Eight years.........

We make gruesome, blood filled, violent movies and we do not watch the horrific, painful events that occurred that day. What is wrong with us as a nation? I do not relish those images. I watch them for the same reason I viewed the Daniel Pearl video. So I will NEVER, EVER, EVER forget what they did to us and what we NEED to do to them. I was a Continent away in the west.....I smelled nothing. I heard nothing. I saw nothing. But for the images captured on tape, it was far away from me. I pray to GOD I never get closer.
We need to keep vigilant if we are to stave off these types of attacks into the future. Bush wanted to keep us safe.....and he did. Obama does not seem to have the same gut level instinct to protect the nation he has sworn to protect. Palosi down right opposes its protection. For generations our sons and now daughters have taken an oath to. They do not flinch from it but go headlong into the danger so I can sit comfortably at this keyboard, sipping a latte and airing my opinions. I bless them for keeping me safe these years and I extend my sympathies to all of those lost, and all of those who lost someone, 8 --- yes eight years ago this day.

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REID or....uh..... REID??

Sandoval gives up a lifetime appointment many say was only given to him by Harry Reid in order to keep Sandoval from running against him for the U.S. Senate. Tho locals are predicting he has given up the prestigious and lucrative job in order run for governor. After all, Jim Gibbons pretty much jumped the shark even before his election. Nobody but Jim thinks he is re-electable. Conventional wisdom says that should he run for Governor of Nevada, his opponent in the general election would be none other than Rory Reid, son of the useless, onerous Senate Majority Leader Himself. Rory has been around Nevada politics for a long time. The apple does not fall far from the tree. Rightzilla thinks he may ahve his eye on another Reid, the old man himself.........Icky Harry...you know...he is the one who calls tourists stinky. I say, which ever position Mr. Sandoval (former Attorney General, Assemblyman and Federal Judge) decides to take on, he must be pretty confident he has the cash coming and support to beat a Reid. I hope so, because like cockroaches, you gotta squash them all to get rid of the pleague they present.

If Mr. Sandoval prevails in either fight, it is Rightzilla's hope that he will put Yucca back on the map as a storage facility for nuclear waste. It has to go somewhere and it was quite a process, beginning clear back in 1978, even getting to the point where Yucca was the choice. Then we spent BILLIONS getting it built only to see NOBAMA begin to deliver the final deathnell. We will keep our eye on this as it develops.

DASHING DASCHLE

Well. The chickens are coming home to roost. In the early days of his presidency, Obama is getting a lesson in cronyism gone bad. Seems that TomTom is a tax evader. So is the commerce head. easy to vote to raise taxes if you do not pay your own. Makes one wonder what went through ol' TomTom's cranium when he decided to skip all that tax obligation. Is he too GOOD to pay taxes? Is he thinking he already pays too much in taxes? Any Republican would say he likely has too high a tax burden...the rich do. They really do. But given the "jobs/stimulus" package passed by nearly every democrat in the house (and not ONE republican vote) they NEEEEEEED all the money they can get from productive people to pay for the layabouts with their hands out. OH...and lets not forget the:

• $246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film.
• $650 million for the digital television converter box coupon program.
• $88 million for the Coast Guard to design a new polar icebreaker (arctic ship).
• $600 million to buy hybrid vehicles for federal employees.
• $150 million for Smithsonian museum facilities.
• $75 million for “smoking cessation activities.”
• $200 million for public computer centers at community colleges.
• $25 million for tribal alcohol and substance abuse reduction.
• $500 million for flood reduction projects on the Mississippi River.
• $10 million to inspect canals in urban areas.
• $6 billion to turn federal buildings into “green” buildings.
• $650 million for wildland fire management on forest service lands.
• $1.2 billion for “youth activities,” including youth summer job programs.
• $500 million for building and repairing National Institutes of Health facilities in Bethesda, Maryland.
• $160 million for “paid volunteers” at the Corporation for National and Community Service.
• $5.5 million for “energy efficiency initiatives” at the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration.
• $850 million for Amtrak.
• $100 million for reducing the hazard of lead-based paint.
• $110 million to the Farm Service Agency to upgrade computer systems.
• $200 million in funding for the lease of alternative energy vehicles for use on military installations.

(credit: rightpundits.com).

Not bad for those who don't pay taxes anyway. Whether because they don't work or cheat like the sanctimonious liberal elites we are flushing out into the light. Isn't it TomTom who disdained those who did not pay their taxes????? What a hypocrite. But, he is not alone. I will be running a DEMO-TAX-RAT list right here at Rightzilla!

OBAMA DRAMA

The orderly transition of power has taken place again in what I believe is the best country on the face of the planet. Most comforting to me is that two grueling years of full time media campaign coverage has ended. Now, for at least two years, we can pay attention to governing. Make no mistake, I did not support Obama. I do NOT expect that his policies will be to my liking. That is how it works and I know that. So, until we are dragged kicking and screaming into the depths of yet another onerous campaign, we can perhaps focus on issues and not politics.......if there is still a difference. We live in a wonderful country. But let us not lose site of the fact that our lives here are not all about who is governing.......we have friends and families that are far more deserving of our attention than to get sucked into the media vortex that is created during a campaign. Think of them when we think of policies. Understand that one person's solution may be different than your own with good reason. If discussions take place, they should focus on learning about each other, not attacking the past or Nay saying the future. Maybe things closer to my heart are tempering my voice right now. But if we lose sight of that which is close to our hearts, we don't need this country or any other one. 'Nuff said.

WHOOPS, I Missed Again

We heard the President speak tonight regarding his new plan in Iraq. It was a concise and coherent briefing on what would happen next. No real surprises. However, what was interesting was Dickie Turban's response. After spending the beginning of his remarks poo-pooing the presidents plan and painting a grim picture of the Iraq experience, he started reeling off what we had given the Iraqis while we have been there........we had captured their dictator, seen through to his execution, gotten to the point where they were holding elections and on and on. Afterwards, I expected the talking heads to point out the obvious contradiction in Turbans remarks: HE ACKNOWLEDGED MUCH SUCCESS IN IRAQ!!!!!!!!!! It stymies me when these things simply float over the heads of those who sit in their chairs, powder on their faces where egg should be. They pontificate about what they heard but miss the nuances that a good debater would chomp down on like a pit bull on a wiener dog. Weeks. Months. Years of how we have done nothing good in Iraq, spent too much money and lost too many lives. Yet on the heels of such remarks look at all we gave them. CHECK-MATE. The liberals lose. We HAVE had much success. And as far as war goes, we have had little in the way of American human loss. (insert caveat that each life is valuable). Fact is, war is death and we see as much death in an American city as we have seen throughout this entire war. Difference being those dead in the cities did not sign up for the job of ... er... SOLDIER.

Goodbye, Mr. Ford

The passing of President Ford has been an interesting study in political equivocation. He was a man largely forgotten, sandwiched between President Nixon who stepped down in scandal, and President Carter, who injects himself into politics to this day in just as ineffectual a manner as he did during his tenure in office. He lost his re-election, which actually was his election campaign, and then simply waved goodbye and sank into the backs of our minds, rarely conjured up except for when he was useful as the butt of a good golf joke.

The most memorable action of our 38th president was his controversial pardon of Richard M. Nixon. He was berated by the democrats and people claimed he was simply playing favorites with his predecessor to save him from deserved criminal action. But this man was no dummy. He knew that the country was in a spiral after Watergate, the Viet Nam War and the scandals that elevated him to the highest office in the land. But rather than not do what was controversial and make sure that instead he could live another four years at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, he did what he thought was right and he issued the pardon. Historians today widely credit him with having committed the act that single handedly began a national healing that was badly needed, and not any too soon.

Now the liberals, many the same ones who so vehemently opposed him, praise his actions. Even our own Harry Reid has doubled back on his view of the pardon.

My favorite John Wayne movie is The Quiet Man. It is the story of a strong but silent man who overcomes his demons of the past to stand his ground and maintain his pride. For 30 years, Ford sat back and awaited the taming of his demon while standing his ground and maintaining his pride. No sooner had he passed into the hereafter then his demons were tamed. He did not have to demand his place in history, or engineer the historical record to get there, he simply had to await the unfolding of history and let what he believed to be true play itself out. I am glad for men like Gerald R. Ford. They work for what they truly believe is right and they accept their fate as a result of their actions. Many times, as with Ford, fate shines upon their memory and affirms their good choices. R.I.P., President Ford.