The Expense Report

Everyone has bills to pay. This is nothing unique or a plea for sympathy. A couple of Saturdays back, one of the neighbor's German Shepherds decided that my twenty-nine pound dog, who was in our fenced yard, was a chew toy. More than $200 in vet expenses later, my little "Bru" is starting to put weight on his front paw again. Now, we have another bill coming to repair our Toyota. All these new and unanticipated charges with a pregnant wife having a four figure medical deductible, and thousands of dollars in expense to make our condo baby-ready. Add in a traffic ticket I did not deserve, and you realize just how fast you blow through your earnings. I think it is time to sell some plasma . . .

Who Knows Saturday

With a baby on the way soon, time is compressed like never before. You think you have had a productive day. You have completed (or at least started) a few essential tasks. Then you encounter an all new challenge. You find you have a car problem. You just hope it is not terminal. Imagine thumbing a ride home from the hospital with a brand new baby (just kidding folks, we would call a cab). Time certainly flies when a couple is transforming into a family.

Crossing Our Boundaries

Millions of illegal aliens are overjoyed to be in the United States. They have come from nations with no social safety net or welfare to a nation that has never given more generous benefits. A little verse: EBT- for you but not for me// EBT- get your stuff for free// Welfare from sea to shining sea// Undercut our wages with foreigners willing to work almost for free// More expense and less opportunity for American-born you have to see. Obama's new math equals me no longer being able to support my own family while being forced to support yours.

Worth Giving Thanks

Whatever flaws the United States has (and there are many), at least there is no wholesale slaughter in the name of religion on our streets. Religious minorities need not concern themselves that someone might decapitate them because they approach faith differently. You can criticize a politician, even the President, in America without fear of being dragged away for sedition or simply disappeared. I am thankful that earlier this month we experienced a mostly free and fair election. I am especially grateful that for the first time in a long time my side won. While the United States is not a perfect nation, while we might not be as free economically and in other aspects of our lives as we once were, we are still freer than most. In a world governed by fear, Americans need not be afraid to speak ill of our political class. Americans may still abstain from worship or pray in the manner we chose to the dictates of our conscience. I am thankful that as a country we are still relatively prosperous and relatively free. I thank the Lord for the Providential blessing of liberty.

Destruction of Nation

In The Washington Times, Stephen Dinan reports that employers will receive a three thousand dollar incentive to hire illegal aliens over US-born workers. According to the liberal Washington Post in a story by Karen Tumulty, our "welcomed guests" could receive Medicare and Social Security. Last night I witnessed a pair of non-English speaking Latins in Walmart with four anchor babies and an EBT card buying more groceries than my wife and I with our and your tax-confiscated dollars. A country is not sovereign when national boundaries are not enforced. No country on earth can give welfare to all the destitute of the earth. Only a foolish nation invites in foreigners who can not make a success of themselves in their own countries. If you want to tear a country apart bring in a bunch of people from abroad who do not speak the native tongue to leech off native-born taxpayers, and stoke racial discontent to boot (see Ferguson). This planned Balkanization is exactly what Obama is doing to the United States of America.

Learning from Ferguson

What have we learned from the Micheal Brown tragedy? Apparently, a certain segment of society has little to no regard for the rule of law. They despise law enforcement officers. They do not respect the property rights of others. They are large and physically-strong with hair-trigger tempers and less self-restraint than most other Americans. They really like to take merchandise without paying for it. They do not know the difference between demonstrating peaceably and rioting. They try to elevate their looting to a struggle for civil rights. They need saturation policing because they refuse to discipline those who are clearly out of line in their own community. Lastly, we have learned that the National Guard must be brought in to restore calm.

New Defense Secretary

Chuck Hagel, a former Republican US Senator, who has served the nation since he was a combat soldier in Vietnam, is apparently being forced out of his current position of Secretary of Defense. I would contend that Hagel has served as Sec Def adequately if not admirably. Anyone Barack Hussein Obama picks to replace him may be worse. If Obama is serious about protecting the nation, he will make an appointment above politics. It is more likely that the appointment will be political. The next Secretary of Defense may be selected to be "historic". It is suggested that appointment will be the first woman to serve as Secretary of Defense, which might be more of a legacy-building step for Obama than an appointment aimed at protecting the nation.