I had to pull the car over onto the shoulder as I was laughing so hard I couldn’t see.  My wife and I had just left the house on our way to pick up  our daughter from college to take her to the doctor’s office.  I had just turned on the radio to listen to Glenn Beck on the way and the first thing I heard him say was that he wanted to break the news and to hang on past the commercial.

I really hadn’t even thought about the IOC voting Friday morning.  I knew, of course that Obama was spending millions of our dollars trying to take care of some payback he owed to the boys back in Chicago.  Valerie Jarrett owned some property also that could certainly use a buyer, especially if the buyer was going to be paying top dollar for it.  Michelle, and the Big ‘O’ were already in Copenhagen to the delight of the main stream media.

I think everyone took it for granted that no one would be stupid enough to send Obama over to Copenhagen, on the taxpayer’s dime, to campaign for the Olympics to be held in Chicago if it weren’t a done deal!  I assumed that the ‘fix was in’ on the deal and his going over there was just to receive the accolades for doing such a wonderful job in politicking for them.

Glenn came back on after the break and they had set up a bit where Stu was the ‘on the spot’ reporter watching the events unfold and when they said that Chicago had lost the bid on the first round I really thought they were joking.  When it became obvious that they were serious, I had to pull over and the first thing I thought of was the ‘de-motivational’ pictures I had seen online that were captioned ‘EPIC FAIL.’  I had to pull off the road I was laughing so hard.

Later, when I had a chance to get to my computer I checked out The Drudge Report and the headline there said, The Ego Has Landed.  For our nation’s sake, I hope the ego has landed and this presidency will stop being all about Obama and more about this country.

Congratulations to Rio!

But, that’s just My Arrogant Opinion

Back in the day, back when the residents of our country were still subject to the Crown of England, people were neighbors.  They lived in small communities and even the largest of cities were small compared to the standards of today.  In fact, many people today drive farther to work each morning than our forefathers could travel in a day.

Being the mobile society that we have become, we have grown apart from our neighbors.  No longer do we gather at day’s end to hear the news over a mug of ale at the local tavern.  We get our news about what is going on in the country on the nightly news programs or cable, and increasingly from the internet.  Social networks have taken the place of the local tavern and we talk and gossip on Facebook, Twitter, or MySpace.

Our elected representatives are seemingly isolated from us and many citizens feel unrepresented in Washington.  Our Constitution requires that the Congress meet at least once every year. Once a year?  It is to the point that we can barely pry them out of Washington.  The problem is, not only do we feel unrepresented, our representatives are not in touch with the mind of the people they represent.

Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and even the President feel that their agenda is what the people want and they refuse to listen to words to the contrary.  Protesters against taxes and government health-care are labeled extremists or they are accused of being shills for corporate interests.  Nancy Pelosi calls them ‘Astroturf’ meaning they are imitating a grass roots movement.  Representatives cancel ‘Town Hall’ meetings because they are afraid of being called out by informed constituents.

The problem is that our representatives are taking their cues from their party leaders instead of us, the ones with the power to take them out of office.  Let this be a wake up call to our Congressmen and Senators, We are by-passing your controlled news media outlets, we ARE meeting albeit not on the streets, we DO know what you are doing, and that you are not listening to us, but trust us, WE WILL BE HEARD!  If not now, then in 2010 and 2012. 

Like Japan found out after Pearl Harbor and more recently Al-Qaeda found out after 9-11, our representatives will find out after their votes are cast that we the people still have the last word, and they are being watched.  Don’t cause this sleeping giant to stir because their isn’t much call for an out of work politician.

But, that’s just My Arrogant Opinion

Damn it! Look, if you have enough waste in government programs to pay for this freakin’ health care program you want, fix the damn waste first! Then let’s talk. Until then, take a long walk down a short pier!

In an article in The New York Times, Mr. Obama tells us,

Two-thirds of the costs for covering new people will be paid for by taking waste out of the system

That is a lie from the pit of Hell and it smells like smoke! Stop trying to treat us as if we were children.

But that’s just, My Arrogant Opinion

Insurance, a sore subject lately. Mr. President let’s take a look at this shall we? First of all, we are talking HEALTH insurance, not AUTO insurance. They are not the same, and they are not purchased for the same reason. Auto insurance is purchased for the same reason we buy homeowner’s insurance, to protect the lender, that is comprehensive. Liability, the part you keep trying to associate with your plan for forcing us to buy health insurance isn’t to protect our vehicle, it is to protect us from legal actions resulting from our incompetent use of the vehicle.

Now the way I understand this is that you are planning on fining me $3800 if I don’t buy insurance. What was that again? You are making me a lawbreaker for not buying insurance? Okay, where are my rights? Do I have a right to a jury trial? What about an attorney? Can I just go to jail if I refuse to pay? And if I do go to jail, who pays for my health insurance there?

Let’s get real, shall we? Who are you going to have enforcing this, since you are getting dangerously close to making it unprofitable for me to work at all, I would be just as well off in jail and letting the government take care of my needs.

GET THE HELL OUT OF MY BUSINESS AND LEAVE ME ALONE!

But, that’s just My Arrogant Opinion

Health Care Reform. Oh let’s not call it what it is, ie; Socialized Health Care. BO – The President wouldn’t like it, or maybe I should say he doesn’t like it, and has said so.

Isn’t having the government run the health care system and telling us that they are not going to take away our choice somewhat similar to Hitler telling Chamberlain that he had no desires on Europe? In other words a bald faced lie? People in the media seem to be having trouble with that word. But an intentional statement designed to hide the truth is a lie. Okay, that’s all said, let’s look at some logical points here.

No one is being forced by the government to change their insurance plan. This is probably true, no one is going to force you to take part in the government plan, with one small exception. You will be required to PAY for it. If it is run by the government, it is run with tax dollars.

You won’t have to give up your present coverage. Okay, the government won’t force you to give it up, but the truth is that if our taxes are being used to subsidize health care then companies will stop providing it. It is a hassle and an expense that they would certainly like to be shed of. Where does that leave us? Why either uninsured, or right on the Obama Single Payer Bandwagon.

Will the government offer us vouchers or tax deductions for choosing our own coverage outside the plan sponsored by government? Well, think about school vouchers, those have been sought by the people who do not like the education provided by our tax dollars and who have taken it upon themselves to send their children to private school, the government says no, you may not have tax vouchers for the money spent on private schools, but thanks for playing our game.

It would appear to me, that if this plan goes through, that we are just screwed again.

Our Leader, BO – The President, has just told us that he is going to make it tough to continue smoking. Check out this commentary from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. I just can’t seem to understand something. Why is it not illegal to smoke cigarettes? Why isn’t the DEA busy burning crops of tobacco in the fields? Why are we NOT being protected from this evil by our benevolent government?

In the words of Jerry McGuire, “Show me the money!” If our benevolent overseers (BO) really felt that they were bad for us and not just a means of raising revenue, there would be something done. As it is, it is all about the money.

Mr. President, why don’t you protect the people you claim to be so concerned about? Outlaw cigarettes if they are bad for people and stop this hypocrisy!

Timothy (TurboTax) Geithner and Tom Daschle both seem to be a part of President Obama’s Brain Trust.   Our new Treasury Secretary and Health and Human Services Secretary both seem to have a bit of difficulty with paying their taxes.

Geithner has a good excuse though, that Turbo Tax from Quicken, man that is some complex software to master.  Intuit estimates only 20 million tax returns are prepared with their software annually, so it it obviously not a user friendly program.

The thing to remember though is that these mistakes were not intentional and they are truly sorry for them (or  at least that they were caught), and it will never happen again.   Since we can surely take them at their word, we can also feel confident they have been sworn in to their respective cabinet posts.

That brings to mind something else though.  Officials from The Peanut Corporation of America are truly sorry for the Salmonella outbreak traced back to their plant in Lynchburg, GA (or at least that they were caught).  Certainly we should be able to give them the same breaks we are giving to Daschle and Geithner, right?

And while we are at it, what about that guy who inadvertantly pulled a gun and robbed the clerk at the local convenience store?  He’s sorry too.  There was no malice intended, the clerk just had more money than he did and he wanted it.

No, it seems that it is just Anarchy for the Upper Class and do as I say, not as I do.