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This is something to think about when negative people are doing their
best to rain on your parade. So remember this story the next time someone
who knows nothing and cares less tries to make your life miserable.
A woman was at her hairdresser’s getting her hair styled for a trip to
Rome with her husband.. She mentioned the trip to the hairdresser, who
responded:
“Rome ? Why would anyone want to go there? It’s crowded and dirty..
You’re crazy to go to Rome. So, how are you getting there?”
“We’re taking Continental,” was the reply. “We got a great rate!”
“Continental?” exclaimed the hairdresser.. “That’s a terrible airline.
Their planes are old, their flight attendants are ugly, and they’re always
late. So, where are you staying in Rome?”
“We’ll be at this exclusive little place over on Rome’sTiber River called
Teste.”
“Don’t go any further. I know that place. Everybody thinks its gonna be
something special and exclusive, but it’s really a dump.”
“We’re going to go to see the Vatican and maybe get to see the Pope.”
“That’s rich,” laughed the hairdresser. You and a million other people
trying to see him. He’ll look the size of an ant.
Boy, good luck on this lousy trip of yours. You’re going to need it.”
A month later, the woman again came in for a hairdo. The hairdresser
asked her about her trip to Rome.
“It was wonderful,” explained the woman, “not only were we on time in one
of Continental’s brand new planes, but it was overbooked, and they bumped
us up to first class. The food and wine were wonderful, and I had a
handsome 28-year-old steward who waited on me hand and foot.
And the hotel was great! They’d just finished a $5 million remodeling
job, and now it’s a jewel, the finest hotel in the city. They, too, were
overbooked, so they apologized and gave us their owner’s suite at no
extra charge!”
“Well, “muttered the hairdresser, “that’s all well and good, but I know you
didn’t get to see the Pope.”
“Actually, we were quite lucky, because as we toured the Vatican, a Swiss
Guard tapped me on the shoulder, and explained that the Pope likes to meet
some of the visitors, and if I’d be so kind as to step into his private
room and wait, the Pope would personally greet me.
Sure enough, five minutes later, the Pope walked through the door and shook
my hand! I knelt down and he spoke a few words to me.”
“Oh, really! What’d he say?”
He said: “Who the f**k did your hair?” >
Hava A Nice Day!
by Floyd and Mary Beth Brown
Townhall.com
A recent analysis by Roger Simon of PJTV Media maintains that Obama is showing signs of mental illness. A wide variety of commentators have observed that Obama displays severe narcissism. Obama is conceited, and he is demonstrating a serious disassociation from reality.
A recent case in point was Obama’s bizarre and meandering 17-minute, 2,500-word answer to the simple question about how he could justify raising taxes for ObamaCare during a recession when citizens are already overtaxed. Obama’s wildly inappropriate answer left the audience stunned and led commentator Charles Krauthammer to mockingly say, "I don’t know why you are so surprised. It’s only nine times the length of the Gettysburg address, and after all Lincoln was answering an easier question, the higher purpose of the union and the soldiers who fell in battle." This lapse of delusion occurred in front of a friendly audience. Overall, Barack Obama seems to be slipping into a slightly more delusional state these days.
On Monday, following his embarrassing answer on Saturday, Obama stopped by the Washington Nationals home opener to loft an effeminate toss toward home plate constituting the ceremonial first pitch. After this display, Obama was mucking it up in the press booth talking about his love of the Chicago White Sox. The announcers asked Obama which players he supported growing up a White Sox fan. After hemming and hawing for about 30 seconds, Obama responded that he grew up in Hawaii and was actually an A’s fan. Again, he avoided mentioning any players by name. Obama seems to believe that he can say whatever he wants, and not reap the consequences or be forced to defend his empty assertions. Obama behaves in a manner so disconnected from reality that he is shocked when someone has the audacity to question him. Obama acts like his word is infallible.
In March of last year Obama was on "60 Minutes" with Steve Kroft. Throughout the interview as Kroft questioned about the economic downturn and people losing their life savings, Obama just kept laughing. A one point CBS’s Kroft stopped him and asked, "Are you punch drunk?" How will the American people react to seeing their president laugh off their predicament? Obama’s inappropriate laughter clearly demonstrated he has lost touch with the pain that people are feeling.
Obama portrays himself as the larger-than-life figure towering above the political fray. At the summit when Obama was pushing his healthcare package through Congress, he attempted to act as if he were the chief arbiter of truth. With petty insults, he slapped down what the Republicans proposed and audaciously claimed his was a "bipartisan bill." Obama distorts the truth with such frequency that one must start to question if Obama even realizes he is lying or is so disassociated from the truth that he believes what he says.
A further example of Obama’s delusions of grandeur occurred when he gave himself a "good solid B plus." Believing that his presidency was an above average success when America is hurting is absurd. Obama went so far as to claim that he would give himself an "A" once healthcare was passed. Obama is not living in the same reality as the rest of us.
As Charles Krauthammer wrote, "Not that Obama considers himself divine. (He sees himself as merely messianic, or, at worst, apostolic.) But he does position himself as hovering above mere mortals, mere country, to gaze benignly upon the darkling plain beneath him where ignorant armies clash by night, blind to the common humanity that only he can see."
Obama sees himself as the greatest man to be president in all time. He truly believes it when he said "we are the ones we have been waiting for," and "this is the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and the planet began to heal." He believes that he can do anything he pleases and the people will love him for it. Obama plans to radically transform this country and go down in history as, in his mind, the greatest ever. Obama is clearly disconnected from reality.
Obama is, according to Newt Gingrich, "potentially the most dangerous (president), because he so completely misunderstands reality." Gingrich was referring to Obama’s inept and weak stance on missile defense amongst other things. Even Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that Obama is an amateur; so much for wowing the world. Obama lives in an alternate universe where he treats our friends poorly and expects our enemies to change and become our friends. Here’s hoping that the voters help to connect this president back to reality in November.
by Pat Buchanan
After half a century of fighting encroachments upon freedom in America,
journalist Garet Garrett published “The People’s Pottage.” A year later,
in 1954, he died. “The People’s Pottage” opens thus:
“There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may
be coming up the road. But they are gazing in the wrong direction. The revolution is behind
them. It went by in the Night of Depression, singing songs to freedom.”
Garrett wrote of a revolution within the form. While outwardly America appeared the same,
a revolution within had taken place that was now irreversible. One need only glance at
where we were before the New Deal, where we are and where we are headed to see how far
we are off the course the Founding Fathers set for our republic.
Taxes drove the American Revolution, for we were a taxaphobic, liberty-loving people. That
government is best that governs least is an Americanism. When “Silent Cal” Coolidge went
home in 1929, the U.S. government was spending 3 percent of gross domestic product.
And today? Obama’s first budget will consume 28 percent of the entire GDP; state and local
governments another 15 percent. While there is some overlap, in 2009, government will
consume 40 percent of GDP, approaching the peak of World War II.
The deficit for 2009 is $1.8 trillion, 13 percent of the whole economy. Obama is pushing
a cap-and-trade bill to cut carbon emissions that will impose huge costs on energy production,
spike consumer prices and drive production offshore to China, which is opting out of Kyoto II.
The Chinese are not fools.
Obama plans to repeal the Bush tax cuts and take the income tax rate to near 40 percent.
Combined state and local income tax rates can run to 10 percent. For the self-employed,
payroll taxes add up to 15.2 percent on the first $106,800 for all wages of all workers.
Medicare takes 2.9 percent of all wages above that. Then there are the state sales taxes that
can run to 8 percent, property taxes, gas taxes, excise taxes, and “sin taxes” on booze,
cigarettes and, soon, hot dogs and soft drinks.
Comes now national health insurance from Nancy Pelosi’s House. A surtax that runs to 5.4
percent of all earnings of the top 1 percent of Americans, who already pay 40 percent of
all federal income taxes, has been sent to the Senate. Included also is an 8 percent tax
on the entire payroll of small businesses that fail to provide health insurance for employees.
Other ideas on the table include taxing the health benefits that businesses provide their
employees.
The D.C.-based Tax Foundation says New Yorkers could face a combined income tax rate of
near 60 percent.
In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson called George III a tyrant for having
“erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people
and eat out their substance.”
What did George III do with his Stamp Act, Townshend Acts or tea tax to compare with what
is being done to this generation of Americans by their own government?
While the hardest working and most productive are bled, a third of all wage-earners
pay no U.S. income tax, and Obama plans to free almost half of all wage-earners of
all income taxes. Yet, tens of millions get Medicaid, rent supplements, free education,
food stamps, welfare and an annual check from Uncle Sam called an Earned Income Tax Credit,
though they never paid a nickel in income taxes.
Oh, yes. Obama also promises everybody a college education.
Coming to America to feast on this cornucopia of freebies is the world. One million to 2
million immigrants, legal and illegal, arrive every year. They come with fewer skills and
less education than Americans, and consume more tax dollars than they contribute by three
to one.
Wise Latina women have more babies north of the border than they do in Mexico and twice
as many here as American women.
As almost all immigrants are now Third World people of color, they qualify for ethnic
preferences in hiring and promotions and admissions to college over the children of
Americans.
All of this would have astounded and appalled the Founding Fathers, who after all,
created America — as they declared loud and clear in the Constitution — “for ourselves
and our posterity.”
China saves, invests and grows at 8 percent. America, awash in debt, has a shrinking
economy, a huge trade deficit, a gutted industrial base, an unemployment rate surging
toward 10 percent and a money supply that’s swollen to double its size in a year. The
20th century may have been the American Century. The 21st shows another pattern.
“The United States is declining as a nation and a world power with mostly sighs and
shrugs to mark this seismic event,” writes Les Gelb, president emeritus of the Council
on Foreign Relations, in CFR’s Foreign Affairs magazine. “Astonishingly, some people
do not appear to realize that the situation is all that serious.”
Even the establishment is starting to get the message.
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Mr. Buchanan is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of Churchill, Hitler,
and “The Unnecessary War”: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World,
“The Death of the West,”, “The Great Betrayal,” “A Republic, Not an Empire” and
“Where the Right Went Wrong.”
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