No Nutts

Not too long ago, a friend of mine took her dog to the vet to get him'fixed'. The dog wasn't really broken. He just still had his nutts. To my way of thinking, he was 'working' properly. To her way of thinking, he needed to be fixed. Right in front of the dog, she spoke openly about the procedure. She discussed the procedure with the vet, again, right in front of the dog and the dog just sat there licking his butt, not paying any attention. The vet gave the dog a shot, and the dog fell asleep. A couple of hours later, the dog woke up and made a discovery: no nutts. The dog is pissed. You can't really blame the dog for being pissed. Event though he was licking his butt, he doesn't really speak much English.

A funny thing happend last year: the country got a shot. All year long, we heard politicians trying to outdo each other about closing Gitmo, about stopping the military tribunals where terrorists are held accountable for their actions, about off-shore drilling, and about ending corruption in government and business. Some spoke at length about economic fairness, and about how our constitution was incomplete because the founding fathers didn't address it. Were you listening, or were you licking your butt?

Now, the election is over. Our new president is closing Gitmo, though he doesn't know where to put the prisioners. Here's a hint. The wheels are in motion to use 'rendition'. That's a Clinton Era invention where we give them to another country. In most cases, this means a country where they will be summarily shot, or routinely tortured. By the term 'torture', I don't mean being forced to listen to Britney Spears 24x7. I mean being beat daily with rubber hoses and having your gonads lit up with tasers. We find sleep deprivation to be torture, but are ok with beatings, beheadings and firing squads as long as it's done by others.

The Economic Stimulus bill our new president is pushing is no such thing. It a 'cover name' for a bill to pay back all the special intrest groups that elected the democrats. Job Creation by the government? The only way the government can create a job is for it to take money away from someone who did something productive and give it to someone to do something that is not productive.

Going beyond stopping the military tribunals, this president is setting in motion events that will eventually render unto the terrorists the complete protection of the United States Constitution. This means that you and I will foot the bill for endless legal proceedings while the terrorists contest their imprisonment on constitutional grounds. 'I wasn't Marandized!' won't be heard many times before the prisioner take begins to decline. In the heat of battle, it will become impossible to legally take a prisioner, so there will be no quarter given. Don't be surprised when this administration prosecutes some soldier for shooting an enemy dead whom someone else judges to be trying to surrender. Our soldiers will be prosecuted under the U.S. Code of Military justice in a Military Court, but the terrorists get a civilian trial by jury. Quite a differenet standard, if I do say so. This kind of makes you wonder who the government percieves to be the enemy.

Mark my words, it won't be long before the president and the congress change their minds and reinstitute the ban on off-shore drilling. Already, he has pledged to break the coal industry. He is against nuclear energy, and during the campaign he advocated raising taxes on gasoline. So, with no new energy sources, how are we going to meet our energy needs? We'll do it like every other third world country. The government will manage it. We'll pay insane prices and suffer chronic shortages. In the name of 'greening America', we will become accustomed to suffering blackouts.

Democratic Senators are starting to mumble about 'balance' on radio. This is code for forcing voices they disagree with off the air under a resurected 'fairness doctorine'. That my friends, is the first step toward suppressing dissent. Supressing dissent in America! Some change.

And just when you thought it couldn't get worse, apparently there aren't enough democrats paying taxes to fill out the president's Cabinent.

What is Economic Fairness? It is the use of the awesum power of government to redistribute wealth from those who earn it to those who do not. Economic Crisis? We apparenly have lost the right to read the bill when we elected Mr. Obama, who has implored Congress to pass it saying "Don't read the bill, just pass it". How about Health Care reform? You and I are about to pay for free medical care for everyone who can swim the Rio Grand.

Now, people are waking up. Some are starting to realize that we are socializing the economy of this country, freeing the terrorists who have attacked us, and discussing how to censor free speach on the radio. We are going to prosecute the soldiers who defend us, stiffle our energy business, build a national para-military force and nationalize the automotive industry. You can not be shocked. He told us what he was going to do. He said so openly, and often. Those of us who weren't licking our asses knew this was coming.

The dog has a right to be pissed about his nutts. The dog doesn't speak English. The dog woke up, licked his ass and realized his nutts were gone.

How long will it take America to wake up and realize our freedom, economic and political, is gone.