Letters to Iran

Hey Ahmadinejad, I have 2 letters for you - F U

Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas

As always, I hope everyone has a happy Thanksgiving and a Merry Christmas!

Please remember, if you are out and about on our Nation's highways, to be safe. Please DO NOT drink and drive. Enjoy yourselves but not at the expense of others. Let's all try and show the same love and generosity that Christ himself showed us.

PEACE

Here We Go! This Is Going To Be Fun!

The only reason the Democrats won the mid-term election is the war in Iraq. No other issues were discussed prior to the election by the main stream media. So, they were successful in swaying a national election. The Democrats are as unorganized as always and have no real platform.

We got to see a glimpse of what is to come this week. Speaker elect, Nancy Pelosi, endorsed Sen. Jack Murtha to become the new House Majority Leader. But a little more than half of the other Democrats had another choice - Sen. Steny Hoyer. Her reasoning was to increase the chances of an immediate withdrawal from Iraq. Because Murth has been adamantly opposed to the war in Iraq and very public about his stance, Pelosi thought this would further her agenda. NOPE!

The in-fighting has begun. This is going to be a pleasure watching. In a weird way, losing both the House and the Senate to the Democrats is going to shed some light on the wacky antics of the Democrats. Having Nancy Pelosi upfront, is going to be a pleasure to watch. It is going to be sweet vendication to watch the Democrats implode right there in front of our eyes. In just a few short years there are going to be a lot of people walking around with red welts on their foreheads where they smack themselves while asking, "What the hell was I thinking voting for these morons?"

Jonathan Altar wrote an article just 3 days after the election stating that the conservative movement in America is dead. Not hardly. The MSM (main stream media)successfully swayed a majority of Americans into believing that democrats had a better way. The democrats preached endlessly that it's time for a new direction. They never once offered how they were going to do this and now it is going to come through loud and clear that they never had a plan. They have no substance.

Just once week since the election, the democrats have stated that they were going to wait until Jim Baker and crew reveal what they have decided about Iraq before making any decision. Even after a decision is revealed by the special Iraq study group, the Democrats will have no solutions. It will just be another round of bickering among themselves.

As much as I hate having the world see what idiots we have in power now, it will be on some level fun to watch.

Raise Minimum Wage?

One of Nancy Pelosi's goals as Speaker Of The House, as she has stated, is to raise the National minimum wage. I take issue with this on many levels.

First off, if you are looking for a way to shut down the small business owner, placing a minimum of $7/hr for every worker is a good way to do that. If you make it too expensive for small businesses to operate they go out of business.

Secondly all you need to do is give businesses an excuse to move their operations out of the country where a minimum wage doesn't exist or is so low that it increases that company's profits by 200-300%. That's a no-brainer.

Thirdly (& not last) it offers no incentive to work harder. Let me give you an example of what I am talking about:

Last night my wife and I decided we would order some pizza for the kids and us for supper. I call a Nationally known pizza chain (Rhymes with "Smominos") and place an order for a couple of pizzas to be delivered. I was told it would be 35-45 minutes to deliver. No big deal. That would make the pizza arrival time a little past 6pm. I get paper plates out, parmesian cheese & some red pepper flakes out to get ready for the arrival of the pizza. I make the kids some drinks and sit and watch some TV as I wait. At 6:20pm, I notice the pizza delivery guy zipping past my house. The reason I know it was the pizza delivery guy is because he has an illuminated sign on the roof of his vehicle with the name of the restaurant on it (Rhymes with "Tominos".) So I figure he will realize that he has driven too far, turn around and will be back momentarily. 20 minutes go by and he finally comes back by. He slows down to maybe 20 miles/hr and then takes off again. I am, at this point, a little perturbed. My house has a house number sign mounted to the side of my house right beside the front door. The front of my house is illuminated very well. I live on a main thoroughfare in my little town. My house is only 50 feet from the street. So after this bozo takes off back the the store, I assume, with my pizzas still in his car, I call the store. The manager tells me that he is indeed back at the store and says that he couldn't find my house. I told her that it was little wonder that he could not find my house because he never slowed down enough to even try to look for my house number. She told me that they tried to call, but got no answer and that if I had answered the phone I would have gotten my pizzas. So now it's my fault this jackass didn't do his job. The reason I didn't answer the call was because my 11 year old was on the phone. We have call waiting, which apparently my son doesn't understand how to use. So when someone is calling while the phone is in use, it doesn't give a busy signal. I told the store manager that as much as she would like to pass the blame on to me, it isn't going to work & to just keep her pizzas, I would be getting my food from somewhere else.

The point of all this is that pizza delivery people for this international pizza chain (rhymes with "Ominos") get paid between $10 & $15/hr. They are paid well above minimum wage and still DON"T GIVE A SHIT!

Ok, Which Direction?

So the democrats pulled it off. They promised us a new direction. Although they never told us how or which direction they would take us during their campaigns, they said would lead America in a "new direction". OK, where?

If they think they can get us out of Iraq, it would be interesting as to how they would do that. The Commander-in-Chief is still George Bush. He is in control of our armed forces not Congress. If they think they can make the economy any better, I would really like to know how they could do that. If they think they are going to automatically raise minimum wage, that ain't going to happen. If they are going to tackle the deficit problem, no need, it is going down already because the economy is growing.

More than likely what the new Democrat run Congress is going to do is - NOTHING! George is going to dust off his veto pen, fill it with ink and veto every crazy socialist bill presented to him. Basically what we have is a Congress that will get absolutely nothing done.

So, congratulations main stream media, you have successfully brain washed enough Americans into voting for Democrats that ran on a "let's change things" platform. So, now what? Where's the big plan? The only thing you have succeeded in doing is making Nancy Pelosi 3rd in line for the Presidency. How scary is that?!?! I guess I could say we now have an opportunity to bitch and whine at all the blundering mistakes the Congress makes. Maybe it will be fun. Lord knows the Democrats seem to enjoy it as much of it as they have done over the last decade. It might be refreshing being able to say "don't blame me, I didn't vote for them". Unfortunately, I have a business to run and try and keep people employed. I can tell you one thing, If minimum wage is raised, I will think real seriously about when or if I hire any new employees.