Sneaking in to Disneyland

Yesterday, President Obama made a big mess. He just told illegal aliens that they can stay without fear of being deported. And then he had the nerve to say that he was doing this because he just wanted to work with Congress and for them to send him a bill to sign.

Uh... what?

Why now, Mr. President? If you are really serious about working with Congress to pass immigration reform, you would wait until the newly elected Congress takes office in January. Or you would have done this when your party had control of the House and Senate.

You say you only want to deport the "criminals," but you seem to ignore the fact that ALL of these people have broken our laws by entering into our country illegally, which makes them ALL criminals.

As the son of a LEGAL immigrant who did it the right way and worked hard to do so, I take great offense at this, President Barack Obama.

When my kids asked me awhile back about illegal "immigrants," I put it into terms they could understand: We went to Disneyland last year. We paid (and paid dearly) to go there. We bought our tickets and went through the gates. We are like legal immigrants and citizens of the United States.

Illegals are people who may pay to get to Anaheim, but then they sneak over the wall of Disneyland because they just want to provide a better time for their family. They ride the same rides we ride, eat the same food and have the same fun we do. But they broke the rules to get in.

Now, what if the Disney corporation decided to say "it's okay if you sneak in - we won't kick you out. In fact, go ahead and go to the front of the line. AND you get free food and drinks while you're here, too."

How would YOU feel if you paid to go to Disneyland and someone who wasn't even supposed to be there got to cut in line in front of you, time after time, after time?

Even kids can understand that it's not right and that it would be very frustrating.

It's pretty much the same with illegals.

The Real Face of Pure Hate

You wanna read what actual hate look alike? Forget all the times the lefties have accused conservatives of hate just because we have a fundamental disagreement with them about something.

If you want pure hate on display, look no further than the readers of the Huffington Post.

In a recent article on the Huffington Post, it was reported that radio and television commentator Glenn Beck had lost his voice due to vocal cord paralysis. In a ten minute video, he apologized for a lot of things and communicated some pretty introspective thoughts. He attacked no one. And he didn't claim that God had done this to him.

But check out some of the comments on the story to the Huffington Post story:

Makos62: Glenn, this is God...shut up, or I make it permanent.

Mokus622: Thank you Jesus!!!! Please let this be permanent......

Periwinkle: Wow - I might get religion. Is this the hand of God at work??

crtt63: How appropriate! Who said God doesn't have a sense of humor.

IrishRed1952: Too bad it isn't permanent

admin001: I am struggling with my better side to crank out some compassion for Glenn....

Ah forget it...thanks to The Powers That Be for shutting this Yakker's yap for a while.

gratnam: Almost makes me believe there is a God.

Kristi Winters: Hopefully it was contagious and Glenn caught it at the NRA conference.

iMissMollyIvins: It was caused by 'the gays', 'the abortionists', and single mothers.

...and on and on and on.

I want you to remember this the next time someone claims that conservatives are the ones who are intolerant and filled with hate.

Sickening.

Secret Government E-mails

From AP News:

Some of President Barack Obama's political appointees, including the Cabinet secretary for the Health and Human Services Department, are using secret government email accounts they say are necessary to prevent their inboxes from being overwhelmed with unwanted messages, according to a review by The Associated Press. 

The secret email accounts complicate an agency's legal responsibilities to find and turn over emails in response to congressional or internal investigations, civil lawsuits or public records requests because employees assigned to compile such responses would necessarily need to know about the accounts to search them. Secret accounts also drive perceptions that government officials are trying to hide actions or decisions. 

"What happens when that person doesn't work there anymore? He leaves and someone makes a request (to review emails) in two years," said Kel McClanahan, executive director of National Security Counselors, an open government group. "Who's going to know to search the other accounts? You would hope that agencies doing this would keep a list of aliases in a desk drawer, but you know that isn't happening."

It's getting harder and harder to not become a conspiracy nut.

The Biggest Scandal in Washington

IRS-gate. Benghazi-gate. What's the other one? There's just so many right now... Oh yeah- First Amendment-gate. There's a lot of stuff going on in Washington right now. So what's the biggest?

They all are, honestly, because they're all pieces of a larger puzzle that's just starting to come together.

But if you want to know what the most un-covered, most insidious and possibly the most troubling scandal in Washington is, just do a Google search for "SEAL Team 6 killed" and read some of the unanswered questions surrounding the deaths of the team that killed Bin Laden. Read what their families are saying and the questions they're asking. And then ask why no answers are forthcoming.

At best, it was wholesale incompetence on the part of military commanders playing politics that killed these brave men. At worse it was murder by the government to silence them. I think the truth is somewhere in between.

But it's still awful.