Question:

  
I just spoke to a friend of mine & they - the miserable gangster-banks - are taking his house. He's tried every single one of the CenGov's "programs" & been denied. He has a job - he's always had a job. Good credit. Always paid his bills. The bank refused to work w/ him on either a payment reduction or re-do of his mortage to one of the gov-sponsored "lower" rate plans.

Now here is my question: do any of you "out there" know of anyone, anywhere that has been helped x these gov't programs that we hear so much about from those bank-owned crooks in DC or the bank-owned media?...even hear of anyone? ...anywhere? I haven't...& I've been trying to find someone who has.


All that money stolen from you in October of '08 & all that money stolen from you since has gone directly into the banks pockets. Am I wrong? Just show me where I'm wrong. Please.


How can we continue to allow this to happen? No one, anywhere, speaks up. Me? I continue to bark at the moon.
  

Guest Opinion...

"I would not have involved our military in Libya. For one thing, I see no reason why the Arab League, which gave the no-fly zone notion a big thumbs-up, doesn't take on that job. They have pilots and jets. Why is it that America and the European nations always have to do their dirty work? All it ever gets us is the ongoing hatred and resentment of Arabs and Muslims. Besides, unlike most people, I have not been sitting on the sidelines rooting for the rebellion forces in the Middle East. I do not confuse enemies of my enemies with friends. I have no reason to think that when the smoke clears, we are going to see a lot of George Washingtons and Thomas Jeffersons running any of those moral swamplands. It is far likelier that Al Qaeda, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood and Hezbollah, will fill any and all power vacuums in that part of the world, with the mullahs in Tehran pulling their collective strings. ... I am not suggesting that the U.S. military should never venture out beyond our borders, but we should have a better reason for doing so than because CNN is showing us one bunch of anti-American creeps killing another bunch of anti-American creeps. In short, we should not be letting the 6 o'clock news determine our foreign policy." 
                                                                          --columnist Burt Prelutsky

What have we learned in 2.066 years?

 
"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled,
         public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be
         tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should
         be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to
         work, instead of living on public assistance."
        
                                                      Cicero    - 55 BC               So, evidently nothing.... 

Thru the looking glass darkly...

 
- down the rabbit hole -
 
Oh yeah, everything's fine.
The economy's picking up.
Everything's gonna' be all right.
"...don't worry, be happy."
 

Now here's a real shocker - BATFE unmasked...

  
...you miserable SS Storm Troopers! 
"Hoist on your own petard"! - Billy Shakespeare
  
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2011/02/vindication-cbs-runs-definitive.html
 
The Emperor has no clothes...
 

Wish I'd said that...

 
THIS SENIOR CITIZEN NAILED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
> 
> 
> Alan Simpson, Senator from Wyoming, Co-Chair of Obama's deficit
> commission, calls senior citizens the Greediest Generation as he
> compared "Social Security" to a Milk Cow with 310 million teats.
> August, 2010.
> 
> Here's a response in a letter from a unknown fellow in Montana... I
> think he is a little ticked off ! He also tells it like it is !

> 
> "Hey Alan, let's get a few things straight...
> 
> 1. As a career politician, you have been on the public dole for FIFTY
> YEARS.
>  
> 2. I have been paying Social Security taxes for 48 YEARS (since I was 15
> years old. I am now 63).
>  
> 3. My Social Security payments, and those of millions of other
> Americans, were safely tucked away in an interest bearing account for
> decades until you political pukes decided to raid the account and give
> OUR money to a bunch of zero ambition losers in return for votes, thus
> bankrupting the system and turning Social Security into a Ponzi scheme
> that would have made Bernie Madoff proud.
> 
> 4. Recently, just like Lucy & Charlie Brown, you and your ilk pulled the
> proverbial football away from millions of American seniors nearing
> retirement and moved the goalposts for full retirement from age 65 to
> age 67.  NOW, you and your shill commission is proposing to move the
> goalposts YET AGAIN.
> 
> 5. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying into Medicare
> from Day One, and now you morons propose to change the rules of the
> game. Why? Because you idiots mismanaged other parts of the economy to
> such an  extent that you need to steal money from Medicare to pay the
> bills.
>  
> 6. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying income taxes our
> entire lives, and now you propose to increase our taxes yet again. Why?
> Because you incompetent bastards spent our money so profligately that
> you just kept on spending even after you ran out of money. Now, you come
> to the American taxpayers and say you need more to pay off YOUR debt.
>

> To add insult to injury, you label us "greedy" for calling "bullshit" on
> your incompetence. Well, Captain Bullshit, I have a few questions for
> YOU.
> 
> 1. How much money have you earned from the American taxpayers during
> your pathetic 50-year political career?
> 
> 2. At what age did you retire from your pathetic political career, and
> how much are you receiving in annual retirement benefits from the
> American taxpayers?
> 
> 3. How much do you pay for YOUR government provided health insurance?
> 
> 4.  What cuts in YOUR retirement and healthcare benefits are you
> proposing in your disgusting deficit reduction proposal, or, as usual,
> have  you exempted yourself and your political cronies?
> 
> It is you, Captain Bullshit, and your political co-conspirators who are
> "greedy". It is you and they who have bankrupted America and stolen the
> American dream from millions of loyal, patriotic taxpayers.  And for
> what?  Votes.  That's right, sir.  You and yours have bankrupted America
> for the sole purpose of advancing your pathetic political careers.  You
> know it, we know it, and you know that we know it.
> 
> And you can take that to the bank, you miserable son of a bitch."
  

SB 1070

 
Watch this vid:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsH8xvjTAlo
 

Watching the unfolding events in Egypt...

 
...it dawned on me they - the Egyptians - probably aren't up to governing themselves. Made me think of my own position on personal freedoms. Maybe we - the "mob" - aren't up to governing ourselves. Wa'da'ya'think of that?
 

BATFE

  
This little excerpt from JPFO says so much. 
So very much.
 
" . . .

But do you know what really scares me now? I’m praying that Wikileaks doesn’t have anything on our sacrosanct BATFE. I’m hoping beyond hope that Wikileaks' Julian Assange realizes how important the BATFE is to our personal liberty here in America and doesn’t rock the boat. Some things are best just kept secret. Secrecy is really important to freedom because the truth threatens freedom. So lies actually protect your freedom. Got it?

..."

                                                                                          - Kirby Ferris

Some satire from KF (a name if you are not familiar - your loss). 
  

 

"We have staked the whole of all our political 
Institutions upon the capacity of mankind for 
Self-government, upon the capacity of each and 
all of us to govern ourselves, to control 
ourselves, to sustain ourselves..."

                            - James Madison 

...& look just exactly where we are. Maybe Obama & Co. are right - we can't govern ourselves. We can't sustain ourselves. We must be controlled. Cattle are as cattle does. 

  

I have refrained...

...from commenting on Tuesday's SOTU address x our illustrious leader, as I knew someone would do it for me better than I could...more directly to the point:

"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt." 

                                                                                        -Thomas Jefferson

Deficit Deceit

The Congressional Budget Office released new budget estimates Wednesday predicting that the federal deficit will reach a record of nearly $1.5 trillion this year, or almost 25 percent of GDP. The national debt is fast approaching its current $14.3 trillion ceiling. This grim news came less than 12 hours after Barack Obama tried to sound a note of fiscal responsibility in his State of the Union address -- a speech during which the federal debt increased by another $100 million.
                                                    - WND
. . . 

"Even supporters of the president and the Alinskyite radicalism that dominates his party will find it hard to acclaim [Barack Obama's] decision to spend 60 minutes sermonizing about government being more important than suffering Americans give it credit for during a hard recession. Are you impressed with the Internet? With your iPad? With that gadget on your car's dashboard that gets you back on the Interstate after you get lost in a strange city? Thank Washington, because according to the president Washington 'planted the seeds for the Internet. That's what helped make possible things like computer chips and GPS. Just think of all the good jobs -- from manufacturing to retail -- that have come from these breakthroughs.' If you don't remember Presidents Carter or Reagan or Clinton bragging about the initiatives of their administrations that would one day bear the fruit of global social networks like Facebook, handheld communication devices like BlackBerrys, and the mobility revolution of Wi-Fi, it's because they didn't. Government didn't bring us any of those things; the private sector did. ... Yet all we heard for much of nearly 7,000 words were exhortations to appreciate Washington's ever-growing role in the U.S. economy."
                                                                                         -Investor's Business Daily
   
Last & certainly least is my $.02 worth: lies, spin & deceit - the only thing your gov't knows...Democrats & Republicans.
  

Political Correctness 101

Subject: There is an annual contest at Texas A&M University calling for 
the most appropriate definition of a contemporary term: This year's term was:
"Political Correctness."

The winner wrote:

"Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical
minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, 
which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a piece of 
shit by the clean end."

Amen!!!

01.17.11

  
Been out of touch. I have lots to say - don't we all? - but it's been so freakin' cold here in my office (no heat, as it's not needed in Florida. Right-o!) that I can't sit & type...but fear not, I shall return at the earliest possible moment!!!
 

Continuing Education #141:

 
 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/2011_a_brave_new_dystopia_20101227/
  

"In Bernanke We Trust?"...

 
http://www.thestreet.com/story/10939458/1/kass-in-bernanke-we-trust.html?cm_ven=RSSFeed
 

& the noose tightens...

 
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/dec/2/wave-goodbye-to-internet-freedom/
 

Now here's a real shocker...

 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/02/AR2010120206052.html

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/12/realtime/
 
...& no one says a word. Is it any wonder "They" continue to shove it up our butts?
 

you morons...

...thought that everything was free?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/us/politics/05states.html?hpw

ya' think...!!!

  
Israeli Security Expert: U.S. Must Profile Passengers
 
As controversy swirls over the use of full-body scanners at U.S. airports, the former security director for Israel’s national airline says airline security in America is an “illusion” and the U.S. should profile passengers to ensure safety.Isaac Yeffet was security chief for El Al Israel Airlines, which requires every passenger to be interviewed by a well-trained agent before check-in. Agents then perform electronic body scans or searches only on those who arouse suspicions during the interview.

El Al is considered the most secure airline in the world, and has experienced only one hijacking in its history.

 Yeffet told CNSNews that American airlines should use “exactly the same system” as El Al.“Yes, profiling,” he said. “Every passenger has to be interviewed by security. We have to be polite. We know how to ask questions.” The U.S. Transportation Safety Administration “wants to tell me we now have security in this country — this is an illusion,” Yeffet said. "Technology in general can never replace a qualified and well-trained human being.”

The El Al approach is in sharp contrast to procedures in America, which call for body scanning every passenger, and patting them down if they opt out of the scan or if something suspicious shows up on the images.

Yeffet said it is unnecessary to search “innocent people,” and security should instead focus on determining if a passenger is suspicious by intensively interviewing them. “We at El Al have used the hand/body search for so many years, but we did it only to suspicious passengers that were interviewed by us.”

Opponents of adopting El Al’s security approach in the United States say it would violate passengers’ civil rights by allowing some to be more intensely scrutinized than others, CNSNews reported.But Yeffet says the pre-flight interviews have enabled El Al to identify “the right people that are trying to blow up an aircraft or commit suicide.”        -WND
 

 
I believe we have an historic opportunity to end this needless harassment at airports because of the groundswell of public opinion that is with us.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told Americans this week the show would go on. She told us to endure the "inconvenience" and urged full compliance.

In other words, she doesn't get it. She has no clue as to the deep-seated resentment and anger Americans are feeling with regard to this program (w/ regard to our arrogant, overbearing government).

 Let's write her a postcard & inform her she is NOT the boss, we are.
 

Debt Commission?

 
What the fuck - over? 
  
You clowns act like this is all a big surprise!
"We the People..." told you all along "...do not spend like a bunch of drunken sailors...". There is a phrase for that kind of spending, which, even I, won't write here - but you know what it is.


...& chew on this asshole (“It’s time to lay it out on the table and let the American people start to chew on it,” said Alan K. Simpson). "We the People..." didn't want the drunken spending spree in the first fucking place & now - you arrogant fuck - have the temerity to say something like that? Somebody get a god-damn rope...!

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/11/us/politics/11fiscal.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=a1
  

she's the only one...

 
...even talking about it! 
The stupid "mob" doesn't know how the game's even played!!
Is it any wonder "They" keep shoving it up our collectively stupid ass?!!!
 
http://www.moneynews.com/StreetTalk/Sarah-Palin-Bernanke-fed/2010/11/08/id/376380?s=al&promo_code=B12F-1
 

  
"James Madison, the father of our Constitution, who 
explained in the Federalist Paper 45: 'The powers 
delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal
government are few and defined. Those which are to 
remain in the State governments are numerous and 
indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on 
external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and 
foreign commerce. ... The powers reserved to the 
several States will extend to all the objects which in 
the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives and
liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal
order, improvement and prosperity of the State.'" 
                                                                     --economist Walter E. Williams
  

tomorrow is November 2...so?

  
                      Vote!!!
  

2 DAYS & COUNTING...

  
"Either this is just the end of a big election that rolls back a few important mistakes, but basically changes little besides who gets the good parking spaces and whose staffers get to cash in for a few years. Or this is the beginning a great reformation that will take America back for liberty. It's up to the people. We are so close. In 50 years in politics, I have never seen as large a percentage of the public self-motivated for reformation. For those of us who believe we are a providential country, now is the chance for the public to demonstrate it.                                     --columnist Tony Blankley

PC (incorrect) Land:

 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ongalrKdJWg
 

Whoa!

  
A bit "over the top" for me, but so right on the money - or lack thereof.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVAhr4hZDJE
 

look...

  

...if you tune-in here often enough, you know I would NEVER tell you how to vote. The only salient factor is vote. For whom is the least important. That said, do your homework & be very careful of where your vote goes. The Socialists MUST go, but don't just substitute one master for another; one clown for another. The freakin' Republicans have their own agenda - not the least of which is to control your personal life.


Think long & hard about whom you want to "lead" this nation - "lead" you!. Do you want more of the same? ...& the "same" is the crooks of various stripe that have been in office for the past 100+ years. 


My personal position is to throw all the crooks out. Let's start fresh. Oh, I can hear you saying "...but they are people we don't know, etc." & that is correct. Do not get into the mind-set of "...better the devil we know, than..." for that is exactly the thinking that has keep these dolts in power for all this time. You would be correct to say "we don't know" what these new people are capable of. You are right. See? What we do know is what the New Royals are capable of & that is what we don't want. THAT is what must end. You are right again.

another eMail...

  
". . . that said, I was finishing my run this morning & bumped into some friends & we got to talking politics - NOT my idea, mind you - & when you look anywhere & everywhere none of our policies make any god-damned sense what-so-ever. None. Zero. Nunca. Nada. None. So what is it that makes our policy makers so blind? Answer: money. That is it. The whole of it. Trying to make sense of the senseless is an exercise in futility. Until we stop - & I do mean stop x whatever means necessary - this hijacking of our country, our money, our rights, our everything so the few can get disgustingly rich(er) it will continue. To try to speak rationally on the subject is to miss the point. Anyone who looks for a moment will see it - the subject - as irrational. Why? It is because they've taken their collective eye off the prize. It is the money. And if that ugly boogie-man is never dragged from under the bed & into the light, the business of government shall continue as usual."

"Forbes" anyone...

 
http://www.forbes.com/global/2010/0927/issues-socialism-capitalism-obama-business-problem.html?partner=email
 

mother-fucking "media"...

...reports: "...the Commerce Department said that housing starts surged up by 10.5 percent to an annual rate of 598,000 in August from the revised July estimate of 541,000." But what they don't tell you it is for MULTI-FAMILY dwellings (read: "the barrio"; "the projects"; "the getto"!!!). 


Once, just fucking ONCE, I wish the media would simply report - NOT SPIN - the facts...then again I write Santa every year.
 

I've my own thoughts...

  
...on this particular issue - right K-man? - but this is pretty good!

http://www.youtube.com/user/PatriotPost?feature=mhum#p/c/088CCD66E83BEFCD/43/WgOHOHKBEqE
 

conversation w/ a friend on the beach...

  

"...in Publix (local grocery chain) the old folks line up in the morning for free coffee...they wait in line for the little free food samples...every day...". Did you understand that? Do you truly understand the implications of that little snippet of conversation?


Our people - our very own people - are going hungry...especially the elderly. That fool at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue gives away billions - his inane predecessor was equally guilty - to anyone & everyone, but our own people are in such dire straights. Social Security - upon which many, many elderly solely rely - is NOT getting a simple "cost of living" adjustment for the next two years! Do you understand that? The SS fund has been raped x the arrogant clowns - who, x the way, do not pay into it. They have their own little "fund" - in the building next door. Aaaggghhh!!! ...& don't be griping about the old-farts either. They did NOT have a say in weather they did or did not have to pay into it. It - Social Security - is NOT an entitlement. Get that. Don't let those crooks in Congress tell you differently. That money was taken from each & every one of us every week of our lives. That is NOT government largess - an oxymoron in any event. No. That is our own money, but to hear the bloated monster we call gov't "it is a gift." That - SS -was suppose to be "untouchable", but those arrogant, venial thives in DC have been stealing from it for decades & now they tell us, "we" have to do something or it's going to be broke x 2032 or pick-a-date x whomever you read. I have a suggestion about what to do: "...get a rope...".

Our country is so off track, so fucking lost, it is beyond comprehension...especially for us that have been around long enough to remember a better - much - time.

I've said time & time again that if MLK were the only one trying to change the tide against blacks, they'd still be in the back of the bus. What is needed now is a political Malcolm X; a political H. Rap Brown; a political SLA - tho we all know that extremism to the point of murder is unacceptable. What is needed is some radicalism just this side of it. Someone has got to step up to the plate or this monstrosity we call a government will - "...will..."!? Now that in an understatement of unrivaled proportions! - continue to run roughshod over us all until there is nothing left but roadkill.


I'm sick of it all. Are you? Had enough? VOTE (Nov. 2) - not for an incumbent; not for a Democrat; not for a Republican, but one who has your values - your country's lost values - at heart. Read. Learn. Think for yourself. Do your homework. You MUST, you simply must or we're all lost...it'll be science fiction at its worst...& we're almost there folks. We're almost there.
 

now...

 
...I don't want to hear another word about the efficacy of Obama's new socialist regime.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100916/ap_on_bi_ge/us_census_poverty
 

today...

  
...I had a great beach run; sat & watched the sunrise. I was feeling mellow x the time I returned to my truck. Then for some inexplicable reason I thought of Delaware & New York's voting results from Tuesday, which inevitably led me to Nancy Pelosi. In a moment - less than actually - I went from "wonderful morning" to that miserable, arrogant, ignorant bitch. 

Man, I gotta' let this stuff go...
 

An eMail from a (female) friend:

"...

fuck it i still live in america; i can say what i want. Nancy pelosi is a danger to our way of life and our constitution. i would never shoot her - i would never shoot anyone but that doesn't mean i don't wish she were gone. what a nightmare she is. I resent the fact that she breathes." (sic)
  

Whoa...

  
...I almost clicked out of this, but I'm glad I didn't!
Stick it out to the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPC-isxrhTs&feature=feedu
 
 

eMail from a friend...

  

Read & remember that last line.

"...most people prefer to believe that their leaders are just and fair, even in the face of evidence to the contrary, because once a citizen acknowledges that the government under which he lives is lying and corrupt, the citizen has to choose what he or she will do about it. To take action in the face of corrupt government entails risks of harm to life and loved ones. To choose to do nothing is to surrender one’s self-image of standing for principles. Most people do not have the courage to face that choice. Hence, most propaganda is not designed to fool the critical thinker, but only to give moral cowards an excuse not to think at all."

  

Sunday 09.05

NYT headline:
"Democrats plan political triage to retain the House." 

An innocuous enough headline until you actually take the time to think it through. Those morons don't even give a passing thought to what is mandated x the voters - the people they actually work for (read: their bosses); the people whose will they are SUPPOSE to represent in their "job description." It's about staying on the gov't tit. They don't give a hoot about what may be right for the country - all they are about is keeping their jobs...& we don't even bat an eye when this kind of horseshit is jammed into our face. We are so use to being dismissed x the "Royals" that not even a murmur is to be heard...as I continue to bark at the moon.

no, no - it's all good...

  
...see? The bail-out is working.
"...don't worry, be happy."

http://money.cnn.com/2010/08/31/news/companies/fdic_problem_bank_list/
  

Get this fools...

  
...there is NO free lunch!
  
When are you clowns going to finally realize what is going on?
You're getting it up the butt & you simply let "them" do it to you!
What is the matter here? ...are you going to wait until it's too late?
No wait - it's already too late!!! ...far too late.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-25/morgan-stanley-says-government-bond-default-is-question-of-how-not-if-.html


 - & get this: I received from SocSec what my return will be. I didn't take SS when I was 62, I wanted to wait until I was 66. Well my yearly report told me simply that my return will be about $80.00 less than if I had been 66 the previous year. Surprised? Get ready folks. Someone - you & me - are going to have to cover our Exalted President's propensity to write bad checks. OMG! Shocking!

Why are terrorists suicidal?

Wondering why Muslim terrorists are so quick to commit suicide? No Christmas, no television, no cheerleaders, no car races, no football, no soccer, no pork BBQ, no hot dogs, no burgers, no chocolate chip cookies, no lobster, no nachos, no beer nuts, no alcohol, ad infinitum!


Rags for clothes and towels for hats. Constant wailing from the guy next-door because he's sick and there are no doctors. Constant wailing from the guy in the tower. On your knees facing east most of the day. More than one wife. You can't shave. Your wives can't shave. You can't shower to wash off the smell of donkey cooked over burning camel shit. Your bride is picked by someone else. She smells just like your donkey & is far uglier. Then they tell you that when you die it all gets better!


I mean, really, is there a mystery here?
                                  --WND

  

Today is local election day...

...it is the time before "time" to line up your candidates for the Nov. 2 election.

VOTE!

 

Steve Wynn...

  
 http://www.infowars.com/steve-wynn-takes-on-washington/#
  

Are we next?

W/ all this fuss over the revelations x WikiLeaks could we be next?
 
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/08/01/technology/AP-ML-Emirates-BlackBerry.html?_r=1&ref=global-home
 

Nawww...

  

On December 31 of this year...

...this is what you are going to be forced to endure:

"The tax hikes will hit every income level. The top bracket would rise from 35 percent to 39.6 percent; the 33 bracket will rise to 35; 28 will rise to 31; 25 will rise to 28; and the lowest bracket, 10 percent, will rise to 15 percent -- a 50 percent hike. Capital gains taxes will rise from 15 percent to 20 percent, and the tax on dividends will skyrocket to 39.6 percent, which is a far cry from the current 15 percent rate. The marriage penalty will return, and the child tax credit will be cut in half from $1,000 to $500."

Try not to forget this when the time comes around. 
Please.

You know...

...you're doing something right when your opponents have to stoop to these kinds of tactics.

here ya' go...

...from the WSJ:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703720504575377381727739058.html
 
...& in the realm of "no-shit-sherlock?", I give you - 
  
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/22/business/22fed.html?ref=global-home
 

bet you didn't know...

Opinion in Brief

Dr. Donald Berwick, the new Medicare czar

"Barack Obama's incredible 'recess appointment' of Dr. Donald Berwick to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is probably the most significant domestic-policy personnel decision in a generation. It is more important to the direction of the country than Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court. The court's decisions are subject to the tempering influence of nine competing minds. Dr. Berwick would direct an agency that has a budget bigger than the Pentagon. Decisions by the CMS shape American medicine. Dr. Berwick's ideas on the design and purpose of the U.S. system of medicine aren't merely about 'change.' They would be revolutionary. One may agree with these views or not, but for the president to tell the American people they have to simply accept this through anything so flaccid as a recess appointment is beyond outrageous. It isn't acceptable. ... Let's look, then, at what President Obama won't let the American electorate hear Dr. Berwick say in front of a committee of Congress. These excerpts are from past speeches and articles by Dr. Berwick: 'I cannot believe that the individual health care consumer can enforce through choice the proper configurations of a system as massive and complex as health care. That is for leaders to do (emphasis mine; arrogance his). ... Please don't put your faith in market forces. It's a popular idea: that Adam Smith's invisible hand would do a better job of designing care than leaders with plans can. ...' That the Obama White House would try to push this past public scrutiny with a recess appointment says more about Barack Obama than it does Dr. Berwick. Vilifying Dr. Berwick alone for his views is in a way beside the point. Within Mr. Obama's circle they all think like this. Defeat Dr. Berwick, and they will send up 50 more who would pursue the same goals. If the American people want the world Dr. Berwick wishes to give them, that's their choice. But they must be given that choice with full, televised confirmation hearings. Barack Obama, Donald Berwick and the rest may fancy themselves philosopher kings who know what we need without the need to inform or persuade us first. That's not how it works here."
--columnist Daniel Henninger

This today from the "Old Gray Whore" (aka: NYT)

Do you morons out there actually KNOW what this means?
If you don't, take a moment & figure this out...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/16/business/16assess.html?_r=1&nl=us&adxnnl=1&emc=politicsemailema1&adxnnlx=1279310439-0dPGx/QBr4o+S9yULg5a4Q

. . .
(paragraph 4): "Mr. Obama has done what he promised when he ran for office in 2008: he has used government as an instrument to try to narrow the gaps between the haves and the have-nots. He has injected $787 billion in (your) tax dollars into the economy, provided health coverage to 32 million uninsured and now, reordered the relationship among Washington, Wall Street, investors and consumers."
. . . 

Whatever this may mean:

Yesterday - Sunday - I "raced" w/ a kid - engineer - that was on his way back to the ships drilling the parallel wells to relieve the pressure on BP's "Deepwater Horizon" fiasco. He assured me that it WILL work...& he's not an apologist for BP - if anything he thought they should be sued out of business. That being said, I guess we'll have to wait until the end of August to see.

Ike's...

...farewell address - & remember who this man was. He was the 5-Star General - the Supreme Allied Commander - who defeated Hitler. ...& all those crooks in Washington are EXACTLY those - or owned x those - he warned against. Today's generation has been anesthetized to it all. My only hope is - as a wise man once told me "...worse is better...".

I think that at least some of us are beginning to stir.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y06NSBBRtY
 
 

"The Answer"

   

click HERE to get all the answers to all your ills...

 

"They"...

 

...are so removed from the common-man that "they" don't realize that "We the People..." are reaching the end of our endurance.


Happy 4th of July!!!

 

Happy Independence Day!

 
"...land of the free,

& home of the brave."

Again, please excuse my stupidity.

Will someone please explain this to me? 
Typical double-speak from the "Old Grey Whore".

"The United States added just 83,000 private-sector jobs in June, a dishearteningly low number that could add to the growing number of economists who warn that the economic recovery has slowed to the point that it cannot generate enough job growth.

Over all, the nation lost 125,000 jobs, according to the monthly snapshot of the job market released by the Labor Department on Friday. ... "

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/03/business/economy/03jobs.html?nl=&emc=aua1

4th of July Eve

I've been silent on the McDonald decision. I figured you should mull that one over for yourself a bit before I weigh in. Think for yourself...for a change. Don't "knee-jerk" your reaction, either pro or con. Think. Get in the habit. "...try it, you'll like it."

Hubris Maximus!

...by the Constitution & the will of the people?
Arrogance personified.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100701/ap_on_re_us/us_chicago_gun_ban

Obama (Deomcratic) Strategy (aka: Cloward/Piven c. 1966)

This cannot sit well w/ any of you, no matter how "left" you are.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/27/business/global/27summit.html?nl=todaysheadlines&adxnnl=1&emc=a1&adxnnlx=1277640061-EFx+EEHuGzfmynvtJGt+dg 

The "why" of it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward%E2%80%93Piven_strategy

In a nutshell:

"... The ultimate objective of this strategy—to wipe out poverty by establishing a guaranteed annual income—will be questioned by some. Because the ideal of individual social and economic mobility has deep roots, even activists seem reluctant to call for national programs to eliminate poverty by the outright redistribution of income."

Editorial Whine...

"...land of the free & home of the brave."


Land of the free? Huh? America has become the land of the rules - & the crooks in DC - along w/ your local elite - rule. There are rules in this country for every facet or your life. From the birth-canal to the hole in the ground...from your bed to your bed. Everything is regulated. Everything. No? Try driving w/o a seat-belt...try to change your HMO...try to talk to a human (in the US) for any "Help Line"...try to take all your money out of your bank (& why is it WalMart can clear your check in 3-5  seconds & it takes your bank 3-5 days? We all know the answer to that, but what does that tell you?) Everything is controlled - & here's a little something that we seem to overlook - nothing works. The "Controllers" have no idea what they are doing - nor do they care. They just want to have control. The "Fixers" screw up everything they touch in their headlong rush to "fix" everything & nothing gets "fixed".


All that being said, have you ever thought of (a) the mentality of people who want to be in control? (b) why do we allow someone - anyone - else tell us what we can & cannot do? "...home of the brave."?

Son of a gun...

 
http://www.behindthewizardscurtain.com/

http://www.bis.org/

 

lightning strike...

...on Saturday blew out my battery-backup, all my phones & all my modems - but I'm back! Lucky you!!!

...ya' think?

 
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/world/asia/06summit.html?ref=global-home

What is it going to take to make everyone realize that the government - any government - can't "fix" anything? "No" you say? "This guy babbling on his site is a dinosaur." Well maybe, but I can still see w/ my own eyes & don't need anyone to translate for me. Can't you see that nothing works any longer? ...& the more the "fixers" work on the "fix" the worse things become? Have you all been so bred to the yoke that you simply refuse to look up? Are you all so scared of making your own decisions? Jeeze...

The guys who founded this country saw the future & did everything in their power to warn us & give us the tools to NOT allow this to happen. What is wrong here? What-is-wrong-here? We are suppose to be a Republic - governed x laws (i.e. The Constitution) - but we continually allow ourselves to be raped & oppressed x the crooks. What is wrong here, people? ...sheeple?

You gotta' love...

...it (& about time someone actually stood up to the "Politically Correct" BS that has hi-jacked common sense)!

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/04/us/politics/04obama.html?hpw

The stupidity...

...continues beyond comprehension.

Look, war sucks - I know, I've been there - but if you're gonna' do it...do it. As an old girlfriend use to say, "...if you pull down your pants, you had better have a hard-on!" ...lovely girl, actually.

http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/31/shoot-at-american-patrol-get-shot-ditch-rifle-ask-patrol-for-bandage-repeat/

And may I just say . . .

. . . fuck'em!

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/28/world/asia/28drones.html?ref=global-home
 

The "Spill" is bigger...

...than the entire Bay Area. Think of that, my x-left-coast constituents!

What exactly...

...is the thinking here?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/world/22sanctions.html?ref=global-home

Wanna' good cry...

 
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=hkGzqpGx1KU

Speaking of commodities markets...

...why is oil below $70 & we're paying close to $3.00 / gal.?
I for one, am tired of being bent-over.

If the US tried to get into the EEU...

...we'd be turned down! The Maastricht Treaty states that the National Debt must be NO MORE than 60% of that country's GDP. So les'see now, we're in debt to the tune of somewhere between $13 & 18T USD - depending on your source it can be as high as $21T!!!. So let's take the minimum $13T as our National Debt. The GDP for 2009 was $11.8T so let's round-up to $12T. 

With me so far?

Let's crunch the numbers: we are $1T in the red w/ THE most conservative of numbers...so we're about 8% shy of even parity. Our ratio (debt to output) is 1.08 GDP or 108% of our total domestic output. Greece was only 104% & see what happened to them?...& all you O'bama-ites continue to follow the pied-piper. 

The cliff looms...but please don't look up. 
It'll be easier this way...

Hey Barack...

...listen up:

"What we're seeing in Greece is the death spiral of the welfare state. This isn't Greece's problem alone, and that's why its crisis has rattled global stock markets and threatens economic recovery. Virtually every advanced nation, including the United States, faces the same prospect. Aging populations have been promised huge health and retirement benefits, which countries haven't fully covered with taxes. The reckoning has arrived in Greece, but it awaits most wealthy societies." --columnist Robert J. Samuelson

A modest proposal...

Is it time to ban all cleavers? Just think if a teacher or one of those children had his own cleaver - what mayhem might have been avoided! (Apologies to Jonathan Swift)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/13/world/asia/13china.html?ref=global-home

These clever...

...political cartoons are making my job too easy!

I'm NOT...

...a flag-waver in the conventional sense, nor am I particularly pro-war (especially since the bureaucrats initiate it, then not allow our people to do what is necessary as they - the Fat-cats - get rich & our soldiers get dead), but watch this until the end.


http://www.nragive.com/ringoffreedom/index.html

Un-ambiguous "Idiot Speak"...

...from today's NYT:

"Payrolls surged with an unexpectedly strong 290,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department reported on Friday, while the unemployment rate rose to 9.9 percent. “This is unambiguously a strong report for growth implications,” James O’Sullivan, chief economist at MF Global, said. “It adds to the evidence that the pickup in growth is leading to a clear-cut pickup in employment. It is very clear there has been a bounce here, and momentum has been up.”

...& the "...hits keep on comin' ..."
What will tomorrow's spin (a.k.a. lie) be?

The "Grand Illusion"...

...
"Until now we've borrowed from Communist China and Japan to cover the big-spending bar tab of our power-drunk politicians. But now both China and Japan have growing economic problems of their own - and growing doubts about our ability to repay them with uninflated dollars.

Our ruling party and its media allies claim the economy and jobs are growing. They've poured nearly $1.5 trillion dollars of stimulus into the economy and are set to spend another Trillion before the November elections to create the grand illusion of a recovery.

So far this sky-high spending has created scarcely 2-3% growth and jobs largely in government, including tens of thousands of temporary jobs taking the Census.

The ruling party will pretend that printing trillions of dollars to cover our debt won't destroy the value of the dollar through inflation. A presidential commission days after the election will announce ideas for massive new taxes to suck more dollars out of your pockets."                -World Net Daily

Stars & Bars

Look, I am well aware that a segment of the population see this as an affront - & I am no fan of what this symbolizes to some - but when is this "Political Correctness" bullshit going to become tempered w/ some sanity?

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=149729

being...

...an x-jarhead we did it better, of course, but not bad.
Not bad.

Squids on parade...

35 years ago today...

God-damned DC Fat-Cats...I suppose things really never change.
If memory serves: 58,254 dead.
For what?

Can you imagine...

...Europe is having privacy concerns about the U.S! If that doesn't tell you all you really need to know, you must be brain-dead . . . or like almost half the nation: in denial.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/world/europe/28iht-privacy.html?ref=global-home

This...

...is even too jaded for me!

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/26/us/26expat.html?ref=global-home

NO!

 
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/25/business/25goldman.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=a1

just...

...got off the phone w/ a supposed intellegent friend of mine & he was waxing on about "...see? The gov't is on the job! They're taking the G-S thing very seriously..."
"Oh?" sez?
"Yes definitely" sez he.
"Well,' sez I, 'why is it then, this "grand suit" is civil & not criminal"?
"...aaah..." sez he.

Hey "out there": "They" are merely throwing the rabble a crumb. What don't you get? Goldman-Sachs thru Sec. of the Treasury Hank Paulson (G-S butt-boy) eliminated all their competitors & stole, as in: "...no transparency...no judicial review..." probably $350B+. I say "probably" because we'll never know...of YOUR money! What must I say to you that will make you finally understand the Gov't doesn't have a dime? It is YOUR money...YOUR MONEY!!! ...& what if a judgment comes in against them? Whose money will they use to pay it off? So what if they get fined $100M or $100B? Do the math fools! The arrogance. The hubris. The duplicity. The outright theft...& you continue to mill about wondering what's going on. Ever go to a slaughter-house?

Do any...

 
...of you fools out there have the remotest guess of what tomorrow is?
No? I thought not.

more Goldman-Sachs crap...

Do you think anything will come of this?
"...well do ya' punk?"

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/17/business/17goldman.html?th&emc=th

...& here's a big surprise:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/17/business/17abacus.html?th&emc=th

Will someone...

...please explain to me what the morons are saying as opposed what they are doing? It is getting closer to November, but do they think this kind of blather will have ANY effect on what we've seen this last year & half? "We the People..." do indeed have a short attention / retention span, but PLEASE...do "They" have that little respect for our intelligence? Rhetorical - as we all know that "They" have zero respect for us...their employers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/business/economy/15fed.html?8au&emc=au

ps Happy April 15 - Federal Theft Day

I just found out...

...that one of my best political allies does NOT vote!
What?
Are you kidding me?
Talk about ZERO credibility...
How many other "posers" are there out there?
I mean - are you firiggin' shittin' me???

One man; one vote; one four year license to gripe.

...and the dance begins!

All you yahoo's thought the gov't was actually going to GIVE you something?
Well maybe, but not if you speak Inglish!!!
 
http://dailycaller.com/2010/04/05/irs-chief-buy-health-insurance-or-lose-your-tax-refund/

Happy Easter!

Employment #'s:

I've yet to check, but it's somewhere - according to "them" - 165,000 + new jobs created, but unemployment holds steady at 9.7%. How the hell is that? Think the numbers have been "massaged"?

***
(edit) I've found the newest data: 162,000 jobs & unemployment at 9.7% - & do take into consideration about 50,000 of those were census takers...but even then I don't know what country the stat-people are living in, but we folks here on the street are not convinced that the economy is on the rebound. Time will tell, but I do see a major "reckoning" coming due soon. Time for the Gov't to "put-up or shut-up." All this "feel good news" will NOT pay your bills.
***

The Gov't of these United States is a lying bunch of crooks that are bleeding you, me - all of us - dry. What is going to happen? It is patently obvious that there is very little chance of it - the Gov't - fixing itself. So again I ask you: what do you see happening?

it SEEMS...

...that I've de-hacked this site.
We'll see.

Question: who would give enough of a crap to hack this site?

ok, now I'm really pissed...

...first I get "hacked" & now this. If this doesn't wake you up this morning - roll over - you're dead. 

http://www.alternet.org/story/146183/obama_packs_debt_commission_with_social_security_looters
 
...& do note how "They" call Social Security "entitlements". Do you think the gov't is giving you this out of their largess? YOU PAID FOR THIS FOR YOURSELF EACH & EVERY PAYCHECK!!! You had NO say in the matter. If these creeps take your money this time we old-timers have got to do something!

ps...remember those assholes in Congress do NOT pay into Social Security.

 

I'VE BEEN HACKED!!!

 
If you've been here before you know what has happened here.

Why bother? This site isn't even worth most people's time, much less someone's effort!

Ya' gotta' love all this "crap", no?
 

This guy...

...has it exactly right.
Take the 4 min. & read it.
The only problem I can see w/ any of it is we're going to have to grow some "stones" to "...just say no."

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Editorial-Page.htm?Info=0090903&From=News

EXCERPT: "I've been saying for years that politicians don't mind protests, movements, elections, petitions, demonstrations, or any other "political action," except when the legitimacy of their rule is questioned. In other words, as long as the "national discussion" consists of the masses asking their masters in "government" for freedom, the masters are in no trouble. When the masses stop asking, and start disobeying, that is when the politicians are doomed. And we are seeing more signs of that now. And as a result, the desperate American tyrants are trying to paint everyone who questions "government" as a terrorist--a tactic which is already back-firing."
---
"It is utterly impossible to control, by brute force alone, 300,000,000 people (especially when a third of them are armed). Only by convincing the masses that they should be controlled, and that they have an obligation to obey(!!!) "government," can tyrants succeed."

Guest:

"Idaho requires its attorney general to sue the feds if ObamaCare passes while Virginia, the cradle of liberty, heads the line of states in front of the federal courtroom. Somewhere Patrick Henry is smiling. As the second coming of King George III seeks to impose the leftist mandate of national health insurance on the unwilling American people, the states are once again in revolt.
...
Is this what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they risked being hanged by the British crown because they said we shouldn't be taxed without representation? Well, we have representation, and they care not about the people they represent.

--Investor's Business Daily

please, Please, PLEASE...

...click on this.
He has it exactly right!
Exactly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwk1aHU-pms
 

Next up:

Amnesty & Social Security - mark my words.

Where is the line to be drawn?

ps...the upcoming inevitable hyper-inflation will make the Wiemar Republic look like a Club Med vacation.

How YOUR representative voted:

http://patriotpost.us/reference/health-care-votes/

Well...

...late last night we got - how do you say it in German...oh yes, fucked.

It now remains to be seen if the states will do as they threatened & tie this "thing" up in limbo for the foreseeable future or is it "game over"?

Oh, be aware that the next "thing" on the Socialists agenda is to give amnesty to 20 to 30 million illegals...how else do these fools in DC expect to be re-elected in November? Watch & learn.

It's Sunday 11:59 am...

...& today's the day.

It'll be interesting to see how the vote - or non-vote - on ObamaCare shakes out.

Stay tuned.

damn...

...I wish I'd written this:

http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2010/03/to-all-modern-sons-of-liberty-this-is.html
     

I just got off the phone...

...w/ a friend of mine who told me a little story that has e/affected me considerably.

- A worker is now homeless as he had to make a choice of saving his house or paying his son's college tuition. He chose his son's education.
 
With all the money stolen from us (OUR money...never forget that) x the Goldman-Sach's & AIG's - w/ our government as intermediary - of the world, this man is having his house foreclosed because he simply can't afford both.

That is an outrage. This continued rape of this country cannot be allowed to stand. Someone, somewhere must finally say "no more".

I wish it were me.

My first...

..."Tweet" (I may puke) FWD from my brother:

From: @SarahPalinUSA
Sent: Mar 16, 2010 18:36

Brought to Pelosi's attention that her Obamacare "process" is unconstitutional,she replies: "But I like it." This takes America's breath away

sent via OpenBeak

On Twitter: http://twitter.com/SarahPalinUSA/status/10581929351
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

Do any of you really comprehend what this means to each & every one of us? Do you really? The financial burden; the complete disregard of the Constitution - thru some bullshit political-hokum; the unmitigated hubris of the Speaker in particular & the entire Congress in general; the arrogance of the President...

Do you know what the "Slaughter Rule" is? ...reconciliation?
No?
Here you go:

Slaughter Rule: The Slaughter Rule -- named for House Rules Committee Chairwoman Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) who proposed it -- would allow the Senate health bill to be incorporated into the Rule for the reconciliation bill coming out of the Senate. If members vote to pass this Rule they, in effect, pass the Senate health care bill without actually voting on it -- they instead vote on the reconciliation package.

Reconciliation Bill: a legislative process of the United States Senate intended to allow consideration of a contentious budget bill

(did you get that? "...budget bill..."; NOT a major policy bill. Again, did you get that: NOT a major policy bill.)

without the threat of filibuster. Introduced in 1974, reconciliation streamlines the debate and amendment process. Reconciliation also exists in the United States House of Representatives, but because the House regularly passes rules that constrain debate and amendment, the process has had a less significant impact on that body. (...it - reconciliation - is to bring the debt-limit into conformity with the budget resolution. That is all. That was why it was created in '74(?). That was it's purpose, but it is now being whored to allow those arrogant pricks in DC to do whatever they please & the Constitution be damned!)

If we don't "broom" the lot of 'em in November, we deserve what they are crammin' down our necks!

Will...

...someone please explain to me how this mentis-incompetentis has a job, much less one of such monumental import at this time in our history? Please...I need some help here!

"[W]e have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy."
--House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) ...confirming that too much Botox does indeed kill brain cells

http://patriotpost.us/perspective/2010/03/11/pelosi-pass-the-bill-to-find-out-whats-in-it/
 

If only . . .

 
...this turns out to be true:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=127787
 

Did you know...

 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY
 

Get this...

...Mr. & Ms Run-of-the-Mill-America:

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/11/government-workers-feel-no-pain/
 

Kitty Werthmann:

"After America, there is no place to go."

Think long & hard on that.
 

ok, ok...

...I'll start updating every day.
Sorry, just lost the urge for a bit.

pretty cool...

...but don't forget how many nukes these guys have!

href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ0ue-XGl9c">
 

Luu-gout...

...x popular demand - mine - I've returned. The political scene is slow right now...probably because the District of Crooks've realized that the rumble they are hearing is a tidal wave that SEEMS destined to overwhelm them & have decided to stay outta' the spotlight - good deer sense. We'll see. For now I'll just cruise along & if anything comes up of which you should be aware I'll get on it, but until then I'll just be messing around w/ the "Babe of the Day", jokes, film clips, etc. Hopefully that'll keep you entertained until something important surfaces.

-rocky

ps glad to be back!

i am humbled

The Senate has lost it's "Super Majority"!!!

I've been wrong about so much...& I couldn't be happier!

The electorate is NOT asleep.
All is NOT lost.
The future is NOT as doomed as had I thought.

A friend of mine told me this (Mass. Senate seat) election could be a seminal event in American politics. I thought differently. I thought wrong. I don't need to tell you the portent of this election's outcome. You know. You know.

Sooo, I've . . .



. . . see you when / if needed!

& you morons...

...continue to think the economy is turning around. Fools. You wonder why the "Royals" have no respect for you when it is so patently obvious that you can't even read & think for yourselves? 2+2 does actually equal 4!

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/09/business/economy/09jobs.html?ref=global-home

Sorry I lied...

...but I just can't seem to get back into the "swing" of things. This about to be passed Health Care Thing has me undone. I simply cannot believe - even w/ the rampant hubris on Capitol Hill - that "We the People..." are simply dismissed...tho I shouldn't be all that surprised because it happened before in October of '08. Still, I am.

Well...

...here it is the end of 2009. I'm not going to rant about this past year as if you've paid attention for yourself, you don't need me ranting & raving.

I've been a bit absent at my post these past coupla' weeks as I was getting so crazy about the health-care thing my head was about to explode...that & the crooked hacks in DC weren't doing anything much - "death-dealers" all - because of the Holidaze. I shall be back on my game x the 4th at the latest.

Happy New Year to you & may we ALL get what we deserve in the coming months!

I've...

...been trying to "get my feet under me" after those hacks in DC met at 1:00am like the pack of craven mutts they are to pass the "procedurals" for this stinking "cradle to grave" death-care. When those crooks pass it - & it looks like it will - this country shall be forever altered.

Hey, you morons out there, who do you think is paying for this? God-damn you people are stupid. I suppose you deserve what you are about get...no actually, no one deserves what is about to happen.

If we don't vote ALL those cretins out in November '10, we've lost. Period.

Maxine Speaks:

Senior Health Care Solution:
So you're a senior citizen and the government says no health care for you, what do you do?

Our plan gives anyone 65 years or older a gun and 4 bullets. You are allowed to shoot 2 senators and 2 representatives. Of Course, this means you will be sent to prison. There you will get 3 meals a day, a roof over your head, and all the health care you need! New teeth, no problem. Need glasses, great. New hip, knees, kidney, lungs, heart? All covered.

And who will be paying for all of this? The same government that just told you that you are too old for health care. Plus, because you are a prisoner, you don't have to pay any income taxes anymore. And you’ve done us all a favor by disposing of 4 worthless politicians.

IS THIS A GREAT COUNTRY OR WHAT?!

Tiger Hunting anyone?

 
http://video1.break.com/dnet/media/2009/12/tiger-woods-wife-outrun-video-game.swf

Will someone please...

...tell me what is going on?
Someone please explain to me what is going on.
Please.
First "The Irishman" gets the Nobel.
Now the "Chief Money Lender" gets Time's Man of the Year.
I've obviously fallen - once again - into the rabbit-hole.
Someone please throw me a lifeline.
Please.

Today in History:

 
December 15, 1791: The adoption of the Bill of Rights.

Do you have any conception what that event means in human history?...& what has been happening to them ever since - under so many guises?

You'll have to forgive me here as I'm a simple man. All I want from my government is to be ALLOWED to live a free man, as our founders envisioned. Free. Do you even know what that means, much less what it feels like to be free? I have, briefly, & once you've actually lived it, nothing else will satisfy.

This is a "Must Watch":

 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nf1OgV449g
 

This is a "Must Read":

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) this week called for a global tax on financial transactions, claiming that the revenue raised could be used for -- drum roll please -- more stimulus spending. H.R. 4191, which is currently before the House, calls for a quarter percent tax on the sale and purchase of all financial instruments, including stocks, bonds, options, futures, you name it. The idea, according to Pelosi, is to get Wall Street to pitch in with the government to help grow the economy -- er, government.

A sentiment like that should clearly define just how dangerous Pelosi is when it comes to economics. If she truly believes that Wall Street has never helped grow the economy, then she doesn't deserve the role of town dogcatcher, let alone that of Speaker. On the contrary, it has been the government's actions that have hindered the recovery and growth of our economy.

Since Pelosi seems aware that this tax will drive investment out of the United States, she proposes that all the major international players -- including Asia, the EU and the UK -- impose a similar tax just so that no one can escape from their righteous duty to pay more taxes (are you shittin' me?).

Pelosi made no indication of what would become of the tax once the stimulus spending was no longer needed. In her mind, there will always be a need for government involvement in the economy, so there will always be a need for more income redistribution.
--Patriot Post

Now I ask you simply: is 'dis bitch nuts, or what???

Inshallha...

Somehow these morons instill fear in us? . . . or so says the gov't!!!

Even...

...though I don't like the guy - his Marxist-socialist policies, that is...nothing personal - I've got to give it to him for this quote during his Nobel acceptance speech today.

“Whatever mistakes we have made, the plain fact is this,” Mr. Obama said. “The United States of America has helped underwrite global security for more than six decades with the blood of our citizens and the strength of our arms.”

Timmy "The Weasel" Geithner's...

...nose continues to grow:

“We want to see fundamental constraints on how senior executives are paid at these institutions,” Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner told Bloomberg News last week. It is very important that we change the way these executives are paid.”

Now I ask you, who is Goldman-Sach's biggest butt-boy (next to Paulson, that is)?

http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/goldman-alters-pay-plan-for-top-executives/?hpw