Mrs. Elmo Says, "Sneeze like this!"

I ask this question in regard to a news story out of Washington D.C. today; is it your obligation to twist your body and possibly pull a muscle or pinch a nerve in order to use this "new" method of sneezing?

The preferred method of sneezing today should be the one leg behind your head while standing on the other leg. Some of you, I know I do, prefer the method of women lifting their skirts over their heads when sneezing and men to lift their shirts over their heads to prevent their deadly viral spew from entering into the breathing space of their fellow citizens.

Are these people (in the government) crazy? When have you ever seen anyone use this method of sneezing? Be thankful that the sneezer, who prompted the Kathleen Sebelius demonstration, did so in his hand and didn't just let it fly. She then went on to insult the sneezer (NBC White

House reporter Chuck Todd) by suggesting that Sesame Street's Elmo could give Todd a special briefing.

Thank you so much for the correct method of sneezing instruction Mrs. Elmo.

This method of sneezing is as unnatural as socialism in a republic. I recommend sneezing into a zip lock plastic bag (biodegradable of course) and deposit it in a biohazard trash bin.

Critical Thinking

By Bruce Anderson

Have you heard the same talking points and political rhetoric come out of the mouths of people arguing over current political issues? Or even stating that they hate some news commentator or radio talk show host? I have. So when I heard this "informed view" I asked this verbose person, "Have you ever read his books, listened to his radio program or watched his cable show?

Or have you read his magazine or even visited his web site? What do you know about this person?" There was nothing but silence. No reply at all. In the days that followed, this person again voiced his uninformed position with the same conviction as he had just a few days earlier.

People from both sides of issues who spew talking and rhetoric are nothing more than political automatons. Fully invested in the paradigm of blind faith that they are right just because they think they are. A belief without the benefit of evidence to support that position, when proof exists to the contrary. How can you argue with "feelings"?

By arming yourself with knowledge and by basing your arguments on fact not "feelings" you will be on the road to becoming a critical thinker. No longer will you be using circular logic. Phrases like "I feel" or "I think" to punctuate or lend credence to your positions will fall away from your discussions. You will start to weigh the facts you have gathered and form your own opinions and those talking points or party rhetoric will no longer be regurgitated by you.

Instead of stating, as fact, that someone is a fat stupid idiot you will focus on their actions. When anyone, no matter the party affiliation, starts launching verbal personal attacks at you because you do not "feel" or "think" exactly as they do their argument will be forfeit. In the absence of a viable argument your opponent can only walk away or descend into name calling in a feeble attempt to dehumanize you.

Nations conduct themselves in this manner. By dehumanizing your enemy you have made them less than you, monsters. It's always easier to kill a monster. That is one way nations can turn a population of normally peaceful citizens into monster killers.

By dehumanizing our fellow citizens it makes it easier for "special interest groups" to launch vicious verbal attacks against them. Right thinking people use this tactic every day to discount opposing views. Those who insist on verbally abusing an opponent have retreated from the high ground to focus on slogging through the mud in their strategy of trench warfare.

You will have come into your own and thereby shed the indoctrination of the group think which has held sway over you and your freedom to think for yourself. The fresh air of individual thought will fill your mind with clarity and sometimes confusion. Your will, will be your own. No longer driven with the herd in this direction or that as thunder claps around them. The direction chosen will be selected by you and you alone.

No longer will you discount others humanity because they do not think as you do. They will again rejoin the human race and will cease to be "Fascist's", "racist", "war mongers", "corporate toadies" or "homophobes". They will become magically transformed from something less than human back into human beings and fellow citizens who see things through their unique life experiences and beliefs.

I implore you all to think for yourselves and I would ask you not to subject me to the echoes of others.

Whistle Blower Alert in Tucson AZ

By Bruce Anderson

Lisa Robles wrote the following comment in response to the Tucson Tea Party Robert Mayer's article “Budget Cuts or Recall: A Simple Choice for the City Council”
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May 7, 2009 at 1:44 am

Lisa Robles says:

"I worked for the City of Tucson for 2 yrs, in the communications dept. I ran cable in the 911 call center and worked on police cars (radios and computers). The communications dept. is also responsible for the emergency communication towers around Tucson. This dept. was SMALL in comparison to most city departments. And I witnessed millions of dollars of waste. (THEFT) I was told by the president of the Union for the city that this TYPE of waste went on in every single department!!!!


At every tower, there’s a small building that holds all the electronic equipment (fiber optics, electronic boards etc.) These electronic boards cost between $15k to $150k each. There are anywhere from a few boards to fifty plus per building, depending on the towers purpose.

The Engineer’s told management over and over that the boards that they were ordering would NOT work. These boards are made to spec. and cannot be returned. Management told the engineer’s to use them anyway. Of course they didn’t work and needed to be re-ordered (and paid for again). Now, you might say there’s incompetence everywhere, right? Not when you change the SAME damn boards, in the SAME damn building ten plus times in a row for the same reason. Do you get what I’m trying to tell you?


I say, audit every single government entity local, state and federal, and then prosecute the thieves!!!! Government corruption is TREASON and should be dealt with as such!!!!"
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If this is what our elected officials do at the city level just imagine the amount of waste and fraud that occurs on the county, state and national levels.


It doesn't matter what bills are passed, the sheer weight of corruption and waste on a scale of this magnitude will send the country into bankruptcy.

Today's Vernacular Nonsense

In a local diner a regular customer asks,“Waitress, could I have the eggs over easy please.” “You sure can sweetie. Over easy coming right up.” Minutes later, “Here ya go sweetie, enjoy.” “Waitress, I ordered over easy these are cooked right through. It was a simple order. What’s the matter with you? I just wanted my eggs runny. Why did you bring me the wrong order? You must be a fascist.”


In another part of town, “What do you mean you disagree with me? You must be a racist."


Down the block, “You aren’t for the Obama Health care Reform? You must be an AstroTurf, un-American, racists, war mongering, fascists, political terrorists, traitor, right-wing nut job.”

Back at the diner, “Here’s your runny eggs sweetie.” "Thanks you little Nazi.”

Obamacare Resurrected...Heal!

I attended the September 1st Tucson town hall meeting on health care reform. The auditorium held a capacity crowd of 1200 people. The overflow crowd was at least another 2,000. As a witness to this event, I would estimate that 90% of that crowd was against this Obamacare legislation. Rep. Giffords stated the there were at least 20 versions of this legislation floating around congress. She also stated the she would not vote for any bill which did not include a "pay-go" provision in it. Where is that money going to come from?

The concerned audience wondered why the government wanted to reinvent the health care system instead of passing tort reform. As insurance is commerce, which falls under Congressional powers, pass federal laws which enable insurance companies to sell their insurance across state lines. And while they are at it, eliminate Medicare fraud estimated to be $60 billion and growing.

Do you really want the government to reinvent something they created which has been proven to be wasteful and inefficient? TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) was created to buy up the financial instructions "toxic assets", how much of the $700 billion and $150 in congressional bribes for their votes went to buy those "toxic assets"? Zero! Not one penny of that "have to pass right now" bill went for "toxic assets". And you trust them to dismantle a working medical system and replace it with what?

This government diverts funds from Social Security, The Stimulus Package and God knows what else in their four book accounting system. I pray that you would utilize some critical thinking before you give this government the thumbs up for increasing our country’s' by even one penny. Wake up already! They never fix the problems, they pass place holder problems so they'll have something in the future to activate the base with and to acquire yet more public funds and power. The government grows, it never shrinks.

ACORN, RICO, OUCH!

By Bruce Anderson

I have been calling for the complete defunding of ACORN ever since their employees were arrested, indicted and sentenced for voter registration fraud in the 2008 general election. We now have evidence that ACORN has allegedly engaged other criminal activities, the same activities in multiple states...or interstate criminal activity.
Let me think for a minute. I believe that we have a law which covers this kind of criminal activity. Do you know what that law is? I'll wait while you look it up on the internet.

Still waiting.

Still waiting.

Have you got it? If not then I'll tell you, it's the RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) Act. We've had this law on the books the entire time ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform) has allegedly been involved in their criminal activities. In fact the law predates any wrong doing that ACORN may have been engaged in. And it is within the purview of the FBI to investigate those violations. I guess they must have been busy with something else or they never saw the television news reporting of those alleged illegal voter registration fraud cases in multiple states or read the newspaper articles about those cases. Guess they just didn't put it together that ACORN was in most states and that those indictable violations of voter laws happened in multiple states at the same time. I wonder what they were doing.

It couldn't be that the RICO is applicable to only mobsters or members of organized crime in Chicago could it? No, wait...ACORN is in Chicago so that can't be it.
OUCH (Organized Unindicted Criminal Hooligans) of ACORN should be investigated by the FBI under the RICO Act to prove or disprove their involvement in interstate criminal activities.
It would appear that from a tiny bad ACORN a gigantic corrupt criminal organization has grown.