I've got some issues tonight

Watching and listening to the news today and this evening, I've got a couple of things just irritating me no end.

1. John McCain's daughter went on the View and took exception to the Tea Party folks. She said that the Tea Party is alienating young people - that revolutions are started by the young, not people who are 65! How much more wrong-thinking can that young woman be? The world and the country are only for the young? Where are the young people and their revolution? Perhaps it is taking "mature" citizens, who know what this country means, what the constitution is, who see what the "hope and change" that the young voted for is doing to all of us, to do something about it. I know the young, like Ms. McCain, think that they are more intelligent than people over thirty, but they have no idea what they are in danger of losing. On top of that, Ms. McCain, this group of people are the same ones who started a revolution or two a few years ago - the Vietnam war... civil rights... any of that ring a bell?  What is that?

2. The National Organization of Women have outworn their welcome, sort of like big unions. They had some good points fifty years ago, but they are so out of touch with mainstream women as to be from another world. First, they jumped up and down and ranted that the Tim Tebow ad should be pulled from CBS because they didn't like the sound of it. Then they decided to make their own ads that promoted their own agenda to counterbalance what they thought the Tebow ad was going to be. Once the ad ran and their strident screeches were seen to have been for naught, they had to find a new reason to support their foolishness. The ad promoted violence against women, according to the president of the organization, Terry O'Neill after the groups "jock-ocrisy" watch during the game. Both of their stands are ridiculous. What is that?

3.  How can anyone.... ANYONE? compare Sarah Palin's 7 words written on her hand to remind her of salient points in her speech, with a teleprompter that tells Obama what to say every time he gets in front of a camera? Did you hear Andrea Mitchell? While I don't always agree with her perspective, I used to think that she was a decent reporter. Her "imitation", if that is what one could call it, on the air, with her cohorts was beneath her. She should be ashamed. What is that?

I heard about a book during the Presidential campaign. The Liberal Mind by Lyle Rossiter, Jr., M.D. defines the "Psychological Cause of Political Madness. I suggest reading it by anyone who is frustrated by trying to deal with individuals who think the way that Megan McCain, Terry O'Neill and Andrea Mitchell do. It doesn't change them, but it takes away some of the teeth-clenching you do becasue you know they are some of the most unhappy people on earth. I'm really surprised by John's daughter. But, oh well.

4.  Finally, I wonder if Obama knows how many jobs he destroyed in one fell swoop by eliminating the Mars program from NASA in his budget. He keeps the handouts and the spending increases for... well.. I can't write about it anymore. Sometimes it just isn't enough to know he's an unhappy person.