Mustang Rambles

Congress and the administration are not listening to the voice of the people. It is evident by the ongoing effort to pass a health control program that very few people want. Last September, tens of thousands and maybe hundreds of thousands of people descended on Washington, D.C. to get the attention of Congress. One of the major slogans was, “Can You Hear Me Now?”

Unfortunately, few elected officials did hear us, and fewer actually listened. None of the news reports actually looked at the totality of the magnitude of the crowd. We filled nearly every seat and standing room on the Metro trains going in to the city that morning. Our buses were parked blocks and miles away from the downtown area because there was no more parking. Airlines were booked with marchers, not vacationers. Normal traffic had a hard time getting around town. Our planned march route was only a few blocks, maybe ten at most. We had to begin the march an hour early because the starting point was filled to overflowing. The march route was crowded with marchers for over three hours. We were a force.

Maybe, we should take a look at how other countries get the attention of their governments.

1. We could all drive in and park our cars wherever we can and thus block streets and bring traffic to a standstill. This is itself would work very effectively. There is no way they could tow 25000 cars or write 35000 tickets, or would the number be 100,000? If they did tow your car, it may cost you a couple of hundred bucks to get it out of the impound yard, but is that too much to pay for your country?
2. We could possibly form a human cordon around the Capitol Hill and everyone could lie down. Ghandi, and probably Martin Luther King, Jr. would have liked that, a little passive resistance. If there are 200,000 of us, how many can they arrest and cart away in day. Where would they put everyone? How would they feed everyone when meal time came. If we all insisted on staying as long as we could, we could bankrupt the law enforcement budgets. What neighboring community would send in its police force to help the DC police and leave their own neighborhoods vulnerable. And what if there were 300,000, or 700,000?
3. What if we made a concerted effort to mass at every outlying Metro stop and filled every train to capacity. How many Federal workers would be able to get to work? How many would be late? And then, we could all wait to go home during rush hour, on the trains and in our cars. How much fun would that be?

You know, this could be a lot of fun. All we need is patience, perseverance, and the will to make our voice heard.

You say it won’t work? Something like this has to work. The only thing left is throwing up barricades.

It seems that Obama is going to present another trillion dollar health control plan (yes, I deliberately said “health control” because that is what it is. It is not a healthcare plan.) He is ready to ram it down our throats whether we like it or not, and whether the Democrat Party can survive it. He really doesn’t care, it is his program and that is all that matters. If they use the 51 vote option, and can coerce the house to play along, he could actually pass this abomination of horrid tax increases and government control.

The good thing is that if he does it, the November elections will be a political bloodbath for incumbents who supported this garbage pile of legalese. The reaction will be so strong that the Democrat party may not recover for years, if not decades. The people are PISSED! Very few want this type of government control over their lives.

Those that go along with it, are saying that they don’t care about the rest of the country, they just want to get their way. They are not serving the nation, its people, or its future. In fact, they are running the nation into bankruptcy and ruination. They need to be taught a lesson. Throw them out of office and make them work for a living. If they are lawyers, they need to be disbarred for complete disregard of our Constitutional freedoms.

The people will speak, and it is now personal. We are coming after Congress with the biggest conservative voting block the US has ever seen. Better start looking for jobs, Congressmen, because one of the things we will do is repeal your lifetime retirement and benefits and put you in the Social Security ranks you so willingly screw every time you raid the SS fund and everytime you refuse a COLA for Social Security and vote yourselves a raise.

Well, just when you think the worst is over, the Vancouver Olympic Games comes up with a new way to look bad. During the 500meter long course race in speed skating, they tried to refinish the ice after the first ten pairs had skated. Wonder of wonders, with three Zambonis, they couldn’t get one of them to work! It took over an hour to get them working and finally get the course ready for competition. Of course, the delay probably screwed up the skaters who hadn’t raced yet.

Some advice, Vancouver. Find out who shot that Albatross and ship him to Timbuktu for the summer!

Well, in my brief viewing of the Vancouver Winter Olympics, I’ve come to believe that someone shot an Albatross and is wearing it around his neck. (For those who’s American education is recent, the analogy is from “The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner”) Look it up and read it, it may be the most enlightened thing you’ll do all year.

Three things really jump out at me at this time, just after the 1500 meter short track skate events.

1. The first thing that went wrong was the interminable opening ceremony which lacked the life, the zest, and the enjoyment that I come to expect from the Canadian friends I know. Each segment of the four describing the parts of Canada were way too long, causing much sighing, going to the bathroom, getting chips, another soda, taking the dogs out etc. The fiddling and dancing were nice but again too long.
2. The final lighting of the cauldron had a major malfunction caused by lack of foresight and no manual override plan. Poor planning, nothing else. I know that some smuck of an engineer will be out looking for work on Monday, but that is really an over-reaction. Because of the malfunction, the opening will be remembered. Lord knows that otherwise it was unremarkable. Funny, how screw-ups are remembered and great shows aren’t? In my memory, the only opening ceremonies that I vaguely remember are just one, those stupid, cheesy stainless steel pickup trucks at the Atlanta Olympics.
3. The highlights of actual events so far are singular. Visualize two superb Korean skaters slamming into the pads while the fourth and fifth skaters finish with silver and bronze. I know, that is the nature and the excitement of the event. Last minute things happen to create the drama. Yet, to me, it takes a very real sporting event and reduces it to a demolition derby. 1500 meters on a short track makes no sense to me. Really, who is the fastest? Or is that not the point?

Another mark of the Albatross was the death of the Georgian Luger. It was a sad event, and one that need not have happened except for the all-sports need for higher speed and greater danger. That drive is one of the tangibles that keeps most of us from even trying the sports that threaten life and limb. I will ski, and I will skate, but not on the slopes or with the speed that the great athletes compete on. Those who do compete have superior skills and unique mindsets that separate them from the rest of us.

All glory to them, and to them, raise your glass in honor. Here’s to you, Nodar! May your spirit live on in the hearts of your countrymen and in the hearts of all free men everywhere.

Patrick Kennedy, Congressman from Rhode Island, has decided not to run for re-election after 16 years in office. It will be the first time in 50 years that a Kennedy hasn’t been in Congress.

I say “GOOD RIDDANCE!!” to a family dynasty of flawed characters with delusions of royalty. As far as I know none of them ever really worked for a living, none of them know the weariness of physical labor and hoping for another paycheck the next week. None of them know putting aside hopes and dreams in order to get the car fixed or braces for the kid or to help out a family member in financial trouble. (They do know a lot about helping out family members in legal trouble.)

It always irked me that one family felt it had a right to run my government, that they were in a particularly good position to know what was best for me and what I wanted from my government. We should have a family exclusion law. No member of a family should be able to follow other members of a family into the federal elected government unless one generation was skipped in the process. Even then, I would prefer two generations because it seems that the closer in family ties, the weaker the political notions of the new generation. Sort of like intelligence skipping a generation as we’ve seen before in historical terms. (Don’t ask for examples, it is more a personal observation and a typical Hollywood script line.) Oh, wait. Examples? Look at the Gores, the Bayhs, the Rockefellers, the Daleys, and the many other father-son-cousin-brother examples. Somebody give me a complete list.

Anyway, Good Bye, Patrick, and don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way out.

The New York Times (see the article here) put out a discussion on whether the current blizzards are caused by Global Warming/Climate Change. True, the storms have set records, that is have broken very old records that were set when there wasn’t climate change. Oh, dear, was climate change in existence even way back when before we became so evil in our carbon emissions? What a thought, it will keep me up all night worrying about how long this climate warming has been going on and how we managed to hide all those carbon emitting autos and industries way back when.

One item in this story says that “warmer air carries more moisture.” You might want to tell the inhabitants of the Sahara Desert, The Arabian Peninsula, the Namibian Desert, the Kalahari Desert, the Gobi desert, the US Southwest, and the Nazca Plain that they should protect themselves against the moisture all that warm air contains. In my living experience, it is hotter in the Mojave and in Arizona and New Mexico than it is in Georgia and Florida, yet the humidity is higher in the Southeast. Maybe the scientist should be more circumspect in choosing the words for his statement.

Audi had a startling and perhaps prophetic commercial starring the Green Police arresting people for carrying Styrofoam, drinking from plastic bottles,for possession of an incandescent light bulb, and for having the hot tub too warm. Oh, and having a diesel engine in your Audi is okay. The energetic and determination of the Green Police was all to obvious. They were going through trash to find forbidden items (a battery) and then would rush the house to arrest the owner.

It may seem a bit funny, and over the top, but twenty years ago we would have laughed at the Government owning General Motors and setting salary limits for bankers. We would have been horrified at the thought of the government forcing us to buy health insurance. But look at us now! Many people don’t like what is happening, but not enough are standing up to fight against it.

Time to join your local Tea Party association, it is non-partisan and not for any particular candidate. It stands for: Fiscal Responsibility, Limited Government, and Free Enterprise. Try it, you will do something worthwhile for your country and your children.

Three major commercials during the first half of the Super Bowl tonight depicted men without spines, enslaved by wives and girlfriends to the point of having no life and no options until they pick the products shown. Two were a coincidence, and three prove a social malady that is coming to the surface.

After years of trying to get men to be more sensitive and gentle, women succeeded to the point of creating the metro-sexual man and the five day beard man who must have a cheek like coarse sandpaper to remind himself that he is a male animal. Shaved chests and bearded faces? Something wrong here. Women have reach the point of their efforts to emasculate American men where men are no longer men, at least those we see touted by the magazines and TV shows. Let’s hear it for Alan Harper and all those guys on the Life Channel and the Halmark Channel.

Remember Sean Connery as 007? He was clean shaven, carefully dressed, and had a chest of hair and no one, I repeat, no one thought him as anything but manly. It would seem to be time for us to rebel against the feminist purge of our gonads. Time to be a man! Thank you, Sean, for showing us the true path.

More after the game.
Okay, the game is over, and it was a pretty good match with two very good quarterbacks both up against very good defenses. It took a lucky break to make the difference, and that break fell to the Saints, a team that was due, if such a thing is possible.

I take back the remark about being P’ whipped. It indicates that the guys are getting something, but these guys make me believe they aren’t even getting that. Our society over the last 40 years has made a determined effort to break down the normal, natural roles of men and women, roles that evolved over thousands of millenia. The politically correct mob have decreed that men and women both take on the roles naturally adapted by the other sex. That is against nature, and as such, is wrong. When men were men and women were glad of it, things worked much better in our world.

The Washington Posts reports that the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Army leadership are reviewing combat casualties and actions and will be reprimanding leaders for high casualty rates. Or, at least, that is how I read it. Seems that there have been a couple of incidents where a few soldiers were killed in combat that should not have been killed according to the higher ups. When the armchair commanders begin to second-guess their ground commanders, it is time to head for the hills. Good junior leaders will read the writing on the wall and begin to wage a cautious, less dangerous war against an enemy that is resilient, tested, and experienced in high country warfare.

The result will be a timid approach to waging war. Officers will be loath to send their men into combat if they think their efficiency rating will suffer, or that they may get a career ending letter of reprimand.

This recent effort that reprimands leaders for suffering defeats that inevitably come in warfare, especially when support lags for ground troops, is the beginning of the end if it continues. Soldiers are no dummies. When they see that they will be scolded for initiative, for courageous decisions, and for sometimes superior tactics by the enemy, they will stop taking chances, stop taking the war to the enemy, and therefore stop winning the war. Nobody ever won a war by waiting for the enemy to come to them.

I ran across this video about the Swiss. I knew that military training was compulsory there, but didn’t know they kept their weapons at home, and forever thereafter. It is an idea that I think is a good one and they make a valid point. Due to their isolation and their stubborn neutrality, they have one of the best defense records in the world–no one has tried to invade them for a long, long time.

I believe in the Right to Bear Arms, as stated in the 2nd Amendment of the US Constitution, the second article of the Bill of Rights, for it is the “maintenance amendment” the one that makes all the others possible. I took an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States when I was a young man. I’ve never forgotten it, and I stand ready to stand behind that oath if it ever becomes necessary. We must stand firm to ensure that our political officials don’t try to take that right away, because if they ever do, you will become unpleasantly acquainted with the national police force in a short hurry.

Check it out: http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/754.html