I Brought You Into This World...

This question of who is responsible for enforcing the Constitution upon the federal government and how to do it continues to be a vexing one. At this point the federal government basically polices itself and decides if it is obeying the Supreme Law. The Supreme Court essentially provides cover for the Congress and President to do whatever they darn well please. Let's admit it, Supreme Court appointments are political appointments. Period. So we have the fox guarding the hen house, the inmates running the asylum. Eighty percent of the time (my conservative guess) federal legislation or regulation is in direct violation of the Constitution and they tell us that the three branches have checked and are in agreement that everything is kosher. Now butt out, leave us alone. The commerce clause has become one big joke that they use to justify doing whatever in tarnation they please. (speaking of tar...and feathers) If the commerce clause is all that is necessary to justify the federal government doing anything at all, then why the very specific enumerated powers in Article 1, Section 8? And why the Tenth Amendment? Does anyone, or everyone else smell a rat? In fact, the commerce clause really should only empower the federal government to regulate tariffs placed by one state on goods passing through it from one adjoining state to another so as to prevent outrageous tariffs that would be prohibitive to commerce between the various states. That's it. It does not authorize the federal government to enact such things as a federal minimum wage, Medicare/Medicaid, Social Security, complete regulation of our energy industry or a socialized health care system. The answer is right there in the Tenth Amendment. The people acting through their states must stand up to the federal government and yell 'Whoa!' Governors must inform the federal government that such idiocies as nationalized federal health care will not happen in their states. Period. And governors must be prepared to use their National Guard and any other resources at their disposal to enforce their decisions, if necessary. The states may need to get together and pass further constitutional amendments to clarify the role of and reign in the federal government. Hopefully we will never need to call a constitutional convention, but that is ultimately up to the states, not the feds. The states giveth the Constitution and only the states can taketh away or replace it. The fight to save our Constitution and nation is not in Washington, D.C., but in the state capitals. Now get crackin' governors!

Obama the Transformer

"We are just five days away from fundamentally transforming America."
--October 31, 2008




To...

TINSTAAFL

My freshman year of college, first semester Economics 101 the professor walked in the very first day of class and wrote that on the blackboard (yes, with chalk). He asked if anyone knew what it meant. No one did. He explained that it is the fundamental principle of all economics. There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. Even if you did get your lunch for free, someone somewhere paid for it. Stuff does not materialize out of thin air. Except maybe air, and God provided that. In this current debate over health care, and anything else that the government 'provides' we would be well served to remember TINSTAAFL. The federal government cannot give you anything for free. If they say that they will, remember the family down the street will actually be paying for it out of their milk and bread budget. If someone gets something for nothing then someone else always must get nothing for something. The government cannot give anything that it does not have, and technically speaking it has nothing. It can only take or steal things from those who do have stuff or money. One way is taxation. Or, it can print money, but that just artificially inflates the money supply, decreasing the value of goods and services by the amount of new money, driving up the price and at the end of the day everything is a wash. We can borrow money from China to pay to give you stuff (well, they used to be willing to loan to us), but we still have to tax your neighbor to service the debt: pay the interest and eventually pay back the principal (yeah, right). The old saw goes that a government that has the power to give you everything that you want will also have the power to take everything that you have. Think about it, they must have the power to take everything that you and your neighbors have if they are going to give other people things for free. If they don't have that power and exercise it then they cannot give other people stuff for free. Remember, they don't create stuff or wealth, they only redistribute it. That is the process of socialism and it by necessity results in the equal sharing of poverty. It brings everyone down to the lowest common level of existence. Because it creates a climate of disincentives for business and private wealth creation due to high taxation/confiscation, the amount of overall wealth in a society declines. Over time there is less and less to redistribute. Business is driven off-shore and overseas. Taxes continue to rise as service levels fall. Scarce goods and services now must be rationed. Look around the world. Every country that has tried this has come to ruin or is in decline. By contrast, things such as private health insurance are voluntary agreements between citizens to pool their money and pay for major medical expenses incurred by those in the pool. Participants can drop out at any time and are not forced to participate if they choose not to. You have no constitutional or natural right to the money or stuff that your neighbors have acquired or created. You can provide for yourself or ask your neighbors for a handout, but don't beseech the government to go to your neighbors with a gun and demand that they give you stuff. That's immoral. If people are truly disadvantaged through no fault of their own, we have always and will always help these folks out. But still, it is much more efficient to do that through private charity than government fiat. In this debate we able-bodied Americans must focus not on what we can wrest from our neighbors but on how we can best provide for ourselves and families and then give what we can to help the really needy among us.

What Can We Do?

What can we do?
This is the question so many ordinary citizens are asking these days as they see our Constitution being shredded and trashed. What, indeed? Our society has devolved to the nadir where far too many people believe that if they want something done then the federal government can and should do it. The idea of the federal government being constrained by the Constitution is a foreign concept to them thanks to 50 years of inadequate and sometimes intentionally misleading establishment education. Sadly, it’s a foreign concept to the current president and his administration, the federal bureaucracy, federal courts and the U.S. Supreme Court and the Congress. They snicker and laugh at those of us who wave the hallowed document in their faces and yell ‘Whoa!’ We are hayseeds, tossed aside as anachronistic throwbacks to a simpler time. Don’t we know that the Constitution is a ‘living’ document that ‘evolves’ to meet the needs of the current generation? Well, truth-be-told it evolves only by the amendment process which has happened only 27 times since 1788. While Supreme Court rulings are important things, they do not amend the Constitution, formally or informally. The Supreme Court allegedly strains to properly interpret the Constitution and apply its tenets to specific cases before it. At the point the Court crosses the line from interpretation to amendment it is incumbent upon the President, Congress, the States or the People to reign it back in across the line. Such was the case with the recent Kelo decision where the Court magically changed the meaning of public to private. Congress subsequently passed a federal law to reverse the Court’s ruling in the federal land use arena. But what were five supposedly intelligent Supreme Court justices thinking? They violated the supreme federal law of the land. That I called for their impeachment and removal from the Court was viewed as silliness by many. They are charged with upholding the supreme law of the land and turn around and knowingly violate it! If that doesn’t constitute high crimes and misdemeanors, what does? If we don’t truly believe in being a nation of laws rather than men then why feign having a Constitution in the first place? If we are not going to enforce our laws why have them?
Beyond the antics of the Court, though; is the bigger issue of the Congress and President conspiring (yes, conspiring) to pass sweeping legislation and perhaps irrevocably alter the fabric of our society in ways that are not permitted by our Constitution and would never have been tolerated in saner times. Their explanation? The People want these things and they want the federal government to do them. And they are happy to oblige because it imbues the ruling regime with enormous power; which is the goal of professional politicians, whether right or left, conservative or liberal, Republican or Democrat. We are witnessing the rise of raw democracy which is straight majority rule which is ultimately mob rule—tyranny by any other name. It is the tyranny of the majority over the minority. As Thomas Jefferson remarked, “A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.” For this reason our federal government was established as a representative republic within a constitutional framework. Representative republic since not every citizen could conceivably participate in debate and vote on every issue before the federal government. Thus, we would elect representatives to act in that capacity on our behalf. Constitutional framework so that the federal government could only do those things which the States, having established the federal government for their collective benefit; specifically enumerate and permit. Those things and no more save a constitutional amendment. It is this constitutional framework which ostensibly protects the political minority from shenanigans of the political majority in power. The federal government is not permitted, by virtue of the States speaking through the Constitution in Article I, Section 8; to do simply anything that is decides to do, even if the People profess a desire for such. The People can effect a constitutional amendment through the Congress or the States to empower the federal government in a new desired area, or this power and authority to act falls upon the States in their separate state legislatures by virtue of the 10th Amendment. Thus the idea of the States as laboratories of change. One needs to understand the perspective that the States created the federal government to serve their collective needs, not vice versa. The federal government is lesser than and subservient to the States. The States are not creations or subdivisions of the federal government. They do not serve it. They are sovereign entities with their own constitutions and bodies of law which existed before the federal constitution and federal laws (in the case of the original thirteen). The President actually serves the States primarily, not the People at large. This is the reason for the Electoral College method of electing the President. U.S. Senators were originally selected by the State legislatures and paid by their respective States since that is who they represented. This was later changed by constitutional amendment. The People’s House, the House of Representatives is the federal body which was designed to provide representation for the People.
This is all well and good when the players, majority and minority alike agree to act honorably and respect the Constitution as the supreme law of the land. Unfortunately when one side gains a majority and decides to abandon obedience to constitutional constraints without real opposition from other complicit branches of government the situation rapidly runs tragically amok. The rights of the minority are trampled and new federal institutions gain a toe-hold which become virtually impossible to unhinge as the bloated bureaucracies underpinning them grow without bounds. Just look to Social Security, Medicare or the federal Minimum Wage. All are unconstitutional in the strict sense, yet have become so entrenched within our national psyche that just to mention reforming them is taboo, much less eliminating them. The prospect of a new federal health care system stretches the limit of constitutional credulity.
The challenge is that once the camel gets its nose under the tent it becomes virtually impossible to keep the rest of the beast out. After the first and second patently unconstitutional programs become the norm the People come to expect and tolerate more and more. The thrill of breaking the law soon wears off and the mind quickly adapts to the new set-point. Why not, everybody’s doing it? In my mind once the federal government violates one tenet of the Constitution with impunity, the document in whole has been rendered null-and-void. You cannot pick and choose which parts to obey and which to ignore. It’s an all-or-none proposition, kind of like the nonsensical idea of being a little bit pregnant. We are now adrift on the high seas in a life raft with no rudder. I believe that we left the Constitution in the early years of the 20th Century. We have been in free-fall since. Unfortunately all three branches of the federal government are guilty in this unholy alliance and enable the others by their lack of action, egged on by the ever-present bureaucracy. I believe that most of what the federal government does and spends today is in direct violation of the Constitution. If the Founders had meant for the federal government to have unfettered power they would not have written the enumerated powers in Article I, Section 8 or added the 10th Amendment for emphasis. I believe that they would be appalled and outraged at the sad state of affairs today. They would be incensed that We the People have forfeited so much of the liberty which they paid so dearly to obtain for us.
So, back to the original question; what can we do?
One school says to better educate the People and try to send more responsible politicians to Washington. I would argue that we have lost the education initiative and if it could be regained might take 50 years or more. Frankly, we don’t have that much time. Bad things have already become entrenched and the pace of growth of new over-arching programs is accelerating. We have been trying to send better politicians to Washington for over 200 years and the situation is only getting worse. While Presidents, Congressmen and Senators come and go, the entrenched federal bureaucracy remains lumbering on, resisting all change and reform and devouring well-meaning politicians like so much icing on the cake. The federal monster has taken on a life of its own. When the People fear their federal government (just say I.R.S. in a crowded room) more than the federal government (those people hired and paid by us to serve us—public servant?) fears the People, things are terribly amiss. Now they are talking about taxing the very air that we all exhale (carbon dioxide) and putting GPS devices in our cars to track our movements in order to tax our mileage—right! Are you kidding me?!
On the other end of the spectrum are the wackos advocating armed insurrection against the federal government. These are the militia movement types. I categorically rebuke that solution at this point in time. Yes, we fought a Revolutionary War as renegades and took up arms against each other during the Civil War. Both at great loss of life and both for admirable causes. At the time both were tragically necessary. I cannot absolutely rule out that at some future time such things could happen again in this country. People and human nature never change. But this is not the time to discuss such avenues. The situation is not that bleak and other less extreme options have not been exhausted. Just don’t let them erode or repeal our Second Amendment rights!
Another road is that of civil disobedience. Not riots or violent, disruptive events, but rather large groups of level-headed citizens refusing to obey or participate in what they deem to be obviously unconstitutional behavior, programs or laws. Such things as withholding income tax payments (expect that the People never demanded that the federal government repeal employer income tax withholding after the end of WWII). It’s rather difficult to withhold payments when you never receive the money in the first place, but businesses could refuse to withhold and send in the payments. Perhaps it would be refusing to participate in a federal health care system either as a provider, employer or patient. I am not advocating any of these activities and it would take such massive education and participation to be effective that they might not be realistically feasible at all; but they are theoretically possible. It would have to be something big enough to get the politicians attention and painful enough to force constitutionally conforming behavior in them. Cutting off their money is the biggie since money is the mother’s milk of politics. It is a major source of political power.
Some have proposed challenging the egregious federal over-reaching in the courts. The trouble with this choice is that the courts have become part of the problem. Let’s face it, judges are political appointees and have come to reflect the statist drift of the federal government over the years. The courts, including the Supreme Court have made it possible for the Congress and President to work hand-in-glove in carving out more and more power for the federal government at the expense of the People and the States. Activist judges now legislate from the bench rather than merely rule on the question of law in the case before them. This is clearly unconstitutional. Cases move slowly through the court system and far too much significance is placed on prior court rulings than on the actual text of the Constitution. Talk about the blind leading the blind!
The route I would advocate is that of a resurgence of State power over the federal government. Let us remember, we are the United STATES of America. The States created the federal government. It is a law of nature that that which is created cannot be greater than that which created it. The President serves the States and according to the 10th Amendment, all government power except for a handful of very specific items clearly enumerated in Article I, Section 8 are reserved to the States and the People. Just because the People want the federal government to do something does not mean that it legally can do that thing and certainly does not mean that it should or even could that thing. Just look at what a stellar job the feds have done with Medicare and Social Security. They are both patently bankrupt. Remember, a government that has the power to give you everything you want would also have the power to take away from you everything you have, particularly your money and your freedom and liberty. For most things needed from a government (and those should be few) people should look first to their local and state governments. The government closest to the problem and to the People is usually the one best suited to solve the problem or provide the service. Does anyone doubt that your city government can do a better job running your city bus service than the federal government could possibly do? And the best solution might be putting out contracts with private bus companies. You will have more control over that decision with your city council than with the Congress of the United States. If you don’t like the decision you will probably have much more influence with your city council representative than your Congressman. You might even run and unseat your city council representative.
So exactly what power could the States (provided we were able to educate the people and get enough state legislatures to work together for this cause) exert over the federal government? How do average citizens compel their states to act? I certainly do not foresee or advocate the calling of a Constitutional Convention, a route fraught with all sorts of pitfalls. We want to put the runaway federal genie back into the constitutional bottle, not open Pandora’s Box. The current Constitution is more than adequate, we should just follow it. It is really a very sad day when the government officials responsible for defending our borders and our Constitution and enforcing the laws of the land will not even obey the most sacred, fundamental and supreme law of our land themselves. When I read the Constitution I am struck by the fact that there aren’t any enforcement methods or penalties for disobedience written into it. I must imagine that the writers could not remotely conceive of public servants so much as thinking of disobeying any of its dictums, much less flagrantly disobeying them. They probably could not fathom such behavior. To them it would be obvious treason and probably dealt with swiftly, publicly and with overwhelming severity. I imagine they saw it as almost a sacred document to be revered and probably even somewhat feared. More a pillar of marble than one of silly-putty that today’s politicians and judges make of it. It now falls to us, the People and the States to somehow enforce the supreme law of the land upon the wayward and recalcitrant servants and guardians of that very law for straying from it. God help us. So, what can the states really do? Well, here are some thoughts:

• Secession
• Constitutional Amendments
• Refuse to accept federal money: Highway, medical, food stamps, civil projects,
etc.
• Refuse to pay federal fees, tariffs, taxes, etc.
• Evict federal offices (Courts, IRS, etc.) from state
• Withhold national guard from federal service
• Control state borders
• Reclaim federal lands as state property
• Refuse to participate in federal initiatives such as federal health care, cap &
trade, etc.
• Do not permit the enforcement of federal executive branch regulations on people,
private businesses or state/local government entities.
• Do not permit any federal inspections of anything within the state.
• Demand property tax for military bases, national parks, etc.


“…That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security… .”

May God have mercy upon us all.

Bend Over and Grab 'em!

Now that his hinney-ness is back from studying the health care system of Ghana, we must rush through the take-over of 1/6 of the U.S. economy in the next few weeks. No real national debate, just ram it down our collective throats. The sense I get out there in the real world is that this is the last straw. Coming on the heels of the not-quite-dead Cap & Trade bill this crosses the proverbial line in the sand. I believe that this country is on the verge of blowing apart at the seams. Let it be on their heads to quote Felix Unger. And may God have mercy upon us all.

Climbing Pyramids

Apparently Social Security is about to run out of money. Go figure. It will pay out more money this year than it takes in and will be bankrupt four years sooner than everyone expected. This is called a Ponzi scam. It is EXACTLY the same thing that Bernie Madoff was running privately. Exactly. So why is he in prison and the politicians run around scott-free? Sauce, goose, gander? Either lock them up or let him out. The federal government has ripped off trillions of dollars from American citizens for decades, many who will never see a dime returned to them. Everyone knew this was a scam from day one. It was nothing more than a way for FDR to buy votes. The United States needs to dump this illegal pyramid scam now!

Call the Office

The founding fathers called, since we're not using it they want their constitution back.

Swing Vote

Has a Republican ever GAINED any votes in a recount? I can't think of any.

Cap & Trade

Little known requirement in the Cap & Trade bill to control CO2 emissions

President Urkel

New Union Label

"Made with pride in America (a wholly owned subsidiary of China, Inc.)"

Run Out on a Rail

The Crap-&-Tax bill passed the House by 7 votes. Eight Republicans (barely in name only) voted FOR the bill, thus giving SanFranGranNan her victory. The Democrat party would never stand for such nonsense. These eight Benedict Arnold's should be run out of the Republican party for good right now! Here are their names:

Bono-Mack

Castle

Kirk

Lance

Reichert

LoBiondo

McHugh

Smith (NJ)

Goodbye and good riddance!

Not Cap-and-Trade, but Tar-and-Feather!

I swear, if this Cap & Trade bill passes the Senate that will be nothing short of a declaration of war against the American people by the federal government. This federal government is totally disconnected from the Constitution, from the American people and from reality. It is truly becoming absolutely illegitimate. This Kenyan fascist dictator from the Chicago Mob Syndicate is running our country like a third-world African fiefdom. We can't wait for 2010 or 2012, we must throw the bums out NOW! Viva la Tea Parties!

Marching to Pretoria

June 24, 2009, Wednesday

Good Morning America!

• No Cap-and-Trade or Carbon Emissions Tax Legislation! Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. Man-made global warming/climate change is a myth and a hoax perpetrated by that over-weight, over-the-hill mooch Algore. This legislation is another fascist attempt by the Chicago Obama Mob Syndicate to destroy capitalism and take over the economy. Don’t let yourself be duped into being one of their useless idiots!
• No Iranian diplomats at the White House for hot dogs (pork?) on July Fourth! This Kenyan is a moron! Don’t Tread on Me!
• BarryCare is a monster! Doctors will not participate in this charade. Hardly any will take Medicare now. If you try to force them they will quit medicine and go make wine, which is what most would rather do now anyway.
• So the messiah doesn’t smoke cigarettes in front of his kids. It’s what he smokes behind closed doors that worries me. A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

OK, now you have your marching orders for today.

Now get out there and kick some liberal butt!

Barry in Wonderland

Eureka! I have figured it out. Barry has no respect for the U.S. Constitution because it was written prior to 1865 and by all white men to boot. In his perverted, twisted fantasy world it simply does not apply to him.

Just How Blind is Justice, Really?

Last week President Barack Obama, acting through his Special Counsel coerced the removal of Inspector General Gerald Walpin (whether through direct firing or threat and intimidation of such resulting in his forced resignation; the same in the eyes of the law) in direct violation of federal law (which Senator Obama co-sponsored) which requires 30-day notice be given to Congress explicitly outlining the reasons for termination of an Inspector General.

Since the President has violated federal law the question before the country is whether impeachment articles have been introduced into the House? Are we a nation of laws or men? Does the Constitution rule or does anarchy (whose name is Oabma)?

Members of Congress, the eyes of the nation are upon you, we are waiting...

ABC News=Always Been Communist

ABC TURNS PROGRAMMING OVER TO OBAMA; NEWS TO BE ANCHORED FROM INSIDE WHITE HOUSE
Tue Jun 16 2009 08:45:10 ET

On the night of June 24, the media and government become one, when ABC turns its programming over to President Obama and White House officials to push government run health care -- a move that has ignited an ethical firestorm!

Highlights on the agenda:

ABCNEWS anchor Charlie Gibson will deliver WORLD NEWS from the Blue Room of the White House.

The network plans a primetime special -- 'Prescription for America' -- originating from the East Room, exclude opposing voices on the debate.

MORE

Late Monday night, Republican National Committee Chief of Staff Ken McKay fired off a complaint to the head of ABCNEWS:

Dear Mr. Westin:

As the national debate on health care reform intensifies, I am deeply concerned and disappointed with ABC's astonishing decision to exclude opposing voices on this critical issue on June 24, 2009. Next Wednesday, ABC News will air a primetime health care reform “town hall” at the White House with President Barack Obama. In addition, according to an ABC News report, GOOD MORNING AMERICA, WORLD NEWS, NIGHTLINE and ABC’s web news “will all feature special programming on the president’s health care agenda.” This does not include the promotion, over the next 9 days, the president’s health care agenda will receive on ABC News programming.

Today, the Republican National Committee requested an opportunity to add our Party's views to those of the President's to ensure that all sides of the health care reform debate are presented. Our request was rejected. I believe that the President should have the ability to speak directly to the America people. However, I find it outrageous that ABC would prohibit our Party's opposing thoughts and ideas from this national debate, which affects millions of ABC viewers.

In the absence of opposition, I am concerned this event will become a glorified infomercial to promote the Democrat agenda. If that is the case, this primetime infomercial should be paid for out of the DNC coffers. President Obama does not hold a monopoly on health care reform ideas or on free airtime. The President has stated time and time again that he wants a bipartisan debate. Therefore, the Republican Party should be included in this primetime event, or the DNC should pay for your airtime.

Respectfully,
Ken McKay
Republican National Committee
Chief of Staff

Mano a Mano

Eric Cantor, R-VA has compared Obama to Putin. What an insult to Putin. Wonder how he will respond?

Smoker-in-Chief

Now that the Congress has given the F.D.A. authority to regulate tobacco, is the Smoker-in-Chief going to quit??? Hmmmm, maybe this is why he wants nationalized health care so much.

Attention Wal-Mart Shoppers!

And to think David Letterman said that Sarah Palin has that slutty flight attendant look.

Barry Care

Obama Health Care:

• Scheduling handled by Amtrak
• Billing handled by the I.R.S.
• Medical Records handled by the U.S. Postal Service
• Colonoscopies handled (literally) by Barney Frank!

So bend over and grab your ankles. Here it comes!

New Sheriff in Town

Now that the Obama administration has officially jettisoned the rule of law in the United States (by virtue of arbitrarily voiding the valid contracts of Chrysler investors) I reserve the new right to ignore any federal law I choose with total impunity. Praise the Lord! Thank you Barry. We can also now quit teaching the U.S. Constitution to our children since it is null and void. Ah, what freedom!

Random Rants

• About 400 students at Pace High School in Santa Rosa County, Florida painted crosses on their mortar boards and stood and recited the Lord's Prayer (along with numerous parents in the audience) recently in defiance of the A.C.L.U.'s lawsuit against the school and threats to silence students from exercising their First Amendment free exercise rights. Out of the mouths of babes.
• The state supreme court in South Carolina just told Republican Governor Mark Sanford that he must accept about $700 million in federal stimulus bailout money that he had until now refused; not wanting the federal strings that are attached. He should tell the court to go pound sand. They were not elected governor.
• Great Britain, Sweden, Germany and France among other E.U. states have just lurched solidly to the right in their recent elections. The collectivist, neo-fascist system is obviously not working. Obama check your blackberry.
• Governor Schwarzengger in California is toying with a state flat income tax and talk is swirling about getting out of the welfare business altogether. Will that mean that millions of illegal aliens in California will go back to Mexico, or just move north to Oregon and Washington?

Russia Redux

Obama is now looking to appoint a "Compensation Czar" for companies who (foolishly) took
or will take any federal 'bailout' money.
Weren't the Czars/Tsars of old Russia the bad guys???

Conversion Connundrum

Was it really wise for Barry to go on about his father's and familie's Islamic roots since in many Arab countries to leave Islam, the religion on one's father and convert to Chritianity is still grounds for execution? He has labelled himself in the eyes of Muslims, an infidel to their faith.

New Car Meets C.A.F.E. Standards

We have obtained super-secret testtrack photo of newly developed Algore approved G.M. (Government Motors) Obama-mobile to be released this fall as part of the new G.M. lineup!

Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain

A doctor struck up a conversation with a hard-working 75 year old rancher while suturing a mean cut on the old man's leathery hand. Eventually the topic got around to politics and the President.The old rancher said, "Well, you know, Obama is a 'post turtle.’”Unfamiliar with the term, the doctor asked him what he meant.The old rancher saw the puzzled look on the doctor's face so he continued: "You know he didn't get up there by himself, he doesn't belong up there, he doesn't know what to do while he's up there, and you just wonder what kind of moron put him up there to begin with."

Are you starting to get that funny feeling in the pit of your gut that something is just not right about this administration? Is there some nagging thought in the back of your head that things just don’t add up for some reason? Do you feel like there’s just no ‘there’ there?
Well think on these things:

• He simply will not release his actual birth certificate and put these rumors of his birth in Kenya to bed once and for all. Why not?
• He was mentored by the ideas and likes of radicals and domestic terrorists Sol Alinsky, Bernadine Dohrn and William Ayers.
• He spent twenty years in a church lead by extremist Jeremiah Wright who espouses and preaches radical Black liberation theology, hatred of whites and America and is closely linked with Louis Farrakhan, far-radical leader of the anti-Semitic Nation of Islam. Jeremiah Wright married Barack and Michelle and baptized their children.
• He worked as a community organizer (read community agitator) in Chicago. During that time and since he has worked very closely with A.C.O.R.N., a large criminal organization which operates under hundred of aliases and has garnered a lion’s share of Obama’s bail-out money. They engage in criminal voter fraud and intimidation and Obama then has the charges mysteriously dropped. And this bunch is playing a pivotal role in Obama’s take-over of the 2010 census.
• After law school he worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago.
• He taught constitutional law (but apparently learned nothing about it) at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992-2004.
• Served three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1998-2004.
• During that time had an unsuccessful bid for Congress in 2000.
• Elected to the U.S. Senate from Illinois in 2004, sworn in January, 2005.
  After only 25 months in the U.S. Senate, he announced his run for the Democrat Presidential nomination in February, 2007. He is inexperienced in anything approaching an executive office (in public service or private business), lacks any foreign policy experience, is virtually unknown, untested and certainly not vetted.
• His campaign funding comes from very wealthy under-the-radar donors and many foreign sources.
• Coming from nowhere, he beat out Hillary Clinton, heiress-apparent for the nomination.
• Just after he secured the nomination the bottom suddenly fell out of the mortgage banking industry, dragging other financial industries, markets and institutions down with it.
• As a result of the collapse of the financial industries, just after taking office Obama begins spending trillions of dollars (which don’t even actually exist) to ‘bail out’ these companies that are ‘too big to fail.’ To this day there is no accounting for where and to whom the money went. No one seems to know. (wink, wink). Can anyone, or everyone say George Soros and his buddies?
• He then set about nationalizing private businesses, a la Nazi Germany and handing big chunks over to, guess who? The United Auto Workers’ Union, one of his big contributors during the campaign.
• He is pushing radical climate change policies destined to destroy American industries and jobs as a payback to his rich, radical left-wing environmental Nazi supporters.
• He has set his sights on nationalizing healthcare by which he can then control virtually ever private business in the country.
• He cannot speak or even go potty without a teleprompter. When he speaks it is a robotic, sing-song speech pattern with very little emotion or passion and improperly placed inflection at the end of sentences. He speaks in short, clipped phrases with a very monotone voice. It’s almost as if he is not really doing the speaking. When he must answer questions off-the-cuff he fumbles and bumbles almost always requiring clarification hours later by his minions. It makes one wonder who is writing the speeches and pulling the puppet strings behind the scenes.
• He nominates a racist, anti-constitutionalist light-weight federal appeals court judge to replace the retiring David Souter on the Supreme Court. She has been reversed 60% of the time on appeal. Her only recommending quality is that she, like Obama, sees the court as a place that policy and law can be made, not just applied to cases before it.
• He appoints a man as Attorney General who is hell-bent on disarming the public. What do they fear?

There is obviously a very well thought out agenda in play here. One that Barack Obama did not contrive. It is being funded and promoted by some very wealthy and powerful people behind the scenes who hate America. Barack Obama is merely the stool-pigeon that they picked to be their Manchurian candidate.

King for a Day, Week, Month, Year...

I am left with no choice but to sever my allegiance to the “Obama Administration’s AmeriKa” and declare myself an American citizen in exile. This fascist gang of street thugs constitutes an illegal federal government under the terms of the United States Constitution of 1787. Barack Hussein Obama is little more than a mindless puppet of dark forces such as George Soros and others behind the scenes pulling his strings. He refuses to release his birth certificate proving that he has something sinister to hide; that he is really not a natural-born U.S. citizen and thus as President merely an imposter. The stench of this administration is the stench of millions of rotting unborn babies’ corpses and wafts straight to the White House and from there to heaven. The unholy alliance between this administration and the private industries and private businesses that he has nationalized is a violation of our Constitution, laws and heritage. My ancestors did not fight to break the yoke of King George only to take on the yoke King Barry. His attempt to socialize health care, redistribute private citizens’ wealth and drive us over the cliff of insolvency is intolerable. He has surrendered to the forces of evil in the War on Terror and will not stop the invasion of our sovereign soil by way of illegal immigration. And the final straw is nominating a racist, anti-constitutional bigot and mental lightweight for the United States Supreme Court.
I must oppose and fight this heinous, hideous administration with every breath and every fiber of my being until our Constitution and country are reestablished.
Please be advised, do not send me a census form next year by mail or send a census-taker to my door. I cannot legally comply.
My friends and relatives in my native Texas are buying barbed wire.

Supreme Stupidity

Obama's Supreme Court pick is a disaster for the country and the Constitution.
They're buying barbed wire in Texas.

Don't Fly Low for Joe

Biden is speaking at the Air Force Academy graduation this week. Rumor is, they are cancelling the traditional Thunderbirds stadium flyover since they ARE weapons.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

Will BO lay a wreath at the tomb of the Unknown Community Organizer this weekend?

Obama Takes Swipe at Sailors

The Washington Times
Inside the Beltway
By John McCaslin (Contact) Thursday, May 21, 2009
SWORDLESS SAILORS
Graduating midshipmen of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis are being told in writing to leave at home or in their vehicles all "ceremonial swords" and anything else "that might be considered a weapon or a threat by screeners" for Friday's outdoor commencement ceremonies featuring an address by President Barack Obama. Inside the Beltway has obtained the academy's list of prohibited items for this year's graduation exercises, which, besides ceremonial swords, includes umbrellas. Yes, cell phones and texting are still allowed.

Just what exactly does the "Commander-in-Chief" fear from his new military officers??

Pimp Your Ride

New from G.M. (Government Motors)!

The Obama Clown Car

Room for 20 clowns (really, I promise)

And safe too (just don’t hit a bug)

Just come on down to Barry’s Motors
Obama the Clown will be there!
Free balloons for the kiddies! (they double as airbags)
No credit? No problem!
Bailouts for everybody!!

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D.C.

Push, pull or drag your SUV on down.
We won’t give you anything for it, but Algore will say that he will plant a tree in your honor.

Hey King George Obama...This Declaration's for You

A lot of people have been reading the Constitution lately, and that's a good thing. For a change read the Declaration of Independence. It will sober you up. I can imagine that if its writers were here today they would march up Pennsylvania Avenue and nail the Declaration onto the gate of the White House for King George Obama!
http://www.ushistory.org/Declaration/document/index.htm

O Death Where is Thy Sting?...Look Left

Obama’s ratcheting down of the CAFÉ standards and new carbon dioxide emission standards will force many people into Barry’s Clown Cars. As a direct result, many more thousands of Americans will die needlessly each year on highways. The studies are very conclusive on this point. All for what? Making nimrods like Algore rich in this hoax of manmade climate change. What a shell game being played with our families’ lives.
What exactly is the fascination of the Left, the Libs, the Dems and the Progressives with promoting death? Just look at the record:

• They promote abortion. Millions of murdered unborn children.
• They promote ridiculous automobile standards. Thousands more people killed in these street-legal lawn mowers each year.
• The euthanasia movement lives in their camp.
• They force people into collectivist healthcare. Around the world everywhere this is implemented people die needlessly while waiting for proven, but rationed life-saving treatments.
• They disarm law-abiding citizens to die at the hands of thugs for lack of self-defense.
• They teach teenagers to use condoms. When they fail and wind up with a terminal disease they will shuffle them off to their collectivist healthcare to be ignored.
• They don’t let governments in Africa eradicate malaria-carrying mosquitoes with DDT. No, better to let millions die from malaria.
• They punish pharmaceutical companies for discovering new life-giving medications and vaccines, driving many out of the vaccine business altogether.
  
  Look at the Left and all you see is death, death, death.

Sweet Revenge

*WARNING*

There is a killer on the loose. Stalking your children. At school, at the mall, in city parks. Even in your own homes. Something so sinister that the President himself is campaigning to eradicate it. A white powder more addicting and dangerous than heroin, cocaine, PCP or ecstasy. Your children may very well be buying and using this without your knowledge. It must be stopped before any more lives are ruined. Please join me and the President in a nationwide effort to stamp out…sugar. That’s right, sugar. Little did you know that this seemingly harmless substance is the most lethal chemical on the face of the planet. And yet, you probably have some right now in your cupboards. Not even under lock and key. Have you had the ‘sugar talk’ yet with your kids? Have you told them to refuse to take sodas or candy from friends? To report suspicious sugar activity to teachers? We must not go another day without taking drastic measures to protect ourselves and our children from this silent menace. Just say no to sugar. A tooth is a terrible thing to waste.

Stop...Or I'll Yell Stop Again!

So a state judge (Colorado) threw out some CU students’ challenge to the CU Regents of their ban on concealed handgun carry on CU campuses on a technicality. Well, maybe it was. But the bigger question of concealed carry on college campuses remains a valid issue. Yes, I’ve heard the libs argument that poorly trained civilians don’t fare well in staged classroom gun fight scenarios. And maybe they don’t. But one thing is for sure, I have a better chance of defending myself if I am armed than not. But beyond being a deadeye shot the idea of having any number of secretly armed people in classrooms and on campuses creates a potential deterrent uncertainty in the mind of a bad guy seeking a last instant of fame. Why do you think they pick schools to stage these massacres in the first place? They know there will be virtually no opposition. But what if there just happens to be a highly experienced competition marksman carrying a gun on campus? Hmmmm, maybe somewhere else. It’s a combination of the deterrent effect and the potential of really getting taken out before doing any harm that would tend to stifle these attacks. Why don’t they go on rampages at police stations? If guns don’t have this effect why do we arm law enforcement officers with guns instead of spit wads?

If BO is Remaking America...

I HOPE that things don't CHANGE !

Tipping the Scales of Justice

When BO explains that he wants to appoint someone to the U.S. Supreme court who has empathy for the "little guy," someone who has roots and ties to the "little guy" and who will fight for the "little guy;" my friends the rule of law has ended. The role of a judge is to accurately apply the laws of the land to all comers fairly and justly, and BLINDLY. To do otherwise is a travesty of justice. If justice is not blind then we no longer have the rule of law but the rule of the whim of men on any given day; which is tryanny. The place to fight for the "little guy" is in the Congress, not the courts. This is a very dark development. May God have mercy on our country and protect us from the little Hitler in the White House.

Mudslinging

BO is what we get when 67 million people with dirt clods for brains get together and elect one of their own.

The Spectre of Specter

"Sen. Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania Democrat, said part of the reason that he left the Republican Party last week was disillusionment with its health-care priorities, and suggested that had the Republicans taken a more moderate track, Jack Kemp may have won his battle with cancer. "

This is the ranting of a demented, perverted, sick, irrelevant old fart! To say something like that on the occasion of someone's death is typical of the dirt clods in the Democrap party! He and the little Hitler in the White House are sowing the seeds of their own destruction! Good riddance! And not soon enough!
Remember the Declaration!
Remember the Alamo!

Frat Party Boy

BO's first hundred days=College Rush Week

Thoughts Du Jour

• BO wants the credit card companies to simplify and clarify their policies and procedures so as to be more transparent. No more fine print he implores. And yet, he oversees the I.R.S., a federal behemoth with nearly 90,000 employees and a tax code of over 17,000 pages of fine print. You call 10 different I.R.S. offices with a question and get 10 different answers, and none of them are correct. How about taking the mote out of your eye first Barry and cleaning up around your own back door. Implement the Flat Tax or Fair Tax! Good grief, your own Treasury secretary can't even master TurboTax! How dare you dain to preach to the private credit card companies?!
• Darth Sebelius was confirmed by the Senate today as the new secretary of H.H.S. A dark day for unborn children all over the land. Well, at least Kansans are rid of her.
• Benedict Arlen goes over to the dark side today. GOOD RIDDANCE! It will be challenging in the Senate for a while, but the conservative movement, the Republican Party and the country will be better off for it in the long run. He will probably loose to Toomey in the next election anyway.
• Looks like Michelle took her hubby's jet out for a joy-ride over NYC. Hope she didn't spill the champagne all over the fine Corinthian leather upholstery.
• I give BO a grade of G for his first hundred days, since F is just too good. And the mainstream media gets G-minus.

Call a Spade a Spade

It's time to quit tap-dancing around the truth here. The Obama administration is clearly moving quickly in the direction of fascism. Just look at the litany of initiatives in the first 100 days: nationalizing the banking, mortgage and financial institutions and markets; working to restrict First Amendment speech freedoms in the arena of talk radio; working to disarm the public; working to criminalize political decisions and prosecute their political opposition; placing patriotic Americans on watch lists and demonizing them as terrorists and enemies of the state; fostering a cult of personality in its leader; cozying up to murderous dictators around the globe; decimating relations with our closest allies; moving quickly to nationalize industries such as health care; demonizing capitalism and corporations and their employees that provide the jobs, goods and services that we all need; fostering increased racial and socio-economic strife and divisions so as to accelerate class warfare; creating a climate of crisis, hysteria and panic to blunt opposition to their lightening fast consolidation of central federal power; appealing more to world opinion and global law than our own Constitution; promoting ridiculous notions of man-made global climate change to give a false sense of necessary urgency for the destruction of capitalism; demonizing our own history and religious underpinnings while moving away from the religious moral tents that have guided us since our founding; unshackling the shameless abortion industry and using fetuses for unfettered medical experimentation; setting up a greatly expanded citizen volunteer corps to 'remake' America; and a complete disregard for the Constitutional concept of limited and enumerated federal powers and the rights of the States.
And those of us who stand athwart history and yell 'whoa' are the radicals???

You're Not From Around Here are You?

BORN IN THE USA?
Is Obama campaign cash quashing eligibility suits?
FEC shows more than $1 million paid to top law firm since election
Posted: April 22, 200910:20 pm Eastern
By Chelsea Schilling© 2009 WorldNetDaily

If there is no issue here then why is BO spending so much money to quash these suits? Why not simply release the Hawaii birth certificate and put this squabble to rest in five minutes? Is there a legitimate Hawaii birth certificate? Where are the hospital records? What are you afraid of Barry? McCain has released his in the past. BO's intransigence on this issue is fueling the rampant conspiracy theories about his true location of birth. Instead of villifying those who perpetuate these claims, why not shine the light of truth on your actual country of birth and quiet the clamoring? Methinks thou dost protest too much.

Celebrate Earf Day

I am buying a case of incandescent light bulbs, cranking my AC down to 68, turning on every appliance that I have and filling my V8 Hemi with gas and driving around all day.

Come On, Remake My Day

Today in the signing ceremony for the expanded AmeriCorps bill BO said that he wants to involve more citizens in the process of 'remaking' America. Excuse me, but I for one don't want my America 'remade' in his image!

Obama's Cabinet: There is No There There...yet

If Obama calls a cabinet meeting but there is no one to attend does anybody hope for change?

Say What?

I think that BO has MISOVERESTIMATED himself.

S.O.S. Seals

Could we get the Navy Seals to come rescue the rest of us held hostage by the traitors in Washington?

The Unsettled State of the Union

• So Bernie Madoff is going to jail for running a ponzi scam. Will Chairman BO be his cell-mate for running a ponzi scam called Social Security? The two plans look pretty much the same. No wait, participation in Bernie's scam was voluntary!
• Barry was against earmarks until he was in favor of them. Kerry call your office.
• BHO is a guppy in a shark tank.

Unhinged

I have come to the sad realization that I must foreswear any and all fealty, support, trust, faith, allegiance, respect and recognition of the current United States Presidential Administration and United States Congress, both the House of Representatives and the Senate and the Federal Court System; in short the current alleged United States Federal Government. This decision has not come quickly or without careful consideration. For many years I have firmly believed that the majority of legislation, spending and federal programs have been and remain unconstitutional and illegal under the strict limitations and enumerated powers of the United States Constitution. Repeated elections of new Congresses and Presidential administrations have not remedied the situation and the federal courts have been wholly unwilling to correctly interpret and enforce the supreme laws of the land upon a recalcitrant federal behemoth. What recourse do loyal and patriotic true Americans have? To submit to and recognize such a renegade government merely provides a guise of false legitimacy. I cannot in good conscience be a party to such activity. The election of this current President and Congress has drastically accelerated the dissolution of any illusion of a grounding of the federal government upon the foundation of the Constitution. As witness the move to nationalize private banks, nationalize the automobile manufacturing industry, nationalize the private health care system, nationalize the mortgage industry, nationalize retirement savings accounts in Social Security, abridge First Amendment rights in considering reinstating the so-called Fairness Doctrine, promoting and enabling abortion thus denying constitutional rights to unborn U.S. citizens, attempting to restrict the free exercise of religion in public schools, government institutions and public forums, attempting to restrict Second Amendment gun rights, refusing to defend our borders and sovereignty, refusing to enforce legitimate federal immigration laws and generally usurping the States and People of their retained rights by passing laws, spending money and establishing federal programs for which there is no specific enumerated federal authority or power. Quite simply, the current federal government is illegal and unconstitutional. Not to mention fiscally and morally bankrupt. No doubt, the people who fought to obtain our freedom and established this nation would be horrified to see how subsequent generations of public servants have perverted and bastardized their gift. How shameful and disgraceful. I just pray that we come to our senses and correct the course of our foundering ship of state before we pass the point of no return. Until then, I hold the current federal government in contempt and shall work to reinstate the United States Constitution and a legitimate federal government.

I Win, I Win!

Yesterday, I was poised to lay off one of my employees and just at the moment Chairman BO's pen touched the porkulus bill paper, I felt a tingle go up my leg and changed my mind. With the thought of all of that money now flowing I decided not to lay off that employee, and thus it became the very first of the 8500 saved jobs in the state of Colorado as a result of this bill. Do I get a prize?

Look Boss; da plane, da plane!

So in an era when it is fashionable to deride private business execs for using corporate jets and taking luxury retreats, we are going to load up a Boeing-747 (Air Force One) and fly it one hundred miles from D.C. to Williamsburg, Virginia for a luxury spa retreat weekend with the whole Dem political gang (who have to merely ride a chartered Amtrak with helicopter security overhead). In addition, we have to fly the presidential limo down there and bring in Marine helicopters, not to mention the enormous Secret Service security apparatus. All of this for a political retreat with $75 seaweed wraps to talk about the plan to take over the country and impose martial law. Why couldn't the prez of the little people ride for two hours in his limo down there? Are they afraid something might happen along the highways in Virginia? If he really has a hankering to fly the Platinum-Plated Skies he could buzz Kentucky and see the real suffering of the real people in this horrible ice storm (Algore, call your office).
Can anyone spell H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-S-Y?

The Shirt Off Obama's Back

So C.N.N. (the Communist News Network) is selling T-shirts that read, "Obama raises his hand and lifts a nation."
They should read, "Obama raises his hand and the brown shirt media goose-steps in line."

Where's the Beef?

If an oil executive serves wagyu beef on a corporate jet and Barry O. is not on board,
is it a crime?

Until You Turn Blue in the Face

New Sexretary of State Hillary Clinton said that with Obama now at the top (another discussion for another day), the whole world is now exhaling. Remembering that her husband never inhaled, she is certainly poised as an expert on heavy breathing.

Multiple Musings

• What a brilliant pick, put a tax cheat in charge of the IRS. He knows all of the tricks. Should be able to really ramp up enforcement!
• So who is paying the room & board for Barry's mother-in-law living at the White House? Are we taxpayers footing the bill? Just how far does our First Family hospitality extend? Third cousins twice removed?
• Just heard Madeline Albright on a radio talk-show. She is maybe qualified to sell used brassieres at a small shop in Brooklyn.

This Ain't Your Father's Fox News

His first official TV interview. Sort of sums it all up.

Here Come da Prez!

So I skipped watching any of the inauguration yesterday and instead put on some 1950’s rock-and-roll CD’s. My how far we have come. That was real music. At noon here I went to the shooting range and put about 50 rounds downrange. Boy the chatter there was not very favorable about the new wunderkind. When I got back to the office I listened to excerpts from B.O.’s speech as well as some of the musings of various other speakers. What I heard of B.O.’s speech was flat and uninspiring, if not downright depressing. I did take notice when he said that we need to get busy again remaking America. What?? I don’t want America remade, particularly in his image. I kind of like our current constitution. Perhaps he would consider simply abiding by and enforcing that document for a start. Given where we are that could be construed as remaking America. I am also not too fond of his proposal for a large, well-funded national service corps, aka The Hitler Youth. Maybe green shirts instead of brown, though. I can just envision them knocking on my door telling me to turn down my heat and get rid of my V-8. The car, not the juice.
Then I heard Reverend Joseph Lowery talking about mellow yellow people and the white people needing to embrace what is right. So this is what they mean by post-racial?? Statements like that will certainly go far in promoting unity and love amongst the Kum-ba-Yah crowd. I can just see those rednecks in the South that Tom Brokaw dissed beating their shotguns into Obama commemorative candlestick holders.
And how about that poet laureate, Elizabeth Alexander? I listened to that offering of hers several times and still have no idea what she was trying to say. It sounded like the random writings of a febrile five year-old. Why must we be submitted to this poetry thingy every four years? It does not make the new president seem erudite and sophisticated, but rather buffoonish. Maya Angelou was enough already.
It seems altogether much ado about nothing. An inauspicious start for an unknown entity now masquerading as the leader of the free world. The first pop-culture president. “We don’t know what he stands for or plans to do, but ain’t he cool?”
And then there are the pictures of the National Mall knee-deep in the trash of the clean-up-the-planet crowd. Hmmm, I guess this is one of the jobs that Americans simply won’t do. Gotta have amnesty.
Oh well, when the collective national hangover clears and the fog lifts perhaps Americans will realize that they don’t really want to dance with the one that brung them.
Set your sights on 2010!

Curbstone Philosophers

We would all be much better off if we could replace Barney Frank and Chris Dodd with Jed Clampett and Andy Taylor/Griffith. Those highly educated stupid people in Congress are destroying the country. The horse sense of Jed and Andy would right our sinking ship in no time.

Fund the U.S.A., Buy a Chevrolet

So my wife asks me the other day: For 2009 in lieu of paying federal income taxes could we just buy a car from one of the not-so-big-three U.S. manufacturers in an amount of at least our tax liability? That would bypass the government bureaucratic middle-man and give our bailout money directly to the recipient. By cutting out the handling fee more of our money would go right to the people who need it the most.

Just Wave for Help

I believe that the time may have passed for waving the Constitution in front of our elected public servants and start waving the Declaration of Independence. Some of the circumstances are different, but the underlying principles are timeless. "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." --Benjamin Franklin/Thomas Jefferson.

Light Up for Life!

Poster Boy for the Obama Socialized Nationalized Health Care System

Talk is Cheap

Is anyone else already tired of BO's voice and speech pattern? There is something very annoying about it. His inflection goes up at the end of every sentence. It should go down. Inflection only goes up at the end of a question. It is eerily robotic. Very condescending. It's like he's not really talking to the person asking questions; there's no conversational tone to him. He just searches the hard drive for the correct answer and starts shooting off bullet-points. The best word that I have found to describe it would be, smarmy. Sort of makes you want to take a shower after hearing him speak.

Time for Some Comic Relief

In the New York Post of December 18, Cynthia R. Fagen has an article about the just-released college pictures of B.O. Here is a small taste of her reporting:

"...Taken during a 1980 photo shoot by Occidental College pal Lisa Jack, the snapshots show that the freshman was already showing off the quiet confidence of a future president.
"He was very charismatic even then," Jack recalled of the brief encounter at her off-campus Los Angeles apartment.
"He was really cute. What else does a 20-year-old girl remember?" she told Time, which published the rare shots in its year-end issue that names the president-elect 2008's Person of the Year. "He was a little nervous," she said. "You can see he's just posing, initially, and as the shoot goes on, he starts to come out. ..."

Wow, careful Cynthia you may trip over your tongue.
Frankly, I think he looks like Ricky Ricardo. Can you say, babaloo??!!

Honey I Think We Took A Wrong Turn

Greetings Congressman XXXXXXXXX,

Thank you for your letter regarding the current automobile manufacturer crisis. I applaud your fortitude in opposing bailouts or loans and your thoughtfulness in offering a different tack. I am sure that local car dealers are frustrated with having too many unsold vehicles on their lots. This no doubt stems from the credit crunch precipitated by the Democrats’ mismanagement of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac and somewhat to the high price of many domestic vehicles, which is part of the broader automaker problem. Unfortunately I believe that offering a consumer tax credit to purchase those vehicles is only a short-term band-aid which will not cure the bigger disease in the industry. Additionally, it once again uses the federal tax code for social engineering, something that I loathe.
There is no doubt that cars made by the Big-3 are too expensive. The problem does not stem from corporate jets and bigwig bonuses. One factor is too much intrusive federal (and state) regulation of automobile standards. These ridiculous rules put too much of a burden on the carmakers, thus preventing them from making cars that people actually want to buy and can afford. The standards don’t really save lives or the environment. Secondly, union influence over the automakers’ business practices has become too onerous and too expensive. This has only happened because the federal government has empowered the unions thusly. The total benefit packages for autoworkers are insane and financially unsustainable. There is absolutely no reason for workers to have this much influence over private businesses. And they wouldn’t, save for the Congress- mostly liberal Democrats. Other than egregious safety violations or abusive tactics, workers should have no further say in how a private company runs its business. If they don’t like it, they can find a job elsewhere.
So both of the major reasons for the failure of the automakers falls back in the lap of the federal government. The last thing we need is for the feds to try and fix the situation! The best thing that they could do is to get out of the mess. Strip the unions of their unreasonable power and rescind the insane regulations. Then hands off! Let the automakers go through Chapter 11, reorganize, dump the old union contracts and get about building cars that Americans actually want at prices they can afford and that compete with other manufacturers. This talk about the Big-3 being too big to fail is silliness. We are not talking about failing; we are talking about reorganizing and emerging stronger and more competitive. Many airlines have successfully navigated this process. Maybe the federal government should consider it. When I was taking flying lessons the instructor taught me that when a plane is stalling and going into a spin I had to take my hands off of the controls to let the plane stabilize. That violates all of your natural instincts. But trying to fight the spin is certain death. We need the federal government to do the same thing in this, and many other situations. Unfortunately, the nature of the government and politicians is to always try to do something in every situation. After all, isn’t that what we hired them for? To simply do nothing seems irresponsible, right?
I seriously think that we would all be better off to send the President, Supreme Court, House and Senate home and pay them to sit there and do nothing for two years. For as we learn in medicine, first do no harm. The private market is a great thing when allowed to work unfettered. However, it has not been allowed to work freely in the automobile industry for many, many years. It’s time to get back on the right road.
By the way, I believe that these principles should also be applied to the health care system. Ah, but that’s another topic for another day.
Thanks for your service Congressman!

Doctor, Heal Thyself

(Responding to an emergency room physician letter-to-the editor asking Obama and the feds to provide more funds for emergency rooms to become the safety net for people needing basic medical care who do not have health insurance)
The federal government lacks the constitutional authority and power to fund or manage emergency rooms (not to mention that is is busted, it has no money). They are a horribly ineffiencient and expensive avenue for delivering family medicine to the needy. The feds have already made a wreck of the health care system and any further meddling by them will only greatly worsen the situation. Let's clean up the tort system, get malpractice premiums and product liability costs down and reduce the union driven cost of labor. Give people portable medical savings accounts which unties insurance from employment. Finally, relink payment between the actual consumer (patient) with the provider so that people can shop for insurance and shop for care to find the best care for the best price. Let the market actually work and get the artificial, inflationary constraints of government out of the equation. For those that still need help with basic medical care let the states figure out the best way to help deliver it, but not through emergency rooms.

Climbing Pyramids

When I heard that the feds had arrested former Nasdaq chairman Bernard Madoff for running a Ponzi scam, I thought that they were talking about Social Security! He has the ultimate defense, he was just using the federal government Social Security template. Sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander. Do as I say, not as I do? Tsk, tsk.

No More Blood From Turnips

If the President directs Treasury to bail out the automakers in defiance of the Senate decision last night, then it is about time for the American people and corporations to start withholding their federal income tax payments. We must protest and starve this ersatz, unconstitutional federal government into submission.

Hello...Hello, Is There an Echo in Here?

So let's see, Barry didn't know his governor, Rod Blagojevich; didn't know his mentor, William Ayers; didn't know his realtor, Tony Rezko; and didn't know his pastor, Jeremiah Wright. How did some kid from Chicago get to be President-elect without knowing anyone?

Barry, We Hardly Knew You

So, Barry O will use his full name, Barack Hussein Obama at the swearing in ceremony (there's something fitting about that ceremony title). Will Fitzgerald be there to fill in the MF's every other word? He has also related that he plans to give a major speech in an Islamic capital shortly after the inauguration. Given his heritage and upbringing it seems to be coming clear that he may be a closet Muslim. Now, there's nothing wrong with that except for the fact that he denied it and subsequently lied to the American people during the campaign if it is in fact true. The church that he spent the last 20 years sitting in is based upon the doctrine of black liberation theology, closely affiliated with Islam and the anti-Semite, Louis Farrakhan. With his intransigence on releasing his birth certificate to clear up the mystery surrounding his birthplace and his proximity to the scandal swirling around Chicago politics right now, it is clear that he cannot be trusted and is not ready or fit to be President.

Please Wake Up Paul Revere!

The U.S. Constitution and the American experiment are truly dead.  This unconstitutional, neo-Nazi automaker bailout loan is just another of many nails in the coffin.  Over the last few months we have witnessed the surreal vision of the federal government nationalizing one private industry after another.  It has been fast and easy enough to make Adolph blush.  The American people don’t want it yet our moronic ‘public servants’ are trying to cram it down their throats.  I will not purchase a car made by the new Big-3 and will urge everyone I talk with to do likewise.  Take heed, the federal government is not too big to fail.  Hear the winds of the second American revolution beginning to blow. 

State of Stupidity

License plates in the state of Illinois have the tag line, "Land of Lincoln."  Some people in Illinois are beginning to clamor for an alternative plate, "Land of Obama."  OK, when Obama has been dead for as long as Lincoln I say go for it!

It's Time to Pay the Piper

If you think about the current economic mess in which we find ourselves and all of the talk about a 40% loss of value in the stock market, nothing has really gone away. Dirt, buildings, cars, trucks, houses, television sets and shoes are all still here. None of that has disappeared. Credit and the money value of business have decreased, but those are not actually real. They are only psychological constructs. Money is not based upon anything like say, gold. Money and credit are only agreements between people. They only exist in people’s minds and imaginations.
The real culprit here is easy credit and the false demand driven by it. This is true for individual families, corporations and government at every level. The current collapse has been inevitable for decades. And there is plenty of blame to go around. Those responsible for extending such credit are culpable as are the people and institutions who kept lapping it up and spending this fake money like there was no tomorrow. With regard to the national debt we would say, well we just owe it to ourselves. When that was actually true it was still a bad thing because it would strap our children and grandchildren with a horrendous tax burden to service the debt. But now, we actually owe a huge chunk of our national debt to foreign powers such as China, not necessarily good friends and who certainly don’t have America’s best interests foremost in their plans.
This addiction to credit and wild spending is every bit as powerful a force as addictions to tobacco, alcohol, drugs, sex and gambling. And every bit as hard to shake. It sneaks up on you so gradually and by the time you realize that you have a problem you are probably past the point that you alone can do anything to stop it. For decades our society has been driven by the relentless push to achieve and acquire, achieve and acquire. Keep up with the Joneses. We are bombarded constantly and everywhere by Madison Avenue marketing exhorting us to buy, buy, buy! More, more, more! You deserve it-NOW! Don’t wait, use the plastic. Have it today. Pay for it, well, never. Tomorrow never comes. Twelve months same as cash. No payments no interest for a year. We are pressured by our co-workers, neighbors, friends, relatives, children and their peers. We must keep up appearances. We have to have the newest, flashiest and fastest. This easy credit has put people in houses, cars, big-screen televisions and clothing that they cannot really afford and should not be buying. This same mind-set also applies to corporations and governments. The sky-rocketing demand for all of these goods and services has been built upon a precarious house-of-cards for many years. Fake credit providing fake money driving fake demand creating fake business growth creating fake jobs with fake income and resulting in fake tax revenues culminating in a fake economy with a fake GDP and fake growth rate. Well, the predictable explosion of the comical mortgage market was the card on the bottom. When it was pulled out the whole house has come tumbling down. Sadly, this has been obvious for years. It had to happen. It needed to happen. Like a drug addict, at some point someone has to take the needle away and let the patient go through the horror of withdrawal. It’s ugly and painful, but it’s the only way to ultimately survive. Then, after it’s over someone must always watch out to stop the addict from going back to the drug.
For many years the hole in the bottom of the boat was small enough that we could just bail the water out and stay afloat. Adding more fake money and credit to cover the bad worked for a while. Now the hole in the bottom of the boat has become so large that bailing will no longer work. We have to plug the hole first. That means no more easy credit, no more borrowing. We must cut back on spending and go to a cash-only, pay-as-you-go basis. That applies to individuals and families, corporations and governments from your city all the way up to the federal government. We cannot print any more funny-money lest we risk creating hyper-inflation which will only greatly exacerbate the problem, not solve it. People must go back to my grandparents’ budget strategy. You live below your means, save money and pay cash for the things that you really need and at a level that you can really afford. That will mean smaller homes, modest cars, fewer vacations, smaller television sets and non-designer clothes for many. It will also mean understanding delayed gratification. You save for things that you really want and put off buying them for years until you can pay cash for them. That’s right, 23 year-old college graduates don’t deserve to buy a BMW, a 5-bedroom house, Fila sneakers and 70-inch home theaters for probably another 20 years. So sorry. These federal bailouts and loans must stop. They only serve to forestall the inevitable correction that our businesses and economy must go through. If we don’t, the problems will only fester and grow bigger beneath the surface to erupt later in a much bigger disaster. Let’s get our national withdrawal over with and reset the economy on saner foundations. Pay now or pay later. The price will be much greater and more painful if we wait until later.

Little Green Men

I understand that the polar ice cap is melting...on Mars!
I hereby nominate Algore as Ambassador Plenipotentiary of Global Warming for Life to the planet Mars on behalf of all of the people of Earth.
Enjoy the trip and your stay!

Who's Coming to Town, Santa or Scrooge?

Donald Trump nonchalantly misses a $53 million interest payment for one of his casinos. The federal government is passing out trillions of non-existent dollars to an endless line of panhandling corporations, running up the federal debt well beyond the stratosphere (if you think any of that will ever be paid down I would love to sell you some beachfront property in Arizona). The feds can’t consistently run a balanced budget, much less a surplus. There are untold trillions of unfunded commitments to future Social In-security and Medicare ‘recipients’ just waiting to bust the budget. So what is our brilliant president-elect planning? Trillions of dollars for new federal programs all paid for by raising tax rates on the wealthy. And of course they will dutifully pay them. No, they won’t shift their income off-shore or into tax-deferred instruments. Of course not. That would be unpatriotic. Hehehe.
And with all of this going on, if Joe the Plumber misses one payment on his credit card they call out the National Guard to haul him in. Sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander? How is he supposed to look his children in the eye and explain why this will be a bleak Christmas? The feds are passing out money like candy. Dad, go get some for us! We average Joe’s are supposed to pay for all of these bailouts, keep our family budgets in balance and dare not delay, much less miss any payments. Don’t do what the feds do, do what they say. Don’t follow their lead. Duh, McFly, they’re not leading! They’re not following. They are floundering. How on Earth are we supposed to teach our children fiscal responsibility when our esteemed ‘public servants’ are completely reckless and irresponsible with our cumulative national milk money? In the corporate world they would all be hauled up on charges for gross negligence, mismanagement and embezzlement.
Can anyone, or everyone say Enron?

Dinosaur Death Groans

The U.A.W. believes that the Big Three automakers are too big to be allowed to go out of business and are demanding a federal bailout for them. How generous. Does anyone buy this? The bailout is really for the U.A.W., not the Big Three. The U.A.W. is a dinosaur that needs to become extinct. Because of their contract terms the Big Three cannot make quality cars at prices that people can afford and compete with foreign manufacturers. The U.A.W. has priced itself out of the market. Its high salaries, gold-plated bennies and cushy retirements will be its undoing. American tax dollars should not be used to bail it out. Automakers should file for chapter 11 reorganization and jettison the heavy-handed union contracts. The U.A.W. has made its bed, now it must lie in it. It is not too big to be allowed to fail. You know, when the dinosaurs became extinct they became the oil that powers our cars. Hmmmm, if the U.A.W. becomes extinct the money put back into the auto manufacturing industry may just power the future of that industry. How poetic.