Change.org recently sent out an email petition about Target store and making
their employees work on Thanksgiving. Apparently the man that started the
petition feels that it is unfair to make people work on Thanksgiving.

Now remember that Thanksgiving has not always been a holiday and that
before (and after) it was, people worked on the last Thursday in November. Also
remember that many of the people who are off on Thanksgiving don’t spend so much
time with their families. They sit in front of the boob tube watching football
and endless reruns of Elf and Home Alone. They vegetate as the
booze that they have consumed slowly sends them to sleepy time. And then the
very same people that complain about working on a holiday will be the first ones
up at midnight heading to the stores to take advantage of all the Black Friday
sales. They apparently only think that they themselves should be off.

Now if you read the email below you will see that the sad sack that created
the petition would not have to report for work until the holiday itself is over.
When I was a security guard there were many years when I had to work
Thanksgiving day and the day after, as well as Christmas and New Year’s and
Independence Day and Arbor Day. This petition is a prime example of the problem
with America. It’s not just the politicians; it’s the people that voted for
them.

There are so many people out there who cannot find work and wouldn’t mind
working on Thanksgiving if it meant that they could feed their families the rest
of the year. But then there are the “Occupiers” in this country, the union
drones, then “Changers”. Oh they are changing America alright: for the
worse.

I have included the email in its entirety below:

While most of America will be sleeping off a belly full of turkey, stuffing,
and pie next Thursday night, 29-year-old Anthony Hardwick will be waking up for
a long night of work. That's because Anthony has to report for his shift at a
Target store in Omaha, Nebraska on Thanksgiving night.

For the first time on "Black Friday" -- the biggest shopping day of the year
-- Target stores will be opening at midnight. That means retail
employees like Anthony have to miss Thanksgiving celebrations with their
families in order to work for big stores' "Black Friday" midnight sales -- or
risk losing their jobs.

"All Americans should be able to break bread with loved ones on
Thanksgiving," Anthony says.

So Anthony decided to push back. He
started a petition on Change.org asking Target to open stores at 5am instead of
midnight on Black Friday. Click here to add your name to his
petition.

The sad reality is that by starting a petition to his employer on Change.org,
he is putting his livelihood at risk. Anthony knows that he could be
fired for taking his demand of Target public -- but that's how
important it is to him that he spend Thanksgiving with his fiancee and her
family.

Anthony isn't alone in thinking that midnight (or earlier) start times for
retail stores on Black Friday is are bad ideas -- customers hate it, too. In
fact, according to an article in the New York Times that featured
Anthony's petition, more and more consumers are avoiding Black Friday sales that
interrupt Thanksgiving meals. And by being the first to petition his employer
about this issue, he hopes to inspire workers at other retail stores to also
speak out.

Target is one of the most prominent companies forcing its employees to miss
Thanksgiving with their families. Anthony hopes that by calling out Target, he
can force his employer to push back opening times at Target stores across the
country -- which will pressure other retail chains to do the same.

Please add your name to Anthony's petition asking Target to push back
its Black Friday opening time so he and other Target employees can spend
Thanksgiving with their families:

http://www.change.org/petitions/target-corporation-push-back-the-opening-of-target-retail-stores-on-black-friday-to-5am

It seems that President Obama can't take no for an answer, even when comes as a legal order from a federal judge. After Judge Martin Feldman issued an order that lifted the administration's insane moratorium on offshore drilling, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar said that he would issue a "reworded" order to ban drilling for a six month period of time.

Not only has the president wasted nearly two months golfing while oil spilled from a single oil rig, he makes the mistake of killing off more jobs by closing down all of the other deep water rigs. The judge compared this to grounding every airplane because one crashes.

Or maybe it wasn't a mistake. Considering how capricious this order was and the fact that the president is willing to violate a legal order from a federal judge just to get his way it seems like he may be deliberately allowing this situation to continue for his own political reasons. Especially since this is mostly the government's fault to begin with. Certainly the oil companies are no saints, but the government has been lax in its oversight. Now it suddenly wants to take the reins and do so in the most asinine and over reactive way possible? Something smells and it's not just the crude oil some forty miles south of where I am writing this.

The Dems have argued that this is all Bush's fault for lack of oversight. Again the liberal's favorite boogeyman rears his head. However, Obama has been in office over a year and a half, and the Dems have controlled both houses of congress since 2006, and they have failed to do any better than they claim the Republicans did.

So far, outside of the inane ban on drilling, what has been the administration's big answer to the problem? They renamed the Minerals Management Service, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement. These idiots are so inefficient they went from a three word name to a six word name. That's double the amount of paper that would be required to print letterheads and business cards with the moniker. Oh the poor trees.

How about this for the new name: Bureau of Nonsensical Energy Regulation, or B.O.N.E.R. for short.

SOURCES:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-22/u-s-deepwater-oil-drilling-ban-lifted-today-by-new-orleans-federal-judge.html

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jun/22/judge-halts-obamas-oil-drilling-ban

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GGL7R06&show_article=1

Helen Thomas, what some have called the Grand Dame of the White House press corps, put her gnarled foot in her mouth. The other day at the Jewish Heritage Celebration, she claimed that the Jews should move out of Israel and back to Germany and Poland. She was forced to apologize by her masters at the Hearst Company. However, just after her "apology" she accosted White House press secretary Robert Gibbs. She claimed that the Israelis were monsters and that the administration should have been more forceful about condemning the raid that the Israeli defense force made on a ship trying to run its blockade of Gaza.

Perhaps some Lebanese immigrants should return to Lebanon. That little troll is the only monster I see.

The president had another photo-op yesterday. Supposedly a bunch of doctors showed up. I wonder how much it cost us to buy those new jackets.

It's been a while since I last updated the blog, but I have been very busy with work so I've been a lazy blogger.

Anywho I'm back hopefully.

If you want to know what the nation's economy will look like a few years down the road, all you have to do is look at California. California is the world's 8th largest economy and it is tottering on the edge of oblivion.

Now of course the left wing blame Reagan's tenure as governor and Conservatives in general. They like to point to 1978's Proposition 13 as the beginning of the downfall. But there's a lot more to it than that, as Time's Kevin O'Leary points out in his left-leaning article.

Prop 13 itself simply made it harder for California's traditionally liberal politicians to raise taxes. It requires a two-thirds majority vote for taxes to be raised. And even liberal taxpayers hate to have their taxes raised as Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the legislature found out recently when their tax-laden ballot measure failed miserably. However, there is a liberal failing here--or multiple in this case--as well.

Californians love things for "free". They love water to be shipped across the desert for them and they love the freeways (although you wouldn't know it from their griping about gridlock). They love having large state grants for college students. These are liberal policies that over the years have added to a tax burden in the most populace state in the Union. And most of them have actually made the environment worse.

Californians also love direct democracy, like all Democrats, hence the name. The nation's founders knew that a direct democracy would eventually ruin the country. That's why they created a constitutional republic, with a constitution to restrict the powers of government and a representative legislature to restrict the damage that a runaway democracy would cause. It was all about checks and balances. Californians chose a direct democracy with a government that restricts freedoms instead. Talk about bass-ackwards.

One of the things that Californians are most proud of is that they are the harbingers of "change" (there's that word again) for the rest of the country. Just look at environmental legislation and make-work projects, all at the taxpayers' expense. Their senators and representatives are some of the most powerful members of congress, like Henry Waxman, coauthor of the Cap and Trade bill that just passed with nobody reading it. And then there is Nancy Pelosi who rammed through the same Cap and Trade bill so that she could go on vacation. Now they want to bring their form of liberal government to the rest of us and they have the numbers on their side in congress.

As I said in a previous post: Abandon all hope ye who live here.

SOURCE: Time article

Obama was elected partially on the promise that he would give the middle class a tax cut. What he didn't tell you was that the tax cut would be necessary just so you can make ends meet after the liberals in congress pass the "Cap and Trade" tax.

On the surface the C&T will not directly affect individuals. It is only a tax on businesses that produce greenhouse gases. However businesses cannot stay in business if their costs go up but profits don't. So naturally they will pass their new expenses on to you. So if you voted for Obama, thanks loads.

To paraphrase Dante, "Abandon all hope ye who live here"

The face of Liberty crying out: Neda.

I have been away for a while due to preparing for my new job. Being a college instructor is a lot of work but it gives me an excuse to buy and use 3ds Max so it ain't all bad.

Anyway now that things are settling down somewhat I hope to update the blog more often.

I am enraged over the killing of the abortionist George Tiller. Let me be clear, I am not enraged about the murder. I am saddened that a life was taken. However, I am enraged that the Left in this country has used this incident and hypocritical rhetoric to blast everyone who calls themselves Christian or Conservative.

It doesn't surprise me that the Left would use this tragedy to stoke the flames of hatred against Christians and Conservatives and it doesn't surprise me that they would use hypocrisy to drill their message into the gullible American people. I mean their president did the same before, during and after his campaign. I mean he's the one that told everyone to just chill out over the abortion debate at Notre Dame. However, now his lackeys on the Left are decrying God-fearing Americans as terrorists and hate mongers. There was one abortionist on Anderson Cooper's 360 that said that all Prolife Christians rejoiced when Tiller was killed and that we got exactly what we wanted. Even when Cooper tried to help him modify his statement to say that maybe he didn't mean all Christians since many had come out against the killing, the monster sat there and said that that was a lie. That all Prolifers are for killing abortion providers.

The Left has declared war on free speech and Conservatives and Christians. Today will be remmebered as one of  the first salvos in the war agianst the Right. It may only be rhetorical terror now, but how soon will it be before the Left begin using violence against us? And how long will we be able to survive as a nation under the onslaught of thost that hate us?

It is my opinion that America will not be safe until the Left in this country is marginalized to the point of nonexistence.

The state of Washington has begun the inevitable shift toward State-controlled media. Governor Christine Gregoire has approved a 40 percent tax cut for newspapers in her state.

This is the first subtle step in moving the already liberal mainstream media toward government control without actually seizing the presses themselves. For the past several months liberals throughout the country have been calling for a bailout of the newspaper industry. They have used a modified "too big to fail argument" saying that they are "too important to 'democracy' to fail".

What good does a tax cut do for an industry that's not making any income to tax? This is window dressing for currying favor with the libs in government. For instance, if a newspaper decides to run an expose on corruption in government or on a liberal darling like unions, all that the government has to do is threaten the newspaper's tax cut or bailout money. Story killed.

In the interest of full disclosure the newspaper industry itself is mostly against the bailouts. But one wonders as the industry gets closer to a fundamental shift in their business model and possible shutdown, will they knuckle under and take the money?

SOURCE: Seattle Times story

Well the other shoe has finally dropped: Arlen Specter has switched to the Democrat party. Republicans have known for years that Specter was a Republican-In-Name-Only (RINO). But today he made his party affiliation official.

Now Dems will say that this shows that the Republican party has lost its way or that it has become too extremist. But we conservatives know that this is a tired, old, pathetic Democrat in Republican clothing that has finally pulled the costume off. He was already in a battle for his Senate seat and he had no support from true Republicans. And since he was officially in the minority party he was no longer in charge of the Senate judiciary committee. We saw after 2006 how many Republicans "retired" because they no longer were the party in power.

Some Republicans may be scared that the Dems may now have the 60 vote majority that they had long sought. But they already had that since Specter usually voted with them. Now we can dispense with the whole idea of an incumbent Republican in Pennsylvania which usually holds a lot of weight in the primaries. Now Pennsylvanian voters can vote for a true Republican and we can start bringing this country back from the brink. Or better yet, vote Libertarian.