Jasper Journal

I just read that the Transportation Secretary is beginning a study that could lead to the banning of mobile phone use, including hands free, in cars.  His Department has already convinced 30 states to eliminate texting and non hands free use.

What’s next? How about if we eliminate radios?  CD players? IPODS? I think having maps in cars is a distraction too. GPS devices… of course.   I often gaze at a newspaper at stoplights; that should go too. As a matter of fact I talk to my wife during trips so I can see that she has to go as well. The nanny state is run amok!

Sugary soft drinks are under attack in schools and workplaces as they are unhealthy. NY has attacked salt in food. Give me a break. I am an adult. I live in a country where I am free to eat chocolate, french fries, and soda all at the same time. It is called freedom of choice. I do not want the government to run my life.

While I am on government interference, I am still steamed about the mandatory switch to CFL lights beginning in 2011. I would love to see  congress repeal that idiotic regulation. I have a friend who is now hoarding regular light bulbs.  I can see some day in the future , my friend trading lightbulbs in a back alley for french fries and a coke. A new black market for the mob to control.

So on this friday before Columbus day, let me wish everyone a wonderful weekend and a very Happy Columbus Day in advance.   Turn on the lights, eat well,  and enjoy life’s little vices  while you can.

The other day a woman in South Carolina asked the president at a town hall meeting if it was such a good idea to raise taxes for his health care plan in these difficult economic times. According to Anne Kornblut of the Washington Post, the president embarked on a rambling 17 minute, 2500 word answer to this question spewing factoids and statistics and causing glazed eyes in the audience. 

 How typical for this administration. They are masters at filibustering things. Remember poor Bret Baier who interviewed the president on Fox news several weeks back? He had to constantly interrupt the president to try to get him to answer a question and stop giving speeches.  The video below is a 6 minute snippet of his answer… the first 6 of 18 minutes . As you can see, in this piece the president did not answer the woman’s question at all. But then this is so typical of avoiding hard questions.  Thankfully there are some in the media who are on to this tactic. Too bad many Americans cant see him for what he really is: a  political lightweight who is way over his head in this office.  See for yourself and you be the judge.  Oh, and no teleprompter.

I am proud to say that the attorney general of our state is joining nine other attorneys general in a challenge to the bloated  health care extravaganza . That bill  was bought with our tax money in the form of bribes and kickbacks. Kudos to him for standing up for what is right and attempting to protect constitutional safeguards against an ever encroaching government takeover.

  Like many, I am truly saddened by the 219 members of congress who defied the will of the American people yesterday. They have to know this was a horrible mistake on multiple levels. Yet they knowingly voted for something that poses a significant threat to the future of our country. Where is the courage anymore? Thankfully, there are still some in government who will not shirk from defending liberty. Our attorney general is one. Thank you