Mostly True Tales

Merry (belated) Christmas everyone! It’s been crazy here at the Amazing house. If you didn’t get a Christmas card from us, it’s because we didn’t mail one! Sorry about that.

Well, today is my Birthday. Since I’ve been silent for about a month now, I figured I’d say hello. Normally, I’m depressed as hell this time of year, especially today, but for some reason I don’t feel too bad today. Of course, the day is young.

It’s nice to have a birthday on Saturday. The kids will be home and have nothing to do, but wait on me and clean their rooms, yeah right!

I don’t have any special plans today. I should go shopping as I haven’t done any of that as of yet. However shopping today in St. Louis will be a nightmare. So I will probably stay by the fire, watch a few movies, and start drinking early. I think a Bloody Mary is in order, don’t you?

Apparently Disney World is throwing a party in my honor, so maybe I’ll catch a flight down to Orlando, you never know. Check out the movie below.

Once again, here we are on the day that America honors its veterans. Each year, I feel this day is increasingly important, for so many modern day Americans have no idea the cost of the lifestyle they lead, and the freedoms they so enjoy.

One of my favorite expressions regarding Veterans Day is this…

If you can read the newspaper, thank a teacher. If the newspaper is in English, thank a Vet.

God bless America, and all her Veterans. Make sure you find one today and thank him or her for their service.

And now for your entertainment and enlightenment, I offer you this fantastic speech given by General Douglas MacArthur for his farewell address to Congress, April 19th, 1951. The speech itself is nearly 38 minutes long with the best of it in the last 15 minutes or so, but I encourage you to listen to the whole thing.

Douglas MacArthur Farewell to Congress

Also, here is another one of my favorites although less authentic, Mel Gibson as Lieutenant Colonel Hal Moore in the movie, We Were Soldiers. It’s considerably shorter.

Lieutenant Colonel Hal Moore

Happy Veterans Day!

As America spirals into depression with the most left,  socialist, government in history about to take command, one industry is booming, the gun industry.

It seems many Americans are worried about their right to purchase and own firearms under the upcoming administration. As spending is down and American retailers are reporting the slowest sales in years, Americas gun dealers are having a hay-day, reporting record sales from coast to coast.

According the the FBI, in October 2008 there were more than 108,000 more background checks for gun purchases than in October 2007.

I’ve always felt firearm sales should be some sort of indicator, like consumer confidence, or the jobless rate.  A huge spike in sales, should certainly tell us something.

Are Americans less secure with the safety of their environment? Do they feel they will loose their right to purchase a firearm under the future administration? It would seem so.

On the campaign trail, Barack Obama spoke to Ohio voters and said, “I will not take your shotgun away, I will not take your rifle away. I won’t take your handgun away.” 

As a Senator, Obama voted to leave gun-makers and dealers open to lawsuits, and as an Illinois state legislator, he supported a ban on semiautomatic weapons and tighter restrictions on all firearms.

Personally, I think Barack Obama has bigger things to worry about right now, like a huge economic crisis and two wars, but he is clearly in a hurry to change many things about America, and the right to own a firearm could certainly be on the list.

Everyone knows Barack Obama raised a huge amount of money in his quest for the Presidency. Much of this money, at least 300 million, cannot be traced back to the donors. No one has any idea where this money came from.

One of the many tricks the Obama campaign used to accomplish this was disabling the security software on their credit card machines that matches a name and address to an account number. This technique allowed the Obama campaign to gather 100 million dollars of completely untraceable money in September alone, much of which involved currency exchange.

The are many advantages to gathering this type of untraceable money. First, it makes it awful hard to return unused (yeah right) or unqualified contributions. Second, this method would also make it possible for anyone to exceed the individual contribution limits. For instance, Osama Bin Laden could eazily dontate $20,000 by making 10 individual contributions of $2000 each.

I imagine, Barack Obama has already begun spreading the wealth around, starting with all his close allies in Chicago.

So, America tolerated this unscrupulous behavior, as well as, a remarkably similar voter registration drive.

Get ready for Obama fraud phase 3. The Obama-Biden Transition Project.

The Obama camp has setup a non-profit corporation to except donations of up to $5000 to supplement the 6.3 million dollars in tax payer funds set aside for the Presidential transition. These funds are normally used to vet potential cabinet members. Apparently Mr. Obama does not feel 6.3 million will be enough.

There are restrictions on how the public funds can be used, but those restrictions don’t exist for these private donations. I guess you have to pay for lavish parties and hookers somehow. Perhaps hire Bill Ayers to do a study on the education system of America. Now that Reverend Wright has resurfaced, maybe there is a slice of the pie for him? The possibilities are endless.

Considering the past track record of the Obama campaign, it is doubtful the source of these donations will ever be revealed, leading to serious questions of who Obama is indebted to, and how that debt will affect his judgement.