Dear Howard Dean;
John McCain is not the leader of the Republican party, he is the nominee. I'm assuming that as soon as you Democrats finish cutting each others throats over who to nominate, you'll be playing Mr. Step'n'fetchit, but we Republicans don't work that way. Now, go be a good boy and sit in the corner until your masters have further orders for you.

Dear Barrack Hussein Obama;
You character my be a distraction to you, but it means a lot to most folks. It's what we base our decision to trust people on. That's why when you associate with racists, hatemongers, scam artists, and anarchists, we question whether or not you're fit to lead our country. It also leads us to question those who support you in light of such associations. It's a valid question, not a racist one. I know tough questions make you sake in fear and pee your underoos a little, but suck it up like a big boy.

Dear John McCain;
You wonder why so many Republicans are against you? And you accuse US in NC of being out of touch with reality? I've always thought you were the type to throw anyone under the bus you needed to in order to receive praise from the left and media, and you've just confirmed it to me in spades. I wonder why you're still in this party, but then I look at the gutless RNC and I know why. You may think the majority of NC republicans agree with you, but I can assure you that it is YOU who is out of touch with reality. Just who do you think you are, sir, to think you can order us to shut up and we'll do so? It's called the Tar Heel state for a reason, Jackass.

Dear Republican National Committee;
You guys have become a marvel of gutless pandering that would make Ronald Reagan have an aneurysm. While both you and McCain are scraping bottom for fund raising, I'm sure you're looking at the NC GOP cash that's gushing in since the ad you fear so much come out and are just mystified as to why it's happening. Just a little too much reality for you? the reality is your 'leadership' of the party has been an embarrassment, and THIS is how people respond to real leadership. If you were smart, you'd take a cue and understand, but I know you won't; you're too busy wringing your hands and worry about your collective asses to actually listen to and lead the party. You guys have squandered every opportunity to hammer the DNC, and are disgustingly timid when it comes to confronting them. That's not leadership, that's cowardice. By God, if you show strength of leadership, the support will come from the people.

Dear Walter B. Jones;
You paying attention? I'm pretty positive you may not survive this one, pal. And stop sending me Email. One thing about it, you'll be able to spend more time with your illegal immigrant pals.

Dear WRAL;
Being stuck in the Deluded Triangle, I'm not surprised you won't run the ad. You're media; I expect little else from you. There's a reason I stopped watching network TV a long time ago.

Dear NC GOP;
Keep up the good work! In Linda Daves we have a chairman with more balls than all the RNC combined. Go get'em!

Or maybe Raleigh has learned from Al Gore that gullible folks will believe any old crap if you make it sound scary enough.  Since Raleigh has outgrown it's water supply, they've taken up the only viable option for them to solve their water crisis.

Steal it from everyone else downstream.

Thus our 'drought' that has caused the powers that be in Raleigh to restrict the flow of water along the Neuse river by reducing outflow at the dam.  To solve their problems.  I guess us rubes in flyover country don't need water.  Hell, every self-respecting liberal in Wake county knows us rubes in the country don't bathe anyway.  (Anywhere outside the Triangle is pretty much fly-over country to UNC & Duke elitists.  I mean, by God, they have military bases there, of all things)

Of course, they could just buy it from neighboring water districts that haven't squandered theirs, but hey, that would be capitalist.  Much better to confiscate it in the traditional communist way.

In the meantime, I'm getting thirsty.  Think I'll go have a nice cold glass of ice dust.

It's not just a soap opera, it's the United States of Entitlement

(Note: Yes, I'm recycling an older post for my debut, but since it also deals with individual economic responsibility, I think it is still relevant.  Don't make me hurt you.)

A friend of mine said something today that really lit me up, and I hope I didn’t get too abrasive with her. Unfortunately, the words that come out of my mouth are seldom as eloquent (or polite) as those that come off my fingers. I think she’s been around me long enough to know I just sound mean. Still, this is one idea that just makes me want to rip and tear, and to put it the way she did (it was a first) really pulled my trigger.

I paraphrase, because I cannot remember her exact words, but it went something like: “It makes me so mad that we give all of them (Iraqis) free health care but how many millions here don’t have it…”

Actually, she said give them health insurance, but I’m pretty sure she meant healthcare. (We’ll just forget for the moment that we’re trying to get a crippled society back on its feet and teach it how to take care of itself. We here are supposed to be capable of taking care of ourselves.)

Now she’s young, very smart, very capable, but she’s not into politics at all. She supports Republicans because they support the military (her husband is in the Air Force), but that’s about the extent of her politics. That’s fine; I can’t blame anyone for steering clear of that particularly fetid swamp.

But this meme of 47 million people without health care is just about as infuriating as anything I come across (except for the occasional idiot ‘truther’).

She seemed genuinely shocked that I never had health insurance as an adult until I was 29. Why should that surprise anyone? I didn’t need it! Why would anyone want to pay over a $1,000.00 a year for something that you’ll never use, or that will only ‘save’ you a hundred bucks or so? (That’s a net loss of $900.00 for the mathematically challenged.) Is our society becoming that soft in the brain when it comes to personal economics? If you want insurance you can get it; you’ll just have to pay for it like everything else you get. For some people it’s worth it. For others it’s a waste. No one ever stops to ask how many of that 47 million want or need it, because the answer would sink the best propaganda to date for socialized medicine. The left can’t have that.

Way too many people can’t seem to differentiate healthcare and health insurance. There is NO ONE in this country without access to health care. NOT ONE PERSON. It is illegal for a hospital to turn anyone away in need of help. It’s one of the reasons illegal immigration is putting such a drain on hospitals in the southwest.

“But,” she says, “what if you can’t pay for it?”

I’m pretty sure if you get a severe cut, for example, you’re not going to sit there and bleed to death because you can’t afford to go to the hospital. You’ll go, and deal with the bill as your character sees fit (ie, make payments or ditch the bill, as too many do simply because they can).

How many of you have gone to an electronics store and bought a TV or stereo you couldn’t pay for up front? I know very few people who can go and buy a nice, new car and pay for it in full. It’s funny how people will, without hesitation, stick their financial neck out for entertainment, but when it comes to their health or well-being they’re broke. Someone else should pay for it. It should be free. I have a right!

No, you don’t.

There was another girl who worked here a couple of years ago, who besides being the epitome of Springeresque trailer trash, was a perfect example of screwed up priorities. The brakes on her car were literally shrieking for new pads. No doubt the rotors were getting paper thin. She hit up almost everyone in the shop with a sob story to buy new brakes for her, because she ‘didn’t have the money’. Week after week, those tortured brakes cried for mercy. At any moment, they were bound to fail and probably cause a car wreck. But she wouldn’t pay to fix them. At the same time though, she’d sit in the office and complain about how high her internet bill was, yak about what she watched on cable the night before, and stayed on a cell phone. But she didn’t have the money to fix her brakes for her own safety. Someone else should pay for it. It should be free. I have a right!

With all the carping about how helpless we are, it makes you wonder how they think anyone survived prior to this century.

There used to be this thing called family. No kiddies, it really existed, honest and for true. See, parents actually made raising their kids their priority. And those kids, in turn, took care of their parents when they became old and infirm, along with raising their kids. And so the cycle went. There was your safety net in time of need; the bond of family, and friends (and for the non-secularist, the church community). You didn’t need the Gummit. Now, helped along by a twisted Hollywood culture that sneers at such ‘unenlightenment’, it seems that more and more, people think only of their self-gratification first, and anything that gets in the way of that (kids, elderly parents, responsibilities, etc) needs to take a hike.

No civilization can last long like this before it eats itself (look at France). I’m sad to say it, but at times like this it seems western civilization is setting out the silverware.