Diane Sawyer: Major Nidal Hasan "just another worker with a gun and a grudge."

Opening Tuesday's World News with the workplace shooting in Manchester, Connecticut, anchor Diane Sawyer saw it as one in a long line of incidents involving a “worker with a gun and grudge” as she described the nine killed as “the worst rampage since 13 were killed last November at Fort Hood, Texas.”

Army Major Nidal Hasan's business cards identified him as a “Soldier of Allah” and his actions at Fort Hood, clearly motivated by Islamic jihadism, hardly fits in the same category as an aggrieved worker with a gun who has gone on a rampage. Nonetheless, Sawyer's led the August 3 newscast:

Good evening. Another American tragedy tonight, another worker with a gun and a grudge. This time, nine people are dead, the worst rampage since 13 were killed last November at Fort Hood, Texas. In the normally quiet down of Manchester, Connecticut, this morning one shift was letting off, another was starting the day at a beer distribution center.

Back in November of 2009 I posted an article "Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, See No Evil" where in I wrote that...It boggles the mind to consider the extent to which some of our liberal progressive fellow citizens will travel to keep from accepting the reality that our nation has been at war with facist Islam terrorists to ensure their idea of “cultural diversity”, “political correctness" and "religious sensitivity."

Apparently, at least as far as ABC and Diane Sawyer are concerned, nothing much has changed!

Con Ed "Juices" Us Again!

If you haven't gotten over the shock of your water rates going up 12.9% next month, maybe you shouldn't read any further.

Never one to let a fiscal year pass without a rate hike, the Public Service Commission has authorized Con Edison to institute a 12% rate hike to be spread out over three years starting next month.

This hike should also not surprise anyone out there as Con Edison customers in New York City and Westchester already pay more for their power than anyone living on the mainland of the United States.

Only people living in Alaska, Hawaii and the islands off New England pay more.

Peter J. Mahon

Your Water Bill is Going Up...Again!

Jack and Jill went up a hill to fetch a pail of water.

Jack fell down and broke his crown

And Jill came tumbling after..

Up got Jack and home did trot

As fast as he could caper

He went to bed and bound his head

With vinegar and brown paper.

Jack is going to need a lot more than “vinegar and brown paper" to treat his headache by the time the New York City Water Board gets through with him!

New Yorkers will pay nearly 13 percent more for each drop of water they use starting July 1 if (make that "when") an increase proposed Friday by the Department of Environmental Protection is approved.

Surprised?  You shouldn't be. The NYC Water Board is again raising its rates this July by another 12.9 percent. This new increase represents the fourth double-digit boost in the last four years.

2007 - 11.0%

2008 - 14.5%

2009 - 14.0%

2010 - 12.9%

A friend of mine told me that these increases are a good thing, citing the need to conserve this natural resource, and recommended that I "...was just going to have to conserve my use of water to keep my bill down."

Reality Check: Keep in mind that the city's use of water has dropped dramatically over the past three years because of "conservation" and since we have been using less water, the Water Board has said they they must now hike rates to offset lost revenues.

Not unlike our fairy tale charcacters, Jack & Jill, the Water Board operates in a fantasy realm where they can continually raise water rates in the best of both worlds...

"New Yorkers using too much water? We must increase our rates to encourage conservation...",

or,

"New Yorkers conserving too much water?  We're losing revenue and we have to raise rates."

Maybe there is something to all the fuss about "Water - Boarding"!

Peter J. Mahon

This is a United States Congressman!

Hank Johnson is a liberal democrat Congressman representing Georgia’s 4th Congressional District since 2007. The 55 year old Johnson is an attorney and was a former county judge.

Last Friday during a House Armed Services Committee hearing, Congressman Johnson was questioning Admiral Robert Willard, head of the U.S. Pacific fleet, about the stationing of 5,000 additional U.S. Marines and their families on the western Pacific island of Guam, a 212-square-mile American territory that is 30 miles long and from four to 12 miles wide.

I’m not going to say anymore about about Congressman Johnson’s questioning of Admiral Willard as I think it best that you decide for yourself. Just keep in mind that since Johnson is one of 535 members of the United States Congress, everything he says is important. But pay particular attention to the congressman's comments starting at the 1:16 mark and the pregnant pause after his stated concern and hand gestures.

Apparently Congressman Johnson is an advocate of both the global warming movement as well as the "Island tip-over and capsizing" movement.

Keep in mind also that you are paying Congressman Johnson's salary this year -- $174,000.

A "tip of my hat" to Admiral Willard for his professional response to Congresman Johnson's absurd question!

Remember to 2010 general elections are just a few months away!

Peter J. Mahon

Senator Max Baucuas (D-Mont)- Health Care will address the "mal-distribution of income in America."

Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont)

After the Senate passed a "fix-it" bill via their partian "reconciliation" process to make changes to the new health care law, Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., chairman of the influential Finance Committee, must have suffered a temporary attack of "speak honestly" when he admitted to reporters that the health care overhaul was an "income shift" to help the poor.


"Too often, much of late, the last couple three years, the mal-distribution of income in American is gone up way too much, the wealthy are getting way, way too wealthy and the middle income class is left behind," he said. "Wages have not kept up with increased income of the highest income in America. This legislation will have the effect of addressing that mal-distribution of income in America."

"Mal-distribution of income?" 

We know that the Obama White House has stopped using the term "re-distribution of wealth" as it was not sitting well with most working Americans so I guess Senator Baucus decided that the prefix "mal" (bad) would be appropriate under these circumstances.

Of course, it helps to remember that the good sentaor exempted himself and the rest of his colleagues in Congress from this health care reform bill so I can only guess that the distriution of his inome is just right!

When politicians start using their right hand to complain about individuals in a capitalist democratic republic making too much money you know their left hand will not be far behind to relieve you of your "mal-distributed" income!

Remember the 2010 general elections! 

Peter J. Mahon