Texas A&M's jump into the SEC.

Texas A&M is now officially a member of the SEC, whatever that means.  I can tell you what it means to the taxpayers in Bryan and College Station, Texas.  It means an attempt to blackmail  those taxpayers by John Sharp.  See, Kyle Stadium is not up to SEC standards.  This was know by the powers that be at TAMU before they made the bid to join SEC.  They did anyway.  Then they put out the rumor that all the home games would be held in Reliant Stadium in Houston because, drum roll, Kyle Field does not meet the SEC standards.  Well, for those of you who do not know the area, College Station's and Bryan's economy is restaurants, hotels, and motels.  They rake in big bucks during home games.  To say nothing of the liquor stores.  Bryan's economy is not as dependent on this income as is College Station.  Well, now John Sharp, Chancellor and Perry appointee to TAMU, wants the cities to put up $38million toward the $400 or so million that it will take to renovate Kyle Field.  The taxpayers were not asked about this beforehand.  There was no vote on whether TAMU would join SEC because this is a university deal.  It does not in any way involve the taxpayers in the two cities.  And TAMU is a state funded university so our taxes are already paying for it.  This is a blatant attempt at blackmail.  This is his way of doing business.  John Sharp along with Perry and his cohorts are only concerned about lining their pockets.  They don't give a tinkers damn about the state nor the people in it.

It's Raining!

To most of you, this probably seems banal.  To those of us in Texas who lived through 2011, that rain is a beautiful sound.  We had a fairly wet spring and most of the summer, but we were so far behind in rainfall that we are still in a world of hurt.  We are still seeing trees die as a result of 2011.  The kicker to this is that Perry cut the Forestry Service's budget by 75% in the middle of the worst summer we have ever seen.  All but two counties were on fire in Texas last year when he made those cuts.  We saw so much destruction because of those fires.  There is nothing more frightening than fire.  It is a great equalizer.  It does not matter if you are rich or poor, if you are in the path, you will burn.  We did.  And Perry and his merry band of thieves just kept on stealing from the Texas taxpayer and are still going strong. 

Ann Romeny's wardrobe

I don't usually even notice what a politician's wife is wearing.  I'm lucky to notice anything except the color of the outfit.  However, Ann Romney's attire on the Jay Leno show was, to put it mildly, bordering on the absurd.  I could not figure out what she was dressing for.  She looked like a cross between a biker wannabe and a woman trying desperately to hold onto her youth.  This outfit belonged on a 20 something, not a middle aged woman whose husband was hoping to sit in the most expensive public housing this country offers, ie the White House.  Only one thought can come close to covering this: What was she thinking?

Dirty Politics

Been reading the news this morning.  Voter registration fraud in Florida is all over the news.  And, of course, even though the RNC hired the company committing this fraud, they are denying it and are "so shocked" that this has happened.  Yeah.  Right.  What they are shocked about is being caught.  And they may have created damage that cannot be fixed before the election thereby stopping voters from casting their votes.  Way to go Greedy Old Men!  Fine way to show you "care" about all citizens.  In reality, they only care about their candidate and their agenda.  The rest of us can go to hell.  And I am not letting the Dems off the hook here.  We all need to be registered Independents and thereby forcing both parties to appeal to us, the voter.  When the lights go out at night, unless you are the rich, it is not about whether you are Republican or Democrat.  It is about can you continue to pay the bills and support your family.  A lot of us are really struggling.  And all those jobs created.  I don't know about the rest of the country, but in Texas they are low wage, think average $8/hr, no benefits, and no job security.  Try paying a mortgage and putting food on the table with that.  Heck, even paying rent on an apartment.  For the first time in my life, I am ashamed of my country.  I was raised to help those less fortunate than myself.  I grew up poor, but we lived on a farm and could grow our food.  There were those poorer than we were and Momma and Daddy believed in sharing. That feeling is gone.  Now it is all greed.  Shameful.

I'm Speechless

I cannot believe that the entire Congress gave themselves a 7 week vacation until after the election.  Reason:  They don't know what the country really wants from them.  Really?  Hello, we want you to do your job.  You know that thing you get paid big bucks for?    That thing your begged us for?  We want you to do what is best for the country as a whole.  We want you to work in harmony to keep our country running smoothly.  What we don't want from you is what you have given us so far.  We don't want special interests running our country.  We don't want religious fanatics imposing their beliefs on us.  We don't want our Congress to be the laughing stock of the world and they are.  How can you even have the nerve to make a statement like "We don't know what the country wants from us."  I don't know about the rest of y'all, but if I go to work on Monday and tell my boss that I don't know what she wants of me and I am taking a 7 week vacation until she makes up her mind, I will be told to not come back.  I really think we need the ability to fire our Congressmen and women if they don't do their job.  Or better yet, tie their pay and benefits to performance.  This Congress is the poster child for the "bloated welfare" system in our country.  Maybe this is the 47%, along with the rich, that Romney was talking about.  I go to work every day to make ends meet.  I don't have the luxury of giving myself a vacation.  Neither should they.  This Congress has gone past ridiculous and well into the pathetic. 

Disgraceful

I do not like Mitt Romney and have made no secret of it.  However, I did expect him to at least show patriotism in the face of an act of war against our country.  He did not.  Instead he took the opportunity to criticize our elected President over his handling of the Middle East crises.  He did not even offer condolences to the families of the dead.  He did not mention them at all just as he did not mention the troop in his acceptance speech.  I don't think Mitt and his wife even see themselves as Americans.  I think they see themselves as above American citizens.  I think they see themselves as Mormons and members of the elite.  Nothing more.  And in my opinion, Mitt Romney wants desperately to be president so that he can once and for all set the laws of our country up to benefit only those elite.  The rest of us are not even considered in his mind.  He does not see us at all.  And the troops are only cannon fodder for his use.  He scares the beJesus out of me. 

To the Greedy Old Pissants

1.)  Whether a woman has an abortion or not is none of your business.  You have no right to legislate her bodily functions.
2)  If women's reproductive rights are regulated, then men should have to have it put to a vote before they can ejaculate.  What's good for the goose is good for the gander. 
3)The party of Greedy Old Pissants want to force the children to be born and then abandon them.  It is the woman's responsibility to raise that child and she should have thought of the fact that she could not afford it before she "got herself pregnant."  Really?  I have never heard of a woman who is able to get herself pregnant and reproduce on her own. Would be wonderful if we could then we would have all the power.  Somewhere in there is a worthless man itching to call the shots.  Well if she "got herself pregnant", then every man in this country should be held accountable.  I propose that for every woman who is forced to have a child she doesn't want and cannot afford, every man in this country should have to pay.  We can call it an "anti-abortion tax" and levy it on every male who backs the anti abortion stance.  Seems fair to me. Bet we see an about face immediately. 
4) Lowering the taxes on the rich.  This is so stupid.  It is so stupid that it would be funny if it was not so dangerous.  The rich spend more money avoiding taxes than they do paying them.  I propose we have an across the board simple tax.  Let's say you pay 20% on every dollar you earn, be it dividends, interest, earned income, or whatever.  Because when you really get down to it, when you make money it is earned income and should be taxed as such.  So we do our taxes on a post card. 

Income----------------------------------------
20% tax---------------------------------------
You keep--------------------------------------

Very simple.  Fewer lawyers, fairer tax laws.  I already pay this and make a hellava lot less than those idiots screaming lower taxes for the rich. 
5) Illegal aliens.  Nuff said.  If you are not a citizen, then deportation.  Get in line and do it legally.  As to those who were brought here by their parents, take it up with your parents.  We, citizens, do not owe you anything.  Your country does.  My country does not. 
6) Business visas allowing companies to set up shop here and bring their own people with them.  Make those illegal.  They come, they work for lower wages and they do not leave. 

I could go on and on.  And I do to my elected officials.  You should too.  Email them at least once a week.  The only way we get anything done is to scream loudly. 

I'm voting for Obama

I read an article in Rolling Stones today that described the way in which Romney had made his money.  He basically stole it.  He made it by destroying companies.  I don't want a man like this in charge of my country.  He is insensitive, cruel, heartless.  He can no more identify with the poor and working class than I can identify with the filthy rich nor do I want to identify with them.  I am happy being middle class.  You meet a better quality of people in the middle and poorer classes than you do among the rich.  And I keep hearing that President Obama has done nothing in these last three years.  I think, being up against a Congress who's stated sole priority is to block everything he tries to do, that he had done remarkably well.  The bail out of the auto industry worked out so much better for the taxpayer than did Bush's bail out of the banks.  We lost money on that.  We did not lose on the bail out of the auto industry.  And had he had a congress that put the welfare of the country before party politics, he would have done so much more.  Just getting bin Laden was a great feat. And I am sick and tired of those who are saying "Obama did not get bin Laden.  The seals did."  Who gave the order to do so?  Who would have shouldered the blame if our seals had been killed?  It was a gutsy call and could have gone so wrong.  He could have been in the same boat as Jimmy Carter when he tried to rescue the hostages in Iran.  But he wasn't and it worked.  It took guts to make that call.  He is getting us out of Afghanistan.  We should have gotten out a long time ago.  There is nothing we can do there.  The biggest problem people have with President Obama is that he is black.  It really rubs them that a black family is sitting in the White House.  The party of the Greedy Old Pissants just can't stand that.  Suck it up.