John Cusack, Another Liberal Idiot!

I am deeply troubled because one of my favorite actors, John Cusack, decided to mouth off on his Twitter account about Fox News and some Republican leaders.  I have always liked John Cusack as an actor, and his 80's movies are still some of my favorites;  "Say Anything", "16 Candles", "Sure Thing", "Better Off Dead", and "One Crazy Summer".  And I have also liked his sister's, Joan, work.  I have always known he was liberal, and that is OK. I have no problem with Hollywood actors having different views from me, but when they begin to get on a soapbox and spew venom at people who do not have the same viewpoints, that is where I get pissed off.

Many actors have no idea the power they hold over their fans.  Just look at some of the nut jobs who have tried to harm their idols.  Just like the recent issue of the woman who was so obsessed with Paula Abdul that when she did not make it through on American Idol she killed herself outside Abdul's house.  It is a shame that such tragedy occurs and that there are people in the world so delusional that they cannot separate a person from their fame.  Even more reason, individuals who are in the public eye need to very careful about their comments.  I am sure John Cusack feels deeply about his opinions, but when he expresses those opinions in such a public forum as Twitter, it could lead to some people who are not mentally grounded to take action because in their mind John has given his blessing to the action.

This is not to say that if something happens that John should be blamed.  Everyone must take responsibility for their own actions, but John needs to be mindful of his position.  Of course, the people we have most to blame for any of us spouting off are the politicians.  These bozos are so camera hungry that they will say almost anything just to get on one.  It is easily understood that other people feel that they then can then spout off about inane issues, because the very people we have elected to lead our country are spouting off about the same inane issues.  And the other problem is that all the news networks cover it as if it was actually news.  I personally believe Fox News and MSNBC are the primary culprits.

John, please, next time you feel pissed off about people who have different opinions, separate yourself from the situation by turning off the radio, TV or computer and go and read a good book or listen to music, something to take your mind off of it, and then when you have cooled off some, then express your opinion.  We have enough politicians shooting from the hip we do not need to make the problem worse.

Brad Pitt? Another Liberal Idiot!

Brad Pitt this weekend said that he has always been against the death penalty but would reconsider for the people responsible for the BP oil spill.  This is laughable.  Liberals are not willing to execute someone convicted of brutally killing innocent people because they believe everyone can be rehabilitated, but want to kill executives who manage companies responsible for environmental disasters.  True 12 people were killed when the oil platform blew up, and the managers may be in someway responsible for those deaths, but in any corporation there are several tiers of people who could at any time stand up and say "STOP". 

Liberals would rather kill people who have killed animals than people who have killed other people.  Not to diminish the situation many people are dealing with right now, but they will recover in time.  I think the BP executives should be jailed once liability has been determined, and I think many of them should never work in the management capacity again.  However, I do not think they should be executed.  I also think BP as a company should be punished severely even if it means they go bankrupt.  Their business decisions and greed probably led to the whole problem.

How far would Brad Pitt go?  There are several government employees who could be responsible by not reporting violations or not reacting quickly to either prevent or stem the damage.  Should these people also be executed?  It just goes to show that we need to get away from knee jerk reactions, as politicians are prone to do, and deal with the matter at hand.  There will be plenty of time to assign blame and prosecute violations. 

I also did not like how the Obama administration grandstanded with Eric Holder saying there would be criminal charges.  Plug the hole before you grandstand.  I have very little patience with people who take advantage of crises to advance their agenda.  And, Brad Pitt, if your convictions can be changed that quickly, then that says something about your character.  If you are opposed to capital punishment, then you are opposed to it, and it is not situational.  If the BP executives knowingly and with malice sent those men onto that platform knowing it would explode and kill them, then "yes" execution may be in order.  But if they took shortcuts and ignored safety practices then just like a drunk driver would not be executed, they should be be jailed and maybe charged with manslaughter.  I would rather see child molesters and pedophiles executed before corporate executives and managers.

It is a shame that I do like Brad Pitt's movies, so I will not be boycotting them, but I wish he would shut up because it makes it harder to go to them.

Pelosi!!! Can you get more STUPID??

Yesterday it was reported that our illustrious Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, has called for an investigation of the people who are opposed to the mosque at the WTC.  She believes that it is a concerted effort and that funding should be investigated.  Pelosi is wanting to investigate American citizens who have done nothing other than use their freedom of speech and criminally charge them, but is unwilling to investigate where the money is coming from to build the mosque.  The imam who wants to build the mosque has already been linked to several terrorist organizations such as Hamas.

Also the liberals are calling anyone who opposes the building of the mosque a racist or a bigot.  How even more stupid can you get.  According to the liberals, the people who lost loved ones when the towers fell are bigots because they do not want the mosque.  These people lost husbands, fathers, wives, mothers, sons, daughters, cousins, etc. and just because they do not want a "Islamic Cultural Center" built within a stones throw of the place where their loved ones were killed by nut jobs who practice the same religion, they are deemed bigots by liberals.  OOOOOHHH to be so enlightened.  What will the liberals say if this mosque is built and then is used as a breeding ground for more radicals and then as a staging point for attacks.  I guess most of these enlightened liberals consider the nut jobs who flew into the buildings were just practicing their freedom of speech to protest the actions of the US government and that if any of them lived they should not be prosecuted because freedom of speech must be protected. The only speech they want protected is speech that is in lockstep with them.

I think they ought to build the mosque in Pelosi's district in San Fran and let those crazies deal with it.  Pelosi is about as clueless as you can get.  She is an elitist liberal who believes she can solve all of our problems as long as you let her whether you agree with her solution or not.  And the liberals called Bush a "fascist."  Just goes to show that they have no concept of the meaning of the word.

WTC Mosque

This weekend I kept hearing talk about the mosque, or as the Muslims call it a "neighborhood activity and culture center, to be built near ground zero of the WTC.  In this case I actually agree a little with President Obama.  According to the Constitution they have every right to build it there and the government should not prevent them.  However, if the Islamic community was really concerned about the image they portray and if they truly believe they are a religion of peace, they would realize that what they are doing is slapping the US in the face.  A caller to a talk news program made a good point in that we would not want a Japanese activity and culture center built at Pearl Harbor.

I disagree completely with NYC Mayor Bloomberg about the funding for the center.  The US has every right to know where the funding is coming from to build the center and to make sure it is not coming from sources who seek to destroy the USA.  IMO this is tantamount to asking for your enemy to come into your backyard and then building his fort for him.  The imam involved should not even be allowed into this country let alone let him raise funds to build the center.  The man espouses Sharia Law which he believes should be implemented here in the USA.  You do not hear an outcry from the liberals about this, but if Christians and Jews espoused that we should return to Old Testament Law, BOY! would you hear them then.  If the Sharia Law as practiced in Iran is any indication of what he was thinking, then the homosexual community in NYC has some trouble on their hands.  Iran hangs suspected homosexuals and they just executed a woman thought to have committed adultery.  Old Testament Law required homosexuals and adulterers to be stoned.  I think liberal "so called" tolerance of others may come to a screeching halt.


Back to the culture center, I also agreed with another caller who suggested that Jewish and Christian groups petition the NYC planning board to build culture centers surrounding the Islamic one and make sure they post their religious symbols very prominently from the buildings.  Somehow I think Bloomberg would try and prevent this being done, because he would probably say that they were intentionally stirring things up.  However, he does not think that is what the Muslims are doing now.

NYC is just a cesspool of crap IMO.  This is not to say that good things do not come from NYC.  You can grow beautiful roses with crap, but in the end it is still crap.  People who say it is wonderful because of the multiculturalism, IMO just have never been to see the rest of the country.  There are cultures all over this land, but many New Yorkers have never been anywhere except NY and Florida.  I guess they are not really interested in seeing different cultures.

Politics and Government

I am mostly conservative. I understand that there is a role for government, but I do not think the role should be what it currently is.  Taking money from people who have worked hard to obtain it so it can be given to be people who have either made bad choices or just do not want to work is not a good practice.  I do not believe it is the government's role to try and lift people up out of their so called poverty.  Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas once said he did not know he grew up poor until someone told him he did.  Some people may have more than others, but in my opinion this is because some people have chosen to either do without or to do more.  You should not sit and wait for someone to do something for you.  Just because you may not make much money does not necessarily make you poor.  The word "poor" is being misused by opportunists to try and push an agenda and gather power.

With that said, I am rather ticked off with politicians right now, especially Rep. Charlie Rangel.  Here is a guy who has been caught not paying rent for his offices even though he should have known, taking trips that were paid for by corporate interests and then lying and still saying that he is an upstanding citizen.  He may at one time been a very honest person, but because he has been in DC to long I do not think the word "honesty" is in his vocabulary or any other politicians.  Sadly former Rep, Dan Rostenkowski died today and even he said that what he did did not break the law.  The man was hiring people to do work at this personal home and billing them to the taxpayers.  You can not tell me he did not know what he was doing was wrong.  The same argument goes for Rangel, you can not tell me he did not know what he was doing was wrong.  Also sadly Sen. Ted Stevens was killed this week.  He also was convicted of a crime even though a judge did throw out the conviction do to prosecutorial misconduct.  He did not vacate the verdict.  All of them were intentionally cheating the taxpayers.

Most Politicians in DC are crooks in my opinion.  Few of them should be entrusted with serving the people.  Most are up there solely to line their pocket and for the perks that come with the job.  Someone once said that cynicism is easy, but in this case cynicism is the only thing we have when too many people are unwilling to educate themselves on the candidates and keep voting them back.

Sure "Islam is about Peace"

Over the weekend I read several stories the war in Afghanistan and in other areas and I am still shocked how some people still defend Islam as being a religion of peace.  There may be Muslims who are peaceful people, but the religion itself is all about violence.  A medical mission group comprised of several nationalities was ambushed and killed in Afghanistan because the Taliban said they were preaching Christianity.  A religion of peace would not condone the cowardly slaughter of people who were trying to bring medical care to less fortunate people. 

Next, a Pakistani couple were killed by the husbands brother and some of his friends for refusing to allow their daughters to marry his sons.  Form where I come from marrying your first cousin is a form of incest.  And even then the rejection does not deserve death of your brother.  Until Islamic leaders begin to speak out and condemn these acts of violence, I for one will never view their religion as anything other than a bunch of bullies getting together to try and force people to do what they want and using religion to justify it.

Liberal Hypocrisy - NY Rep. Jerrold Nadler

Opinion Article in yesterdays Wall Street Journal.  Now this really pisses me off.  This liberal Democratic from one of the wealthiest areas in the country, Lower Manhattan, is proposing that the Bush Tax Cuts for people who make over $250K should only apply to people who live in areas that vote Democrat.  All states that voted Republican should have there taxes increased to pay for his liberal programs. 

All we ever hear from the left is that we are all in this together and that we should all share the burden.  But according to this bozo, if you have the right political ideology then you are a special class deserving of special treatment.  According to his logic, the reason the blue states should have the tax cuts is because they are already paying more in taxes.  Well, Dummy! the reason they are paying more in taxes is because the idiot voters in the area keep voting in Dummies like him who keep raising taxes for their liberal causes.  The Red States are more conservative who believe that you should earn what you get and that government is not there to take care of everyone. 

For a Democratic Party that pushes that everyone should be equal and that there needs to be less of a disparity between the "haves" and have nots", this certainly fly's in the face of that thinking.  This is the epitome of Liberal hypocrisy and Liberal Elitist thinking which is because I think a certain way I am entitles to special privileges.  For the people who do not make much money it is we will take money from the people who do not agree with us and give it to you, and for people who do make money it is we will not take money from you so that you can give it to us so we can advance the agenda we both agree on.

One irony of the tax increase that arrives on January 1 is that the it will hit residents of high-income, Democratic-leaning states like California, Connecticut, New Jersey and New York the hardest. This is a problem for pro-tax Democrats.  Enter New York Representative Jerrold Nadler, who wants to exempt his own six-figure constituents from the tax hike he supports. Mr. Nadler's bill would "require the IRS to adjust tax brackets proportionally in regions where the average cost of living is higher than the national average."  In other words, the various tax brackets would apply to residents in certain regions at higher income levels versus other parts of the country. A family with an income of $50,000 or even $1 million in Manhattan would pay less federal income tax than a family with the same earnings in Omaha. The bill is called the Tax Equity Act, but a more accurate title would be the Blue State Tax Preference Act.  "The basic costs of life in the New York region are much steeper than in most parts the country," says Mr. Nadler. "The reality is that a dollar in New York isn't worth nearly as much as a dollar in Spokane or Knoxville or Topeka. It's time for our tax code to take reality into account when assessing someone's tax liability.  That point about "reality" and the tax code could certainly use some fleshing out, but leave that aside. A big reason the cost of living is so high in Boston, Manhattan and San Francisco is because of high state and local taxes, union work rules, and heavy business regulation that make it more expensive to produce, sell and buy things.  Why should someone in Spokane or Knoxville or Topeka be penalized because New York and California impose destructive policies? Mr. Nadler also conveniently forgets that the federal tax code already subsidizes high-cost states through the deductibility of state and local income and property taxes.  An all-star line-up of liberal class warriors has nonetheless endorsed Mr. Nadler's effort to raise taxes on the rich everywhere but in their own districts. New York House Members Tim Bishop, Steve Israel, Nita Lowey, Carolyn Maloney and Carolyn McCarthy are cosponsors. Ms. Lowey, who has voted to tax anything that moves, now says that "When it comes to the tax code, one size just doesn't fit all" and laments that New York has "some of the highest property taxes in the country." But whose fault is that?  So welcome to the brave new world of "tax equity." If you live in a state that voted for Barack Obama, you get a tax cut.

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Day 1

The purpose of this is for me to put down my thoughts of the day.  They are only my thoughts and I do not care what other people think about them.  I may be pissed at something, or I may think something is pretty cool.  This spot is for the things I cannot post on other social sights.  Some may be adult in nature, and some may be rather tame.  Anyone who is interested in what I have to say, then fine, but I will not get into discussions about my posts because these are my posts.