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EVERY LITTER BIT HURTS......

Americans must be the "Trashiest" people in the world, or at least those who live in America are. Since there are over 40 million illegal aliens living openly in our U.S., they as well as citizens are working, driving, eating, and throwing trash out their vehicle's windows on to our 4+ million miles of roads.
 
This disgusting condition was brought home to me firsthand this past week.  While riding my motorcycle on some rural paved roads last Saturday afternoon, one of the plastic side covers blew off, unbeknown to me at the time, and landed somewhere in the grassy right-of-way of my 25 mile route.   Not until I arrived home did I notice it was gone.  After two days of riding and driving slowly along my route, looking for this cover, (never found it by the way) did it begin to sink in just how much trash was out there.  I saw the residue from America's kings & queens of trash, beer drinkers, almost every few feet, with fast food containers close behind in the overall count.  Newspapers, styrofoam cups, paper and plastic bags - even dirty diapers foul both the senses of the eye and sometimes the nose.   It is UGLY! 
 
Some states spend as much as $12,000,000 a year just picking up trash from our roadways...an expenditure that would be totally unnecessary if we just didn't thoughtlessly share our trash with others.  Smokers are no doubt the worse or the trashiest people on this planet next to beer drinkers.  But, trying to change their filthy habits is almost futile as every time they light up or toss a butt, they demonstrate that they really don't care about the health and welfare or environment of others, their neighborhoods or country.  Their discarded butts cause approximately $400 million dollars in property damage fires annually. 

The plastic trash pieces get ingested by wild animals & fish that eventually die from our human discards.  And most trash has a longer life span than the people who throw it:  Tin Cans - 100 years, Aluminum Cans - 200-500 years, plastic 6-Pack Cover - 450 years, cigarette filters - 10-15 years & a Glass Bottle? - forever.  Cigarettes and cigarette butts constitute almost 25% of the total collected garbage!  Beer bottles, cans and cartons must equal that at least.
 
So, next time you drive along a road, take a look off to the sides and see what your fellow man is doing to your world.  And, next time you are tempted to pitch a cigarette, apple core, chewing gum, beer bottle or aluminum can, coffee cup, etc., out the window of your moving car, STOP!....and use a car trash bag and take it home or leave it when you get gas.  If you drive a pickup, don't throw loose trash in the back - it just blows out, especially if you leave the tailgate down (which incidentally uses more gas, not less).   
 
Try to be a good citizen or a good illegal alien....Please!   Remember: EVERY LITTER BIT REALLY DOES HURT!
 
 
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It's PRIVATE ENTERPRISE....What are you - STUPID?

Everyone, Congress, the President, Media, Liberals, Unions, Students, etc., seem to fail to recognize one fact when considering changing our health care system, which by the way, is the very best in the world.   Now, I do not mean to imply it is a perfect system, but by comparison to all other health care in any other country, it is the very best.   In no other country can an individual enjoy the benefits of a superior medically trained staff, the most advanced hospitals and care facilities and a group of drug companies who produce space age medicines that will initially cause them to lose money.

We are a country based on free enterprise...on business that chooses which business to be in with the hopes of making a profit so its investors (individuals, companies, unions, etc.) will also make a profit.  The very groups like unions that are complaining about our drug companies are the same ones whose huge stock portfolios depend on those drug companies to succeed.   Talk about biting the hand that feeds you! 

No government should tell a drug company what it should develop or sell, or tell a Physician how much money he can make, or who should get health care and who should not.  The free enterprise marketplace, if left alone, will produce a level playing field.

  • Remember this::  NO ONE IS ENTITLED TO HEALTH CARE! 
  • NO ONE IS ENTITLED TO HEALTH CARE USING MY MONEY!
  • NO ONE DESERVES HEALTH CARE UNLESS THEY CAN PAY FOR IT!
If you can't afford health care you need to look at why?  Is it because you can't get a good enough paying job?  Well then, maybe you should have studied harder during your 12 years of free education and gotten the job skills that result in better pay.  Got too many kids and you can't afford to pay their medical bills?  Well, maybe you should have added up the costs of raising children before you decided to pop out another one.  You can't afford medical coverage in your old age?  Well, maybe you should have started a retirement plan when you were 25 instead of depending on Social Security to cover all your needs.

What ever your reasons for wanting the Government to pick your tab, you are at fault...pure and simple.  Regardless of what the bleeding-heart liberals keep telling you, you ARE NOT ENTITLED TO FREE HEALTH CARE!   "Free"...means someone else is paying for you to continue to be irresponsible.
 
So it is time for the Government to get the hell out of our capitalistic society & to leave the marketplace alone.  The liberals are asking a Government that cannot run a successful postal system, that cannot run a successful social security system, that cannot run a pork-free grants program, that cannot regulate banking properly, cannot run a successful education system, that cannot control organized crime...They want to give the control over a complicated health care system to these same incompetent people.  
 
GEESH!

 
 
 
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Time to eat at Hardy's, Burger King, Subway....not Mickey D's?

This has been verified by Truth or Fiction    Maybe we all should consider eating somewhere else as a protest.  Definitely not the American Way.

McDonald's CEO: Company will put full resources behind gay agenda.  McDonald's has signed on to a nationwide effort to promote 'gay' and 'lesbian' business ventures.

According to McDonald’s CEO Jim Skinner, McDonald’s will aggressively promote the homosexual agenda. In remarks on McDonald's website concerning the company becoming a member of the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC), Skinner wrote: 'Being a socially responsible organization is a fundamental part of who we are. We have an obligation to use our size and resources to make a difference in the world … and we do.'

The company gave an undisclosed amount of money to the NGLCC in return for being recognized as a major promoter of the homosexual agenda. In return, NGLCC placed Richard Ellis, vice president of communications of McDonald’s USA, on the NGLCC Board of Directors.
Ellis was quoted as saying: 'I'm thrilled to join the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce team and ready to get to work. I share the NGLCC's passion for business growth and development within the LGBT community, and I look forward to playing a role in moving these important initiatives forward.'

McDonald's refused to comment to World Net Daily on the placement of its executive on the board of the 'gay' advocacy organization but did send an e-mail confirming the corporation's support for the agenda of the homosexual business lobby.

'McDonald's is indeed a Corporate Partner and Organizational Ally of NGLCC. Our vice president of U.S. communications, Richard Ellis, was recently elected to its board of directors,' said Heidi M. Barker, senior director of media relations for McDonald’s. NGLCC describes itself as promoting the LGBT community first and always, including same sex marriage.

NGLCC gives credit to sponsors such as McDonald's for its financial and other support that helps in its work. 'Through the commitment of our corporate partners, the NGLCC has been able to advance the ideas and causes of the LGBT business community,' the Chamber said.
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Grade the teachers on the students grades....

You must know high school students are coming out with diplomas but still are very ignorant on the most basic of subjects.  If you watch interviews with college or professional athletes, you hear they are incapable of speaking proper english, preferring to use "street slang" because they did not study and retain knowledge while in school.  I doubt if any could do simple math if asked and I have heard that some even have trouble writing their names in script.  What happened over 13 years of classroom work?  How did they get from 1st grade to 12th grade without learning how to read or write properly or do simple math.  Have you noticed how clerks cannot make change without the register figuring it out for them.   When was the last time a clerk "counted back" your change from a purchase? 

How did they get into college, except on athletic ability maybe.  I see pro rookies entering the ranks without a college degree...something to fall back on when their playing days are over.   When you hear them talk on television, they seem unable to put words into a proper sentence.

Maybe, just maybe it is time to grade the teachers on the students grades.  Give a test to high school seniors BEFORE handing out diplomas.  See how much they know about history, government, math, english, science, etc., and then grade the teachers based on how well their students scored.  Low scores, low pay the next year....high scores, raises.   Of course the unions would oppose this as it flies in the face of their "herd of sheep" philosophy, and could reduce their personal income, and that is their main concern of the labor bosses.

Our school system is run by the same government that is running the health care system, so what can you expect except high costs and mediocracy?   Kids are taught to be mayonaisse in this world when what we need is more spicy mustard.

And you know what else?....Parents today don't seem to care!


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Judge by the people I surround myself with.....

This is from an editorial on September 3, 2009 1:56 PM in the Columbia Conservative Examiner by Anthony G. Martin.  I felt it should get as much everyman coverage as possible.  Email your friends to read this important analysis.

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During the 2008 Presidential campaign Barack Hussein Obama told audiences, 'Judge me by the people with whom I surround myself.'

OK, we will.

And that is precisely the problem with Obama.

In order to understand Barack Obama one must look beyond the official, Congressional-approved Cabinet choices to the truckload of unofficial 'czars,' 'special advisor's,' and 'officers' he has chosen to come to the White House to have direct access to him.

If one uses the criterion Obama laid out by which to judge his character, political ideology, and plans for the country, we can only conclude that the President is a far-Left extremist who disdains capitalism and free commerce, free speech in the open marketplace of ideas, Caucasian people who have accumulated wealth, and any dissent from the concepts propounded by his 'regime.'

How do we know this?  Look at his czars, special advisers, and officers.  These are the ones closest to Obama.

John Holdren, science czar, advocates for population control using the most extreme measures, such as mandating the number of children Americans can have.  He is also a proponent of 'de-developing' the United States, sending its agricultural practices and technology back to the 19th century.  Holdren has also suggested that infants and chronically ill elderly do not fit his definition of 'human,' and therefore can be expendable.

Cass Sunstein, regulatory czar and Harvard law professor, believes that animals should have the right to legal representation.  If you try to get rid of rats in your home, a 'concerned citizen' could bring a lawsuit, with the rat as the plaintiff, to sue you for endangering a species.  He also believes that if bloggers post something that turns out to be false, they should be prosecuted.  In short, Sunstein is a Leftwing moonbat with Fascist leanings.  Remember, Obama said to judge him by the people around him.

Ezekiel Emanuel, healthcare czar, believes in using cost-benefit and comparative-benefit analysis to allocate healthcare resources.  This means the fewer years you have left to live, the less cost-effective it is to treat you.  Thus, most of those resources should be diverted from the elderly to younger people.  This is the 'rationing' portion of ObamaCare that many of us have warned about.  And this will be done even without the so-called 'public option,' which is not really what the debate about government control of healthcare is about in the first place.  Even without the public option, the provision for rationing is inherent in the provisions of the bill, thanks to advisers such as Emanuel.

Van Jones, green jobs czar, is perhaps the most extremist of the extreme in the entire lot.  As a self-avowed, self-identified Communist, Jones abhors liberty, the Constitution, the American way of life, and seeks to change it from top to bottom.  Click Here for more on Van Jones.

Mark Loyd, FCC 'diversity czar,' supports Communist Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and believes that what Chavez did to squelch free speech in the media and seize the means of communication is a good model for the United States.  His plan is to silence conservative talk radio by forcing ownership to change hands to minorities and by implementing a fee structure for licensing that will put most private broadcasters out of business.  At that point, Loyd would make PBS, or NPR on the radio, the most powerful forces in broadcasting--controlled by the government, of course.

Due to the areas over which they have jurisdiction, the above-named 'special advisers' to Obama are the key players.  Jobs, communication, health care, agriculture, population control--all of these amount to a major shift in the way America has operated as a Free Republic for over 200 years.

Questions for consideration:  Given these czars and special advisers who have offices in the White House with easy access to the President, how, then, should we judge Barack Obama's ideas and plans for the country, just as he asked us to do?  Why is a Communist operating out of the White House as one of Obama's closet advisers?  What can Americans reasonably expect over the next few years if the policies espoused by Loyd, Jones, Sunstein, Emanuel, and Holdren are implemented?

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Defining Political Correctness....

There is an annual contest at  Texas A&M University calling for the most appropriate definition of a  contemporary term.  This year's term was "Political Correctness."

The winner wrote:  "Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."  from an email purported to be authored by R. J. Wiedemann, LtCol, USMC (Ret.)

Some examples of the stupidity of the P.C. craze, offered by the Urban Dictionary:

midget = vertically challenged
fat = horizontally challenged
perverted = sexually dysfunctional
alive = temporarily metabolically abled
Black Person = African American
Indian = Native American
Hispanic =Anyone from Central America, South America, or the Carribbean
body odor = nondiscretionary fragrance
dishonest = ethically disoriented
gay = different
wrong = differently logical
dead = living impaired
pregnant = parasitically oppressed
fired = laid off
poor = financially inept
homeless = residentially flexible
tall = person of height
garbage-man = sanitation engineer
blind = visually challenged

So, I suppose that the next time I am in a restaurant and I want my female waiter, normally called a  waitress, I must shout "SERVERESS!"  Geesh!

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