As many of you know, I try to get one letter a month published in the Tacoma News Tribune. I usually wait until the middle of the month so I can be sure I'm writing about the juiciest topic that will stir up the people and hopefully mobilize some of them into action.

Yet here it is, the 29th of the month, and I have not yet submitted a letter. Why? Because every time I pick a scandal to comment on, another pops up right behind it. I simply can't decide what to write about there's so much crap going on right now.

Last week, on national television, Bobo thought he was making a funny when he likened his bowling ability to "watching the Special Olympics". Now, I am by far politically incorrect but this comment really pissed me off. The remark was so outright bigoted and just plain wrong in so many ways yet Bobo was NOT made to apologize and there was NO public outcry. And even if he did apologize, he said it because he was thinking it. Can you imagine if George Bush had said something like, "I can't play basketball because I'm not black"? He would have been burned at the stake.

And what about those weekly White House cocktail parties? You're paying for them, have you received your invitation yet? Why does Bobo continue to get away with not producing his original birth certificate? My mom gave me a copy of my original birth certificate once - it was white lettering on a black background and had all these information boxes - not just the basic mother and father stuff, but the hospital, delivering doctor, weight, length, time, date, etc.

A couple of years ago I was going to Canada and since my birth certificate was packed away, I decided to get a certified copy instead of trying to find the original. I was able to do so online, and the result was a form very similar to the one Bobo submitted: certificate of live birth form with gilded edges, my birthdate, name, gender, city born, mother & father's name and ages at the time, and their respective birthplaces (state only). That's all. No hospital, doctor, weight, length, time, any of that truly certifiable stuff.

Today I turn my computer on and read this headline from MSNBC: GM BOSS TO STEP DOWN AT WHITE HOUSE REQUEST. What??? Bobo insisted on giving them OUR money with no stipulation on how they are to spend it then doesn't approve so he forces a businessman to resign? Don't get me wrong, I'm totally against the bailouts of big business and banks. My problem is, since when does the president get to fire civilians???

My non-partisan neighbor said to me today, "I know, I hate what's going on but there's nothing I can do about it". My answer: HELL YES YOU CAN!!! I am!

I wear my NOBOMA button wherever I go. People walk up to me all the time and say "I like your button!" or "I like your bumper stickers!" I get this every day from people at the grocery store (including some of the checkers and the manager), the feed store, Fred Meyer, even church.

The American people are beginning, rather rapidly, to figure out that Barack Obama is a very dangerous man. He hasn't even made it through the first 100 days and he's managed to screw up every good thing and the progress of racial relations in America. He can't even fill his cabinet! Last I looked, Bobo's ratings dropped to 55 percent vs. the 80 something when he took office.

Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down!

The other night I was watching the movie, Falling Down, with Michael Douglas and Robert Duvall. I've seen it at least ten times, mostly because I identify with the Douglas character. I wish they had left out the whole wife-terrorist subplot of course. But I digress.

In the movie, Bill is having a really bad day. He's been laid off from his white collar job of several years with the Department of Defense ("under-skilled and overqualified, or the other way around"). He gets stuck in traffic on a blistering hot day - the air conditioner in his car is broken and the window won't roll down. His revenge against the traffic jam: he leaves his hunk of junk right there in the middle of the road and takes off on foot to go home.

From there, Bill experiences every irritating thing average conservative Joe & Jane America does but Bill is finally beyond pissed and takes care of things his way. His first encounter is an immigrant merchant that can barely speak English (when the merchant demands an inflated "eighty-fie-cent" for a 12 oz soda, Bill says "Fie? What is fie? I know there's supposed to be a 'v' in the word, the word is fiVe. If you're gonna come to my country at least have the grace to learn our language!") Bill then gives the merchant a lesson in customer service etiquette ("I'm just standing up for my rights as a consumer!") and economics ("I'm rolling back prices to 1965!").


Bill then deals with - and defeats - the various scuzzballs that infect our planet: gangs (he ends up with their gym bag full of guns), a professional bum in a park, generally stupid people at the Whammy-Burger, a neo-nazi homophobic skinhead (whom Bill dispatches with a butterfly knife supplied in the gang's bag), and a wealthy, cranky old fart on a country club golf course that yells at the wrong guy in the wrong mood at the wrong time (the old fart yells at Bill, who is simply trying to pass through the golf course, "Fore!" and launches his Titelist at Bill's head. Bill ducks the shot, jumps up and whips out a machine gun from his gym bag, and yells "FIVE!". The old fart drops dead from a heart attack).


By the way, Falling Down was released in 1993 - Stage I of the Clinton regime.


This movie is not for everyone. Even if you fast-forward through the boring parts (wife-terrorism and Robert Duvall), it's filled with violence and profanity. And it's difficult to not cheer for Bil, even though he is deliberate in his violence against stupid people (hey we can fantasize, right?) Again, if the producers of the movie had left out the entire Robert Duvall storyline, including the wife-terrorism and stupid ending, this guy Bill could be any one of us, right here, right now, ready to snap due to what I have coined "global incompetence".

Republicans: Let's Get the Party (Re) Started!

Dear Fellow R's:



If I'm going to get this blog going, I need a few followers! Please sign up and let me know you've visited... and please... "all" comments are welcome.



My goal is based on Glenn Beck's recent "We Surround Them" special - to encourage neighborhoods to get together and start a real dialogue about our current state and federal government, and what WE THE PEOPLE are going to do to teach them all a good old-fashion lesson.



My Block Captain, Wayne Heigl, is helping me to Get the Party (Re) Started by not only working at the grassroots level with several other groups in various counties, but we plan to go doorbelling within the next couple of weeks around the neighborhood to conduct our own "poll" of the state and federal performance ratings. Non-scientific, and not PCRP sponsored, just a way to get people thinking and talking about the REAL state of our state and union.



I truly believe our time is now. The Constitution is being violated in so many ways. We need to send a CLEAR message to the various members of government that THEY work for US - from the city, to the county, district, state and federal level.

I will post ideas for questionnaires and neighborhood "coffee" meetings in the near future.

Everybody needs to give this movement an open mind and get involved.

Take good care, and God Bless America, and ALL Americans!

Breezie

Wendy Lake
PCRP PCO 02-026
breeziepond@msn.com

My first blog. Wonder if it works.


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To my fellow R's:
The time to get out there and defeat the liberals is NOW. If we all did half the things we talk about doing (over and over ad nauseum), we could be kicking some serious democratic ass (pun intended).

The time to strike is NOW. This off-election year is going to make or break the Republican party. The American people are starting to see the light - sort of - and realizing Bobo may not be the messiah after all. After 50 days in office, this puppet has already managed to undo all the good GWB did. Ok, so George whipped up a couple of devestating hurricanes, caused the Minneapolis bridge collapse, plotted 9/11, and coerced an entire congress (and the UN) into voting for war. Talk about the messiah... GWB was the most feared president for the libs ever - right after Ronald Reagan. Why? Because they were strong leaders that weren't afraid to mix it up for the good of not only the American people, but human beings across the planet.

We need to get organized; come together as cliche as that sounds. My block captain and I have some things in the works. Watch this site for more info.

Thanks for checking out my new blog, please check back frequently. Your input is welcome.

Take good care,

Wendy L