DILBERT

One of my favorite comic strips is Dilbert. It is especially germane to those in the corporate world. The sentiments expressed in this panel from a recent strip echo my own. If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. Why not use your education, training, and life experiences to advantage? Your opinion is valuable. More valuable I believe than the opinion of someone who can't make it in life, whines all the time about fairness, and is entitled to free things that you have to pay for not only for yourself but for them. Don't be drowned out by the din of the rag-proletariat and their cheerleader in chief, BHO. Forgiveness of mortgages, student loans, and all sorts of debt. Get those votes however you can, Mr. O, even if will eventually turn America into Greece.

PROBIOTICS

There are GOOD bacteria that live in your intestines and help you digest food. Sometimes we even take pills called Phillip's Colon Health, Align, or other brands of Pro-biotics to encourage bacterial growth. Then there are other bacteria which are BAD for us, including but not limited to Cholera, Staph, and Strep.

I suppose the same thing could be said about the LEGAL profession, and like in bacteria, the good/bad line is not distinct. Of course, if we had no lawyers, we would probably be up to our buttocks in lead paint and Benzene would fill the air, so like bacteria that clean our environment, they serve a useful purpose. Then there are the GOOD ones whose work always seems to be less ICKY that the heavily advertising personal injury folks. Then there's that guy with Mesothelioma on TV. So next time you see an ambulance racing to an accident, look for the second car in the parade, from 1-800-ASKsomebody, or the representatives from the law firm of Dewey, Cheetem, and Howe. Ask yourself if society could find an antibiotic to stamp out this "dis-ease." Either that, or just take more frequent showers and be grateful that the Yellow Pages would no longer make a good booster seat for your toddler if they removed all the Lawyer ads.

WOMEN and CHILDREN FIRST

FEMI-NAZIS (radical feminists) are up in arms over candidate Santorum's latest utterance about women in combat and the emotional possibility that men, who have been trained to be chivalrous and let WOMEN get into the lifeboats first, will now have to just let G I JANE grab her M-16 and take the machine gun nest. MAle soldiers are expected to forget that if they were at home and Jane got up from the dinner table and the man did not stand, MOM would give him a dirty look.

So here we are, gentlemen, holding doors, standing up and criticizing the Italian captain of the Costa of not allowing women and children first, and at the same time, demanding equal pay for equal work, and the latest..."Women's health issues (abortion, morning after pill, contraception, and sterilization)" trump the First Amendment freedoms of speech and religion, and NOW women on the front lines... makes life complicated. We are just guys, and we aim to please. I personally will feel that women have become truly equal in America when we don't get "judged as being ungentlemanly if we fail (or decide not)to rise from the dinner table or from our seats when a woman enters the room. Until then...Jane...accept that there is an inequality in BOTH directions, and you can't have your cake and Edith too.

MARCO........POLO

The great beige hope of the Republican party. Latino extraordinaire, Marco Rubio (rubio means blonde in spanish) is one of Florida's 2 U S Senators. He is very entertaining and bright and articulates the Conservative message very well. Other than a slight exaggeration about his parents escaping Cuba to run from Castro...they really came to Florida a few years before Castro took over, seeing the handwriting on the wall they made a logical and considered decision, not fleeing in the middle of the night as was first implied.

When Rubio is selected to become the first Latino VP nominee, the Cuba story is all you will hear on the MAINSTREAM media. Rubio seems to be the real deal and would be an attractive candidate. THE DARK SIDE is already lining up to demean him as NOT being a real latino, just like they stripped away the African-Americanism from Herman Cain and Clarence Thomas and felt justified using the Uncle Tom appellation. Anyone who has even been to Miami, the most Latino city I have even been in, and I have been in Mexico City, Madrid, and many others, knows that LATINOS are not of one stripe, unlike Chilean Sea Bass for example where one is pretty much like the other. There are rich Cubans who own everything in Miami, car dealerships, South Beach, etc, and there are poor latinos who come from Central America and the Caribbean, many of whom put tiles on our roofs, bricks on our driveways, or blow leaves onto the roads. They are hard working and do jobs Americans are unwilling to do especially if they are on welfare or unemployment for 99 weeks.

The left has defined the LATINO political issues in their own way...if you are against illegal immigration and for protection the border, you are racist. If you don't want to give free education, medical care, or college in-state tuition to people who sneak over the border to get here, you are racist. If you want English as the official language, you are racist. In other words, Liberals once again presume to know what is best for minorities, immigrants, and anyone whose last name ends in a vowel. RUBIO offends them because he is a successful latino, first generation American, who is intelligent, articulate, and photogenic. He believes in the Rule of Law. He must therefore also be a racist, and NOT a real latino. You decide.

SETTING YOURSELF UP FOR BETRAYAL

The Catholic Church ran headlong into supporting OBAMACARE for social justice reasons. The "Law of Unintended Consequences" which is as strong as the Law of Gravity came back and bit the Church in its Derriere. All those Bishops who promoted the concept that everyone in America deserves health care are now the same one who were BLINDSIDED by the Obama administration and their hatchet-woman, Kathleen Sebelius, no friend to the unborn.

So now, as a reward for their loyal support, Catholic hospitals and other institutions will be required by federal law to provide "women's health services" which is code for abortion, contraception, and sterilization etc. I don't know which side of this issue my readers come down on as far as Choice vs Life and similar issues BUT I do have a fairly good understanding of the U S Constitution and the First Amendment. It seems to me that the government is stepping on religious freedom. On the other hand, every adult knows or should know, that when you get in bed with the government and take a dollar of their money, they take 100% control of your organization. I Suppose this will play out between now and election time. You don't have to be a staunch Catholic or an Evangelical to know that if the government gets away with this, the rest of the Bill of Rights is doomed as well...sooner or later. Chip Chip Chip away

LIBERAL FANTASY

One of the great LIBERAL fantasies, among many, is that "schools will be better if we just throw more money at them." We have been doing that for eons and our kids are dumber than ever and the graduation rate is abysmal... below 50% in many places. Yet this morning, the Sarasota Herald Fishwrapper proudly proclaims on page one "state set to boost education funding" by more than ONE BILLION dollars next year. What a relief. Our kids will no longer be the uninformed little idiots they were this year. Thank you, legislature.

This universal solution is long overdue. It is clearly a "fact of life" that results are just a function of how much money you spend on something. All one has to do is look at how much we have already spent on the FEDERAL Department of Education, and the Sarasota School Board to see the PROOF in this pudding. IF that were the solution, surely with EACH increase in spending, the educational level would have improved. Yet, like all well intentioned stupid plans, it NEVER works. So we do it again and again with more money and expect a different result. After this snowstorm of funding once again FAILS to make a dent in IDIOOCRACY, we will do the same thing again next year.

WISDOM

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit...wisdom is knowing NOT to put it in a fruit salad. Other examples of wisdom include NOT opening a 10,000 sq ft restaurant with a Key West-Bulgarian fusion theme and expecting to need 2 reservation lines. Another might be writing a BLOG and expecting that more than 2 people will let you know they like to read it. Or that ANYONE would post a comment ON the Blog.

Our Air Conditioning service company sent someone to our home to repair our A/C which is heating the house when it should be cooling it. He seems like a very nice man and an experienced A/C technician but by his own admission he has NEVER worked on a wireless thermostat which is integral to our system. I had to buy these because when we had new units installed a couple of years ago they could not replace the wires that ran from our old thermostats to the air handlers and the old wires did not have enough individual smaller wires to do the 9 things needed to operate modern equipment. So $500 dollars later, we have a working system until it doesn't then we have to find the one guy on the planet who can fix this setup and I don't think it is the guy presently in my garage.

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