Prime's Worm Hole : Whose Minding the Store?

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Whose Minding the Store?

Michelle Obama arrives in Copenhagen for IOC vote

There was a time when our elected representatives actually paid attention to who was spending our money and what they were spending it on. (Back before they learned that they had control of an open end taxpayer funded checkbook).

Then came the Congressional Budget Office. Supposedly created to act as a check and buffer on congressional spending back in 1974. Does anyone really care what the CBO has to say anymore? I certainly don't think that the president or congress gives a rat's rotisserie what they say.

I raise these questions as it has struck me of late, that someone should be checking the odometer on Air Force One. And the odometers on rest of the Air Force executive fleet for that matter while they are at it.

I have no direct way of knowing or checking on how much he has used Air Force One and the other executive assets assigned to the Air Force and at his disposal but I feel relatively sure that this president has been burning up the miles in Air Force ever since taking office. Far more so than his predecessor and definitely more so as far as it concerns the first lady and her ability to fly on her own assigned Air Force Jet.

Obama will fly to Copenhagen tomorrow to make his pitch to the International Olympic committee, in his attempt to sway the vote for the 2016 Olympics in favor of Chicago. Does anyone else find it bothersome that in the midst of two wars, an economy in shambles, unemployment at an all time high and a congress hell bent to spend as much money as they can get away with, that the president of the United States is using "our planes and our resources" to lobby foreigners on behalf of his old buddies back in Chicago?

Or what about the fact that Michelle Obama flew to Copenhagen on her own personal Air Force jet yesterday. She is there (ostensibly) to lobby the same Olympic selection committee as her husband, but she came on an entirely different aircraft and with and almost equal amount of security detail and Secret Service entourage as her husband has around him. I wonder if she will lay back as she did on the European trip, (once her "business" is out of the way) so that she can once again get in more shopping days in a foreign country at the expense of the American taxpayer.

And to add insult to injury? The media is referring to Michelle's Air Force charter that flew her there as "Air Force II!" I wonder where that leaves Joe Biden? Actually....I could care less where it leaves Joe Biden. I would just as soon they give him a bus like John Madden's and be done with it.

The real point IMO, is that we have a president who is literally out of control when it comes to spending our money and borrowing us into the poor house. And he is using the prerogatives and the perks of his office as if he is some "nouveau riche" frat boy who could care less who is paying for it. All the while admonishing the rest of us urbane unsophisticated and unwashed commoners to sacrifice more on behalf of mother earth and good will toward our enemies globally.

I for one am about damn tired of this Vichy arrogance and elitist Fabian socialist waste. Especially when I am watching and observing my fellow Americans in dire straights over the economic situation and unemployment. And the worst of it? Who can we complain to? It's not like we can call or write our elected representatives in the house or the senate and they could or would act to rein in this ridiculous wastefulness in the executive branch.

Hells bells, the majority of them are just as guilty of waste as he is and Nancy Pelosi is leading the parade with her own Boeing 757 that carries her sorry socialist backside back and forth to the land of fruit and nuts sometimes twice a week.

And it's not like we can even complain to the White House, as we all now know that they are taking down names and making their enemies list as we speak. So where do we turn? Survey says! Nowhere. We are stuck with this interloping elitist and his smarmy globe trotting fashion challenged wife, unless and until either the next election, or this country completely implodes and a revolution removes him from office. Of course there is still the outside chance of a meteor strike or of the western half of Africa suddenly sliding into the Pacific and creating a tsunami that eliminates the entire eastern seaboard.

I say it's about time that Americans lay off the milk and sugar and start brewing their tea fast and strong.

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Prime's Worm hole

This is a place for me to muse about the issues that affect our world. My world and my country and my life in particular. I can say what I want to here and those who may stumble across my musings, are welcome to comment,or not. America is under siege. Everything this nation has ever represented, is now being torn asunder and crushed by the onslaught of egalitarian socialism. All morals and social values have been devolved into the belief that systemic racism, is the only underlying cause or reason for any societal ills in America. And that representation, is nothing but a Trojan Horse argument. A means of getting the egalitarian camel's nose into the tent. And now that it has been inserted? There is mayhem and anarchy and burning and looting all across America. And the only questions that remains to be asked and answered? Are these. When is enough enough and when will the American people call full stop and take the law into their own hands, to repel this socialist based attack on the Constitution and our personal freedoms.

Thinking

It started out innocently enough. I began to think at parties now and then -- just to loosen up and be a part of the crowd.
Inevitably, though, one thought led to another and soon I was more than just a social thinker.

I began to think alone -- "to relax", I told myself -- but I knew it wasn't true.
Thinking became more and more important to me and finally I was thinking all the time.

I began to think on the job. I knew that thinking and employment don't mix, but I couldn't help myself.

I began to avoid friends at lunchtime so I could read Thoreau, Muir, Confucius and Kafka. I would return to the office dizzied and confused, asking, "What is it exactly we are doing here?"

One day the boss called me in. He said, "Listen, I like you and it hurts me to say this, but your thinking has become a real problem. If you don't stop thinking on the job, you'll have to find another job."

"Honey," I confessed, "I've been thinking..."

"I know you've been thinking," she said, "and I want a divorce!" "But Honey, surely it's not that serious." "It is serious," she said, lower lip aquiver.

"You think as much as college professors and college professors don't make that much money, so if you keep on thinking, we won't have any money!"
She exploded in tears of rage and frustration, but I was in no mood to deal with the emotional drama.

"I'm going to the library," I snarled
I headed for the library, in the mood for some John Locke. I roared into the parking lot with NPR on the radio and ran up to the big glass doors.

They didn't open. The library was closed.

To this day, I believe that a Higher Power was looking out for me that night.

Leaning on the unfeeling glass, whimpering for Emerson, a poster caught my eye, "Friend, is heavy thinking ruining your life?" it asked.

This is why I am what I am today: a recovering thinker.

I never miss a TA meeting. At each meeting we watch a non-educational video; last week it was "Porky's." Then we share experiences about how we avoided thinking since the last meeting.

I still have my job, and things are a lot better at home. Life just seemed easier, somehow, as soon as I stopped thinking. I think the road to recovery is nearly complete for me.

Today I took the final step...I joined the Democratic Party

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If you are able,
save them a place
inside of you
and save one backward glance
when you are leaving
for the places they can
no longer go.
Be not ashamed to say
you loved them,
though you may
or may not have always.
Take what they have left
and what they have taught you
with their dying
and keep it with your own.
And in that time
when men decide and feel safe
to call the war insane,
take one moment to embrace
those gentle heroes
you left behind.

Major Michael Davis O'Donnell
1 January 1970
Dak To, Vietnam

Captain Michael O'Donnell was lost in Cambodia on March 24 1970, while flying a UH1 rescue helicopter, trying to rescue an eight man LRRP team under attack in Cambodia. He was listed as MIA along with the eight he had attempted to rescue after his UH1 Huey was shot down by enemy fire. The official military report listed the eight as shot down 'non survivable' and 'non recoverable.'

Michael O'Donnell was submitted for the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions that day. He was awarded the Distinguished flying cross, the Bronze Star, The Air Medal and The Purple Heart and he was promoted to the rank of Major (posthumously).

In 1978 he was officially listed as KIA by the Department of Defense.

A little about the philosophy of the author

The Borg Conspiracy is one man's purely pedestrian thoughts, independent musings and frequently cheeky commentaries...Mixed with an abundance of patriotism, love of God, and love of country.

My thoughts?

In my opinion........in another generation, all that will remain of our once great republic, may be little more than what is left to weather the passage of time in the form of a few obscure and forgotten monuments to the great American experiment.

If America should fail....let it be written as her epitaph.....died by her own hand. The greatest experiment in freedom ever undertaken, lost in the end to the pursuit of the illusion that egalitarian tolerance was more valuable than individual freedom.

Let us be warned.
Franklin, Payne, Jefferson. They all knew the consequences of the lack of vigilance and they tried to warn us. They gave us a document as our guide post. We were to guard it and revere it and use it to guide and govern our future and our posterity.

No one listened.