are we a christian nation?

Today is Easter Sunday. Our Lord, Jesus Christ, celebrated Passover and was betrayed on Nissan 15 (thursday). He was crucified on Nissan 16 (friday). He resurrected on Nissan 18 (sunday).

So, today, what do I see when open Google? The traditional crucifix with Christ? Chocolate bunnies and marshmallow chicks and colored eggs?
Nope: the ugly visage of that evil Socialist, Cesar Chavez. I do not judge same. The growers of the Coachella Valley certainly financially abused illegal immigrants. Equally wrongly, Mr C demanded a workers' paradise straight out of the Communist Manifesto. I am old enough, and grew up in LA during his hay day, to remember very vividly what he did, what he said, and what he stood for. He was not for the immigrant worker: he was for whatever action increased his personal political influence 

Since when does a political icon trump a religious one?

Sequester? Obama steps on the doggie doo

It is amusing (and not in the funny, ha-ha way) to observe the media's non-objective coverage. I will illuminate.

Sequester? Ain't no such thing...

O is the goofball who invented the silly thing. It did not exist until he fabricated it out of whole cloth.

We win, ha-ha

O was sure that R's would cave-in again, as they had many times before, and agree to yet more tax cuts rather than let the cuts happen. Not.

Fool me once...

O took a long, cool draught of valuable tax dollars. He made the mistake of going back to the well for another drink, using the same rhetoric as before, as if nothing had happened.

The Washington Monument Gambit

This is an old trick dating back many decades. When the loyal opposition would threaten to cut the federal budget, the first dollars would be cut by the controlling political party from the operating budgets of popular tourist attractions in Washington DC, closing them down. O has done the same thing: he could cut back internal bureaucrats (desk-jockeys and paper-pushers). Instead, he chose federal employees that provide direct service to taxpayers, in order to cause maximum inconvenience and hopefully create a hue and cry.

Oops

Be careful what you wish for, O: when people find that the cost of cutting the federal budget is a bit of personal inconvenience, they may warm to the conservative principle of limited government.

It ain't $85 billion

It is actually $45 billion. The rest of it is Budget Authority Rescission. Yeah, I know, it sounds like I swallowed the OED. In essence, this is $$$ from last year's budget that was never spent.

It ain't a cut

Even with the so-called sequester, the federal government is spending more than last year. Whaddup? It is a dirty trick called Baseline Budgeting. Imagine a family that spends $100 a week on groceries. They decide to spend $10 more the next week. They then spend only $109, and cry and wail that they had to cut $1 from their grocery money, and that the baby is going to go hungry. This is kinda how the current federal government 'cuts' work.

The End of Civilization as We Know It

The prognosticators were wrong about the Mayan calendar, as are the political pundits opining about the political fallout from 'sequestration”.