May 23, 2009 by Ronald Hicks.

Nancy Pelosi, first female Speaker of the House, California Democrat, and one of the wealthiest members of Congress has denied that she had any knowledge of torture, especially waterboarding, when the CIA had briefed her on it. This is clearly a case of ‘political football.’

According to the Washington Post,  “Republicans who have seen the documents say they present a clear case that Pelosi (D-Calif.) was told about the waterboarding of a key al-Qaeda operative, rejecting her accusation that the CIA intentionally misled her about the interrogation technique, which simulates drowning. “

It is difficult to tell whether the Republicans are out to smear the Democratic Speaker of  House or are they trying to distance themselves from the Bush legacy. I simply believe that Nancy Pelosi is being dishonest about her knowledge of the enhanced interrogation techniques used at Gitmo.

It is apparent that Pelosi is a flip-flopper. According to Wikipedia Nancy Pelosi was quoted as saying, “The situation in Tibet is a challenge to the conscience of the world”, while addressing a crowd of thousands of Tibetans in Dharamsala, India. She however did not call for a boycott of the 2008 Summer Olympics that were held in Beijing.

 Nancy Pelosi has tossed a lot of political footballs during her career as a politician unfortunately she has challenged the wrong team on Capitol Hill. She has been sacked by the CIA and may be out with an injury for a long time.

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April 24, 2009 by Ronald Hicks.

Once again President Obama and the congressional coconuts have weebled and wobbled there stance on who should pay taxes and who shouldn’t.

It seems that those crazy congressional coconuts and their stuttering President found out that taxing AIG bonuses was unconstitutional since the Constitution doesn’t allow for ex post facto laws.  Of course Congress was eager to hand out the money to the ailing AIG without having clue of how it was to be spent only telling the public that if AIG were to fail there would be dire consequences the taxpaying public. The dire consequences to the public will be doubled now that AIG executives are back out at the country club shagging top dollar gold monogrammed golf balls and puffing expensive cigars.

The Federal Tobacco tax is something else that needs to be addressed. Although smoking cigarettes is a poor health choice it still remains that it is legal and still part of our Liberty entitlement as Americans. While Obama was campaigning for President he made a blurb about not raising taxes on Americans making more less than 250k. This is a hollow gesture to tax poor people as most smokers make less than 250k.

Secondly the tobacco tax is a sneaky socialist ploy to implement behavior modification on the general public. Why not tax Jolly Ranchers and Oreo cookies as well since they contribute to poor dental health and poor dental health can have devastating effects on you overall health as well even if you don’t smoke and spend 16 hours a week at the gym.

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April 16, 2009 by Ronald Hicks.

In 1933 the G-20 had met for the first time to come to terms with the Great Depression. During this time banks were collapsing, unemployment had reached record levels, and global trade had come to a standstill.

76 years later we have President Obama hosting this gathering of world leaders with circumstances that parallel the Great Depression.

I had watched clips and highlights of the President speaking at London Summit. Mr. Obama seemed to be focused on environmental issues and the salesmanship of a stimulus package that is being implemented in U.S.

I was disturbed by the President’s apologetic tone, ‘that the United States did not appreciate the contributions made by the Europe’. He was not specific about the contributions that Europe had made. It seemed that this was more of ploy to be liked by the Europeans. President Obama neglected to mention how the United States defeated the Nazi scourge in Europe and then afterward rebuilding their nation.

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March 28, 2009 by Ronald Hicks.

It has been a while since I have posted an article and since then we have acquired a new President, taken a wild ride on the stock market, and experienced our friends and relatives losing their homes and jobs. I have been fortunate enough to keep my job at the casino and continue my drug therapy for hepatitis C taking interferon and ribavirin. The drug therapy has been rough, but I have managed to come out of a creative and ply my hand at political cartooning.

President B.O. has been in office a little more than 90 days and has more tough challenges ahead including a 3.6 trillion dollar budget he is proposing just to keep the rusty and inefficient wheels of our government bureaucracy turning. President B.O. has inherited a bill called T.A.R.P. that was hastily cobbled together by President Bush, Nancy Pelosi, and the Congress.  Desperate for a solution our lawmakers have created a 1100 page quagmire that will essentially disappear down a black hole and no one will have an answer as to how or where the money was spent. To make it all sound good lawmakers on the hill are desperately screaming that the Treasury department take on the oversight of distributing money that has been flushed down the toilet. Perhaps this committee should be called T.O.C.C.( Turd Oversight Commode Committee ). Stay tuned and stock up on toilet paper as your next wipe might be a $20 bill.

The media has already revealed that the banks and investment firms that desperately begged for the money while they were shagging golf balls and skinny dipping. To add insult to injury these bloated banks have taken the T.A.R.P. money and are settling debts with foreign countries that behind the scenes support the very terrorists and extremists that we are battling worldwide.

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November 7, 2008 by Ronald Hicks.

A president elect with the initials B.O., two wars that smell to high heaven, and economy that reeks of recession.What a wonderful climate for corporate whiners that still beg for government intervention even after they receive massive tax breaks and move the majority of their manufacturing overseas. They continue pumping out massive gas guzzling SUVs while ignoring wildly gyrating energy prices. Sobering up to reality and putting aside capital for retooling factories for alternate energy cars might give them some independence. They keep sticking their grubby paws in the government’s cookie jar where there lies a big ol’ mousetrap at the bottom that won’t let them get their hands out. In other words the Feds are ready to lay down harsher terms with each loan and tell them how to run their business and build their cars, something the Fed knows absolutely nothing about. In the meantime ‘Joe the Plumber’ and I are rotating and checking the pressure in our tires until that second stimulus check hits the mailbox.

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October 24, 2008 by Ronald Hicks.

 Too little too late. The Capitol Hill gang reluctantly yanks a few golden umbrellas from the breast fed and pampered slouches at A.I.G. The public gives a diminished hooray as they watch the market slide further down a black hole.

 Why should a few well-heeled slouches be given ‘performance bonuses’ while they panhandle the Federal Reserve for spare change to cover their ill conceived investments. After they snag a few 100 billion dollars they go gallivanting off to swanky California hotel resorts getting their putters calibrated. In the meantime I guess we’ll all wait till those stimulus checks make into the mail.

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