Sequestration: putting things in perspective

Let’s face it, Mr Obama in DC is doing his level best to ensure that the maximum “hurt” is placed upon the Taxpayers, Proles, Groundlings and Serfs due to the heinous “sequestration” that he first demanded.  A “hurt” on dolemites and parasites?  Not so much.

Initially, Mr Obama was stupid enough to state in public, heard by southern Fornicalia Representative John Campbell, that White House tours were halted at the request of the US Secret Service — way back on March 5th.  This was because of their vast expense: $16,000 per week.  The White House spends $16,000 per week on door-shutting and toilet-flushing. This declaration was puerile and immature, in its best light.

Because, after all, at its foundation, Mr Obama quite isn’t responsible for anything.  He is simply a small and miniscule leaf caught in the cascading torrent of the Evil Republican waters!  Poor him!

Uh, no.  Mr Obama, that’s called a LIE.  YOU, sir, could have — at any time — made a request that, in the interest of the public and “for the children,” the White House tours were inviolate.   Untouchable.  Sacrosanct.  But no.  You purposely chose to close the tours and let the USSS be the public “sacrificial lamb” because you, sir, have not the slightest molecule of scruples or morals or balls.  It was time to make the “children” “suffer” and “hurt.”  Good job with that, sir.  Mission accomplished!

Today, it was announced that 149 smaller FAA-controlled aircraft towers would be shut down due to that heinous “sequestration” word.  Again, an attempt to hurt the Little People.

Because, after all, the Big People “still have theirs.”  Their Big Jets.  Ooooh, such nice and big jets!  Quiet!  Powerful!  Such nice jets with no interference from Groundlings or Proles or Serfs or Taxpayers with their insignificant little and bothersome questions!  The DC Superiors still have their nice and big and powerful and private jets!

Air Force One Mini Series:  On Board Air Force One NGCUS  - Ep Code: 4206Look at the big plane!  People in suits!  Big cars!  Red carpets!

Shall the DC Elite ever have to fly in public jets?  No, hok-ptui!  No, I say!  They are above mixing and mingling with the Terribly Unwashed!  How could you ever think of making such a demand??!!?

They need their free Senate Barbers!  They need their free Private Credit Unions!  It is a rich and important history that the perfumed princes and princesses receive their due share!

After all — they are much better than you or me!

And rest assured our DC politicians squander not one damned penny of your hard-earned taxpayer cash!

VP Joe Biden and his entourage deserved every bit of its $459,388.65 hotel bill rung up in London this February.  We must remember: it takes a lot of detailed and concerned care to maintain such delicate hair plugs as displayed on the pate of Mr Biden.

Further, Mr Biden’s one-night stay at the Hotel Intercontinental Paris Le Grand tabbed up to $585,000.50 (fitty-cen’ for the Concierge tip from Mr Biden).

As with you, I am clearly thinking: this is indeed money well spent!

Screw the damned kids.  They just don’t know where the priorities need to be set in the current administration.

BZ

 

 

Leaving the coast

P14I’ve been on the Fornicalia coast in Mendocino County for the past ten days on vacation with my wife, posting from a rental house overlooking the Mendocino Headlands.  Originally to have occurred in early February — but my wife had a school to attend and I had other projects at work — we had to delay our vacation by a full month.  I plan our vacations roughly a year in advance.

We’ll be leaving tomorrow (I’m writing this on Wednesday for a Thursday post, because I’ll be driving all day Thursday.) and, whilst here, have identified other places we’d like to visit when we return.

One problem with WordPress, however, is that there is a limit with the size of videos allowed as well as the size of photographs.

I was poised to post a very nice video of the ocean from my Samsung Galaxy Note II phone in HD, but WordPress nixed that.  Thanks, WordPress.  I could upload that video into Blogger (with my train blog) but not here.  This is the look and sound of me being not particularly pleased at the moment.

In the meantime, I have had to purposely re-adjust some photographs so their sizes would fit here.  This still rankles me — I could post unlimited sizes in Blogger and you could click the photo to enbiggify.  Bastardos.

So this one post has taken me the better part of four hours to create and size in PhotoShop and SnagIt for a seemingly-measly ten or so photographs.  Which, by the way, I had to load one-by-one into WordPress.

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P5P6P4P7P8P9P10P11P12P13A brief selection of the 200+ photographs taken during this stint.

And my favorite radio station on the entire planet is KOZT-FM, “The Coast,” in Ft. Bragg, on 93.5 and 93.9.

Heavy sigh.

Back to the drudgery of work and the valley.

I hope you enjoy the photographs; sorry they were delayed.

BZ

P.S.
Click on each photo to embiggen a bit.

 

 

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