YOU CAN DO IT!

THE WAY I SEE IT . . .

By Bill Horton

3/2/2008

It feels as if Jimmy Carter is back or something. Our circumstances don’t seem too bad but you think your neighbor might not be doing so well so you think everything is going to hell in a hand basket. Is it bad for you? Is everything going bad everywhere?

I don’t think so. I still think America is great. I see promise not doom and gloom. Sure, I could watch the news and see what Wolf Blitzer thinks but he is getting paid to tell you the world sucks unless you vote for Hillary or B. Hussein Obama.

I don’t care what they say. This is the country that has Chuck Yeager. That has to be good!

We are heading into an election that doesn’t look too promising at best.

An imagination can save a kid still today. If a kid can imagine it then the kid needs to be encouraged to go do it! If you can think it, you can do it. It cannot be done behind the controls of a Playstation though.

Kids need the drive to go farther, faster, stronger and better. If they think “it don’t matter” it simply won’t.

Sure call me what you like. Dreams make the world a better place. Pessimism makes losers feel better, look how pessimism makes a dreamer look when the dream is realized though. That’s right, it looks amazing for the dreamer to win or achieve because everyone else thought it couldn’t be done.

Schools spend so much time these days telling kids what they can’t do. I don’t mean to say make them all starry eyed fools that think they can breathe water but teach them the importance of imagining something and working toward a goal or dream. If they don’t accomplish the big dream there are things along the way that can be pretty satisfying.

I saw most of the old movie “The Right Stuff” this morning and I just got a little carried away. Astronauts got me through my school years and beyond. Flight and flying have kept me enthusiastic and upbeat about accomplishing just about anything.

Isn’t there something out there that grabs the imagination anymore? I bet there is.

GET YOUR LIBERALS HERE!

By Bill Horton

1/4/2008

Welcome to 2008!

2007 was a pretty good year and this one is lined up to be special indeed!

We are past the Iowa Caucuses, and what do you know? We have B. Hussein Obama out in front from the Dems!

Mike Huckabee is the frontrunner for the Republicans. Huckabee does nothing for me. The only one in the race that interests me is Fred Thompson. McCain, Hilary and Giuliani are for the same thing.

The tax plan Huckabee wants to throw at us would increase the price of EVERYTHING you buy 23 percent the next day!

The “Change Train” has left the station. B. Hussein Obama and Hillary are the engineers of change this time around. If you voted for Democrats in 2006 get ready for this go round. First thing Obama wanted to do was attack Pakistan and pull out of Iraq. Isn’t that neat? A liberal that understands that any attacks by Democrats are okay. Any war started by a Republican is wrong. Psst-Vietnam was wholly owned by Democrats, Nixon ended it!

I have settled in down here in the area of the Big Easy. Life is pretty good. Always looking but going pretty fair so far.

What are you all thinking out there? Are you ready for another leftist President? Is it time to open the borders and for America to surrender in Iraq? I only mentioned Iraq because we all know that the troops in Bosnia were sent there by Bill Clinton and that makes that one ok, right? If we surrender in Iraq we will need to bring all troops from all over the world because of the attacks that would soon follow from our friends from the “Religion of Peace”!

Are you getting what you hoped for?

The largest tax increase in American history is on its way to taxpayers near you!

I want to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you that voted “for change” for the opportunity to waste more of my money by handing it to a bloated federal government. If the money was to go to the war effort then I would have no problem, but NO this is going to non-emergency “entitlement” spending.

How many of you have your panties in a wad over the firing of the eight U. S. Attorneys? Did you know that they come and go with much regularity and that firing them and replacing them is a regular occurrence?

Iran has taken British Marines in captivity and violated the Geneva Conventions. Oh wait, as part of the mandate of last November only we have to follow Geneva Conventions not A SINGLE ONE OF OUR ENEMIES right?

Folks, the “I told ya so’s” are far too easy at this point. I hope the tax increases and the proposed surrender in Iraq are what you hoped for. I would go back should I be called upon to do so but for the most part those that have not served need not fear combat in Iraq. It is quite simple. Have you heard that the surge has worked well enough in the early stages that people are coming back to Baghdad and actually having street carnivals celebrating the fact? My guess is no but it is true nonetheless.

Obama and Mrs. Bill Clinton have having a little tiff out there, which one are you going to vote for? I think I will wait for a candidate I like to enter the fray. I am hoping to see Senator Fred Thompson jump in. He distinguished himself in the Senate from Tennessee as a solid conservative. Newt Gingrich would be my first choice but Newt is a bit of an academic and not a great people person.

I hope the time for America hating is nearly passed. We need people to come together and not for the purpose of strengthening welfare!

America is the land of opportunity and she is good to all comers, legal and illegal. The illegals are driving healthcare costs artificially high but “compassion” is driving the free care for illegals to which YOU are not entitled.

Something has to change folks. The CHANGE that you got “ain’t” quite what most of you bargained for. You are going to pay higher taxes and you will see more programs for illegals, folks that didn’t follow the rules. Do you tell your kids that you support some foreigner breaking the law but insist that your children follow it to the letter? Seems wrong somehow doesn’t it?

I went to breakfast this morning as the little one’s school and I saw the future. I had breakfast at Cypress Cove Elementary School. A great school with a great staff teaching kids well. Property tax is paying of r that and I am actually getting my moneys worth for once.

Are you getting what you are paying for?

And they're OFF!

By Bill Horton
3/2/2007

    The Presidential race is off!

    Do you have a favorite?  I don't, not yet. I am
waiting for a conservative to enter the race.

    McCain lost his mind 2000, Giuliani isn't what I
have in mind.  Romney? Not ready for a shape shifter.
Newt Gingrich would be my pick put I don't feel like
getting into this crap just yet.

    Today is my day off, I slapped in some old Steely
Dan and thought of Ft. Lauderdale FL.  I went there a
long time ago on my first plane ride.  I remember
riding around in a rental listing to the “pop” music
of the day.  Steely Dan, Boz Scaggs, you know, the
late 70's.  The Hotel across the street from where we
stayed was a “disco”  The music was very loud at
night.  That was the first time I saw helicopters with
spot lights looking for folks on the ground.  They
would fly along the canals at night.  Pretty wild.

    Anyway, the race for the White House hasn't
grabbed me yet.  Do you have a favorite?  Is Hillary
the one?  How about Osama Obama?  Excuse the Ted
Kennedy quote there.

    The sun is breaking through here and it is
looking good only about 65 right now but should hit
the high 70's in our winter wonderland!

    The little one “can't wait til April” so she can
swim everyday after school.

    So, sorry for the scatter-brained piece today but
I am just not feeling the political thing today.

   I hope all is going well across these United
States wherever else  this my end up.

   How about the stock market huh?  Barnanke says all
is well, he is right.  There were some folks that
started with some tight margins Monday and made a ton
of money selling off some over priced, over inflated
stock.  A little profit taking, from time to time, is
not so bad.

    I hope you got yours and all is well out there.

Eat the RICH!

By Bill Horton
2/1/2007

Climate change is all the buzz these days. Do you buy it?

Is global warming, as stated by the wacko groups, really the threat that it is being hyped up to be?

Is global warming causing ice storms in Texas this year? Is it causing record cold spells throughout the country and the world.

There is a region in france that is hoping for an increase in climate. Their thinking is that their wine grapes will be far better withy a warmer climate. Liberalism is chock full of crisis. These folks like to think that everything they do not understand is a terrible crisis.

I believe that even if the climate is on the climb man has either to adapt or face extinction.

The fate of the planet is not likely to be in my hands. I firmly believe that should my maker see the need to end the Earth then that is beyond my control.

This makes me want to delve deeper into what makes liberalism so insane, so silly. I do not hate the world around me. I do not despise the amount of money a CEO can make should said CEO lead an organization to highly profitable times. I do not hold a grudge against millionaires, in fact, I look at them and try to figure out and angle. An angle by which I can “gets mines”.

Seriously, I don't get why money is hated by the libs. The “poster-child” libs all have plenty and they are loved and adored. I guess they are the leaders and they deserve to be loaded but everyone else must live poor. They have one hell of a public relations firm because no one seems to notice that the ones whining the loudest about money to executives are often worth as much or more than the exec!

I know that there are those out there that experience great jealousy when talking about the wealthy. Why be jealous? Do you begrudge folks the right to earn weath? Do you believe that you earn what you make? Do you believe that you contribute to the world around you? If you do then why would you begrudge someone else their compensation for the degree to which another contributes. Do you judge others to be less worthy based on the job they do to get paid?

I believe that all of the hand-wringing and jealousy is ginned up by lib politicos and the willing media to keep the poor needy to the government rather than promote self-reliance and self-sufficiency.

I hope there is no jealousy of wealth in this crowd. I hope that each of you has what you want and live as you choose. If not, what would you like to do? If you can imagine what you would like to do, what is stopping you?

Just food for thought.

GOD save the King!

By Bill Horton
1/31/2007

Move to Venezuela if you want the government to
guarantee you a “way of life”.

Hugo Chavez is proclaiming himself the ruler by
decree of Venezuela! Thats right, health care for
all, work camps, gulags the whole shebang! The place
to be if you are a leftist idealist and do not want to
make a way for yourself. Pacify the weak Hugo, they
will praise you forever!

Thank God it “ain't” quite that easy to do here
or it would have been done already. Catchy phrases
run day in and day out in the New York Times and
spouted off by Anderson Cooper and Judy Woodruff get
used in elections swaying the masses. It still
doesn't work on everyone.

I am making my own way. I do not want the
government handing me anything. Nothing comes without
strings from the all caring federal establishment.
You get “free” health care they get to tell you when,
where and how you will be treated.

I can see how happy lefties would be in Venezuela
now, Hugo is going to tax second homes, he will tax
the second or third cars and high incomes
significantly. Hilary, go serve Hugo, leave us alone!
Take the rest of your pack with you, introduce those
people to your Utopian Socialist State. Your thinking
and that of King Hugo I is nearly the same. Your
hatred for President Bush is identical.

As a matter of fact, in the segment on this
mornings news, the people of Venezuela claim that all
of their hopes and dreams are in Hugo Chavez. He has
a million man army marching through the streets with
imaginary rifles preparing for an invasion from Los
Estados Unidos! (The United States for those of you
that don't habla).

So there you have it. CITGO will be owned by a
Socialist Dictator! Will that be enough for the Navy
Exchange to drop them as their supplier?

I will talk to you individually if you would like
to get you ticket now for HUGOLAND!

War Weary my ass!

By Bill Horton
1/11/2007

I did a search on Yahoo for “War Weary America” and guess what I found out? There are supposedly many Americans that are “weary” of the war. To this I say TOUGH! As heard on the EIB Network, I also say GROW UP, the only people that know what war weary means are the people that have been there or their families. I do not have one ounce of sympathy for a person who is “weary” from watching the war on TV.

Folks, this is crap. The military folks in this fight are asking to fight. They are they because they want to be. They did not ask to go to Iraq but they said I will do this for my country, for what ever reason. People are doing it, they are volunteering to do the job!

Warriors can be war weary, their families can be war weary but the folks watching Katie Couric that have no chip in the game CANNOT BE WAR WEARY! These same people put the Democrats in office with the intention of de-funding the war and leaving our troops hanging! Cut and run America, we are going to leave before a victory is achieved if those of you that are “War Weary” get what you want.

America IS becoming a weak nation. There is no recorded history showing surrender as a victory. Surrender tells your opponent that you don't ave the heart to fight them and they will come to our shores!

The President may be the most hated man in America but he is the only person inside the Capital Beltway that appears to have the balls to fight an enemy that truly wants to destroy us completely!