My life is consumed with one thing. Moving. I've been packing for a month, yet still, there are things EVERYWHERE. Can I burn them? Just set fire to it all and walk away? That's what I really want to do. Today is moving day, and like a good wife, I'm hiding in the basement of the new place blogging while my husband grunts and sweats and does all the heavy lifting back at the old place. When I say I would rather be water boarded than move, it's not a joke. Strap me to the board and start the waterworks. If I can come out of it to a fully furnished and unpacked new home...I'M IN. If you ever feel as if you don't have anything, just try packing up everything you have. Your perspective will change.
To make matters worse, we are simply moving into temporary space while we try to buy a house. Our budget being what it is we will be attempting to buy a foreclosed house to fix up. Listen to this idiocy. So far we've attempted to put offers on two listings, both in serious need of repair and both vacant. The first kept us hanging for 3 months while they tried to negotiate with the bank and the 2nd is being handled by a nitwit who isn't doing his job properly. It appears that no one really cares that these empty properties are simply going to decay even though there are people who can afford to fix them. So if you're wondering why the foreclosed home on your block has been sitting there empty for months, it isn't because no one wants to buy it. They probably are being roadblocked at every turn.
So now we're homeless. Pregnant and homeless. Is that not some sort of minority group I can get sign up for? I guess we're not technically homeless because my gracious parents have taken us in. But I'm still very pregnant, very cranky and have about as much patience as a dog waiting for a steak bone.
The one thing I have found consolation in this week was Dick Cheney's AWESOME speech. He made Obambi look like a whiny child in a debate against Abe Lincoln.
So if you're looking for something with which to procrastinate (like me), this speech deserves a second listen. One of the best parts of the speech is the cremation of the idea that building Guantanamo recruited more terrorists. This is like saying, "having federal prisons creates more crime." Gee, I don't know, I think if there's a bad consequence to lawlessness, lawlessness might recede. But then again, everybody knows Guantanamo was a jihad paradise complete with religiously appropriate meals and aerobics time. So maybe its existence did recruit more terrorists....who were tired of living in caves with no plumbing or fresh water. The only people coming out of Guantanamo Bay with PTSD are our soldiers who weren't allowed to even defend themselves against attacks from prisoners.
This idea that America is somehow "above" torturing our enemies (and I wouldn't call water boarding torture considering Mancow is about to have it done to him on the air) is ridiculous. Let me get this straight. You people think we should avoid intense interrogations to the point of losing our country? Because that's the choice we face. It isn't between torture and peace. It's between torture, and wearing a burqa. So you decide. If you really think Versace is going to make you a flattering burqa that you can dance the night away in (in your blackened-windowed room where no one can see you), then be my guest and keep up your whining about torture by fuzzy caterpillars posing as "stinging insects". I, on the other hand, say GO GET 'EM BOYS because I like my jeans and my SUV and I like being able to drive without a male escort, and I like being able to show my very attractive ankles and I like not having to bow down 5 times a day to some evil moon god, AND I LIKE AMERICA. I don't think we should have to treat our enemies who have killed thousands of us in cold blood with kid gloves and fancy lawyers. @#?! the lawyers and string these guys up for all I care. How is it possible that you can shoot them dead on the battlefield but you can't trick them into thinking they're drowning to find out who the next victims of their jihad are???
This idea that America is always this shining beacon of light because we don't torture people is absurd. It's because we don't torture our own CITIZENS. Not our enemies! What kind of beacon of light could we be to an oppressed world if we won't go after, kill, torture or maim forever their oppressors??? You know how they say America is a "strong" nation? You don't get that reputation by making nicey-nice with dictators and brutal killers. You get that reputation by wiping dictators and brutal murderers off the face of the globe so that the peaceful people on earth can live in peace.
The American symbol is the bald eagle. Much like the woman who jumped into the polar bear tank expecting a warm welcome and got mauled instead, an eagle is not an animal you would want to tangle with. The eagle has talons like switchblades and is a lethal killer. It is no mistake that our nation chose it as our symbol of strength, power, ruthlessness and superiority. You cannot have a country without the will to defend itself and defend itself by all means necessary. And the president of this country had better get on board with the likes of the men who came before him who were willing to make those decisions to ensure the sovereignty of this nation. (A lot of them Democrats, I might add.)
Former leaders of this nation have been willing to use this,
And Obama isn't even willing to use this.
You do the math.
