Important Stuff -- Or Not: Chance Encounter

Friday, July 24, 2009

Chance Encounter

SO, I drove through a driving rain to Walter Reed Army Hospital Thursday for an appointment It's just 12 miles away, but it always takes an hour to get there. And then there's 30 minutes looking for a parking space. I was riding up to my appointment, when who should step onto the elevator but Senator Frank Lautenberg. This liberal jerk from New Jersey headed the fight this week to defeat a law that would allow licensed gun owners to carry their weapons over state lines. I have always thought it absurd that I can lose my constitutional freedoms just by crossing a state border. I would probably do a lot more traveling if I didn't become defenseless just by entering another state. Anyway, I was surprised at how old and frail this guy looked. He's 85 years old. He's one of those guys who will leave the Senate horizontally. He was no doubt there to get the medical care that he and his partners in crime don't want the average American to have. He looked like he was only half aware of where he was and had a 20-something aide with him who told him every step to take. It just made me sick to see someone like this who thinks he can run my life better than I can. Of course, he didn't know that he was standing next to a radical right-winger who could have ties to terrorism. Oh, and my appointment? It's scheduled for NEXT week.

4 comments:

Mark said...: Wait a minute. You drove for a mile through a driving rain for an appointment you weren't supposed to be at until next week?

Am I missing something here? Or did you make an appointment to make an appointment?

If I'm reading you right, perhaps you need a 20-something aide.; 7:44 AM
Mark said...: It's OK, LR, I have part timers disease, too.; 7:44 AM
Joe said...: I'll bet Lautenberg didn't have to reschedule.; 8:16 AM
Jim O said...: You've just reminded me of one of the most infuriating stunts the Democrats have pulled in our lifetime.
In 2002, crooked New Jersey Senator Robert Torricelli appeared to be doomed to lose his re-election bid when one of his many improprieties was established beyond doubt: he had accepted illegal campaign contributions from a shady character with ties to that workers' paradise, North Korea (if that had been the worst thing Torricelli ever did, he'd be a better man that he is, but I digress). This was just a couple of weeks before the election. By then, the time for a party to change candidates on the ballot under New Jersey law had passed. But the Democrats belatedly pulled Torricelli and replaced him with Lautenberg, who had quit the Senate years before. He was the the only guy they thought could beat the Republican candidate, a decent guy named Doug Forrester.
The GOP challenged the blatantly illegal move, but the New Jersey Supreme Court ignored the law and allowed the Dems to get away with it.
New York, my home, is a sewer of corruption, but at least it's not as bad as the stinkhole on the other side of the Hudson. New Jersey residents continue to get the government they deserve, as Lautenberg exemplifies.; 2:15 PM

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Talking Points

I don't use talking points, I create them.

1. Hate makes people stoopid.

2. There is nothing so impenetrable as a closed mind.

3. A stupid person is not someone who can't learn, but someone who refuses to learn.

4. It is a small mind that has no room for God.

5. You can take Stalin out of the gene pool, but you can't take Stalinism out of liberals.

6. The best way to sabotage a bad plan is to follow it to the letter.

7. The race card is the first refuge of people who have nothing to say.

8. Ignorance is the cornerstone of arrogance.

9. Which is more racist, to hate someone who is not white or to assume someone is racist because he is white?

10. Children are not stupid. If a child is taught, the child will learn. If a child is not learning, the child is not being taught.

11. To express righteous indignation, one must first be righteous. And that's a label that doesn't stick to liberals.

12. Profanity is ignorance made audible.

13. An open mind is a liberal's worst enemy.

14. Paternalism is the purest form of racism.

15. People who bend the truth, usually bend it in their favor.

16. If you always stand in opposition to liberalism, you will never be wrong.

18. Life is simple. People who make it complicated usually have an agenda.

19. Getting your news from the corrupt, liberal media is like sticking your head in the sand, except you don't get grit in your teeth.

20. Liberals' emotional development stops at the age of 16.

21. To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell the truth.

22. Idealism seldom matches up with reality.

23. Those who don't hate communism have never lived it.

24. This was a much more civil country when men walked about heavily armed.

25. This economy will never heal as long as Obama keeps picking at the scab.

26. Liberals don't think outside the box; they ARE the box.

27. You cannot change the hearts and minds of liberals, because they possess neither.

28. There is no such thing as a kind liberal.

29. Reading Democratic Party platforms is like reading the history of human rights abuses and crimes against humanity in this country.

25 Immutable Truths About Liberals

Over the years I've been writing this blog, I've been throwing out little self-evident truths that seem to have no exceptions that prove the rule. I've made a list of some of them and will add to it as I remember them or make up more. Most of this list I've come up with myself. A few I've borrowed from others.

1. Always expect the worst from a liberal and you will never be surprised.

2. Never try to reason with a liberal. They disregard any evidence that conflicts with their beliefs.

3. You can always tell what liberals are up to by what they accuse conservatives of doing.

4. Liberals don't debate, they argue.

5. The only standards liberals have are double standards.

6. Liberals feel, conservatives think.

7. Whenever you don't understand a liberal's motives, just look for the money.

8. Liberals cannot be embarrassed. They lack the gene to blush.

9. The Liberal Golden Rule is, "Do unto others but scream bloody murder if they do unto you."

10. Liberals don't have leaders, they have demi-gods.

11. There are no honest liberals. If they were honest -- especially to themselves -- they would be conservatives.

12. A liberal's business is nobody's business, but everyone's business is a liberal's business.

13. Liberals have an inflated sense of self-worth. They are like house flies that criticize the air-worthiness of a Stealth fighter. (Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, ad infinitum are morons.)

14. Liberals lack a sixth sense that conservatives have in abundance -- common sense.

15. Liberals never stop hating.

16. There are only two types of liberals -- the deceivers and the deceived. The difficulty is telling them apart.

17. Every time liberals get on their high horse, they get bucked off.

18. Liberal programs are so wonderful that they have to be forced on people.

19. Liberals always choke on their own medicine.

20. When given a moral choice, liberals always come down on the wrong side of the fence.

21. The only way liberals can build themselves up is by tearing others down.

22. Liberals not only refuse to learn from their mistakes, they refuse to admit them.

23. Liberals have only two political positions -- blind devotion and blind hatred.

24. Liberals are incapable of attacking the message, so they always attack the messenger.

25. Liberal diversity is only skin deep.