then criticize us for saying it. What Limbaugh actually wants is for OBAMA to fail in his quest to socialize this country and take over permanent leadership of it, which will cause the COUNTRY to succeed. To want OBAMA to fail is a GOOD thing, since everything he wants to do is BAD for this country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;GOLLY! IT WAS AN &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;AID&lt;/span&gt; SHIP!&lt;/span&gt; Really? Then why were the soldiers on it armed, and why did they fight when the Israelis (who were entitled, after all the Palestinian atrocities they’ve suffered) wanted to inspect the ship to make sure they were not allowing an army into Gaza. If they had not attacked the Israelis, maybe they’d have just been inspected and allowed to go on their way. Or maybe not. We’ll never know, now. Now they’re sending yet ANOTHER ship to “run the Israeli blockade on Gaza.”  Looks to me like they’re simply PROVOKING Israel, which they do routinely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;UN CONDEMNS ISRAEL:&lt;/span&gt; And they want us to do likewise, because of their response to the Turkish “setup” in which 9 people died after ATTACKING people who only came aboard to INSPECT their ship, as they TOLD them they would, to make sure it WAS a “help” mission, not an act of war. If we DO, that will put the cap on Obama’s losses in 2010 and 2012.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-4465646388227509079?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/4465646388227509079/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/09/our-insane-government.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/4465646388227509079'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/4465646388227509079'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/09/our-insane-government.html' title='Our Insane Government'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-2939445792206221614</id><published>2011-09-18T10:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-18T10:35:37.735-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Obama Innocent!</title><content type='html'>He had nothing to do with the attempt to bribe Sestak to keep him from running against Arlen Specter in 2008. Or so sayeth liberals, who still think Nixon was the first through the door himself on the Democrat Party office break-in that destroyed his presidency. What a load of stinky brown stuff! The things these liberals expect us to believe! The bad thing is, people who “pay no attention to politics” WILL believe them. (Thanks to the Florida Cracker on Twitter for the suggestion)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;NO DETAILS:&lt;/span&gt; Sestak claims the White House made him a job offer to keep him from running against Arlen Specter (Something I wouldn’t put past this White House) but, just like with most politicians, usually liberals, he gives no details. The details will have to be screwed out of him with a huge wine bottle opener.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SHE DIDN’T CROSS HER LEGS!&lt;/span&gt; They’re crying about the fact that Elena Kagan didn’t cross her legs while being interviewed. If that’s all the liberals had against Elena Kagan, she’d be confirmed in five minutes (Maybe that’s why they’re doing it; to divert our attention.). There were way too many IMPORTANT things for which to criticize her, making this silly. I never thought I’d be defending Kagan, but I think this is stupid! And it IS sexist. Especially after the liberal press made so much of the airbrushed “package” displayed by AlGore (and another by Bill Clinton) in a magazine. How stupid ARE these people”?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;LIMITING POLITICAL ADS:&lt;/span&gt; Democrats are working hard to do this because if their opponents cannot advertise, it makes it a lot easier for them to keep their jobs. McCain-Feingold, a law I call “The Incumbent Protection Act,” was a mistake, and it was John McCain’s mistake. As a Republican, he should be retired for that, alone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;THE “USUAL SUSPECTS”:&lt;/span&gt; I get really tired of hearing about the “usual suspects” being mentioned as possible presidential candidates in 2012. In a recent issue of News Max there was a a letter to the editor asking “Can Mitt Romney Save the Country?” The answer is a resounding NO! If he could, he would have already done it. The best prospect, in my mind, is Sarah Palin, who stayed with John McCain (as she promised to do) even though she was very critical of his policies after the election. Any politician who keeps her promises that well, I want to get elected.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; AG HOLDER “EASY” ON KILLERS:&lt;/span&gt; Eris Arguera, Alcides Umana, and Adolfo Amaya Portillo are proud members of the vicious street gang, Mara Salvatrucha. They’re also bloody murderers. They were trying a “protection racket” on a pimp, and killed him when he fought back. AG Holder refused to ask for the death penalty. Why? If there ever WAS a “death penalty case,” this is it. Why does he refuse to ask for it? Probably the same reason he cancelled the case against the  two black men who stood in front of a polling place, intimidating voters with nightsticks. They’ve got “pull.” And they're "his people" (His words, not mine).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-2939445792206221614?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/2939445792206221614/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/09/obama-innocent.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/2939445792206221614'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/2939445792206221614'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/09/obama-innocent.html' title='Obama Innocent!'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-2709294358361493914</id><published>2011-09-17T12:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-17T12:11:25.038-07:00</updated><title type='text'>"It's A Message"</title><content type='html'>The Taliban says the recent Afghan attacks are a “message to the U. S. to stop harassing people who wear turbans.” But, as usual, that’s a lie. It’s a reminder of their accidental major victory on Sept. 11, 2001. We aren’t “harassing” anybody who doesn’t NEED harassing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;NFL FAN USES STUN GUN:&lt;/span&gt; So, of course, the NFL increases their harassment of fans by extending their searches from head to toe. It was previously only from head to waist. Apparently it’s no longer legal to defend yourself with whatever method necessary against several attackers. They’re putting that on the same page with Islamic terrorists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“FIGHT TO THE DEATH”:&lt;/span&gt; Glenn Beck says the Republican elite and the Tea Party are in a “fight to the death.” The Republicans know the Tea Party concept can take them ALL down, and they don’t want that, even if it means we Are saddled with the “Obama problem” for another four years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;TYPICAL LIBERAL LIES:”&lt;/span&gt; Michael Moore says the Tea Parties are Full of “hate, rage, and racism.” But he’s wrong. It is his own liberals who are “filled with hate rage, and racism.” He keeps saying this with NO PROOF of anything like that, only his unsupported word, which isn’t very dependable because he lies a lot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;NON-SPECIFICS:&lt;/span&gt; That’s Obama. He promises to “change this country” but he never says HOW he plans to “change” it. So far, the “changes” he has enacted are NOT changes this country wants, and CERTAINLY not the ones I want. We need to “change” the so-called “leadership” in Washington so Obama’s radicals can’t make this into a socialist nation which will be  the IMAGE of Soviet Russia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;UNNECESSARY “STUDIES”:&lt;/span&gt; A recent study shows that teenage boys eat a lot. What? We needed a STUDY to find that out? Just ask any mother of teenage boys. Or a father who has to come up with the money to buy all the groceries they eat. I wonder how much that “study” cost to conduct? Whatever it cost, it might have fed a teenage boy for a week. Or at least a day.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-2709294358361493914?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/2709294358361493914/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/09/its-message.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/2709294358361493914'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/2709294358361493914'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/09/its-message.html' title='&quot;It&apos;s A Message&quot;'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-4644244283004426235</id><published>2011-09-15T12:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-15T12:29:29.890-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Glenn's A "Fear Monger"</title><content type='html'>That’s what liberals said about Glenn Beck some years ago when he predicted that if Europe continued on their socialist ways there’d be “fighting in the streets.” Do you watch the news?  There's fighting in the streets. What’s happening in Greece? How about France? Looks like his predictions are coming true—unless you want to ignore reality as the liberals do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;COMPUTER FAILURE (AGAIN):&lt;/span&gt; My new computer went down last Saturday and I haven't been able to get it fixed until now. And I'm not sure it's fixed yet, even though it required a new hard drive. It's still doing some strange things occasionally. I'm hurrying to get this in before it locks up again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WATCHING PORN INSTEAD:&lt;/span&gt; Liberals are wondering how it is possible to  blunder so badly in “controlling” the oil industry as to allow an oil  spill such as we suffered in the Gulf of Mexico. The problem is  we are NOT “controlling” this industry. The people who are supposed to  be doing this job may just be spending their time watching porn on  government computers instead of doing their jobs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“SLIGHTLY MORE INFORMED”: &lt;/span&gt;Obama’s mouthpiece says Sarah Palin “needs to get slightly more informed.” How stupid does he think we are? It is Obama and his “fellow travelers” who need to get more informed; a LOT more informed. They’re going to be “out of power” and Obama is going to be ALONE in Washington for the last two years of the only administration in which he will be in the white House. I hesitate to say “serve.” He is not “serving.” He is looting and pillaging.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MUSLIMS BEATING THEIR WIVES:&lt;/span&gt; They are so convinced that beating their wives and children is right that they have television shows telling men how it should be done. I’ve seen them. Then they say when we talk about it, we are engaging in “anti-Muslim propaganda.” Since when is telling the truth about people “propaganda?” Gawd, these people are really stupid!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;LIMBAUGH WINS!&lt;/span&gt; The Democrats are making a “big thing” about a few Democrats winning elections in what are strong Democrat districts. One of the best known is a Democrat sounding more like Rush Limbaugh that any Democrat has a right to sound, winning. We all know he won’t ACT as Limbaugh would act, although he fooled enough Democrats to be elected.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;NOBODY CAN FAIL:&lt;/span&gt; Former president Clinton said, in a recent speech, that “we must find a way to make sure NOBODY can fail.” What a dreamer! This is typical liberal thought. It’s “pie-in-the-sky” thinking that is typical of liberals. That there is NO WAY we will EVER be able to make sure NOBODY ever fails doesn’t matter to liberals. They say it, hoping gullible people will believe it. What a load of stinky brown stuff THAT is!&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-4644244283004426235?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/4644244283004426235/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/09/glenns-fear-monger.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/4644244283004426235'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/4644244283004426235'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/09/glenns-fear-monger.html' title='Glenn&apos;s A &quot;Fear Monger&quot;'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-8486140229810053319</id><published>2011-09-11T14:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-11T14:51:37.234-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Still A Hole in the Ground</title><content type='html'>Due to incompetent bureaucrats in our government, the World Trade Center is still a hole in the ground, TEN YEARS after Islamic terrorists destroyed it. The empire state Building was built in eighteen months, in the middle of a depression. What has changed since? Liberals have taken over the government, both in Washington and in New York. They can’t get ANYTHING useful done. But we will NEVER forget the almost 3,000 people Islamic terrorists murdered there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;THAT’S A LIE!&lt;/span&gt; Mayor Bloomjerk says the “separation of church and state” is in the Constitution. It is NOT! It was mentioned in a LETTER from Thomas Jefferson to another of the “Founders.’ This is a myth that will not go away and I’m getting tired of liberals trying to convince us it IS in there, and that it means they need to do away with ALL VESTIGES of religion. That’s a STUPID way to think of it, but I expect stupidity from liberals. Saying it is, is either stupidity or a willful lie. The Mayor of New York City ought to know better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SMART PEOPLE BEING STUPID:&lt;/span&gt; Cheney tells Hillary she should run against Obama. I’ll go for that; a good way to split the vote. He says she’s the most competent person in his Cabinet. That’s “faint praise” because there isn’t anybody in his Cabinet who is competent, including Obama. I lost my confidence in Newt’s competence when he made that ad with Peelosi pushing global warming. That showed complete lack of good judgment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;HALF NOT PAYING TAXES:&lt;/span&gt; Fully HALF the able-bodied people in America pay NO income taxes at all. Instead, they GET a government check each month; money called “welfare.” How most of these people stay on the welfare rolls, I don’t know. Many do it by becoming “baby factories,” since the government will pay a mother more welfare, the more children she has (in or out of wedlock). No wonder the “child protectors” are out of control. So less than half are “pulling the wagon” while more than half are just “riding in it.” And they wonder why the money is gone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“FUELING THE RECOVERY”:&lt;/span&gt; All we have to do to cause this country to recover financially is to remove all those onerous “regulations” that are limiting how private enterprise can operate. Especially in the energy industry. You wouldn’t BELIEVE how many “regulations” energy companies must obey, just to stay in business. Then there is the BAN on drilling for oil in our own country, forcing us to depend on people who HATE us for the oil that is so necessary to our survival. If they ever decide to cut us off, then we’re REALLY in trouble.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PAKISTANIS MAD AT US: &lt;/span&gt;A recent study showed that a MAJORITY of Pakistanis are mad at us because of the raid that (supposedly) killed Osama bin Laden. Who cares? Bush told them it didn’t matter if he was “protected,” that we would “get him.” And we did. And we should care if Pakistanis don’t like it?&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-8486140229810053319?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/8486140229810053319/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/09/still-hole-in-ground.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/8486140229810053319'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/8486140229810053319'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/09/still-hole-in-ground.html' title='Still A Hole in the Ground'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-9115538151285378975</id><published>2011-09-08T13:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-08T13:22:19.109-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Crybabies</title><content type='html'>Obama has so destroyed the Democrats that all they have left is to cry and stamp their feet and call us names, They have no logical answers to our questions about their conduct so they just call us “terrorists” and “SOBs” and tell us to “go to hell.” They’ve “declared war” on the Tea Parties. Okay. So let’s go to war and “take them out” in the 2012 elections.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;DOCUMENT DUMP:&lt;/span&gt; Pam Geller, of the “Atlas Shrugs” blog, made a “Freedom of Information” (FOI) request for a somewhat narrow subject and guess what? They say there is 14,000 pages and they want a lot of money to print it out and send it to her. How’s that for stopping such requests? And even if she can pay for it, will she find anything in the “blacked-out” pages after going through them all?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;NEVADA SHOOTING:&lt;/span&gt; Just wait for it: the anti-gun freaks will, as usual, use the shooting in a Nevada restaurant as an excuse to call for more “gun control.” Forgetting entirely that people who do such shootings don’t obey laws. Nor do criminals, who break laws for a living. Further, if all guns did not exist, they’d find SOMETHING with which to kill people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;DEFINED AS INSANITY:&lt;/span&gt; I hate to say the same thing over and over, but nobody responded when I have said it before. So I’ll keep saying it until somebody notices. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is the classic definition of insanity. Obama is ready to do his THIRD “bailout,” in spite of the fact that the first two were miserable failures and did nothing but get us deep in debt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“WE GET NO RESPECT”:&lt;/span&gt; Nancy Peelosi whines that the Republicans don’t give Obama “enough respect” because they decided not to “answer” his upcoming campaign speech he’s going to make to a joint session of Congress under the guise of a “statement on jobs because it IS a “campaign speech.” Frankly, Obama deserves NO respect, since he has destroyed his party and mostly his country by taxing us too much and spending more money than we have. So shut up, Nancy, and go back to your hidey-hole.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?&lt;/span&gt; News is that three gays have been murdered by the Iran “government.” How is this possible since Ahmadinijerk said “there are no gays in Iran.”? Maybe it’s because they kill them as quick as they find them.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-9115538151285378975?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/9115538151285378975/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/09/crybabies.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/9115538151285378975'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/9115538151285378975'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/09/crybabies.html' title='Crybabies'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2214747477428897417.post-8334143259941402345</id><published>2011-09-07T12:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-07T12:26:33.445-07:00</updated><title type='text'>"If BHO Loses, We're Doomed!"</title><content type='html'>That's what AFL-CIO says. Isn’t it lovely to see the left terrified? They know Obama has screwed up royally and it will be an amazing thing if he wins re-election. So they’re telling their members they’d better “get out there and get the vote out” for him, or “we’re doomed.” I LOVE it! They still try to vilify the “Tea Parties,” though how do you vilify an idea? Which is what the “Tea Parties” are. An idea created by Obama’s overreaching policies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“DEATH IN THE FAMILY’:&lt;/span&gt; Last Saturday my computer locked up and refused to do anything. I took it to the “computer hospital” and they declared it dead. So now I have an IBM Think Pad again and I’m slowly getting it set up to do what I need. Thanks for your patience. (Ray Thomas)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;OBAMA PROMOTES MADAGASKAR LABOR:&lt;/span&gt; Remember the completely unnecessary raid on Gibson guitars because they allegedly used “illegal wood” that was the moral equivalent of “blood diamonds?” Now word is that the government has told them in a legal pleading that most of the problems would go away if they outsourced their labor to Madagascar. Talk about blatant attempts to make the employment picture worse!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;DESTROYING “BIG BUSINESS”:&lt;/span&gt; They want to destroy the businesses that keep this world running; Obama has PLEDGED to “bankrupt the coal industry.” How STUPID is this? The coal industry is ESSENTIAL to CREATING electricity, which is essential to keep this world running. Without coal, we would have NO electricity, which has become absolutely essential to our lives. Without it, we would have chaos. Yes, we DID live for many years without electricity, but life was a lot harder, and we have become accustomed to the ease of life that electricity has given us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“SHARE”:&lt;/span&gt; They teach our children to “share,” but they don’t teach them how to gain things TO “share.” They tell them that “sharing” is the most important thing they can do without mentioning that many people only want to be on the RECEIVING END of “sharing” and never do anything to have something THEY can “share.” They want US to share, but they don’t want to share what THEY have.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;BIG 3 IGNORES CARSON’S SMEAR:&lt;/span&gt; Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN), SMEARED the Tea Parties by saying they would like to see people like him “hanging.” Did the “Big 3” cover it? No. But if a Republican ever said such a thing, it would be screamed to the skies and be the top story for three weeks. A good example of the “double standard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“HELL NO, WE WON’T GO!”&lt;/span&gt; Obama wants to honor 5-time NASCAR champ Jimmy Johnson and invited all NASCAR drivers to attend. A large number of them refused, saying they have other commitments. Now what other commitments could they have that couldn’t be canceled or postponed if they really wanted to meet the president? Maybe they just don’t want to meet THIS president. I know I would certainly reject such an invitation from this con man who conned his way into the presidency. Being president doesn’t make him less of a con man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;RACISTS SEE RACISM EVERYWHERE:&lt;/span&gt; People who see racism everywhere, even where it doesn’t exist are racists themselves. Most normal people don’t even THINK about racism most of the time. Democrats and other Obama promoters have made what race problems we do have left in this country worse by claiming racism every time somebody disagrees with Obama.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2214747477428897417-8334143259941402345?l=raysshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/feeds/8334143259941402345/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/09/if-bho-loses-were-doomed.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/8334143259941402345'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2214747477428897417/posts/default/8334143259941402345'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysshorts.blogspot.com/2011/09/if-bho-loses-were-doomed.html' title='&quot;If BHO Loses, We&apos;re Doomed!&quot;'/><author><name>Ray Thomas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00092446065733406225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gvSBa5F6VLk/SIIQFhLRF3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/zp24i8rmkYw/S220/monkeyme.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
