Ranting... there is just too much material out there!

It’s feeling more like a rant than a rational discussion this morning, but sometimes things just make you mad, because they should make you mad.

- First on the list is my former governor and current Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano. Last week she upset me with the report warning of right wing extremists, which also disparaged returning veterans. As if they didn’t have enough to deal with returning home from a war zone! Now she is saying that being an illegal alien, meaning the act of crossing the United State border… is not a crime! Hello? How frightening is it when the head of the DHS doesn’t know that it is a CRIMINAL OFFENSE to cross the border illegally. That’s why they need to be called “illegal aliens”, just to remind everyone that they committed a crime when they came here. Again, I have no problem with immigration, just have enough respect to follow the law.

You know I thought it was bad that cabinet appointees weren’t following the tax code, but it seems even worse to have a Secretary of Homeland Security that doesn’t even understand immigration law!

President Obama has coined this as “the most ethical administration in history”, but I think we should amend that to “the most CLUELESS administration in history”. And that is being VERY kind.

- The second on the list is the whole Miss USA scandal. Regardless of the question and answer, which I of course agreed with her response; why on earth is this lib, gay, blogger, gossip… FREAK judging a beauty pagent? I can name a million guys more qualified who would have been THRILLED to fill that spot. The moron doesn’t even go by a real name, he goes by a parody of the name of a famous person. What is THAT all about?

- According to Senate rules, members are suppose to avoid even the hint or perception of unethical behavior. So when Senator Diane Feinstein goes out of her normal realm of influence to make sure that a firm receives a substantial chunk of bailout money… and it just so happens that her husband just received a contract from that company… doesn’t that smack of at LEAST a hint of unethical behavior? Why isn’t this front page news? Why isn’t she being censured? Let’s GO people!

- Taxes. If it takes over ten thousand pages to describe your tax code then something is seriously, SERIOUSLY wrong. Recently a friend of mine explained that his company changed their bonus calculations to include multiple variables, none of which were really measureable by the employee, most of which were subjective, and the standards of which were non-existent. I explained that if somebody makes something that complicated they are just preparing you for the fact that they are going to hose you out of whatever money they can. The same goes with the tax code. It doesn’t need to be complicated, but when you have every possible special interest asking for their own particular inserts in the code and special provisions written in for certain constituencies and voting blocks, you can bet the average citizen is getting HOSED. If President Obama really wants to score some points and add transparency to government, he will throw the tax code out and start from scratch. If something is overly complicated there is a REASON for it.

- I started a diet competition yesterday, but I almost pulled out after I saw the story blaming FAT PEOPLE for global warming. I almost wanted to get FATTER! But I’ll refrain. I’m not losing weight for the earth worshippers, I’m doing it for my health and my family.

Unfortunately that’s not all, but I’ve got to stop. It’s not good to type angry, my computer is having enough problems as it is.