Archive for Washington politics
Nerlens Noel Will Be a Wildcat
Posted by: | CommentsHello again to my loyal assemblage of readers. Kudos to the Wildcats in landing Nerlens Noel, the best young big man this side of Anthony Davis. Still, the Cats need to land a good power forward and hope at least one starting guard returns to school. I would prefer Lamb. That would give us a solid 7-8 men rotation for next year. As it stands right now, they only have 7 total scholarship players for next year plus whoever decides to return, if anyone. We like to live on the edge, but some year injuries will kill us at this rate.
The Reds are off to a slow start and, as usual, Dusty Baker has already blown one game and almost blown another by leaving his starter in until the 7th inning. The bullpen, so far, leaves a lot to be desired. Only Bray, Marshall, Ondrusek, and Chapman have been effective. Homer Bailey still can’t cut it and Rolen, Stubbs, and Ludwick are giving them nothing. Let us hope all the big money contracts don’t make the team complacent.
Two stories in the news I would like to comment on, the Supreme Court healthcare case and the new state insurance law. Since when are judges that uphold the constitution considered activist? Media types point to Medicare as an example of mandated insurance, but a constitutional amendment was passed to allow this, not a partisan congressional note. Also, the media are all up in arms concerning no longer allowing health insurance companies to set the fees for items they don’t cover. This is no more than fair. This would be like me taking money from you and then telling your plumber he can only charge you $50 to install your toilet. Whatever happened to free enterprise? Healthcare professionals are not going to spend years in school and invest in their businesses to be slaves to the government and the insurance companies!
Until next time, Doc.
A Taste of Spring in February
Posted by: | CommentsHello again to my loyal troop of readers. Just enjoy this early taste of spring. The warm weather this time of year is a blessing from heaven. Of course, since this is Kentucky, won’t last long and then it will be back the grind of winter. The only grind that will be constant this year will be the grind of politics. We will be bombarded with lies, slander, gross exaggerations, and empty rhetoric. While I would have liked to see Newt match up in a debate with Obama, any change will be good. It really does not matter who wins, unless we bring some manufacturing jobs back to the US and cut down on government employees and their perks, all is for naught. We must return to what made us great. That is producing goods and exporting them to other countries
to bring money into our country. It does us no good to keep reshuffling the dollars within our country and even less to keep sending our money to China. Only by creating a positive trade balance can we truly return to greatness.
On the sports front, my beloved Cats are now starting to kick it into high gear. It was pleasure to watch them thrash Tennessee even while wearing those horrible gray uniforms. If I wanted to root for Georgetown, I would have gone there. The Cats now seem to have the aggressiveness around the basket they have been lacking. However, they still are having trouble hitting the 3 ball. It won’t really matter though, as long as they can break down zones. March Madness should be fun.
Until next week, DOC
Doing the right thing
Posted by: | CommentsHello again to my trust of readers. Well, it took a while, but good riddance to bad rubbish. The Metro Council finally did the right thing and removed Judy Green out of our lives. Let’s hope the rest of the council follows suit to realize our tax money is not their play money. Speaking of doing the right thing, justice is on the wrong side in the case of the Amish men being jailed for their refusal to display orange triangles on horse and buggies. Whatever happened to religious freedom in this country? It is being trampled on every time religion conflicts with the millions of regulations being thrust on our society by bureaucrats protecting their job security. However, what can you expect in a country being headed up by a Chicago Mafia thug and his cohorts?
The big game is this weekend and I wouldn’t even hazard a guess at the outcome. With the myriad of weaknesses on these two teams, what happens is anyone’s guess. I don’t think any of us will be going bowling this year.
Against all odds, I won my first week of fantasy football. It wasn’t pretty, but a win is a win. I will need team improvement in order to continue my winning ways. Already, injuries are playing a part in the outcome as I have lost two players to injuries. I’ll keep you apprised.
Until next week, Doc.
A Change in the Weather
Posted by: | CommentsHello again to my bevy of loyal readers. Wow the weather sure can change in a hurry. It’s hard to believe we will set a record high and a record low high in the space of five days. Of course, records are a huge misnomer when they have only been kept for around 130 of our earth’s 4 billion plus years. It’s really just a tiny blip on the radar, yet green people want to place major significance on it. Go figure.
It looks like I’ll be playing fantasy football this week for the first pickup next week as I’m projected to get trounced by the great chrome dome. I guess hair just takes up space that can be replaced by brains. I, however, know several exceptions (Dusty Baker) to this rule.
Once again this week I want to plug an informative book, Dick Morris’ Fleeced. This is the story of how government and industry daily rips us off. He starts off with how Congress rips us off working very few days and wasting time. Also by taking paid leaves to run for other offices. Then there are Congressmen who accept large amounts of money either directly or indirectly from foreign countries to pass legislation that is in their best interests, not ours. Chief among this category was Hilary Clinton. Next are the people who have been buying subsidized insurance from the government because they live on the coast in hurricane country with their million dollar homes that regular insurance companies won’t cover. You and I then pay to rebuild their mansions, some several times over in a few short years. Next is the consumer protection agency officials who accept trips from the very companies they are supposed to be regulating.
Industry is no better. We have the hedge fund managers who make soaring salaries but pay lower taxes because it is all counted as investment income. We have the NEA leaders who get kickbacks to sell bad insurance policies to their own teacher employees. Then there is the movie industry who are promoting teen smoking in the movies even though it is supposed to be against the law to accept product endorsement deals from tobacco companies. Next is the media who also accept favors from enemy countries to downplay their villainy in the press and portray terrorists as lone, deranged lunatics instead of being part of a larger plot which they are.
Of course the biggest rip off of all was the banks and their subprime loans. In order to get loan commissions, they inflated the price of homes and adjusted interest down for three years by rolling the remainder into the principal, thereby leaving the customer after three years with a much higher monthly payment and a home that wasn’t worth as much as the remaining principle. They then resold the loans so they wouldn’t be stuck with houses after three years. These are examples of business as usual in the U.S. today.
Until next week, Doc.
