Thursday, April 30, 2009
The Barry admin's new corporate math
So our new auto czar in chief who claimed last night that he doesn't want to nationalize the auto industry is trying to create some real new corporate law. As has been reported the negotiations for GM are also breaking down. What the auto czar in chief, or Barry as he used to like being called, has told the bondholders is that for their 27.2 billion in bonds they would get 10% of the new GM stock. For the governments 16.2 billion Barry and his mates would take 50% of the stock. Huh, where in the heck do they get off making this type of demand on the bond holders? But wait the best is yet to come. The UAW which owns no bonds directly would get 40% of the new equity. I have never ever in my life seen a proposal as wacky as this one. I hope the bond holders laughed in Barry's face. Talk about payback for votes. So the estimates are that the government takes around 87 cents on the dollar. The UAW gets an estimate of around 76 cents on the dollar. The bond holders get 5 cents on the dollar. So the group with the largest claim in a bankruptcy filing gets almost nothing in the restructuring if it is agreed to. What would you do if you were a bond holder? Especially a hedge fund or a mutual fund that owes a fiduciary duty to your investors. Under the bankruptcy law these three groups are all equal creditors.
This is the same reason that Chrysler is now BK. Don't believe any of the BS that Barry is spouting now. His blasting of the hedge fund bond holders saying that it is their fault for holding out for a sweeter deal is laughable. Has the most arrogant President in history ever heard of corporate law? If I am managing a hedge fund and I agree to the proposal from Barry, the new car czar, I better start cleaning out my office and hiring a good attorney to represent me in all of the investor law suits. What ever happened to all of the transparency that this administration promised?
Welcome to AmeriKa. I hope you all love socialism. It has worked so well in so many other countries.
President Thomas Jefferson said "That government is best which governs least". President Ronald Reagan said "That government is usually the problem, not the solution". We are now seeing how wise these two men really were.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
The results of the Barry Hussein European apologypalooza
We got zero of what we were seeking in the economic summit. His stated goals were to get the western European countries to substantially increase government spending equivalent to 2% of GDP as a stimulus to the world economy. Didn't happen. Instead we received a pledge to increase funding to the IMF with the US on the hook for another 100 billion or so. We also agreed to the possibility of more international financial regulation. Just what our economy needs the ability of foreign regulators to come in and regulate the competition.
At the NATO summit our goal was to get the other nations to pony up combat troops for the Afghan war. Again a great big goose egg. The Brits did their friendly best by stating that they would send more troops if the other countries agreed but they knew that this was a hollow safe statement which would result in zero additional UK soldiers entering the Afghan theater.
Now our esteemed Marc Rich pardoning AG tried to get the western European countries to agree to the release of some of the Gitmo Prisoners of War into their countries. Again almost a complete shut out. It appears that France has agreed to take one of the inhabitants. That is it.
Results are always the ultimate measure of actions. Apparently all of the apologizing for American past behavior has done absolutely nothing from a results perspective.
This also points out the growing problem with the Barry Hussein policies of making unilateral policy statements like "we will close down Gitmo within a year" without having any concrete plans as to how this will be accomplished. One may argue with whether or not Gitmo should have been set up in the first place. I obviously come down on the side of supporting the decision because we had to do something with all of these captured Islamic jihad warriors. But it is there and we can't go back in time and change the facts. Along this line of reasoning I have never seen the left wing alternative for what we should have done with all of the Islamic extremist soldiers we captured. Just the constant complaint that Gitmo is horrible and evil. Now Barry's stated policy is testing this left wing belief with real world efficiency. How is he going to keep his promise to the left wing lunatic base and still meet his responsiblity to keep the US safe? What is he going to do with all of these prisoners now that all of his new friends have shut him down again? The clock is ticking!
When is the lunatic left going to MoveOn?
Many of you may recall your history that under the Democrat administration of FDR we put many Japanese Americans in camps. Our current left leaning history books, that my daughters have used in AP US History, just talk about how wrong this decision was without examining why FDR made the decision and what were the facts and circumstances surrounding the decision that would result in this kind of policy.
There are many on the left who even argue that dropping the two nuclear bombs on Japan were wrong.
In all of these instances there is a balancing test going on between the proposed controversial policy decision and the safety of American citizens. In all three instances the scales came down in favor of making the tough controversial, history changing decision. That is what it means to be the President. The President's biggest responsibility is to protect the safety of American citizens. Based on the decisions Barry has been making lately concerning national security I really wonder if he is up to the task.
Arguably the decision made by the FDR administration to put actual American citizens of Japanese ethnicity into camps is much more offensive than waterboarding three Al Queda terrorists. Yet no one from the FDR administration was threatened with criminal prosecution. What has happened to the Democratic party? Are they so driven by hatred that they cannot rationally see what is in the countries best interests? Now it turns out that Nancy Pelosi knew everything about the enhanced interrogation techniques and never questioned them. In fact it has been reported that congressional members wanted to know if there was anything else they could do to help extract more information. Now she has been caught lying about this for political reasons. She should be the one who is prosecuted for putting her own self political power ahead of the interests of the country.
When KSM was questioned about future attacks his statement was "soon you will know". What does that statement mean to the radical left? To me it means time is of the essence and we can't just sit back and let another attack occur without doing everything in our power to prevent it including waterboarding the piece of Islamic extremist garbage. For a sitting President to make unilateral statements that weakens our ability to protect Americans is totally naive and should be questioned.
Just to put things in perspective here is another loony left response to the argument that the waterboarding of three Al Queda terrrists actually resulted in the stopping of terrorist attacks and the apprehension of numerous Al Queda operatives.
gommygoomy at 07:52 AM - April 22, 2009
What's your point? Waterboarding could have saved the world from an Alien Invasion, and it would STILL be the worst thing that ever happend. Because George Bush did it. Who CARES how many LIVES were saved? Have you noticed what it's done to OUR IMAGE? I know. I know. We lost a lot of people on 911. Women, children, Moms and Dads. All MURDERED in COLD BLOOD. But don't you see? Don't you remember how it brought us all closer together? The WORLD was on our side. They felt pity for us. It was wonderful. Then George Bush went and started doing things to stop another attack. He started FIGHTING BACK. Why couldn't he just leave well enough, alone? Fighting back only makes them madder. Bombing, and shooting? That's not gonna win you any friends. Yeah, we got some information from all of Bushs' TORTURE CHAMBERS, and it probably saved THOUSANDS OF LIVES, but it didn't feed one hungry child. This all could have been accomplished with an apology. I wanna be loved again. Don't you?
It is always about President Bush for these lunatics. Just like the release of the torture memos and now the photographs. When is the left going to learn that he is not President any more and that it is time to MoveOn?
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Cheney can't keep mouth shut ! YOU LOST
The Continuing Collapse
Monday, April 27, 2009
Every Real American
Mr. Obama:
I have had it with you and your administration, sir. Your conduct on your recent trip overseas has convinced me that you are not an adequate representative of the United States of America collectively or of me personally.
You are so obsessed with appeasing the Europeans and the Muslim world that you have abdicated the responsibilities of the President of the United States of America . You are responsible to the citizens of the United States . You are not responsible to the peoples of any other country on earth.I personally resent that you go around the world apologizing for the United States telling Europeans that we are arrogant and do not care about their status in the world. Sir, what do you think the First World War and the Second World War were all about if not the consideration of the peoples of Europe ? Are you brain dead? What do you think the Marshall Plan was all about? Do you not understand or know the history of the 20th century?
Where do you get off telling a Muslim country that the United States does not consider itself a Christian country? Have you not read the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution of the United States ? This country was founded on Judeo-Christian ethics and the principles governing this country, at least until you came along, come directly from this heritage. Do you not understand this?
Your bowing to the king of Saudi Arabia is an affront to all Americans. Our President does not bow down to anyone, let alone the king of Saudi Arabia . You don’t show Great Britain , our best and one of our oldest allies, the respect they deserve yet you bow down to the king of Saudi Arabia . How dare you, sir! How dare you!
You can’t find the time to visit the graves of our greatest generation because you don’t want to offend the Germans but make time to visit a mosque in Turkey . You offended our dead and every veteran when you give the Germans more respect than the people who saved the German people from themselves. What’s the matter with you?
I am convinced that you and the members of your administration have the historical and intellectual depth of a mud puddle and should be ashamed of yourselves, all of you.
You are so self-righteously offended by the big bankers and the American automobile manufacturers yet do nothing about the real thieves in this situation, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Frank, Franklin Raines, Jamie Gorelic, the Fannie Mae bonuses, and the Freddie Mac bonuses. What do you intend to do about them? Anything? I seriously doubt it. ;
What about the U.S. House members passing out $9.1 million in bonuses to their staff members – on top of the $2.5 million in automatic pay raises that lawmakers gave themselves? I understand the average House aide got a 17% bonus. I took a 5% cut in my pay to save jobs with my employer. You haven’t said anything about that. Who authorized that? I surely didn’t!
Executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be receiving $210 million in bonuses over an eighteen-month period, that's $45 million more than the AIG bonuses. In fact, Fannie and Freddie executives have already been a warded $51 million – not a bad take. Who authorized that and why haven’t you expressed your outrage at this group who are largely responsible for the economic mess we have right now.
I resent that you take me and my fellow citizens as brain-dead and not caring about what you idiots do. We are watching what you are doing and we are getting increasingly fed up with all of you. I also want you to know that I personally find just about everything you do and say to be offensive to every one of my sensibilities. I promise you that I will work tirelessly to see that you do not get a chance to spend two terms destroying my beautiful country.
Sincerely,
Every real American
GOP
We are not Democrats lite, we are Conservative Republicans who want limited government and personal freedom.
We keep nominating these "moderate" muddled message dopes who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag (see J. McCain).
I give the liberal wackos their due, they did not hide their intentions, nominated an ultra liberal who won.
We need to declare our principles and stick to our message, instead of letting the other side define us. What a joke that we have been portrayed as the party of intolerance.
Previously Mark lamented that we should get back to the important stuff of budgets and national safety. Mark, we whistle past the grave yard.
We have important, inclusive and relevant things to say about abortion, Gay Marriage, gun control, Welfare, immigration and a host of other issues, but if we keep nominating idiots and letting us be defined by the harshness of talk radio, then we will be a permanent minority party. Hell, we cannot even win in a Republican district in NY or AZ for that matter. Where is the party leadership?
Minimal government and personal freedom...it is that simple.
Another GOP Defeat - WSJ.com
Terry could have been the coauthor.
O 'Grady: The Idiot 's Bible - WSJ.com
Sunday, April 26, 2009
How are we doing now
Riegels Rant
Saturday, April 25, 2009
OK lefties, you are in charge
Heaven help us that these fools are running our country.
Hats off to Mark for his brilliant posts on this issue. To be clear, I will stand at the gate, pitchfork in hand protesting any torture done for political gain or even in "unclear" circumstances. This clearly does not appear to be the case. We are at WAR with a dark, hiding enemy which obeys no rules and who, given the opportunity, would use a weapon of mass destruction within this country.
Now, I ask a question of my liberal, pacifists bloggers. Now, damn it, answer don't obfuscate.
How exactly would you fight the war on terror? The whole thing! Remember, they start with, (as Rush Limbaugh-Gasp) our death.
For those who care to offer an answer...Military or Criminal? Does it end if we catch OBL? Do we enforce a doctrine once we announce it? Honestly, besides criticism, what does the left offer?
I honestly would like one of you to give this a try, because the logical extension of your silliness will be to "reason" with them and treat them as criminals. Mark and I are just waiting to take a swing at that soft ball.
And let me answer one right off the bat. OK, we don't invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11, I know, I know. But there will still be prisoners, there will still be terrorist plots, there will still be Afghanistan. There will still be Spain, Bali, London. Terry! Stuff is coming, you are in charge. Protect us!
Friday, April 24, 2009
A Provacative Piece by Dershowitz
More on the reasoning for releasing the "agressive interrogation" memos while redacting the results
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics2/58_say_release_of_cia_memos_endangers_national_security
* 58 percent of voters say the Obama administration's recent release of DOJ memos "endangers the national security of the United States." Fewer than half as many 28 percent, think it "helps America's image abroad." Ooops!
* 70 percent also say America's legal system either does a good job of weighing security against individual rights, or puts too much emphasis on individual rights at the expense of security. Only 21 percent say the legal system is "too concerned about protecting national security."
* Only 28 percent want the Obama administration to investigate how the Bush administration treated terrorists. 58 percent want no such investigations.
* Obama's decision to close Guantanamo Bay is now disapproved of by a 46-36 margin, with support for Obama's action declining. (Oh well making absolute statements as the President some times can bite you in the behind.)
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Torture
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
So much for the statement that "coercive techniques" do not work
This article is from Pravda so they are bending backwards to try to spin the facts.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Now for the most important world issue
When one of the judges, the before mentioned gay Perez Hilton--put aside, for a moment, the question why he was a judge of the Miss USA contest--asked Miss California her opinion on gay marriage. Ms. Prejean answered the question straightforwardly: "I think that marriage should be between a man and a woman." This answer has been called "controversial" in almost every media outlet. Huh? Isn't this the opinion that the majority of Americans have as evidenced every time it has been asked at the polls?
Watch it for yourself and decide. Please pay attention to the look that the homosexual gives after the answer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XMvviFbkf0
Many observers have speculated that Miss California's "controversial" answer on gay marriage cost her the title. Ms. Prejean herself endorsed that theory, and added: "I stated an opinion that was true to myself and that's all I can do." The afore mentioned homosexual judge, Perez Hilton, who posed the question, called her a "bitch," for which he later apologized. That was after having voted, of course. Perez has now retracted his apology, explaining that he really meant to call Miss California a c***. Which doesn't explain, of course, why an openly gay male was chosen to judge the Miss USA contest. I am sure you will all agree with me that the gay judge is a real class act.
Can someone please tell me why a homosexual male should be included on a panel that is judging a female beauty contest? Don't you find it a little ironic that a question from a gay man would decide a female beauty pageant? I am not making this stuff up. If she had lied in answering the question and answered using the left wing mantra instead she would have won. It looks like the liberal fringe has even taken control of female beauty pageants now. The moral decline and fall of the America I grew up in continues.
Rich said that the Republicans should move away from the Tea Party protests
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics2/51_view_tea_parties_favorably_political_class_strongly_disagrees
It is also very interesting to see that the "political class" views the protests unfavorably. No wonder since the whole issue is the "political class" taking taxpayer money and wasting it on frivilous government spending.
Another one that might surprise our good friend Rich.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/environment/energy_update
which means that the majority now believes that there is nothing that humans can do to counteract the cycles of the Sun. Duh!
Words and actions have meaning
It sure is funny that coming on the heels of the anti-combat veteran report put out by the Obama administration Department of Homeland Security the FBI comes out with the latest list of their 10 most wanted. Can you believe that a left wing extremist is now number 1 on the FBI list. Those damn Republicans. They must have politicized the FBI.
Handshakes and "Bows"
Monday, April 20, 2009
Hair says...
I say that is wrong, but a great topic of debate.
Debate ensues.
Barney and the Harvard Law Student
You watch and decide for yourself. Is this the methodology that Rich learned of how to dodge a question? This is an elected official who refuses to answer one simple question. Did you have any responsibility for the subprime loan crisis? Listen to the student carefully and then listen to Barney use the tried and true Democratic method of dodging and accusing others without actually answering a direct question.
Janeane Garofalo And Keith Olbermann Calls Tea Bag Protesters"Racists"!
Watch the idiocy of the left wing fringe coverage of the Tea Bag anti-government spending protests that CNBC presents as legitimate reporting. Also pay attention to how Rich and the left try to make fun of the Tea bag protests by using language which refers to practices of on eof the other groups that Barney Frank belongs to.
Rich and Terry do you guys actually think like this?
The Administration about to make us far less safe
Well after having to listen to how Bush lied and how the Bush Administration rewrote things to justify the Iraq War, which arguably has made us much safer by killing large numbers of Islamic Extremists and their leaders in their own lands, it now has come to light that our current administration is telling an inter-agency group to rewrite reports so they can justify releasing terrorists from Gitmo into the US.
After Barry promised to close Gitmo, the White House ordered an inter-agency review of the status of all the detainees. The inter-agency committee -- comprised of all the national security agencies -- was told to start with what the current administration believed to be the easiest case, that of the seventeen Chinese Muslims, known as Ughurs, who were captured at an al-Queda training camp. The inter-agency panel found that the Ughurs weren't "the ignorant, innocent goatherds the White House believed them to be." The committee determined they were too dangerous to release because they were members of the ETIM terrorist group, the "East Turkistan Islamic Movement," and because their presence at the al-Queda training camp was no accident (realistically, how it could have been, the ignorance of these Pinko Kool-Aid drinkers is stunning).
Sources in the Defense Department say that "the White House legal office has told the inter-agency review group to re-do their findings to come up with the opposite answer." The current administration is now instructing government agencies to lie to the American Public in writing so that they can justify their ultra left wing policy of making America less safe. This flys directly in the face of the Executive branch's most important function which is defending Americans from harm. It will be interesting to see how these idiots spin this one.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Then I read the following article. I imagine she was able to stay still and not wander around the stage when speaking (like unfortunately her Papa did). She also makes a lot of sense.
Meghan McCain GOP Civil War
From MTP today as quoted by former Rep. D. Armey
Friday, April 17, 2009
So much for the impression that Barry made on Sarkozy
Some key exerpts from the article:
Mr Sarkozy was quoted yesterday as telling an all-party group of MPs that Mr Obama was inexperienced and indecisive. “Obama has a subtle mind, very clever and very charismatic,” the French President said. “But he was elected two months ago and had never run a ministry. There are a certain number of things on which he has no position. And he is not always up to standard on decision-making and efficiency.” (he should have said that Barry has never run anything and is clearly underqualified)
Mr Sarkozy was also reported yesterday to have cracked a dubious joke about Europe’s “Obamamania”. According to L’Express news magazine, he mentioned Mr Obama’s planned visit to Normandy for the D-day anniversary in June, saying: “I am going to ask him to walk on the Channel, and he’ll do it.”
This jaundiced view of Mr Obama may have been prompted by the US President’s heartfelt welcome at the G20, Nato and EU summits. “The President is annoyed by what he sees as the naivety and the herd mentality of the media,” wrote Claude Askolovitch, a commentator close to the Élysée Palace.
Welcome to our club Mr. Sarkozy!
More grandstanding by the Obama DOJ
These are the memos that our current DOJ released about torture. 80 pages that Barry released with these words “Baring what he called a ‘dark and painful chapter in our history,’. Was it really a dark and painful chapter in our history? Certainly painful due to the loss of lives on 9/11 and maybe dark but coming from an administration that has been consistently lying to us this is more political grandstanding and trying to play to his extreme left wing base that they knew would be extremely upset because the DOJ will not prosecute the CIA. If you do read the memos you will actually see striking things: the concern that is shown for the health and well-being of the detainees; the very limited circumstances under which harsh interrogation techniques were used (only when the CIA had reason to believe that the detainee had knowledge about pending terrorist attacks, among other limitations), and confirmation of the fact that thousands of American servicemen have been waterboarded and subjected to the other techniques in question, as part of their training--a practice that continued at least up to the dates of the memos.
The DOJ came to the only legal conclusion that they could here, that the likelihood of getting a conviction would be nil since the CIA agents in question relied on these legal memorandums. The other facts that have been shown, which are contrary to what the left through their useful idiots in the media are trying to sell, is that this "coercive questioning" not torture as the left calls it, were very successful. The CIA officials who extracted valuable information from captured Al Qaeda leaders--information that we have every reason to believe prevented successful terrorist attacks--are heroes. Their task was a thankless one, but, based on all the information we have now, including the newly-released DOJ memos, they performed it well.
Let us wait and see how pure this administration can stay when the shoe is on their foot. Just changing the name of the War on Terror is not going to solve the issues or make Islamic extremists love us. If you actually believe that these type of issues are not going to raise their ugly but necessary head in the future than you are more than naive. Just keep singing Kumbya and drinkiing that Pinko Kool-Aid and it will all be better tomorrow.
The biggest idiot Nobel Prize winner since Al Gore
Krugman states that we can sell another 10 trillion of debt before we have a problem. What an idiot. What country is going to buy it? Another left wing attempt to down play the massive debt that this administration has heaped on the terrible spending during the Bush administration.
Tea for Two
Thursday, April 16, 2009
When one of my good friend says somethinng stupid.
Please do not ever use the words WalMart and thoughtful corporations in the same paragraph. Or the same planet. We pay dearly for those low prices, including some who've paid with their lives because WalMart wouldn't offer health care to their employees.
Sorry.
Well... it remains stupid.
Gary, my pseudo-conservative friend, must know that in a free country, corporations don't need to be nice or thoughtful or any damn thing. They just need to make money and obey the law. Capitalism, wonder that it is, takes the drive and ambition of those willing to work and turns their products and services into the great emancipators of our society. Walmart, Exxon, Intel and the corner Bakery have provided more benefits, including our unparalleled standard of living, than any other system in existence. How can you look at our great societies and say otherwise?
And Walmart...poor Walmart of low prices, better standard of living, providing thousands of jobs. No one is forced to work there Gary.
Terry is too far gone...but Gary, come on!
Why are all the Secessionists Right Wingers?
In case you had any doubt there is a left wing attack against returning veterans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhLq9NPLv0M
As you can tell April 15th has passed and I have been saving a lot of this material in the back of my mind.
Another whopping lie by the White House
The White House says President Obama is "unaware" that the Tea Party demonstrations are going on. Is he clueless, out of touch or simply lying?
Shame on this administration and the left wingers they are putting in place all over government
This so called threat analysis provides absolutely zero documentation of increased recruitment of returning military combat veterans what so ever It clearly appears to be heavily influenced by the political views of its (unidentified) authors. The central theme of the report is this:
"The DHS/Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) has "no" specific information that domestic rightwing terrorists are currently planning acts of violence, but rightwing extremists "may" be gaining new recruits by playing on their fears about several emergent issues. The economic downturn and the election of the first African American president present unique drivers for rightwing radicalization and recruitment." Note the strategic word smithing using No and May.
I quote from the report:
"The current economic and political climate has some similarities to the 1990s when rightwing extremism experienced a resurgence fueled largely by an economic recession, criticism about the outsourcing of jobs, and the perceived threat to U.S. power and sovereignty by other foreign powers. ...
Growth of these groups subsided in reaction to increased government scrutiny as a result of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and disrupted plots, improvements in the economy, and the continued U.S. standing as the preeminent world power. "
Wait a minute. In 1995, the economy was booming. Nor is there any obvious similarity between the "political climate" now and in the 1990s, except that we have a Democratic administration in power. I suspect that's what the authors are really worried about, although they never quite come out and say so.
A lot of this defamation of military combat veterans who have fought for this country is based on a "prominent civil rights organization". Guess what, this prominent civil rights group is the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center. The real numbers:
"A review of FBI white supremacist extremist cases from October 2001 to May 2008 identified 203 individuals with confirmed or claimed military service active in the extremist movement at some time during the reporting period. This number is minuscule in comparison with the projected US veteran population of 23,816,000 as of 2 May 2008, or the 1,416,037 active duty military personnel as of 30 April 2008. ...
According to FBI information, an estimated 19 veterans (approximately 9 percent of the 203) have verified or unverified service in the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan."
I again say shame on this administration. They owe the military an apology for ever allowing an attack piece like this to be published. It goes to the obvious liberal lie of the last 8 years. "We support the troops but not the war". If so many liberals support the troops than why do they fight so hard to keep military recruiters off of college campuses?
Obama's pirate war
“People are talking about this as a piracy issue,” Mr. Feingold, the Democratic Senator from Wisconsin, said in a telephone interview. “That is not the core issue here. It is a symptom of a disunified government.” Mr. Feingold called central authority the ultimate solution to piracy.
Somalia has veered between lawlessness and rule by warlords for most of the past two decades, providing a haven not only for pirates but also for Islamic militants.
“Every country will be treated the way it treats us,” Abdullahi Lami, one of the pirates holding a Greek ship anchored in the pirate den of Gaan, a central Somali town, was quoted by The Associated Press as saying in a telephone interview. “In the future, America will be the one mourning and crying.”
Pirates have also vowed violent revenge against French ships and sailors after French commandos stormed a private yacht seized by pirates in the Gulf of Aden on Friday, an action in which two pirates and one hostage died while four hostages were freed and three pirates captured. “The French and the Americans will regret starting this killing,” a pirate identified only as Hussein told Reuters by satellite telephone on Monday. “We do not kill, but take only ransom. We shall do something to anyone we see as French or American from now.”
It appears that our President's plate is getting fuller. Feingold lends a lot of support to what Rush Limbaugh had to say earlier. I believe the future will show that Limbaugh was correct in his analysis and that we will end up having to deal with this problem in a way that will not please our President's most fervent supporters.
The arrogance of Obamamessiah continues to move to new heights
Read it critically for yourselves before the spinners go to work.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Monday, April 13, 2009
Are we at war and are there enemy's of the state?
The whole reason that there is a resurgence of piracy, which is something that was thought to have been stamped out a couple of hundred years ago, is precisely because idiots like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama think pirates and terrorists -- and this is terrorism -- are criminals, not enemies. This goes back to Jamie Gorelick and the wall and the Clinton administration wanting to prosecute terrorists as though they are citizens of America with constitutional rights. Prosecute them as criminals, the same as bank robbers. Of course, the leftist takeover -- or majority population, if you will -- of the US judicial system, is seen to be just that, when discussing, say, the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay or anybody else. They gotta be released, and released within the United States! Lawyers must defend them, as though they are criminals, not battlefield enemy combatants. So now the Obama administration and Clinton herself is looking at these people not as terrorists but as criminals, not enemies. If you start talking about these people being criminals then you gotta Mirandize them. Have the pirates been Mirandized? Have they been given their Miranda warnings? No! They need to be wiped out. This administration does not get it. The left in this country does not understand the concept that this country has enemies. Well, they might understand that we have enemies. What they're wrong about is why.
The best article.
Ari Fleischer Says It's Bad for Our Democracy to Exempt Half the Country From Income Taxes - WSJ.com
HEALTH CARE AND THOUGHTFUL CORPORATIONS
Personally, I go back to the Federalist Papers and the discussions our forefathers had regarding the role of the government in the lives of those governed. It is not the place of the Federal government to dictate to anyone that they should have healthcare or not. That is not the purpose of the Federal government. The Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution clearly states that “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” What does that mean in reality? That this issue should be addressed First by the PEOPLE (i.e. be responsible for your own health needs), and Secondly, by the States. Never should it be dealt with by the Federal Government. I am amazed I said that. Now if we had thoughtful Doctors, and thoughtful insurance companies and thoughtful lawyers, you get the point.
Friday, April 10, 2009
The problem with the bow
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Cap and Trade is Dead in this budget
The Republicans managed to score. The most notable was the amendment offered by Mike Johanns to prohibit use of the reconciliation procedure for "climate change legislation involving a cap and trade system." The point of this amendment is that the administration will not be able to slide cap and trade through the Senate with 50 votes as part of the budget bill. Rather, it will have to follow a normal process, which leaves open the possibility of a filibuster.
Johanns' amendment passed on a 67-31 vote, with a considerable number of Democrats joining the Republicans. They were largely, but not entirely, Midwesterners who were not prepared to see their states' economies devastated by this foolish environmental measure. So for now, at least, it looks as though we have dodged the carbon tax bullet.
It just goes to show the lunacy of this left wing agenda especially during these economic times. Thank goodness there are still some rational thinkers left in Congress. Especially given the fact that this lunacy is based on non Science and erroneous computer modeling.
The facts are that the earth's climate has been cooling for the last decade, something that was not predicted by the global warming alarmists' computer models. When models make predictions that are falsified by events, it proves that the models are wrong. Good thing reason stepped in before the lunatic fringe was able to destroy the economy further with their slavish devotion to Al Gore and his now discredited theory.
Monday, April 6, 2009
North Korea + Iran
We Are Not a "Christian Nation"
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Our former Presidents view, articulated days after 9-11 was that any regime that supported terrorism would be viewed as a hostile regime. He meant what he said which was the point of the post from earlier today. You conveniently forget that part of the issue with Iraq was that they would not willingly comply with UN inspections and sanctions after demonstrating hostility. Just like N. Korea is now.
Lastly, you never acknowledge that almost every Democratic Presidential candidate supported the resolution. Except of course Mr. Courage, who stood on the sideline and make fancy speeches. The point of his liberal beginnings and due is...were the war to have gone smoother, Hillary would have been the candidate and "O" would be but a concept.
But now the rubber meets the road and he must make difficult decisions, "words matter, rules must be followed". How hollow these words must ring to our enemy's, they know when previously faced with the same issue, he put politics before country to serve the left base and now remains their servant.
A NATION CHALLENGED: THE SCENE; Joint Congress Transformed Into a United Showcase of Courage and Resolve - The New York Times
''From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor and support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime.''
And as we all remember
At times visibly nervous, at others appearing to hew so closely to prepared answers that she used the exact same phrases repeatedly, Ms. Palin most visibly stumbled when she was asked by Mr. Gibson if she agreed with the Bush doctrine. Ms. Palin did not seem to know what he was talking about. Mr. Gibson, sounding like an impatient teacher, informed her that it meant the right of “anticipatory self-defense.”
THREATS AND RESPONSES: THE PRESIDENT; Bush Presses U.N. to Act Quickly on Disarming Iraq - The New York Times
THREATS AND RESPONSES: INSPECTIONS; U.S. Says Iraq Retools Rockets For Illicit Uses - The New York Times
THREATS AND RESPONSES: THE CONGRESSIONAL DEBATE; Lawmakers Make Their Cases as Votes on Use of Force Draw Near - The New York.
He turned his attention to the administration's new national security strategy, which argues that the threats of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction are so dangerous that the United States should not hesitate to act alone and pre-emptively. Mr. Kennedy drew a distinction between pre-emptive action such as Israel took when Syria and Egypt massed troops on its borders in 1967 and what he called ''preventative military action,'' or strikes against a country before it has become threatening.
Finally the truth
“Remember, everything Obama’s doing, Bush started last year,” Gingrich said. “If you’re going to talk about big spending, the mistakes of the Bush administration last year are fully as bad as the mistakes of Obama’s first two.
Words must have meaning
One wonders what this phrase means to the left? Our previous President was pilloried for saying, and meaning, that states that harbor terrorists would be treated the same as terrorist states and that states must comply with UN sanctions or face consequences.
So what do words mean in the new age of "O"? We speak harshly? We say "don't do it again"? Or do we mean what we say and take action?
I predict Baxter response II (the blame Bush model) to excuse the "O" tepid response.
When you have been elected by the left, the options of response are limited. The US, I guess, can speak but cannot actually do anything. Words mean...nothing.
Saturday, April 4, 2009
There is big, very big and Obama big.
There is debt and Obama trans generational bankruptcy debt.
There are taxes and there are Obama suck all the oxygen out of the economy taxes.
There is an increase on the wealthy and there is Obama forcing a few to pay for everything.
Michael Boskin Says Barack Obama's Trillion-Dollar Deficit Budget Will Impede Economic Growth - WSJ.com
Friday, April 3, 2009
The utter fallacy of the creation of "Green Jobs"
Well let us examine this proposition. An empirical study has just been done by Dr. Gabriel Calzada of Juan Carlos University in Madrid. http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2009/03/31/running-of-the-bull-us-green-jobs-rhetoric/
Let us examine a few of the more salient points.
* The U.S. can expect 2.2 jobs to be destroyed for every 1 renewable job financed by the government.
* Only 1 in 10 of the jobs actually created through green investment is permanent.
* Since 2000, Spain has spent €571,138 ($753,778) to create each "green job," including subsidies of more than €1 million ($1,319,783) per wind industry job.Those programs resulted in the destruction of nearly 113,000 jobs elsewhere in the economy.
* Each "green" megawatt installed destroyed 5.39 jobs in non-energy sectors of the Spanish economy.
* The total over-cost--the amount paid over the cost that would result from buying the electricity generated by the renewable power plants at market prices--between 2000 and 2008 amounts to 7,918.54 million Euros ($10 billion).
* The total subsidy spent and committed to these three renewable sources amounts to €28,671 million ($36 billion).
* Consumer energy costs in Spain would have to be increased 31 percent to repay the debt generated by the green jobs subsidies.
So based on these findings one must ask is our President really this dumb that he actually believes the obvious BS that he keeps on spewing about "green job" creation? Or is this part of the Rahm Emanuel line of "taking advantage of a crisis" by having the government take complete control of the American economy by deciding what kind of companies will succeed and what kind will fail through the use of massive governmental spending programs? There must be more to this because you certainly cannot make an economic case for this line of thinking based on Spain's real world experiences. Is this really "The Change" that a majority of Americans voted for?
Our President the real narcisist
As reported earlier the Obama's gave Queen Elizabeth a custom iPod. It turns out that loaded on the iPod besides the Queen's beloved Broadway show tunes are photos of the ONE's inauguration, audio of his speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention and audio of his 2009 inaugural address. I have to wonder why he forgot to include the recording of himself reading "Dreams From My Father" or "The Audacity Of Hope".
Rich and Terry, maybe Apple will start offering this iPod to the public so that you guys can view your savior whenever you want.
A reknown Professor from Columbia fingers Fannie and Freddie
"During the economic expansion of 2003 to 2007, lenders accumulated a large portfolio of risky investments." "One particularly large category of these investments were the $3 TRILLION worth of risky mortgage loans given to U.S. borrowers with poor history and little or no down payments." That is right the number is 3 TRILLION!
Question: who forced these banks to make these loans? Can you say Congress led by Barney Frank and Chris Dodd?
Dr. Calomiris went on to say that "despite strongly voiced opposition from risk managers to Fannie and Freddie, the CEOs pushed ahead, largely because of their desire to please CONGRESS". This statement was made based on his review of internal e-mails between Freddie's and Fannie's risk managers and their CEOs during the time period in question.
We know it is a fact, having watched the Congressional testimony linked in earlier Blog Entries that Barney and Chris along with some other Democrats did everything in their power to block any increased regulatory scrutiny of Fannie and Freddie and in fact made statements to the effect that nothing was wrong at either financial institution when in fact the House of Cards was beginning to collapse.
Now Barney is chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. You can't make this stuff up! What is wrong with this picture when the people who are directly responsible for helping to create the mess are the ones in charge of fixing it!
Too cool for chess?
DickMorris.com
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Now boys don't fight, I'm back
The administration just changes the rules if they don't agree
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123863025435480649.html#mod=djemEditorialPage
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
The new car czar in Europe
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Europe/wm2369.cfm
I just do not understand why so many in this country are so intent to become like Europe and to adopt European systems and economic policies that are clearly not working. Why have so many forgotten the fact that this country was established mostly by Europeans fleeing Europe for a better life highlighted by a system that featured individualism, freedom of choice and the ability to accomplish something by working hard and concentrating on an education. Now we have an administration that wants to bring us down to Europe's level. Please explain to me why so many liberals are so invested in worrying about how Europe views us.
Not surprisingly, the Europeans are attempting to leverage their false narrative into global policies that will favor their interests. Thus, they are calling for a global regulator with a mandate to ensure the stability and balance of the world economy. In other words if you cannot beat someone under fair competition than change the rules to bring them down to your level. We should all be worried about statements like the one the head of the IRS, who is incapable of using Turbo Tax, made when he said that he was quite open about going to a global currency. http://www.usnews.com/blogs/capital-commerce/2009/3/25/geithner-quite-open-to-idea-of-global-currency.html Of course this was a day after he said he was against it. http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-Economy/idUSTRE52N52420090324 Turbo Tax Tim is in so far over his head that he cannot even remeber what he says from day to day.
Between the car czar and Turbo Tax Tim we need to be really worried about the US capitulating to European wishes and then lying to us using their useful idiots in the left wing dominated main stream media to try and sell the American public about how a capitulation is good for us. We are in big trouble!
The new government owned automobile repair and maintenance facilities
"If you buy a car from Chrysler or General Motors, you will be able to get your car serviced and repaired just like always. Your warranty will be safe. In fact, it will be safer than it's ever been because, starting today, the United States government will stand behind your warranty."
I guess this will be some of the new jobs that the new auto exec will be creating with taxpayer dollars.
We as a nation are now being asked to trust this administration to run financial institutions, automotive manufacturers and who knows what the future holds. The arrogance of these clowns is simply astounding! I guess this is what happens when a population of idiots elects a man for arguably the most important job in the world who has the thinnest resume ever for a Presidential candidate. Please point out to me our new auto chief’s past business experiences.
And I quote "In this context, my administration will offer General Motors adequate working capital over the next 60 days. And during this time, my team will be working closely with GM to produce a better business plan. They must ask themselves have they consolidated enough to profitable brands. Have they cleaned up their balance sheets, or are this still saddling with so much debt that they can't make future investments?"
I am willing to bet that he doesn’t even understand a balance sheet. In his apparently boundless self-confidence, our new car czar in chief evidently thinks that he knows better how to run an automobile manufacturing company than the management of GM or Chrysler. What about his crack team? http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090223/AUTO01/902230327 Can anyone please point out someone on this list that has some experience in running a major manufacturing company?
I believe his arrogance is best explained by an a priori conviction that government always knows best. Let's take a second to analyze this thought.Can anyone point to anything that government has done well with taxpayer money?
Have we won the war on poverty yet? It seems to me that all we have succeeded in doing is create an entire class of needy individuals with no desire to work because they believe they are entitled to government aid due to the fact that they are still breathing oxygen.
How about the education battle that we have poured untold billions into? Nope we are losing this war as well.
The War on drugs? I don't think so.
I could go on all day.
I really feel bad for all of the people who have their lives tied to the automotive industry in this country. Once GM and Chrysler declare bankruptcy I am sure that our new car czar in chief will guarantee the lifetime benefits both financial and medical to all of the retired employees of these once great companies just like he did with auto warranties.