Earth Day 2009

Today, Earth Day 2009, I pledge to cut down a live tree. I pledge to let my Tahoe run for 10 minutes in the driveway. I pledge to let the lawn tractor run while I am chopping down that tree. I pledge to put a little extra oil in the gas mix to smoke things up a bit. I pledge to put wet leaves in the fire of the live tree I cut down to make it extra smokey.

What are you doing for Earth Day?

My Man Cheney

Way to go Dick! Not Dick Lugar, but Dick Cheney, my favorite politician. I even liked him better than Bush. Seems Obama was selective on which CIA documents to declassify. Only the ones that make the United States look bad. That is Obama's MO. You saw it on his world tour. Always about him, not the United States. Anyway, Cheney fired back at Obama and told him to declassify the documents that told of what great intelligence we got from terrorists who were waterboarded (my favorite), forced to listen to Britney Spears, etc., you know the torture thing. You can bet a million dollars Obama will not release that information. It would make him look bad, but he can a do a pretty good job of doing that to himself.

Way to go Markie

Our favorite congressman, Markie Souder, had done a complete 180 on his position on GM. Does he think we have forgotten last fall? I made several phone calls myself. The gentlemen who answered the phone said the negative response to the automaker bailout had been overwhelming, the same as the TARP. But Markie voted in favor of it. I guess he has been away from Indiana too long.

Obama Raised Taxes!

Obama signed the legislation that raised the tax on a pack of cigarettes for SCHIP.

"I can make a firm pledge," he said in Dover, N.H., on Sept. 12. "Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

He repeatedly vowed "you will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime."

Let's look at who smokes. Alot of the people who do smoke make under the amount set above. Believe me, there will be more and they will be often. I quit smoking three years ago when Indiana did the same.