Key West to Cuba - now boarding

I am just a dumb redneck from the middle of nowhere.  But, why would we resume commercial flights from Key West to Cuba?

Why?  What good could possibly come from that?  Obama has allowed this to happen, btw.

There are just some things that I don't understand.

Like, "we can learn so much from eastern religions."

Really?  What can we learn?  Like, how to make women chattel instead of people?

I also don't understand claiming that something is a religion of peace, when it clearly isn't.

Yup, a religion where terrorists with high-powered rifles walk into malls, quiz people on their religion and shoot the people who get the answers wrong, all while screaming, "Allah Akbar!"  That sure sounds like a religion of peace to me.

So, now we are going to have a "cultural exchange" with Cuba.  Cuba has been run by communist dictators since 1959.  Why would we want a cultural exchange with them?

Of course!  To enrich our culture.  We are too imperialist and oppressive.  We need to learn more from communist Cuba.

My ass.

Let's hear from the super hot hunk, William Levy, on what it was like growing up in Cuba.  (Remember?  I watch Dancing with the Stars.)

"The actor tells ABC’s Nightline that as a child growing up in Cuba he was always hungry. Cuba rations out food to families so tight that there was only enough for bread in the morning and food at night, says Levy.

When he arrived in the United States from Cuba at 14-years-old, he was shocked to see so much food available at the grocery stores. It was the first time he saw an apple and a strawberry, he tells Nightline.

“It’s a do-or-die situation. You can’t just stay there and let people step all over you,” Levy says, adding that he was ready to escape the communist island on a raft."

Let's open up a cultural exchange with them!  We have so much to learn!

And the bizarro, backward world buffoonery continues.

Ok, bear with me here.  I was sick for a while, then that whole puzzle thing got me sidetracked.  So, I am playing a little bit of catch-up right now.

Let me get this straight - the scientists who have been stuck in ice for the past week - they are climate change scientists who set out to prove that climate change is real?

Am I getting that right?

Just remember, after it was proven that the polar ice caps are thicker than they have been since recordings started, "global warming" quietly was changed to "climate change."  I didn't get an apology letter, did you?  All of that global warming nonsense, was nonsense.  It went away and has now been changed to a new fear-mongering tactic - climate change.

And, they call us fear-mongers!

Sheesh.

Here is the thing, we are living in bizarro, backward world.  And, I have been on record saying it all this time.

In 40 years, I will be convalescing in a diaper in a home somewhere in Boca and some young reporter will run up and say, "Wow!  It is you!  Redneckmominthehood!  You were right all along!"

And, I will say, "Hunh?  Is it time for applesauce?"

It doesn't matter how many times a person says a lie, it doesn't make it true.  It doesn't matter how many names a person screams at a person who is telling the truth, it doesn't change the truth.

Socialism doesn't work.  Socialized healthcare won't work.  Government entitlement programs don't lift people out of poverty, the free market does.

And, the polar ice caps are thicker than they have been for the past 15 years.

Can someone get that message down to the climate change experts who are currently stuck in a thick layer of ice?

A new liberal low

There used to be a term for it.

NC - no class.

I can just see Fat Albert and the "gang" shuffling along the sidewalk next to the playground.  With their crazy 70s clothes, that one guy who walked goofy and even the kid who had a hat over his face, they were still completely capable of identifying someone who had absolutely no class.

In the spirit of the Cosby kids (and that catchy song at the end, I loved that!) I would like to nominate Melissa Harris-Perry to the NC category.

On her MSNBC show, Harris-Perry showed a photo of the smiling Romney clan.  Maybe it was their Christmas card, I don't know.  I'm not on that list.  Hey, Mitt, call me!

In the photo, Mitt and Ann Romney are surrounded by their clan, all wearing coordinating outfits and huge smiles.  Mitt is holding two small children on his lap.  One is clearly biologically generated from the handsome Romney DNA. The other, who appears to be black, is equally loved, yet clearly produced from another gene pool.

So, ok, some Romney adopted a child.  The Romneys are colorblind and have no qualms about showing it as evidenced by the prominent display of the adopted child on Mitt's knee, instead of hiding the baby discreetly behind a well-groomed ficus.

So back to MSNBC, I am pulling this quote from columnist Howard Kurtz.  (Thank you for showing me how to cut and past, Ashley!)

"As viewers looked at the picture of tiny Kieran Romney, one of the panelists, Pia Glenn, sang: "One of these things is not like the other, one of these things just isn't the same." 

Harris-Perry chimed in that "my goal is that in 2040, the biggest thing of the year will be the marriage between Kieran Romney and North West. Can you imagine Mitt Romney and Kanye West as in-laws?" 

Then came comedian Dean Obeidallah, chortling that the photo "really sums up the diversity of the Republican Party, the RNC. At the convention they find the one black person." 

Ok, it's me again.  If those were conservative commentators, they would be fired.

Period.

Heads would roll and their resumes would be warm and waiting on the printer right by the water cooler and the elevator.

What has happened to us?

Somewhere between, "Now, I'm gonna sing a song for you!" with me dancing in my footy pjs in front of my 3 channel TV set that was also a piece of furniture and today, we have taken a wrong turn.

I didn't notice or care that all of the Cosby gang was black.  I see now that they were tennis-shoe-kicking through an inner city neighborhood, not frolicking on my 5 acre lawn.  But, I didn't care.  There was a good song and a good lesson.

When did it become ok to be so terribly, viciously racist?

When asked to clarify, defend or retract their tasteless, NC statements, apologies were made to the baby.

Snark artist, anyone?

So, while I was watching Fat Albert and not caring that the people on it were black, there were black kids out there being raised to dislike white people?  I don't understand, I don't get it.

I think I am offended.

NC, man, noooo class.

Random thoughts

Obama loves communism.  Well, all liberals do, they love it, slobber over it, praise it, get Pulitzers writing about it.  Putin thinks that Obama is an idiot.  Does anyone else think that is funny?

In a new level of low, Obama's BFF, Beyonce, used some audio from the 1986 space shuttle disaster in one of her songs.  The offended and grieved families have asked her for an apology.  Her response says, in part, "My heart goes out to the families..."  At no point, not once, does she say, "I am sorry."  It must be great being the 1%.

We turned off the wii u for, like, 5 seconds.  My daughter was reading a book about the pilgrims.  Ah, parental success!  That is two for those of you keeping score.  She told me that the pilgrims were praying.  I said, "Radicals! Extremists! Terrorists!"  She didn't laugh.

So, the NY Times has written an article saying that Al Qaeda isn't responsible for the murderous terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012.  Whew!  Glad they cleared that up.  Of course, people on the ground know it is all a lie and are saying so.  I saw a clip of a press conference.  Can you even believe the snarky way in which Obama's spokespeople belittle the murder of those Americans by terrorists?  It matters to people.

People are people.  There are good democrats and there are bad republicans.  I know that.  But, the party that tends to not believe in God, tends to tear down marriage, tends to not value life, tends to believe that government has all of the answers, tends to NOT believe in personal freedom, low taxes, limited government and freedom.

It really is that simple.

Which one do you want?

1 million sign up for Obamacare

And, they are acting like that is a good thing.

Seriously?

Let's think about this for a second.  The Obama administration spent a billion dollars on a program that is supposed to help a million people?  And, they are proud of that?

That number is staggering.  A staggering failure.  If a business had those numbers, well, they would be out of business.  The business would be a laughingstock, actually.  And, if the owners of this business, then went to the board of directors and asked for more money, they would be thrown out of the office.

But, that isn't how this works, is it?  Obamacare won't get tossed in the liberal trash heap on top of Solyndra.  Nope, it will stay in business, no matter how dismal a failure it is.  And, the board of directors won't laugh when asked for more money.  That is you and me and we will be forced to continue to fund this nightmare.

The administration was getting a little cocky because the healthcare.gov site can handle 83,000 users now.  Wow!  Let's recap, again, Walmart's site can handle 1.1 million users an hour.

It's like this is a joke to them or something.  There is nothing to be cocky about.  Well, if incompetence and complete mediocrity is your goal, then I guess they have something to be cocky about.  Or, if you figure that Obama dumped over 6 million people off their health insurance, then signed up 1 million (under duress.) More than 1/2 of the people he set out to help with Obamacare (the uninsured) don't plan to sign up for Obamacare.  It is a complete disaster and while real people and insurance companies (who do need to stay in business btw) scramble to make sense out of the mess, you jet off for 2 weeks in Hawaii.

Sweet!  We totally fooled them!  Wow, they are dumb.

The puzzle

I have had some sort of flu or virus or something for about a week.  It is probably good that it is Christmas time because I could do a little less work and a little more sitting around.

I even hosted a party without leaving the couch.  We put all of the food on the coffee table, my neighbor gave me hot, spiced wine (medicinal) our kids played, husbands drank and we had a really nice party.

Finally, a few days after Christmas, I woke up and I was well.  For the first time in over a week, I didn't feel like crawling right back in bed.  I could have scurried up to my office and worked all day.  Perhaps I should have.  But, I didn't.  I decided to make meaningful memories with my children on that snowy, after-Christmas day.

I cracked open a brand new puzzle, asked the kids to turn off the wii and to put it together with me.

You would have thought that I had killed Santa Claus.  The lip, the 'tude, the fits, it was unbelievable!  I told them that if we could put the edge together, they could go back to their electronics.  That worked out pretty well.  It was a little mermaid puzzle (don't let that fool you, it was a hard puzzle) so they sang the songs and we worked happily for a little while.

Ah, parental success!

Soon enough, we finished the edge and they were off like a shot.

Very quickly, that puzzle became, for me, much more than a puzzle.  It was an opportunity to take control of my life.  It was a chance to work hard and finish a project and with each piece, I found an answer to different questions about the big puzzle - my life.

Why do some family members insist on fighting during the holidays?  I don't know, but I can finish Ariel's darn, flipping tail.  Click.

Will everything be ok with my job?  Probably, but right now, I don't have to worry about it, I can make this fish.  Click.

I spent several nights alone with a glass of wine and that puzzle.  I spent several mornings alone with a cup of coffee and that puzzle.

I thought about Obamacare.  Nothing I can do about that.  Oh!  There is a piece of the castle.  Click.

And free speech, the war on Christmas and Christians, click, click. I thought about the pervasiveness of liberalism and how it is taking over our country.  Click.

As Ariel and her prince took shape before my eyes,the picture came clearly into focus.

There is nothing that I can do about any of these things, except fight.  And, I will continue to fight.  You should, too.

Call your local church and thank them for proudly displaying a nativity.  Write a letter to Mattel and ask them to call "holiday" Barbie "Christmas" Barbie next year.  Don't give any interviews to GQ, no matter how many times they call.

Go to Chik-fil-a, be nice to people.  Give someone your seat, let someone go in front of you in line.  Talk about freedom, talk about lower taxes.  Mention how inefficient the government is when you are at the post office.

:)

And, get boots on the ground - yours.  We absolutely have to get limited government, free market republicans into office. We have to.

So, what is your puzzle?  What is your life going to look like in 2014?

I can't wait to find out.  Can you?

Happy New Year!

Phil wins

But, it really isn't just Phil that wins.  Everyone wins because free speech wins.

Duck Dynasty family member, Phil Robertson, has just been reinstated by A & E on his own show.

I have heard several people say that this isn't about free speech because a government body isn't involved.  This is an argument between a public figure and his employer.

But, it is about free speech, it is about the fundamental right of Americans to freely express their opinions.  It is the right that allows the gay community so much free speech.

Just to recap, in an interview with GQ, Phil quoted some verses from the Bible.  I have heard people express outrage and offense at the Bible verses quoted.  This is dangerous, people.  If we start getting offended by books, we are on our way to Nazi Germany.

Phil went on to say some kinda graphic, crude things.  But, he was very clear that he doesn't hate anyone.  He treats everyone, even people who are different from him, with respect.

We are living in a world where we have proudly broken down barriers.  For some reason, it is totally ok to walk into the office and say, "My spouse and I are trying to get pregnant!"

TMI

But, we are all pretty sure that it is NOT ok to rush into an office meeting, late, all rumpled up and say, "I'm sorry I am late, my spouse and I were up late having sex."

So, now we have all of these blurred lines.  A kid kissing someone's hand is "sexual harassment."  If she had been running around kissing little boys, she would have been a "sexual confident" child.

I am so sorry to say this to gay people, but really no one cares that you are gay.  I grew up with several gay people.  We all knew, but, we didn't say anything about it because we didn't care and we loved them no matter what.

Also, WE WERE TOO POLITE TO SAY ANYTHING.

We need some more of that.  No one cares if someone else is gay.  It is the whole "in your face, shove it down your throat" mentality that has gotten so much airtime.  That is the problem.

You know that show Modern Family?  The gay guy with a chip on his shoulder is struggling to get his partner and adopted child into an airplane.  Someone says, "Wow, look at that cream puff!"

He immediately and ridiculously dresses down the entire airplane for their insensitivity.  He looks like a complete fool.

Then, the person who spoke holds up a large puff pastry.  The gay man sits down all embarrassed.

The point is, no one cares if someone is gay and had adopted a baby from China.  We just don't want to hear at it all the time.  Just like you don't want to hear about what goes on in my house and every little thing that my little rednecks do.

See?

Let's go back to being a more polite society which doesn't talk about all these things.  Let's talk about making America's business community stronger, not weaker by taking about personal stuff all the time.

Camille Paglia, a social critic and a lesbian activist, is among the many who have blasted the A&E Networks for suspending "Duck Dynasty" star Phil Robertson for sharing his belief that homosexuality is a sin. She called the action "utterly fascist and utterly Stalinist."

"I think that this intolerance by gay activists toward the full spectrum of human beliefs is a sign of 
immaturity, juvenility," Paglia went on to say. "This is not the mark of a true intellectual life."