The year in review

By Bill Horton
12/29/2006

Wow! 2006 is nearly a bit on the ash pile of
history.

When this year started I was living in frozen
Western Washington. Driving on icy highways to and
from work 80 miles a day. Now I am driving about a
mile both ways.

I have changed everything this year. I no longer
have my little Porsche, I live in America's little
banana republic, Louisiana. “Not the South of North
America but the North of South America.”

My previous employer was rather strict on “sick
days”, I actually am accruing sick time with this
employer. There are interesting prospects on the
horizon as well.

Personally, things are going pretty well. I
took a dramatic pay cut to retire but things are
looking pretty good here. I don't know anyone that is
NOT doing well anymore. This is by far not an
affluent part of the country but most folks here
realize they have to make do with what they have and
not rely on “big brother” for a handout.

I am firmly embedded in the middle-class and damn
happy about it. I wish I could have kept the tax cuts
but for some reason they weren't meant to be, folks
decided to vote them down this past November. C'est
la vie! I make less money now so i will obviously pay
less in federal income tax.

Craw fish are coming into season and the weather
here is a bone chilling 65 degrees today BRRRRRRRR!

New Years 2007, looks interesting. I hope to
make a fortune and live happily ever after, me my
family and a tax shelter here and there should that
fortune come our way! #$@& the federal income tax!

For 2007 I wish each of you all of the best of
life and prosperity in all your pursuits!

"Mr. President, we must surrender."

By Bill Horton
12/7/2006

The Iraq Study Group has reached it's conclusion. We should pull out and turn Iraq over to the guardians of peace in the region, Iran and Syria.

You guessed it folks surrender.

Surprised? I voted for Lee Hamilton once when I was an Indiana resident. Twenty plus years later I still regret that move. Had he been unseated then perhaps he would have lacked the credence to lend his name to the “Blame
Bush for 9/11 commission and the Iraq Study Group.

James Baker III has washed his credibility as far as I am concerned. He sucked up to America's enemies and now he is bowing down before Iran and Syria pulling for a “redeployment” of American forces.

Thank GOD in Heaven that President Bush actually has the fortitude NOT to surrender as nearly every has signaled we should do!

I am recalling helicopters pulling people out of Saigon.

I suppose that America simply can't stomach a war. Surrender is becoming the theme and that worries me. My children will grow in a world where teachers will extol the virtues of failure and quitting instead of standing up to bullies and thugs!

If WE fail in the War on Terror we will surely fall from glory as a nation. The world expects us to bow down and so we shall if Congress and the Iraq Study Group have their way.

Please privately pray for President Bush, for he has “popular opinion” against him in a dire time for freedom. There are many that cannot handle the “death toll” on the Evening News and believe it should all end.

I pray that the President does not surrender as the Democrats and “The American People” have asked for.

By Bill Horton
12/1/2006

The venerable 9/11 commission's numero uno recommendation (substitute: demand) was that Congress reform and become more open to scrutiny. The Democrats ran against President Bush in 2004 with vigor claiming they would “take the 9/11 commission report literally should they be “installed”.

I am nearly gleeful to report that they have decided NOT to do what they said they would do and follow the report literally. Surprised? Seeker, er um I mean Speaker-to-be Pelosi will not be asked about this as she is a media darling so you heard it hear first, maybe second or third but you heard it here!

I learned today just why the UN will not do anything about the killing in Darfor Sudan. The killers are Arabs. Their hands are tied, they cannot anger the Arabs. They would get involved if the killing could somehow be linked to Israel or the United States but not the peace-loving Arabs. The people of The Sudan have likely angered the peace-loving Arabs and therefore, not unlike the United States, must be made to atone for their misdeeds. Let the mass killing continue unfettered, it is obviously Allah's wish.

Oh yes, for all of you out there that were hoping I was wrong about the Dems and taxes? I wasn't, they have a plan that is called a tax cut. In the Washington Times today a story runs with the headline, “Democrats to offer permanent tax cut”, you should read the piece. It will be a deduction on your annual “gift” to the IRS. Of course it won't be on the 2006 return or any other actually because they have to be able to make it happen before they assume power. As Rush noted today, this will most certainly spark a rise in tuition cost as the libs run the major schools! You will get a ten percent increase in tuition and will be able to deduct a portion of that already astronomical cost from an astronomical tax bill, yippee. This must have been a concession from Charlie Rangel who has stated very publicly that he will not let a single one of the Bush tax cuts stand.

Now for the entertainment news! Eric Clapton has teamed up with longtime singer/songwriter J. J. Cale for an album entitled “The road to Escondido”. I believe that I read it was a place in Mexico but if it was the one in San Diego County I would prefer not taking that road. The “5” Northbound to Escondido CA is more like a parking lot than a highway but the trip would be long enough to hear a full-length album! Any who, good music on that one, I listened to the preview on J. J.'s website, I have teens, can't afford a CD.

Ciao!