If you liked the bailout, stimulus and the latest pork laden 410 billion dollar budget bill, you’ll love these tidbits:
Nanny Pelosi thinks it’s “very patriotic” for illegal aliens to gather to listen to her ramble on and pander to them, but she thinks it’s un-American for immigration officials to enforce the laws SHE PASSED! Coming from anyone else, this would sound incredibly stupid. Coming from Nanny, it goes down as one of her more lucid moments.
While windbags in Washington get all wound around the axel about the $145 million AIG paid out as bonuses to the very people who flew the company into the ground and now refuse to kill themselves, Fannie and Freddie (the proximate cause of all this turmoil) plan to pay out millions to just four execs. And, none of the gasbags grilling “Heck of a job Liddy” yesterday have shown the slightest interest in recouping the 90 Million Franklin Raines ripped off from Fannie.
What happens when your organization is charged with voter fraud in more than a dozen states? A Justice Department probe? Nah. FBI raids on your offices? Nah. Public outrage? No, hell no. Investigative reporters pouring over every transaction and background investigations on the people serving on your Board? Media investigate - Puleeeez. Well, if it was a conservative group caught in fraud all of the above and much more. But, if you are ACORN, you get asked to provide canvassers for the 2010 census. Hey, what could wrong? Why worry about an organization that registered Mickey Mouse to vote…10,000 times…in every precinct in America? Hey the census is just the instrument that determines where the members of the House of Representatives will come from. It is just the means by which government welfare outlays are determined. No problem. I'm sure ACORN will count every one of Nanny Pelosi's "very patriotic Americans" 10 or 12 times each.
The very busy Dear Leader took time out from his comedy tour (he does his routine on Leno tonight) to make “his” March madness predictions. Turns out “his” predictions look eerily similar to computer picks made by Joel Sokol, a Georgia Tech professor. Sokol’s statistical model correctly selected the Final Four, championship game and winner of last year's tournament. This is very Bidenesque. The Dear Leader ripping off a computer nerd without so much as a hat tip. And why is the Dear Leader of the United States interested in this stuff? Seems to me he ought to keep his yap shut and support all 64 teams. Last and this is tricky. Isn’t it just a bit of racist stereotyping for ESPN to be portraying the first black Dear Leader as a basketball maven? This reminds of the time Michael Scott recruits Stanley - the only black guy in “The Office” – to be on his basketball team. No matter how many times Stanley tells Michael he can’t play and doesn’t give a wit about the game, Michael insists that Stanley must be able to play because he’s black. So the Dear Leader rips off some computer guy off and looks like a genius. I’m sure Slow Joe came up with this idea. I'm rooting the #16 against UNC.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
If you had to kill yourself after displaying poor judgment, Washington D.C. would be a ghost town
The only thing funnier than AIG duping the dopes in congress are the dopes’ reaction to being duped. Think Yosemite Sam’s reaction to being blown up by his own dynamite when Sam goes after Bugs Bunny. As he walks away all burnt, tattered and singed Sam mutters, “Dad blame rabbit.”
The brilliant minds in congress that set this whole thing up are now going to invest in an ACME AIG bonus recovery kit. The kit includes everything from unconstitutional taxes on the bonus money to urging AIG employees to kill themselves, which ironically would make it nigh on impossible to recover the money congress is after. I fired this off to Senator Idiot…uh…Grassley:
Senator Charlie, Chuck, Chas Grassley (I for Idiot) IA, called upon AIG employees who approved or took bonuses to commit hari kari. Good thinking Chuck. Hey looser, if we’re going to encourage people to kill themselves for bad judgment, let’s start with the criminal class that populates much of congress and Washington D.C.:
First, how about everyone in Washington who voted for or signed the TARP and/or the stimulus bill(s) without reading it/them kill themselves? I cannot think of a single measure that would benefit America more.
And let’s not outsource the method to the Japanese. Let’s do it the old fashion American way. Go get a large caliber handgun so that you could not possibly miss what passes for brains in D.C., put the gun to your head and pull the trigger. You Chuck, no doubt, will have to pull the trigger several times to hit the target. Please, don’t give up. Just keep pulling the trigger and reload if you must.
How about the Freddie and Fannie managers and their congressional lackeys? Shouldn’t they kill themselves? If AIG execs need to be dead, certainly Franklin Raines and Jim Johnson, Barney the pimp Frank and Chris really you have no idea how shameless I am Dodd should be required hrow themselves from the top of the Capitol Building?
And then there’s the REAL criminals in Washington shouldn’t they, at minimum, be required “to do the right thing”?
Ted Kennedy should have killed himself years ago on principle, but the there was that Mary Jo Kopechne thing.
Shouldn’t Bill Clinton have killed himself for being a perjurer?
Shouldn’t the Shrillda Beast be dead by now as well for aiding and abetting a perjurer?
Shouldn’t Slow Joe Biden have assumed room temperature after lifting lines from another man’s speech?
Shouldn’t Barney the whore house operator Frank be dead by now?
Alcee Hastings is an impeached FL judge serving in the house. Why should he be allowed to continue to deplete the oxygen supply?
Billy cold cash Jefferson has been indicted in a FBI sting, yet remains up right and voting on laws that govern the rest of us.
Then there is Demo-Dope Jimmy my wife’s a punching bag Moran whose wife once charged him with abuse. He has assaulted other members of Congress on the floor of the House (well good for him on that one) and is himself a former stockbroker whose judgment in trades is so bad he is broke from poor investments. He also assaulted a minor in some fracas. Jimmy claimed the minority Ute was trying to rob him.
Then there are the tax cheats that populate the Washington Class-less crowd Geithner, Daschel etc. Certainly they all need to be dead – right Chuck?
These are REAL criminals Charlie. Why shouldn’t they have to kill themselves?
In 2000 Capital Hill Blue was reporting this about congress:
* 29 members of Congress have been accused of spousal abuse.
* 7 have been arrested for fraud.
* 19 have been accused of writing bad checks.
* 117 have bankrupted at least two businesses.
* 3 have been arrested for assault.
* 71 have credit reports so bad they can't qualify for acredit card.
* 14 have been arrested on drug-related charges.
* 8 have been arrested for shoplifting.
* 21 are current defendants in lawsuits.
* And in 1998 alone, 84 were stopped for drunk driving, but released after they claimed Congressional immunity.
WOW! Am I ever proud of MY congress now.
The brilliant minds in congress that set this whole thing up are now going to invest in an ACME AIG bonus recovery kit. The kit includes everything from unconstitutional taxes on the bonus money to urging AIG employees to kill themselves, which ironically would make it nigh on impossible to recover the money congress is after. I fired this off to Senator Idiot…uh…Grassley:
Senator Charlie, Chuck, Chas Grassley (I for Idiot) IA, called upon AIG employees who approved or took bonuses to commit hari kari. Good thinking Chuck. Hey looser, if we’re going to encourage people to kill themselves for bad judgment, let’s start with the criminal class that populates much of congress and Washington D.C.:
First, how about everyone in Washington who voted for or signed the TARP and/or the stimulus bill(s) without reading it/them kill themselves? I cannot think of a single measure that would benefit America more.
And let’s not outsource the method to the Japanese. Let’s do it the old fashion American way. Go get a large caliber handgun so that you could not possibly miss what passes for brains in D.C., put the gun to your head and pull the trigger. You Chuck, no doubt, will have to pull the trigger several times to hit the target. Please, don’t give up. Just keep pulling the trigger and reload if you must.
How about the Freddie and Fannie managers and their congressional lackeys? Shouldn’t they kill themselves? If AIG execs need to be dead, certainly Franklin Raines and Jim Johnson, Barney the pimp Frank and Chris really you have no idea how shameless I am Dodd should be required hrow themselves from the top of the Capitol Building?
And then there’s the REAL criminals in Washington shouldn’t they, at minimum, be required “to do the right thing”?
Ted Kennedy should have killed himself years ago on principle, but the there was that Mary Jo Kopechne thing.
Shouldn’t Bill Clinton have killed himself for being a perjurer?
Shouldn’t the Shrillda Beast be dead by now as well for aiding and abetting a perjurer?
Shouldn’t Slow Joe Biden have assumed room temperature after lifting lines from another man’s speech?
Shouldn’t Barney the whore house operator Frank be dead by now?
Alcee Hastings is an impeached FL judge serving in the house. Why should he be allowed to continue to deplete the oxygen supply?
Billy cold cash Jefferson has been indicted in a FBI sting, yet remains up right and voting on laws that govern the rest of us.
Then there is Demo-Dope Jimmy my wife’s a punching bag Moran whose wife once charged him with abuse. He has assaulted other members of Congress on the floor of the House (well good for him on that one) and is himself a former stockbroker whose judgment in trades is so bad he is broke from poor investments. He also assaulted a minor in some fracas. Jimmy claimed the minority Ute was trying to rob him.
Then there are the tax cheats that populate the Washington Class-less crowd Geithner, Daschel etc. Certainly they all need to be dead – right Chuck?
These are REAL criminals Charlie. Why shouldn’t they have to kill themselves?
In 2000 Capital Hill Blue was reporting this about congress:
* 29 members of Congress have been accused of spousal abuse.
* 7 have been arrested for fraud.
* 19 have been accused of writing bad checks.
* 117 have bankrupted at least two businesses.
* 3 have been arrested for assault.
* 71 have credit reports so bad they can't qualify for acredit card.
* 14 have been arrested on drug-related charges.
* 8 have been arrested for shoplifting.
* 21 are current defendants in lawsuits.
* And in 1998 alone, 84 were stopped for drunk driving, but released after they claimed Congressional immunity.
WOW! Am I ever proud of MY congress now.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
TARP money wasted? Who'd have guessed?
EXTRA EXTRA, read all about it. Government goofs up TARP rules blames AIG for not following rules that don’t exist! Male prostitute whore house owner Frank outraged. Dear Leader blames Bush; says Demo-Dope appointed CEO Liddy who approved payments is doing a heck of a job. EXTRA EXTRA, read all about it.
If it weren’t so pathetic, or maybe because it is, this would be/is hilarious. Who said that there would be all kinds of waste, fraud and abuse associated with the massive bailout bill that nobody had read? Who said the haste and reckless manner in which the bill was passed would have all sorts of unintended consequences? Who said that there was not one shred of evidence that the US government would be able to efficiently and effectively oversee the kind of cash outlay contained in the bill? Who argued to make the money available but to trickle it out as needed over time? Yes dear readers, it was Lex.
Mark me down as one of only a handful of people in the US who are NOT outraged, surprised, upset or even mildly shocked that the government screwed this up. It was like watching a three year old with five scoops of ice cream piled one a top another on a cone walking into a room full of hungry dogs. You know the ice cream is going to end up on the floor being devoured by the dogs while the three year old cries and screams. You just don’t know which dog is going to knock the cone out of the little girl’s hand.
In their haste to do something…anything…right or wrong, congress forgot to write in any rules about how the government TARP money (wait that’s idiocy – government has no money) your money would be spent. Now the exact same dopes who foisted the bailout on us are outraged that some of the money is being used to pay bonuses to other dopes who wrecked AIG.
First, I feel more outrage every time a member of congress draws a pay check. Talk about money for nothing. Barney free parking at my whore house Frank wrecks the American economy costing us TRILLIONS and yet the lisping tub of lard is outraged over a couple of hundred million. Yeah, makes sense.
Next, hey it’s all about stimulus - right? Well those bonuses are bound to stimulate the economy somewhere. I’d as soon have some fat cat Wall St. dude throwing the money around in clubs in NY as some fat cat union boss funneling the money back into Demo-Dope campaign coffers after hijacking some “shovel ready” stimulus project for 8 times the actual cost.
As fraud goes, this ain’t much. It’s completely above board. It’s completely legal. If this is the kind of crap that is happening in plain sight, what kind of crap are the union thugs pulling in back rooms while in collusion with the Demo-Dopes?
This is not Bush’s fault. It is the wholly owned responsibility of the Dear Leader and his dope buddies in congress. This whole thing went down on their watch and was approved by the Dear Leader’s handpicked CEO of AIG. In his own Katrina moment of irony, the Dear Leader heaped praise on Liddy for doing a heck of a job while complaining about the bonuses Liddy approved. Huh? Reminds me of the, “You're doing heck of a job Brownie” comment Bush has been relentlessly lampooned over after Katrina.
If it weren’t so pathetic, or maybe because it is, this would be/is hilarious. Who said that there would be all kinds of waste, fraud and abuse associated with the massive bailout bill that nobody had read? Who said the haste and reckless manner in which the bill was passed would have all sorts of unintended consequences? Who said that there was not one shred of evidence that the US government would be able to efficiently and effectively oversee the kind of cash outlay contained in the bill? Who argued to make the money available but to trickle it out as needed over time? Yes dear readers, it was Lex.
Mark me down as one of only a handful of people in the US who are NOT outraged, surprised, upset or even mildly shocked that the government screwed this up. It was like watching a three year old with five scoops of ice cream piled one a top another on a cone walking into a room full of hungry dogs. You know the ice cream is going to end up on the floor being devoured by the dogs while the three year old cries and screams. You just don’t know which dog is going to knock the cone out of the little girl’s hand.
In their haste to do something…anything…right or wrong, congress forgot to write in any rules about how the government TARP money (wait that’s idiocy – government has no money) your money would be spent. Now the exact same dopes who foisted the bailout on us are outraged that some of the money is being used to pay bonuses to other dopes who wrecked AIG.
First, I feel more outrage every time a member of congress draws a pay check. Talk about money for nothing. Barney free parking at my whore house Frank wrecks the American economy costing us TRILLIONS and yet the lisping tub of lard is outraged over a couple of hundred million. Yeah, makes sense.
Next, hey it’s all about stimulus - right? Well those bonuses are bound to stimulate the economy somewhere. I’d as soon have some fat cat Wall St. dude throwing the money around in clubs in NY as some fat cat union boss funneling the money back into Demo-Dope campaign coffers after hijacking some “shovel ready” stimulus project for 8 times the actual cost.
As fraud goes, this ain’t much. It’s completely above board. It’s completely legal. If this is the kind of crap that is happening in plain sight, what kind of crap are the union thugs pulling in back rooms while in collusion with the Demo-Dopes?
This is not Bush’s fault. It is the wholly owned responsibility of the Dear Leader and his dope buddies in congress. This whole thing went down on their watch and was approved by the Dear Leader’s handpicked CEO of AIG. In his own Katrina moment of irony, the Dear Leader heaped praise on Liddy for doing a heck of a job while complaining about the bonuses Liddy approved. Huh? Reminds me of the, “You're doing heck of a job Brownie” comment Bush has been relentlessly lampooned over after Katrina.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Tripping down the road toward fascism
Dwight Eisenhower warned of something called the great Military-Industrial complex. I guess the concept of “the military” and industrial tyrants conspiring to rule the world or at least keep enough low-grade wars going to advance the interests of each is a spooky enough thing to lay awake worrying about. It’s the thing movies are made of. Think, Ironman, Spiderman and other movies like them, where the military gets sucked into producing some “ultimate weapon” only to have a slimy captain of industry or maniacal general use it for his own gain.
The trouble with the whole Military-Industrial complex conspiracy theory is that it falls apart under the weight of a true democratic and capitalistic society with competing political and business ideas. The Republicans could not hold the Military-Industrial complex together during what started out to be a wildly popular war. Demo-rats undermined the president, the troops and their generals at every step. The equipment that we went to war with, that made certain industries rich, is not the same equipment we are using 6 years later. The industrial complex has been infiltrated by new guys with better ideas for everything from body armor to armored cars.
On the military end, Rumsfeld and Franks, the architects of the greatest military advance of all time, gave way to Gates and Petraeus who produced a winning strategy for post invasion operational victory, in spite of cretin Demo-rats like Reid, Murtha, Durbin et al. So the Military-Industrial complex conspiracy theory fell apart on all fronts.
What’s really dangerous is a one party government; led by a figure that the media is afraid to question (not because they’ll be criticized for disagreeing with his policy but will simply be rejected as racists) and that government buying majority holdings in banks, manufactures, education and unions. That begins to look an awful lot like where we are headed. And that is fascism, my friends.
The trouble with the whole Military-Industrial complex conspiracy theory is that it falls apart under the weight of a true democratic and capitalistic society with competing political and business ideas. The Republicans could not hold the Military-Industrial complex together during what started out to be a wildly popular war. Demo-rats undermined the president, the troops and their generals at every step. The equipment that we went to war with, that made certain industries rich, is not the same equipment we are using 6 years later. The industrial complex has been infiltrated by new guys with better ideas for everything from body armor to armored cars.
On the military end, Rumsfeld and Franks, the architects of the greatest military advance of all time, gave way to Gates and Petraeus who produced a winning strategy for post invasion operational victory, in spite of cretin Demo-rats like Reid, Murtha, Durbin et al. So the Military-Industrial complex conspiracy theory fell apart on all fronts.
What’s really dangerous is a one party government; led by a figure that the media is afraid to question (not because they’ll be criticized for disagreeing with his policy but will simply be rejected as racists) and that government buying majority holdings in banks, manufactures, education and unions. That begins to look an awful lot like where we are headed. And that is fascism, my friends.
Friday, March 13, 2009
Kids! What are you going to do with a washed up politician’s kid these days?
Take six minutes and watch this then watch this. It’s hilarious. Well at least to me.
But wait there's more
And let’s take this opportunity to add to our list of Demo-Dope hypocrisies. The Dear Leader attached a signing statement to the 410 billion dollar earmark bill. A signing statement from the President usually means he disagrees with something in the bill and outlines what he will do about the disagreeable portions.
No big deal right. Well the Dear Leader railed against President Bush for using signing statement inferring that they were an end run around congress and unconstitutional.
Well if that’s what the Dear Leader thought back during the campaign, why is he now using an unconstitutional method – at least in his own cramped mind – to make his own end run around congress? “Well this is different,” whined the Pillsbury Dough Boy in a suite and Dear Leader mouth piece Bobby Gibbs.
Different how? Well this is us. That was them, I guess.
I'm John McCain's daughter so I must know something
Meghan McCain proves that the seed doesn’t fall from the tree. Her, “Let’s all be centrists and get along,” shtick has already worn thin. According to Meghan, the Republican Party should just knock a quarter of the spending off of all the Demo-Dope tax cheating waste and be happy. Try picking up a copy of A Choice not an Echo Meghan.
But wait there's more
And let’s take this opportunity to add to our list of Demo-Dope hypocrisies. The Dear Leader attached a signing statement to the 410 billion dollar earmark bill. A signing statement from the President usually means he disagrees with something in the bill and outlines what he will do about the disagreeable portions.
No big deal right. Well the Dear Leader railed against President Bush for using signing statement inferring that they were an end run around congress and unconstitutional.
Well if that’s what the Dear Leader thought back during the campaign, why is he now using an unconstitutional method – at least in his own cramped mind – to make his own end run around congress? “Well this is different,” whined the Pillsbury Dough Boy in a suite and Dear Leader mouth piece Bobby Gibbs.
Different how? Well this is us. That was them, I guess.
I'm John McCain's daughter so I must know something
Meghan McCain proves that the seed doesn’t fall from the tree. Her, “Let’s all be centrists and get along,” shtick has already worn thin. According to Meghan, the Republican Party should just knock a quarter of the spending off of all the Demo-Dope tax cheating waste and be happy. Try picking up a copy of A Choice not an Echo Meghan.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
The debate is over - science will put $ over truth
Consider that the Dear Leader said, “[it’s] about letting scientists ... do their jobs, free from manipulation or coercion. ... It is about ensuring that scientific data is never distorted or concealed to serve a political agenda - and that we would make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology” when lifting the GOVERNMENT ban on embryonic stem cell research. Hmmm, maybe the best way to keep the politics out of science is to keep politicians and government money out of science.
But juxtapose the Dear leader’s position on stem cell research with AlGore’s position on global warming (19 degrees in Ft. Wayne, IN last night by the way). AlGore steadfastly refuses to debate scientist who dare disagree with him. Now think about that. A washed up political hack of no particular talent is deemed a more credible source on the subject of global warming than a MIT scientist.
And how does the pompous windbag AlGore win the global warming debate? He simply declares that “the debate is over.” I’m going to try that strategy with the Mrs. about the new .50 cal Beowulf rifle - cost $4,400 - I’ve had my eye on. “Look honey the debate is over. We’re getting the rifle.” The wife thinks about it for a second and rplies, "Oh the debate is over? I didn't know that. Let me go get the check book." Something tells me that's not how the real conversation is going to go.
So forget about the slippery slope of the government engineering a clone army of Sgt. Rock type soldiers. Never mind some Montgomery Burns type using the government’s research to bring off-spring into the world for the sole purpose of having a reservoir of matching spare body parts handy. Let’s just ask ourselves why the government can ignore science in the case of global warming but demand useless government funded research in the case of stem cell research?
It’s simple – ideology. Stem cell research is a cheapening of human life. How far behind can infanticide for undesirable kids and euthanasia for the sick be? Global warming is the government’s trump card to control more of lives – what we drive, eat, wear, how warm and cool we keep our homes nearly everything.
I predict that the government’s involvement in this will have the exact opposite of its intended effect. Instead of science seeking truth, science research will be seeking results that comport with funding. Can you imagine a scientist coming out with research that a botox injection into a woman’s head will reduce the woman’s IQ 10 points for every injection while Nanny Pelosi is Speaker. What are the chances that there will be ground breaking research that chubby lisping homosexuals are on average are 99.9% less likely to admit their own culpability in a housing meltdown scandal than the rest of us while Barney need a male prostitute? Frank is around?
Science will no longer be chasing the truth. It will be chasing government dollars.
But juxtapose the Dear leader’s position on stem cell research with AlGore’s position on global warming (19 degrees in Ft. Wayne, IN last night by the way). AlGore steadfastly refuses to debate scientist who dare disagree with him. Now think about that. A washed up political hack of no particular talent is deemed a more credible source on the subject of global warming than a MIT scientist.
And how does the pompous windbag AlGore win the global warming debate? He simply declares that “the debate is over.” I’m going to try that strategy with the Mrs. about the new .50 cal Beowulf rifle - cost $4,400 - I’ve had my eye on. “Look honey the debate is over. We’re getting the rifle.” The wife thinks about it for a second and rplies, "Oh the debate is over? I didn't know that. Let me go get the check book." Something tells me that's not how the real conversation is going to go.
So forget about the slippery slope of the government engineering a clone army of Sgt. Rock type soldiers. Never mind some Montgomery Burns type using the government’s research to bring off-spring into the world for the sole purpose of having a reservoir of matching spare body parts handy. Let’s just ask ourselves why the government can ignore science in the case of global warming but demand useless government funded research in the case of stem cell research?
It’s simple – ideology. Stem cell research is a cheapening of human life. How far behind can infanticide for undesirable kids and euthanasia for the sick be? Global warming is the government’s trump card to control more of lives – what we drive, eat, wear, how warm and cool we keep our homes nearly everything.
I predict that the government’s involvement in this will have the exact opposite of its intended effect. Instead of science seeking truth, science research will be seeking results that comport with funding. Can you imagine a scientist coming out with research that a botox injection into a woman’s head will reduce the woman’s IQ 10 points for every injection while Nanny Pelosi is Speaker. What are the chances that there will be ground breaking research that chubby lisping homosexuals are on average are 99.9% less likely to admit their own culpability in a housing meltdown scandal than the rest of us while Barney need a male prostitute? Frank is around?
Science will no longer be chasing the truth. It will be chasing government dollars.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Ho hum, more Demo-Dope hypocrisy
The fact that Demo-Dope hypocrisy is so common place that is no longer makes the news cycle and no one can be surprised by it no matter how blatant, is a bad thing. As a result, Demo-Dopes are an arrogant bunch and completely without shame.
Exhibit one: Here tax cheat Charlie Rangel tells a tax payer asking Rangel about his tax cheating ways to “mind your own damn business.” Arrogant? That statement is arrogant beyond belief. It is our business Charlie. You write the tax code. But you are either too stupid or too dishonest to follow it (you chose which). That bit of Washington insider corruption is John Q. Public’s business Charlie. Shameless? Sure it is. How would you react if caught in this predicament? Most of us would be apologetic. “Oh jeez, I really fouled up. Please forgive me and allow me to make payment in full. As a result of my mistakes I promise to look closely at our tax laws and try to simplify the code.” But these shameless arrogant bastards tell us to shut up and mind our own business. It’s like your wife walking in and catching you trying on her thong underwear and bras. Instead of saying, “Oh my, I guess I’d better get myself some counseling,” you scream at her, “get the hell out of here and mind your own damn business.” I think it is her legitimate business to know that her husband is a cross dresser – at best.
Exhibit two: Grandma Pelosi and the rest of the Demo-Dope leadership lambasted auto execs for flying private aircraft to Washington for their Congressional testimony. Never mind that time is the most precious commodity of people with great responsibility. Ask any mom with two or three kids running around the house. But now news has leaked out that Nanny Pelosi has been using the U.S. Air Force as her own Jet Blue.
See if these tidbits from Judicial Watch strike you as shameless arrogance:
In response to a series of requests for military aircraft, one Defense Department official wrote, "Any chance of politely querying [Pelosi's team] if they really intend to do all of these or are they just picking every weekend?...[T]here's no need to block every weekend 'just in case'..." The email also notes that Pelosi's office had, "a history of canceling many of their past requests."
One DOD official complained about the "hidden costs" associated with the speaker's last minute changes and cancellations. "We have...folks prepping the jets and crews driving in (not a short drive for some), cooking meals and preflighting the jets etc."
The documents include a discussion of House Ethics rules and Defense Department policies as they apply to the speaker's requests for staff, spouses and extended family to accompany her on military aircraft. In May 2008, for example, Pelosi requested that her husband join her on a Congressional Delegation (CODEL) into Iraq. The DOD explained to Pelosi that the agency has a written policy prohibiting spouses from joining CODEL's into combat zones.
Documents obtained from the U.S. Army include correspondence from Speaker Pelosi's office requesting an Army escort and three military planes to transport Pelosi and other members of Congress to Cleveland, Ohio, for the funeral services of the late Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones. Pelosi noted in her letter of August 22, 2008, that such a request, labeled "Operation Tribute" was an "exception to standard policy."
The documents also detail correspondence from intermediaries for Speaker Pelosi issuing demands for certain aircraft and expressing outrage when requested military planes were not available. "It is my understanding there are no G5s available for the House during the Memorial Day recess. This is totally unacceptable...The speaker will want to know where the planes are..." wrote Kay King, Director of the House Office of Interparliamentary Affairs. In a separate email, when told a certain type of aircraft would not be available, King writes, "This is not good news, and we will have some very disappointed folks, as well as a very upset [s]peaker."
During another email exchange DOD staff advised Kay King that one Pelosi military aircraft request could not be met because of "crew rest requirements" and offered to help secure commercial travel. Kay King responded: "We appreciate the efforts to help the codel [sic] fly commercially but you know the problem that creates with spouses. If we can find another way to assist with military assets, we would like to do that."
Exhibit last: After campaigning on and promising an end to earmark spending, the Dear Leader is about to sign a spending bill laden with earmarks. The Demo-Dope strategy is to blame all of the pork on…drum roll here…George Bush. Shameless arrogant hypocrisy? Sure it is. But who’s going to notice?
Exhibit one: Here tax cheat Charlie Rangel tells a tax payer asking Rangel about his tax cheating ways to “mind your own damn business.” Arrogant? That statement is arrogant beyond belief. It is our business Charlie. You write the tax code. But you are either too stupid or too dishonest to follow it (you chose which). That bit of Washington insider corruption is John Q. Public’s business Charlie. Shameless? Sure it is. How would you react if caught in this predicament? Most of us would be apologetic. “Oh jeez, I really fouled up. Please forgive me and allow me to make payment in full. As a result of my mistakes I promise to look closely at our tax laws and try to simplify the code.” But these shameless arrogant bastards tell us to shut up and mind our own business. It’s like your wife walking in and catching you trying on her thong underwear and bras. Instead of saying, “Oh my, I guess I’d better get myself some counseling,” you scream at her, “get the hell out of here and mind your own damn business.” I think it is her legitimate business to know that her husband is a cross dresser – at best.
Exhibit two: Grandma Pelosi and the rest of the Demo-Dope leadership lambasted auto execs for flying private aircraft to Washington for their Congressional testimony. Never mind that time is the most precious commodity of people with great responsibility. Ask any mom with two or three kids running around the house. But now news has leaked out that Nanny Pelosi has been using the U.S. Air Force as her own Jet Blue.
See if these tidbits from Judicial Watch strike you as shameless arrogance:
In response to a series of requests for military aircraft, one Defense Department official wrote, "Any chance of politely querying [Pelosi's team] if they really intend to do all of these or are they just picking every weekend?...[T]here's no need to block every weekend 'just in case'..." The email also notes that Pelosi's office had, "a history of canceling many of their past requests."
One DOD official complained about the "hidden costs" associated with the speaker's last minute changes and cancellations. "We have...folks prepping the jets and crews driving in (not a short drive for some), cooking meals and preflighting the jets etc."
The documents include a discussion of House Ethics rules and Defense Department policies as they apply to the speaker's requests for staff, spouses and extended family to accompany her on military aircraft. In May 2008, for example, Pelosi requested that her husband join her on a Congressional Delegation (CODEL) into Iraq. The DOD explained to Pelosi that the agency has a written policy prohibiting spouses from joining CODEL's into combat zones.
Documents obtained from the U.S. Army include correspondence from Speaker Pelosi's office requesting an Army escort and three military planes to transport Pelosi and other members of Congress to Cleveland, Ohio, for the funeral services of the late Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones. Pelosi noted in her letter of August 22, 2008, that such a request, labeled "Operation Tribute" was an "exception to standard policy."
The documents also detail correspondence from intermediaries for Speaker Pelosi issuing demands for certain aircraft and expressing outrage when requested military planes were not available. "It is my understanding there are no G5s available for the House during the Memorial Day recess. This is totally unacceptable...The speaker will want to know where the planes are..." wrote Kay King, Director of the House Office of Interparliamentary Affairs. In a separate email, when told a certain type of aircraft would not be available, King writes, "This is not good news, and we will have some very disappointed folks, as well as a very upset [s]peaker."
During another email exchange DOD staff advised Kay King that one Pelosi military aircraft request could not be met because of "crew rest requirements" and offered to help secure commercial travel. Kay King responded: "We appreciate the efforts to help the codel [sic] fly commercially but you know the problem that creates with spouses. If we can find another way to assist with military assets, we would like to do that."
Exhibit last: After campaigning on and promising an end to earmark spending, the Dear Leader is about to sign a spending bill laden with earmarks. The Demo-Dope strategy is to blame all of the pork on…drum roll here…George Bush. Shameless arrogant hypocrisy? Sure it is. But who’s going to notice?
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Military service diminishes one's freedom according to Educators Publishing Service
We had another controversy here last night over Lex jr.’s studies. He comes home with his vocabulary book. Among the 15 words he is supposed to know is the word “diminish.” The book has the following question:
Which of the following would diminish one’s freedom?
a. Being held captive
b. Having one’s driver’s license taken away
c. Joining the Navy
d. Being released from prison
Mom and dad tell Lex jr. a and b are correct. Jr. informs us that the teacher said that there were three correct answers for that question. Huh? “d” is obviously out, so that leaves “c”. That can’t be. Oh yeah, jr. says that the teacher said there were three correct answers for question 2. So, fired this off to jr.’s teacher last night:
Dear Mrs. N____:
Wow, after serving 20 + years in the Department of the Navy, I never knew that my freedom had been diminished. To learn that fun fact, I had to read Question 2 in section 9C of Danny’s Wordly Wise book.
So let me see, during 20 years, I traveled around the world in both directions; I visited and served in 15-20 countries; I lived over seas in three different countries; I crossed our own country back and forth, up and down 6-8 times; I visited dozens of states; I attended countless professional schools and earned a masters degree all courtesy of the Marine Corps.
And I’m just now learning that my freedom was being diminished all along. Oh, woe is me. Dang, what was everyone else doing while the Department of the Navy had me shackled? Ya’all must have really been tearing it up. I guess any job requiring honor, courage and commitment these days would be looked upon by Educators Publishing Service as diminishing one’s freedom. We just called it duty.
Come to think of it, the only time I ever thought that my freedom was in danger of being diminished was when Al Gore tried to have my military absentee ballot thrown out in FL during the 2000 Presidential Election. But somehow I don't think that incident is what EPS had in mind when claiming "joining the Navy" diminishes one's freedom.
Sorry for all of the sarc. I just wanted to make the point. Seriously, if that question includes “joining the Navy” it is WRONG. Does the teacher’s guide include “c” as a correct answer? If so it should be thrown out, St V’s administration notified and the publisher contacted for a correction.
Thanks
Which of the following would diminish one’s freedom?
a. Being held captive
b. Having one’s driver’s license taken away
c. Joining the Navy
d. Being released from prison
Mom and dad tell Lex jr. a and b are correct. Jr. informs us that the teacher said that there were three correct answers for that question. Huh? “d” is obviously out, so that leaves “c”. That can’t be. Oh yeah, jr. says that the teacher said there were three correct answers for question 2. So, fired this off to jr.’s teacher last night:
Dear Mrs. N____:
Wow, after serving 20 + years in the Department of the Navy, I never knew that my freedom had been diminished. To learn that fun fact, I had to read Question 2 in section 9C of Danny’s Wordly Wise book.
So let me see, during 20 years, I traveled around the world in both directions; I visited and served in 15-20 countries; I lived over seas in three different countries; I crossed our own country back and forth, up and down 6-8 times; I visited dozens of states; I attended countless professional schools and earned a masters degree all courtesy of the Marine Corps.
And I’m just now learning that my freedom was being diminished all along. Oh, woe is me. Dang, what was everyone else doing while the Department of the Navy had me shackled? Ya’all must have really been tearing it up. I guess any job requiring honor, courage and commitment these days would be looked upon by Educators Publishing Service as diminishing one’s freedom. We just called it duty.
Come to think of it, the only time I ever thought that my freedom was in danger of being diminished was when Al Gore tried to have my military absentee ballot thrown out in FL during the 2000 Presidential Election. But somehow I don't think that incident is what EPS had in mind when claiming "joining the Navy" diminishes one's freedom.
Sorry for all of the sarc. I just wanted to make the point. Seriously, if that question includes “joining the Navy” it is WRONG. Does the teacher’s guide include “c” as a correct answer? If so it should be thrown out, St V’s administration notified and the publisher contacted for a correction.
Thanks
Sunday, March 08, 2009
Two weasels parse "a nation of cowards"
Uh oh, it turns out the attorney general who called us all cowards is not the Eric Holder that the Dear leader knew when he nominated the pamper weasel. The Dear leader has rebuked, sort of, Holder’s “cowards” remark saying, “If I had been advising my attorney general, we would have used different language.”
First, what the hell, “If I had been advising my attorney general,” If it ain’t the Dear Leader, exactly who is advising Holder? Rev Wight? Billy the bomb thrower Ayres? The Dear Leader’s mean “ain’t no way proud of the USA” wife? Who?
Next, what language would the Dear Leader have used? How would the give and take on “a nation of cowards” have played out?
EH: How does nation of cowards sound?
DL: Uh ehh, no. Uhh that’s not it. Umm err, how about craven hillbillies?
EH: No. You’ll just remind people of the bitter clingers, clinging to Bibles and guns.
DL: Uhh, ahh, yes you’re right. Don’t need that again. Eh, how about inbred trailer trash?
EH: No, I think the white racism problem is more wide-spread than the trailer parks.
DL: Uh , emm, yes your right , of course. How about something that sounds, uhh, more grand and, umm, reinforces my new regal position? How about something like, uhee, the realm is littered with gutless pusillanimous whites too weak and spineless to face their racism and pay the reparations due all us folks of color, something like that?
EH: BRILLIANT! I think you’ve nailed it!
Really though, where’s the middle ground on “a nation of cowards?”
First, what the hell, “If I had been advising my attorney general,” If it ain’t the Dear Leader, exactly who is advising Holder? Rev Wight? Billy the bomb thrower Ayres? The Dear Leader’s mean “ain’t no way proud of the USA” wife? Who?
Next, what language would the Dear Leader have used? How would the give and take on “a nation of cowards” have played out?
EH: How does nation of cowards sound?
DL: Uh ehh, no. Uhh that’s not it. Umm err, how about craven hillbillies?
EH: No. You’ll just remind people of the bitter clingers, clinging to Bibles and guns.
DL: Uhh, ahh, yes you’re right. Don’t need that again. Eh, how about inbred trailer trash?
EH: No, I think the white racism problem is more wide-spread than the trailer parks.
DL: Uh , emm, yes your right , of course. How about something that sounds, uhh, more grand and, umm, reinforces my new regal position? How about something like, uhee, the realm is littered with gutless pusillanimous whites too weak and spineless to face their racism and pay the reparations due all us folks of color, something like that?
EH: BRILLIANT! I think you’ve nailed it!
Really though, where’s the middle ground on “a nation of cowards?”
Friday, March 06, 2009
Are you broke? Just use last year's money.
Karl Rove wrote this in his NY Times OpEd piece this morning:
“[The Dear Leader’s] justification [for passing the pork laden 410 billion dollar budget proposal] comes to us from the White House's budget director, Peter Orszag, who recently called the omnibus spending bill ‘last year's business.’"
These are supposedly the world’s smartest people. Well then, how can they be so dumb?
Picture a very successful man at Christmas. In lieu of presents, the man promises the family he’s going to take them on a very expensive once-in-a-lifetime vacation in the summer. Then in Feb. the man is laid off. By summer his 401K has tanked. He’s behind two months on the mortgage and the outlook is very bleak.
Still he continues with his plans to load the family up for the expensive vacation. When the wife says, “Hey, we’d better reconsider this. We’re broke.” The man replies, “Don’t worry honey, remember this is last year’s business. It won’t affect things this year.”
But hey, again, these are the smartest people in the world. What the hell do us shlubs who rely on common sense know? Using that exact same logic I’m going to plan to buy a yacht this year. Then when Jan 1, 2010 rolls around and I’m just as broke then as I am now, I’ll tell the bank, boat builder and the wife, “Hey that was last’s year’s business. Give me my boat!”
If GM, CITI and other troubled companies used this accounting method the CEO’s would be jailed, but for some reason it makes sense to Demo-Dopes in congress.
“[The Dear Leader’s] justification [for passing the pork laden 410 billion dollar budget proposal] comes to us from the White House's budget director, Peter Orszag, who recently called the omnibus spending bill ‘last year's business.’"
These are supposedly the world’s smartest people. Well then, how can they be so dumb?
Picture a very successful man at Christmas. In lieu of presents, the man promises the family he’s going to take them on a very expensive once-in-a-lifetime vacation in the summer. Then in Feb. the man is laid off. By summer his 401K has tanked. He’s behind two months on the mortgage and the outlook is very bleak.
Still he continues with his plans to load the family up for the expensive vacation. When the wife says, “Hey, we’d better reconsider this. We’re broke.” The man replies, “Don’t worry honey, remember this is last year’s business. It won’t affect things this year.”
But hey, again, these are the smartest people in the world. What the hell do us shlubs who rely on common sense know? Using that exact same logic I’m going to plan to buy a yacht this year. Then when Jan 1, 2010 rolls around and I’m just as broke then as I am now, I’ll tell the bank, boat builder and the wife, “Hey that was last’s year’s business. Give me my boat!”
If GM, CITI and other troubled companies used this accounting method the CEO’s would be jailed, but for some reason it makes sense to Demo-Dopes in congress.
Thursday, March 05, 2009
What happened to the maintenance money over the last 40 years?
Wheph thank gawd! The stimulus money is finally beginning to flow and all is right with America again. There was some big deal about a bridge in MO that was going to be the first repaired with stimulus money.
Hey look, I’m as happy as the next guy that the bridge is going to be fixed before some family of four plummets to their deaths. But, here are a couple of rather obvious questions that I haven’t heard axed:
How did the bridge fall into disrepair in the first place?
Who is responsible for failing to perform the annual maintenance on the bridge for last 40 years?
Everyone who pumps a gallon of gas pays a small percentage of the price per gallon into the Federal Transportation Fund. That money is supposed to be used to maintain federal highways and bridges. States and counties also charge a few cents per gallon of gas to maintain their roads and bridges. That is why about 45 cents of every gallon gas goes to some tax. So why is the infrastructure falling apart?
Because it’s easier to get votes spending the highway money on new projects named after a local politician than slap a coat of paint on the underside of a bridge that no one sees and is impossible to name after yourself. When was the time you saw a sign on a bridge, “The Robert C. Byrd primer gray undercoat project?” That’s probably a bad example given the Klansman’s propensity to paint or chisel his name on every object that doesn’t move in WV.
The point is that the money to repair and maintain these structures should already be in the budget and should have been since they were completed. So now the very people who allowed the structures to fall into disrepair in the first place are going to be the ones collecting more money to do the job they didn’t do when they were supposed to do it.
Heh, what could go wrong with that?
ALERT!! ALERT!! Laugh out loud funny!! Iowahawk is BACK!
If you don’t do anything else today, read this in your best Thurston Howell III voice from Gilligan’s Island. You know the rich guy in the ascot, “Lovey dear, I feel a draft. Throw some more money on the fire.” Or, even better in the voice of Stewie from Family Guy.
Hey look, I’m as happy as the next guy that the bridge is going to be fixed before some family of four plummets to their deaths. But, here are a couple of rather obvious questions that I haven’t heard axed:
How did the bridge fall into disrepair in the first place?
Who is responsible for failing to perform the annual maintenance on the bridge for last 40 years?
Everyone who pumps a gallon of gas pays a small percentage of the price per gallon into the Federal Transportation Fund. That money is supposed to be used to maintain federal highways and bridges. States and counties also charge a few cents per gallon of gas to maintain their roads and bridges. That is why about 45 cents of every gallon gas goes to some tax. So why is the infrastructure falling apart?
Because it’s easier to get votes spending the highway money on new projects named after a local politician than slap a coat of paint on the underside of a bridge that no one sees and is impossible to name after yourself. When was the time you saw a sign on a bridge, “The Robert C. Byrd primer gray undercoat project?” That’s probably a bad example given the Klansman’s propensity to paint or chisel his name on every object that doesn’t move in WV.
The point is that the money to repair and maintain these structures should already be in the budget and should have been since they were completed. So now the very people who allowed the structures to fall into disrepair in the first place are going to be the ones collecting more money to do the job they didn’t do when they were supposed to do it.
Heh, what could go wrong with that?
ALERT!! ALERT!! Laugh out loud funny!! Iowahawk is BACK!
If you don’t do anything else today, read this in your best Thurston Howell III voice from Gilligan’s Island. You know the rich guy in the ascot, “Lovey dear, I feel a draft. Throw some more money on the fire.” Or, even better in the voice of Stewie from Family Guy.
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Clearly unconstitutional
The local propaganda are of the Dema-Dope party (aka The Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette) published this glittering jewel of stupidity on Monday:
Few Americans would say that what the nation really needs is a larger Congress – except for residents of Washington, D.C.
Efforts to give the District of Columbia a vote in Congress have popped up over the years. But now both houses of Congress have voted to give D.C. a seat in the House of Representatives.
To keep an odd number – and, for political purposes, to add a Republican to balance out the certainty of a Democrat representing the district – Utah would get a fourth U.S. representative. The House would grow from 435 to 437.
But a Senate move to tie the extra seats with a heavy-handed amendment to strike down local Washington laws governing gun restrictions weighs down the bill mightily. And some members of Congress insist the U.S. Constitution allows only states to be represented.
So the debate will likely concern guns and legalities, not whether the nation wants two more lawmakers.
In my continuing effort to bring the light of truth into the darkness of the JG editorial boardroom, Lex fired this off yesterday:
Re: Representation or guns for D.C. in Monday’s JG
Does anyone on the JG editorial staff see the irony in referring to an amendment to protect the easily understandable language contained in the Second Amendment as “heavy-handed” while minimizing the un or extra-Constitutional nature of the actual bill?
I suppose Congress could use the “To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over [the] District [of Columbia]” clause of Section 2 Article I, as a fig leaf for this action. But, how do they get around that pesky language about representatives being chosen by the “people of the several States?” Oh yeah, and what about the apportionment of representatives being according to the census? How does the bill get around that? How is it constitutional for the Congress to simply offer up another Representative to Utah as a quid pro quo for a D.C. representative?
There is a mechanism for changing the Constitution. All that needs to be done is for 66 Senators and 38 states to agree to amend the “heavy-handed” language of the Second Amendment and representation for the District. But, following the law is always way too hard for Liberals. It’s better and faster if they just make it up as they go along in Congress or in some courtroom.
Oh, and to answer the initial question, no. When you have a bunch like-minded people sitting around a table nodding knowing approval to one another, no one has the brains or courage to say, “Whoa, wait a minute. Do you know how stupid that sounds?”
Few Americans would say that what the nation really needs is a larger Congress – except for residents of Washington, D.C.
Efforts to give the District of Columbia a vote in Congress have popped up over the years. But now both houses of Congress have voted to give D.C. a seat in the House of Representatives.
To keep an odd number – and, for political purposes, to add a Republican to balance out the certainty of a Democrat representing the district – Utah would get a fourth U.S. representative. The House would grow from 435 to 437.
But a Senate move to tie the extra seats with a heavy-handed amendment to strike down local Washington laws governing gun restrictions weighs down the bill mightily. And some members of Congress insist the U.S. Constitution allows only states to be represented.
So the debate will likely concern guns and legalities, not whether the nation wants two more lawmakers.
In my continuing effort to bring the light of truth into the darkness of the JG editorial boardroom, Lex fired this off yesterday:
Re: Representation or guns for D.C. in Monday’s JG
Does anyone on the JG editorial staff see the irony in referring to an amendment to protect the easily understandable language contained in the Second Amendment as “heavy-handed” while minimizing the un or extra-Constitutional nature of the actual bill?
I suppose Congress could use the “To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over [the] District [of Columbia]” clause of Section 2 Article I, as a fig leaf for this action. But, how do they get around that pesky language about representatives being chosen by the “people of the several States?” Oh yeah, and what about the apportionment of representatives being according to the census? How does the bill get around that? How is it constitutional for the Congress to simply offer up another Representative to Utah as a quid pro quo for a D.C. representative?
There is a mechanism for changing the Constitution. All that needs to be done is for 66 Senators and 38 states to agree to amend the “heavy-handed” language of the Second Amendment and representation for the District. But, following the law is always way too hard for Liberals. It’s better and faster if they just make it up as they go along in Congress or in some courtroom.
Oh, and to answer the initial question, no. When you have a bunch like-minded people sitting around a table nodding knowing approval to one another, no one has the brains or courage to say, “Whoa, wait a minute. Do you know how stupid that sounds?”
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Are the "rich" laughing at us
Did I miss something or did the Dear Leader say that he was going to “pay” for the programs contained in his nearly 4 TRILLION dollar budget by taxing the rich – those making $250,000 or more. That’s what he said - right?
Well then why is congress considering a ten cent a gallon gas tax hike? How is the pump at my local Super Speedway supposed to know that I’m not rich when I go to fill up MY tank?
Maybe the IRS is going to issue each of us non-rich one of those super market scanner cards that the pump can read to identify us as non-rich and remove the tax. Maybe when the dialog box on the pump asks “Receipt?” we’re supposed to push “yes,” gather our monthly receipts and mail them to Washington like one of those mail-in rebate things at the Best Buy. Maybe we just take the receipts over to the Twin Eagle housing development, where all the rich folks live, knock on a door and demand direct payment from the people living in those big houses.
One thing I do know is that if the Dear Leader wants the tax burden to fall on the “rich,” he’d better figure out a way to reimburse us non-rich for this gas tax if it passes.
Then there’s the problem – actually it’s the same problem – with the nearly 700 BILLION dollar carbon tax contained in the Dear Leader’s budget. Hey, even us non-rich use energy. How are we going to get reimbursed for the $300 to $3,000 dollars a year each household will be paying for higher energy, higher food, higher everything as a result of that tax?
It would seem to this casual observer that the Dear Leader of hope-n-change is bamboozling us non-rich. I don’t think there will be a mail-in rebate coupon at the pump or with costs associated with this onerous carbon tax. It would seem to me that us non-rich are going to get screwed (i.e. taxed) right along with the real rich. And you just know those damned rich people are laughing their butts off at us non-rich for voting for the Dear Leader. How can that bit of schadenfreude be fair in this era of hope-n-change?
Oh speaking of schadenfreude, did you see where the global warming crowd was protesting during a March snow storm yesterday?
Well then why is congress considering a ten cent a gallon gas tax hike? How is the pump at my local Super Speedway supposed to know that I’m not rich when I go to fill up MY tank?
Maybe the IRS is going to issue each of us non-rich one of those super market scanner cards that the pump can read to identify us as non-rich and remove the tax. Maybe when the dialog box on the pump asks “Receipt?” we’re supposed to push “yes,” gather our monthly receipts and mail them to Washington like one of those mail-in rebate things at the Best Buy. Maybe we just take the receipts over to the Twin Eagle housing development, where all the rich folks live, knock on a door and demand direct payment from the people living in those big houses.
One thing I do know is that if the Dear Leader wants the tax burden to fall on the “rich,” he’d better figure out a way to reimburse us non-rich for this gas tax if it passes.
Then there’s the problem – actually it’s the same problem – with the nearly 700 BILLION dollar carbon tax contained in the Dear Leader’s budget. Hey, even us non-rich use energy. How are we going to get reimbursed for the $300 to $3,000 dollars a year each household will be paying for higher energy, higher food, higher everything as a result of that tax?
It would seem to this casual observer that the Dear Leader of hope-n-change is bamboozling us non-rich. I don’t think there will be a mail-in rebate coupon at the pump or with costs associated with this onerous carbon tax. It would seem to me that us non-rich are going to get screwed (i.e. taxed) right along with the real rich. And you just know those damned rich people are laughing their butts off at us non-rich for voting for the Dear Leader. How can that bit of schadenfreude be fair in this era of hope-n-change?
Oh speaking of schadenfreude, did you see where the global warming crowd was protesting during a March snow storm yesterday?
Monday, March 02, 2009
Iraq is now a mission for community organizers
The Dear leader has issued an edict to have all “combat troops” out of Iraq by August 31 2010. The 50,000 or so – count on it being closer to 60,000 – still in Iraq after August 31 are going to be what – non-combat troops I suppose?
This is idiocy of the highest order even for someone as idiotic as the Dear Leader. Here are some thoughts on this whole thing:
First, he’s 29 months later than he advocated while on the campaign. His position early on was to have the troops out by March 2008.
Second he should admit he was wrong about the surge and thank George Bush.
Third, is he really going to leave 50,000, essentially Peace Corp, support troops in Iraq without the protection of combat capable forces? No, I don’t think even he can be that stupid. Not to put too fine a point on it but he’s a liar when he says “all combat troops” will be out of Iraq by Aug 31 2009.
So how many combat troops will it take to ensure the safety of 50,000 “support troops?” Let’s say it’ll take two “brigades” of trigger pullers. They will not be called brigades because to call them what they are would expose the Dear Leader’s lie. Let’s put the mission on its head and call the “combat troops” who are supporting the non-combat troops “non-combat support troops who will engage in combat operations to support the support troops.” Got that?
So, let’s say it’ll take roughly the equivalent of two brigades (but let’s be clear these are not brigades) of non-combat support troops who will engage in combat operations to support the support troops. Let’s be optimistic and say that each non-brigade of non-combat support troops who will engage in combat to support the support troops will consist of about 3,000 non-combat soldiers who will engage in combat (actual number will be closer to 5,000).
So we’ve now got 6,000 of the 50,000 doing “non-combat” combat things. Historically, there is about a 10 to 1 ration between combat support and combat soldiers. Gee, that’ll put our troop force number in Iraq after Aug 31 at about 66,000.
Boy Wonder: “Holy faulty numbers Batman, who will be left to do the support mission?”
Batman: “Which support mission Robin? The non-combat support troops who will engage in combat to support the support troops’ mission? Or the actual non-combat support troops doing the actual support mission? And you look absolutely stunning in those tights!”
Boy Wonder: “Holy twist and turn Batman, this thing turns back on itself more often than an M.C. Escher print.”
Batman: “Indeed Robin, indeed. Now, let’s get back to the Batcave and practice our wrestling moves.”
To be sure, the Iraqi theater is what the military calls a “mature logistics theater.” As such the 10 to 1 tail may be much longer than required. Let be "hopeful" and say it’s 5 to 1. That’s 36,000 of a 50,000 man force at least partly given to non-combat support troops who will engage in combat operations to support the support troops. That leaves a meager 14,000 actual non-combat support troops to build roads, bridges and schools, restore power, repair the oil infrastructure and build political stability in a country the size of California.
We may need to send in a brigade or two of community organizers before it’s all over.
This is idiocy of the highest order even for someone as idiotic as the Dear Leader. Here are some thoughts on this whole thing:
First, he’s 29 months later than he advocated while on the campaign. His position early on was to have the troops out by March 2008.
Second he should admit he was wrong about the surge and thank George Bush.
Third, is he really going to leave 50,000, essentially Peace Corp, support troops in Iraq without the protection of combat capable forces? No, I don’t think even he can be that stupid. Not to put too fine a point on it but he’s a liar when he says “all combat troops” will be out of Iraq by Aug 31 2009.
So how many combat troops will it take to ensure the safety of 50,000 “support troops?” Let’s say it’ll take two “brigades” of trigger pullers. They will not be called brigades because to call them what they are would expose the Dear Leader’s lie. Let’s put the mission on its head and call the “combat troops” who are supporting the non-combat troops “non-combat support troops who will engage in combat operations to support the support troops.” Got that?
So, let’s say it’ll take roughly the equivalent of two brigades (but let’s be clear these are not brigades) of non-combat support troops who will engage in combat operations to support the support troops. Let’s be optimistic and say that each non-brigade of non-combat support troops who will engage in combat to support the support troops will consist of about 3,000 non-combat soldiers who will engage in combat (actual number will be closer to 5,000).
So we’ve now got 6,000 of the 50,000 doing “non-combat” combat things. Historically, there is about a 10 to 1 ration between combat support and combat soldiers. Gee, that’ll put our troop force number in Iraq after Aug 31 at about 66,000.
Boy Wonder: “Holy faulty numbers Batman, who will be left to do the support mission?”
Batman: “Which support mission Robin? The non-combat support troops who will engage in combat to support the support troops’ mission? Or the actual non-combat support troops doing the actual support mission? And you look absolutely stunning in those tights!”
Boy Wonder: “Holy twist and turn Batman, this thing turns back on itself more often than an M.C. Escher print.”
Batman: “Indeed Robin, indeed. Now, let’s get back to the Batcave and practice our wrestling moves.”
To be sure, the Iraqi theater is what the military calls a “mature logistics theater.” As such the 10 to 1 tail may be much longer than required. Let be "hopeful" and say it’s 5 to 1. That’s 36,000 of a 50,000 man force at least partly given to non-combat support troops who will engage in combat operations to support the support troops. That leaves a meager 14,000 actual non-combat support troops to build roads, bridges and schools, restore power, repair the oil infrastructure and build political stability in a country the size of California.
We may need to send in a brigade or two of community organizers before it’s all over.
Friday, February 27, 2009
Guess what? You're RICH!!
OK how’s this going to work? The Dear Leader claims he will halve the deficit by 2012 and pay for his new programs by taxing the rich. Oh yeah, and the rest of will get $800 to $1,000 in tax cuts. Gee that sounds swell, but I’d prefer my grand in a lump sum rather than this $13 bucks a week hocus pocus. It’s like when you lent your bud $10 in high school and he pays you back a quarter a week. About three weeks into the payment schedule nobody remembers how much was barrowed to begin with, for what or how much has been paid back.
Then there’s this bit of disturbing news. One of those think tank thingies ran the numbers and determined that even if the government took 100% of the taxable income of everyone making $200,000 or more, the Dear Leader would come up short paying down the deficit. And as I’ve said before, rich people didn’t get rich by being stupid with money. Rich people will do one of two things, figure out a way to put their money somewhere where the Dear leader can’t touch it or earn $199,999.99 putting them one penny under the being officially “rich.”
Then what? Well Mr. and Mrs. America it’ll boil down to what it always boils down to, anyone making a paycheck will be paying more taxes. It’s impossible to target the rich because there are too few of them and they’re too savvy. So you have to go after the large pool of dopes which in America is called the Middle Class. It was Dick Armey, I think, who said, “When Democrats aim higher taxes at the rich, they always end up hitting the Middle Class.”
It’s like taking your 6 year old son hunting to get his first deer. You go into the woods looking for that big 16 pointer you see every year three days before the season opens. He’s never seen again until three days after the season closes. But you know he’s out there. So you and Jr. take to the woods stalking the trophy buck. Ten minutes into the hunt, Jr.’s more interested in throwing sticks, kicking stones and climbing trees. So you end up shooting some hapless 110 pound doe from a tree stand in a fenced field on something called a “controlled hunt.” Actually, it's just one inch short of going to the butcher.
To put it terms everyone can understand, congress trying to tax the rich is like Wiley E. Coyote trying to catch the Road Runner, Ahab trying to boil down Moby Dick, Elmer Fudd or Yosemite Sam trying to out smart Bugs Bunny or sadly the Bengals winning the Super Bowl. It ain’t going to happen.
Congress and the Dear Leader will end up at the fenced field and slaughter poor Middle Class tax payers, because that's where the easy money is.
Then there’s this bit of disturbing news. One of those think tank thingies ran the numbers and determined that even if the government took 100% of the taxable income of everyone making $200,000 or more, the Dear Leader would come up short paying down the deficit. And as I’ve said before, rich people didn’t get rich by being stupid with money. Rich people will do one of two things, figure out a way to put their money somewhere where the Dear leader can’t touch it or earn $199,999.99 putting them one penny under the being officially “rich.”
Then what? Well Mr. and Mrs. America it’ll boil down to what it always boils down to, anyone making a paycheck will be paying more taxes. It’s impossible to target the rich because there are too few of them and they’re too savvy. So you have to go after the large pool of dopes which in America is called the Middle Class. It was Dick Armey, I think, who said, “When Democrats aim higher taxes at the rich, they always end up hitting the Middle Class.”
It’s like taking your 6 year old son hunting to get his first deer. You go into the woods looking for that big 16 pointer you see every year three days before the season opens. He’s never seen again until three days after the season closes. But you know he’s out there. So you and Jr. take to the woods stalking the trophy buck. Ten minutes into the hunt, Jr.’s more interested in throwing sticks, kicking stones and climbing trees. So you end up shooting some hapless 110 pound doe from a tree stand in a fenced field on something called a “controlled hunt.” Actually, it's just one inch short of going to the butcher.
To put it terms everyone can understand, congress trying to tax the rich is like Wiley E. Coyote trying to catch the Road Runner, Ahab trying to boil down Moby Dick, Elmer Fudd or Yosemite Sam trying to out smart Bugs Bunny or sadly the Bengals winning the Super Bowl. It ain’t going to happen.
Congress and the Dear Leader will end up at the fenced field and slaughter poor Middle Class tax payers, because that's where the easy money is.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
If you take government money, then expect the government to tell you how to live
Everyone and I mean everyone is “outraged” over Northern Trust’s big LA party last week. Seems Northern Trust took $1.6 BILLION in bailout money before spending millions on a party for itself. The company flew hundreds of clients and employees to LA for the party that was complete with headliner bands like Chicago, Sheryl Crow and Earth Wind and Fire. It also included Tiffany goody bag for the guests.
I know these guys hire PR firms to make themselves look good. Northern Trust ought to fire its PR firm and hire a new one. It just looks bad, even if they recovered the cost of the party plus 15% in new business conducted at the party.
But lemme ax you this Mr. & Mrs America, when was the last time the bank told you couldn’t throw a Christmas party for neighbors if you barrowed money from them for a new car? Are banks now writing a “no vacation until the loan is paid off” clause into student loans? Do lists of approved restaurants accompany loan papers for a new house?
I’m pretty sure the last time I got a loan, the bank's main concern was my paying them back not where I went for vacation or where I had dinner. Sadly, the most important consideration for banks loaning money was swept away by a government that demanded loans be made to people who had no hope of paying the money back.
Now we’re going to bailout the very dopes who took money they knew they never could pay back. So, is the government going to be telling the people who take bailout money for their homes how they should be living and what they should be buying?
And when the Dear Leader gets his “universal” bad healthcare system, is the government then going to be telling us what to eat? How many miles we have to walk each week and taxing every pleasure – like beer, soda, chips, candy etc – out of business?
The answer is yes. There’s an old saying applied usually to military men, “When you take the King’s shilling, you do the King’s bidding.” Well the Demo-Dopes and the Dear Leader are trapping as many of us as possible into taking the “King’s shilling.” It only follows that they will then expect us to do their bidding.
I know these guys hire PR firms to make themselves look good. Northern Trust ought to fire its PR firm and hire a new one. It just looks bad, even if they recovered the cost of the party plus 15% in new business conducted at the party.
But lemme ax you this Mr. & Mrs America, when was the last time the bank told you couldn’t throw a Christmas party for neighbors if you barrowed money from them for a new car? Are banks now writing a “no vacation until the loan is paid off” clause into student loans? Do lists of approved restaurants accompany loan papers for a new house?
I’m pretty sure the last time I got a loan, the bank's main concern was my paying them back not where I went for vacation or where I had dinner. Sadly, the most important consideration for banks loaning money was swept away by a government that demanded loans be made to people who had no hope of paying the money back.
Now we’re going to bailout the very dopes who took money they knew they never could pay back. So, is the government going to be telling the people who take bailout money for their homes how they should be living and what they should be buying?
And when the Dear Leader gets his “universal” bad healthcare system, is the government then going to be telling us what to eat? How many miles we have to walk each week and taxing every pleasure – like beer, soda, chips, candy etc – out of business?
The answer is yes. There’s an old saying applied usually to military men, “When you take the King’s shilling, you do the King’s bidding.” Well the Demo-Dopes and the Dear Leader are trapping as many of us as possible into taking the “King’s shilling.” It only follows that they will then expect us to do their bidding.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Oh good, 900 Million of your money to terrorists
What’s dumber and more irresponsible that the TRILLION dollar reparations bill? Giving nearly a BILLION to Islamo-Terror-Fascists. Read it and weep America. From UPI I think:
The United States plans to offer more than $900 million to help rebuild Gaza after Israel's invasion and to strengthen the Western-backed Palestinian Authority, U.S. officials said on Monday.
The money, which needs U.S. congressional approval, will be distributed through U.N. and other bodies and not via the militant group Hamas, which rules Gaza, said one official.
"This money is for Gaza and to help strengthen the Palestinian Authority. It is not going to go to Hamas," said the official, who asked not to be named as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton planned to announce the funding at a donors' conference in Egypt next week.
Neither the United States nor Israel have direct contact with the Islamist Hamas movement which runs Gaza and remains formally committed to the destruction of the Jewish state.
The official said the pledge was a mix of money already earmarked for the Palestinians and some new funding.
"The package is still shaping up," he said, when asked for specifics over how the money would be spent and a breakdown of old and new funding.
In December, the former Bush administration said it would give $85 million to the U.N. agency that provides aid to Palestinian refugees in the West Bank, Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
I don’t want to go all Geert Wilders on you, but I’m not sure we should be giving a dime to ANYTHING associated with Muslims until the so called “good Muslims” start to stand up and be counted. Seems to me Wilders has more courage confronting radical Muslims than that rarest of commodities these days, a “good Muslim.” Name one. We all ought to be able to name the one guy or gal shouting the loudest for people of his/her faith to stop the madness. Name him/her. It's easier to pick 5,000 good stocks today than name a single Muslim shouting STOP! to the madmen of his faith.
The idea that the UN is going to distribute this money and keep it out of the hands of Hamas is ridiculous. Well the UN did have that success with the Iraq oil for food program. OK that program was fraught with corruption led by the UN Secretary General’s son. But there were those successes in Bosnia. Oh yeah, UN "peacekeepers" did everything but. Well how about the UN peacekeepers in Africa? More like the UN rape patrols in Africa.
There is not one shed of evidence that the entire UN has the capability to or could even be trusted to watch a parked car let alone distribute 900 million dollars. They are worse than useless. The UN is a dysfunctional, over-staffed, over-funded, corrupt, backward, anti-American organization populated with thugs, morons, dictators and tyrants.
I’m not sure which would be worse giving 900 MILLION dollars to terrorist or giving it to the UN or for that matter ACORN. Well, at least it's not as if we were broke or anything. That would really make this stupid.
The United States plans to offer more than $900 million to help rebuild Gaza after Israel's invasion and to strengthen the Western-backed Palestinian Authority, U.S. officials said on Monday.
The money, which needs U.S. congressional approval, will be distributed through U.N. and other bodies and not via the militant group Hamas, which rules Gaza, said one official.
"This money is for Gaza and to help strengthen the Palestinian Authority. It is not going to go to Hamas," said the official, who asked not to be named as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton planned to announce the funding at a donors' conference in Egypt next week.
Neither the United States nor Israel have direct contact with the Islamist Hamas movement which runs Gaza and remains formally committed to the destruction of the Jewish state.
The official said the pledge was a mix of money already earmarked for the Palestinians and some new funding.
"The package is still shaping up," he said, when asked for specifics over how the money would be spent and a breakdown of old and new funding.
In December, the former Bush administration said it would give $85 million to the U.N. agency that provides aid to Palestinian refugees in the West Bank, Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
I don’t want to go all Geert Wilders on you, but I’m not sure we should be giving a dime to ANYTHING associated with Muslims until the so called “good Muslims” start to stand up and be counted. Seems to me Wilders has more courage confronting radical Muslims than that rarest of commodities these days, a “good Muslim.” Name one. We all ought to be able to name the one guy or gal shouting the loudest for people of his/her faith to stop the madness. Name him/her. It's easier to pick 5,000 good stocks today than name a single Muslim shouting STOP! to the madmen of his faith.
The idea that the UN is going to distribute this money and keep it out of the hands of Hamas is ridiculous. Well the UN did have that success with the Iraq oil for food program. OK that program was fraught with corruption led by the UN Secretary General’s son. But there were those successes in Bosnia. Oh yeah, UN "peacekeepers" did everything but. Well how about the UN peacekeepers in Africa? More like the UN rape patrols in Africa.
There is not one shed of evidence that the entire UN has the capability to or could even be trusted to watch a parked car let alone distribute 900 million dollars. They are worse than useless. The UN is a dysfunctional, over-staffed, over-funded, corrupt, backward, anti-American organization populated with thugs, morons, dictators and tyrants.
I’m not sure which would be worse giving 900 MILLION dollars to terrorist or giving it to the UN or for that matter ACORN. Well, at least it's not as if we were broke or anything. That would really make this stupid.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Hold on to your wallet the Demo-Dopes are having a sale
We all know that hypocrisy and Demo-Dope go hand in hand. You have the limousine Libs like Johnny love child (or is it sex child) Edwards lamenting the plight of the poor while sporting a $400 haircut. You have the enviro hypocrites jetting to and fro like Al do as I say not as do Gore. You have policy hypocrites like little Timmy Turbo Tax Geithner who was TOO BIG to pay taxes but now runs the government office responsible for collecting those taxes from all of us too honest to cheat types. You have another Demo-Dope in charge of writing the tax code now claiming the code he wrote is too complicated for him to figure out how much he owes – Charlie the tax loop hole Rangel(er). You have Tedddy anyone could have drowned in the backseat of my car Kennedy lecturing GWB for lying. You have all but two of the Demo-Dope “auto bailout Czars” driving foreign cars, how could that be hypocritical?
Well it just goes on and on and on and…..But let’s jump ahead to our latest two stunning examples of Demo-Dope hypocrisy. The Griffin called BS on the first one when Eric pardon me and Marc Rich Holder called us a nation of cowards. At nearly the exact same moment the Dear Leader’s Sec State was groveling to the ChiComs for a loan. Thunder Butt told the ChiComs that we wouldn’t let those nasty little human rights violations they engage in every day get in the way of stable relations as long as the ChiComs would just keep buying our debt.
I suspect if the ChiComs buy enough of the debt, the Shrilldabeast will be telling us that the ChiCom government’s crack down on freedom, religious and democracy movements is akin to our own crack down on Islamo-Terror-Fascists or better the Dear Leader’s crack down on bitter Americans clinging to their guns and Bibles. We can’t have any of that political descent stuff, or what is now called racism, in America now either. After all we’re in a crisis. Everyone knows that when you’re in a crisis you must make as many rash decisions on as many things as possible with little or no thought and NO opposition. Hell once the crisis is over it’d take years to get a 800 BILLION dollar package through congress.
So Holder is calling us a nation of cowards because in our perpetual discussion on race in this country, apparently whitey isn’t contrite enough for the things he never did. Meanwhile the head of State is in a communist country on bended knee stabbing the Chinese freedom movement in the back with one hand while begging for a loan with other. Talk about cowardly.
And then just yesterday there was the most laugh out loud, fall down, roll on the ground, laugh until your belly hurts bit of hypocrisy. The Dear Leader convened a fiscal responsibility seminar in D.C. The head Demo-Dope wants to - get this – cut the deficit in half in four years. YGBSM! Does this skinny little idiot even know that HE just doubled it a week ago?
You could not write a serious book, play or screenplay for this. It’d have to be a farce. Steve Martin in back face with two milk jugs taped to the side of his head for ears would play the part of the Dear Leader.
“Well ahh, sure ahh, we just ahhh doubled the ahhh debt yesterday. (Prat fall, after pie in the face) Ahhh but today we’re going to ahhh cut it in half. (Anvil falls on head followed with stepping on rake with rake handle to the face)”
Yet the MSM actually covered the Dear Leader’s BS straight faced. Griffin you get this. A purse comes into Feather Your Nest. It cost $10. FYN usually sells the purse for $20. But this is an unusual one. You want to get $40 for it. But $40 seems like a lot of money. So, you price it at $80, draw a big red X through the $80, add big red letters SALE 50% OFF and mark it at $40. The purse is gone before lunch. Woman brags to husband how she beat FYN out of $40 at dinner.
It’s exactly same here. The dopes who doubled the debt are now saying they’ll cut it in half. The big difference is that they ran the debt up with your money and they will buy it down with your money. If successful, and let's face it, no way they will be successful, Demo-Dopes will brag about reducing the debt that they ran up in the first place.
Bucket of paint falls on Mr. and Mrs. America's head - curtain closes.
Well it just goes on and on and on and…..But let’s jump ahead to our latest two stunning examples of Demo-Dope hypocrisy. The Griffin called BS on the first one when Eric pardon me and Marc Rich Holder called us a nation of cowards. At nearly the exact same moment the Dear Leader’s Sec State was groveling to the ChiComs for a loan. Thunder Butt told the ChiComs that we wouldn’t let those nasty little human rights violations they engage in every day get in the way of stable relations as long as the ChiComs would just keep buying our debt.
I suspect if the ChiComs buy enough of the debt, the Shrilldabeast will be telling us that the ChiCom government’s crack down on freedom, religious and democracy movements is akin to our own crack down on Islamo-Terror-Fascists or better the Dear Leader’s crack down on bitter Americans clinging to their guns and Bibles. We can’t have any of that political descent stuff, or what is now called racism, in America now either. After all we’re in a crisis. Everyone knows that when you’re in a crisis you must make as many rash decisions on as many things as possible with little or no thought and NO opposition. Hell once the crisis is over it’d take years to get a 800 BILLION dollar package through congress.
So Holder is calling us a nation of cowards because in our perpetual discussion on race in this country, apparently whitey isn’t contrite enough for the things he never did. Meanwhile the head of State is in a communist country on bended knee stabbing the Chinese freedom movement in the back with one hand while begging for a loan with other. Talk about cowardly.
And then just yesterday there was the most laugh out loud, fall down, roll on the ground, laugh until your belly hurts bit of hypocrisy. The Dear Leader convened a fiscal responsibility seminar in D.C. The head Demo-Dope wants to - get this – cut the deficit in half in four years. YGBSM! Does this skinny little idiot even know that HE just doubled it a week ago?
You could not write a serious book, play or screenplay for this. It’d have to be a farce. Steve Martin in back face with two milk jugs taped to the side of his head for ears would play the part of the Dear Leader.
“Well ahh, sure ahh, we just ahhh doubled the ahhh debt yesterday. (Prat fall, after pie in the face) Ahhh but today we’re going to ahhh cut it in half. (Anvil falls on head followed with stepping on rake with rake handle to the face)”
Yet the MSM actually covered the Dear Leader’s BS straight faced. Griffin you get this. A purse comes into Feather Your Nest. It cost $10. FYN usually sells the purse for $20. But this is an unusual one. You want to get $40 for it. But $40 seems like a lot of money. So, you price it at $80, draw a big red X through the $80, add big red letters SALE 50% OFF and mark it at $40. The purse is gone before lunch. Woman brags to husband how she beat FYN out of $40 at dinner.
It’s exactly same here. The dopes who doubled the debt are now saying they’ll cut it in half. The big difference is that they ran the debt up with your money and they will buy it down with your money. If successful, and let's face it, no way they will be successful, Demo-Dopes will brag about reducing the debt that they ran up in the first place.
Bucket of paint falls on Mr. and Mrs. America's head - curtain closes.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Do we really need Black History Month?
Sure we might be on the verge of a self imposed economic collapse because of the dopes in D.C. However, the one good thing we can say for certain is that, with the election of the Dear Leader, we have once and for all put racism behind us. That was the hope of guilt ridden liberal whites when they pulled the trigger for the Dear leader, so it must be true – right?
What’s the evidence? Well there isn’t any. In fact, what evidence there is indicates the contrary. What the…? On Nov 4th, we elected the first sort of black president. Doesn’t that put an end to the lie that we are a racist nation?
No! Again, it’s quite the contrary. In spite of the guilt ridden white Liberals, apparently racism in America is alive and well.
Exhibit one: Racist Republicans opposed the Dear Leader’s reparations bill. That’s really all that needs to be said to prove racism is alive and well in America. How could these Republicans – crackers everyone – dare oppose the Dear Leader? There is only one answer. They are racists.
Exhibit two: Even after the enlightened got the reparations bill passed, several white governors are refusing the “with several hundred strings attached” federal hand out. When governors in LA, TX, MS and SC - or in what SC Rep Jimmy the race baiter Clyburn terms the “black belt” – indicated that they might not take the federal money Jimmy started screaming, “Racism!!!” Now some of you probably laugh when I call the stimulus bill the reparations bill. What the heck is Jimmy race baiter talking about then when he says refusal to take reparations money from D.C. is racist? Well now you know. So if Jimmy the race baiter thinks it’s racist not to take the reparations money, who do you think Jimmy thinks is going to get the money? Oddly Jimmy the race baiter didn’t throw Sarah Palin in with the others. Apparently native Alaskans aren’t sufficiently black enough for Palin to be called a racist for turning down the money.
Exhibit three: Monkey cartoons are verboten. In an odd sort of Muslim thing, professional race baiters confirmed their status as being perpetually offended by being offended by a political cartoon. Not unlike Muslims who riot at the drop of a Koran real or imagined, Al let’s go burn Freddy’s Fashion Mart Sharpton is agitating against the NY Post for conflating two recent news stories into one cartoon - the recent chimpanzee shooting and passage of the reparations bill. The cartoon shows two cops standing over a slain chimp and the line “I guess we’ll have to look for someone else to write the next stimulus package.” Well Al and a bunch of others believe that the cartoon is racist and that – recent news stories be damned – the dead chimp is really the Dear Leader. Never mind the fact that two crackers – Pelosi and Reid - wrote the reparations bill. I guess stupid white people should be mad at the Post as well. But OK fine, the NY Post should apologize. Right after the Dear Leader apologizes to Sarah Palin for making a much less veiled comment about her being a “pig with lipstick.” Oh that’s right this “racist” knife only cuts one way. So the Post should tell Sharpton the only way the cartoon could be misconstrued is if he – Sharpton – thinks the Dear Leader looks like a chimp. In which case, it’s Sharpton who owes the Dear Leader an apology.
Exhibit four: Someone explain Black History Month to me. Used to be we’d have to watch a month of Shaft movies and listen to learned blacks talk about their experience – which were, coincidently uniformly bad – growing up black in America. Now we have a black a president and Attorney General. The movies are much better, but the conversation is still about how wretched life is for black Americans. Hey I’m the first to admit if I could chose the happenstance of my birth it’d be white – male - American. Sure I hit life’s trifecta. But my second, third, fourth and on down to about 1,500th choices would all end with American. So yeah you’ll run into discrimination here and there, but where else would you want to be? And haven’t we made any progress? In some respects I agree we’ve gone backward. Dr. King and other brave people marched against segregation. How would King feel now walking on campuses where black students demand a black student union, black history, black dorms, black homecoming queens, black proms? Isn’t self-imposed segregation none the less segregation?
Exhibit last: Eric the biggest coward of them all Holder said we were a nation of cowards because we refused to have a conversation about race. First, seems to me that race is about the only thing we ever discuss. We’ve even devoted an entire month of the year to race baiting. Ask Imus, Trent Lott, the NY Post or any other small town or fortune 500 company where race baiters show up if we don’t talk about race. But let me ask Brave Brave Sir Holder why in the hell would anyone with a brain get into conversation about race when that anyone knows how the conversation will end? It will end with that anyone being called a racist. So, Brave Brave Sir Holder why even go down that road? It’s the race baiters like Holder who stifle the conversation.
What’s the evidence? Well there isn’t any. In fact, what evidence there is indicates the contrary. What the…? On Nov 4th, we elected the first sort of black president. Doesn’t that put an end to the lie that we are a racist nation?
No! Again, it’s quite the contrary. In spite of the guilt ridden white Liberals, apparently racism in America is alive and well.
Exhibit one: Racist Republicans opposed the Dear Leader’s reparations bill. That’s really all that needs to be said to prove racism is alive and well in America. How could these Republicans – crackers everyone – dare oppose the Dear Leader? There is only one answer. They are racists.
Exhibit two: Even after the enlightened got the reparations bill passed, several white governors are refusing the “with several hundred strings attached” federal hand out. When governors in LA, TX, MS and SC - or in what SC Rep Jimmy the race baiter Clyburn terms the “black belt” – indicated that they might not take the federal money Jimmy started screaming, “Racism!!!” Now some of you probably laugh when I call the stimulus bill the reparations bill. What the heck is Jimmy race baiter talking about then when he says refusal to take reparations money from D.C. is racist? Well now you know. So if Jimmy the race baiter thinks it’s racist not to take the reparations money, who do you think Jimmy thinks is going to get the money? Oddly Jimmy the race baiter didn’t throw Sarah Palin in with the others. Apparently native Alaskans aren’t sufficiently black enough for Palin to be called a racist for turning down the money.
Exhibit three: Monkey cartoons are verboten. In an odd sort of Muslim thing, professional race baiters confirmed their status as being perpetually offended by being offended by a political cartoon. Not unlike Muslims who riot at the drop of a Koran real or imagined, Al let’s go burn Freddy’s Fashion Mart Sharpton is agitating against the NY Post for conflating two recent news stories into one cartoon - the recent chimpanzee shooting and passage of the reparations bill. The cartoon shows two cops standing over a slain chimp and the line “I guess we’ll have to look for someone else to write the next stimulus package.” Well Al and a bunch of others believe that the cartoon is racist and that – recent news stories be damned – the dead chimp is really the Dear Leader. Never mind the fact that two crackers – Pelosi and Reid - wrote the reparations bill. I guess stupid white people should be mad at the Post as well. But OK fine, the NY Post should apologize. Right after the Dear Leader apologizes to Sarah Palin for making a much less veiled comment about her being a “pig with lipstick.” Oh that’s right this “racist” knife only cuts one way. So the Post should tell Sharpton the only way the cartoon could be misconstrued is if he – Sharpton – thinks the Dear Leader looks like a chimp. In which case, it’s Sharpton who owes the Dear Leader an apology.
Exhibit four: Someone explain Black History Month to me. Used to be we’d have to watch a month of Shaft movies and listen to learned blacks talk about their experience – which were, coincidently uniformly bad – growing up black in America. Now we have a black a president and Attorney General. The movies are much better, but the conversation is still about how wretched life is for black Americans. Hey I’m the first to admit if I could chose the happenstance of my birth it’d be white – male - American. Sure I hit life’s trifecta. But my second, third, fourth and on down to about 1,500th choices would all end with American. So yeah you’ll run into discrimination here and there, but where else would you want to be? And haven’t we made any progress? In some respects I agree we’ve gone backward. Dr. King and other brave people marched against segregation. How would King feel now walking on campuses where black students demand a black student union, black history, black dorms, black homecoming queens, black proms? Isn’t self-imposed segregation none the less segregation?
Exhibit last: Eric the biggest coward of them all Holder said we were a nation of cowards because we refused to have a conversation about race. First, seems to me that race is about the only thing we ever discuss. We’ve even devoted an entire month of the year to race baiting. Ask Imus, Trent Lott, the NY Post or any other small town or fortune 500 company where race baiters show up if we don’t talk about race. But let me ask Brave Brave Sir Holder why in the hell would anyone with a brain get into conversation about race when that anyone knows how the conversation will end? It will end with that anyone being called a racist. So, Brave Brave Sir Holder why even go down that road? It’s the race baiters like Holder who stifle the conversation.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Thank BO that Iran got out of the nuke business back in 2003
Back in 2006 the National Intelligence Estimate said Iran had stopped working on nukes in 2003. The Demo-Dopes and their MSM lemmings rode that NIE like Roy Rodgers rode ol’ Trigger. Then like Rodgers did with trigger, the Demo-Dopes probably had the NIE stuffed – well laminated in this case – for old time’s sake.
The reason that NIE was so important was that people with brains knew it was BS and people without brains – i.e. Liberals – used it as club to prevent the most hated man in world history A.K.A George Bush from forming an alliance to rid the world of the possibility that a nut job in Iran would control nuclear weapons.
Once that fabricated NIE was leaked, not only was Bush on shaky ground with regard to confronting Iran about nukes, but so was the EU. But hey why worry? The intel has to be good – right? Just because it’s the same bumbling bureaucrats that the Demo-Dopes blasted for fouling up the Iraq intel, there’s absolutely no reason to question their competence now that they are telling us what we want to hear - that Iran was out of the nuke business.
So it’s clear that Iran was out of the nuke business in 2003. No doubt. Chisel it in granite. Print the story world-wide. Hold a parade. Shout it from the mountain tops, “There will be peace in our time.”
Ah but wait, or as Lee Corso might say, “Not so fast my friend.” What is this blaring red headline from Drudge UN: IRAN HAS ENOUGH URANIUM FOR NUKE BOMB. Those wily Persians. They must have used the cover of the NIE and the West’s irrational desire to kiss the @ss of anything Muslim to re-start their nuke program. Either that or they never stopped it begin with. Wanna bet that it was the latter?
How is the MSM going to spin this now that the Dear Leader is on the spot with the legacy that it was HE who allowed Iran to get nukes? Here’s how this will play out. The Dear Leader and the propaganda arm of the Demo-Dope party known as the MSM will say,…drum roll please…”It’s all George Bush’s fault! Bush was asleep at the wheel! This is just one more mess George Bush left our Dear Leader! There’s nothing we can do now! Bush fouled this up now we’re just going to have to live with it.
“Thank Barack Obama that the Dear Leader has been chosen to guide us through this mess that George Bush left. But hey in the long run what’s one more country with nukes? What possibly could go wrong with the most unstable players in the most unstable region of the world placing their itchy finger on a nuclear hair trigger?
“To combat this crisis that George Bush has left us, we must raise taxes, squelch free speech, round up all of the guns and make sure that our Dear Leader is empowered for life. That’s the only way out. Because this is such a huge crisis, all of this must be done in the next two days or the Earth will spin off its axis into deep space.”
You laugh? Think back to TARP I and the reparations bill how did they get those debacles through? They got them through by creating a panic. Panic creates the “do something even if it’s wrong” mentality. It could happen again.
The reason that NIE was so important was that people with brains knew it was BS and people without brains – i.e. Liberals – used it as club to prevent the most hated man in world history A.K.A George Bush from forming an alliance to rid the world of the possibility that a nut job in Iran would control nuclear weapons.
Once that fabricated NIE was leaked, not only was Bush on shaky ground with regard to confronting Iran about nukes, but so was the EU. But hey why worry? The intel has to be good – right? Just because it’s the same bumbling bureaucrats that the Demo-Dopes blasted for fouling up the Iraq intel, there’s absolutely no reason to question their competence now that they are telling us what we want to hear - that Iran was out of the nuke business.
So it’s clear that Iran was out of the nuke business in 2003. No doubt. Chisel it in granite. Print the story world-wide. Hold a parade. Shout it from the mountain tops, “There will be peace in our time.”
Ah but wait, or as Lee Corso might say, “Not so fast my friend.” What is this blaring red headline from Drudge UN: IRAN HAS ENOUGH URANIUM FOR NUKE BOMB. Those wily Persians. They must have used the cover of the NIE and the West’s irrational desire to kiss the @ss of anything Muslim to re-start their nuke program. Either that or they never stopped it begin with. Wanna bet that it was the latter?
How is the MSM going to spin this now that the Dear Leader is on the spot with the legacy that it was HE who allowed Iran to get nukes? Here’s how this will play out. The Dear Leader and the propaganda arm of the Demo-Dope party known as the MSM will say,…drum roll please…”It’s all George Bush’s fault! Bush was asleep at the wheel! This is just one more mess George Bush left our Dear Leader! There’s nothing we can do now! Bush fouled this up now we’re just going to have to live with it.
“Thank Barack Obama that the Dear Leader has been chosen to guide us through this mess that George Bush left. But hey in the long run what’s one more country with nukes? What possibly could go wrong with the most unstable players in the most unstable region of the world placing their itchy finger on a nuclear hair trigger?
“To combat this crisis that George Bush has left us, we must raise taxes, squelch free speech, round up all of the guns and make sure that our Dear Leader is empowered for life. That’s the only way out. Because this is such a huge crisis, all of this must be done in the next two days or the Earth will spin off its axis into deep space.”
You laugh? Think back to TARP I and the reparations bill how did they get those debacles through? They got them through by creating a panic. Panic creates the “do something even if it’s wrong” mentality. It could happen again.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Coward Holder deserves to get his @ss kicked
Eric Holder, the nation's first dip $h!t - uh sorry it’s black history month so make that - first black dip $h!t attorney general took the high road yesterday when me laid this steaming pile of excrement on America, “Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards,"
WHAT? This pamper female organ is fit to call who a coward? This nation not only elected a half black man as president, it elected a half-wit half black man as president. That unqualified dope nominated DS Holder as his AG.
Some might take the occasion of Black History Month to note how we have grown as a nation. Others, primarily known as race hustlers, would continue to look at 2009 America as if it were 1950s America or 1860s America.
Hey DS, I’ll tell you who is a coward, YOU! I ask you again and that sail eared dope who hired you, what have you in your entire pampered race baiting lives done that required an ounce of courage. Answer NOTHING. Oh yeah well there was that one time when you were 9 that you got into that pick up game of hoops with 11 year olds – but other than that? NOTHING. Go to hell you slack jawed weasel.
Nation of cowards? Tell that to the souls of over 600,000 dead American who died in a struggle right this nation’s over arching sin of slavery. Now you stand there during Black History Month and call us a nation of cowards. You are the coward. It’s you that must rely on race baiting rhetoric instead of telling people that sure life is unfair don’t compound that fact by being stupid. Get a job. Don’t do drugs. Finish high school. Don’t have children you’re not prepared to properly raise.
Instead it’s YOU who took the coward’s road with your, “Yeah, sure we have problems but the 80% out of wed lock birth rate, unemployment, drop out rates, crime rates, and inner city drug problems blacks suffer from are all because whitey, the Asian, Hispanics, Indians, Pakistanis and Jews have been holding us down. This is a nation of cowards. Except for us blacks of couse"
This morning if there is just one person in America that deserves an old fashion arse whippin’ it’s Eric the real coward Holder.
WHAT? This pamper female organ is fit to call who a coward? This nation not only elected a half black man as president, it elected a half-wit half black man as president. That unqualified dope nominated DS Holder as his AG.
Some might take the occasion of Black History Month to note how we have grown as a nation. Others, primarily known as race hustlers, would continue to look at 2009 America as if it were 1950s America or 1860s America.
Hey DS, I’ll tell you who is a coward, YOU! I ask you again and that sail eared dope who hired you, what have you in your entire pampered race baiting lives done that required an ounce of courage. Answer NOTHING. Oh yeah well there was that one time when you were 9 that you got into that pick up game of hoops with 11 year olds – but other than that? NOTHING. Go to hell you slack jawed weasel.
Nation of cowards? Tell that to the souls of over 600,000 dead American who died in a struggle right this nation’s over arching sin of slavery. Now you stand there during Black History Month and call us a nation of cowards. You are the coward. It’s you that must rely on race baiting rhetoric instead of telling people that sure life is unfair don’t compound that fact by being stupid. Get a job. Don’t do drugs. Finish high school. Don’t have children you’re not prepared to properly raise.
Instead it’s YOU who took the coward’s road with your, “Yeah, sure we have problems but the 80% out of wed lock birth rate, unemployment, drop out rates, crime rates, and inner city drug problems blacks suffer from are all because whitey, the Asian, Hispanics, Indians, Pakistanis and Jews have been holding us down. This is a nation of cowards. Except for us blacks of couse"
This morning if there is just one person in America that deserves an old fashion arse whippin’ it’s Eric the real coward Holder.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
A 700 billion here, a 800 billion there, what's another 50 billion?
I was taking Jr. into school this morning when I heard on the radio that the Dear Leader will be announcing a 50 BILLION DOLLAR plan to bailout failed mortgages. When I got back home, I told Ms. Lex about the bailout and that I knew we should have gone for the 5 bedroom, 5,700 square foot job on the lake at Twin Eagle.
So there’s the 700 BILLION DOLLAR TARP, 800 BILLION DOLLAR Reparations bill and now the 50 BILLION DOLLAR – oh what Orwellian term will they come up for this gem – Certified Refinancing and Adjustment Plan or CRAP for American Homeowners. That’s 1.55 TRILLION DOLLARS without interest, accountability or a clue of common sense from anyone in D.C.
But wait there’s more. The Dear Leader wants bankruptcy judges to have the ability to set “reasonable” mortgage terms. Now what the hell does that mean? Lemme see. If you bought a house and the payment is $100 more than you can afford, the judge can adjust the interest rate and payment schedule to make up for the $100 shortfall. If you bought the big Twin Eagle job for $1.5 million and the house is now worth $700,000, the judge can reduce the amount of the loan.
Huh? You borrow $1.5 million to buy a house and the judge, with the stroke of a pen, can say, “The loan is now for $700,000.” How the hell does that work? What happened to the other (help me out here Mrs. Ralph), uh, oh yeah, $800,000? “Oh, you poor pathetic man. That is what we in the industry call a ‘write down.’”
Oh really, how does that theory work when you eat out? The check comes and you owe $50. You leave two $20s with a note, “Just write the rest down.” Well if doesn’t work anywhere else, why do expect it’ll work here. And why does the deadbeat “write downee” get to stay in the $1.5 million dollar home? Shouldn’t the house be put on the block at the current market value so that the taxpayers - or as we like to them the “write downers” - get a shot at the property? Who knows, maybe the new owner will rent the house back to the deadbeat who didn’t make payments and – is it possible? – make some money.
Were that scenario to play out in real life, I’m sure the Dear Leader would impose rent controls and have rent control judges renegotiate the terms of the lease so that the owner would go broke.
So there’s the 700 BILLION DOLLAR TARP, 800 BILLION DOLLAR Reparations bill and now the 50 BILLION DOLLAR – oh what Orwellian term will they come up for this gem – Certified Refinancing and Adjustment Plan or CRAP for American Homeowners. That’s 1.55 TRILLION DOLLARS without interest, accountability or a clue of common sense from anyone in D.C.
But wait there’s more. The Dear Leader wants bankruptcy judges to have the ability to set “reasonable” mortgage terms. Now what the hell does that mean? Lemme see. If you bought a house and the payment is $100 more than you can afford, the judge can adjust the interest rate and payment schedule to make up for the $100 shortfall. If you bought the big Twin Eagle job for $1.5 million and the house is now worth $700,000, the judge can reduce the amount of the loan.
Huh? You borrow $1.5 million to buy a house and the judge, with the stroke of a pen, can say, “The loan is now for $700,000.” How the hell does that work? What happened to the other (help me out here Mrs. Ralph), uh, oh yeah, $800,000? “Oh, you poor pathetic man. That is what we in the industry call a ‘write down.’”
Oh really, how does that theory work when you eat out? The check comes and you owe $50. You leave two $20s with a note, “Just write the rest down.” Well if doesn’t work anywhere else, why do expect it’ll work here. And why does the deadbeat “write downee” get to stay in the $1.5 million dollar home? Shouldn’t the house be put on the block at the current market value so that the taxpayers - or as we like to them the “write downers” - get a shot at the property? Who knows, maybe the new owner will rent the house back to the deadbeat who didn’t make payments and – is it possible? – make some money.
Were that scenario to play out in real life, I’m sure the Dear Leader would impose rent controls and have rent control judges renegotiate the terms of the lease so that the owner would go broke.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Lex's pitch for Queen for a Day
In the post two below, we learned about how, now famous moochers, Unemployed Dude, Henrietta Hughes and JulioOsegueda worked the Dear leader for a hand out. When given the opportunity to ask the leader of the free world a question, they used the occasion to beg the Dear Leader for more public assistance.
Then Lex looked at that Town Hall Meeting as an example of the Dear Leader’s Stimulus plan. “The One” travels around the nation on his Queen for Day tour handing out public goodies based on how pathetic you can sound in a minute and a half.
I’m thinking about hitting the road, following the Dear Leader around in hopes of getting a better life for my family. Here’s my pitch:
DL: Ahh, lemme see. You there. That’s right, the one in the rainbow wig and t-shirt that says, “I’m one with ‘THE ONE.’”
LL: OH DEAR GOD! Oh Lord Jesus, I truly am blessed. The One has lowered himself to recognize insignificant little ol’ me. Oh, Barack the most merciful the most benevolent, you have looked upon and recognized me and that should be enough, but while I have the opportunity, let me tell you my story.
All my life I’ve been a chump. I was raised by two chumps and all of my siblings are chumps. My mother and father and all of my siblings have worked all their lives, actually paid their taxes and raised their families 98% without government assistance. What idiots!
I my self foolishly worked my way through college without a government loan moving boxes at UPS. Yes it was a union job but the union boss didn’t like me because I foolishly and stubbornly worked harder and faster than the other union guys. And, worst of all, I actually respected the company and my bosses.
Then things got really bad. I joined the Marine Corps. I stayed for 20 years! Going and doing what I was ordered to do. Now after 20 years of service, I am retired living on 1/2 pay. Why does the government only pay me half of the base pay that I made while I was on active duty? That just doesn’t seem fair. I got used to making twice of what they give me now.
Also, over the years I bought three different houses. Foolishly, they were houses I could afford at the time. Now I’m stuck with a mortgage I can afford and is up to date. Can I get a do-over so that I can buy something totally out my price range? Would that make me eligible for a bailout?
Last, I bought two large cars during the gas crunch – cheap. Now gas has gone down and my cars are paid off. Can I get a do-over on that as well so I can get something that I cannot afford?
DL: Lemme get this straight. Your house payment is up to date. Your cars are paid off. You didn’t take government money to pay for school. You’re a damned imposture and a honky to boot. YOU'RE RICH! Get the hell out of here cracker before I call security.
Then Lex looked at that Town Hall Meeting as an example of the Dear Leader’s Stimulus plan. “The One” travels around the nation on his Queen for Day tour handing out public goodies based on how pathetic you can sound in a minute and a half.
I’m thinking about hitting the road, following the Dear Leader around in hopes of getting a better life for my family. Here’s my pitch:
DL: Ahh, lemme see. You there. That’s right, the one in the rainbow wig and t-shirt that says, “I’m one with ‘THE ONE.’”
LL: OH DEAR GOD! Oh Lord Jesus, I truly am blessed. The One has lowered himself to recognize insignificant little ol’ me. Oh, Barack the most merciful the most benevolent, you have looked upon and recognized me and that should be enough, but while I have the opportunity, let me tell you my story.
All my life I’ve been a chump. I was raised by two chumps and all of my siblings are chumps. My mother and father and all of my siblings have worked all their lives, actually paid their taxes and raised their families 98% without government assistance. What idiots!
I my self foolishly worked my way through college without a government loan moving boxes at UPS. Yes it was a union job but the union boss didn’t like me because I foolishly and stubbornly worked harder and faster than the other union guys. And, worst of all, I actually respected the company and my bosses.
Then things got really bad. I joined the Marine Corps. I stayed for 20 years! Going and doing what I was ordered to do. Now after 20 years of service, I am retired living on 1/2 pay. Why does the government only pay me half of the base pay that I made while I was on active duty? That just doesn’t seem fair. I got used to making twice of what they give me now.
Also, over the years I bought three different houses. Foolishly, they were houses I could afford at the time. Now I’m stuck with a mortgage I can afford and is up to date. Can I get a do-over so that I can buy something totally out my price range? Would that make me eligible for a bailout?
Last, I bought two large cars during the gas crunch – cheap. Now gas has gone down and my cars are paid off. Can I get a do-over on that as well so I can get something that I cannot afford?
DL: Lemme get this straight. Your house payment is up to date. Your cars are paid off. You didn’t take government money to pay for school. You’re a damned imposture and a honky to boot. YOU'RE RICH! Get the hell out of here cracker before I call security.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Happy Birthday President Washington!
Today by act of congress, we celebrate George Washington’s Birthday. Most public school students – and sadly public school teachers - have come to think of today as President’s Day. It is sort of like the Christmas Holiday being morphed into the Holiday Holiday. As in - "We are have our office 'holiday' party this Friday." To which my reply is always the same, “What holiday is it?” The Christmas Holiday is going the way of Washington’s Birthday.
We used to celebrate Washington’s Birthday on Feb 22, which oddly enough was the date on which he was born. How dumb is that? Celebrating birthdays on the actual date of birth? That arrangement does absolutely nothing for the White Sale down at the local department store.
Since some dopey idea called the Uniform Monday Holiday Act of 1971, we’ve celebrated Washington’s Birthday on the third Monday of February. Somehow Jesus’ birthday, Veteran’s Day and the 4th of July were exempt from the Uniform Monday Holiday stupidity. I guess celebrating the 4th of July on the 6th because that happened to be first Monday of July made little sense even to the dopes in Washington – or is it President’s - D.C.
Washington’s Birthday was also the only holiday honoring an American Citizen until MLK day. So now, the Father of the Country is all but out and King is the only federal holiday celebrated in honor an American citizen. It’s not meant to, but I’m sure some would take this next comment as racist, comparing Washington to any other American is absurd.
Happy Birthday President Washington! We would not be here were it not for you. You remain the indispensable American, and for that you deserve your own day.
We used to celebrate Washington’s Birthday on Feb 22, which oddly enough was the date on which he was born. How dumb is that? Celebrating birthdays on the actual date of birth? That arrangement does absolutely nothing for the White Sale down at the local department store.
Since some dopey idea called the Uniform Monday Holiday Act of 1971, we’ve celebrated Washington’s Birthday on the third Monday of February. Somehow Jesus’ birthday, Veteran’s Day and the 4th of July were exempt from the Uniform Monday Holiday stupidity. I guess celebrating the 4th of July on the 6th because that happened to be first Monday of July made little sense even to the dopes in Washington – or is it President’s - D.C.
Washington’s Birthday was also the only holiday honoring an American Citizen until MLK day. So now, the Father of the Country is all but out and King is the only federal holiday celebrated in honor an American citizen. It’s not meant to, but I’m sure some would take this next comment as racist, comparing Washington to any other American is absurd.
Happy Birthday President Washington! We would not be here were it not for you. You remain the indispensable American, and for that you deserve your own day.
Friday, February 13, 2009
Stimulus = How well can you beg?
No it won’t do any good, but I e-mailed the Three Stooges the following:
If you haven’t even read the Stimulus Bill you must vote NO on it at least until you have. Is that really too much to ask?
Here are Curly, Larry and Moe’s e-mail addresses. http://collins.senate.gov/public/continue.cfm?FuseAction=ContactSenatorCollins.Email&CFID=39113496&CFTOKEN=99427497http://snowe.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactSenatorSnowe.Emailhttp://specter.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm
But that’s only one thing that’s irritating me this morning. On Tuesday this week the Dear leader pinned his Dumbo sized ears back so they’d fit through the door of Air Force One and headed down to Ft. Meyers, Fl for a town hall meeting.
There he met the now famous moochers Henrietta Hughes and Julio Osegueda. Before them though came some unemployed guy who thought it’d be a good idea if the government guaranteed an unemployment wage that represented 100% of his working wage. Brilliant! Gee, I wonder why anyone would look for a job under those conditions. “Hmm, da gubment payin’ me da same money fo sittin’ here watchin’ Oprah as da boss pay me fo bustin’ my hump on the job. Sos I’m s’posed to be lookin’ fo a job - why?”
Then Henrietta got her big shot to beg at the feet of the Great Wizard Oz for a house with a kitchen and a small bath (or was it baf) room. Last came Julio who made up for his inability to speak clearly and articulately by being loud and excited. He’s studying Communications at a local collage. Apparently he hasn’t had the class on how to ask an articulate question without sounding like a buffoon class yet. That must come in the 400 level classes.
As near as I can tell Julio wants the Dear Leader to make sure he gets more benefits at his job with McDonald’s because he’s been there for 4 years. Well why not? If the Dear Leader can tell auto and bank execs how to run their companies why not McDonald’s?
This is creepy on so many levels. These people are not just asking “the government" to bail them out, they are asking that the President of the United States bail them out. And he took the bait. Henrietta got a house offer. Julio got a new job offer. The poor unemployed guy has to have gotten something by now. If it requires work though he might turn it down in the hopes that the Dear leader will accede to wish for 100% unemployment compensation.
Sometime back political hack and demagogue Dick Gephardt, in an effort to create class warfare and envy, whined about the "winners in life's lottery." Talk about the “winners of life’s lottery,” unemployed dude, Henrietta and Julio have struck the jackpot. They show up a town hall meeting to ask the president a question and instead end up begging that he use the powers of his office – not to better the lives of all Americans – to enhance their own individual lives. Stunning!
So this is how the stimulus is going to work. The Dear leader is going to embark on a series of cross country Queen for a Day tours. Hapless moochers will stand in line all day in the hope of getting into the meeting. If lucky enough to get in the hall, you’ll need some sort of The Price is Right gimmick, a t-shirt (preferably one that says “I (heart) the Dear Leader”), a sign or a funny hat, to catch the Dear leader’s attention so you can be called upon to determine if your ability to beg meets the high standards set by Henrietta and Julio. It'll be sort of like American Idol for people with no talent, no ambitions, no sense and dare I say it, no hope. Pathetic.
If you haven’t even read the Stimulus Bill you must vote NO on it at least until you have. Is that really too much to ask?
Here are Curly, Larry and Moe’s e-mail addresses. http://collins.senate.gov/public/continue.cfm?FuseAction=ContactSenatorCollins.Email&CFID=39113496&CFTOKEN=99427497http://snowe.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactSenatorSnowe.Emailhttp://specter.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm
But that’s only one thing that’s irritating me this morning. On Tuesday this week the Dear leader pinned his Dumbo sized ears back so they’d fit through the door of Air Force One and headed down to Ft. Meyers, Fl for a town hall meeting.
There he met the now famous moochers Henrietta Hughes and Julio Osegueda. Before them though came some unemployed guy who thought it’d be a good idea if the government guaranteed an unemployment wage that represented 100% of his working wage. Brilliant! Gee, I wonder why anyone would look for a job under those conditions. “Hmm, da gubment payin’ me da same money fo sittin’ here watchin’ Oprah as da boss pay me fo bustin’ my hump on the job. Sos I’m s’posed to be lookin’ fo a job - why?”
Then Henrietta got her big shot to beg at the feet of the Great Wizard Oz for a house with a kitchen and a small bath (or was it baf) room. Last came Julio who made up for his inability to speak clearly and articulately by being loud and excited. He’s studying Communications at a local collage. Apparently he hasn’t had the class on how to ask an articulate question without sounding like a buffoon class yet. That must come in the 400 level classes.
As near as I can tell Julio wants the Dear Leader to make sure he gets more benefits at his job with McDonald’s because he’s been there for 4 years. Well why not? If the Dear Leader can tell auto and bank execs how to run their companies why not McDonald’s?
This is creepy on so many levels. These people are not just asking “the government" to bail them out, they are asking that the President of the United States bail them out. And he took the bait. Henrietta got a house offer. Julio got a new job offer. The poor unemployed guy has to have gotten something by now. If it requires work though he might turn it down in the hopes that the Dear leader will accede to wish for 100% unemployment compensation.
Sometime back political hack and demagogue Dick Gephardt, in an effort to create class warfare and envy, whined about the "winners in life's lottery." Talk about the “winners of life’s lottery,” unemployed dude, Henrietta and Julio have struck the jackpot. They show up a town hall meeting to ask the president a question and instead end up begging that he use the powers of his office – not to better the lives of all Americans – to enhance their own individual lives. Stunning!
So this is how the stimulus is going to work. The Dear leader is going to embark on a series of cross country Queen for a Day tours. Hapless moochers will stand in line all day in the hope of getting into the meeting. If lucky enough to get in the hall, you’ll need some sort of The Price is Right gimmick, a t-shirt (preferably one that says “I (heart) the Dear Leader”), a sign or a funny hat, to catch the Dear leader’s attention so you can be called upon to determine if your ability to beg meets the high standards set by Henrietta and Julio. It'll be sort of like American Idol for people with no talent, no ambitions, no sense and dare I say it, no hope. Pathetic.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
TARP I prelude to the reparations bill
I was on the treadmill at the Y trying to reduce the last 30 lbs of Christmas fat when the House TARP hearing came on the TV. So I watched and read the closed caption. I was so infuriated by what I saw that when I got home I fired this gem off to Specter, Snow and Collins:
Right now the House of Representatives is holding hearings with banking officials on the mismanagement of the first installment of the TARP funds. Any mismanagement of TARP funds wasn’t the fault of the banking officials. So what, some of the TARP funds appear to have been spent foolishly, as Chuckles Schumer might say, “The American people don’t care.”
Any mismanagement of TARP funds rests squarely on the shoulders of the US Congress. It was you and your too lazy to read and understand what was in the bill colleagues who passed TARP in a hysterical rush and sans the barest regulation on how those funds should be monitored and/or used. You are responsible for the debacle. Now that the idiocy you and your entrenched gasbag friends passed has gone south, the preening class in Washington is feigning outrage and looking for a scapegoat.
Having learned nothing from your bitter TARP experience, you and two of your RINO buddies are set to sell America down the rivers and spawn the seeds of revolution by passing an even more expensive less understood piece of legislation - all in the name of “doing something.”
You appear to be like a hapless dope who sets his own house on fire by storing oily rags in a corner of the basement and then flicks cigarettes into the heap. Sure as anyone with a brain knows, the heap eventually ignites. Then in the haste “to do something,” the dope who caused the fire in the first place dashes to the garage and grabs the first container containing a liquid that he sees. Unfortunately for the dope, the liquid is in a red container and contains gasoline. The dope, insistent on “doing something,” compounds his idiocy by dousing the fire he started in his own home with gasoline.
You don’t need “to do something” if that “something” is done in thoughtless haste and appears to be dumber than the actions that caused crisis the “something” is supposed to fix.
Right now the House of Representatives is holding hearings with banking officials on the mismanagement of the first installment of the TARP funds. Any mismanagement of TARP funds wasn’t the fault of the banking officials. So what, some of the TARP funds appear to have been spent foolishly, as Chuckles Schumer might say, “The American people don’t care.”
Any mismanagement of TARP funds rests squarely on the shoulders of the US Congress. It was you and your too lazy to read and understand what was in the bill colleagues who passed TARP in a hysterical rush and sans the barest regulation on how those funds should be monitored and/or used. You are responsible for the debacle. Now that the idiocy you and your entrenched gasbag friends passed has gone south, the preening class in Washington is feigning outrage and looking for a scapegoat.
Having learned nothing from your bitter TARP experience, you and two of your RINO buddies are set to sell America down the rivers and spawn the seeds of revolution by passing an even more expensive less understood piece of legislation - all in the name of “doing something.”
You appear to be like a hapless dope who sets his own house on fire by storing oily rags in a corner of the basement and then flicks cigarettes into the heap. Sure as anyone with a brain knows, the heap eventually ignites. Then in the haste “to do something,” the dope who caused the fire in the first place dashes to the garage and grabs the first container containing a liquid that he sees. Unfortunately for the dope, the liquid is in a red container and contains gasoline. The dope, insistent on “doing something,” compounds his idiocy by dousing the fire he started in his own home with gasoline.
You don’t need “to do something” if that “something” is done in thoughtless haste and appears to be dumber than the actions that caused crisis the “something” is supposed to fix.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
How can you tell if the Dear Leader saved your job? Do you have one? He saved it!
I put my usual donation in the plate at church Sunday thereby saving or creating 4 million jobs. Holy cow Lex how much did you throw in? Doesn’t matter. By contributing I’m able to take credit for anything good that might happen. And, well, if nothing good happens it’s all George Bush’s fault.
This financial model is called “the Dear Leader reparations plan” that is set to “save” or create 4 million jobs. BS! First, is there any metric out there that measures “saved” jobs? This would be a whole new category of jobs that has never been reported before. I don’t ever recall any news report saying, “While unemployment increased by .5% this month, it's not as bad as it looks. 10,000 jobs were 'saved' by government’s heavy hand in commerce.” This whole thing, like the opening paragraph, is BS! It is a failsafe to guarantee success for the Dear Leader’s plan.
Think of it as an underdog sports team beating the spread but losing the game. So when unemployment rises (i.e. the Dear Leader loses), the Dear Leader can say, “Well, sure given George Bush’s crappy economy, what do expect? But think how bad it would have been if I had not dumped trillions of your dollars into Democrat causes. While we lost 1000,000 jobs this quarter, Nanny Pelousy told me that I saved in the neighborhood of 500 million jobs just yesterday alone. So we really won. Now, you should all get down on your knees and pay me proper homage.”
The reparations bill will pass in some form. I believe it will be a colossal failure that will lead to major league fraud, waste and abuse in the short run and nearly worthless dollars in the long run. There is not one shred of evidence that government can properly administer that much money being spent over such a short period of time. To the contrary, there is a mountain of evidence that they will screw it up in the first couple of hours.
But no matter what happens, Jug Ears and his MSM lemmings will claim that it is a huge success. How the hell? Well it’s simple. The Dear Leader has claimed the reparations bill will “save” or create 4 million jobs. So no matter what happens, as long as 4 million people have jobs, the Dear Leader can claim victory simply by claiming he saved the last 4 million jobs.
Why hasn’t anyone bothered to ask the Dear Leader or his buffoon press secretary what metrics they will be using to establish how many jobs were saved?
This financial model is called “the Dear Leader reparations plan” that is set to “save” or create 4 million jobs. BS! First, is there any metric out there that measures “saved” jobs? This would be a whole new category of jobs that has never been reported before. I don’t ever recall any news report saying, “While unemployment increased by .5% this month, it's not as bad as it looks. 10,000 jobs were 'saved' by government’s heavy hand in commerce.” This whole thing, like the opening paragraph, is BS! It is a failsafe to guarantee success for the Dear Leader’s plan.
Think of it as an underdog sports team beating the spread but losing the game. So when unemployment rises (i.e. the Dear Leader loses), the Dear Leader can say, “Well, sure given George Bush’s crappy economy, what do expect? But think how bad it would have been if I had not dumped trillions of your dollars into Democrat causes. While we lost 1000,000 jobs this quarter, Nanny Pelousy told me that I saved in the neighborhood of 500 million jobs just yesterday alone. So we really won. Now, you should all get down on your knees and pay me proper homage.”
The reparations bill will pass in some form. I believe it will be a colossal failure that will lead to major league fraud, waste and abuse in the short run and nearly worthless dollars in the long run. There is not one shred of evidence that government can properly administer that much money being spent over such a short period of time. To the contrary, there is a mountain of evidence that they will screw it up in the first couple of hours.
But no matter what happens, Jug Ears and his MSM lemmings will claim that it is a huge success. How the hell? Well it’s simple. The Dear Leader has claimed the reparations bill will “save” or create 4 million jobs. So no matter what happens, as long as 4 million people have jobs, the Dear Leader can claim victory simply by claiming he saved the last 4 million jobs.
Why hasn’t anyone bothered to ask the Dear Leader or his buffoon press secretary what metrics they will be using to establish how many jobs were saved?
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Remember, what comes out of the "stimulus bill" becomes the new baseline for spending
I doubt it’ll do any good but e-mail the three RINO nitwits below and tell them to vote NO! on the reparations bill today:
http://collins.senate.gov/public/continue.cfm?FuseAction=ContactSenatorCollins.Email&CFID=39113496&CFTOKEN=99427497
http://snowe.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactSenatorSnowe.Email
http://specter.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm
If I thought, as the oh so slow Joe Biden apparently does, that there was a 70% chance of the stimulus working, I’d be for it. Hell if I thought there was a 30% or even 10% chance of it working I’d be a whole lot less P O’d than I am this morning. Sadly I give the reparations bill about a .000009% chance of working. The only reason it’s not zero is that as an optimist, I know there’s always a chance. What evidence is there that congress can get anything - let alone a trillion dollar spending package – right?
If I thought there was a 10% chance that 10% of the money would be well spent, I’d be less P O’d this morning than I am. We’re about to spend the last $350 billion of a $700 billion bank bailout and got what for that money? We got no discernible change in the economy. $70+ billion just disappeared without a trace. Ooops, these things happen.
If I thought for a second that Demorats wouldn’t use the public money in this idiocy to payoff their special interest groups and for social engineering, I’d be a whole lot less P O’d this morning than I am. Bobby Reich and famous Democrat tax cheat Chuck Rangel have already said that congress needs to make sure white men don’t get in on the deal.
If I thought that there were 10 people who voted for this monstrosity that actually read the bill I’d be a whole lot less P O’d this morning than I am. Nobody has read the entire bill. Bits and pieces of the bill have been constructed by various wings of the Democrat party and then thrown together in 778 pages of idiocy that the Dear Leader says MUST be passed immediately.
If I didn’t think that we’ll be finding out all sorts of socialist BS hidden in this idiocy for months and months to come, I’d be a whole lot less P O’d this morning than I am. Bloomberg is reporting that the idiot bill being considered contains language for something called the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology. Click the link. It’s stunning the reach of this newly minted agency. Socialized health care is in the stimulus! No wonder it has to be passed before anyone can read it.
If I thought there was one chance in 827 billion that any of the idiocy contained in this bill could be rolled back at a later date, I’d be a whole lot less P O’d this morning than I am. Like FDR’s Raw Deal, what comes out of this idiocy will be become the new baseline for entitlements for the next 100 years.
If I thought that this idiocy would be last irresponsible massive spending bill of the Dear Leader’s administration, I’d be a whole lot less P O’d this morning than I am. Idiots are going to have come up with spending for the banks to take care of the housing market which remains on its butt. Idiots are going to have come up with more money for the socialized healthcare we all supposedly want. FDR’s Ponzi Taj Mahal of cards called Social Security is about to collapse on itself. Idiots are going to have come up with the 10s of billions of dollars for the everyday idiocy that they engage in…well everyday
If I thought for one second that the jug eared Curious George look-a-like Dear Leader wasn’t a miserable lying sack of excrement last night when he claimed that there was no pork in the bill, I’d a whole lot less P O’d this morning than I am. This is a partial list of the projects contained in the bill that the Dear Leader must have over looked because…HE DIDN’T READ THE BILL EITHER. National Review Online compiled this list of 50 destimulating things in the bill:
$50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts
$380 million in the Senate bill for the Women, Infants and Children program
$300 million for grants to combat violence against women
$2 billion for federal child-care block grants
$6 billion for university building projects
$15 billion for boosting Pell Grant college scholarships
$4 billion for job-training programs, including
$1.2 billion for “youths” up to the age of 24
$1 billion for community-development block grants
$4.2 billion for “neighborhood stabilization activities”
$650 million for digital-TV coupons;
$90 million to educate “vulnerable populations”
$15 billion for business-loss carry-backs
$145 billion for “Making Work Pay” tax credits
$83 billion for the earned income credit
$150 million for the Smithsonian
$34 million to renovate the Department of Commerce headquarters
$500 million for improvement projects for National Institutes of Health facilities
$44 million for repairs to Department of Agriculture headquarters
$350 million for Agriculture Department computers
$88 million to help move the Public Health Service into a new building
$448 million for constructing a new Homeland Security Department headquarters
$600 million to convert the federal auto fleet to hybrids
$450 million for NASA (carve-out for “climate-research missions”)
$600 million for NOAA (carve-out for “climate modeling”)
$1 billion for the Census Bureau
$89 billion for Medicaid
$30 billion for COBRA insurance extension
$36 billion for expanded unemployment benefits
$20 billion for food stamps
$4.5 billion for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
$850 million for Amtrak
$87 million for a polar icebreaking ship
$1.7 billion for the National Park System
$55 million for Historic Preservation Fund
$7.6 billion for “rural community advancement programs”
$150 million for agricultural-commodity purchases
$150 million for “producers of livestock, honeybees, and farm-raised fish”
$2 billion for renewable-energy research ($400 million for global-warming research)
$2 billion for a “clean coal” power plant in Illinois
$6.2 billion for the Weatherization Assistance Program
$3.5 billion for energy-efficiency and conservation block grants
$3.4 billion for the State Energy Program
$200 million for state and local electric-transport projects
$300 million for energy-efficient-appliance rebate programs
$400 million for hybrid cars for state and local governments
$1 billion for the manufacturing of advanced batteries
$1.5 billion for green-technology loan guarantees
$8 billion for innovative-technology loan-guarantee program
$2.4 billion for carbon-capture demonstration projects
$4.5 billion for electricity grid
$79 billion for State Fiscal Stabilization Fund
http://collins.senate.gov/public/continue.cfm?FuseAction=ContactSenatorCollins.Email&CFID=39113496&CFTOKEN=99427497
http://snowe.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactSenatorSnowe.Email
http://specter.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm
If I thought, as the oh so slow Joe Biden apparently does, that there was a 70% chance of the stimulus working, I’d be for it. Hell if I thought there was a 30% or even 10% chance of it working I’d be a whole lot less P O’d than I am this morning. Sadly I give the reparations bill about a .000009% chance of working. The only reason it’s not zero is that as an optimist, I know there’s always a chance. What evidence is there that congress can get anything - let alone a trillion dollar spending package – right?
If I thought there was a 10% chance that 10% of the money would be well spent, I’d be less P O’d this morning than I am. We’re about to spend the last $350 billion of a $700 billion bank bailout and got what for that money? We got no discernible change in the economy. $70+ billion just disappeared without a trace. Ooops, these things happen.
If I thought for a second that Demorats wouldn’t use the public money in this idiocy to payoff their special interest groups and for social engineering, I’d be a whole lot less P O’d this morning than I am. Bobby Reich and famous Democrat tax cheat Chuck Rangel have already said that congress needs to make sure white men don’t get in on the deal.
If I thought that there were 10 people who voted for this monstrosity that actually read the bill I’d be a whole lot less P O’d this morning than I am. Nobody has read the entire bill. Bits and pieces of the bill have been constructed by various wings of the Democrat party and then thrown together in 778 pages of idiocy that the Dear Leader says MUST be passed immediately.
If I didn’t think that we’ll be finding out all sorts of socialist BS hidden in this idiocy for months and months to come, I’d be a whole lot less P O’d this morning than I am. Bloomberg is reporting that the idiot bill being considered contains language for something called the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology. Click the link. It’s stunning the reach of this newly minted agency. Socialized health care is in the stimulus! No wonder it has to be passed before anyone can read it.
If I thought there was one chance in 827 billion that any of the idiocy contained in this bill could be rolled back at a later date, I’d be a whole lot less P O’d this morning than I am. Like FDR’s Raw Deal, what comes out of this idiocy will be become the new baseline for entitlements for the next 100 years.
If I thought that this idiocy would be last irresponsible massive spending bill of the Dear Leader’s administration, I’d be a whole lot less P O’d this morning than I am. Idiots are going to have come up with spending for the banks to take care of the housing market which remains on its butt. Idiots are going to have come up with more money for the socialized healthcare we all supposedly want. FDR’s Ponzi Taj Mahal of cards called Social Security is about to collapse on itself. Idiots are going to have come up with the 10s of billions of dollars for the everyday idiocy that they engage in…well everyday
If I thought for one second that the jug eared Curious George look-a-like Dear Leader wasn’t a miserable lying sack of excrement last night when he claimed that there was no pork in the bill, I’d a whole lot less P O’d this morning than I am. This is a partial list of the projects contained in the bill that the Dear Leader must have over looked because…HE DIDN’T READ THE BILL EITHER. National Review Online compiled this list of 50 destimulating things in the bill:
$50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts
$380 million in the Senate bill for the Women, Infants and Children program
$300 million for grants to combat violence against women
$2 billion for federal child-care block grants
$6 billion for university building projects
$15 billion for boosting Pell Grant college scholarships
$4 billion for job-training programs, including
$1.2 billion for “youths” up to the age of 24
$1 billion for community-development block grants
$4.2 billion for “neighborhood stabilization activities”
$650 million for digital-TV coupons;
$90 million to educate “vulnerable populations”
$15 billion for business-loss carry-backs
$145 billion for “Making Work Pay” tax credits
$83 billion for the earned income credit
$150 million for the Smithsonian
$34 million to renovate the Department of Commerce headquarters
$500 million for improvement projects for National Institutes of Health facilities
$44 million for repairs to Department of Agriculture headquarters
$350 million for Agriculture Department computers
$88 million to help move the Public Health Service into a new building
$448 million for constructing a new Homeland Security Department headquarters
$600 million to convert the federal auto fleet to hybrids
$450 million for NASA (carve-out for “climate-research missions”)
$600 million for NOAA (carve-out for “climate modeling”)
$1 billion for the Census Bureau
$89 billion for Medicaid
$30 billion for COBRA insurance extension
$36 billion for expanded unemployment benefits
$20 billion for food stamps
$4.5 billion for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
$850 million for Amtrak
$87 million for a polar icebreaking ship
$1.7 billion for the National Park System
$55 million for Historic Preservation Fund
$7.6 billion for “rural community advancement programs”
$150 million for agricultural-commodity purchases
$150 million for “producers of livestock, honeybees, and farm-raised fish”
$2 billion for renewable-energy research ($400 million for global-warming research)
$2 billion for a “clean coal” power plant in Illinois
$6.2 billion for the Weatherization Assistance Program
$3.5 billion for energy-efficiency and conservation block grants
$3.4 billion for the State Energy Program
$200 million for state and local electric-transport projects
$300 million for energy-efficient-appliance rebate programs
$400 million for hybrid cars for state and local governments
$1 billion for the manufacturing of advanced batteries
$1.5 billion for green-technology loan guarantees
$8 billion for innovative-technology loan-guarantee program
$2.4 billion for carbon-capture demonstration projects
$4.5 billion for electricity grid
$79 billion for State Fiscal Stabilization Fund
Monday, February 09, 2009
Republicans tarred with own brush
When Republicans said Democrats' massive reparations…ooops…uh stimulus bill made them look like hogs feeding at a trough of public money, Democrats hit the Sunday morning talk shows countering with a brilliant talking point, “I know you are but what am I?”
It’s hard to reason with logic as water tight as that, particularly when it’s true. Republicans were out there spending like a crack whore with a fresh welfare check on Saturday night enacting George Bush’s compassionate Conservative non-sense or as Lex named it big government conservatism, which isn’t conservative. It’s simply politicians being politicians. That’s why Lex remains suspicious of all pols.
If you or I walk into a pols office with a bag of money asking the pol to rezone something – 99 out of 100 times the pol takes the money, the zoning remains the same and life goes on. The one time in 100 you run across an honest pol (or a crooked one the FBI happens to be wiretapping), YOU get busted for trying to bribe a pol with your own money.
On the other hand, Pols from both parties go to Washington and use other people’s money to bribe or buy votes back in their own districts. “Well we gotta have a new interchange which is .0001 miles north and .0000001 miles south of two exiting interchanges on the federal highway runin’ through my district because the people of my district demand it. Well that, and my brother-in-law just bought the gas station on the corner there.”
So if you try to bribe a pol with your own money, you are a criminal. If the pol tries to bribe you with other people’s money, he just a shrewd pol.
Now for six of the last eight years it’s been the Republicans trying to buy votes – poorly I might add. For some reason Republicans always look like dopes when they try these things. I don’t know whether it’s because Republican voters instinctively dislike hypocrites or hypocrite Republican pols lack that certain saouv au fair of their Democrat counterparts to lie straight faced while arguing that it is they who are the victim of any self-inflicted spending or tax scandal.
It doesn’t’ matter. It doesn’t matter that by comparison spineless Republicans tried to get an 8 foot rowboat for their district while Democrats are now trying get the Queen Mary for theirs. Pork is pork after all, ask any Muslim if it matters if it’s a pork loin or pork rind.
Now the spineless dopes who tried to bring home a rowboat and a bag for pork rinds for their district are being tarred with the same brush that they want to use on Dems who will bring home the Queen Mary and the whole damn hog their districts.
Three lessons for Republican pols:
- One, if you are going to abandon your principles, do it for something big.
- Two, no matter how big it is, Democrats will double it because they have no principles to begin with.
- Three, don’t abandon your principles.
It’s hard to reason with logic as water tight as that, particularly when it’s true. Republicans were out there spending like a crack whore with a fresh welfare check on Saturday night enacting George Bush’s compassionate Conservative non-sense or as Lex named it big government conservatism, which isn’t conservative. It’s simply politicians being politicians. That’s why Lex remains suspicious of all pols.
If you or I walk into a pols office with a bag of money asking the pol to rezone something – 99 out of 100 times the pol takes the money, the zoning remains the same and life goes on. The one time in 100 you run across an honest pol (or a crooked one the FBI happens to be wiretapping), YOU get busted for trying to bribe a pol with your own money.
On the other hand, Pols from both parties go to Washington and use other people’s money to bribe or buy votes back in their own districts. “Well we gotta have a new interchange which is .0001 miles north and .0000001 miles south of two exiting interchanges on the federal highway runin’ through my district because the people of my district demand it. Well that, and my brother-in-law just bought the gas station on the corner there.”
So if you try to bribe a pol with your own money, you are a criminal. If the pol tries to bribe you with other people’s money, he just a shrewd pol.
Now for six of the last eight years it’s been the Republicans trying to buy votes – poorly I might add. For some reason Republicans always look like dopes when they try these things. I don’t know whether it’s because Republican voters instinctively dislike hypocrites or hypocrite Republican pols lack that certain saouv au fair of their Democrat counterparts to lie straight faced while arguing that it is they who are the victim of any self-inflicted spending or tax scandal.
It doesn’t’ matter. It doesn’t matter that by comparison spineless Republicans tried to get an 8 foot rowboat for their district while Democrats are now trying get the Queen Mary for theirs. Pork is pork after all, ask any Muslim if it matters if it’s a pork loin or pork rind.
Now the spineless dopes who tried to bring home a rowboat and a bag for pork rinds for their district are being tarred with the same brush that they want to use on Dems who will bring home the Queen Mary and the whole damn hog their districts.
Three lessons for Republican pols:
- One, if you are going to abandon your principles, do it for something big.
- Two, no matter how big it is, Democrats will double it because they have no principles to begin with.
- Three, don’t abandon your principles.
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Too expensive? Just add money to buy more votes
So pretend you are a member of congress. NO! Don’t order that lobotomy! We’re just pretending! Jeeeeez! A bill comes across your desk. Because we're just pretending and you haven't actually been lobotomized, you actually read the bill. It’s way too expensive. Like paying $10,000 dollars to feed a family of four lunch at McDonald’s too expensive. So you tell the “leadership,” “I can’t vote for that. It’s way too expensive.”
So the leadership says, “Too expensive huh? How about we add another $200 million to the bill so we can build libraries in your district with your name on them?” Since you haven’t been lobotomized, you tell them to go to hell. That will only make it worse.
But for the brain dead idiots in Washington D.C. this is how it’s done. The Reparations…uh…stimulus bill came out of the House at $815 billion. It ran into opposition in senate, so now it’s at $900+ billion as Dems try to buy off senators one by one.
Sen. Lugnut won’t vote for our bill.
Offer him a $1 billion for his state.
Suddenly Sen. Lugnut becomes a pragmatic Chicken Little. “The sky will definitely fall if we don’t pass this bill in the next couple of days.” A couple of days pass. “The sky is definitely beginning to fall and it’ll be much worse if don’t pass this bill today.”
This idiocy is going to continue to grow until the Dems buy off enough votes
Now if Rham Emmanuel gets on the phone with Gov. Blago and Blago wants a union job for appointing Emmanuel’s cousin to the Senate, that’s criminal. But if Scrawny Harry Reid gets on the phone to Sen. Lugnut and offer’s him $1 billion of taxpayer money for crooked state projects for the Sen.'s cousin in exchange for the Sen.'s vote, that’s just good politics.
We need to send the whole lot to G’itmo and start over. On second thought G’itmo is way too good for these creeps. Put them in with the general population at Statesville Prison in Joliet.
So the leadership says, “Too expensive huh? How about we add another $200 million to the bill so we can build libraries in your district with your name on them?” Since you haven’t been lobotomized, you tell them to go to hell. That will only make it worse.
But for the brain dead idiots in Washington D.C. this is how it’s done. The Reparations…uh…stimulus bill came out of the House at $815 billion. It ran into opposition in senate, so now it’s at $900+ billion as Dems try to buy off senators one by one.
Sen. Lugnut won’t vote for our bill.
Offer him a $1 billion for his state.
Suddenly Sen. Lugnut becomes a pragmatic Chicken Little. “The sky will definitely fall if we don’t pass this bill in the next couple of days.” A couple of days pass. “The sky is definitely beginning to fall and it’ll be much worse if don’t pass this bill today.”
This idiocy is going to continue to grow until the Dems buy off enough votes
Now if Rham Emmanuel gets on the phone with Gov. Blago and Blago wants a union job for appointing Emmanuel’s cousin to the Senate, that’s criminal. But if Scrawny Harry Reid gets on the phone to Sen. Lugnut and offer’s him $1 billion of taxpayer money for crooked state projects for the Sen.'s cousin in exchange for the Sen.'s vote, that’s just good politics.
We need to send the whole lot to G’itmo and start over. On second thought G’itmo is way too good for these creeps. Put them in with the general population at Statesville Prison in Joliet.
The Dear Leader has some ‘splanin to do
Questions for the one:
OK lemme get this straight. Daschle is a liar and a tax cheat so he has to go – right? Geithner is a liar and a tax cheat so he gets to run the agency in charge of catching lying tax cheats. How can that make sense to anyone?
During the campaign you proposed a plan that would have US troops out of Iraq by March. Uh…March 2008…that is. Iraq just held another stunning round of peaceful elections. Since you’re on a role telling everyone how you screwed up that Daschle thing, wouldn’t this be an excellent time to admit you screwed up the Iraq thing as well?
You have just capped executive pay for companies that take government bailout money at $500K. Right on dude. Way to go after those greedy bastards. Now if we get universal government provided health care, can we expect you to cap health care for all of those worthless old people, fat people who don’t eat arugula, smokers, drinkers, people who don’t drive hybrids, tax cheats, people who ride motorcycles, skydive and engage in other risky behavior that would be determined by you?
Dear Leader, you have risen from former cocaine snorting pot head to the most powerful man in the world. You can raise our taxes – well at least the taxes on those of us who bother to fill out the forms and pay them – and take us to war. How do juxtapose America’s absolute lack of interest in your past drug usage with America’s fascination with a 20 something year old swimmer who has no power over any of us taking a hit off of a bong?
Your sycophantic press wastes a lot ink and newsprint telling us how handsome and fit you are. Others with brains compare your odd looks - with those ears protruding like the side mirrors of White Freightliner – to the movie star Curious George. Now if we started making monkey comparisons like, monkey see monkey do, he’s gotten the drug monkey off his back, one monkey don’t make a circus, etc. etc. would you take those comments in the same manner that you expected Sarah Palin to take your comment about putting lipstick on a pig?
In other news, a ground hog bit NY City Mayor Bloomberg during a NY City Groundhog Day rip off. He was rushed off and received immediate medical attention, rabbis shots and double dose of antibiotics and appears to be just fine. Mayor Bloomberg on the other hand received a band aid for his hand. A hazmat team was dispatched to clean up the spilled blood.
Then there’s this. Nanny Pelosi said 500 million Americans lose their jobs (jobs being a three letter word according the world’s slowest thinking man Joe Biden) every month. Hmmm. There are only 320 million Americans according to the last senses. But I guess those other 180 million people live in those 8 yet unidentified states. You know the ones, when the Dear Leader said he’d visited all 57 states then added, only one more to go.
OK lemme get this straight. Daschle is a liar and a tax cheat so he has to go – right? Geithner is a liar and a tax cheat so he gets to run the agency in charge of catching lying tax cheats. How can that make sense to anyone?
During the campaign you proposed a plan that would have US troops out of Iraq by March. Uh…March 2008…that is. Iraq just held another stunning round of peaceful elections. Since you’re on a role telling everyone how you screwed up that Daschle thing, wouldn’t this be an excellent time to admit you screwed up the Iraq thing as well?
You have just capped executive pay for companies that take government bailout money at $500K. Right on dude. Way to go after those greedy bastards. Now if we get universal government provided health care, can we expect you to cap health care for all of those worthless old people, fat people who don’t eat arugula, smokers, drinkers, people who don’t drive hybrids, tax cheats, people who ride motorcycles, skydive and engage in other risky behavior that would be determined by you?
Dear Leader, you have risen from former cocaine snorting pot head to the most powerful man in the world. You can raise our taxes – well at least the taxes on those of us who bother to fill out the forms and pay them – and take us to war. How do juxtapose America’s absolute lack of interest in your past drug usage with America’s fascination with a 20 something year old swimmer who has no power over any of us taking a hit off of a bong?
Your sycophantic press wastes a lot ink and newsprint telling us how handsome and fit you are. Others with brains compare your odd looks - with those ears protruding like the side mirrors of White Freightliner – to the movie star Curious George. Now if we started making monkey comparisons like, monkey see monkey do, he’s gotten the drug monkey off his back, one monkey don’t make a circus, etc. etc. would you take those comments in the same manner that you expected Sarah Palin to take your comment about putting lipstick on a pig?
In other news, a ground hog bit NY City Mayor Bloomberg during a NY City Groundhog Day rip off. He was rushed off and received immediate medical attention, rabbis shots and double dose of antibiotics and appears to be just fine. Mayor Bloomberg on the other hand received a band aid for his hand. A hazmat team was dispatched to clean up the spilled blood.
Then there’s this. Nanny Pelosi said 500 million Americans lose their jobs (jobs being a three letter word according the world’s slowest thinking man Joe Biden) every month. Hmmm. There are only 320 million Americans according to the last senses. But I guess those other 180 million people live in those 8 yet unidentified states. You know the ones, when the Dear Leader said he’d visited all 57 states then added, only one more to go.
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Being first is important
What did we learn from lying tax cheat Tom Daschle stepping aside as HHS Sec in waiting? Well you might think that we learned that there’s no room for lying tax cheats in positions of great responsibility within the Dear Leader’s administration. You’d be wrong. We have confirmed a confirmed lying tax cheat as Sec of Treasury.
What we learned is that you must be the FIRST lying tax cheat to step forward. Had Daschle stepped up FIRST and said, “How was I supposed to know that my Limo and chauffeur cost money? I only made 5 million a year since leaving government. I thought everyone had limos and chauffeurs – except Limo drivers of course. They’d have to work something among themselves to get around on their days off. Besides, this tax code is an abomination that make’s it impossible for an honest guy like me to make a good faith effort to pay my taxes.” Had he said that, he’d have probably gotten over and Tim - taxes? what taxes? - Geithner would be left to pull the plug on himself admitting once and for all that while he is the only man smart enough to get us out of the current worldwide financial calamity, he’s not bright enough to figure out the American tax code or use Turbo Tax.
Then there’s the case of this Kilifer chick who was set to take some made up Orwellian job as the Fraud and Abuse Redistribution Czarina and Enforcer or FARCE for short. This poor gal had no chance. Not only was she was beaten out of the blocks admitting that she was a lying tax cheat that had no clue how the American tax system works but she was beaten out of the blocks by not one but two good ol’ boys.
Then the coup de gras, her problem involved payments to not one but two nannies to care for – get this – her teenaged children. No, there’s no chance those kids will be living in mom’s basement well into their 40s. Two nannies for two teenagers? What the...? I assume they are potty trained. But being raised as Libs, who knows.
So, this is a valuable lesson here, anytime you have a tax problem be the first to admit it, but if it involves a “nanny,” just go ahead and quit. America doesn’t mind if a lying tax cheat is running the agency responsible for catching lying tax cheats, but it will not stand for another nannygate.
What we learned is that you must be the FIRST lying tax cheat to step forward. Had Daschle stepped up FIRST and said, “How was I supposed to know that my Limo and chauffeur cost money? I only made 5 million a year since leaving government. I thought everyone had limos and chauffeurs – except Limo drivers of course. They’d have to work something among themselves to get around on their days off. Besides, this tax code is an abomination that make’s it impossible for an honest guy like me to make a good faith effort to pay my taxes.” Had he said that, he’d have probably gotten over and Tim - taxes? what taxes? - Geithner would be left to pull the plug on himself admitting once and for all that while he is the only man smart enough to get us out of the current worldwide financial calamity, he’s not bright enough to figure out the American tax code or use Turbo Tax.
Then there’s the case of this Kilifer chick who was set to take some made up Orwellian job as the Fraud and Abuse Redistribution Czarina and Enforcer or FARCE for short. This poor gal had no chance. Not only was she was beaten out of the blocks admitting that she was a lying tax cheat that had no clue how the American tax system works but she was beaten out of the blocks by not one but two good ol’ boys.
Then the coup de gras, her problem involved payments to not one but two nannies to care for – get this – her teenaged children. No, there’s no chance those kids will be living in mom’s basement well into their 40s. Two nannies for two teenagers? What the...? I assume they are potty trained. But being raised as Libs, who knows.
So, this is a valuable lesson here, anytime you have a tax problem be the first to admit it, but if it involves a “nanny,” just go ahead and quit. America doesn’t mind if a lying tax cheat is running the agency responsible for catching lying tax cheats, but it will not stand for another nannygate.
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Dear Leader ruins Super Bowl prep
During an interview with the Dear Leader before the Super Bowl on Sunday, Matt Lauer asked the chosen one if he would guarantee that many of the troops (conveniently provided as a prop on the split screen) would be home for the next Super Bowl. “Yes” said the chosen one. Then the Dear Leader added, “We support the troops. That’s why we’re getting them out of Iraq and sending them to Afghanistan.”
This is wrong on several levels. Most important though is that sporting events are distractions, a chance to forget about politics. Aside from throwing out the first pitch or announcing “Gentlemen start your engines” most people don’t want to hear from anyone of either party. But there he was, our Dear Leader kicked back fresh from an arugula salad and a bottle of Perrier after looking for another tax cheat to fill the position of Undersecretary of Administration Tax Cheats fielding one soft pitch after another for what seemed hours. The best part was when the sound went out.
But when one considers that the weekend's elections in Iraq were a huge success, I suspect even a Democrat could move a “substantial number” of US troops from Iraq. I’m not sure given the current path Iraq is on at this point it necessarily requires a Messiah to redeploy a brigade or two to Afghanistan. Any troops coming out of Iraq in victory this year or next are a result of George Bush’s courage and leadership NOT the happenstance of having elected an idiot who would have quit the war two years ago in defeat.
Oh and there was this gem. Now that he's in office and seeing intelligence reports, he can tell Americans that "we've got real threats and we've got to remain vigilant." Holy $h*t! We’ve got real threats? Who knew? I thought Bush was just making that crap up so he could wire tap my phone.
This is wrong on several levels. Most important though is that sporting events are distractions, a chance to forget about politics. Aside from throwing out the first pitch or announcing “Gentlemen start your engines” most people don’t want to hear from anyone of either party. But there he was, our Dear Leader kicked back fresh from an arugula salad and a bottle of Perrier after looking for another tax cheat to fill the position of Undersecretary of Administration Tax Cheats fielding one soft pitch after another for what seemed hours. The best part was when the sound went out.
But when one considers that the weekend's elections in Iraq were a huge success, I suspect even a Democrat could move a “substantial number” of US troops from Iraq. I’m not sure given the current path Iraq is on at this point it necessarily requires a Messiah to redeploy a brigade or two to Afghanistan. Any troops coming out of Iraq in victory this year or next are a result of George Bush’s courage and leadership NOT the happenstance of having elected an idiot who would have quit the war two years ago in defeat.
Oh and there was this gem. Now that he's in office and seeing intelligence reports, he can tell Americans that "we've got real threats and we've got to remain vigilant." Holy $h*t! We’ve got real threats? Who knew? I thought Bush was just making that crap up so he could wire tap my phone.
Monday, February 02, 2009
Finally, Slow Joe’s unpatriotic Dems assume power
If I called Senate Majority Leader Scrawny Harry Reid an unpatriotic, un-American, brain-dead, lying, weasel for saying the surge had failed and the war in Iraq was lost before the surge even started and while American fighting men were still in the field, it would be a true statement. And oh yeah, I did say pretty much the same at the time.
Now, were I anyone that the Dems cared a hoot about – say John McCain, Newt Gingrich, Mitch McConnell etc. – and made the exact same factually true statement about the incredible dirt bag known as Scrawny Harry Reid, the Dems and their MSM lemmings would go apoplectic. Why you can’t question our patriotism. This is an outrage!
Well it’s good to know that when one unpatriotic Democrat calls another unpatriotic Democrat unpatriotic it sort of serves as a resume enhancement. According to VP Slow Joe Biden, many in his own party are unpatriotic. Back during the campaign when asked about higher taxes on GMA Oh So Slow Joe said, “It’s time to be patriotic. It’s time to jump in, time to be part of the deal, time to help get America out of the rut.”
Now we find out that the Dear Leader wants to put a couple of unpatriotic Democrat tax cheats into key positions in his administration. Who knew being an unpatriotic tax cheat would lead to a cabinet position? We know about the unpatriotic liar and tax cheat Tim oops I forgot my taxes…four years in a row Geithner. Now we find out former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle is himself a lying unpatriotic tax cheat.
The good news for Daschle is that at least in his position as head of Health and Human Services, he won’t be responsible for running the IRS. That would be just a little over the top to have an unpatriotic lying tax cheat in charge of the IRS. But wait, unpatriotic lying tax cheat Geithner is in charge of the agency that is responsible for catching unpatriotic lying tax cheats.
No problem. They’re Democrats. They have no morals, no standards of behavior that are out of bounds. So not only can’t you call them unpatriotic, you can’t call them hypocritical scum bags either. So be like an unprincipled creep Democrat like Gary Studs. Have sex with a House page. Be praised as hero. Don’t be a Republican dope like Mark Foley talking about standards. Not having sex with a House page. But exchanging e-mails about sex and getting run out of town on rail. You hypocrite!
Well at least, Chuck Rangel, the Democrat in the House of Representatives responsible for writing the tax code, is himself an unpatriotic lying tax cheat. But seriously how can you pretend to get upset about things like this? It’s as if a 20 something know nothing Olympic swimmer being ostracized for being photographed taking a hit off of a bong while our Dear Leader, a “reformed” dope smoking cocaine snorting drug addict, is hailed as our savior. I would think given their standards, Democrats would be touting Phelps as presidential material in 2016.
Now, were I anyone that the Dems cared a hoot about – say John McCain, Newt Gingrich, Mitch McConnell etc. – and made the exact same factually true statement about the incredible dirt bag known as Scrawny Harry Reid, the Dems and their MSM lemmings would go apoplectic. Why you can’t question our patriotism. This is an outrage!
Well it’s good to know that when one unpatriotic Democrat calls another unpatriotic Democrat unpatriotic it sort of serves as a resume enhancement. According to VP Slow Joe Biden, many in his own party are unpatriotic. Back during the campaign when asked about higher taxes on GMA Oh So Slow Joe said, “It’s time to be patriotic. It’s time to jump in, time to be part of the deal, time to help get America out of the rut.”
Now we find out that the Dear Leader wants to put a couple of unpatriotic Democrat tax cheats into key positions in his administration. Who knew being an unpatriotic tax cheat would lead to a cabinet position? We know about the unpatriotic liar and tax cheat Tim oops I forgot my taxes…four years in a row Geithner. Now we find out former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle is himself a lying unpatriotic tax cheat.
The good news for Daschle is that at least in his position as head of Health and Human Services, he won’t be responsible for running the IRS. That would be just a little over the top to have an unpatriotic lying tax cheat in charge of the IRS. But wait, unpatriotic lying tax cheat Geithner is in charge of the agency that is responsible for catching unpatriotic lying tax cheats.
No problem. They’re Democrats. They have no morals, no standards of behavior that are out of bounds. So not only can’t you call them unpatriotic, you can’t call them hypocritical scum bags either. So be like an unprincipled creep Democrat like Gary Studs. Have sex with a House page. Be praised as hero. Don’t be a Republican dope like Mark Foley talking about standards. Not having sex with a House page. But exchanging e-mails about sex and getting run out of town on rail. You hypocrite!
Well at least, Chuck Rangel, the Democrat in the House of Representatives responsible for writing the tax code, is himself an unpatriotic lying tax cheat. But seriously how can you pretend to get upset about things like this? It’s as if a 20 something know nothing Olympic swimmer being ostracized for being photographed taking a hit off of a bong while our Dear Leader, a “reformed” dope smoking cocaine snorting drug addict, is hailed as our savior. I would think given their standards, Democrats would be touting Phelps as presidential material in 2016.
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