Now in Texas--where else has the ATF been conducting dangerous programs then lying about them?

http://www.click2houston.com/news/Questions-mount-over-Houston-gun-trafficking-investigation/-/1735978/5722510/-/ipo611z/-/index.html

It is not just guns. The ATF is out of control, or, better yet, it is in the control of people who do not have the best interests of the US in mind.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/world/americas/us-drug-agents-launder-profits-of-mexican-cartels.html?_r=2&hp

I probably don't care what you are getting at.

Do you see what I'm saying?  Can you see what  I'm getting at?  Do you know what I mean? Do you hear what I'm saying?  I realize that when most of us use these questions we are usually just seeking some validation of our thoughts even though they scream out our own insecurities.  But, did you ever consider what you are implying when you use them?  The implication is that you feel that you listener is so stupid that he/she is incapable of understanding your basic English.  Next time you feel the urge to use one of this type of question, please think before you do it.  Do you follow me?

Finally back safely from California.  Had a great time visiting with family and friend.  Now that I am rested and in a good mood,  I can get back to bitching about how people abuse our beautiful English language.

  First on the docket are "Calvary" and "cavalry."  "Calvary", also known as Golgotha, was the hill upon which the Bible says Jesus was crucified.  "Cavalry" refers to horse mounted soldiers.  So, please stop telling the story about your uncle whatever who was in the calvary.  Unless, of course, he actually was there.  If so, I wonder why he was not mentioned in The Good Book?

Second place goes to "each and every."  Each and every time I hear someone us that expression I feel like yelling that "each" means "every" and "every" means "each."  The redundancy is so boring and irritating.

Third place honors go to "good" and "well."  "good" is an adjective and means having desirable qualities; "well" is an adverb meaning "in a good or proper manner."  So, when someone asks you how you are doing, don't reply "good" unless you are referring to something like giving alms to the poor.

Got to agree with Issa.

Darrell Issa

AMERICANS DESERVE THE TRUTH ON FAST & FURIOUS: and they'll get it. Darrell and Senator Grassley are not going to allow the DOJ to “investigate” themselves. The DOJ’s proven it is not a good-faith participant in the effort to hold accountable FAST & FURIOUS decision-makers and protect the Border Patrol agents, American people, and Mexican citizens who’ve been put in harm’s way by this deadly operation.

Fast and Furious: Justice's obstruction

 

www.pittsburghlive.com

 

The inherently suspect nature of the Justice Department's internal Operation Fast and Furious probe is magnified by Justice's acting inspector general giving pertinent audio recordings to potential witnesses.

Justice Department official obstructs the congressional gun running investigation

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/21/audio-tapes-reveal-more-details-in-fast-and-furious-gunrunner-scandal/

Please try to get it right. Bring vs. Take

In American English, "bring" is used to denote movement toward the place of speaking or the point from which the action is regarded.  eg. Bring it to me now' or, he brought his children a present from his travels.  "Take" denotes movement away from the place of speaking; therefore, for example, one takes checks to the bank and brings home cash. From the banker's point of view, one has brought him checks in order to take away cash. A Horrible example of an error I  heard lately:  A mother standing on her front porch says to a friend, "I can't go with you at 8 o'clock tomorrow because I  have to bring my children to school."   Wrong, wrong, wrong.  She has to TAKE  her children to school.

More cover-up evidence against the FBI

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/09/exclusive-third-gun-linked-to-fast-and-furious-identified-at-border-agents/

Whether you learn this or not is problematical.

Whenever you say that something is problematical, it DOES NOT mean, "it potentially causes problems."  Problematical means: " uncertain or doubtful."  Oh, on a related word ,"problema" comes to us through Greek and Spanish.  The word does mean: problem, but, contrary to popular belief, "problemo", as in "no problemo," does not exist.

As Part of the Justice Department's cover-up,--excuse me, I mean "shake-up,"

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/08/30/sources-atf-director-to-be-reassigned-amid-fast-and-furious-uproar/

The Left-Wing press has gone on the attack because a Congressman dares to investigate wrongdoing in the Obama government.

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/doug-heye/2011/08/16/new-york-times-hit-piece-shows-issa-is-now-a-target

And the government promotes the idiots who ran this program!

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-atf-guns-20110817,0,7742514.story

Check out the 1st story in this report. Let,s notify our government officials what we think of these inane and immoral actions!

http://www.nraila.org/GrassrootsAlerts/Read.aspx#poll

Liberal's thought patterns.

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/photos/democrats-cartoon-gallery/3      A tip of the hat goes to Linda McKenzie for there insightful cartoons.

U.S. Atty. from AZ denies rights to slain agent's family

How long are we going to continue to tolerate this leftist government?  Please view this news story:  .http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/08/11/us-attorneys-office-rejects-family-slain-border-patrol-agent-as-crime-victims/

Holder lied. How far up in Obama's regime does it go?

According to an article in The Citizen newspaper in Hatch, dated July 27, 2011, it appears that the Obama regime allocated $80 million, (partly from" stimulus funds") to allow Straw buyers to purchase hundreds of weapons from federally licensed gun shops. Attorney General Holder testified at a congressional hearing in March, 2011 that he had just learned of the Fast and Furious gun operation.  I guess he must have forgotten that he spoke at a joint Mexico-U.S. law enforcement conference in Mexico in April, 2009 describing the operation and touting it as a way to combat the growing power of the Mexican drug cartels.  Also, according to The Citizen,  more than 200 Mexican law enforcement personnel have been killed in the last year by guns traced back to Gunwalker.  Roger Hedgecock, the author of the news article, said, "Melson, acting director of ATFE, told Congressional investigators that there is a 'smoking gun' internal memo withheld from Congress indicating that 'political appointees' (Obama's) in the Justice Department were involved.  This memo and other documents are being withheld from Congress as part of a cover-up."  As Mr. Hedgecock asks, "Isn't it time someone asked the age-old question, ' What did the President know, and when did he know it.?"

Learn what words mean before you use them.

Are you aware that, when you are feeling queasy, you say, "I'm nauseous," you may be saying more about a personality problem that anything about the state of your health?  The correct term to describe that stomach upset is: nauseated.  Nauseous means: causing nausea, revolting, sickening.  But, who am I to correct you.?  Maybe you do know the meaning of the word and are just confessing to the world.

Is there no end to the disgusting antics of BATFE

Now we learn that  U.S. agents made a deal with one of Mexico's most vicious cartels to not pursue or arrest them in return for information about other cartels.  The Sinaloa cartel has been responsible for countless murders of Mexican citizens.   This agreement was part of the gun running operation.  Please check out the following: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/08/05/americas-third-wardid-us-cut-deal-with-sinaloa-cartel/

More gripes

Don't you hate it when people who are in a checkout line at a store hold up every one else while they get their purse, or whatever, in order.  Be courteous, step to one side.  Also, it really frosts me when I have spent some time in line waiting for service, my turn finally comes, the store's phone rings and the clerk keeps me waiting while person on the phone is taken care of.   Isn't that pretty much like cutting in line?

Mindless clods

I hope you are not one of those people who go to the movies and act like you are at home in your living room.  Jabbering away out loud, using cell phones or causing any other visual or auditory disturbance is simply uncalled for, rude, insensitive and indicative that if your IQ were one point lower you would be a plant.  Please STOP IT!  Other people have the right to enjoy the movie without listening to you.

Proof of Obama's knowledge of Project Gun Runner

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PNhYk9NuNc&NR=1      This operation has allowed thousands of deadly weapons, illegally acquired, to go into Mexico.  BATFE didn't even inform its own agents in Mexico of the operation that cost two of them their lives.  Nor, once the in country agents did learn of it, would BATFE allow them to inform the Mexican authorities.

It gets worse and worse!

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=579545&p=

More proof of the coverup.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/lethal_fiasco_rllfHYxZwgAHwNGmMUCaoL#ixzz1Th521JNt

Check this out for some hard evidence against BATFE

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/07/31/2339173/for-mexicans-fast-and-furious.html

Wake up America

Americans, our country is insidiously being stolen away.  Our left-wing government is involved with, what I consider, crimes against humanity.  I'm not talking about the two wars we have going on-three if you count Libya-, rather, I'm talking about the activities of our government that are causing hundreds of deaths in Mexico, and have caused the deaths of some American government officers.

Right now, there is a Congressional Sub-Committee investigating the actions of the BATFE (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.  There were a few newspaper articles about this several weeks ago, but the topic quickly vanished from the main-stream media because the Department of Justice assured us all that there was nothing wrong going on.  They lied!  For a few years, BATFE has been allowing illegally purchased guns to be sold and transported to Mexico where they go immediately into the hands of major criminal drug cartels.  These cartels have used them to commit hundreds, if not thousands, of murders in that country.  When asked about this trafficking, BTAFE and the Department of Justice categorically denied that they had allowed  guns into Mexico.  The Sub-Committee has proof that they were lying.  They are considering charging the head agent of the Phoenix, AZ office with perjury.   A massive government coverup has been going on for some time.  The Sub-Committee has found that numerous ranking officials of our government knew of, and approved of the gun running operation.  The guilt extends into the Executive branch.  The types of guns in question includes fully automatic weapons, combat rifles and 50 caliber sniper rifles.   To get more information and documented proof of what I have said, please read the following blogs:  Sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com and The NewpiusPapers.blogspot.com.    More to follow as things develop.

Sorry

I'm sorry that there has been trouble getting to my blog.  It's my fault; I'm very new at this, but I hope to learn.  The new link on my Facebook page seems to work, at least on my computer.  I hope to soon make this site more attractive.   I just have to learn how.

Intro

Hello cyber world.  this blog will, from time to time, talk of many things: politics, grammar, language, and to be an outlet for some of the things that really bug me.  I will welcome any comments, praises, or criticisms you wish to offer.

Here are a couple of rants to start things out.

Why can't most people seem to have learned that the words "there, their and they"re are not interchangeable?  "There" means in that location.  "their" means belonging to them, and "they're" means they are.  In the same vein, "its" means belonging to it, while, "it's" means it is.  So simple, so please get it right.  Also, almost everyone  uses the word "less" incorrectly.  "Less" is a singular modifier:  e.g. I have less time than you, or, They have traveled less that you.   The correct plural modifier is "fewer": There are fewer cars on the road today, or, we have fewer people on our team.  Please stop saying things like " He was laying prone on the ground staring at the clouds." Prone" means lying face down.  "Supine means lying face up.  Ok, enough for now.  I 'd love to hear of some of your pet peeves, gripes and concerns on any subject.  Daval.