Kosovo declares independence ! Thanks to Bill Clinton , Serbia was beaten into submission by the UN (Really the USA) forces. This allowed the Albanian Moslems to take over the area. These ignorant Islamists had been getting out of Albania as fast as they could. Albania is a Moslem enclave left over by the wonderful Crusades when they were cleansing Europe of the Moslems. Albania had been under one of the most repressive communist dictatorships for 50 years or more.
Monica Lewinski so embarrassed Clinton that he embarked on a war where there was no US interest whatsoever. Perhaps he thought that we would forget his indiscretions. It didn't work out that way.
Now President Bush, to his eternal shame, has recognized Kosovo. This new miserable country of ignorant Islamists, with nothing going for it will now be on the dole for the foreseeable future.
Question 1) Why did we fight the Christian Serbs in favor of the Islamic Albanians ?
Question 2) Why are we determined to to form a new Moslem country in Europe ?
Question 3) What can we do abut it ?
Answer to question #3. Absolutely nothing.
Monday, February 25, 2008
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Another day shot to hell
We awoke to the steady drup drip drip. Something had gone wrong in the attic. Another pin hole leak in the ancient pipes. We located our wonderful plumber who had moved and changed number since we last used him. Fortunately for us, he likes us and responded to our desperate
situation at once. He arrived at noon and has just left now at 7 PM. $425 later the leak is fixed and we seem to be thrilled to pay the fee.
Why do we wish a college education for our children. Plumbers, carpenters, electricians, auto
mechanics and such make a very good living. Also, they always seem like such nice people. Fred,our nice Iranian plumber waved goodbye. Ten minutes later our downstairs toilet started flushing itself every five minutes. I will fiddle with the flapper for the next week and then call Fred.
situation at once. He arrived at noon and has just left now at 7 PM. $425 later the leak is fixed and we seem to be thrilled to pay the fee.
Why do we wish a college education for our children. Plumbers, carpenters, electricians, auto
mechanics and such make a very good living. Also, they always seem like such nice people. Fred,our nice Iranian plumber waved goodbye. Ten minutes later our downstairs toilet started flushing itself every five minutes. I will fiddle with the flapper for the next week and then call Fred.
Friday, February 8, 2008
POLITICS AND MORE
I watched Romney and McCain give speeches the other night. They were addressing a
gathering of conservatives. Romney gave such an eloquent and graceful talk that I regreted his withdrawal from the race for the nomination. McCain followed with a most powerful presentation and made me feel much better about having to support him. But----
One must remember that none of these guys write their own stuff. They all have staffs of expert writers and so the words that they utter are not theirs. How much of what they say really reflects what they are thinking ?
Politicians are not the only offenders. I watched Jay Leno the other night as he struggled through his program sans help from his staff. Pathetic ! Not funny ! I suppose anyone could be funny if someone were writing ones stuff. The really funny ones are the faceless writers who never get credit for their efforts.
gathering of conservatives. Romney gave such an eloquent and graceful talk that I regreted his withdrawal from the race for the nomination. McCain followed with a most powerful presentation and made me feel much better about having to support him. But----
One must remember that none of these guys write their own stuff. They all have staffs of expert writers and so the words that they utter are not theirs. How much of what they say really reflects what they are thinking ?
Politicians are not the only offenders. I watched Jay Leno the other night as he struggled through his program sans help from his staff. Pathetic ! Not funny ! I suppose anyone could be funny if someone were writing ones stuff. The really funny ones are the faceless writers who never get credit for their efforts.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
I AM STILL THE DICTATER ( I wish)
Just a few more things I would do ----
1) Campaign finance reform : If you can't vote for them, you can't contribute to their campaign. That means no more corporate or labor union involment. Limit individual contributions to 2000.00 dollars.
2) Tax simplification: Eliminate the schedule A. Eliminate charitable contributions ( to much cheating). One page return with with schedules attached for interest, dividends and capital gain/loss. Phase out the earned income ( tax) credit. Again, to much cheating.
3) Corporate tax reform: Dividends to be payed from gross profits (before taxable income)
No more double taxation of dividends. The enormous advantages of this simple rule are too numerous to mention but your dictator would be quite willing to discuss this further should anyone care to ask.
4) Do away with the minimum wage. This would allow marginal workers to be hired for jobs that now go unfilled. Perhaps you don't remember the old days when teenagers would fill your gas tank, clean the windshield and check the oil and air. Way back in those days, a dime or quarter tip was expected. Do you recall the old folks in the elevators directing you to the correct floor.
This is the end of the dictator series. It is by no means the end of the ukases I would issue.
1) Campaign finance reform : If you can't vote for them, you can't contribute to their campaign. That means no more corporate or labor union involment. Limit individual contributions to 2000.00 dollars.
2) Tax simplification: Eliminate the schedule A. Eliminate charitable contributions ( to much cheating). One page return with with schedules attached for interest, dividends and capital gain/loss. Phase out the earned income ( tax) credit. Again, to much cheating.
3) Corporate tax reform: Dividends to be payed from gross profits (before taxable income)
No more double taxation of dividends. The enormous advantages of this simple rule are too numerous to mention but your dictator would be quite willing to discuss this further should anyone care to ask.
4) Do away with the minimum wage. This would allow marginal workers to be hired for jobs that now go unfilled. Perhaps you don't remember the old days when teenagers would fill your gas tank, clean the windshield and check the oil and air. Way back in those days, a dime or quarter tip was expected. Do you recall the old folks in the elevators directing you to the correct floor.
This is the end of the dictator series. It is by no means the end of the ukases I would issue.
Sunday, January 27, 2008
CONTROLING THE FEDERAL BUDGET (I AM THE DICTATOR )
This is a no brainer for anyone with a grain of sense. That would be too much to expect of our elected officials. Here are a few simple ideas which would save billions.
1) Do away with the so called earmarks. They used to be called pork but that term got a bad reputation so , in their infinite wisdom, our congress decided to rename it. No one was fooled.
2)Give the president (the dictator if I have my way ) the line item veto so he ( I ) can eliminate the stupidest items in the budget proposals. You may not believe this but the departments are required to spend all the money allotted to them. I would change that rule also.
3) Do away with the cost of living increases for everybody, including congress, government employees, social security recipients and other so called entitlement payments.
4) Do away with foreign aid, especially to counties that are not our friends.
5) Phase out the earned income (tax) credit. Much of the money returned to the lower income filers is filed fraudulently.
6)Gradually increase the age of retirement for social security recipients. Everyone knows that the system is going broke but no one is doing anything about it.
So that is a start. We will have saved many billions of dollars. I have many other ideas but I leave it to my faithful readers to give me their suggestions.
1) Do away with the so called earmarks. They used to be called pork but that term got a bad reputation so , in their infinite wisdom, our congress decided to rename it. No one was fooled.
2)Give the president (the dictator if I have my way ) the line item veto so he ( I ) can eliminate the stupidest items in the budget proposals. You may not believe this but the departments are required to spend all the money allotted to them. I would change that rule also.
3) Do away with the cost of living increases for everybody, including congress, government employees, social security recipients and other so called entitlement payments.
4) Do away with foreign aid, especially to counties that are not our friends.
5) Phase out the earned income (tax) credit. Much of the money returned to the lower income filers is filed fraudulently.
6)Gradually increase the age of retirement for social security recipients. Everyone knows that the system is going broke but no one is doing anything about it.
So that is a start. We will have saved many billions of dollars. I have many other ideas but I leave it to my faithful readers to give me their suggestions.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
IF I WERE A DICTATOR ( Cont. )
I must go back to the immigration subject, albeit having much to say about other topics.
In answer to the commentary of some of my faithful readers I state the following :
1) We are not running out all the illegals. Quite the contrary. We are giving these scofflaws a chance to legalize their stay. But we don't particularly want them here permanently or even to give them citizenship. We do want them to do the dirty work ( Agriculture, construction, etc.)
and so give them two years to stay. Then they may return after one year ( or six months)
for another two years work. How humane can a dictator be ?
In answer to the commentary of some of my faithful readers I state the following :
1) We are not running out all the illegals. Quite the contrary. We are giving these scofflaws a chance to legalize their stay. But we don't particularly want them here permanently or even to give them citizenship. We do want them to do the dirty work ( Agriculture, construction, etc.)
and so give them two years to stay. Then they may return after one year ( or six months)
for another two years work. How humane can a dictator be ?
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