Sarge

Do it TODAY

As I write this I have to admit to a certain amount of discomfort both in body and spirit. By the time you read this I’ll have been the recipient of another chance to straighten out my life and get it right; or at least do better than the way I’ve been doing it so far.

Flights of Fancy

Beaurat Obama safely exited the Afghan killing fields after signing a flight of fancy informing al-Qaeda and the Taliban of our support for the Karzai administration. We’ll supply logistical support and training for people more recognizable as Huns than modern warriors, until the year 2024.

The Litter Box

I’m a relative neophyte concerning Caucuses and Primaries relating to Presidential Campaigns. Part horse, part camel the mode of transportation seems to be a matter of relative comfort in the ride more than it’s getting to the final destination. Chad Rogers, publisher of the Dead Pelican, is being castigated and pilloried and his name dragged through the streets as the pitch is heated and the geese plucked.

Crucifixion as policy

cru·ci·fy tr.v. cru·ci·fied, cru·ci·fy·ing, cru·ci·fies 1. To mortify or subdue (the flesh). 2. To treat cruelly; torment: 3. To criticize harshly; pillory --Free Dictionary online Crucifixion was a terrifying, barbaric punishment for going against the will of the state. The use of this archaic, cruel format of punishment was to subjugate those witnessing the horror as much as it was to punish the victim. The product of the punishment wasn’t even the castigation of the accused. It warned the populace: “yield to MY will or you’re next.”

Respect

Respect (n):1.) An attitude of deference, admiration, or esteem; regard 2). the state of being honored or esteemed (from Latin rē# to look back, pay attention to, from re- + specere to look) -- The Free Dictionary Years ago a man told me he didn’t respect me. I couldn’t understand why he disrespected me. He said he didn’t disrespect me. I hadn’t fallen within specific parameters he felt necessary for me to fit into how he defined “respect”. The definition above comes closest for me to better live with. But, still, there must be more I thought.

Send in the clowns

The 2012 Campaign season started and the political landscape’s as barren as a circus tent at sunrise. The candidates’ personal appeal is locked somewhere between cliché and formulaic. Each step taken is a precursor to when the baby starts that burst of infantile speed before the kid falls flat on his/her face. The same result will occur as well: a bunch of whining, crying and screaming or simply picking oneself up and starting all over again.

Locking the needle

You have to wonder: just what does Congress do?

Balancing the bubble

A “carpenter’s level” has small, pellet-shaped glass or plastic pieces with a bubble in them. These bubbles indicate how level the piece is in reference to its surroundings. You have multiple reference points available. It allows you to straighten your final product; window frame, counter-top, pillar etc. and assure everything complies with the construction plans.

Speculation

Speculation: n. 1. a. A conclusion, opinion, or theory reached by conjecture. b. Reasoning based on inconclusive evidence; conjecture or supposition. 2. a. Engagement in risky business transactions on the chance of quick or considerable profit. Origins: 1325–75; Middle English speculacioun < Late Latin speculātiōn- (stem of speculātiō ) exploration, observation

The Big Lie

Richard Cohen, Washington Post Writers Group syndicated columnist copyrighted a column where he calls Mitt Romney “…a skillful liar”. Cohen phrases his column with a slight taste of bitter almonds and delivers the poisoned barb with a sense of irony. We call it a “good read”: clever, concise, ironic and tart. It makes you think.

Looking at the actions

Buffet v.trans: 1. to hit or beat, especially repeatedly: 2. to strike against forcefully; batter: 3. to drive or force with or as if with repeated blows: 4. to force (one's way) with difficulty

Donkey with a roll-bar

There’s a rising hue and cry for the CATS (Capitol Area Transit System) to be rescued from its prior profligacy by a further extension of that same profligacy. It threatens those most readily affected by the closure of the program.

Old donkeys

The reality lost in this matter of Jindal v. Teachers is the one having to do with the fact this legislation affects ALL of the people of Louisiana. The Teachers are merely the ones at the front of the pack with their disfavor for the effects falling directly on them. It’s appropriate they should have the right to protest.

The Mendacity of a Dope

“It’s worth noting that I first arrived on the national stage with a speech at the Democratic convention that was entirely about American exceptionalism and that my entire career has been a testimony to American exceptionalism. “ Barack Obama at a press conference with Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper (4-2-2012 Washington Times 24/7)

Equilibrium

Equilibrium is the condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced, resulting in no net change. (2) in physics The state of a body at rest or in uniform motion in which the resultant of all forces on it is zero. (3) in chemistry The state of a reaction in which the rates of the forward and reverse reactions are the same. (4) Mental balance.

Choleric Dispositions

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) will vote (preliminarily)today as to whether or not ObamaCare, aka The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is constitutional, unconstitutional, in whole or in part, and whether or not the federal government can enter into any and/or aspects of your personal commercial dealings. Putting it more simply; can the feds MAKE you buy what you may not want to buy?

The Right to speak; The Right to disagree

Is this America? Is it still the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Open Mic Night

An American president should have more sense than to speak candidly to a major representative of a formerly antagonistic, and still unfriendly, nation such as Russia is; especially into a “Hot Mic”. But, education doesn’t prove smarts exist.

Shaken but never stirring

Eric Fehrnstrom is a young man with a very special job. He’s a Senior Advisor and spokesman (or at least he was before issuing a televised statement) for Mitt Romney. Fehrnstrom (discussing Romney’s malleability while moving along the political horizon on any given day) stated the Romney campaign was like an “etch-a-Sketch.

The Missing Link

Daily, we’re allowed to peer into the inner workings of one of the great political repositories of liberal thinking: the mind of Barack Obama. To my observation and understanding of how synaptic function and nerve interaction engenders coherent thought, I can see and appreciate what appears to be the man’s collection of logical and cogent thought processes. Or, what he puts across as such.