It is counter-intuitive to continue to buy America’s oil from countries that wish us dead, when we have our own, as well Canada’s, natural gas and oil.  At some point the American people have to realize  that throwing our money down a rat hole isn’t helping our economy or those who can barely afford expensive gas to get to work at their minimum wage jobs. (Please don’t say they could use battery powered cars instead – as those who make minimum wage cannot get a loan for those cars.)

Now is a great time to call Iran’s bluff and cut their funding by not buying their oil.  Our current administration should put their money where their mouth is and push special interest groups aside in order to put a paycheck in people’s hands. Let’s really put America back to work and put an end to funding terrorism by using our own resources.

Perhaps the EPA has outlived its usefulness, since each individual state has a Department of Environmental Conservation.  An overseeing federal agency that trumps individual state’s rights has the appearance of being a dictatorship, not a democratic relationship.

With the Presidential election close at hand, voters need to decide what is most important – a government that over-reaches and is putting people in their state on the welfare roles, or one that puts the needs of individuals first.

This writer is for a government that puts people to work and doesn’t punt every issue for another 60 or 90 days for comment periods and self-serving reviews that are only stalling tactics.  We need people who take action, and not just ponder the idea of taking action.   Decisiveness has never been an attribute of the current administration, but perhaps it can be one of the next.  Otherwise, we can expect more pandering to special interest groups associated with the EPA,  and as a result, more people suffering in communities eviscerated by this government agency.

According to Fox News, “U.S. military officials have said they’re worried about a resurgence of Al Qaeda after the American military leaves the country. If that happens, it could lead Shiite militants to fight back and attack Sunni targets, thus sending Iraq back to the sectarian violence it experienced just a few years ago.”

“Little did Santa know, that far and beyond a steady drumbeat, yes a movement was swelling and the masses were organizing and the disposessed were finding their strength and their voices and their power to declare we are one and we are not going to take this any more. Occupy North Pole was born.”

Nothing like co-opting a child’s holiday and promoting your own interests.  Yep, Santa is the bad guy for making and delivering toys to children.   What is next, rolling the local Salvation Army Bell Ringers for having the audacity to collect money for the poor?  Perhaps we should sabotage any company that should dare to give gift cards to their employees during the holidays.  Maybe we could throw people in jail for uttering the words “Happy Holidays” or “Merry Christmas.”

All facetiousness aside, occupy protesters need to find a better venue for airing their problems than hijacking a holiday.  They’re missing the point of the holiday, which is Good Will Toward Men.  Sure, there is an element of greed – it is called supply and demand.  As long as people want to buy things for themselves and their family, corporations are going to try and fill those needs.

Of course, we could always try to become what Russia once was, and we could all suffer for it.  Perhaps that is what would satisfy the occupy protesters.  One town could make a left shoe, another town could make a right shoe, and the two would never meet unless you were an elitist working for the government.  There would be scarcity of much needed items, including food.  We could be shot for picking an ear of corn to feed our starving families, because after all, it belongs to the government and it needs to be re-distributed.

Be careful of what you wish for this holiday season, for you may get it.

If you haven’t already read it, read Harvest of Sorrow, a non-fiction book about Russia before the fall of the Berlin Wall.  It explains how the redistribution of wealth went terribly wrong, and why we should avoid it like the plague.

The Occupy movement is beginning to reek like another movement and towns that once thought they could tolerate a small protest are now feeling taken advantage of.  The costs alone will cause local residents and small business owners, who in many cases aren’t well off, to absorb the costs of the protests with higher taxes.  After all, someone has to pay for the clean up crews and police patrols.

A solution to local communities dealing with the protesters?  Allow them to protest, to occupy areas, but charge them to do so.  If you want to put up a tent, pay a daily fee in order to do so, just like a campground.  The Occupiers should have to pay their fair share and not leave local residents holding the bag.  While they have a right to free speech, cleaning up their mess after their Occupy protests isn’t free.

It is beyond callous and arrogant of the President to consistently say no to energy jobs.  While supplicating himself to the green lobbyists he has driven the car into the ditch yet again- and he doesn’t have the Republicans to blame for this one.  This wreck is his, and his alone, since he is taking responsibility for unilaterally punting the possibility of the pipeline until his “hopeful” re-election next year. 

Hope and Change has turned to Dread and Stagnation.  He is out of touch, out of the country on a regular basis, and with any luck, will be out of office next year.

While many decry that ASSange shouldn’t have been arrested on this charge, laws do exist for a reason, even for the most idiotic of creatures left free to roam the earth. However, he won’t be roaming anywhere to leak in another individual for a while now, unless it is a guy named Sue in prison.

Just for the record, PayPal has closed his account. Guess he’ll have to find another way to collect donations for his deadly activities.

At what point does your belief system become such that you can’t see the forest for the trees?  You may start out believing that exposing information will somehow make others lives better, but when saving lives also includes signing the death warrant for other innocent people, doesn’t common sense kick in?

Not if you’re narcissistic, like Julian ASSange. The media clamor to interview him has only fueled his sense of inflated self-worth. By golly, he is the be-all end-all when it comes to being the arbiter of justice. In fact, his latest threat is that if someone tries to stop him, he is going to unleash the mother-lode of all secret documents. The coup de gras to end all coup de gras. If he goes down (and he will), it will be in a blaze of glory, with dead bodies everywhere and the smell of ozone hanging in the air after his computer gives its all.

Reality check, Mr. ASSange – you haven’t disclosed anything that is earth shattering. You’ve only proven that Satan is alive and well and living in your body. Perhaps you hadn’t noticed though, but you gave him permission to enter your body when you wished for this onslaught on the innocent and (presumably) forced yourself on women.

My Christmas wish is for you to be served up on a plate to all who have died, or will die as a result of your bloodthirsty activities. May you rot in hell along with your friends, who I’m sure given their location, will give you an extraordinarily warm welcome.

For everyone who thought that it was a Tea Party event, you can now remove your head from the sand.  It had nothing to do with politics and everything to do with being an honorable, upstanding person.  It didn’t matter what walk of life you came from, what religion you subscribed to nor what political affiliation you held.  It was about doing the right thing, having faith  and caring about and for others.

It is a sad commentary that so many reporters and self-proclaimed journalists have written about the event, but it seems even fewer of them actually attended the event.  They wrote negative articles about the event before it even happened, and several ill-conceived blogs post-event. Since they missed the point, I’ll assist- their negative coverage illustrated why the event occurred.  They were the unwitting (or witless) catalyst.

Sadly, President Obama dismissed the event without even understanding what it was.  He didn’t watch it, thinking it was a political event.  I suppose he’ll get his information on the event from The View.