Another Hero Returns Home

This is how I spent my day today. Escorting another fallen hero home. We will attend his funeral and escort this Saturday.

Body of Griffin Soldier Returns Home: MyFoxATLANTA.com

Those are Patriot Guards completely encircling the plane on the tarmac. And all later mounted up and escorted the body and the family back home to McDonough Ga.

Obama has been crippled by his lack of ability to spend.

You can't make this stuff up.

"Well, I mean, I think so because I think that when you come into office and you want to put your mark on things, this is just my opinion, when you want to put your mark on things, you want to be able to spend and what’s crippled Obama's administration, as far as I’m concerned is the financial crisis and it’s prevented him from doing any new spending," said Baldwin, who publicly supported Obama in the 2008 Presidential election.

So I wonder Alec? How do you think we have doubled the deficit in two years time? Damn! I sure am glad he has been bobbled, or there is no telling how much debt we would be in while this interloping leftist 'put his mark on things.'

I have been watching him put his mark on things for over two years now. And what I see is someone pissing on the country and the rest of us, like some hound marking his territory. Obama is leaving his mark alright. It is yellow, stained and wreaks of from whence it came.

Remember back when gasoline was $4 a gallon?

No, not now, but the first time. Back in 2006? Remember?

The likes of Harry Reid and our little darling Nancy Pelosi were telling us how much better things would be when they were in charge.

Well....guess what. They were in charge for four years, during which time we saw gas prices rise to $4 a gallon in 2008. And now that their guy is in the white house? We are looking at potentially $5 a gallon or more.

And what does our illustrious leader have to say about it?

Pitching the promise of energy independence, President Barack Obama cautioned Wednesday that it's going to be tough to transition from America's oil-dependent economy and acknowledged there's little he can do to lower gas prices over the short term.

"I'm just going to be honest with you. There's not much we can do next week or two weeks from now," the president told workers at a wind turbine plant. It's a theme Obama's struck before as he tries to show voters he's attuned to a top economic concern with gas prices pushing toward $4 a gallon.

Obama said he wants to move toward "a future where America is less dependent on foreign oil, more reliant on clean energy produced by workers like you." That will happen by reducing oil imports, tapping domestic energy sources and shifting the nation to renewable and less polluting sources of energy, such as wind, the president says. He has set a goal of reducing oil imports by one-third by 2025.

But the president said it won't happen overnight and if any politician says it's easy, "they're not telling the truth."

"Gas prices? They're going to still fluctuate until we can start making these broader changes, and that's going to take a couple of years to have serious effect," Obama said.

Obama pushes clean energy, says he can do little to affect gas prices in the short term
So it seems two points are being made. First? He is being honest with us. I don't know about everyone else? But that gives me the warm and fuzzies. Second? The president's only offering of hope? Alternative energy sources.

Remember those words in three months when inflation has gone hyper. remember those words come Labor Day and they roll up the beaches across America because no one came.

Barack Obama is steering the ship of state directly into an iceberg at full speed. And the media is allowing him to get away with it..

Obama's gripes about the "GRUPS"

Looks like the president is not pleased with congress. Having sat on the sidelines for the entirety of the budget debate until now, it looks as if the president wants to wade in and tell congress to stop the childishness.

Obama tells Congress to act like ‘grown ups’

Excerpts from an earlier report today by FT.com

“There are some things that we can’t control. We can’t control earthquakes; we can’t control tsunamis; we can’t control uprisings on the other side of the world,” he told reporters. “What we can control is our capacity to have a reasoned, fair conversation between the parties and get the business of the American people done. And that’s what I expect.”

Even though he made clear that everyone needed to start acting like “grown ups”, Mr Obama did not blame one party for coming this close to a government shutdown.

I am waiting to see this purported ability on the part of liberals, to have a reasoned and fair conversation on anything. I don't believe they can do it. As for getting the business of the American people done? I ain't too impressed with any of them up to this point. Including those on the other side of the isle.

Four more years

So...what are you going to do when gas hits $15 a gallon?

So. You thought things were bad and getting worse right now? What will you do when gasoline reaches $15 a gallon? Read on below, because that is exactly where it will be if we allow the governments and the speculators to jack the price to $300 a barrel.

Of course, a lot more than just the economy will shut down should that happen. I foresee the outbreak of global war should the price of oil rise to those levels.

Oil could hit $200-$300 on Saudi unrest-Yamani

By Emma Farge

LONDON, April 5 (Reuters) - Oil prices could rocket to $200- $300 a barrel if the world's top crude exporter Saudi Arabia is hit by serious political unrest, former Saudi oil minister Sheikh Zaki Yamani told Reuters on Tuesday.

Yamani said he saw no immediate sign of further trouble following protests last month calling for political reforms but said that underlying discontent remained unresolved.

"If something happens in Saudi Arabia it will go to $200 to $300. I don't expect this for the time being, but who would have expected Tunisia?" Yamani told Reuters on the sidelines of a conference of the Centre for Global Energy Studies (CGES) which he chairs.

Go burn your own holy book....

It looks like the burning of a Koran in Florida by a protestant minister, has sparked four days of rioting in Afghanistan.

April 3, 2011

Afghan protests against the burning of a Quran in Florida entered a third day with a demonstrations in the south and east Sunday, while the Taliban called on people to rise up, blaming government forces for any violence.


The desecration at a small U.S. church has outraged Muslims worldwide, and in Afghanistan many of the demonstrations have turned into deadly riots. Protests in the north and south in recent days have killed 20 people.


In southern Kandahar city on Sunday, hundreds took to the streets for the second day in a row, and hospital officials said 20 people were hurt in skirmishes between police and demonstrators. On Saturday, nine people were killed and 80 injured when a protest turned into a riot.

 And now a few words from the pastor.....

But Mr Jones shows no signs of backing down, refusing to admit the violence is his fault, and apparently proud of his actions.

In an interview at his Dove World Outreach Center, the pastor at least admitted that he was saddened by the Afghan attacks - but added that he would burn the Koran again if given the chance.

He told the New York Times: 'It was intended to stir the pot; if you don’t shake the boat, everyone will stay in their complacency.

'Emotionally, it’s not all that easy. People have tried to make us responsible for the people who are killed. It’s unfair and somewhat damaging.

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The bottom line: Once again we see political correctness seeping into the controversy here in America. There is either freedom of speech or there isn't in my opinion.

What this man is doing is no doubt ill advised and sickening, but what separates his act/s from those both here in America and in the middle east and elsewhere, who desecrate the Holy Bible?

Good for the goose? Is good for the gander.

Maybe if we treated the enemy with the utter disdain for their culture and religion that they treat ours, we might find a greater willingness to end this absurdity and win this war once and for all.

Meanwhile, the band plays on and our troops continue to die, while those in Washington sit and spin and do nothing.

I say, if nothing else, this pastor's acts may cause some people to think here in America. And that is something that we are direly in need of.