Finally, the first show is here!
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Thoughts For Thinkers Radio
So here is our first Thoughts for Thinkers Radio Podcast, let me know what you think!
You can just listen, you can download the file etc.
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Thursday, December 9, 2010
Thoughts For Thinkers Radio
Exciting news folks! Thoughts for Thinkers Radio is coming! We are doing a podcast version that will be available for listening and downloading. This weekly show will cover the political stories of the week, and welcomes your calls and emails.
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Just Letting you Know....
....About my new blog. One of the reasons i havent written in so long is because i bought another motorcycle, finally, and I've been riding it.
Please stop by my other blog if you have time...DISCIPLE MC
DID I SAY CHRISTIAN MOTORCYCLE CLUB? MOTORCYCLE CLUB?
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Thursday, June 4, 2009
Why I Don't Want a Government Car
In case you haven't been watching, the Obama administration has taken over GM and Chrysler with the helpful thought that these two companies should make "Greener" cars. Cars that get 39 miles a gallon, and trucks that get 30 miles a gallon. This development of technology, while quite useful, will be quite expensive for the automotive industry and you. Average of about $1100 per car more. But you have the money for that right?
This plan is a quiet way to make sure that American auto companies make smaller cars. Increasing the proportion of small cars that they make is the only way that the automotive companies can hit the targets. This is why the administration is forcing Chrysler to be sold into the hands of Fiat, abrogating hundreds of years of standing bankruptcy law, and flaunting it in the face of investors who had loaned Chrysler money against the assets that Chrysler had put up as collateral. Wouldn't it be nice if you, dear reader, could simply decide that you don't want to pay your car payment anymore, but you want to keep your car.
The administration has made clear that they intend to force Americans to buy these wonderful "Greener" cars, by adding tax incentives, and subsidizing GM and Chrysler with giant amounts of your money. The administration has to use tons of your money to do this for one simple fact: Americans don't want to drive little cars. Let's review:
Pimps want to drive Escalade's, not escorts.
Soccer moms want to drive SUVs and minivans, not Malibu's.
Businessmen want to drive Lincoln town cars and Chrysler 300's, not Festiva's.
Families want four-door pickup trucks and station wagons, not too seated electric cars.
Let's be honest, the car is the status symbol for many people. It's a practical tool. You can't fit daddy, mommy, the two kids and a dog into a mini car. Well you can, but no one wants to, and that's the point.
Even though he was in the Senate, Obama wasn't paying attention, he was busy campaigning for president for his two years in the Senate. So he's apparently unaware that Congress has been forcing United States automakers to make smaller more fuel-efficient cars at a loss for several years. Aware that Americans love big trucks and SUVs, Congress has put giant 25% tariffs on imported pickup trucks and SUVs, so the US auto companies can fight off competition, and make a profit on them.
So read this, Mr. President: I don't want a mini car. I'm a 6 foot four 285 pound wall, and I have a hard time getting out of a car like that. I don't want them, and neither does the rest of America, that's why we haven't been buying them. And if we do buy them we don't buy the American ones because they're poorly made. Instead of hassling the auto industry about higher fuel mileage, how about cutting the ridiculous wages they have to pay, that are way out of line with the rest of industry. How about doing all the things that a competent CEO would do to make a company work, lower costs and make a better product. Seriously dude, you don't know anything about running an automotive company, you have no real world experience, youve always been a politician. Your a slick politician and that's great. But don't pretend you know what you're doing when it comes to running a company, you have no experience at that, and neither does the team that you've chosen to run the automotive industry.
Obama forcing these higher fuel mileage standards on the automotive industry now is akin to kicking somebody while they're down. But after all, that's the time to kick them, when they can't defend themselves.
Sunshine Center for Implementers of Man Caused Disasters
In desperation to distance themselves from the "Failed Bush Policies" (many of which they still follow), our new administration has done some pretty silly new stuff that you need to know about. And, as per usual, it's more about style than substance.
Regarding the substance bit, our new administration intends to follow all the Bush policies in regards to the prosecution of the war on terror. For instance President Obama still has the same rights to water-board detainees, and use other enhanced interrogation techniques, "at the discretion of the President". Despite all the things that he says about it being torture, he can still authorize these techniques in the same manner that Bush could. He intends to continue to detain the terrorists who are housed at Guantánamo Bay, he just wants to find somewhere else to put them. He intends to continue using military tribunals, while making a big deal of the slight changes he is making to the tribunals. He intends to continue prosecuting the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, just the same way, or actually even more vigorously since we intend to commit more troops.
But, it is in the style department that our dear new beloved president intends to distinguish himself.
Consider if you will the fact that the administration will no longer be referring to "The War on Terror". Instead, those brave soldiers who are defending us from multiple attacks are involved in what the administration has turned as "Overseas Contingency Operations". Because, after all, we're not at war... or something.
Equally important is the fact that the administration will no longer refer to "Terrorism", but rather "Man Caused Disasters". And no longer shall the United States administration refer to the folks who blow stuff up in order to kill civilians as "Terrorists". These folks shall now be known, by decree of the president, as "Implementers of Man Caused Disasters"
Folks, I wish I was making this stuff up. But as usual, reality is stranger than fiction.
And now, I'm going to get silly. If it is the desire of the Obama administration to cool the rhetoric around global extremism, there can be no doubt that they are succeeding. The Taliban has announced through its spokesman that it will no longer refer to the chopping off the heads of Americans captured overseas as "Beheading". Wanting to be part of the cooler heads that are prevailing, and more in line with the zeitgeist promoted by the Obama administration, "Beheading" will now be called "Redevelopment". And no longer shall they refer to the act where they beat a teenage girl mercilesslyfor the simple crime of appearing without a head scarf , while holding her down as she screams, as "Flogging". Instead this inhumane treatment shall be termed "Juvenile Assistance". And of course the Guantánamo Bay detention camp will be shut down, at the order of Obama. It will be reopened the next day as "The Sunshine Center for Implementers of Man Caused Disasters".
What a lot of foolishness. Obama must learn that semantics are not the point. The point is that we have folks who want to kill Americans, and that means we are at war with them. That is by definition the term used when we send tens and hundreds of thousands of American soldiers to go stop evil. Leadership is not about words or smoke and mirrors. It's about creating positive change. And that's what we're waiting for.
I would like to give credit to the unnamed folks whose writing I had
plagiarized and regurgitated to write this article. I promise if I knew
who you were I would give you credit. Please feel free to write in,
and I will do so.
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