Monday, November 23, 2009
GOVERNMENT ... OUT OF CONTROL SPENDING
For far too long we have relied on, to quote from the Tennessee Williams
play. "A Streetcar Named Desire", "the kindness of strangers" when those
"strangers" were and are not responsible with the faith and trust we placed
in them.
That Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana could, without hesitation, correct a
reporter when asked about what the reporter thought was $100 Million that
was written into the "Health Care Reform" legislation by Majority Leader
Reed for Louisiana in return for her support of bringing the Health Care
Reform Bill to the floor for debate by stating that it was in fact, $300
Million, and not be immediately placed in hand-cuffs for accepting a bribe
with public money, only shows how little concern this "elected elite" has
for public opinion or the use of the public treasury. That Senator Reed did
not immediately join her in the back of the squad car shows how accepting of
this corrupt behavior we have become, after all, "they all do it", and how
ignorant the senator, the reporter and the general public are of the
Constitutional responsibilities of our elected "representatives" and the
citizenry.
It is our government if only we would take it back.
WHEN WILL BE ALL SAY, "ENOUGH"?
play. "A Streetcar Named Desire", "the kindness of strangers" when those
"strangers" were and are not responsible with the faith and trust we placed
in them.
That Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana could, without hesitation, correct a
reporter when asked about what the reporter thought was $100 Million that
was written into the "Health Care Reform" legislation by Majority Leader
Reed for Louisiana in return for her support of bringing the Health Care
Reform Bill to the floor for debate by stating that it was in fact, $300
Million, and not be immediately placed in hand-cuffs for accepting a bribe
with public money, only shows how little concern this "elected elite" has
for public opinion or the use of the public treasury. That Senator Reed did
not immediately join her in the back of the squad car shows how accepting of
this corrupt behavior we have become, after all, "they all do it", and how
ignorant the senator, the reporter and the general public are of the
Constitutional responsibilities of our elected "representatives" and the
citizenry.
It is our government if only we would take it back.
WHEN WILL BE ALL SAY, "ENOUGH"?
Some of us aren't that political, although it has been a large protionof my life since my early teens. Even less are interested in economics with most finding the subject as stimulating as Somenix. However, I do think that most American's love their country and want the best for the future generations of Americans.
This posting is not anti any particular politician or political party for politicians of both major political parties are guilty of contributing to this very serious problem. It is regarding what is slowly being recognized as a serious national disaster that has been in the making for the last 100 years.
Over the past few years, some Conservative politicians, Conservative pundits and many Conservative radio talk show "personalities", as the Progressive politicians and "mainstream media" types like to call them, have been warning about the out of control spending by our government over at least the last decade and by a few, over the last 100 years. They have told us that we are enslaving the future generations with un-thinkable debt while growing an unsustainable federal government that has been and will continue to take more and more of our God given liberty and freedom. They have been called crazy, fear-mongers, anti-government wackos and far worse, all for speaking the truth.
Maybe now that the clarion horn is being of immanent danger is being blown by the Progressive's favorite newspaper, The New York Times, the simple fact that our country is BROKE, that we have no money in the bank, will strike a nerve of truth with those who dismissed such previous warnings.
The following article may make your eyes gloss-over but please, take a few minutes and read it.
We must demand of all our politicians that they stop spending money we do not have. It does not matter the party or what "good reason" they have, we must stop the insanity NOW! We must stop the spending NOW!
Contact your congressman and senators.
link to the article in the New York Times ....
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/23/business/23rates.html?_r=1
Wave of Debt Payments Facing U.S. Government
by EDMUND L. ANDREWS
Published: November 22, 2009
WASHINGTON — The United States government is financing its more than trillion-dollar-a-year borrowing with i.o.u.’s on terms that seem too good to be true.
“What a good country or a good squirrel should be doing is stashing away nuts for the winter. The United States is not only not saving nuts, it’s eating the ones left over from the last winter.” WILLIAM H. GROSS
Articles in this series will examine the consequences of, and attempts to deal with, growing public and private debts.
But that happy situation, aided by ultralow interest rates, may not last much longer.
Treasury officials now face a trifecta of headaches: a mountain of new debt, a balloon of short-term borrowings that come due in the months ahead, and interest rates that are sure to climb back to normal as soon as the Federal Reserve decides that the emergency has passed.
Even as Treasury officials are racing to lock in today’s low rates by exchanging short-term borrowings for long-term bonds, the government faces a payment shock similar to those that sent legions of overstretched homeowners into default on their mortgages.
With the national debt now topping $12 trillion, the White House estimates that the government’s tab for servicing the debt will exceed $700 billion a year in 2019, up from $202 billion this year, even if annual budget deficits shrink drastically. Other forecasters say the figure could be much higher.
In concrete terms, an additional $500 billion a year in interest expense would total more than the combined federal budgets this year for education, energy, homeland security and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The potential for rapidly escalating interest payouts is just one of the wrenching challenges facing the United States after decades of living beyond its means.
The surge in borrowing over the last year or two is widely judged to have been a necessary response to the financial crisis and the deep recession, and there is still a raging debate over how aggressively to bring down deficits over the next few years. But there is little doubt that the United States’ long-term budget crisis is becoming too big to postpone.
Americans now have to climb out of two deep holes: as debt-loaded consumers, whose personal wealth sank along with housing and stock prices; and as taxpayers, whose government debt has almost doubled in the last two years alone, just as costs tied to benefits for retiring baby boomers are set to explode.
The competing demands could deepen political battles over the size and role of the government, the trade-offs between taxes and spending, the choices between helping older generations versus younger ones, and the bottom-line questions about who should ultimately shoulder the burden.
“The government is on teaser rates,” said Robert Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition, a nonpartisan group that advocates lower deficits. “We’re taking out a huge mortgage right now, but we won’t feel the pain until later.”
So far, the demand for Treasury securities from investors and other governments around the world has remained strong enough to hold down the interest rates that the United States must offer to sell them. Indeed, the government paid less interest on its debt this year than in 2008, even though it added almost $2 trillion in debt.
The government’s average interest rate on new borrowing last year fell below 1 percent. For short-term i.o.u.’s like one-month Treasury bills, its average rate was only sixteen-hundredths of a percent.
“All of the auction results have been solid,” said Matthew Rutherford, the Treasury’s deputy assistant secretary in charge of finance operations. “Investor demand has been very broad, and it’s been increasing in the last couple of years.”
The problem, many analysts say, is that record government deficits have arrived just as the long-feared explosion begins in spending on benefits under Medicare and Social Security. The nation’s oldest baby boomers are approaching 65, setting off what experts have warned for years will be a fiscal nightmare for the government.
“What a good country or a good squirrel should be doing is stashing away nuts for the winter,” said William H. Gross, managing director of the Pimco Group, the giant bond-management firm. “The United States is not only not saving nuts, it’s eating the ones left over from the last winter.”
The current low rates on the country’s debt were caused by temporary factors that are already beginning to fade. One factor was the economic crisis itself, which caused panicked investors around the world to plow their money into the comparative safety of Treasury bills and notes. Even though the United States was the epicenter of the global crisis, investors viewed Treasury securities as the least dangerous place to park their money.
On top of that, the Fed used almost every tool in its arsenal to push interest rates down even further. It cut the overnight federal funds rate, the rate at which banks lend reserves to one another, to almost zero. And to reduce longer-term rates, it bought more than $1.5 trillion worth of Treasury bonds and government-guaranteed securities linked to mortgages.
Those conditions are already beginning to change. Global investors are shifting money into riskier investments like stocks and corporate bonds, and they have been pouring money into fast-growing countries like Brazil and China.
Articles in this series will examine the consequences of, and attempts to deal with, growing public and private debts.
The Fed, meanwhile, is already halting its efforts at tamping down long-term interest rates. Fed officials ended their $300 billion program to buy up Treasury bonds last month, and they have announced plans to stop buying mortgage-backed securities by the end of next March.
Eventually, though probably not until at least mid-2010, the Fed will also start raising its benchmark interest rate back to more historically normal levels.
The United States will not be the only government competing to refinance huge debt. Japan, Germany, Britain and other industrialized countries have even higher government debt loads, measured as a share of their gross domestic product, and they too borrowed heavily to combat the financial crisis and economic downturn. As the global economy recovers and businesses raise capital to finance their growth, all that new government debt is likely to put more upward pressure on interest rates.
Even a small increase in interest rates has a big impact. An increase of one percentage point in the Treasury’s average cost of borrowing would cost American taxpayers an extra $80 billion this year — about equal to the combined budgets of the Department of Energy and the Department of Education.
But that could seem like a relatively modest pinch. Alan Levenson, chief economist at T. Rowe Price, estimated that the Treasury’s tab for debt service this year would have been $221 billion higher if it had faced the same interest rates as it did last year.
The White House estimates that the government will have to borrow about $3.5 trillion more over the next three years. On top of that, the Treasury has to refinance, or roll over, a huge amount of short-term debt that was issued during the financial crisis. Treasury officials estimate that about 36 percent of the government’s marketable debt — about $1.6 trillion — is coming due in the months ahead.
To lock in low interest rates in the years ahead, Treasury officials are trying to replace one-month and three-month bills with 10-year and 30-year Treasury securities. That strategy will save taxpayers money in the long run. But it pushes up costs drastically in the short run, because interest rates are higher for long-term debt.
Adding to the pressure, the Fed is set to begin reversing some of the policies it has been using to prop up the economy. Wall Street firms advising the Treasury recently estimated that the Fed’s purchases of Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities pushed down long-term interest rates by about one-half of a percentage point. Removing that support could in itself add $40 billion to the government’s annual tab for debt service.
This month, the Treasury Department’s private-sector advisory committee on debt management warned of the risks ahead.
“Inflation, higher interest rate and rollover risk should be the primary concerns,” declared the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee, a group of market experts that provide guidance to the government, on Nov. 4.
“Clever debt management strategy,” the group said, “can’t completely substitute for prudent fiscal policy.”
This posting is not anti any particular politician or political party for politicians of both major political parties are guilty of contributing to this very serious problem. It is regarding what is slowly being recognized as a serious national disaster that has been in the making for the last 100 years.
Over the past few years, some Conservative politicians, Conservative pundits and many Conservative radio talk show "personalities", as the Progressive politicians and "mainstream media" types like to call them, have been warning about the out of control spending by our government over at least the last decade and by a few, over the last 100 years. They have told us that we are enslaving the future generations with un-thinkable debt while growing an unsustainable federal government that has been and will continue to take more and more of our God given liberty and freedom. They have been called crazy, fear-mongers, anti-government wackos and far worse, all for speaking the truth.
Maybe now that the clarion horn is being of immanent danger is being blown by the Progressive's favorite newspaper, The New York Times, the simple fact that our country is BROKE, that we have no money in the bank, will strike a nerve of truth with those who dismissed such previous warnings.
The following article may make your eyes gloss-over but please, take a few minutes and read it.
We must demand of all our politicians that they stop spending money we do not have. It does not matter the party or what "good reason" they have, we must stop the insanity NOW! We must stop the spending NOW!
Contact your congressman and senators.
link to the article in the New York Times ....
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/23/business/23rates.html?_r=1
Wave of Debt Payments Facing U.S. Government
by EDMUND L. ANDREWS
Published: November 22, 2009
WASHINGTON — The United States government is financing its more than trillion-dollar-a-year borrowing with i.o.u.’s on terms that seem too good to be true.
“What a good country or a good squirrel should be doing is stashing away nuts for the winter. The United States is not only not saving nuts, it’s eating the ones left over from the last winter.” WILLIAM H. GROSS
Articles in this series will examine the consequences of, and attempts to deal with, growing public and private debts.
But that happy situation, aided by ultralow interest rates, may not last much longer.
Treasury officials now face a trifecta of headaches: a mountain of new debt, a balloon of short-term borrowings that come due in the months ahead, and interest rates that are sure to climb back to normal as soon as the Federal Reserve decides that the emergency has passed.
Even as Treasury officials are racing to lock in today’s low rates by exchanging short-term borrowings for long-term bonds, the government faces a payment shock similar to those that sent legions of overstretched homeowners into default on their mortgages.
With the national debt now topping $12 trillion, the White House estimates that the government’s tab for servicing the debt will exceed $700 billion a year in 2019, up from $202 billion this year, even if annual budget deficits shrink drastically. Other forecasters say the figure could be much higher.
In concrete terms, an additional $500 billion a year in interest expense would total more than the combined federal budgets this year for education, energy, homeland security and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The potential for rapidly escalating interest payouts is just one of the wrenching challenges facing the United States after decades of living beyond its means.
The surge in borrowing over the last year or two is widely judged to have been a necessary response to the financial crisis and the deep recession, and there is still a raging debate over how aggressively to bring down deficits over the next few years. But there is little doubt that the United States’ long-term budget crisis is becoming too big to postpone.
Americans now have to climb out of two deep holes: as debt-loaded consumers, whose personal wealth sank along with housing and stock prices; and as taxpayers, whose government debt has almost doubled in the last two years alone, just as costs tied to benefits for retiring baby boomers are set to explode.
The competing demands could deepen political battles over the size and role of the government, the trade-offs between taxes and spending, the choices between helping older generations versus younger ones, and the bottom-line questions about who should ultimately shoulder the burden.
“The government is on teaser rates,” said Robert Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition, a nonpartisan group that advocates lower deficits. “We’re taking out a huge mortgage right now, but we won’t feel the pain until later.”
So far, the demand for Treasury securities from investors and other governments around the world has remained strong enough to hold down the interest rates that the United States must offer to sell them. Indeed, the government paid less interest on its debt this year than in 2008, even though it added almost $2 trillion in debt.
The government’s average interest rate on new borrowing last year fell below 1 percent. For short-term i.o.u.’s like one-month Treasury bills, its average rate was only sixteen-hundredths of a percent.
“All of the auction results have been solid,” said Matthew Rutherford, the Treasury’s deputy assistant secretary in charge of finance operations. “Investor demand has been very broad, and it’s been increasing in the last couple of years.”
The problem, many analysts say, is that record government deficits have arrived just as the long-feared explosion begins in spending on benefits under Medicare and Social Security. The nation’s oldest baby boomers are approaching 65, setting off what experts have warned for years will be a fiscal nightmare for the government.
“What a good country or a good squirrel should be doing is stashing away nuts for the winter,” said William H. Gross, managing director of the Pimco Group, the giant bond-management firm. “The United States is not only not saving nuts, it’s eating the ones left over from the last winter.”
The current low rates on the country’s debt were caused by temporary factors that are already beginning to fade. One factor was the economic crisis itself, which caused panicked investors around the world to plow their money into the comparative safety of Treasury bills and notes. Even though the United States was the epicenter of the global crisis, investors viewed Treasury securities as the least dangerous place to park their money.
On top of that, the Fed used almost every tool in its arsenal to push interest rates down even further. It cut the overnight federal funds rate, the rate at which banks lend reserves to one another, to almost zero. And to reduce longer-term rates, it bought more than $1.5 trillion worth of Treasury bonds and government-guaranteed securities linked to mortgages.
Those conditions are already beginning to change. Global investors are shifting money into riskier investments like stocks and corporate bonds, and they have been pouring money into fast-growing countries like Brazil and China.
Articles in this series will examine the consequences of, and attempts to deal with, growing public and private debts.
The Fed, meanwhile, is already halting its efforts at tamping down long-term interest rates. Fed officials ended their $300 billion program to buy up Treasury bonds last month, and they have announced plans to stop buying mortgage-backed securities by the end of next March.
Eventually, though probably not until at least mid-2010, the Fed will also start raising its benchmark interest rate back to more historically normal levels.
The United States will not be the only government competing to refinance huge debt. Japan, Germany, Britain and other industrialized countries have even higher government debt loads, measured as a share of their gross domestic product, and they too borrowed heavily to combat the financial crisis and economic downturn. As the global economy recovers and businesses raise capital to finance their growth, all that new government debt is likely to put more upward pressure on interest rates.
Even a small increase in interest rates has a big impact. An increase of one percentage point in the Treasury’s average cost of borrowing would cost American taxpayers an extra $80 billion this year — about equal to the combined budgets of the Department of Energy and the Department of Education.
But that could seem like a relatively modest pinch. Alan Levenson, chief economist at T. Rowe Price, estimated that the Treasury’s tab for debt service this year would have been $221 billion higher if it had faced the same interest rates as it did last year.
The White House estimates that the government will have to borrow about $3.5 trillion more over the next three years. On top of that, the Treasury has to refinance, or roll over, a huge amount of short-term debt that was issued during the financial crisis. Treasury officials estimate that about 36 percent of the government’s marketable debt — about $1.6 trillion — is coming due in the months ahead.
To lock in low interest rates in the years ahead, Treasury officials are trying to replace one-month and three-month bills with 10-year and 30-year Treasury securities. That strategy will save taxpayers money in the long run. But it pushes up costs drastically in the short run, because interest rates are higher for long-term debt.
Adding to the pressure, the Fed is set to begin reversing some of the policies it has been using to prop up the economy. Wall Street firms advising the Treasury recently estimated that the Fed’s purchases of Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities pushed down long-term interest rates by about one-half of a percentage point. Removing that support could in itself add $40 billion to the government’s annual tab for debt service.
This month, the Treasury Department’s private-sector advisory committee on debt management warned of the risks ahead.
“Inflation, higher interest rate and rollover risk should be the primary concerns,” declared the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee, a group of market experts that provide guidance to the government, on Nov. 4.
“Clever debt management strategy,” the group said, “can’t completely substitute for prudent fiscal policy.”
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Van Jones, John Podesta & The President
John Podesta, former Chief of Staff for President Clinton and most recently served as co-chair for President Obama's transition team, has posted the following on his organization's web-site, Center For American Progress. This man is an integral part of the American Progressive movement who's organization is funded primarily by billionaire anti-American / anti-Capitalist, George Soros. Once again, a man like George Soros who manipulated the Capitalist system for his own profit is dead-set on destroying your access to the same system. This man would be among the "ruling elite" and not, like many of our elected representatives, subject to the same limitations they want to place on the average citizens of the United States of America, the citizens who make this the greatest country in the world.
Podesta: ‘Van Has Set A Standard That Beck Would Never Impose Upon Himself’
John Podesta, the President and CEO of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, released this statement following the resignation of Van Jones:
Van Jones is an exceptional and inspired leader who has fought to bring economic and environmental justice to communities across our country.
He has chosen to resign because he believed he was serving as a distraction to the president’s agenda. I respect that decision.
Van was working to build a common ground agenda for all Americans, and I am confident he will continue that work. Unfortunately, his critics on the right could find no common ground with him.
Clearly, Van was the subject of a right-wing smear campaign shrouded in hypocrisy. Van’s chief tormentor Glenn Beck, who spent weeks engaged in vicious name-calling, retains his perch at Fox News after calling the president a racist who has “a deep-seated hatred for white people.” Van has set a standard that Beck would never impose upon himself.
I look forward to working with Van to move our country towards a clean energy economy that empowers and lifts up all Americans.
Podesta: ‘Van Has Set A Standard That Beck Would Never Impose Upon Himself’
John Podesta, the President and CEO of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, released this statement following the resignation of Van Jones:
Van Jones is an exceptional and inspired leader who has fought to bring economic and environmental justice to communities across our country.
He has chosen to resign because he believed he was serving as a distraction to the president’s agenda. I respect that decision.
Van was working to build a common ground agenda for all Americans, and I am confident he will continue that work. Unfortunately, his critics on the right could find no common ground with him.
Clearly, Van was the subject of a right-wing smear campaign shrouded in hypocrisy. Van’s chief tormentor Glenn Beck, who spent weeks engaged in vicious name-calling, retains his perch at Fox News after calling the president a racist who has “a deep-seated hatred for white people.” Van has set a standard that Beck would never impose upon himself.
I look forward to working with Van to move our country towards a clean energy economy that empowers and lifts up all Americans.
Monday, September 7, 2009
"Capitalism is evil," says new Michael Moore filmSun Sep 6, 2009 11:59am EDT
By Mike Collett-White
VENICE (Reuters) - Capitalism is evil. That is the conclusion U.S. documentary maker Michael Moore comes to in his latest movie "Capitalism: A Love Story," which premieres at the Venice film festival Sunday.
Blending his trademark humor with tragic individual stories, archive footage and publicity stunts, the 55-year-old launches an all out attack on the capitalist system, arguing that it benefits the rich and condemns millions to poverty.
"Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil," the two-hour movie concludes.
"You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy."
The bad guys in Moore's mind are big banks and hedge funds which "gambled" investors' money in complex derivatives that few, if any, really understood and which belonged in the casino.
Meanwhile, large companies have been prepared to lay off thousands of staff despite boasting record profits.
The filmmaker also sees an uncomfortably close relationship between banks, politicians and U.S. Treasury officials, meaning that regulation has been changed to favor the few on Wall Street rather than the many on Main Street.
He says that by encouraging Americans to borrow against the value of their homes, businesses created the conditions that led to the crisis, and with it homelessness and unemployment.
Moore even features priests who say capitalism is anti-Christian by failing to protect the poor.
"Essentially we have a law which says gambling is illegal but we've allowed Wall Street to do this and they've played with people's money and taken it into these crazy areas of derivatives," Moore told an audience in Venice.
"They need more than just regulation. We need to structure ourselves differently in order to create finance and money, support for jobs, businesses, etc."
GREEN SHOOTS?
Amid the gloom, Moore detects the beginnings of a popular movement against unbridled capitalism, and believes President Barack Obama's rise to power may bolster it.
"Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event," he told a news conference. "If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. So Obama will rise or fall based not so much on what he does but on what we do to support him."
Moore also warned other countries around the world against following the recent U.S. economic and political model.
The film follows factory workers who stage a sit-in at a Chicago glass factory when they are sacked with little warning and no pay and who eventually prevail over the bank.
And a group of citizens occupies a home that has been repossessed and boarded up by the lending company, forcing the police who come to evict them to back down.
The film re-visits some of Moore's earlier movies, including a trip to his native Flint where his father was a car assembly line worker and was able to buy a home, a car, educate his children and look forward to a decent pension.
But he brings it up to date with an examination of the financial crisis, demanding to speak to the bosses of companies at the center of the collapse and demanding that banks give back the hundreds of billions of bailout dollars to the country.
And he interviews an employee of a firm which buys up re-possessed, or "distressed" properties at a fraction of their original value and which is called Condo Vultures.
Michael Moore, that paragon of honesty and integrity is about to do it once again ... why do people listen to this ignorant man?
Does anyone wonder why this ball of human waste charges people to see his propaganda?
Does anyone wonder why he doesn't give away to the poor of the world, all of his profits? One of his homes?
Does anyone wonder why he chooses to live in a country that he so obviously hates and wants to completely change?
Does anyone think he travel's to Cuba to get the health-care he needs given his endless praise for their Communist health-care system in his "film", SiCKO?
Does anyone care that no one in the main-stream, dino-media ever questions his methods, conclusions or praise for all systems that would crush his form of idiocy?
The answers to all of these questions are very simple and easy. Mr. Moore and his other leftist-elitists in Hollywood would not be able to live in the life-style they have grown accustomed to if they did not work and take advantage of the benefits of the very economic and political system they trash. After all, as ignorant as they are, they are not stupid. If they lived in Castro's Cuba or Chavez's Venezuela, would they be able to generate the income that affords them the private jets, the chauffeur driven limos and the mansions? Only if they were held in favor by the current dictator and part of the ruling-class.
If they were not, would they be able to soak the very Capitalist system they hate for the wealth it generates? Would they be able to market themselves to the hard-working Capitalists who would be necessary in order to sell the tickets needed to generate the cash? Would they amass their fortunes in a state controlled film industry? I could be wrong, but I'd say it's doubtful.
To borrow a phrase, these "useful idiots", by peddling their wares in a system of marketing that exists only in the United States, are able to generate wealth far beyond anything a state run system would. The very Capitalist system those such as Sean Penn, Barbara Streisand, Rosie O'Donnell, Oliver Stone, Martin Sheen, Susan Sarandon, Mike Ferrell, Jeneane Garofelo, Cher, Julia Roberts, et al trash and want changed to be "more fair", is the very system that allows them to spout anything they choose, regardless of how insane or without merit it may be. It is the very system that provides them with the ability to live the lifestyle they do.
Why do they not all leave this hate-filled, racist country that breads inequality and unfairness? It is a good question for I know that they all think that they would all have the priveliges of power and wealth for they would all be among the "ruling-elite" ... or would they? Once again, they are ignorant, not stupid.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Liberal Talk Show host claims that JFK & RFK were "murdered by the right-wing in this country" ...
Once again, the Leftist Progressives attempt to re-write history ... Lee Harvey Oswald was a Communist and Sirhan Sirhan wa a middle eastern wack-job who opposed Bobby Kenney's pro-Israel positions. NEITHER WERE RIGHT-WINGERS! The outright lies of the Leftist never ends.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Our "Green Czar"
I've been doing some research on a few of our president's Czars. The first I am going to give you a little info on is Anthony "Van" Jones, the new green Jobs Czar.
The web that engulfs the people our president have surrounded himself with is amazing. The interconnections to each other and to organization after organization is difficult, intimidating and often boring to follow, but if you spend a little time to weave your way through the maze the web of connections and relationships are there. Organize, organize and then organize more. That is the mantra of the Leftist, whether Progressive, Socialist, Fascist, Marxist or Anarchist, Leftist ideologies all.
To one degree or another, the rules as written down by Saul Alinsky and carried around by most campus radicals of the 60's and 70's are used by today's Leftists. Yes, some who practiced these principles lived before him but it was Alinsky who consolidated them for use to America, who's book was used to ingrain his "rules" into the ideology of the American Leftist in order to work the American system to their advantage, to their political end.
I bring this up in my discussion of the unaccountable czars being appointed by our president because it is important to understand the background, the history of the Leftist movement and the "rules" by which they play the game. If you doubt our current president is not a Leftist, you are not paying attention or you do not know your history.
Remember that Saul Alinsky is "hero", is a mentor to today's Leftist-Progressives. Hillary Clinton, a self-described "early 20Th century Progressive", has referenced his influence on her as has our current president in his writings.
Read the "rules", think about how they relate to what is happening today, to our country, to those who oppose both Republican and Democrat Progressives, as both parties are at fault ...
Here's a brief summary of the rules. We are indebted to the Public Service Research Foundation for this information. When you go to an organizations web-site, see who the "officers" or "board members" are. Type their names into your search engine and see where it leads you, see who they are, see who they associate with and what their world view is and more importantly to us, what their view of America is and where they want to take us. You may be surprised ...
Here are a few links related to Van Jones, special assistant for Green Jobs ...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/8/25/771977/-Is-The-Green-Czar-Van-Jones-A-Communist-Still
http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2009/07/obamas-green-czar-proudly-admits-hes-a-member-of-san-francisco-communist-organization.html
http://www.dakotavoice.com/2009/07/obamas-black-red-green-czar/
http://www.collinsreport.net/2009/07/14/obama%E2%80%99s-latest-%E2%80%9Cin-your-face%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%9Cgreen-czar%E2%80%9D-he-admits-he%E2%80%99s-a-communist-with-arrest-record/
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/08/obamas-green-czar-is-a-terrorist.html
http://raymondpronk.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/apollo-alliance-and-obamas-green-czar-van-jones-greens-on-the-outside-reds-on-the-inside-big-greens-big-unions-big-foundations-big-business-big-bucks-big-taxes-videos/
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/fresh-greens/2009/03/10/obama-drafts-van-jones-as-green-jobs-adviser.html
Here is a link to three of the organizations Anthony "Van" Jones helped found ...
http://www.greenforall.org/
http://apolloalliance.org/
http://www.leftspot.com/blog/files/docs/STORMSummation.pdf
There are other Czars that we need to question, that we need to gather more information about. They are unconfirmed by congress; they answer to one man, President Obama; there is no public accounting of what they do, how much they spend or the powers they wield. Why?
President Obama is hardly the first president to appoint Czars or as they were originally called under President Franklin Roosevelt, "Dictators". President Nixon had appointed them, President GW Bush had them. The appointment of these unaccountable, powerful people are not exclusive of the Democrat or Republican parties. They are not a problem for the parties but they should be for American citizens.
Our government, on both sides of the aisle, is out of control. They both are taking us to the same, big government, nanny-state place. One is taking us there on a steam locomotive, the other on a super-sonic transport.
Those Americans who still believe in individual liberty, personal responsibility and freedom need to stand up to both parties. It is past time to say "ENOUGH"!
The web that engulfs the people our president have surrounded himself with is amazing. The interconnections to each other and to organization after organization is difficult, intimidating and often boring to follow, but if you spend a little time to weave your way through the maze the web of connections and relationships are there. Organize, organize and then organize more. That is the mantra of the Leftist, whether Progressive, Socialist, Fascist, Marxist or Anarchist, Leftist ideologies all.
To one degree or another, the rules as written down by Saul Alinsky and carried around by most campus radicals of the 60's and 70's are used by today's Leftists. Yes, some who practiced these principles lived before him but it was Alinsky who consolidated them for use to America, who's book was used to ingrain his "rules" into the ideology of the American Leftist in order to work the American system to their advantage, to their political end.
I bring this up in my discussion of the unaccountable czars being appointed by our president because it is important to understand the background, the history of the Leftist movement and the "rules" by which they play the game. If you doubt our current president is not a Leftist, you are not paying attention or you do not know your history.
Remember that Saul Alinsky is "hero", is a mentor to today's Leftist-Progressives. Hillary Clinton, a self-described "early 20Th century Progressive", has referenced his influence on her as has our current president in his writings.
Read the "rules", think about how they relate to what is happening today, to our country, to those who oppose both Republican and Democrat Progressives, as both parties are at fault ...
Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals
Here's a brief summary of the rules. We are indebted to the Public Service Research Foundation for this information.
Rules for Power Tactics:
1. Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
2. Never go outside the experience of your people.
3. Whenever possible, go outside of the experience of the enemy.
4. Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.
5. Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.
6. A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
7. A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
8. Keep the pressure on with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.
9. The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
10. The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.
11. If you push a negative hard and deep enough, it will break through into its counterside.
12. The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
Because Alinsky was sensitive to criticism that he wasn't ethical, he also included a set of rules for the ethics of power tactics. You can see from these why his ethics were so frequently questioned.
Rules to test whether power tactics are ethical:
1. One's concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one's personal interest in the issue.
2. The judgment of the ethics of means is dependent upon the political position of those sitting in judgment.
3. In war the end justifies almost any means.
4. Judgment must be made in the context of the times in which the action occurred and not from any other chronological vantage point.
5. Concern with ethics increases with the number of means available and vice versa.
6. The less important the end to be desired, the more one can afford to engage in ethical evaluations of means.
7. Generally, success or failure is a mighty determinant of ethics.
8. The morality of means depends upon whether the means is being employed at a time of imminent defeat or imminent victory.
9. Any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition to be unethical.
10. You do what you can with what you have and clothe it in moral garments.
11. Goals must be phrased in general terms like "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," "Of the Common Welfare," "Pursuit of Happiness," or "Bread and Peace."
Rules For Radicals, must be kept in mind for it is the blue-print for what is happening. Think ACORN, think the Center for American Progress, think the Daily Kos, think the Apollo Alliance, think the Tides Foundation and on and on and on.
Here are a few links related to Van Jones, special assistant for Green Jobs ...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/8/25/771977/-Is-The-Green-Czar-Van-Jones-A-Communist-Still
http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2009/07/obamas-green-czar-proudly-admits-hes-a-member-of-san-francisco-communist-organization.html
http://www.dakotavoice.com/2009/07/obamas-black-red-green-czar/
http://www.collinsreport.net/2009/07/14/obama%E2%80%99s-latest-%E2%80%9Cin-your-face%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%9Cgreen-czar%E2%80%9D-he-admits-he%E2%80%99s-a-communist-with-arrest-record/
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/08/obamas-green-czar-is-a-terrorist.html
http://raymondpronk.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/apollo-alliance-and-obamas-green-czar-van-jones-greens-on-the-outside-reds-on-the-inside-big-greens-big-unions-big-foundations-big-business-big-bucks-big-taxes-videos/
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/fresh-greens/2009/03/10/obama-drafts-van-jones-as-green-jobs-adviser.html
Here is a link to three of the organizations Anthony "Van" Jones helped found ...
http://www.greenforall.org/
http://apolloalliance.org/
http://www.leftspot.com/blog/files/docs/STORMSummation.pdf
There are other Czars that we need to question, that we need to gather more information about. They are unconfirmed by congress; they answer to one man, President Obama; there is no public accounting of what they do, how much they spend or the powers they wield. Why?
President Obama is hardly the first president to appoint Czars or as they were originally called under President Franklin Roosevelt, "Dictators". President Nixon had appointed them, President GW Bush had them. The appointment of these unaccountable, powerful people are not exclusive of the Democrat or Republican parties. They are not a problem for the parties but they should be for American citizens.
Our government, on both sides of the aisle, is out of control. They both are taking us to the same, big government, nanny-state place. One is taking us there on a steam locomotive, the other on a super-sonic transport.
Those Americans who still believe in individual liberty, personal responsibility and freedom need to stand up to both parties. It is past time to say "ENOUGH"!
Monday, July 27, 2009
I know that I promised a more in depth look at all the Czars being appointed by our president but I thought the more immediate news regarding the move to Socialize our health care system too precedent. I'll get back to the Czars in short order.
Our president has learned well at the heel of Saul Alinsky and his "bible" for leftist-progressives, Rules For Radicals by over-loading the system with proposals, legislation, nominations, appointments and on and on and on ...
He throws so much at his opponants that he hops to simply overwhelm them causing distraction and confusion. Alway remember, our president is a "community orginizer", first and foremost. After all, what other experience of any consequence does he have? None! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUFnP_wN8Z0&feature=fvw
CBO Deals Another Crushing Blow to Obamacare
Posted July 27th, 2009 at 9.38am in Health Care.
For the second time in less than two weeks, the independent and non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has dealt a crushing blow to President Barack Obama’s health care plans. First, on July 17th, CBO director Doug Elmendorf sent a letter to House Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel (D-NY), explaining that, in direct contradiction to President Obama’s promise that his health plan would not add “even one dime to our deficit over the next decade,” the House health plan would actually increase the budget deficit by $239 billion over ten years.
Reeling from this setback, the White House then put all of its cost-containing reform eggs in one basket: a massive transfer of power from Congress to the Executive branch in the form of an “Independent Medicare Advisory Council” (IMAC) that would be “the equivalent of a federal health board determining how health care was rationed for all seniors.”
But as draconian as that solution would be, the CBO again refused to toe the White House line. In a letter to Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), Elmendorf writes:
The proposed legislation states that IMAC’s recommendations cannot generate increased Medicare expenditures, but it does not explicitly direct the council to reduce such expenditures nor does it establish any target for such reductions. … As proposed, the composition of the council could be weighted toward medical providers who might not be inclined to recommend cuts in payments to providers or significant changes to the delivery system. … In CBO’s judgment, the probability is high that no savings would be realized … CBO estimates that enacting the proposal, as drafted, would yield savings of $2 billion over the 2010–2019 period.
Just $2 billion! That would leave the House bill still $237 billion short of meeting Obama’s promise to not add a dime to the deficit over the next ten years. Put another way, that $2 billion in savings is two tenths of one percent of what Obama wants to spend on health care over the next ten years. Now Democrats are pushing back against the CBO, claiming the official scorekeeper just doesn’t understand how wonderful their cost containment schemes really are. One senior House leadership aide told The Hill: “At CBO, they are accountants, but we still have to make our case. They are doing their thing and we are doing ours.”
Now Americans may ask, just how accurate is the CBO when scoring the costs of health care reform? Does the CBO have a track record of underestimating how much new health care entitlements will cost? Or is the CBO too conservative, often overestimating new health care spending? Scholars at the CATO Institute went back and compared past CBO estimates on health care to actual spending numbers and found:
When Medicare was launched in 1965, Part A was projected to cost $9 billion by 1990, but ended up costing $67 billion. When Medicaid’s special hospitals subsidy was added in 1987, it was supposed to cost $100 million annually, but it already cost $11 billion by 1992. When Medicare’s home care benefit was added in 1988, it was projected to cost $4 billion in 1993, but ended up costing $10 billion.
History clearly shows that the costs of new heath care entitlements are routinely underestimated. And what would American be getting for their $2 billion in savings from IMAC? The Washington Post’s David Broder wrote yesterday:
But Congress will have to decide if it is willing to yield that degree of control to five unelected IMAC commissioners. And Americans will have to decide if they are comfortable having those commissioners determine how they will be treated when they are ill.
Huge cost estimates that are likely underestimated in exchange for a federal health board deciding the terms of your personal health care is not the reform people were expecting. But more importantly, if the Obama administration can’t trust a federal office to properly score their bill, how is it they trust a similar office to decide which medical treatments you receive?
Our president has learned well at the heel of Saul Alinsky and his "bible" for leftist-progressives, Rules For Radicals by over-loading the system with proposals, legislation, nominations, appointments and on and on and on ...
He throws so much at his opponants that he hops to simply overwhelm them causing distraction and confusion. Alway remember, our president is a "community orginizer", first and foremost. After all, what other experience of any consequence does he have? None! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUFnP_wN8Z0&feature=fvw
CBO Deals Another Crushing Blow to Obamacare
Posted July 27th, 2009 at 9.38am in Health Care.
For the second time in less than two weeks, the independent and non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has dealt a crushing blow to President Barack Obama’s health care plans. First, on July 17th, CBO director Doug Elmendorf sent a letter to House Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel (D-NY), explaining that, in direct contradiction to President Obama’s promise that his health plan would not add “even one dime to our deficit over the next decade,” the House health plan would actually increase the budget deficit by $239 billion over ten years.
Reeling from this setback, the White House then put all of its cost-containing reform eggs in one basket: a massive transfer of power from Congress to the Executive branch in the form of an “Independent Medicare Advisory Council” (IMAC) that would be “the equivalent of a federal health board determining how health care was rationed for all seniors.”
But as draconian as that solution would be, the CBO again refused to toe the White House line. In a letter to Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), Elmendorf writes:
The proposed legislation states that IMAC’s recommendations cannot generate increased Medicare expenditures, but it does not explicitly direct the council to reduce such expenditures nor does it establish any target for such reductions. … As proposed, the composition of the council could be weighted toward medical providers who might not be inclined to recommend cuts in payments to providers or significant changes to the delivery system. … In CBO’s judgment, the probability is high that no savings would be realized … CBO estimates that enacting the proposal, as drafted, would yield savings of $2 billion over the 2010–2019 period.
Just $2 billion! That would leave the House bill still $237 billion short of meeting Obama’s promise to not add a dime to the deficit over the next ten years. Put another way, that $2 billion in savings is two tenths of one percent of what Obama wants to spend on health care over the next ten years. Now Democrats are pushing back against the CBO, claiming the official scorekeeper just doesn’t understand how wonderful their cost containment schemes really are. One senior House leadership aide told The Hill: “At CBO, they are accountants, but we still have to make our case. They are doing their thing and we are doing ours.”
Now Americans may ask, just how accurate is the CBO when scoring the costs of health care reform? Does the CBO have a track record of underestimating how much new health care entitlements will cost? Or is the CBO too conservative, often overestimating new health care spending? Scholars at the CATO Institute went back and compared past CBO estimates on health care to actual spending numbers and found:
When Medicare was launched in 1965, Part A was projected to cost $9 billion by 1990, but ended up costing $67 billion. When Medicaid’s special hospitals subsidy was added in 1987, it was supposed to cost $100 million annually, but it already cost $11 billion by 1992. When Medicare’s home care benefit was added in 1988, it was projected to cost $4 billion in 1993, but ended up costing $10 billion.
History clearly shows that the costs of new heath care entitlements are routinely underestimated. And what would American be getting for their $2 billion in savings from IMAC? The Washington Post’s David Broder wrote yesterday:
But Congress will have to decide if it is willing to yield that degree of control to five unelected IMAC commissioners. And Americans will have to decide if they are comfortable having those commissioners determine how they will be treated when they are ill.
Huge cost estimates that are likely underestimated in exchange for a federal health board deciding the terms of your personal health care is not the reform people were expecting. But more importantly, if the Obama administration can’t trust a federal office to properly score their bill, how is it they trust a similar office to decide which medical treatments you receive?
Thursday, July 16, 2009
UNFETTED EXECUTIVE BRANCH POWER GRAB? ... NAW
I have to wonder why the Democrats in congress are not standing on the steps of the Capital, screaming about the "Power Grab" being conducted by the current occupant of the White House? During the 8 years of the Bush administration, hardly a week, if not a day, went by without some Democrat Congressman or Senator complaining about the outrageous and "unprecedented power grab" underway by the President and his administration. Of course, no Democrat ever mentions the usurpation of power in the hallowed, sainted Franklin D. Roosevelt administration and his proposal for a "new Bill of Rights" that would have set the standard for Socialist Fascism in it's day.
We were then, according to the Democrats, on the verge of being turned into a "police state" and having "unaccountable bureaucrats in the Executive Branch" running the country and goodness knows, with all of our freedoms and liberties trampled. Now, don't get me wrong, the Bush Administration was responsible for some of the most bone-headed, anti free market, anti-American legislation and non-action in our history. President Bush exercised what was probably the single most idiotic NON-use of the veto pen when he signed the UN-Constitutional "Campaign Finance Reform" legislation; his inability to follow the law and close our borders to illegal immigration was an impeachable offense and of course, who could never forget the single most Liberal Progressive piece of legislation since the War on Poverty that created the largest entitlement in the history of our country by signing the Medicaid Drug Prescription Benefit. Yes, sir, George was our man!
Now to the reason for my confusion ...
Given, and we all know that they care so very much about "liberty" and "freedom" and the "average American" and have a passion for restricting "power grabs" by the government, why haven't we heard a peep out of these paragons of liberty and freedom when it comes to the President's CZARS? Do you know that there are 13? (At last count)
Do you know that there is absolutely NO OVERSIGHT of these people and those who work for them? (Outside of their boss of course. No, not you and I, the president, dummy. Yes, we pay them but we still can't talk to them and they don't have to answer anything we might ask them if we could talk to them, now leave me alone.)
Can anyone name more than 2 of them?
Has anyone ever heard a story about any of the CZARS on the evening news? Yes, every now and again, it is a one or two line blurb in passing but never anything in depth.
Well, here is a thumb-nail on each of them provided by Real Clear Politics:
1. Border Czar: Alan Bersin
Previous Experience: Bersin held a similar job under President Clinton in which he served under Attorney Janet Reno. He now serves under Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, putting him in charge of illegal immigration and drug violence problems.
2. Energy Czar: Carol Browner
Previous Experience: Former Clinton Environmental Protection Agency Administrator and member of Obama's transition board. Browner was head of the EPA from 1993 to 2001. She is said to bring much experience in environmental policy-making and consulting.
3. Urban Affairs Czar: Adolfo Carrion, Jr
Previous Experience: Before being tapped for this newly created position by President Obama, Carrion served twice as New York City's Bronx Borough President with a degree in urban planning. He's worked as a minister and public school teacher in the Bronx.
4. Technology Czar: Aneesh Chopra
Previous Experience: Chopra worked in almost the same job in the state of Virginia for Governor Tim Kaine. He has significant experience in health IT, which President Obama has noted is key for reform. In 2007 Chopra was recognized by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society for his work and in co-chairing Virginia's Healthcare IT Council. Before working in government, Chopra worked at the publicly traded health care think tank Advisory Board Company serving as Managing Director.
5. Health Czar: Nancy-Ann DeParle
Previous Experience: Served from 1997 to 2000 as head of the HFCA (Health Care Financing Administration) in charge of the Clinton administration's Medicare program. Before that DeParle worked at the Office of Management and Budget.
6. Stimulus Accountability Czar: Earl Devaney
Previous Experience: Devaney is a former policeman and Secret Service agent. He worked as chief of criminal enforcement at the Environmental Protection Agency and prior to taking the job of Stimulus Accountability Czar was inspector general at the Department of the Interior. During his stint there since 1999, Devaney was responsible for discovering the illegal activities of ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff which ultimately led to Abramoff's sentencing to jail.
7. Pay Czar: Kenneth Feinberg
Previous Experience: A Washington lawyer, Feinberg was Special Master of the Federal September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, a job which entailed dealing out approximately $7 billion to over 5,000 families and victims of September 11th. Feinberg also headed the Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund for the families of victims in the 2007 Virginia Tech school shooting.
8. Guantanamo Closure Czar: Daniel Fried
Previous Experience: Fried served as the Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs since 2005. Fried was Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council beginning in 2001. Fried has also worked as Principal Deputy Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for the New Independent States from 2000 to 2001. He served as Ambassador to Poland from 1997 until 2000.
9. Science Czar: John Holdren
Previous Experience: Holdren first worked as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, teaching global environmental change and energy, nuclear, and technology policy. Holdren was the chairman of the board of directors for the American Association of the Advancement of Science from 2007 to 2008. He is director of the Woods Hole Research Center. Holdren most recently served as the Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and was director of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program at the School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
10. Green Jobs Czar: Van Jones
Previous Experience: Jones worked as an advocate for the environment before being tapped by Obama for the post. Based in Oakland, California, Jones is president of Green for All, which works to create a green economy to bring people out of poverty. Jones is also the founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. Jones's first book, The Green Collar Economy, was a New York Times bestseller. Time magazine listed Van Jones as one of its 2008 "Environmental Heroes".
11. Information Czar: Vivek Kundra
Previous Experience: Prior to his new post, Kundra was a member of President Obama's transition committee on technology issues. Kundra also worked in DC Mayor Adrian Fenty's cabinet as Chief Technology Officer, gaining a reputation for his innovative programs. An initiative called Apps for Democracy garnered Kundra praise for his work creating programs that were more publicly accessible via the Internet. Before working for Fenty, Kundra was appointed by Virginia Governor Timothy Kaine as Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Technology.
12. Car Czar: Ed Montgomery
Previous Experience: Previous to his appointment, Montgomery was dean of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the University of Maryland. In Bill Clinton's administration, Montgomery worked as chief economist at the Department of Labor. From 2000 to 2001 he served as Deputy Secretary of Labor. Montgomery began his university work at Michigan State University where he worked from 1981 to 1990 as an associate professor in Economics. In 1992 he became a full professor of economics at the University of Maryland.
13. Climate Czar: Todd Stern
Previous Experience: With close ties to Bill and Hillary Clinton, Stern worked as a senior White House negotiator at the Kyoto Protocol negotiations. From 1999 to 2001 he worked at the Treasury Department where he served as an advisor on economic and financial issues. Stern was an advisor to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, advising on environmental and global warming issues. Stern was an important member of the Obama-Biden transition team in which he helped orchestrate how Bill Clinton would agree to release the names of 200,000 donors of his charitable foundation allowing Hillary Clinton's nomination for Secretary of State to move forward.
It appears from how they read that the thumb-nail sketches featured on Real Clear Politics are so short and sweet that they were provided by the Obama Administration. Over the next few weeks, I'll be taking the Czars, one by one. I'll be providing a bit more in-depth info on the Czars and their backgrounds.
I think you'll find it interesting to see the people our president continues to surround himself with.
And Democrats, ... HEY, YOU!!! YEA, YOU!!!! ...
I am waiting to hear the first one of you ask about the power grab going on by the Executive Branch. Don't you care about the Constitution? Don't you care that it is YOUR responsibility for oversight? Who approves the money these people spend?
I won't hold my breath for the most hypocritical congress in our history to ask.
We were then, according to the Democrats, on the verge of being turned into a "police state" and having "unaccountable bureaucrats in the Executive Branch" running the country and goodness knows, with all of our freedoms and liberties trampled. Now, don't get me wrong, the Bush Administration was responsible for some of the most bone-headed, anti free market, anti-American legislation and non-action in our history. President Bush exercised what was probably the single most idiotic NON-use of the veto pen when he signed the UN-Constitutional "Campaign Finance Reform" legislation; his inability to follow the law and close our borders to illegal immigration was an impeachable offense and of course, who could never forget the single most Liberal Progressive piece of legislation since the War on Poverty that created the largest entitlement in the history of our country by signing the Medicaid Drug Prescription Benefit. Yes, sir, George was our man!
Now to the reason for my confusion ...
Given, and we all know that they care so very much about "liberty" and "freedom" and the "average American" and have a passion for restricting "power grabs" by the government, why haven't we heard a peep out of these paragons of liberty and freedom when it comes to the President's CZARS? Do you know that there are 13? (At last count)
Do you know that there is absolutely NO OVERSIGHT of these people and those who work for them? (Outside of their boss of course. No, not you and I, the president, dummy. Yes, we pay them but we still can't talk to them and they don't have to answer anything we might ask them if we could talk to them, now leave me alone.)
Can anyone name more than 2 of them?
Has anyone ever heard a story about any of the CZARS on the evening news? Yes, every now and again, it is a one or two line blurb in passing but never anything in depth.
Well, here is a thumb-nail on each of them provided by Real Clear Politics:
1. Border Czar: Alan Bersin
Previous Experience: Bersin held a similar job under President Clinton in which he served under Attorney Janet Reno. He now serves under Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, putting him in charge of illegal immigration and drug violence problems.
2. Energy Czar: Carol Browner
Previous Experience: Former Clinton Environmental Protection Agency Administrator and member of Obama's transition board. Browner was head of the EPA from 1993 to 2001. She is said to bring much experience in environmental policy-making and consulting.
3. Urban Affairs Czar: Adolfo Carrion, Jr
Previous Experience: Before being tapped for this newly created position by President Obama, Carrion served twice as New York City's Bronx Borough President with a degree in urban planning. He's worked as a minister and public school teacher in the Bronx.
4. Technology Czar: Aneesh Chopra
Previous Experience: Chopra worked in almost the same job in the state of Virginia for Governor Tim Kaine. He has significant experience in health IT, which President Obama has noted is key for reform. In 2007 Chopra was recognized by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society for his work and in co-chairing Virginia's Healthcare IT Council. Before working in government, Chopra worked at the publicly traded health care think tank Advisory Board Company serving as Managing Director.
5. Health Czar: Nancy-Ann DeParle
Previous Experience: Served from 1997 to 2000 as head of the HFCA (Health Care Financing Administration) in charge of the Clinton administration's Medicare program. Before that DeParle worked at the Office of Management and Budget.
6. Stimulus Accountability Czar: Earl Devaney
Previous Experience: Devaney is a former policeman and Secret Service agent. He worked as chief of criminal enforcement at the Environmental Protection Agency and prior to taking the job of Stimulus Accountability Czar was inspector general at the Department of the Interior. During his stint there since 1999, Devaney was responsible for discovering the illegal activities of ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff which ultimately led to Abramoff's sentencing to jail.
7. Pay Czar: Kenneth Feinberg
Previous Experience: A Washington lawyer, Feinberg was Special Master of the Federal September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, a job which entailed dealing out approximately $7 billion to over 5,000 families and victims of September 11th. Feinberg also headed the Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund for the families of victims in the 2007 Virginia Tech school shooting.
8. Guantanamo Closure Czar: Daniel Fried
Previous Experience: Fried served as the Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs since 2005. Fried was Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council beginning in 2001. Fried has also worked as Principal Deputy Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for the New Independent States from 2000 to 2001. He served as Ambassador to Poland from 1997 until 2000.
9. Science Czar: John Holdren
Previous Experience: Holdren first worked as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, teaching global environmental change and energy, nuclear, and technology policy. Holdren was the chairman of the board of directors for the American Association of the Advancement of Science from 2007 to 2008. He is director of the Woods Hole Research Center. Holdren most recently served as the Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and was director of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program at the School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
10. Green Jobs Czar: Van Jones
Previous Experience: Jones worked as an advocate for the environment before being tapped by Obama for the post. Based in Oakland, California, Jones is president of Green for All, which works to create a green economy to bring people out of poverty. Jones is also the founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. Jones's first book, The Green Collar Economy, was a New York Times bestseller. Time magazine listed Van Jones as one of its 2008 "Environmental Heroes".
11. Information Czar: Vivek Kundra
Previous Experience: Prior to his new post, Kundra was a member of President Obama's transition committee on technology issues. Kundra also worked in DC Mayor Adrian Fenty's cabinet as Chief Technology Officer, gaining a reputation for his innovative programs. An initiative called Apps for Democracy garnered Kundra praise for his work creating programs that were more publicly accessible via the Internet. Before working for Fenty, Kundra was appointed by Virginia Governor Timothy Kaine as Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Technology.
12. Car Czar: Ed Montgomery
Previous Experience: Previous to his appointment, Montgomery was dean of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the University of Maryland. In Bill Clinton's administration, Montgomery worked as chief economist at the Department of Labor. From 2000 to 2001 he served as Deputy Secretary of Labor. Montgomery began his university work at Michigan State University where he worked from 1981 to 1990 as an associate professor in Economics. In 1992 he became a full professor of economics at the University of Maryland.
13. Climate Czar: Todd Stern
Previous Experience: With close ties to Bill and Hillary Clinton, Stern worked as a senior White House negotiator at the Kyoto Protocol negotiations. From 1999 to 2001 he worked at the Treasury Department where he served as an advisor on economic and financial issues. Stern was an advisor to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, advising on environmental and global warming issues. Stern was an important member of the Obama-Biden transition team in which he helped orchestrate how Bill Clinton would agree to release the names of 200,000 donors of his charitable foundation allowing Hillary Clinton's nomination for Secretary of State to move forward.
It appears from how they read that the thumb-nail sketches featured on Real Clear Politics are so short and sweet that they were provided by the Obama Administration. Over the next few weeks, I'll be taking the Czars, one by one. I'll be providing a bit more in-depth info on the Czars and their backgrounds.
I think you'll find it interesting to see the people our president continues to surround himself with.
And Democrats, ... HEY, YOU!!! YEA, YOU!!!! ...
I am waiting to hear the first one of you ask about the power grab going on by the Executive Branch. Don't you care about the Constitution? Don't you care that it is YOUR responsibility for oversight? Who approves the money these people spend?
I won't hold my breath for the most hypocritical congress in our history to ask.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
I was listening to Glenn Beck's radio program this morning when he read a letter he received from a man in Arizona.
The letter, while from a man slightly youunger than myself and with a different voting record, the sentiment, thoughts, anger and sadness at the statre of our country touched my heart and well as my mind for it is exactly how I see things ... give it a read. I think you will agree. If you don't ... move on and don't come crying to those of us who have tried to warn you ...
I'm a home grown American citizen, 53, registered Democrat all my life. Before the last presidential election I registered as a Republican because I no longer felt the Democratic Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. Now I no longer feel the Republican Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. The fact is I no longer feel any political party or representative in Washington represents my views or works to pursue the issues important to me. There must be someone. Please tell me who you are. Please stand up and tell me that you are there and that you're willing to fight for our Constitution as it was written. Please stand up now. You might ask yourself what my views and issues are that I would horribly feel so disenfranchised by both major political parties. What kind of nut job am I? Will you please tell me?
Well, these are briefly my views and issues for which I seek representation:
One, illegal immigration. I want you to stop coddling illegal immigrants and secure our borders. Close the underground tunnels. Stop the violence and the trafficking in drugs and people. No amnesty, not again. Been there, done that, no resolution. P.S., I'm not a racist. This isn't to be confused with legal immigration.
Two, the TARP bill, I want it repealed and I want no further funding supplied to it. We told you no, but you did it anyway. I want the remaining unfunded 95% repealed. Freeze, repeal.
Three: Czars, I want the circumvention of our checks and balances stopped immediately. Fire the czars. No more czars. Government officials answer to the process, not to the president. Stop trampling on our Constitution and honor it.
Four, cap and trade. The debate on global warming is not over. There is more to say.
Five, universal healthcare. I will not be rushed into another expensive decision. Don't you dare try to pass this in the middle of the night and then go on break. Slow down!
Six, growing government control. I want states rights and sovereignty fully restored. I want less government in my life, not more. Shrink it down. Mind your own business. You have enough to take care of with your real obligations. Why don't you start there.
Seven, ACORN. I do not want ACORN and its affiliates in charge of our 2010 census. I want them investigated. I also do not want mandatory escrow fees contributed to them every time on every real estate deal that closes. Stop the funding to ACORN and its affiliates pending impartial audits and investigations. I do not trust them with taking the census over with our taxpayer money. I don't trust them with our taxpayer money. Face up to the allegations against them and get it resolved before taxpayers get any more involved with them. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, hello. Stop protecting your political buddies. You work for us, the people. Investigate.
Eight, redistribution of wealth. No, no, no. I work for my money. It is mine. I have always worked for people with more money than I have because they gave me jobs. That is the only redistribution of wealth that I will support. I never got a job from a poor person. Why do you want me to hate my employers? Why ‑‑ what do you have against shareholders making a profit?
Nine, charitable contributions. Although I never got a job from a poor person, I have helped many in need. Charity belongs in our local communities, where we know our needs best and can use our local talent and our local resources. Butt out, please. We want to do it ourselves.
Ten, corporate bailouts. Knock it off. Sink or swim like the rest of us. If there are hard times ahead, we'll be better off just getting into it and letting the strong survive. Quick and painful. Have you ever ripped off a Band‑Aid? We will pull together. Great things happen in America under great hardship. Give us the chance to innovate. We cannot disappoint you more than you have disappointed us.
Eleven, transparency and accountability. How about it? No, really, how about it? Let's have it. Let's say we give the buzzwords a rest and have some straight honest talk. Please try ‑‑ please stop manipulating and trying to appease me with clever wording. I am not the idiot you obviously take me for. Stop sneaking around and meeting in back rooms making deals with your friends. It will only be a prelude to your criminal investigation. Stop hiding things from me.
Twelve, unprecedented quick spending. Stop it now.
Take a breath. Listen to the people. Let's just slow down and get some input from some nonpoliticians on the subject. Stop making everything an emergency. Stop speed reading our bills into law. I am not an activist. I am not a community organizer. Nor am I a terrorist, a militant or a violent person. I am a parent and a grandparent. I work. I'm busy. I'm busy. I am busy, and I am tired. I thought we elected competent people to take care of the business of government so that we could work, raise our families, pay our bills, have a little recreation, complain about taxes, endure our hardships, pursue our personal goals, cut our lawn, wash our cars on the weekends and be responsible contributing members of society and teach our children to be the same all while living in the home of the free and land of the brave.
I entrusted you with upholding the Constitution. I believed in the checks and balances to keep from getting far off course. What happened? You are very far off course. Do you really think I find humor in the hiring of a speed reader to unintelligently ramble all through a bill that you signed into law without knowing what it contained? I do not. It is a mockery of the responsibility I have entrusted to you. It is a slap in the face. I am not laughing at your arrogance. Why is it that I feel as if you would not trust me to make a single decision about my own life and how I would live it but you should expect that I should trust you with the debt that you have laid on all of us and our children. We did not want the TARP bill. We said no. We would repeal it if we could. I am sure that we still cannot. There is such urgency and recklessness in all of the recent spending.
From my perspective, it seems that all of you have gone insane. I also know that I am far from alone in these feelings. Do you honestly feel that your current pursuits have merit to patriotic Americans? We want it to stop. We want to put the brakes on everything that is being rushed by us and forced upon us. We want our voice back. You have forced us to put our lives on hold to straighten out the mess that you are making. We will have to give up our vacations, our time spent with our children, any relaxation time we may have had and money we cannot afford to spend on you to bring our concerns to Washington. Our president often knows all the right buzzword is unsustainable. Well, no kidding. How many tens of thousands of dollars did the focus group cost to come up with that word? We don't want your overpriced words. Stop treating us like we're morons.
We want all of you to stop focusing on your reelection and do the job we want done, not the job you want done or the job your party wants done. You work for us and at this rate I guarantee you not for long because we are coming. We will be heard and we will be represented. You think we're so busy with our lives that we will never come for you? We are the formerly silent majority, all of us who quietly work , pay taxes, obey the law, vote, save money, keep our noses to the grindstone and we are now looking up at you. You have awakened us, the patriotic spirit so strong and so powerful that it had been sleeping too long. You have pushed us too far. Our numbers are great. They may surprise you. For every one of us who will be there, there will be hundreds more that could not come. Unlike you, we have their trust. We will represent them honestly, rest assured. They will be at the polls on voting day to usher you out of office. We have cancelled vacations. We will use our last few dollars saved. We will find the representation among us and a grassroots campaign will flourish. We didn't ask for this fight. But the gloves are coming off. We do not come in violence, but we are angry. You will represent us or you will be replaced with someone who will. There are candidates among us when he will rise like a Phoenix from the ashes that you have made of our constitution.
Democrat, Republican, independent, libertarian. Understand this. We don't care. Political parties are meaningless to us. Patriotic Americans are willing to do right by us and our Constitution and that is all that matters to us now. We are going to fire all of you who abuse power and seek more. It is not your power. It is ours and we want it back. We entrusted you with it and you abused it. You are dishonorable. You are dishonest. As Americans we are ashamed of you. You have brought shame to us. If you are not representing the wants and needs of your constituency loudly and consistently, in spite of the objections of your party, you will be fired. Did you hear? We no longer care about your political parties. You need to be loyal to us, not to them. Because we will get you fired and they will not save you. If you do or can represent me, my issues, my views, please stand up. Make your identity known. You need to make some noise about it. Speak up. I need to know who you are. If you do not speak up, you will be herded out with the rest of the sheep and we will replace the whole damn congress if need be one by one. We are coming. Are we coming for you? Who do you represent? What do you represent? Listen. Because we are coming. We the people are coming.
The letter, while from a man slightly youunger than myself and with a different voting record, the sentiment, thoughts, anger and sadness at the statre of our country touched my heart and well as my mind for it is exactly how I see things ... give it a read. I think you will agree. If you don't ... move on and don't come crying to those of us who have tried to warn you ...
I'm a home grown American citizen, 53, registered Democrat all my life. Before the last presidential election I registered as a Republican because I no longer felt the Democratic Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. Now I no longer feel the Republican Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. The fact is I no longer feel any political party or representative in Washington represents my views or works to pursue the issues important to me. There must be someone. Please tell me who you are. Please stand up and tell me that you are there and that you're willing to fight for our Constitution as it was written. Please stand up now. You might ask yourself what my views and issues are that I would horribly feel so disenfranchised by both major political parties. What kind of nut job am I? Will you please tell me?
Well, these are briefly my views and issues for which I seek representation:
One, illegal immigration. I want you to stop coddling illegal immigrants and secure our borders. Close the underground tunnels. Stop the violence and the trafficking in drugs and people. No amnesty, not again. Been there, done that, no resolution. P.S., I'm not a racist. This isn't to be confused with legal immigration.
Two, the TARP bill, I want it repealed and I want no further funding supplied to it. We told you no, but you did it anyway. I want the remaining unfunded 95% repealed. Freeze, repeal.
Three: Czars, I want the circumvention of our checks and balances stopped immediately. Fire the czars. No more czars. Government officials answer to the process, not to the president. Stop trampling on our Constitution and honor it.
Four, cap and trade. The debate on global warming is not over. There is more to say.
Five, universal healthcare. I will not be rushed into another expensive decision. Don't you dare try to pass this in the middle of the night and then go on break. Slow down!
Six, growing government control. I want states rights and sovereignty fully restored. I want less government in my life, not more. Shrink it down. Mind your own business. You have enough to take care of with your real obligations. Why don't you start there.
Seven, ACORN. I do not want ACORN and its affiliates in charge of our 2010 census. I want them investigated. I also do not want mandatory escrow fees contributed to them every time on every real estate deal that closes. Stop the funding to ACORN and its affiliates pending impartial audits and investigations. I do not trust them with taking the census over with our taxpayer money. I don't trust them with our taxpayer money. Face up to the allegations against them and get it resolved before taxpayers get any more involved with them. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, hello. Stop protecting your political buddies. You work for us, the people. Investigate.
Eight, redistribution of wealth. No, no, no. I work for my money. It is mine. I have always worked for people with more money than I have because they gave me jobs. That is the only redistribution of wealth that I will support. I never got a job from a poor person. Why do you want me to hate my employers? Why ‑‑ what do you have against shareholders making a profit?
Nine, charitable contributions. Although I never got a job from a poor person, I have helped many in need. Charity belongs in our local communities, where we know our needs best and can use our local talent and our local resources. Butt out, please. We want to do it ourselves.
Ten, corporate bailouts. Knock it off. Sink or swim like the rest of us. If there are hard times ahead, we'll be better off just getting into it and letting the strong survive. Quick and painful. Have you ever ripped off a Band‑Aid? We will pull together. Great things happen in America under great hardship. Give us the chance to innovate. We cannot disappoint you more than you have disappointed us.
Eleven, transparency and accountability. How about it? No, really, how about it? Let's have it. Let's say we give the buzzwords a rest and have some straight honest talk. Please try ‑‑ please stop manipulating and trying to appease me with clever wording. I am not the idiot you obviously take me for. Stop sneaking around and meeting in back rooms making deals with your friends. It will only be a prelude to your criminal investigation. Stop hiding things from me.
Twelve, unprecedented quick spending. Stop it now.
Take a breath. Listen to the people. Let's just slow down and get some input from some nonpoliticians on the subject. Stop making everything an emergency. Stop speed reading our bills into law. I am not an activist. I am not a community organizer. Nor am I a terrorist, a militant or a violent person. I am a parent and a grandparent. I work. I'm busy. I'm busy. I am busy, and I am tired. I thought we elected competent people to take care of the business of government so that we could work, raise our families, pay our bills, have a little recreation, complain about taxes, endure our hardships, pursue our personal goals, cut our lawn, wash our cars on the weekends and be responsible contributing members of society and teach our children to be the same all while living in the home of the free and land of the brave.
I entrusted you with upholding the Constitution. I believed in the checks and balances to keep from getting far off course. What happened? You are very far off course. Do you really think I find humor in the hiring of a speed reader to unintelligently ramble all through a bill that you signed into law without knowing what it contained? I do not. It is a mockery of the responsibility I have entrusted to you. It is a slap in the face. I am not laughing at your arrogance. Why is it that I feel as if you would not trust me to make a single decision about my own life and how I would live it but you should expect that I should trust you with the debt that you have laid on all of us and our children. We did not want the TARP bill. We said no. We would repeal it if we could. I am sure that we still cannot. There is such urgency and recklessness in all of the recent spending.
From my perspective, it seems that all of you have gone insane. I also know that I am far from alone in these feelings. Do you honestly feel that your current pursuits have merit to patriotic Americans? We want it to stop. We want to put the brakes on everything that is being rushed by us and forced upon us. We want our voice back. You have forced us to put our lives on hold to straighten out the mess that you are making. We will have to give up our vacations, our time spent with our children, any relaxation time we may have had and money we cannot afford to spend on you to bring our concerns to Washington. Our president often knows all the right buzzword is unsustainable. Well, no kidding. How many tens of thousands of dollars did the focus group cost to come up with that word? We don't want your overpriced words. Stop treating us like we're morons.
We want all of you to stop focusing on your reelection and do the job we want done, not the job you want done or the job your party wants done. You work for us and at this rate I guarantee you not for long because we are coming. We will be heard and we will be represented. You think we're so busy with our lives that we will never come for you? We are the formerly silent majority, all of us who quietly work , pay taxes, obey the law, vote, save money, keep our noses to the grindstone and we are now looking up at you. You have awakened us, the patriotic spirit so strong and so powerful that it had been sleeping too long. You have pushed us too far. Our numbers are great. They may surprise you. For every one of us who will be there, there will be hundreds more that could not come. Unlike you, we have their trust. We will represent them honestly, rest assured. They will be at the polls on voting day to usher you out of office. We have cancelled vacations. We will use our last few dollars saved. We will find the representation among us and a grassroots campaign will flourish. We didn't ask for this fight. But the gloves are coming off. We do not come in violence, but we are angry. You will represent us or you will be replaced with someone who will. There are candidates among us when he will rise like a Phoenix from the ashes that you have made of our constitution.
Democrat, Republican, independent, libertarian. Understand this. We don't care. Political parties are meaningless to us. Patriotic Americans are willing to do right by us and our Constitution and that is all that matters to us now. We are going to fire all of you who abuse power and seek more. It is not your power. It is ours and we want it back. We entrusted you with it and you abused it. You are dishonorable. You are dishonest. As Americans we are ashamed of you. You have brought shame to us. If you are not representing the wants and needs of your constituency loudly and consistently, in spite of the objections of your party, you will be fired. Did you hear? We no longer care about your political parties. You need to be loyal to us, not to them. Because we will get you fired and they will not save you. If you do or can represent me, my issues, my views, please stand up. Make your identity known. You need to make some noise about it. Speak up. I need to know who you are. If you do not speak up, you will be herded out with the rest of the sheep and we will replace the whole damn congress if need be one by one. We are coming. Are we coming for you? Who do you represent? What do you represent? Listen. Because we are coming. We the people are coming.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Even the Obama Administration Knows that CO2 is NOT a Polutant!!!
CO2 IS NOT A POLUTANT!!! IT IS AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT FOR CONTINUED HUMAN SURVIVAL!!!!
WHEN WILL PEOPLE STOP FALLING FOR THIS LOAD OF CRAP???
WHEN WILL PEOPLE STOP FALLING FOR THIS LOAD OF CRAP???
Monday, May 11, 2009
I was going to vent a bit about the idiot leftist comedian Wanda Sykes and her hateful "humor" at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner this past Saturday evening but decided that an idiot who can not grasp the full context of a statement she uses to make a rather sick joke is hardly worth the time for in a few weeks, she'll return to comedic obscurity. MY only question about her appearance at this most hallowed event is how in the heck she was chosen as the "featured comedian". Oh well ...
What I think is far more important is the most recent example of the Speaker of the House and her latest lies regarding her knowledge of "extreme interrogation techniques" ... or as the leftist progressives currently in political power in our country and their lap-dogs know as the main-stream media (dino-media in most people's minds) TORTURE.
If any one in the dino-media would actually do their job and be the people's guardians as the founder's intended and the ONLY reason they were afforded special mention and protections in our Constitution, and report on the speaker's lies, it would be front page, above-the-fold headlines and the lead story on all the evening news casts ...such as they are. Surly if anyone as hateful as former Speaker Gingrich or even the milk-toast Dennis (call me Denny) Hastert had been caught in such a lie, it would be the lead story in the news for a stinking' month of Sundays. Why does this not bother more honest, thinking Americans? Maybe it does and that is the major reason that the overwhelming majority of the dino-media are going down the drain straight into the cesspool where they belong. THE ARE NOT HONEST BROKERS OF THE NEWS. THEY ARE CHEERLEADERS, PLAIN AND SIMPLE. THANK GOODNESS THEY DON'T WEAR THE SHORT SKIRTS.
The CIA has put out documentation that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Botox Nan damned well knew about waterboarding as well as other means to extract info from the Islamo-Fascists who would slit her throat as fast as they would Dick Cheney's. SHe even wondered if they were going far enough.
Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi is a liar, plain and simple. When will that matter to the Leftist Progressives that control our government and media? Sadly, the answer is NEVER!
As for a few other questions that beg an answer from the hate Bush crowd, the hate any Republican (even liberal progressive ones like the presidents Bush) and most assuredly, the hate anyone who calls themselves a Conservative and wants our Constitutional Republic to remain as it was intended because it promotes the greatest degree of freedom to all citizens and allows anyone who whats to put forth the effort to succeed or in some cases fail ... that want to maintain something called Capitalism (there I said it) ... and to maintain individual liberty and personal responsibility ... I wan to ask those who fall into any of these groups, something that suits your formula for society, just why in the heck do are not in the streets as our current president BOMBS INNOCENT CIVILIANS in Pakistan? Where are the leftists protesting the expansion of our imperialist war against the people in Iraq ... if you haven't noticed, the troops are still there. Where is the screaming protest from the idiot left about the SURGE being implemented in Afghanistan? Where are your favorite morons? Where is "peace Mom" Cindy Sheehan and the girls of Code Pink? Why aren't Cindy and the Pinkos (kinda sounds like a rock band, doesn't it?) standing in some Chicago ditch or gutter in front of the Tony Rezko sweetheart deal home of our president protesting the death of innocent lives? WHERE ARE YOU????
Stinkin' hypocrites.
"Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world."
--U.S. Senator Daniel Webster (1782-1852)
NANCY PELOSI IS A LIAR
What I think is far more important is the most recent example of the Speaker of the House and her latest lies regarding her knowledge of "extreme interrogation techniques" ... or as the leftist progressives currently in political power in our country and their lap-dogs know as the main-stream media (dino-media in most people's minds) TORTURE.
If any one in the dino-media would actually do their job and be the people's guardians as the founder's intended and the ONLY reason they were afforded special mention and protections in our Constitution, and report on the speaker's lies, it would be front page, above-the-fold headlines and the lead story on all the evening news casts ...such as they are. Surly if anyone as hateful as former Speaker Gingrich or even the milk-toast Dennis (call me Denny) Hastert had been caught in such a lie, it would be the lead story in the news for a stinking' month of Sundays. Why does this not bother more honest, thinking Americans? Maybe it does and that is the major reason that the overwhelming majority of the dino-media are going down the drain straight into the cesspool where they belong. THE ARE NOT HONEST BROKERS OF THE NEWS. THEY ARE CHEERLEADERS, PLAIN AND SIMPLE. THANK GOODNESS THEY DON'T WEAR THE SHORT SKIRTS.
The CIA has put out documentation that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Botox Nan damned well knew about waterboarding as well as other means to extract info from the Islamo-Fascists who would slit her throat as fast as they would Dick Cheney's. SHe even wondered if they were going far enough.
Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi is a liar, plain and simple. When will that matter to the Leftist Progressives that control our government and media? Sadly, the answer is NEVER!
As for a few other questions that beg an answer from the hate Bush crowd, the hate any Republican (even liberal progressive ones like the presidents Bush) and most assuredly, the hate anyone who calls themselves a Conservative and wants our Constitutional Republic to remain as it was intended because it promotes the greatest degree of freedom to all citizens and allows anyone who whats to put forth the effort to succeed or in some cases fail ... that want to maintain something called Capitalism (there I said it) ... and to maintain individual liberty and personal responsibility ... I wan to ask those who fall into any of these groups, something that suits your formula for society, just why in the heck do are not in the streets as our current president BOMBS INNOCENT CIVILIANS in Pakistan? Where are the leftists protesting the expansion of our imperialist war against the people in Iraq ... if you haven't noticed, the troops are still there. Where is the screaming protest from the idiot left about the SURGE being implemented in Afghanistan? Where are your favorite morons? Where is "peace Mom" Cindy Sheehan and the girls of Code Pink? Why aren't Cindy and the Pinkos (kinda sounds like a rock band, doesn't it?) standing in some Chicago ditch or gutter in front of the Tony Rezko sweetheart deal home of our president protesting the death of innocent lives? WHERE ARE YOU????
Stinkin' hypocrites.
"Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world."
--U.S. Senator Daniel Webster (1782-1852)
Friday, May 1, 2009
When the grand pooba of the Branch Algorians makes a fool of himself, it must be spread to as many places as possible in the hope that more and more people will come to understand just what a scam, Man Made Global Warming / Climate Change really is. Of course, the mind-numbed bot-bots (I had to steel that from Rosanne Barr ... bot-bots ... pretty cool, huh?) of the Branch Algorians think that their leader handed it to the congressman ... isn't perception wonderful?!
If the old Cap & Trade boondoggle passes the Progressive dominated congress, hold on to your wallets!!! Although all those like Algore andthe good folks at G.E. (owners of NBC) and that raving lunitic Robert Kennedy, Jr.'s bank accounts will just grow off the charts....ah yes, Capitalism at it's finest.
Watch the Holy Man of the Branch Algorians get just a little steamed as a perfectly legitimate and logicial question is asked by Congressman Marsha Blackburn ... me thinks the Pooba protests too much ...
If the old Cap & Trade boondoggle passes the Progressive dominated congress, hold on to your wallets!!! Although all those like Algore andthe good folks at G.E. (owners of NBC) and that raving lunitic Robert Kennedy, Jr.'s bank accounts will just grow off the charts....ah yes, Capitalism at it's finest.
Watch the Holy Man of the Branch Algorians get just a little steamed as a perfectly legitimate and logicial question is asked by Congressman Marsha Blackburn ... me thinks the Pooba protests too much ...
"It is a misfortune incident to republican government, though in a less degree than to other governments, that those who administer it, may forget their obligations to their constituents, and prove unfaithful to their important trust." --James Madison
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Arlen Spector ... a politician who defines the word started his career as a Democrat and has never been a Conservative and has usually been an embarrassment to those who hold dear, the principles that made our country great. Sadly, there are so few in congress who hold those principles dear, regardless of party. It is the belief of the writer that both parties are taking us to the same place, only one faster than the other.
Where is that place? Fascistic Socialism or as some might define it, Progressivism. Read about it. Read the speeches of those great bastions of Republicanism ... Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, etc, etc, etc.
Liberty and individual responsibility, the two major building blocks that made our country unique among the world ... the two major building blocks that made us the envy of the world ... the two major building blocks that are THE reason for our greatness.
What have all of the administrations done since the turn of the century ... no, not 2000, since the turn of the century in 1900!!!
WAKE UP AMERICA!
Now, how about that little photo-op joy-ride that Air Force One, the most secure 747 in the history of the world take-off without anyone outside of the director of the White House military office, Louis Caldera, knowing. He has fallen on his sword to defend the White House like a "good soldier" and has often been the case with Leftist administrations, the military is at fault. I have one word in response ... balderdash.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/28/air-force-one-new-york
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/air-force-one-backup-rattles-new-york-nerve/
It is interesting that in the photo in the NY Times, the trailing fighter jet is nowhere to be seen.
Here is a very similar photo clearly showing the trailing fight jet ...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,518319,00.html
Oh yea, in addition to the huge carbon foot-print this plain makes, it cost us, the tax paying citizens of the United States, $328,835.
Here's the latest on this story ...
NYC Flyover Fallout » White House press secretary Robert Gibbs yesterday said the administration is conducting an internal review of the Air Force One flyover that caused panic Monday in New York City. "It was a mistake," Obama said of the photo-op flight, which reportedly cost taxpayers $328,835. Meanwhile, documents suggest federal officials knew the Air Force mission would cause alarm, but proceeded anyway. — Washington Post, Bloomberg, WCBS-TV
Can anyone think about how this situation would be dealt with and how the electoral mainstream media had this happened had the previous administration "made a mistake" like this?
Now, to Mexican Swine Flu ...
I feel for anyone who suffers from this illness and my heart goes out to any family that has lost a member of their family due to it but ... you knew that was coming ... as Rom Emanuel said, "never let a crisis go to waste" ...
Because of this, a person who has never met an abortion she didn't like, including the horror that is partial birth abortion, Kathleen Sebelius, now the former governor of Kansas, is our newly confirmed Secretary of Health & Human services. Yep, the health of our children is #1 on her priority list. Just ask Dr. Teller ...
So, back to Spector ...goodbye but sadly, not, good riddance for he continues to pollute the senate with his presence.
Maybe come next November, the good people of Pennsylvania will actually elect a senator who has not only read the Constitution of the United States but understands it and will work to return us to it's foundation.
And for all you leftist morons our there, no, I am not advocating a return to slavery. Idiots.
We can only hope and after all, isn't HOPE what it's all about?
Oh yea ... for all you leftist, anti-Americans who might actually be able to read this, I am not advocating a return to slavery which is the standard non-sequitur that is spewed forth by those who know little.
Where is that place? Fascistic Socialism or as some might define it, Progressivism. Read about it. Read the speeches of those great bastions of Republicanism ... Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, etc, etc, etc.
Liberty and individual responsibility, the two major building blocks that made our country unique among the world ... the two major building blocks that made us the envy of the world ... the two major building blocks that are THE reason for our greatness.
What have all of the administrations done since the turn of the century ... no, not 2000, since the turn of the century in 1900!!!
WAKE UP AMERICA!
Now, how about that little photo-op joy-ride that Air Force One, the most secure 747 in the history of the world take-off without anyone outside of the director of the White House military office, Louis Caldera, knowing. He has fallen on his sword to defend the White House like a "good soldier" and has often been the case with Leftist administrations, the military is at fault. I have one word in response ... balderdash.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/28/air-force-one-new-york
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/air-force-one-backup-rattles-new-york-nerve/
It is interesting that in the photo in the NY Times, the trailing fighter jet is nowhere to be seen.
Here is a very similar photo clearly showing the trailing fight jet ...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,518319,00.html
Oh yea, in addition to the huge carbon foot-print this plain makes, it cost us, the tax paying citizens of the United States, $328,835.
Here's the latest on this story ...
NYC Flyover Fallout » White House press secretary Robert Gibbs yesterday said the administration is conducting an internal review of the Air Force One flyover that caused panic Monday in New York City. "It was a mistake," Obama said of the photo-op flight, which reportedly cost taxpayers $328,835. Meanwhile, documents suggest federal officials knew the Air Force mission would cause alarm, but proceeded anyway. — Washington Post, Bloomberg, WCBS-TV
Can anyone think about how this situation would be dealt with and how the electoral mainstream media had this happened had the previous administration "made a mistake" like this?
Now, to Mexican Swine Flu ...
I feel for anyone who suffers from this illness and my heart goes out to any family that has lost a member of their family due to it but ... you knew that was coming ... as Rom Emanuel said, "never let a crisis go to waste" ...
Because of this, a person who has never met an abortion she didn't like, including the horror that is partial birth abortion, Kathleen Sebelius, now the former governor of Kansas, is our newly confirmed Secretary of Health & Human services. Yep, the health of our children is #1 on her priority list. Just ask Dr. Teller ...
So, back to Spector ...goodbye but sadly, not, good riddance for he continues to pollute the senate with his presence.
Maybe come next November, the good people of Pennsylvania will actually elect a senator who has not only read the Constitution of the United States but understands it and will work to return us to it's foundation.
And for all you leftist morons our there, no, I am not advocating a return to slavery. Idiots.
We can only hope and after all, isn't HOPE what it's all about?
Oh yea ... for all you leftist, anti-Americans who might actually be able to read this, I am not advocating a return to slavery which is the standard non-sequitur that is spewed forth by those who know little.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
My oh my ... where to begin... the leftists who are now dominating the political debate in our country provide so much to talk about that it is oft-times mind boggling...
First we have our Speaker of the House saying that while she was told that water boarding was an enhanced interrogation technique, among others, that the CIA had in their arsenal to persuade these animals that would slit her throat as fast as any one's, she was never specifically told that they would actually use them ... WHAT ?!?! Is she serious? I know that she expects us to believe that she is and goodness knows that the sycophant mainstream media will say, "uh, well OK Nancy, what ever you say", but REALLY? http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0409/Pelosi_briefed_on_waterboarding_in_02_.html
Then we have Congressman Henry Waxman, that paragon of the leftist belief in freedom of speech deigning Lord Christopher Monckton, a former science advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the opportunity to show the fallacies of AL Gore's Man-made Global Warming scam. http://www.climatedepot.com/a/429/Report-Democrats-Refuse-to-Allow-Skeptic-to-Testify-Alongside-Gore-At-Congressional-Hearing
Of course the always interested in the truth Leftis..., uh, Democrats, "allowed" the Republicans to call former Speaker Newt Gingrich to rebuff the Branch Algorian propaganda, (have you ever noticed that it is the same speach, over and over and over again?) and while the former Speaker is a smart man and a great historian, he is hardly as well versed in the idiocy that is man-made global warming, he is not Lord Monckton who is in fact a scientist. http://www.theclimatescam.com/2009/03/13/lord-moncktons-speech/comment-page-1/
Do you wonder why Al Gore, who has been challenged to a debate by Lord Monckton many times, would accept the offer to simply rid the world of this global warming "denier"? If Gore has all the answers and the debate has been "decided" why would he not want to shut-up one of his most vocal critics ... show him to be the fool all you Branch Al Gorians believe him and all other "deniers" to be. Why? Because Lord Monckton has the scientific facts on his side and all Gore and his band of Birkenstock wearing, stinky old hippies (even if your wearing a 3-piece suit these days ... yea, I know ... peace, love, dope, music can change the world, right-on brothers & sisters !!!) trying to justify the last 40-50 years of their miss-spent, worthless lives is their "belief" and their need to dominate the lives of their fellow citizens. Unfortunately most of the follows of Al Gore are what was best described by using Karl Marx description of American and Eurpoean beilieves in the COmmunist/Socalist Revolution ... useful idiots.
The hoax that is MAn-made GLobal Warming is nothing more than a Communist-Fascist-Socialist power grab. So you think that those terms are not related? Do some research my ignorant friend. When are you people going to wake up? THE SCIENCE IS NOT DECIDED!! You say not? Give this a click ... http://www.heartland.org/full/24881/Great_Is_Truth_and_Mighty_Above_All_Things.html
You want to hear a Lib actually be honest about the proposed "Cap & Trade" legislation? Click this ... http://www.breitbart.tv/html/325633.html
It is all about controlling your lives ... take away your God given freedoms ...
It has been a very tiring last few days. I'll be back soon. There is so much BS out there that is not being countered.
WHEN DID GOVERNMENT BECOME OUR FRIEND? Read the Declaration of Independence (http://www.ushistory.org/Declaration/document/index.htm) ... read the Constitution of the United States ( http://www.consource.org/?gclid=CMe_5snOjJoCFVCE7QodLhU1FQ) for goodness sake.
WAKE UP AMERICA!
First we have our Speaker of the House saying that while she was told that water boarding was an enhanced interrogation technique, among others, that the CIA had in their arsenal to persuade these animals that would slit her throat as fast as any one's, she was never specifically told that they would actually use them ... WHAT ?!?! Is she serious? I know that she expects us to believe that she is and goodness knows that the sycophant mainstream media will say, "uh, well OK Nancy, what ever you say", but REALLY? http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0409/Pelosi_briefed_on_waterboarding_in_02_.html
Then we have Congressman Henry Waxman, that paragon of the leftist belief in freedom of speech deigning Lord Christopher Monckton, a former science advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the opportunity to show the fallacies of AL Gore's Man-made Global Warming scam. http://www.climatedepot.com/a/429/Report-Democrats-Refuse-to-Allow-Skeptic-to-Testify-Alongside-Gore-At-Congressional-Hearing
Of course the always interested in the truth Leftis..., uh, Democrats, "allowed" the Republicans to call former Speaker Newt Gingrich to rebuff the Branch Algorian propaganda, (have you ever noticed that it is the same speach, over and over and over again?) and while the former Speaker is a smart man and a great historian, he is hardly as well versed in the idiocy that is man-made global warming, he is not Lord Monckton who is in fact a scientist. http://www.theclimatescam.com/2009/03/13/lord-moncktons-speech/comment-page-1/
Do you wonder why Al Gore, who has been challenged to a debate by Lord Monckton many times, would accept the offer to simply rid the world of this global warming "denier"? If Gore has all the answers and the debate has been "decided" why would he not want to shut-up one of his most vocal critics ... show him to be the fool all you Branch Al Gorians believe him and all other "deniers" to be. Why? Because Lord Monckton has the scientific facts on his side and all Gore and his band of Birkenstock wearing, stinky old hippies (even if your wearing a 3-piece suit these days ... yea, I know ... peace, love, dope, music can change the world, right-on brothers & sisters !!!) trying to justify the last 40-50 years of their miss-spent, worthless lives is their "belief" and their need to dominate the lives of their fellow citizens. Unfortunately most of the follows of Al Gore are what was best described by using Karl Marx description of American and Eurpoean beilieves in the COmmunist/Socalist Revolution ... useful idiots.
The hoax that is MAn-made GLobal Warming is nothing more than a Communist-Fascist-Socialist power grab. So you think that those terms are not related? Do some research my ignorant friend. When are you people going to wake up? THE SCIENCE IS NOT DECIDED!! You say not? Give this a click ... http://www.heartland.org/full/24881/Great_Is_Truth_and_Mighty_Above_All_Things.html
You want to hear a Lib actually be honest about the proposed "Cap & Trade" legislation? Click this ... http://www.breitbart.tv/html/325633.html
It is all about controlling your lives ... take away your God given freedoms ...
It has been a very tiring last few days. I'll be back soon. There is so much BS out there that is not being countered.
WHEN DID GOVERNMENT BECOME OUR FRIEND? Read the Declaration of Independence (http://www.ushistory.org/Declaration/document/index.htm) ... read the Constitution of the United States ( http://www.consource.org/?gclid=CMe_5snOjJoCFVCE7QodLhU1FQ) for goodness sake.
WAKE UP AMERICA!
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
How Far We Have Fallen ...
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited bu it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." - Amendment X to the Constitution of the United States of America
My blog will contain many of my random thoughts, real quotes, links to articles and news stories or any other incident that effects the liberty of the citizens of the United States.
Our country has strayed, under both Republican and Democrat leadership, so far from it's original intent and from where we were just a few short decades ago.
Under the leadership of the baby boomer generation ... the peace, love & groovy folks who came of age in the late 50's through the early 70's, our country has become one boiling distasteful stew. We watch our every word out of a fear of offending, we are forced to accept that which is socially absurd and often mentally and physically abhorrent to any standard of civilized behavior all in the name of political correctness and tolerance.
I, and many of those Americans I know have had enough.
Here is where all that is absurd and counter to the continued success of the American Experience, at least in to my twisted mind, will be exposed, cussed and discussed.
Rant on!
My blog will contain many of my random thoughts, real quotes, links to articles and news stories or any other incident that effects the liberty of the citizens of the United States.
Our country has strayed, under both Republican and Democrat leadership, so far from it's original intent and from where we were just a few short decades ago.
Under the leadership of the baby boomer generation ... the peace, love & groovy folks who came of age in the late 50's through the early 70's, our country has become one boiling distasteful stew. We watch our every word out of a fear of offending, we are forced to accept that which is socially absurd and often mentally and physically abhorrent to any standard of civilized behavior all in the name of political correctness and tolerance.
I, and many of those Americans I know have had enough.
Here is where all that is absurd and counter to the continued success of the American Experience, at least in to my twisted mind, will be exposed, cussed and discussed.
Rant on!
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