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Jack Murtha at age 77 went into the hospital for gall bladder surgery.  Several days later he went back to the hospital for complications and passed on to his maker.   I read he pass away last Wednesday, and some reports are yesterday – doesn’t matter the date; he’s gone.

I have no remorse or sadness for this man’s passing.  Yes, I feel for his family’s loss, as I’m sure they loved him.

Personally, this is how I will always remember Jack “Marines are murderers” Murtha.

From Pajama’s Media:

He was a great, gruff, bear of a man who was quick to anger but the sort of fellow you wanted on your side in a political fight. He was proud of his Irish-American heritage, loved the Marine Corps, and for 35 years, represented the people of Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District.

It was only later in life when John Murtha became a poster boy for much of what was wrong with Congress that the unsettling truth began to dawn on many of his former friends and supporters — John Murtha had gotten so caught up in insuring his own incumbency that he sacrificed almost everything of value to maintain and augment his power in Washington, D.C.

Oh, and do we need to mention the John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria County Airport in PA that flew only the congressman to Washington DC? Tax payer money stolen by Murtha and wasted.

John Patrick “Jack” Murtha, Jr. (June 17, 1932 – February 8, 2010)

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This crap in school has gone BEYOND the top of the stupidity meter.  What the hell has the Department of Education come to?  A police force?

Queens girl Alexa Gonzalez hauled out of school in handcuffs after getting caught doodling on desk

A 12-year-old Queens girl was hauled out of school in handcuffs for an artless offense – doodling her name on her desk in erasable marker, the Daily News has learned.

Alexa Gonzalez was scribbling a few words on her desk Monday while waiting for her Spanish teacher to pass out homework at Junior High School 190 in Forest Hills, she said.

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City officials acknowledged Alexa’s arrest was a mistake.

“We’re looking at the facts,” said City Education Department spokesman David Cantor. “Based on what we’ve seen so far, this shouldn’t have happened.”

“Even when we’re asked to make an arrest, common sense should prevail, and discretion used in deciding whether an arrest or handcuffs are really necessary,” said police spokesman Paul Browne.

Common Sense gone out the window!

Tiny Toy Gun Gets Boy Suspended (Video in Story at link)

PORTLAND, Ore. (KFSN) — A four inch long toy gun has landed a little boy in big trouble. The eight year old took the gun to his school in Portland, Oregon.

It came with a GI Joe action figure he got for Christmas. When school officials discovered the toy gun, they suspended him for a day. They’ve also put a note into the boy’s permanent file. Now his father says the school is going too far.

“I think it’s a huge over-reaction, I mean, come on, it’s not .. it’s obviously not a real weapon, I mean, yeah.. I mean like I said before, if it was, you know, look like real weapon, I can understand, but common, I mean eh .. I fail to believe that that could be actually perceived as a real weapon,” said Aron Anderson, a parent.

The Portland public school district says the punishment for the eight year old fits because the toy — no matter how small — is a simulated weapon.

Are there even adults in charge anymore?

Stupidity on a scale of 100!

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I really couldn’t put into words my feelings after watching Obama’s State of the Union address last week.  To say I felt betrayed by the part of the nation who voted this snob into office is mote.  Every one should feel that way.   The arrogance of this man poured from him in waves (sweeping Nancy to do the Pelosi Aerobics again) and soured the whole evening.   From out and out lies to calling out the Supreme Court with another lie made the whole evening sour any food you may have had in your stomach.

After days of seething about what he said, how he said it, and what he ultimately wants for this country, I got to wondering just when was the first SOTU and what was said.

At Early America.com I found George Washington’s first State of the Union.  He gave it in the Senate Chambers on January 8, 1790.  You read the words of a man who cared about this budding nation he was honored to preside over as its official leader.   There was no calling out people who disagreed with him.  I don’t know if he had his own aerobics matren working behind him, but from what I’ve read – this man had no desire for theatrics, but wanted to get things done for his country.

I didn’t get that from Obama.

Here are a couple lines that are mentioned on this page of Early America – as the original article from the Massachusetts Spy is hard to read.

Washington considered “it expedient that the terms on which foreigners may be admitted to the rights of Citizens should be speedily ascertained by a uniform rule of naturalization.”

Sounds like the first immigration policy.

Also of importance: “Facilitating the intercourse between the distant parts of our country by attending to the post office and post roads.”

That behemoth called the US Postal Service got started then?  No wonder its broke.

“A free people ought not only to be armed but disciplined. And to be independent of others” by becoming self-sufficient domestically.

As a life-time member of the NRA – I don’t see the need to comment on this.

It was the duty of Congress to encourage “….teaching the people themselves to know, and to value their own rights….to distinguish between oppression and the necessary exercise of lawful authority….”

This is the one that stuck me the most.  This does not mean you try and re-implement the Fairness doctrine.  You don’t attack Fox News for trying to be fair with their reporting.   Washington here is stating the people need to know and value their own rights and to know when they are being oppressed.

I think that one speaks volumes when you compare the two SOTUs between Obama and Washington, the snobbery of the first is affront to the honor of the later.

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Wow – the week has just flown by for me.

I am still trying to grasp the whole of the President’s SOTU speech from the other night.  I knew there were arogant, self-absorbed, blind to all but his world people out there … but damn!  I really think he must be reading the book Chavez gave him on how to be an ass the people.  Does Obama think we are “his” people like Chavez thinks the people of Venusuala are his?   The post will come together soon – but I’m still stunned and thinking.  Weird weird fella we put in the White House.

Here are a few links to interesting articles you may have missed:

• Afghan Men Struggle With Sexual Identity, Study Finds The SGM spent a year in Afghanistan.  He told me about this kind of stuff going on over there.
• Checking the GOP response to the State of the Union
• Google Chrome 4.0 Gets Official, Brings Extensions Going to have to upgrade this weekend.

More later .. have a great Friday!

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Obama seems to think that George Bush is still running the country and not in retirement in Texas.

What can you say about someone that will not take responsibility for his actions?

I call them cowards.

President Obama has a clear agenda to  move this country to the far, far left and destroy its economic community so he can rebuild it on Alinski rules and make this country a sister of Russia’s communist nation.

Evidently Obama never learned the real history of how communism and socialsim destroyed the Soviet Union and was the basis of Hitler’s tyrannical reign.

The more Obama blames Bush for the ills of this country (and I’m not saying Bush did great with the economy here) the more he sounds like a petulant child blaming his sister for breaking the vase in the hallway that he knows he broke.

Coward.

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