The GOP: Another First Black Appointed To High Office By The Party Of Devisiveness: Michael Steele

Now, let me see: Condi Rice is the first African American female to be Secy Of State, then there's also HUD Secy Alphonso Jackson, Secy Of Education Rod Paige, Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Ct, Michael L. Williams as Assistant Secy Of Education for Civil Rights for G. H. W. Bush, JJ Watts as US Rep, Alan Keyes as ambassador and presidential candidate, Michael Steele as the first African American GOP Governor, and now chairman of the National Republican Party...

And yet, supposedly Republicans are racists. Or, at least, the conservatives are racists, and they CONTROL the Republican party.

The hobgobblin of the Left's minds is racism. They are asleep to our Condi Rice's, our Michael Steele's, then act surprised years later when they practically catapult a Kenyan's half-white, fatherless child into the White House.

Barry In Charge: Communism Around The Corner

This is his shot across the bow.

Just 10 days into power, and he is already harkening back to Leninist-Stalinist prose. This is quite a show for a new president. No other man to occupy this office has been so presumptuous to make these sweeping declarations and warnings in such a short time.

And Barry used WHAT kind of accounting methods, balance sheets, or P&E ratio to make this grave declaration? Ledger books? Quickbooks? Did he do like the rest of us do and look to see what kind of car the CEO's drive to determine what he's making?

Nope. This Harvard graduate uses newspaper articles to sell us on the idea of having the State step in to the board rooms, where the decisions on how much the shareholders would allow their CEO to make are already being made, to make it for them, and, of course, take their pinch along the way.

Obama's famous for pointing a finger at CEO's who have spent a lifetime to produce their services, but just WHAT does Barry and the rest of government's beaurocrats do to deserve THEIR take of the business? Absolutely nothing. Yet somehow, this smug little man-boy who has never worked with his hands for a living, doesn't bear the wounds of a lifetime of toil, can actually stare at the camera with his look of indignation and determination to say that his soft hands know what any of US should be earning?

To remedy what he's railing about in the video above, Barry would have to have the same federal government that got us here in the first place fix the private sector wages of CEO's. Will qualified, talented people want to take the job if it comes at a government-mandated salary? That's not how those of us in the free market become motivated to excel and produce. Our economy is driven by those of us reaping the benefit of our hard work and ingenuity.

In the financial/sales jobs I have had in the past, there is always an incentive attached to your earnings. The commission that you earn per sale is all some of us have lived off of for years. When I painted cars for a living, I was paid only by commission. If I didn't spray a car that day, I didn't get paid at all.

I'm no CEO, but it works the same way for them: they have a set of skills that allows them to negotiate their contract, just like I used to do every time I negotiated with my skills. If you can get a business to agree to the conditions you desire (bonus, commissions, etc), then you are not to blame for working within your contracted parameter, no matter how much you excel.

Barry has been aloof and condescending to the private sector, according to most of what I have read of him through his two books, and the excellent biography by Jerome Corsi, as well. We hear the refrain occasionally, still, that poor Barry was destined for a life of wealth and power because of the school to which he was admitted (which was a legacy admission, thanks to his father first attending there), but that *sniff* he gave it all away to work as a "community organizer". [cue the violins and harps]

Did Barry make these claims about CEO's and their bonuses when he was accepting 600 million dollars in corporate payments to his campaign for the last two years? What about the EXCESSIVE money that Barry and Michelle will pocket from the leftover campaign war chest? Does Barry DESERVE millions and millions of dollars for "running" that campaign?

What fat cat do you and I, Mr.and Mrs America, benefit MORE from: Bank Of America's CEO or Barry Obama? At least with BOA, I get a safe place to direct deposit my paycheck, online details of every thing I do with this product, and money-making plans into which I can choose to invest my hard-earned cash.

What did you and I get with Barry and Michelle's millions?

Hamas Murders Its Own

Palestinians search through the rubble of their home in the northern Gaza Strip.

Members of a Gaza family whose farm was turned into a "fortress" by Hamas fighters have reported that they were helpless to stop Hamas from using them as human shields.

They told the official Palestinian Authority daily newspaper that for years Hamas had used their property and homes as military installations from which the group would launch rockets into Israel, dig tunnels and store arms. According to the victims, those who tried to object were shot in the legs by Hamas operatives.
Palestinian children play on top of a drinking water balloon in eastern Jebaliya, northern Gaza strip.

Palestinian Media Watch quoted the official Palestinian Authority daily, Al-Hayat al-Jadida as reporting on January 27, "The Abd Rabbo family kept quiet while Hamas fighters turned their farm in the Gaza strip into a fortress. Right now they are waiting for the aid promised by the [Hamas] movement after Israel bombed the farm and turned it into ruins."

A policeman walks in front of a float showing mock missiles sticking out of a giant photograph of the city of Tel Aviv during a protest in Jerusalem.

According to the report, the hill on which the Abd Rabbo family lives overlooks Sderot, making it an ideal military position for Hamas fighters.

The Abd Rabbo family members emphasized to the paper that they were not Hamas activists and that they were still loyal to the Fatah movement, but that they had been unable to prevent the armed squads from entering their neighborhood at night. (source)

Doonesbury's G.B. Trudeau Turns In His Liberal Membership Card

This strip mostly speaks for itself, but you have to have been reading the last few days to know the backdrop: The African American character is an out-of-work black conservative politician that Lacey (white woman sitting with him, whom he believes has some connections with Obama) used to work with in Congress. He is looking to get back into the Washington scene, and hopes to inject himself into Obama's circle of influence.

Lacey, an old Democrat, treats this black person like ALL liberal Democrats do: Use them when it's to your advantage, then toss them aside when it's not:

Nanci Pelosi: Idiot Queen Of The Left Defends STD Prevention In Economic Disaster Bill

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she didn’t come to Washington to be “bipartisan”, one day after shuttling through an $819 economic stimulus bill without a single Republican vote.

“I didn’t come here to be partisan, I didn’t come here to be bipartisan,” Pelosi told reporters at her weekly press conference. “I came here, as did my colleagues, to be nonpartisan, to work for the American people, to do what is in their interest.” (source)

The Cloward-Piven Strategy: Forcing Political Change Through Orchestrated Crisis

The natural cycle of the economy in a quasi-free market such as ours is accustomed to encountering recessions of varying degrees, punctuated by a longer cycle of deeper recessions, known as depressions. The market is best left alone, given the degree that we have to ensure against snake oil salesmen and such. It should be a lesson to future economies, daring to break the neck of the goose that laid the golden egg.

This crisis we are in currently has its roots in, of all places, governmental agencies. The HUD secretary in the late 90's under Clinton, Andrew Cuomo, as only mafia bosses and agencies can do, used great pressure in order to micro-manage the lending practices of major banks, threatening them with not only fines and judgements, but public condemnation as a "racist lender" if they didn't. The goal: force banks to look past bad credit, no job history, bankruptcies, judgements, collections, etc for the sake of putting African Americans in houses, whether they could afford to pay for them or not.

I will not take up the space of this entry to research the origins of the HUD/Fannie Mae/Freddy Mac-induced crisis we're in right now, but you can read it here. This blog is merely a cursive account of the day's events, as seen through my own prism. We need to start taking our blinders off to the codes and doublespeak that Obama and his inner circle use.

Words like "community organizer" don't mean the same thing to rural, farmer-class folks as they do to the inner-city folks in southside Chicago. It's easy for a nation of well-meaning rural people in America to look past words like "community organizer" in order to elect someone president of the USA.

What is the manufactured crisis, you ask? The housing crisis. It started this entire process. Too many sectors of the economy were trading derivatives on housing loans. Too many of them were toxic. People started mailing the house keys in to the lender a couple of years ago. This financial condition we're in now was due in large part to leftist fascism, where government controled the banks and their procedures for doing business.

[True free market banks won't lend to you unless you can meet their debt-to-income ratio, prove two years of steady employment, and have a credit score of their choosing. I know, because I've tried to apply for a loan but was declined because I was a credit risk.]

In summary: The housing crisis will be the Left's excuse for spending unprecedented amounts of "bailout" money, then claim that since it's not working [which it isn't], they will need to step in as controlling authority:

The key to sparking this rebellion would be to expose the inadequacy of the welfare state. Cloward-Piven's early promoters cited radical organizer Saul Alinsky as their inspiration. "Make the enemy live up to their (sic) own book of rules," Alinsky wrote in his 1972 book Rules for Radicals. When pressed to honor every word of every law and statute, every Judaeo-Christian moral tenet, and every implicit promise of the liberal social contract, human agencies inevitably fall short. The system's failure to "live up" to its rule book can then be used to discredit it altogether, and to replace the capitalist "rule book" with a socialist one.

All three of these organizations -- ACORN, Project Vote and Human SERVE -- set to work lobbying energetically for the so-called Motor-Voter law, which Bill Clinton ultimately signed in 1993. The Motor-Voter bill is largely responsible for swamping the voter rolls with "dead wood" -- invalid registrations signed in the name of deceased, ineligible or non-existent people -- thus opening the door to the unprecedented levels of voter fraud and "voter disenfranchisement" claims that followed in subsequent elections.

The new "voting rights" coalition combines mass voter registration drives -- typically featuring high levels of fraud -- with systematic intimidation of election officials in the form of frivolous lawsuits, unfounded charges of "racism" and "disenfranchisement," and "direct action" (street protests, violent or otherwise). Just as they swamped America's welfare offices in the 1960s, Cloward-Piven devotees now seek to overwhelm the nation's understaffed and poorly policed electoral system. Their tactics set the stage for the Florida recount crisis of 2000, and have introduced a level of fear, tension and foreboding to U.S. elections heretofore encountered mainly in Third World countries.

Both the Living Wage and Voting Rights movements depend heavily on financial support from George Soros's Open Society Institute and his "Shadow Party," through whose support the Cloward-Piven strategy continues to provide a blueprint for some of the Left's most ambitious campaigns. (source)

Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., warns that Obama will demagogue the crisis to get governmental control of it:

Del Toro Angered That His Movie "Che" Stirs Memories Of Survivors

180 DOCUMENTED MURDER VICTIMS OF CHÉ GUEVARA IN CUBA: 1957 TO 1959

Starting in the first grade, all Cuban children are members of the Young Pioneers--a group that Cuban exiles claim imparts communist ideology, but which parents say also teaches social skills and responsibility. Although they begin each day reciting 'Pioneers for communism will be like Che!' few children give it much thought, parents said." -John Ward Anderson, Washington Post

"The revolution is all; everything else is nothing" - Fidel Castro

Hatred is an element of struggle; relentless hatred of the enemy that impels us over and beyond the natural limitations of man and transforms us into effective, violent, selective, and cold killing machines. Our soldiers must be thus; a people without hatred cannot vanquish a brutal enemy. - Che Guevara

While the Cubans were trying to squeeze into overcrowded buses in the August heat to get to jobs where they had to work an average twelve-hour day, my comrades and I enjoyed a lobster and shrimp luncheon in the best hotel in Cuba, the Havana Libre, formerly the Havana Hilton, built the year before Castro's victory. There I drank wine...in the sacred presence of Che Guevara'a widow and other members of his family. -Ron Radosh, former American communist

But don't tell all of these things to Hollywood actor Benicio del Toro. If you start to ask him about the concentration camps that Che and Fidel operated during the revolution, this very important, renowned, box office talent will storm away, claiming that his new movie portrayal is the best that could be done in a short 4 hours! Read the story here.

In all of that time, not once is Che portrayed to have done anything near as monstrous as what his survivors know all too well that he committed. Does the 4-hour film touch on the 180 documented murder victims of Guevara? No. In fact, here's an excerpt from a recent review of Che, citing the tone and portrayal we are asked to believe:

In the movie, Guevara is shown executing a man. But the man is executed for raping a child, not for being disloyal to the cause of revolution. Troops are offered a chance to desert, and get nothing more than a scolding for their
cowardice. (source)

Toro tries to act like he's balanced in his view of the monster Guevara, by stating that:

"We have to omit a lot of stuff about his life," he said, "but we're not omitting the fact that he's for capital punishment, which is the essence of that."

"Capital punishment"??? That's like saying that quarantining all victims of HIV on an island nation that forbids departure is a "model state-run health care system".

What del Toro and this movie try to do is to whitewash this murderous thug coward who killed people for not being "pro revolution" enough, then call the sham "trials" an example of "capital punishment"!

Del Toro is a useful idiot for the cause of murder and tyranny. He claims to know more about the real Che, having never met him or lived with his results, than the victims of Che who watched him murder unarmed political prisoners.

Because he's an actor, he is in the business of fooling himself into believing that he is someone else. What this high-paid pretender fails to remember is that just because he's deluding himself to think that Che deserves a sympathetic look, the rest of the world hasn't.

Appalachian Journal: Lucy Atkinson's Story

From left: Phyllis Epperly, Tim Atkinson, Connie Hall and Vivian Semones hold quilts made by mother and grandmother Lucy Atkinson.

By Sean Kotz
CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. -- She was called Mommy and Grandma by her family and "Aunt Lucy" by just about everyone else.

She was known for her hard work and soft heart, but Lucy Atkinson, in the last year of her life and at the age of 96, did something remarkable.

She hand-sewed 18 quilts.

"If you didn't get one, that was your fault," joked daughter Vivian Semones as she gathered with her family to tell her mother's story, "because all you had to do was ask."

By most people's estimation, Atkinson lived a hard life and might have had every right to feel weary in her later years. Her father was a sharecropper who lost the ability to feed his family after a drought, and Atkinson had to go to work at a mill at 14. She never had anything that one might call leisure time, spending much of her day cooking, washing, making and repairing clothes, and hand-churning butter for extra income.

In fact, her daughter Phyllis Epperly noted that people would come from as far away as Roanoke on a weekly basis to get her butter.

"I don't care what time of the morning you got up, the woman was up," recalled her grandson, Tim Atkinson. "The fire was going and the woman was up. And you go to bed at night, and the woman was still up."

Her hands were often raw from cleaning, scratched by blackberry thorns, or frozen from doing laundry in the winter. And after a lifetime of hard labor, she learned to drive a car at age 59 and went to work at a regular job.

So there was little time for pleasure sewing while she was raising her family -- for Lucy Atkinson, sewing was a matter of survival, putting clothes on her family's backs and quilts on their beds to fight off frigid nights.

However, in her later years, life afforded more time to sew for pleasure, and she was able to produce more quilts.

And while she had a sewing machine, she chose to hand-stitch each one to ensure quality. On this point, in near unison, the family repeated one of her favorite sayings: "If it is worth doing, it is worth doing right."

Her youngest daughter, Connie Hall, called her hand-sewn quilts a "gift of herself." Displaying a tag sewn into her quilt that reads, "Made with love by Mommy," and Hall pointed out that when Atkinson knew her time was getting short, she set to work on making a quilt for each member of the family.

In relative secrecy, she began working on quilts for each person individually, choosing colors and themes to fit each personality.

After she died Oct. 29, they were presented this past Christmas posthumously ... all except for one. The quilt for her grandson, Tim Atkinson, had disappeared.

A lifelong fan of Virginia Tech's sports programs, his was an orange and maroon quilt with Tech logos patched in. But on Christmas morning, it was nowhere to be found.

It occurred to them that the quilt might have been given away to the Roanoke Rescue Mission with her own clothes as was part of her final wishes. They called and found that a VT blanket had come through there and been sold.

At that point, Tim Atkinson's wife, Penny, went into action, organizing a search party for the missing quilt, offering rewards and a buyback, and contacting the media to help retrieve this piece of family history. And then, out of nowhere, it turned up at Tim Atkinson's mother's house.

It was like a second Christmas for Tim Atkinson, who said he had not let his initial disappointment get the better of him and had quietly resigned himself to live with the loss of her last gift to him.

But with admiration and emotion showing through his smile, he said:

"I guess for me, this makes it all the more special, especially knowing that this was one of the last things she did in her life." (source)

Nanci Pelosi: Birth Control And Abortions Are Part Of The Bailout

At a time when crisis spending on essential services and little else should be included in any of my tax dollars-built bailout solution(?), Nancy "Stretch" Pelosi snarls back at Stephanaplolous on yesterday's This Week when he asked her about the House Democrats' efforts to include family planning funding in the economic stimulus package being used to stave off the same thing that's causing the UK to possibly declare bankruptcy, and the world's markets to plunge in a perfect storm of economic collapse.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Hundreds of millions of dollars to expand family planning services. How is that stimulus?

PELOSI: Well, the family planning services reduce cost. They reduce cost. The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now and part of what we do for children's health, education and some of those elements are to help the states meet their financial needs. One of those - one of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraception, will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government.

STEPHANOPOULOS: So no apologies for that?

PELOSI: No apologies. No. we have to deal with the consequences of the downturn in our economy. (source)

Barry In Charge: What Economic Crisis? I Want To Force Taxpayers To Pay For Your Abortion

WASHINGTON, President Barack Obama on Friday lifted restrictions on U.S. government funding for groups that provide abortion services or counseling abroad, reversing a policy of his Republican predecessor George W. Bush. (source)

Leave it to Reuters to minimize the length of time this restriction has been around, as if only an idiot like George Bush could put a restriction on using taxpayer money for abortions.

Of course, it is the Great Ronaldus Magnus who first put the ban in place in 1984, then it was rescinded by Clinton, replaced by Bush, now lifted again by Barry.

Why are we surprised? Like he told us during his campaign, if his daughters up and get pregnant, he doesn't want them being "punished" with a baby.

Can you believe that we already spend $400 million annualy on family planning for other countries? In dire times of economic stress like this, it seems imprudent to use ANY money of our hard-earned paychecks for this endeavor. After all, we're all concerned with population control, but it isn't an imperative that a recession-stricken America has to be the only "control" in the whole mix.

Ann In The MSM: Dr Phil With Colmes And McClellan

Barry In Charge: Obama Is A Murderer

Qazi Hussain Ahmed, center, the leader of Pakistan's largest Islamic party, Jamat-e-Islami, talks to his supporters during a demonstration near the federal parliament in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Jan. 23, 2009. Hundreds of protesters Friday demanded an end to Pakistan military operations and U.S. missile attacks against Taliban militants in lawless areas bordering Afghanistan.

Today Barack Obama earns the exact same charge that has been levelled at George Bush since he engaged in the War On Terror: murderer. The freedom fighters in the hills of Pakistan never stood a chance against the all mighty BULLY called Uncle Sam with his great technology and pornographic use of power. Obama, who spent three years as a youth in Indonesia, learning the Quran, has allowed our Christian soldiers to fight a digital war of buttons and joysticks against an Islamic people with no electricity.

Obama gave the OK for this raid to be carried out. Not President Bush, anymore. See how the chickens have come home to roost, here, hard Left? Your man of Hope and Change just launched an attack that didn't just hit an empty tent like Bill Clinton used to do, either. This man of yours called Obama just killed people who DID NOTHING TO YOU OR ME!

These are pictures of a demonstration that was organized today to halt Obama's raid into their brother's regions. Look at how one of the major imams of Pakistan reacted immediately afterwards:

Qazi Hussain Ahmed, center, the leader of Pakistan's largest Islamic party, Jamat-e-Islami, pray with his supporters during a demonstration near the federal parliament in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Jan. 23, 2009. Hundreds of protesters Friday demanded an end to Pakistan military operations and U.S. missile attacks against Taliban militants in lawless areas bordering Afghanistan.

Hey, remember how it was fashionable to say that George Bush was creating MORE enemies during the past 8 years of unjustified warfare? You know, how you said that the angry reaction from every person we kill in the Islamic community will result in ten more signing up to fight us and such?

How do you like it when YOUR MAN Obama angers and motivates these same people?

Pakistani tribesmen pray along a street following a demonstration near the federal parliament in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Jan. 23, 2009. Hundreds of protesters Friday demanded an end to Pakistan military operations and U.S. missile attacks against Taliban militants in lawless areas bordering Afghanistan.

How do you like that?

Before you answer, let me tell you how I feel about it: HELL YEAH! I will be the first to say that, murderer charge or not, Obama acted wisely and prudently here. I hope for more of the same and support him completely in such actions.

Barry In Charge: When Pleasing The Left Kills Our Soldiers

Guantanamo Bay's Camp Delta

We've had to hear this drivel for years, now: "America's secret prison", "Torture camp", "Unconsitutional blight on our country". All of this angst and outcry caught just enough traction with just enough anti-Americans like George Soros that Rep Murtha had to take notice.

And almost as soon as we started filling the cells at Guantanamo Bay, the efforts to close it were already mounting. The same crowd that was apoplectic over the election of 2000 was still grinding away at our attempt to protect this great country from the beginning.

Frankly, I trust the Army's average soldier, his ethics and morals. It was the average American infantry soldier (like me when I wore the same uniform) who captured these prisoners, and I believe that those detainees in Guantanamo are former enemy combatants. There is no secrecy about this at all, but to the anti-Americans in our midst, they want to portray this time-tested method of fighting a war as if it's a 'neo-conservative' tactic dreamed up by Bush and his cronnies.

So we've been trying to defend the use of this camp called Guantanamo for years, now. We've been met with significant effort to release prisoners, but there has always been a legitimate reason, we have said, to keep this camp and it's detainees operating for the duration of the war.

And now, as the commander-in-chief changes hands, we see an agent of this anti-Guantanamo Bay, anti-American emerge to strike down this multi-million dollar facility which allows the inhabitants more luxuries than American prisoners are afforded. Obama pranced around so smugly during the campaign, assuring his beloved democrats that Guantanamo would be closed immediately if he became president.

But look what happens! The little boy of the primary season wrote checks that he can't cash, now. Try as he might, Obama WON'T do the bidding of the Move On crowd, but will carry on exactly as George Bush did for at least another year.

Before the actual elimination of Guantanamo takes place, I hope that some Armed forces personnel assigned to the White House will show Obama this article that came out today:

BEIRUT: The emergence of a former Guantánamo Bay detainee as the deputy leader of Al Qaeda's Yemeni branch has underscored the potential complications in carrying out the executive order that President Barack Obama signed that the detention center be shut down within a year.

The militant, Said Ali al-Shihri, is suspected of involvement in a deadly bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Yemen's capital, Sana, in September. He was released to Saudi Arabia in 2007 and passed through a Saudi rehabilitation program for former jihadists before resurfacing with Al Qaeda in Yemen.

His status was announced in an Internet statement by the militant group and was confirmed by a U.S. counterterrorism official. "They're one and the same guy," said the official, who insisted on anonymity because he was discussing an intelligence analysis. " He returned to Saudi Arabia in 2007, but his movements to Yemen remain unclear." (source)

Recession-Era Answer To The Convertor-Box Dilema

Barry In Charge

DAY 2:
Dear Diary,
I keep losing sleep from this awful nightmare: We're up to our eyeballs in chaos, people are being chased from burning buildings, children yell and scream in the streets, some on fire, stumbling away aimlessly, as the flames begin to take them over.

Everything is deathly quiet, except for the very youngest of children. There is a ringing in my ears from the explosion; glass, metal, and wood has been blown in the streets, some still aflame.

The scene changes to me running, trying to get away. I'm grabbing for guns that aren't there along the way, and nothing can repel these creatures that are chasing me in my dream.

And then I wake up.

It was a dream. WHEW. I'm sweating, heart is racing, and I'm glad to be awake, out of that dream.

It isn't long before I'm seeing the day's news: Obama Plans To Close Guantanamo In One Year. Wow. I feel kind of a pang in my mind's eye. A flash of people running. Screaming. Panic in the streets. I'm seeing my dream again!



I wonder how this GITMO extension plays with the Move On crowd. They wanted that torturous stain on our Constitution closed NOW! Yesterday, Barry told us it was only for four more months. Today it's a year. Who knows what it'll be 6 months from now?

What if we capture UBL while Barry is president? Where will Obama keep Osama? If we capture him alive, is there any doubt that to try him in our Federal Court system as if he was an American citizen would invite some anti-American lawyer looking to make a name for himself to mount a defense that actually wins in freeing him? After all, there's no droplets of blood , bloody gloves, bloody Bronco interior or anything!

What if UBL got an extra-special jury like OJ's? That jury didn't know what the words "reasonable doubt" meant, but when they saw the defendant, they knew all they had to know. With an IQ level like theirs, it could happen again in America.

Speaking of IQ levels, do you think Barry's intelligence can factor in this headline?: Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner Took Part In Iraq Bombing
Here's what the first sentence of that story read:

The Pentagon confirmed yesterday that a Kuwaiti released from the US detention camp at Guantánamo Bay three years ago carried out a suicide bombing in Iraq last month.

To these brats who gather in the streets for "civil rights" protests, this is all a game of sorts. They'll never feel the real repercussions from their actions. It's easy for them to throw on some stupid orange smocks, lay down in the street blocking the traffic of people who make America possible, and then go home again with their smug sense of self-satisfaction at "showing the man" that "we won't take it".

These overgrown crybabies won't get the bullet in the head from their actions, but one of my brothers in arms will. How I wish the reverse could be arranged.

Barry In Charge: Guantanamo Lives For Another Year

Only a day later, and Barry keeps revising his policy: this time he plans to keep Guantanamo prisoners for yet another YEAR! While this apparachik in the video above tries to put a happy face on Barry's extension, protestors, Leftists, and Progressives (redundant?) are squealing in horror.

Here's quick article that came out a few minutes ago: here.

Innauguration Day, January 20, 2009: The Letdown

BLACK HOODS: $12

ORANGE RAIN SLICKERS: $18

POSTER BOARD AND SHARPIES: $8
HAVING YOUR FIRST TEMPER-TANTRUM BECAUSE THE MESSIAH ISN'T TURNING OUT TO BE WHAT YOU THOUGHT HE'D BE: Priceless

Ok, all the pageantry of the day is over. I'm tired, burned out from watching the endless hand-waving and fake looks of surprise/wonder. My other two companion pieces to this one pretty much express my exhausted mental registry of today's events.

This first action of President Obama has to come as a furious letdown: instead of simply closing the Camp Guantanamo Bay right away, like he led everyone to believe he would do, Obama has started a 120-day review of the cases left in Gitmo's schedule of war tribunals. He may find one of these enemy combatants worth detaining, for all we know. After all, he is an attorney.

This has to be a terribly hard pill to swallow for the trust-fund kiddies and homeless-looking women in the above photos.

Four months???? But there are people being tortured right now in GITMO, remember? Your man Barry should be brought up on impeachment charges, by your standards!

How can you save those detainees if Obama might actually keep Gitmo open while he goes forward on a particular case, which could go on and on...keeping the Bush nightmare alive for even more years? Oh, the melancholy you must feel, valiant protestor.

Here's an article on this earliest of action by Barry In Charge:

Hours after being sworn in as US President, Barack Obama has called for a halt to Guantanamo war crimes tribunals, a move which will begin the long awaited process of dismantling the prison itself.

His request for a 120-day suspension of all 21 pending tribunals will bring to a halt the case against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind and four co-defendants who faced the death penalty if convicted.

Military judges are expected to rule on Mr Obama's request to halt the trials today at the US naval base.

The request by Mr Obama was widely anticipated - he had already vowed to close down the prison and its controversial military commission trial system.

"In order to permit the newly inaugurated president and his administration time to review the military commission process, generally, and the cases currently pending before the military commissions, specifically, the secretary of defense has, by order of the president directed the chief prosecutor to seek continuances of 120 days in all pending case," prosecutor Clay Trivett said, in the written request to the judges.

The request said that freezing the trials until May 20 would give the new administration time to evaluate the cases and decide what forum best suits any future prosecution.

About 245 foreign captives are still held at the detention centre that opened in January 2002. The Bush administration had said it planned to try 80 prisoners on war crimes charges, but only three cases have been completed.

Defence lawyers had complained that the tribunals allowed hearsay evidence and coerced testimony, and were the subject of so much political interference that fairness was impossible. (source)

Innauguration Day, January 20, 2009: The Market

The market experienced its worst innauguration drop since...FDR. The similarities are eery: Democrat Leftist takes control of a Democrat-induced economic crisis, then grows the federal government by massive proportions, using increased taxes to accomplish this. Because government cannot create real economic growth, the Depression lived on for ten years, instead of the fraction of that which could have been America's 30's.

Soup lines lasted because jobs were stagnant. Jobs were stagnant because of high taxation. High taxation was in place because FDR created a network of agencies that were run by Democratic beaurocrats.

Barry sees the same possibilities for the modern Democrats. This crisis will be just the distraction that Democrats need to bring even MORE of our free market under their control: UHC, or universal health care will control 1/6 of our economy alone.

We'll see what's next.

Innauguration Day, January 20, 2009: The Spirit

This is a reverand from the days of MLK: he's still caught in those days, methinks. To see what I mean, fast forward to 5:05 on this video, and pay close attention to his estimate of us whites:

Here's what it looked/sounded like when Presiden Bush emerged on the dias to attend the innauguration:

The class of the average Obama faithful can be witnessed in their natural, safe, ungaurded environment in these next many videos. They are snapshots of typical, genuine reactions to the same incident above, when President Bush emerges on the dias which is simultaneously being broadcast on the jumbo screens in the crowds:


LOUD AUDIO: turn down your speakers before clicking!

In this one, there is a lone voice who tries to show some grace and class on this special day, only to be rebuked, eventually being told that, "Look--even Obama's laughing". What's the level of maturity amongst the average attendee, here, do you think? 12?














At least in this one, at the very end of this clip, someone admits, "Hehe...try that in Russia and ya' get shot." The joke is on that entire crowd, but only this one man hints at it. These people are too stupid to appreciate the peace and calm that Bush's policies have brought us, at very little cost, compared to the reality we would have faced without him. Gore would have kept the same paralysis in our intelligence-gathering that Clinton and Carter insisted upon, while looking for legal reasons for a combatant enemy like Usama Bin Laden to be served a search warrant. The enemy wouldn't have been stopped as many times as they were for the last eight years under a Gore administration, but these points require that you've paid attention to things like history and politics.
Do these grown adults look like the crowd that can remember what happened 8 minutes ago, much less 8 years ago?


Fast Forward to 1:03, where another lone voice exclaims, "That's not nice", which is covered up by a nearby cackling old woman. The next place in it where the crowd boos President Bush is 1:53.











For me, when I watch all of these "citizens" of this country making this awful display on what is really a sacred day, I feel alone. I couldn't even bring myself to act like that when Clinton, who's status as a draft-dodger and impeached president reviled me worse than any former or living president, even Carter, left office. I wouldn't have thought of it. I don't see these elections as "Your guy lost, mine won, nya nya". I'm too educated about politics to treat it as if it were a football game. These Obama voters in these videos--millions of them, obviously--are cut from the same cloth as those who get into fights at hockey matches, basketball games, or at the club on ladies night. Not much upstairs but ready to yell and chant.

Bush Commutes Sentences of Former Border Agents Ramos & Compean

Barry In Charge: Making A Tax Cheat Your Treasury Secretary

I usually don't quote this reporter's work, but he happens to have the most comprehensive look at this latest issue with Obama's cabinet choices thus far (below). The choice for Treasury Secretary has gone to someone who has been asked to pay back $34,000 to the IRS that he owed in back taxes from as far back as 2000.

He only paid them a few months ago, when he was first tapped as a prospective in O's prospective cabinet. For 8 years this man has been ordered to pay back the IRS money he owed, and he has refused to do so until now.

Perhaps it wouldn't be as alarming as it is if this man were being nominated for, say, deputy secretary of the FCC, Agriculture, etc. However, for such a sensitive instrument in our crisis-ridden economy, right now is not the time to be foisting corrupt leaders on us to fix a corrupt problem.

If Obama sends someone who is damaged goods to a powerful post, Obama then has something he can use to his advantage--power. Just as Edgar Hoover used to accumulate ANY dirt possible on politicians, beaurocrats, citizens, in order to have something he could blackmail them with later, we are witnessing a product of Chicago Politics do what he has been brought up to do.

Why else would a man as brilliant as we are told he is, choose a person as ethically-compromised as Geithner is? After all, he looked us in the eye for the past two years, telling us that the era of 'business as usual' is OVER.

How brilliant and creative are you if you've got a nation of 300 million people and still can't find someone other than a financial executive who willfully failed to pay his taxes for nearly 10 years to run the Treasury Department? We have a boy doing a man's job, unfortunately.

With this appointment (and any, really to cabinet-level status), one can expect LOTS of graft and backroom deals to benefit the secretary for years to come. Maybe even a lifetime. With this appointment, the new Treasury Secretary stands to gain tremendous earning power for a lifetime or two, even.

Obama is still claiming that he made an "innocent mistake". Is this what "Hope" and "Change" mean to you?


WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Barack Obama's choice for Treasury secretary is becoming a national punchline for late-night comics, a clear sign that not paying your taxes is a growing problem in the public's eyes if you're the guy tapped to oversee the IRS.

Obama and many of the senators involved in confirming Timothy Geithner maintain that concerns about his failure to pay $34,000 in taxes isn't enough to cost him the Treasury job, which includes oversight of the IRS and, perhaps more significantly, Obama's economic recovery plan.

But the delay in Geithner's confirmation hearing — now scheduled for Wednesday — means more time for the public's unease with Geithner's problems to build, a fact he seemed to appreciate Thursday. He continued his courtesy visits to Senate offices to personally answer any questions senators might have about his nomination.

The Senate Finance Committee scheduled Geithner's confirmation hearing Wednesday, a setback for Obama and Senate Democrats who wanted a quick hearing this week in time for Geithner to be confirmed on Inauguration Day.

Some senators began receiving calls this week from constituents angry about Geithner, who has acknowledged he didn't pay his self-employment taxes from 2001 to 2004. Newspaper editorials are stacking up. Television and talk radio shows are keeping the topic alive. And comics are making fun of Geithner's revelation.

"Hey, I don't pay my taxes. Why can't I be Treasury secretary?" asked Steve Colbert on Wednesday night's The Colbert Report.

It may be funny to some, but the question is serious, and part of the continuing back-and-forth messages exchanged on Twitter, a free messaging service that allows users to send brief comments about issues of the day from their phones or computers.

"I'm still trying to get my mind around Tim Geithner wanting to collect taxes, but he doesn't believe in paying taxes," wrote Ken Barnes of New York in a message Wednesday evening.

Barnes, 38 and self employed, said in an interview Thursday it wasn't the fact that Geithner didn't pay his taxes that troubles him most. It's the fact that he waited until November, days before Obama announced his nomination, to fix a problem the IRS pointed out in 2006.

"He shows a willful disregard for the tax system," Barnes said. "If he was looking to be secretary of interior or some other Cabinet member, I wouldn't be as sensitive to it."

Transition aides have said Geithner paid the 2001 and 2002 taxes in November, even though legally he was not obligated to so many years later, after Obama's team discovered they were not paid.

Obama has offered his full, continued support for Geithner, saying he is confident the Senate will confirm him despite his "innocent mistake."

The Senate committee considering Geithner's nomination released 30 pages of records detailing the tax problems and other issues discovered after he was nominated. The materials show that the IRS audited Geithner in 2006 for tax years 2003 and 2004, noting then that he failed to pay self-employment taxes while working for the International Monetary Fund.

Geithner also received IMF pay in 2001 and 2002, and he handled his quarterly tax payments those years in the same improper way flagged by the IRS. But it wasn't until his nomination by Obama that he paid those taxes, a fact that's puzzling in light of arguments that Geithner's actions were simply "honest mistakes."

"Even in the best of economic times, it would be hard to accept a Treasury secretary who, after all, is in charge of the Internal Revenue Service with a cavalier attitude toward paying his taxes," The New York Times wrote in an editorial. "Today, in a time of economic peril, the nation cannot afford a Treasury secretary with a tainted ability to command respect and instill confidence."

Late-night comics made Geithner their latest joke.

"You ever notice that whenever a politician doesn't pay their taxes, 'Oh, it's an honest mistake?" Jay Leno said Wednesday night during his opening monologue on The Tonight Show. "You know what they call it when you and I don't pay our taxes? Exhibit A for the prosecution."

Geithner and others have pointed out that tax confusion abounds for employees at IMF and other international organizations who are required to handle all of their own taxes as if they were self-employed. The IRS offered a broad settlement in 2006 to those taxpayers, offering to waive most of the penalties because of the unique problems they experienced.

Most IMF employees who run into trouble with their taxes have problems because they have never filed as a self-employed worker, said one IMF official who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly.

But Geithner had experience filing as a self-employed worker, handling taxes for a consulting business and for his wife's work, according to a report by the Senate committee.

The real issue is whether the American public sees a problem in all of this, said Linda Chavez, who withdrew her name in January 2001 as President George W. Bush's labor secretary. Chavez came under fire after questions surfaced about room, board and money she gave a Guatemalan woman over two years, a woman she knew was an illegal immigrant.

Chavez said she's struck by how her controversy attracted a swarm of media attention, as compared to moderate interest so far in Geithner's case. But she said the problem is not in Geithner's situation; it's the overreaction in 2001 to her case by reporters and a hyper-partisan Democratic Party still angry about Bush's contested victory over Al Gore.

In Geithner's case, senators shouldn't rush to judgment, but they also shouldn't dismiss his actions as insignificant without asking tough questions, Chavez said. If they do gloss over the issue, they run the risk of leaving the public's questions unanswered about Geithner, Chavez said, who added:

"Is the public going to accept his explanation?" (source)

Ann In The MSM: The View Celebrate A Strong Woman (NOT!)

Ann's appearances on shows like Today, Early Show, and The View, have got to be understood for the full drama that they are. This is not just some conservative author who is being interviewed by a left-wing media. That would be interesting enough.

This woman has really hurt these prima donna's through her laser-like analysis, and they are trying their damnedest to capture just ONE SECOND of an unflattering moment while they have her in front of their cameras. And ANYTHING will do: scratch of the nose, look of horror, snorting laughter, etc. The plastic airheads aren't the only people to worry about, either. Producers (usually younger support staff, trying to do what they have to in order to make it in broadcast media), can keep a camera trained on an unaware person, picking up hushed dialogue [witness the Jesse Jackson flap last year, where he was caught on tape expressing how he'd like to reach out and grab The Great O's twig and berries], or any unflattering face we may make in the course of a ten minute episode. Then make that one unguarded second be the most prominent image we see for the promo of the interview, the still jpg to use as the website thumbnail, etc.

A lot of people are geared towards watching you fall, towards being rewarded by these wounded Barbara Walters for picking up that ugly moment while you're in their midst.

Ann can't relax AT ALL during these red-hot "Gotcha" traps, yet she presents cooly, sophisticated, and sincerely gracious to be there for an interview. Can you understand the pressure that she's under, not only to complete this annual "dance-with-a-bear" episode without blowing up, but to take a punch on live camera like a man? (I'm sorry to be sexist, but there's no other way to express it.) Ann knows that she's coming into a hornet's nest, that Matt will be trying to slam her for what she said in her book, what Harry had someone read to him about CBS anchors, and of course, what four women got themselves in a snit over in her book. Yet she comes willingly, anyway.

Ann is one brave, cool, cat.

It is one thing to be a provocateur. I cite Rush for being one of, if not the best political satirists/provocateur of the last 50 years. But Rush doesn't submit himself to the punnishment of taking these punches like Ann does. Don't get me wrong--he's got balls, for sure. But Ann's got that, too--maybe even more so.

She's been taking her life into her hands with every speaking engagement that she does for many years, and it's all because of a drive to illuminate, to educate, and yes, even to laugh! She is a precious commodity to America, a lonely voice that speaks for all of us Conservatives, and anyone brave enough question what you were taught in high school.

She digests serious, higher-level legal/social issues with wit and humor, painting a picture that is the alternative to the one painted every night by the MSM. If you don't think Ann is brilliant, it's only because you're still brainwashed by public education. Or, you are one of the annointed airheads in front of our tv cameras every day and night.

APPEARANCE ON THE VIEW:
This interview went just like the others have, only this time there was a little more estrogen, thanks only to Hasselback.

The tension in these interviews is there from the beginning, as Ann greets the interviewer(s) each time with a cheery "Good Morning". The daggers come out, sections of Ann's book are read out loud as if you were reading the confession of a serial murderer, slow...with pauses...to resonate...in the viewer's ear.

Do these tv bobble heads read with the same passion and glare when they interview despots like Castro or Chavez? There are real men and women trying to destroy America at our doorsteps and in our neighborhoods, but the harshest language directed at an interviewee these days is targeted towards this sleek, beautiful siren who spends the other 364 days of the year away from these red light districts we call television news.

What's the main subject this time? It's the unwed mothers facts that Ann cites in her book. I haven't read her book yet [just got my signed copy from WND in the mail today], but so far, after 5 major cable and network shows have interviewed her, it looks like Ann has done a 264-page analysis of one thing: the sexual mating habits of women. I see the sharks circling around Ann, obviously trying to paint her as cruel and heartless the best their feeble little minds will allow them.

Is there any doubt that the point about unwed mothers is merely an incidental part of her larger thesis, which is that liberals try to turn the guilty into victims in our declining culture? Why not start from the top, perched as any unbiased reader might, and examine the book from it's overall argument, then, in the framework of that context, pull out several salient or weak points as you may find them? Wouldn't we all benefit from a clear-headed, dispassionate analysis of her thinking on any particular subject?

But I guess the IQ of the View and their average viewer is too low to expect a more academic approach to this great mind. It is as if Einstein stepped into a Kindergarden class to talk about gravity.

*sigh*

The things she must do to make a living. The book sells itself to our crowd, to be sure, but to enjoy some better return for the years spent in research, analysis, speechmaking, and weekly output of a syndicated column, this is what must be done. One must dance with the bear if you want to win the prize.


The cackling hens that are trying to tear apart Ann are less trying to remain professional than they are trying to pander to their audience. This wasn't a
segment meant to showcase a tough woman who's made her way through a male-dominated industry, relying only on brains, grit, and principles all along the way.
These pro-women hyenas tore into Ann in hopes of destroying her, all she's worked for, and all she stands for.

Yet no one sees the irony. Where's the sisterhood? So what if Ann doesn't think like your kind of women? I know plenty more that do. Why couldn't you try to showcase and celebrate one of your kind for all that she has done by herself?

No, the View women couldn't get past their show-Ann-as-cruel agenda, trying to whip up a class and racial response right there with the audience full of women who don't work for a living. These audience members were loud and disruptive towards Ann when she was to reply a few times, but their morals and standards are different from you and me. For me, talking about unwanted, illegitimate births is a serious thing that has some amount of shame and negativity attached to it. That's why I've never done it.

For that crowd, though, it's not.

The only surprise here was that Hassleback had her knives out for Ann as well. I admit to not watching this beauty parlor experience called The View enough to know whether Hassleback acted out of the ordinary, but I had grown to understand that she supports the Conservative cause, to the degree that she understands it.

The moment at the end of this clip shows Whoopi regainning the conversation reigns because she knew they were going to break, needed to wind up the segment, and wanted to throw a zinger at Ann then storm off to commercials. "You can dish it out, but you can't take it", the brilliant sophist cackled at Ann.

Amazing, Whoopi. You, of all people, should know what it's like to be circled by a bunch of angry people who want to string you up, but you sat there salivating as Ann had to spend 10 minutes fending off charges of racism, elitism, (and being a pretty blonde, which they would never admit to being jealous of, but you know it's true), responding to every single rapid-fire accusation that they had been throwing at her...and you felt so little empathy for this woman that you tried to add one more knife to the collection in her back.

And how brilliant, too! The interview is set up for four snarky women to gang up on Ann, arguing that she's many things terrible, then, as this Jet Li-like wizard defends every thrust and perry with grace and exactitude for ten minutes, she faces the charge of "not being able to take it." HA!! That is what you say when you've been bested, dear Whoopi. You couldn't form a real charge of racism, cruelty to single mothers, or even *gasp* daring to "talk down" to the almighty Barbara Walters, (in between her tell-all books about screwing married men who are still married), against Ann, so you had to resort to doing schoolyard antics like the bully you are. You've gotten way too much mileage from being ugly and black.

NEWS FLASH TO WHOOPI: She apparently CAN take it, you washed-up hack, since she's obviously HERE, answering all of your claims, and TAKING IT. When's the last time you made declarations about morality in this country (in a deeper context than being on stage for a few minutes, where you're doing little more than making fart sounds with Billy Crystal and Robin Williams, or gossiping with three white women in an effort to be another Oprah), then went to be interviewed by the very people you criticized?

Installing A KDC MP438U Into A 05 Corolla

I decided to get Pam, my girlfriend, a car stereo this year for Christmas. Unfortunately, she couldn't use her factory 6-cd changer anymore when some of the discs I made for her got stuck in the unit, unable to be dislodged.
So I decided to get her a new unit alltogether. I haven't ever replaced a car stereo, so this was done with a little uncertainty. She has an Ipod, so I decided to find a head unit (the proper name for a car stereo) that had not only an Ipod input on it, but a USB port as well. The answer: the Kenwood KDC MP438U.

This is what the old factory unit looks like from a rear view:
With the hu (head unit) removed from Pam's car:

I admit: The plugs situation sent me to the internet, and then a local car stereo installation shop to find the answer. I needed a specific wire harness that was custom-made to fit the plug assembly for her make and model of car.
I purchased an 05 Corolla (6 JBL speaker) plug assembly for 17 dollars at the local stereo shop. Otherwise, I didn't need to purchase anything else, other than the din unit (dash kit) and the stereo.

The attendant at the local car stereo shop was glad to show me the harness I was wanting, but suddenly, after pecking around on his pc keyboard a bit before ringing me up, he gets a serious look on his face, and told me that he's supposed to include a $110.00 pre-amp digital converter if my girl's car was a 6-JBL speaker setup. It was, but this new amp device was news to me. All of the research I'd done, plus seeing the plugs as they were originally plugged, told me to resist his hard sell.

I quickly steered the conversation into deeper details, ("Well, why does the 6-speaker assembly need a digital conversion that the 4-speaker wouldn't", etc) mainly out of shock at the price of this device, and had him unable to answer me within a minute or so. He finally said, "Look man, all I know is that if your stock stereo has inputs like the ones you got in this picture, here", [I printed off a copy of the above photo with "05 Corolla stock radio" in it to illustrate my job needs when I went to the shop], pointing not to the ones that are circled in yellow, but to the ones on the left side of the rear of the stereo, "then I'm supposed to include this amp convertor".

That port looked more like the port on the back of the new Kenwood, and I had been wondering why there was nothing plugged to them when removing it. But the ONLY plugs (besides the antennae) from the Corolla were the ones circled in yellow above, going to the yellow-circled ports above that pic. Nothing was plugged into the left-side ports, and I told him that twice--once in the beginning, then again now.

He said, "If you didn't have cables running to that port, then your car ain't a 6-JBL speaker system--it's a 4-speaker system." triumphantly, with finality, as if there was no more left to say about the matter.

I told him, "I'll take my chances, let me buy the 17 dollar JBL 6-speaker harness for now, and if I need to, I'll come back for that amp convertor."

The new harness is to be connected to the one your radio manufacturer sends you. They look similar, but with different plugs, of course, and maybe some labels, but they are using universal colors in the car stereo industry, so you just merry up color to like color. This is the Kenwood harness that came with the package:

My advice: crimp (with butt joints, not crude splicing with electrical tape) the new assembly to the new stereo wiring harness, which should be included in your new stereo packaging:

After crimping, attach them to the car's harness:

Before attaching the wires:

After plugging in your antennae (single-post adaptor, usually), plug in your new hu:

Slip it in, and carefully snap the dash console back in place:

And VOILA:

All works great, and she's really impressed with the upgrade. I'm happy--she deserves to have nice things. We particularly like the USB port capability, and the dual-zone feature, where the rear speakers play from a different source, in their own "zone". The rear speakers can be playing something from your jump drive while the front speakers are listening to an IPod, satellite radio, a phone call, or, if you care to listen to the museum of broadcasting, terrestrial AM\FM radio and its polished turd, HD radio.

FOOTNOTE: The guy at the stereo shop was wrong, obviously, by saying that Pam's car was a 4-JBL speaker system. I knew that when he told me that I had a 4-speaker setup if those (yellow-circled port above) were the only plugs I had going to the factory unit. Luckily, I had already taken apart Pam's dash before going into this store, seeking a part and advice. That's how I knew for sure that I didn't have to purchase the $110.00 device.

I listened to each of her 6 speakers, all responding in beautiful clarity.

Preview Of Destruction: Obama Warns A Nation

You can practically hear the disdain for business [free market] in this report of the speech above, especially when you get to the end, where Obama’s emphasis is illuminated: “Obama also promised action to address the economy’s ills beyond the package, such as tackling a potential wave of home foreclosures, preventing the failure of financial institutions, rewriting financial regulations and keeping accountable the “Wall Street wrongdoers” who engage in risky investing.” (source)

“Risky investing”???? Screw you, you f*ing punk! “Wall Street wrongdoers” were ONLY put in place because of YOU and your ACORN nuts, your Andrew Cuomo bolsheviks at HUD in the 1990’s, and your lickspittle peckerheads like Bill Clinton. Don’t EVEN act like Wall Street dreamed up these home lending procedures which were the first cancer cells in this crash we’re now experiencing! (free market banks aren’t told to make loans to people who can’t pay them back)

This petty beaurocrat has listened at the feet of communists and socialists all of his life, and it is apparent. He doesn’t have the courage to be a free thinker, willing to throw off those chains of old. The Democrat Party has not evolved for 50 years, and it is obvious to those of us who have paid attention to the past 200 years of Western Civilization. Instead of innovation and production, our economic wizards like Obama and those who feed at the same trough promote niche interests [how many unskilled masses will "green business" employ?] and peacemeal projects ["updating schools and universities"? Who gets those few jobs in select college towns across America--your union thug buddies? What about those of us who don't belong to a union, live out in the boonies, and just lost our job? NEWS FLASH: there's MILLIONS of us. How many universities you got?] as a solution to our global financial crisis.

This idiot drinks from the same well as many fine characters from our past: Trotsky, Stalin, Mao. Where’s the NEW approach from the Left? Where’s the evolution? We’ve had to endure MUCH modification of our Free Market stance in this world (think about how much Adam Smith’s formula has changed), why doesn’t the Left ever have to change and meet us halfway on…ANYthing?

But they don’t. We will be strangled by this new administration, unable to gasp for air. The Free Market’s solution would be to let the markets encounter their corrections, make adjustments, then proceed on an improved path. But Obama will feed this cancer to keep it going, extracting more and more tax dollars from our whimpering freedom, all the time telling us that it was Free Markets that got us here, and that if we were wise, we would stop dreaming about making 100K a year anymore. Just like Michelle said in Ohio, “Don’t set yourself up for that dream job, making that dream salary”. It’s all too hard. And it keeps you from being herded into our circles.

Two legs bad, four legs good…