Weiner For Mayor

I've been having a slew of tough weeks in a row, so something like this really helps to put a smile on my face:

Anthony Weiner makes it official: He's running for mayor

After months of speculation, Weiner released a YouTube video around midnight Wednesday announcing his candidacy for mayor in an already packed field.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/anthony-weiner-finally-official-running-mayor-article-1.1351265

We should have a rule that requires all politicians give us a good laugh like this before we run them out of town on a rail.

Goes to show just how irresistible that hunger, that lust for power and prestige can really be.

 

The Cavalry Comes Through

 

Just imagine that the above picture is of my son, his wife and friends for the last few weeks. They have been relentless in the search for proper treatment, something I would have never had a clue how to do. I would have never found out the ways around the massive bureaucracy that is health care to find to options and ways the government does provide... but is not required to inform anyone about.

Thanks to their incredible efforts,  the way is now clear for Jan to get both skilled nursing treatment for her stroke and the radiation treatments for her cancer. She re-starts her radiation treatments tomorrow, and the nursing home will provide transportation to the hospital cancer center and back.

Co-pay for the skilled nursing center is jumping up to around 28% of the total cost, but that appears do-able, another area where our son is stepping up to the plate.

Jan's' stroke recovery is slow but steady. We are hoping that the progress is sufficient enough that the board of deciders - or whatever they are called - will see fit to continue her treatments.

At least the cancer will now be beaten back.

And that's a major win, believe me.

Not So Good Times

The day after my last previous post wife was diagnosed with cervical cancer stage 2B, so blog posts went to the bottom of the list of priorities.

She was going to Dallas Presbyterian Hospital for chemo and radiation treatments and was halfway through the process when she had a stroke, paralyzing her left side. After four days in ICU and five days in recovery, she's in a skilled nursing facility as she recovers from the stroke.

After she regains sufficient mobility, she will finish of the cancer treatments. This type of cancer has a 99% cure rate, so no real worries on that front. After that, doctors will decide whether or not to remove the problem pluming, so we may still have a few more hills to climb.

Family members arranged for an apartment for me just three blocks away from the hospital and skilled nursing center, so my daily visits are just a short drive. We hauled one of the computers up to this place, so I can now post/read, etc. in the evenings.

Right at this time I could give a damn what's happening on the national level, so don't expect much from me for the next few weeks.

The 900 lb. gorilla we are facing is her  insurance  coverage, since she has been refused coverage on both the cancer and the stroke at the same time, giving us an either/or choice on treatments. The doctors decided that the stoke recovery was the more critical of the two, so she is at the skilled nursing home receiving treatment for the stroke.

Medical insurance has become a minefield in which tippy-toeing through the tulips  has become a vital skill and probably our biggest worry. Our son is handling most of this situation, something I am not currently able to cope with.

Good times... bad times. We all get both.

Reliable Granny

Whenever I want to find something from the lefties to shred, I can always go to  Granny: Her blog is a target rich environment for such items.

Here's a beaut she just posted:

The above graphic shows that military spending topped both health care and education. It does not include government pensions and social security. That's  sort of a huge omission.

Below is a chart based on actual spending, not one made by some wing nut that doesn't know about social security and government pensions:

 

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/

Health care and pensions totaled 44%, way more than national defense.

For anyone wanting to check out these figures, it will take maybe two minutes on the net.  I often find myself wishing these lefties would take those two minutes and actually verify what they post.

I also wish I would win the lottery.

McDonald's Faces Facts

Reality rearing its ugly head:

From the article:

"With colleges producing more graduates, and youth unemployment at a sky-high 11.5 percent, even landing a job selling Big Macs is getting competitive.
Consider: A job opening at a Massachusetts McDonald's for a full-time cashier requires one to two years experience and a bachelor's degree."

http://washingtonexaminer.com/mcdonalds-want-ad-demands-bachelors-degree-two-years-experience-for-cashier/article/2526145

Total Bull. It has nothing to do with "competition" but everything to do employees that can actually do the job.

We've known for years that the vast majority high school graduates can't do math, read,  or fill out a job application, and that's been the pool of labor McDonald's has been getting it's workforce from.

It now appears that even McDonald's has finally giving up on this ignorant mass of unskilled idiots and turned to the hallowed halls of higher education to find workers.

However, I'm positive that McDonald bigwigs know that hiring college grads for any position is counterproductive(pun intended) because they will spend their waking hours looking for better work, and will be gone the instant something better shows up.

BUT... and it's a big but... MacDonald's is finding out that it takes a college degree with maybe two years experience to run a cash register, because someone with a degree and just one year of experience may not yet have mastered reading and math.

That's how bad the liberals and socialists have ruined our education system.

It's now to the point that even a college degree may not be enough to get a job where once upon a time a clown was one of the higher paid employees, a place where the cash registers have pictures of their products instead of words and numbers.

About all we can do nowadays is shake our heads and walk away.

Of Unicoms And Rainbows

No kidding...

The new Pope seems as far from reality as Pollyanna. Said he:

"Christians must respond to evil with good, taking the cross upon themselves as Jesus did,"

Christians today have forgotten that in the past they were fighters and warriors. They fought as viciously as anyone to survive, defend their church and their beliefs.

Today's Christians have this "turn the other check" and "respond to evil with good" mindset. That can be a good strategy when your enemy has some degree of morals, ethics and honor.

Problem is, those who are in the advanced process of destroying Christianity today have none of those qualities. Every time they attack another foundation of Christianity, they then laugh... as Christians respond with their  "meek as sheep" tactic, mildly protest, retreat from the battle... and lose.

Since Christians today have no stomach for confrontation or conflict and have no real concept of the enemy they face, they lose at every turn, every skirmish, every battle.  They instead sit in their pews on Sunday, mutter a few insincere prayers... and wait for their newly-created "Rapture", which - they now believe -  will save them. Sit on their butts, do nothing.... and then be saved. What's the term? LOLZ.

The Ten Commandments have been stripped from public buildings everywhere.
Nativity scenes during the Christmas holidays have been banned.
Christmas is no longer called Christmas. It's now the Holidays.
No Christan prayers are allowed in schools.
Christan organizations and groups on collage campuses everywhere are scorned and banned.
Easter is no longer a celebration of the Resurrection. It is a chocolate bunny and colored eggs party.

That's just a partial list of lost battles, battles lost by Christians too cowardly - or mislead - to stand up and fight.

What they really needed in a Pope was a man who sees today's world as it really is: A place where you fight tooth and nail for what you believe in, for your family, your heritage, your culture, your race, your nation, your future.  They needed a man who would have come out swinging against those who are leading - or prodding -  the Christians to self-destruction and suicide.

What they got in a Pope is another pacifist that will further the "turn the other cheek" philosophy and perhaps be the final leader of a dying religion.  Lordy lordy... They don't even realize who their real enemy is today.

Christians of all stripes are on the way to going into dustbin of history as the ultimate losers in the game of life, remembered only as a people who would not fight for their own survival.

As for myself, I am not a Christian, I am an agnostic. But I can easily see the value to civilization that a strong religious belief system brings. Admit it or not, Christianity has protected and nurtured western civilization for centuries. I mourn the loss of Christianity to the world for one simple reason:

The coming new world will not be a blue-skied green paradise full of wondrous things and marvelous equality for all people and all things. It  will be a cruel and brutal one, overseen by atheists, ruled by an uncaring and vicious elite,  protected by a massive amoral, unethical military, driving the masses to slavery and poverty.

I truly hope it is still far enough away that I will not live to see it. But the signs are ominous... it's very close.

"Good Luck, Francis."

More like an epitaph than anything else.

Rand Paul On A Stupid Pill Diet

Yes. Absolutely. Beyond a shadow of a doubt.


Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who has emerged as the key advocate for secure borders, keeping to the rules and an organized handling of the millions of illegal aliens now inside the United States says there is a clear goal that Americans should have for the newcomers: Make them taxpayers.
“What I’m saying is let’s get them work visas, normalize them, tax them, make them taxpayers,”

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/03/rand-paul-wants-illegals-turned-into-taxpayers/#3osLYwl3oqK4fkuG.99

11 million taxpayers? Paul is out of his tree here. Those 11 million are ignorant, uneducated, low-wage grunts that will never pay a penny in taxes, citizens or not. They are from the bottom rung of Mexican society. They can't even get jobs in Mexico. So making them citizens will not change a thing when it comes to tax revenue.

I'm positive Paul knows this. So what's his game here?

Do they sneak stupid pills into a Republicans food and drink there in Congress?

Nobody in Congress can actually believe that those 11 million fence jumpers will ever pay a damned cent in taxes.

So... either Rand Paul is indeed on a stupid pill diet, or he is up to something.

And that something can't be good.

Obama's Civilian Army Continues To Grow

Perhaps a vehicle soon to be in your near future?

Bis Sis is sending them somewhere...

Footage of hundreds of armored trucks, similar to ones reportedly purchased recently by the Department Of Homeland Security has appeared online, raising more questions over their intended use.
The video was uploaded to YouTube last week by a user who stated that it was shot in the middle of the desert between Hackberry and Peach Springs, Arizona.
It shows hundreds of military style trucks loaded on to a train, presumably in the process of being delivered domestically for law enforcement or military purposes.

Watch the video:

http://www.infowars.com/video-hundreds-of-dhs-armored-trucks-on-the-move/

Why do I conclude these vehicles are for the civilian army Obama called for? The one he said needed to be as large and as well equipped as the United States Army?

Because they are not headed for Iraq or Afghanistan. Obama is removing our forces from both places. They are not headed for Israel.  Israel gets Abrams tanks and supersonic jet fighters, not MPAV's with gun ports meant for crowd control.

The train in the video was in the middle of the Arizona desert.

Just another bit of data to add to the growing pile of evidence that we are headed for somewhere we won't like being.

Even the brainwashed, blindered non-questioning liberal has got to start wondering what the real end game is, what all this massive government internal buildup really means... and who the intended targets are.

To me, it looks like brutal and deadly crowd control events are being anticipated by our government in the near future.

Avoid the big cities.They may soon be death traps for the unprepared.

A point:

The article I pointed to above was listed today on the DRUDGE Report. That means it will be seen my millions, far more readers than any of us could reach.

That's a good thing. Knowledge about what our government is doing is always a good thing.

Granny - Round Three

Dear Ole Granny - bless her leftist-loving heart - never at a loss for words, also never has a problem posting anything deceptive, misleading, or outright wrong.  Peruse the following:

Impressive. Too bad it's not true.

Maybe Granny got her numbers from this place that calls itself "Clean Technica":

http://cleantechnica.com/2012/05/25/2224-gw-pvsolar-output-germany-new-record/

Typical of your average tree-hugging propagandist,  the author of this site managed to move the decimal point a few zeros to the right. ( I know, math is hard)

The charts and and the article shows and says the actual output was  22.240MW in one hour.  MW means MegaWatt, or a million watts.. A gigawatt - a billion Watts - is orders of magnitude larger than a megawatt. The claimed 22 gigawatts  in one hour is wildly inaccurate, and false.

From Wikipedia:

Germany is the world's top photovoltiacs (PV) installer, with a solar PV capacity as of December 2012 of more than 32.3 gigawatts (GW) The German new solar PV installations increased by about 7.6 GW in 2012, and solar PV provided 18 TWh (billion kilowatt houts) of electricity in 2011, about 3% of total electricity.

Now, how much power would 20 nuclear plants generate?

Big plant? Small plant? How many reactors? Efficient American plant?  Or piece- of crap Iranian plant?

Let's ask somebody that actually knows the answers,  The U. S. Energy Information Administration:

http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=104&t=3

Aww, come on Bob, don't be such a party pooper! Quit trying to use facts! That's not fair!

Quoting:

"In 2011, the "average" nuclear power plant in the United States generated about 12.2 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh). There were 65 nuclear power plants with 104 operating nuclear reactors that generated a total of 790 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh), or slightly more than 19% of the nation's electricity."

Hmmm....

Twenty of those would then produce 244 billion kilowatt hours/year. That's 244TWh, or 244 TerraWatt hours.  Germany's solar plants produced 18TWh, or 18 TerraWatt hours, the equivalent of one and a half nuke plants, not twenty.

Point of interest: Germany used 544.5 billion kilowatt hours in 2012. America's 64 nuke plants - which provided 19% our our electrical needs - would have provided around 45% of Germany's needs. (That's almost 99% to you liberals)

Germany's  total solar output - which provided about 3% of their needs - would have provided America with less than 2% of our needs.

That 3% translates as "almost all" in the mind the civilization-hating treehugger, because, well, 22 gigawatts is such a big, hard to understand number, but surely must be almost all the electricity in the world!

Liberals and Progressives just can't seen to grasp the scale of such things, or get the math right. But what the hell, they've never used facts as a weapon. They can't.

The facts would destroy their silly little world of unicorns, pink ponies and imaginary goddesses like Gaia.

It's like Mark Twain once said:

It's easier to fool people than it is to convince them they have been fooled.

Today's Liberals and leftists prove that beyond a shadow of a doubt. They may be college trained, college educated and/or college brainwashed. They may have IQ's several standard deviations above the norm. But they were never taught to think, so they don't. They just parrot the stuff they've been trained to like.

Never look for truth or accuracy from these folks. They never check their claims, which means you should - always.

Then remember what Mark Twain said, so don't waste the effort.

Cyprus

And the winner is....

We've all heard about it, the EU demanding that Cyprus bank accounts be plundered, raided, taxed - whatever you wish to call it - to help save the bankers.

Reality check: Who really gives a damn about Cyprus other than some Russian criminals?

Nobody.

The real goal in this little exercise on Cyprus is to study the American reaction to the idea, because the real target is plundering the 50 trillion in assets of the American retirement funds.

Raiding bank accounts is small potatoes by comparison.

If Americans sit idly by while the EU plunders Europe, the next target is the real plum, our retirement accounts, your 401K. You can't just run to the bank and pull it out like the money in your checking/savings accounts.

The retirement assets are sitting ducks... Multi-trillion dollar sitting ducks.

Another reason why the DHS has bought 1.5 billion rounds of ammo, those 2,700 MPAV's, built all those camps and bought all those coffins... to make sure they can get away with it.

One may ask - if they end up destroying the value of world's currencies, won't they end up with mountains of toilet paper? They would - if they kept the paper money. Who do you think is buying up all the worlds gold? In multi-ton quantities? They don't give a rats hind end about the paper stuff... They are using it to buy GOLD, silver, diamonds, land, developed properties, you know... real assets

Duh.

There's only a few of those despicable cretins worldwide. They will, given the chance, plunder and destroy everything. Compared to them, Al Quaeda is less than a buzzing gnat. Why can't Obama  use a few of our drones on them?

The fool could save the world. but he won't. As they say- He's their bitch.