Give? You've got to be joking.

For a day, much like today, when I thought I had nothing left to give. A brief walk, a little sunshine, a moment without pain and this song convinced me otherwise.

Here's to having more. And giving it away.

A glimpse into my psychosis.

"Make a list," he said, with coffeemakers and coffee drinkers intermingling behind him.

I grabbed my purse, pulled out my pen, and then realized in that instant I didn't have paper.

No paper? How do I not have paper? I always have paper. Paper is part of my staple, my lifeblood. Along with a pen. It's ever present. Shooting from my fingertips. There in a snap. My only superpower is the ability to produce pen and paper at will. And now...suddenly...gone. Unarmed. Unprepared. I wiggled my fingers and no paper appeared.

"Here," he said, handing me a flier, "you can use the back of this."

I looked at my wiggling fingers and thought, 'They work.'

TIME: O's the New FDR! I mean Reagan!

TIME magazine doesn't believe you can't read. They believe you can't think.



NOVEMBER 2008:
Obama won! Everyone's now a liberal. Big government rocks. Our boy Obama is the new FDR!

FEBRUARY 2011:
Crap. Everyone hates big government. Obama got pounced in the recent election. Obama is the new Reagan!

For the liberals at TIME, Obama must succeed. The media has staked everything on this nuance kid from no where who accomplished nothing. They hold the controlling interest in his stock. He is the image. And that image can and must be tweaked, depending on how the wind blows. He's like a bendy straw. So if publicly bending over one ideology doesn't work, he'll publicly twist back the other way.

But he's still the same liberal. Still believes people are incapable of running their own lives. Still believes in a government control that far exceeds, and actually reverses, our own Constitution. Still hates a Republic democracy, capitalism, and the right of every human to live and die by our own moral stamina.

They can twist him in whatever direction they choose, but he is still the same. And Americans don't want his ideas.

So maybe he's more like a stir stick.

SOTU Address: Fact or Fiction?

As a writer, words mean something to me. They have a purpose, a target, a specific reason for being spoken. Spoken words always say something, either the truth or a lie. It has to be one or the other.

With Obama, I really lost interest in his speeches during the campaign trail. He used words like special effects - heighten emotion here, create sense of well-being there, paint the sky red and roll back the sea, all while the sky remains blue and the sea remains constant.

He wasn't speaking truth. He was the Wizard behind the curtain, except in his case it was a podium, pulling levers and creating awe and distraction. Don't focus on his voting record, focus on his words. Don't focus on his experience, focus on his words. Don't focus on what he's really saying, focus on how his words make you feel.

Many called that being a great orator. I called it sporadic tinnitus. All I could hear was this flat ringing in my ears.

So listening to his State of the Union Address wasn't on my agenda last night. I have a life to live and not enough time in it to waste on white noise.

The day after with the polls and the fact-checks, however, is always interesting. If you want truth, the AP actually took a stab at it by listing the creative math and memory behind Obama's speech last night. Here's an example:

OBAMA: Vowed to veto any bills sent to him that include "earmarks," pet spending provisions pushed by individual lawmakers. "Both parties in Congress should know this: If a bill comes to my desk with earmarks inside, I will veto it."

THE FACTS: House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, has promised that no bill with earmarks will be sent to Obama in the first place. Republicans have taken the lead in battling earmarks while Obama signed plenty of earmark-laden spending bills when Democrats controlled both houses. As recently as last month, Obama was prepared to sign a catchall spending measure stuffed with earmarks, before it collapsed in the Senate after an outcry from conservatives over the bill's $8 billion-plus in home-state pet projects.

It's a turnabout for the president; in early 2009, Obama sounded like an apologist for the practice: "Done right, earmarks have given legislators the opportunity to direct federal money to worthy projects that benefit people in their districts, and that's why I've opposed their outright elimination," he said then.

And if you want fun, brief highlights of the "most" moments - including most honest and most tired - check out Kevin McCollough's article at FoxNews.

His most ridiculous: "This is our generation’s Sputnik moment."

This analogy was bad from the start. "Sputnik" was the failed first effort of the Soviets. Americans should not, and will not want a 'Sputnik moment'."

I'm not sure whose living in a dream world - Obama or his speech writers or both since he hired them and approves of what they say. Either way, I had an excellent evening last night, good company, great conversation, creamy mashed potatoes and flawless digestion.

Verbal gobbledygook wasn't on the menu.

The Single Man's Sexual Revolution

There's a saying about free milk and pricey cows that fits here.

Researchers found that since women in the 18- to 23-year-old group feel they don't need men for financial dependence, many of them feel they can play around with multiple partners without consequence, and that the early 20s isn't the time to have a serious relationship. But eventually, they do come to want a real, lasting relationship. The problem is that there will still be women who will have sex readily without commitment, and since men know this, fewer of them are willing to go steady.

Sex has consequences. And it took a University of Texas study to prove it? I think that should have been the headline:

Common sense eludes sexually-active public;
Researches waste time/funding finding it

They weren't the only ones. Their research was based on other research. How difficult can this be to understand? The sexual revolution started with our parents, or even a little before. Yet we still can't see the massive complications, implications, emotional damage and physical disease it brought?

Good golly Miss Molly. Try a new tactic. Casual sex doesn't exist. Not for women. And you can be as independent and progressive and open-minded as you want. It still doesn't exist. We weren't created that way. A woman treating sex like an immoral man is like a man trying to have a baby like a pregnant woman.

Not going to happen. But you can give it a try, if you want. Enjoy the stretchmarks, hormonal imbalance, excruciating pain and eventual death.

But what a ride?

Hu's having fun?

Joseph Lindsey. You and your dang mind-irritating Facebook statuses. You did this. All you.

So Joseph posts this Facebook status today. Without his express permission or even without asking, I'm reposting it here:

Last night the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner hosted a dinner for the guy who's holding the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner in prison.

i.e. Obama is hosting Chinese President Hu Jintao, who dined last night on lobster, creamed spinach, and - I'm not kidding - apple pie, while 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo rots in a China prison for peaceably promoting democracy.

Now for Joseph, this is where I smooth over my bad cyber-social behavior by bragging on his undiluted, rank-to-liberalism, more-charming-than-Gervais-at-the-Golden-Globes wit and that Jason Patric'esk bone structure. If that won't cut it, here, without chagrin, is a plug for his fictional yet so true book, "Life to the Right of Hollywood."

Read the synopsis. You'll be hooked.

If that doesn't cut it, geez. I don't know. I've got a personally autographed Dean Koontz book that he can have after my body assumes room temperature. Otherwise, I've got a framed copy of a Kinuko Y. Craft that is worth nothing and a plug-in hand radio that I move from one room to another while I listen to Rush and do laundry.

It's suddenly glaringly apparent I need more cool stuff.

Okay, so back to the point behind the comment. These guys.....



...have been toasting each other this week. I don't know who starts or who ends these warm, fuzzy moments punctuated with words like "cooperation" and "mutual respect". Whatever the sequence, there's lots of love being poured and wine being expressed. I dare say there is enough ridiculous hot air expelled at these shallow events to fill the sails of a cruise to China, with little time left for Kathy Lee Gifford to wish everyone could "see us now."

Meanwhile, Liu is in prison.

His crime is being a writer/signer/and promoter of a petition, entitled Charter '08, that took inspiration from the US Constitution to demand civil liberties for all of China. In other words, he wants freedom for his country. For this, he's in prison. By the hand of Hu. And Hu's having lobster with the President.

You can get into all the particulars of US-China relations. The meat of it comes down to the all-mighty green, which may not stay green for long. China holds nearly $1 Trillion of our debt. And Obama loves to rack it up.

In other words, Hu is Daddy. And Daddy pays the credit card bill.

In closing, I'll leave you with Liu's quote during his prison sentencing the day before Christmas. He's only fighting for freedom of an entire country. But we can talk about that later. For now, top off that glass and let's talk debt ceilings.

“I firmly believe that China’s political progress will never stop, and I’m full of optimistic expectations of freedom coming to China in the future, because no force can block the human desire for freedom,” he said. “China will eventually become a country of rule of law in which human rights are supreme. I’m also looking forward to such progress being reflected in the trial of this case, and look forward to the full court’s just verdict — one that can stand the test of history.”

UPDATE:

This is no way takes away from Joseph and his elliptical yet pithy statuses, but the actual comment appears to have come from Rush. My mistake. Totally mine. I take full responsibility, as well as my Koontz book offer back.

This is why I need a better radio (or a 24/7 subscription), I only caught the first hour today.

Here's the quote in it's fullness. My hat, as a writer and conservative, is always off to the radio genius and his verbal Jiu-Jitsu.

The moral code, the moral compass of the State-Controlled Media is something to behold. Now, some of you may not know the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Winner hosted a state dinner last night for Hu Jintao of China. Hu Jintao is holding the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Winner in prison in China. Not making it up. The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Winner hosted a dinner for the guy holding the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Winner in prison, and the media does not get the irony of this at all. They're too busy running around chasing Sarah Palin and radio talk show hosts over "civility."

First reverse. Then floor it.

To stop the country from doing this:



Republicans are doing this: