Too much going on at once, so it’s ketchup time (not Heinz, thank you).

First of all, I found something Obama did right, believe it or not. He is cancelling plans to send Americans back to the moon. It was exciting when our first astronauts made it up there and hit a few golf balls, but we had a little bit of money in the Treasury then. No more. It would cost the country (that’s you and me, the taxpayer) Three Billion Dollars a year just to keep the program going. Enough’s enough. Maybe next century if we’re out of debt by then.

Enough plaudits for the guy in the big house. I think it’s idiotic to put known terrorists who kill Americans on trial here ; a civil trial no less. I say put the murderers on trial before a military tribunal where they belong at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. I also say keep Gitmo open forever and use it to try every terrorist we are able to capture, period.

And if we don’t have lethal injection stuff there already, please send a carload to have it on hand.’ And another thing, now Obama is following through on his intention to force through a playoff system for college football’s championship. To hell with the National Collegiate Athletic Association, he says; the Federal Government should take over and do it the way Congress wants it done. Is there anything — anything— safe in our lives anymore that the Obamacrats don’t want to shove down our throats. Leave it alone, prez; let the colleges handle it the way they want to decide football championships.

Because next on the Fed map will be forcing colleges, junior colleges, high schools, junior high schools, cheerleader squads and everybody how to handle their playoffs. Nothing will be safe. we won’t need a Louisiana HIgh School Athletic Association (LHSAA) anymore, folks. Just send a survey to Washington; they’ll tell you how to handle it.

Oh, and while I’m still thinking about it, Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi jumped to her feet 45 times during Obama’s State of the Onion speech— literally, 45 times! And unless you missed it, the only time his excellency called on Divine assistance in his 70-minute speech was at the end when he said “so help us God.” One time. Once.

What a travesty when Obama called on Congress for “transparency” in the way government works when the Republicans and American people begged for him to open up the secret all-Democratic bribery plans on health care to CSpan three weeks ago.

And the height of his arrogance came when he publicly ridiculed the United States Supreme Court justices for their decision to allow more free spending by Americans on election advertising. The Justices sat there stoically on the front row and took his nasty shot, except for Justice Scalia who at least said what Obama said was not true: that foreign corporations would be allowed to spend huge amounts of money to decide American presidential elections.

At least Scalia didn’t jump up and yell “You lie!” He could have at least gotten a free beer on the White House lawn. And now that Obama’s health care fiasco is sinking in the Potomac, he has finally said that his No. 1 priority is “jobs.”

So they’ll begin with putting men to work spending billions of our taxpayer dollars building high speed trains between a few of our largest cities because some foreign countries have gotten ahead of us on that. Wow, what a shame, Japan has faster trains than us; and I don’t know, maybe France or Germany or Yemen. It’s called waste, folks. More huge taxpayer waste instead of trying to reduce the American federal debt.

And one last shot on this Wonderful Super Bowl Day. I hope all you fantastic Saints tailgaters find a place to have some fun in Miami. No tailgaiting allowed in the stadium parking lot and remember, they have that “open container” law, which means you can’t drink a beer out on the street. I challenge the Miami Police Dept. to find enough jail cells to hold our Who Dats they find having a brew.

Go Saints. Finish strong.

Lou Major Sr. is the former CEO and current board member of Wick Communications and a resident of Slidell.