The Nip & Tuck Generation

Baby Boomers, the first of the self-absorbed generations - also called the "Me" generation, aren't aging well. I am a boomer, but at the very end of the group - sometimes called a "Tweener," between the Boomers and Gen X.
I thank GOD I was raised by a War generation father and not a Baby Boomer. Consequently, I have values that all don't involve my personal gratification and security.

The Boomers are obsessed with aging; most accurately, how it looks on them. It's not just women either; Baby Boomer men are having plastic surgery, going to tanning salons, getting their hair colored, getting Botox injections, waxing for hair removal, wearing invisible hearing aids, invisible braces, having vains stripped, getting manicures and pedicures, and shopping - like women.

Spare me. It's obnoxious enough that so many women are obsessed with their looks. I'm a little vain, I admit it. I get my hair highlighted. But other than expensive hair, I am pretty low maintenance - by choice. I don't get my nails and toes done, I don't wax or tan, or get skin peels, and I will never have plastic surgery, Botox injections or plumped up lip injections. I find it disgusting. It's a personal choice, I know. It's not how I want to spend my money. I prefer to focus on skin care, my health and fitness. I am aiming for being fit when I'm old. That's good looking.

All of this focus on "Me" by the "me generation," is not surprising however, the lengths to which they will go to keep youth, is. The money is usually a waste; you can usually tell if someone has had plastic surgery (not always), and for some people, it's such a boost for their self-esteem, that fixing a crooked nose or big ears or a turkey neck is understandable. Again, it's personal. But the men and women who get addicted to plastic surgery and constant "self-improvement," is tragic and sick. They never grew out of the "it's all about me" stage. The money spent on plastic surgery improvements should have been spent on good running shoes and a Therapist.

But it's the men I don't get... I don't think I'd like a guy who spends more time in front of the mirror than I do. The self-absorbed Baby Boomers take everything too far.

(sorry for the scary photo of Jocelyn Wildenstein - the Cat Woman)

Sneaky Senator Dodd

Communist Party hack Chris Dodd is up to it again. as long as he gets his low-cost mortgages, the little people can support Congresses spending crack habit:

Washington, DC - Hidden deep in Senator Christopher Dodd's 630-page Senate housing legislation is a sweeping provision that affects the privacy and operation of nearly all of America’s small businesses. The provision, which was added by the bill's managers without debate this week, would require the nation's payment systems to track, aggregate, and report information on nearly every electronic transaction to the federal government.

Call Congress and Tell Them to Oppose The eBay Reporting Provision in the Housing Bill: 1-866-928-3035

FreedomWorks Chairman Dick Armey commented: "This is a provision with astonishing reach, and it was slipped into the bill just this week. Not only does it affect nearly every credit card transaction in America, such as Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express, but the bill specifically targets payment systems like eBay's PayPal, Amazon, and Google Checkout that are used by many small online businesses. The privacy implications for America's small businesses are breathtaking."

read the entire story here: freedomworks

I Am Ashamed of Michelle Obama's America

With Michelle Obama still defending her statements about "being proud of America for the first time in her life," I must say that with people like Michelle Obama rising to power, I've never been more ashamed of America. Conversley, up until recently, I've always been proud of my country.

With Liberals knowingly trying to defund the war in Iraq, handing out more government welfare, trying to take control of corporate oil companies, taking "windfall" profits from private business owners, increasing regulations on businesses, forcing business owners to provide company paid health insurance, voting to support gay marriage, allowing foreign terrorists access to our court system, Homeland Security employees terrorizing innocent Americans through airports, congress causing the rise in oil prices, congress refusing to address alternative energy exploration and drilling, unions runnning local elections, liberal-run schools not being able to graduate literate kids, 50% drop out rate in colleges the first year, affirmative action still being practiced in a state that voted to end it...

Must I keep going? These are all failed liberal programs, liberal ideas. With so many Americans abandoning the work ethic of our parents and grandparents, and instead, holding their hands out for freebies, I am ashamed of Michelle Obama's America.

While she is escorted around in limosines, wears designer clothing and jewelry, has makeup and hair stylists, whines about the cost of music lessons and summer camp, and tells regular Americans thast we need to work harder and not be so greedy...While Michelle Obama received a plush corporate job on the Board of a major hospital once her husband was elected to the Illinois senate, and tells tomorrow's college graduates to skip the corporate job and instead become a teacher or nurse, we need to remind each other of her words versus her how she lives.

Michelle Obama is as big of a hypocrite as is her husband. She's loving the fame, the fortune, the star treatment and status, but thinks that those of us who run businesses and work at 8-5 jobs should pay more taxes (because we are greedy), to support more welfare for those who don't work. She obviously isn't living in fear of her own tax status with her fame and wealth: she' got loopholes now and a bevy of lawyers and accountants to keep her taxes unnaturally low (think Theresa Heinz Kerry with her 5% tax rate). She's a phony and she's scary.

Michelle Obama makes me embarassed to have to share a national identity with her. She's militant, angry, and extremist and now she's the latest media darling. Who are the dummies that don't see Michelle and Barrack for the opportunistic phonies they are?

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Barrack Obama's Biggest Problem: Michelle Obama

UPDATE: I received this link Bob Beckel On Fox & Friends: 'Bombshell Heading Michelle Obama's Way' (Updated)..
with this explanation:
The Michelle Obama Rant Tape was filmed between June 26th - July 1st 2004 in Chicago, IL at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Conference at Trinity United Church: specifically the Women's Event.

Michelle Obama appeared as a panelist alongside Mrs. Khadijah Farrakhan and Mrs. James Meeks.
Bill Clinton spoke during the Conference, as did Bill Cosby and other speakers, but not at the panel Michelle attended.
Michelle Obama spoke at the Women's Event, but referenced Bill Clinton in her rant --- his presence at the conference was the impetus for her raving, it seems.
For about 30 minutes, Michelle Obama launched into a rant about the evils of America, and how America is to blame for the problems of Africa. Michelle personally blamed President Clinton for the deaths of millions of Africans and said America is responsible for the genocide of the Tutsis and other ethnic groups. She then launched into an attack on "whitey", and talked about solutions to black on black crime in the realm of diverting those actions onto white America. Her rant was fueled by the crowd: they reacted strongly to what she said, so she got more passionate and enraged, and that's when she completely loses it and says things that have made the mouths drop of everyone who's seen this.
The "tape" is a DVD that Trinity United sold on its website, and possibly offered free for download up until March 2008 when Trinity's site was scrubbed and the DVDs were no longer offered for sale.
This outburst happened just one month before the 2004 Democratic Convention, when Barack Obama delivered the keynote address.

Original Post:
The buzz about a tape surfacing of Michelle Obama ranting about "Whitey" together with Louis Farrakhan and the Reverend Jeremiah Wright is interesting, if not a deal breaker. When it comes out, Barack will be permanently branded with the Nation of Islam - not a good tag when running for President of the United States.

There is no coincidence that Barrack Obama "quit" his controversial church yesterday, just as news of this tape hit.

But his ties with the Nation of Islam do not get cut just because he "quits" the church. "Barack hired two members of the Nation of Islam to work on his staff—Jennifer Mason and Cynthia K. Miller. If Jeremiah Wright and Michael Pfleger (now placed on leave by the Cardinal of New York for his recent rant) had kept their yaps buttoned none of this would mean much. But the fact that both men have been—until scrubbed from the website in recent weeks—listed as spiritual advisors to Barack Obama and also are very close to Louis Farrakhan, forces the question about Barack’s faith and beliefs." (hat tip NoQuarter)

The word is that one of the Republican candidates no longer in the race (Rudy) acquired the tape. Republicans will most likely hold the tape until the fall. Because if Hillary had it, she'd let it out now to get rid of Obama.

Things will only get more interesting. Either way, Michelle Obama has using her own mouth, put her husband's foot in it.

Shameful Voter Turnout

I stayed up late enough to watch the local news and results of the election. The coverage was embarrassingly "local." When the tree branch fell on the patio at the Heather Fargo party, the drama was unsurpassed. And embarrassing. A tree branch fell. No fireworks went off as was originally claimed by the news guy.

By 10:35 pm, I went to bed disgusted. Sam Shane on Channel 13 should not be allowed to speak without a cue card. The nonsensical and irrelevant comments he makes should be played back at him endlessly until he begs for more education.

This morning, I read that only 50,000 people in the City of Sacramento voted. We are a city of 475,000 residents.

Why don't people vote? I asked several people leading up to the election. The two standard answers were: "I am too busy," and "I am only one vote, and one vote doesn't count."

Only 10 days ago, I received a phone call from my son who was preparing to fill out his absentee voter ballot. He resides across the country at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD. We walked through the issues, he voted and mailed his ballot. This morning I received a phone call from him inquiring about the election results. He is a 19-year old who voted absentee and called mom to find out the results from 3,000 miles away. So how is it that locals can't get themselves to the polling place or sign up for an absentee ballot?

People have become complacent and lazy in their prosperity. They also are not learning or caring about history and why every vote matters. Voting is a privilege, and honor. And unless we vote in every election, we don't deserve to whine about the way things are. And that is why Sacramento was stuck with Heather Fargo for so many years, and why she nearly became Mayor for a third inadequate, term.

USS Reagan and USS Clinton

There are two new Navy ships.

USS REAGAN and the USS Clinton

Seeing the USS Reagan next to the Arizona Memorial really puts its size into perspective... ENORMOUS!BEAUTIFUL!

When the Bridge pipes 'Man the Rail' there is a lot of rail to man on this monster: shoulder to shoulder, around 4.5 acres.

Her displacement is about 100,000 tons with full complement.

CapabilityTop speed exceeds 30 knots, powered by two nuclear reactors that can operate for more than 20 years without refueling

1. Expected to operate in the fleet for about 50 years

2. Carries over 80 combat aircraft

3. Three arresting cables can stop a 28-ton aircraft going 150 miles per hour in less than 400 feet

Size1. Towers 20 stories above the waterline

2. 1092 feet long; nearly as long as the Empire State Building is tall

3. Flight deck covers 4.5 acres4.

4 bronze propellers, each 21 feet across, weighing 66,200 pounds

5. 2 rudders, each 29 by 22 feet and weighing 50 tons

6. 4 high speed aircraft elevators, each over 4,000 square feet

Capacity 1. Home to about 6,000 Navy personnel

2. Carries enough food and supplies to operate for 90 days

3. 18,150 meals served daily

4. Distillation plants provide 400,000 gallons of fresh water from sea water daily, enough for 2,000 homes

5. Nearly 30,000 light fixtures and 1,325 miles of cable and wiring 1,400 telephones

6. 14,000 pillowcases and 28,000 sheets

7. Costs the Navy approximately $250,000 per day for pier side operation

8. Costs the Navy approximately $25 million per day for underway operations (Sailor's salaries included).

...and US Navy welcomed the USS Bill Clinton Sunday, July 2, 2006 Vancouver , BC .

Headed for Seattle, WA., the US Navy welcomed the latest member of its fleet today.

The USS William Jefferson Clinton (CVS1) set sail today from its home port of Vancouver , BC.

The ship is the first of its kind in the Navy and is a standing legacy to President Bill Clinton 'for his foresight in military budget cuts' and his conduct while president.

The ship is constructed nearly entirely from recycled aluminum and is completely solar powered with a top speed of 5 knots.

It boasts an arsenal comprised of one (unarmed) F14 Tomcat or one (unarmed) F18 Hornet aircraft which, although they cannot be launched or captured on the 100 foot flight deck, form a very menacing presence.

As a standing order there are no firearms allowed on board.

The 20 person crew is completely diversified, including members of all races, creeds, sex, and sexual orientation.

This crew, like the crew aboard the USS Jimmy Carter, is specially trained to avoid conflicts and appease any and all enemies of the United States at all costs!

An onboard Type One DNC Universal Translator can send out messages of apology in any language to anyone who may find America offensive. The number of apologies are limitless and though some may seem hollow and disingenuous, the Navy advises all apologies will sound very sincere.

The ship's purpose is not defined so much as a unit of national defense, but instead in times of conflict, the USS Clinton has orders to seek refuge in Canada .

The ship may be positioned near the Democratic National Party Headquarters for photo-ops. The Clin-toons Should be very proud.