the Olympic McMuffin

I was catching up on some tv watching yesterday. And something that came to my attention was Gold Medal winner Gabby Douglas on the Tonight show with Jay Leno.
I thought I would watch for a couple of minutes and so I heard Jay Leno ask her what she ate after the Olympics and she replied that she had had an Egg McMuffin from McDonald’s.

Sitting right next to her though was apparently the first lady Michelle Obama who said “oh Gabby your hurting me here.” Referring to her drive to make all Americans eat healthier.

Gabby laughingly apologized and I thought, “wow I wouldn’t have done that.” I mean no disrespect to either of those people I saw but really come on.
I know that Gabby is a teenager who is being put into new situations that are beyond her experience and I know that MOST people would be a little awestruck to be hobnobbing with national movers and shakers. But I wish that she could have turned to the first lady and said something like…
“listen, I am a Gold Medal winner of the Olympics! I worked hard I trained hard and I did a VERY good job! I think after all the work and exercise and effort I made that I am entitled to enjoy ONE SINGLE EGG MCMUFFIN without you breathing down my neck about it.

“I am NOT over weight, I am NOT obese!”

“I am a healthy young girl who enjoys occasional treats like anyone else does and I am also pretty sure, that with my training regimen, tomorrow I will more than work off ANY calories that I might have gained by eating a fast food sandwich!”
“Besides which it is NOT your place to tell me what I can or cannot eat!”

Or to make that shorter… “You know what? Lay off! I EARNED IT!”

What I find even more disturbing about this is the fact that Mrs. Obama is very quick to tell all of us (including Olympic gold medal winners now, who know VERY well what kind of calorie consumption they can have) how to eat. Meantime EVERY SINGLE FOOD that she has deemed to be bad for all of us, she and her husband will gulp down as fast as they can.
For example, Every where that Michelle Obama has gone we see her eating Burgers, Fries, Onion Rings, Ice Cream, Milkshakes and so on.
When asked about her husband’s (or her) food preferences she mentioned, Guacamole, Onion Rings, Nacho chips and Burgers.

But she has decided that Gabby (ONCE more let me remind you, a girl who has just won several GOLD medals for her athleticism in the Olympics) cannot have an egg McMuffin.

I think the message that Gabby sent was a pretty good one actually. She was saying basically, “look I do a LOT of exercise. I rewarded myself with a special treat. This is not something I do every day five times a day.”

In other words her message is one of moderation! Not excess! And THAT is the best model there is!

So kudos to you Gabby! Keep it up.

As for you Mrs. Obama and all other liberals for that matter, Get the stink out of MY kitchen and diet. That is up to me. And If I cannot have that cheeseburger after my workout then maybe I will just not have the workout in the first place then where will we all be?

My carefully considered response to SCOTUS

I would like to make a point here for all those liberals who are SOOOO compassionate towards the poor and needy.
Did you hear the ruling by the Supreme Court on Obamacare? If so can you explain to me why it is that the decision on how the tax for people who do not carry health insurance is “$95 OR 1% whichever is higher”? let us all think about this.
IF they are willing to put a tax of $95 on something OR 1% “whichever is lower, then that means that they are willing to go at least as low as a $9,000.00 ANNUAL income. The federal poverty level for an individual is $15,000.00 a year.

That means that there has to be intent to apply this tax to people who are below the poverty tax level. The “poor people” who you are so insistent that you want to help with this plan are going to be penalized BY YOU.

Therefor I have determined that I want all of you to be quiet about how you “care so much for the poor” and “all this is for their benefit”. Clearly it isn’t and I am tired of listening to your lies and inconsistencies.

Clearly, WHATEVER you may say, you do not care for, or about, ANYONE at all. All you care about is your own self image and self opinion.

You want to be able to pat yourself on the back while you hurt the people you claim to be helping.
To ME that means… well what it means I cannot say because (1) I am not the kind of guy who uses words like that and (2) even if I were it would be inappropriate to say such things on a public venue such as this.

Suffice it to say that, IF you think this idea is a good one then you have lost ANY respect I might have been able to dig up for you to begin with and in some cases I find you to be no more than a contemptuous jerk.

A different view… I will have to think about this one.

So one argument I heard, on this ACA verdict, was that the Supreme Court did not actually vote on the constitutionality of the law itself. They simply declared that the government cannot force people to buy things BUT the government CAN tax people and they can assess penalties IF they are actually taxes.

So the view is that the Government can tax period
They did not vote on the ACA law as a constitutional entity except for the point that the federal government cannot take away the Medicare assistance from states that decide they do not want to participate.

This means the declaration by Robert’s is gauged to remove the Supreme Court from the political machinations and not giving any power to either side for the upcoming elections. The problem with that view is that the Democrats are claiming that they have won because this means the law is constitutional.


If this was a commerce clause issue then this law would be unconstitutional, but the government can tax. So what we will all have to do is look very closely at what the Court has really said… in other words it is time to really start parsing the WAY they said it because of this.

You don’t HAVE to buy health care, if you choose to not buy it then you will have to pay a higher tax. If you DO choose to buy it then your taxes go down.


Someone has made the point that this was taxation without representation. Everyone wants to say no it isn’t, your congress passed this they are your representatives thus it is NOT taxation without representation, but the guy was insistent and he said, “NO wait think about this. It was passed as a bill with maybe a penalty or mandate as part of the commerce clause, but they insisted THIS IS NOT A TAX. So if they are now calling it a tax it is a tax placed on the voters WITHOUT the representatives getting the chance to vote on it AS A TAX.”

He may have a point.
I will have to think about it

Aiken's mistake

Recently A republican candidate made a boneheaded statement, saying that if a woman is raped then her body has ways of preventing that from turning into a pregnancy.

Immediately influential members of the republican party and other conservatives called for his pulling out of the race for senate that he was in.

The RNC pulled ALL financial support, conservative radio personalities called for him to discontinue his run and conservatives everywhere are saying “NO this guy is not for us.”

His democratic opponent has indicated her “surprise” at the reaction of the conservatives and liberals that I know have declared that the “only reason they [republicans] are being so hard on the guy is because they think it will look bad to support him on the ticket.” Or “it gives his opponent a better chance to keep her seat.”

There is one problem with those assertions though. And that is, they are all nonsense.

The reason why conservatives want this guy off the ticket is because we do not believe in the things that he says. Period. End of story.

The “values” his comment would back are not the values of the republican or conservative platform.

Are we against abortion in general? Yes. Are we against stopping the pregnancy of someone who was raped or who had a tubal pregnancy or in other such cases where the life or wellbeing of the mother and/or the child would be jeopardized? Not necessarily.

One of the big issues at stake here is do we allow people who have been hugely irresponsible get away with no repercussions. Worse every life that is aborted is one that never gets the chance to enjoy life. We all have a life in the here and now. If you are reading this you are alive. You may not like it you may even hate it but you have one.

With that life you have the choice to make whatever decisions you want to. So why are we all hell bent on denying these poor, unborn, children a chance to make up their own minds?

If that child’s life is really going to be as hellish as the critics claim then maybe we ought to let that child make up it’s own mind about what it wants to do about it.

Think about all the influential figures in life who had hellish lives and ended up making the world a better place because they wanted to make their lives better. People like Louis Pasteur, or Samuel Clemens, or even Stephen Hawking.

Most of the stories of inspiration in our culture are about people who overcame from the hardest of circumstances.

Where would we all be if all of those people had been aborted in the womb?

So back to the problem of this conservative idiot, see there is a point that is confusing the liberals, conservatives hold people accountable.

We want to hold people accountable for their actions. We will not let this guy slide, we will not make excuses for him. He has screwed up and now he must pay for it. This is the opposite model that Democrats use.

We will not spin this, we will not laugh it off. He holds an opinion that means that no REPUBLICAN will vote for him.

In short Conservatives use their brains.
And we vote our conscience. And that is why there is this outcry.

My issue with Willie Cunningham.

I am sorry as I was looking over the list of radio personalities with whom I have had issues I realized I missed one. So here we go.

Willie Cunnigham, he is a little extreme sometimes but usually I put that down to his passion. He does get very passionate about things.
Still though, there are a couple of issues that I hold against him.
1. He keeps being FALSELY modest. I know that this is a petty issue but really c’mon. DO NOT tell me that you are quietly proud and humble about winning your second Marconi award while you are trumpeting the fact that you got it every time you get the chance.
You are not being humble OR quiet about it.

Now I will believe that you are proud, and that is fine, but to make claims to humility the way that he does is a false start.
O.k. now that I have that out of the way…

Issue #2. Intolerance. I find that, out of all the radio hosts I listen to, Willie Cunningham is the second most intolerant person on the radio. (Only the liberal Alan Colmes is worse.)
It seems that anytime anyone disagrees with Willie then he cannot accept that they might have anything of value to contribute.

This, to me, is a real issue and failing.

So there you go, I think that is all the radio hosts I will be reporting on but then again I didn’t know this one was lurking.
So if there are any more, they will come out later.

Appeasing a terrorist.

I have heard many times in the last several years that "we ought to try to understand the terrorists and find out WHY they are the way they are so we can make them better". Kind of like we act towards people here who lose control and shoot up their work or whatever. Here is the thing this is what I call the "let's fix it all" syndrome. Now understand that I am all for fixing what can be fixed, but terrorism is not so easy to do. See we tend to think that everyone thinks the same way we do. It is part of the attitude we are raised with here. (Here being the "western" countries.) The thing is that these people do NOT think the same as us. And what is more I can tell you what they want, they have stated it quite clearly. They want us all dead. That is they want anyone who does not believe as they do to die or be their slave. That is all they want. They want their ideals to be the ONLY ideals in the world and anyone who stands against that they want removed. That is why I think we need to stand up against terrorism, I think that everyone ought to be allowed to have his or her own viewpoint. that is the opposite of terrorism that is freedom! terrorism wants to control you, to make you do what they want you to do. So let's choose to be free, and if that is something you cannot abide by, there are plenty of places you can live or go to where they will think just like you.

The source of our racism.

Lately, due to various circumstances I started considering that most sensitive of subjects, Racism. I have heard a lot of people getting into arguments over what is racist. There are major public news stories about events that have been labeled as racist. And there are people who are starting to actually sound racist. I started to wonder why. Why is it that people I know who have never exhibited a racist intent before are all of a sudden starting to become much more polarized, in a negative way, on this subject. Then it hit me… The problem is that if you are going to give anyone preferential treatment or allow them special “passes” that are going to be denied to others then the ones who are being denied will, naturally, begin to resent the people receiving the special favors and privileged positions. That in turn will lead to a self fulfilling prophecy scenario where the person/s who are denied the preferential treatment will aim their resentment at the ones who get the preferred treatment. Thus creating racism. That is right the gist of it is that the system that is supposed to be ending racism is actually inflaming or even Creating the very thing that it is supposed to be designed to fight against. Look at it like this, people see injustice every day, they see people of one “minority race” who regularly harm each other and people of other “races” with no news coverage and no outrage at the horror that is unleashed. But then, in a rare event, when the situation is reversed not only is it news worthy but the whole of that “minority race” stands up and excoriates the other “races” for trying to keep the “minority race” down and that it has to all be due to “racism”. I think that some people are starting to sound a little more racist either because they believe the labels that others cast on them and so are “trying to fit the mold” or they are simply legitimately frustrated. Then rather than aim their anger at the flawed system which caused the injustice they end up aiming it at the individuals who are getting the preferred treatment. Thus racism. Maybe if the “minority race” in question would stand up and tell their spokesmen (self appointed or not) to cut the stupid self serving rhetoric and would try to get along then the racism would go away. Since the election of our “first black president” I have noticed an up tick in the acts that could be considered racist. I have also heard more claims to that state of being. (That our country is racist). Why is it that all of a sudden the election of a black president, supposedly at the time the sign that racism is defeated, has created a whole new world of racism? I think a part of it could honestly be that there are racists out there who are angry and trying to go back to the good old days. But I think A larger part of it is that there are people out there who are accusing others of racism and insisting that EVERY thing anyone else does is motivated purely by racism. In L.A. we hear about cops making a traffic stop that goes bad and the guy in the car (A former prisoner) pulling a gun on the cops resulting in the cops killing him in self defense. But then the people of the neighborhood where that criminal comes from cry out that it was all “because he was a minority, and the cops are all racist [scum]”. No they were simply doing their duty. They were doing what they were hired to do. Period. End of story. But that isn’t good enough. Or the case where a bunch of college kids were accused of committing an act of Criminal Sexual activity against a minority. The news spread it all around that these evil rich boys (all of one race by the way) did this horrendous thing to a poor girl (of a “minority race” by the way). The DA’s assistant had them in court before ANY of the allegations were even investigated. The mouthpieces of the “minority race” were out in force saying how awful it is in this day and age that such things should be happening. The Coach of the team that the accused boys were from was fired, the boys were suspended from school. I mean ALL the stops were pulled. That is until the day that the information came out that (1) the girl who made these claims lied and was just trying to work the system and (2) the Assistant DA covered up all the information that showed this fact. Now all of a sudden the news goes strangely quiet leaving us to wonder, what happened to the boys who were basically exonerated? What happened to the coach who was erroneously fired? What charges were brought against the lady who filed the false report and started us on this road? And last but not least… where are the apologies owed to the coach and those boys from… (1) the media who showed such poor judgement in making this such a big deal (2) The shysters who jumped up in front of the cameras, full of indignant wrath, to call down judgement on those innocents (3) The state officials who went for sensationalism instead of following good procedure (4) The Assistant DA who, although fired, didn’t ever really have to reach out to make amends (as far as we know) (5) The school officials who instead of waiting for a real idea of what was going on acted precipitously in the removal of innocents I mean all of these people acted poorly, at best, and yet they never tried to make it right the way they were so quick to make it wrong. Do I need to point out more examples? The Police officer who, answering a call for help in an affluent area, tried to do his job, but was impeded by the “suspicious person” who turned belligerent and refused to cooperate instead saying the cop wouldn’t be doing this if the suspect was not a “minority race”. Um news flash for you here buddy… Yeah he would, IT IS HIS JOB!!!! You freaking idiot. But all the nation who wants to believe racism is alive and well? Yeah they are in there saying it had to have been racist. Or the “kid” who, sadly, was killed while in an altercation with someone of another “race”. Did you notice, as I did that the news would show pictures of some 60 pound 11 year old tyke with a cheerful grin on his face, while the reports were that a 17 year old 6 foot 2 180 pound “kid” was the victim? I mean why show such an obviously misleading picture? Especially when the only picture they would show, of the other person were his mugshots? Again we also saw everyone jumping to conclusions, and before the month was over certain “representatives” of that “minority race” were declaring they would pay bounties for the guy “alive or dead”. How is that conducive to a civil society? I believe these are the issues why we are seeing an “increase” in the whole racism thing. In fact I recently realized, the only way that racism exists is if people see others as different. Racism comes from a perception that we create by what we see and hear and assume. So the ones who are causing this racism can only be the ones that are seeing the difference/s in the first place. That means the ones who are most responsible for this turn of event are the ones who are ultimately so eager to claim racism exists at every turn. Think about it!