"5 Bucks"

I remember many years ago I went to visit a friend at his college for the weekend. I stayed in his dorm room and we spent some time talking about our high school experiences. He set me up with a blind date, nice girl, but not for me. The Saturday I was there, he had asked if I wanted to go to a “mixer” in the student union; a name band from the 60s was performing and the cost was $5.00, a good chunk of change way back then, but I said fine and that evening we walked over to the union for music, girls and dancing.

The girls were friendly and the union was modern, soda and fast food was available at reasonable cost. Everyone was anticipating the group that was featured for the night, they had a “Top 40” record out and we expected some good sounds.

The group walked out on the stage to rousing applause and cheers. They all had on “bell-bottom jeans and wildly colored T-shirts” and they looked the part of “rock stars”.

They stood at center stage and the lead singer flashed a smile at his band mates and the music began.

Evidently, the studio engineers are very important people in the music industry and play a great part in “refining” the music you hear on the radio. The noise that assaulted my ears at this “concert” was tantamount to a “cat caught in a potato-peeler”. I had never heard noises like this outside of a “horror movie”. I paid 5 bucks for this, and I was not happy! I said to my friend “These guys stink! I’m not staying around to listen to this garbage!” My friend agreed with me and we left for a small club in town for the rest of the evening.

I know this cost me $5.00, but I couldn’t stand the crap that was passing for music so I “bit the bullet” and walked out.

Last week, America heard President Barack Hussein Obama make his State of the Union Address to Congress. His message was part rehash of last year’s speech and part Obama saying he was going to bypass Congress to enact his agenda for America.

I won’t lie, I couldn’t sit through another Barack Obama speech, so I opted to ignore it for anything else that was available; and it didn’t cost me 5 bucks to do it! This was easy for me, as I had no peer pressure to watch his speech so I could turn it off at my pleasure.

I heard there was one courageous man who was sitting in the Capitol Building who had finally had enough of this President’s ideological rhetoric and disregard of the Constitution and he got up and left the hall!

Congressman Steve Stockman from Texas was fed up with Barack Hussein Obama and he walked away in disgust. This is a man with real nerve and real principles. I’m sure you will hear howling from the left for weeks about his action, but he only did what millions of Americans would have done had they been sitting there with him.

I have heard that Representative Stockman has begun impeachment inquiries for Mr. Obama, and I laud him for this action. It is tough for a politician to take such a visible course in the arena of Washington D.C.; it could mean political suicide, or it could mean he takes his job seriously, as a public trust.

I wish Congressman Stockman well in his pursuit, as he is one of the few who is actually looking out for the people of the United States of America! Let me know if you need 5 bucks!!!