The Ant and the Grasshopper,,,,, revisited.
January 4, 2010
OLD VERSION
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away..
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
MODERN VERSION [Read more]
Our Seniors Are Getting Shafted
January 3, 2010
Tupelo, MS
Apparently, our friends on Capitol Hill are not aware that senior citizens in this country still vote. For the first time, best I can find out, there will be no cost of living adjustments, better known as COLA, this year for social security recepients.
However, Mr. Obama approved a 2% salary increase for all federal employees effective 1 January, 2010. Members of the legislative and judicial branches are due for an automatic pay increase on 1 January as well.
However, it must be noted that Medicare insurance premiums will be increased from the 2009 premium of $96.40 to $104.20 in 2010 and to $120.20 in 2011. This, without any increase in their cost of living expenses.
It has also been predicted there will be no increase in the next 3 years.
Here’s the kicker, while our seniors that are already living on a limited income, our congress continue voting themselves pay increases and spending like drunken sailors. Sorry if this offends a drunken sailor.
It’s past time we vote for new representation whether it’s democrats or republicans.
David
Happy New Year to all of you
January 1, 2010
You now have the opportunity to change what you want to in your life in the new year. You don’t have to bring old baggage with you. You don’t have to live in the past. You have a new time to change what you want to for this year.
Happy New Year
Dear Mr. President
December 29, 2009
Dear Mr. President,
Please find below my suggestion for fixing America ’s economy. Instead of giving billions of dollars to companies that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan. You can call it the “Patriotic Retirement Plan”:
There are about 40 million people over 50 in the work force. Pay them $1 million apiece severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:
1) They MUST retire. Forty million job openings – Unemployment fixed.
2) They MUST buy a new American CAR.. Forty million cars ordered – Auto Industry fixed.
3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage – Housing Crisis fixed.
It can’t get any easier than that!!
P.S. If more money is needed, have all members in Congress pay their taxes…
Mr. President, while you’re at it, make Congress retire on Social Security and Medicare. I’ll bet both programs would be fixed pronto!
editor’s note: I doubt this is a real letter but it sure did make sense when I read it.
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy Hanukkah, Hotty Toddy, and even Happy Kwanzaa
December 25, 2009
to Barack Hussein Obama. I pray for you daily Mr. President.
My True to Life Christmas Story
December 18, 2009
When we were very young, our Mom use to tell us that one day she’d love to give us a white Christmas for a Christmas present.
My brother in law passed away in September of 1989 and my Mom passed away two days later. It was a rough time for me and my family. I was living in Huntsville, Al at the time working as a project manager for a construction company. [Read more]
Conservative Talking Points
December 17, 2009
The decision by President Obama to transfer up to 100 detainees from the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay to a state prison in rural Thomson, Illinois, is yet another example of the Obama Administration and Congressional Democrats not listening to the American people. [Read more]
Once the pride of Mississippi, Cochran now brings shame.
December 15, 2009
I hope he never runs again. I think I’d vote for a conservative democrat before I’d ever vote for him again.
Andrew Taylor
The Democratic-controlled Senate on Saturday cleared away a Republican filibuster of a huge end-of-year spending bill that rewards most federal agencies with generous budget boosts.
The $1.1 trillion measure combines much of the year’s unfinished budget work — only a $626 billion Pentagon spending measure would remain — into a 1,000-plus-page spending bill that would give the Education Department, the State Department, the Department of Health and Human Services and others increases far exceeding inflation.
The 60-34 vote met the minimum threshold to end the GOP filibuster. A final vote was set for Sunday afternoon to send the measure to President Barack Obama. [Read more]
Benny Thompson is Being Investigated. Another Corrupt Democrat
December 10, 2009
The Conservative View’s View: There is corruptness among all political parties. That said, you won’t hear much from the main stream media when it’s a democrat involved. It’s time for Thompson to answer a lot of questions. Should he step down as a lot of GOPers have done?
By BRIAN PERRY
Mississippi’s Second District Congressman Bennie Thompson made national headlines when as Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee he conducted a hearing into the security breach at the White House by party crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi.
Thompson rightfully concluded, “We’re all fortunate that this diplomatic celebration did not become a night of horror.”
The protection of the President of the United States, and any failure by the Department of Treasury’s Secret Service, should be investigated.
But last week the Washington Post called into question another investigation by Thompson that might not cross the Homeland Security threshold, and that a former Thompson staffer alleges was in fact a shakedown for campaign contributions. [Read more]
7 stories Obama doesn’t want told
December 1, 2009
By: John F. Harris
November 30, 2009 05:45 AM EST
Presidential politics is about storytelling. Presented with a vivid storyline, voters naturally tend to fit every new event or piece of information into a picture that is already neatly framed in their minds.
No one understands this better than Barack Obama and his team, who won the 2008 election in part because they were better storytellers than the opposition. The pro-Obama narrative featured an almost mystically talented young idealist who stood for change in a disciplined and thoughtful way. This easily outpowered the anti-Obama narrative, featuring an opportunistic Chicago pol with dubious relationships who was more liberal than he was letting on. [Read more]
