2-22-09

“The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they’re not.”
-Hillary Clinton
“Travelers from afar can lie with impunity.”
-an old French proverb
2-21-09
Fox News business journalist Stuart Varney, while a bit contentious with ACORN representative Bertha Lewis–clearly a top graduate of the Barack Hussein Obama School of Community Organizing–calls the criminal actions these ACORN thugs are doing as accurately as you will see anywhere in the lamestream media. ACORN has been in the news for years generally connected to rampant voter registration and election fraud but now that their guy Obama is in the White House they are really feeling their oats and have decided that breaking into and occupying foreclosed properties would be a fun distraction from submitting thousands of phony voter registration documents.
The 1977 Jimmy Carter inspired Community Reinvestment Act, which really got a shot in the arm when Bill Clinton came into office, has a lot to do with our current mortgage imbroglio. The act basically forced banks to loan money to people who would otherwise not qualify for a home loan due to poor credit or an untenable employment history, a situation that seemed to benefit primarily minorities, a reliable Democrat voting block. This was a fabulous way for the government to force private businesses to fund mandated social welfare projects with little risk to politicians but a terrific benefit for them come election day.
Ms. Lewis’ rhetoric is a prime example of the most basic form of mind control, repeat the same nonsense over and over and over again and eventually people start to believe it. Hey it worked for Obama didn’t it?
Unfortunately for her Varney isn’t buying an ounce of what she is selling.
2-21-09

As a follow up to my post concerning Rick Santelli’s Obama administration mortgage bailout plan beatdown here, I figured a snippy response from the White House would come rather quickly. Sure enough it did as we have discovered Obama is pretty thin skinned when it comes to any type of criticism.
White House spokeshole Mr. Family Guy aka Robert Gibbs, attempts to engage Santelli from afar during a scratch and sniff session with adoring reporters in the White House briefing room with his typical snotty and condescending attitude.
CNBC’s Larry Kudlow, no fan whatsoever of this mortgage bailout plan either, had Santelli on his show for another round of fireworks. Yeehaw! Pass the caffeine guys!
2-20-09

Majority Whip Democratic Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina, following close on the heels of the first black U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s proclamation that Americans are racist cowards, declares that the Republican governors of four states contemplating the acceptance of heavily string attached money via the Democrat-party-supporters-payback-bill, are slapping black people in the face if they don’t just jump on board with the program.
Clyburn, upset that the four states, Texas, South Carolina, Louisiana and Mississippi, have governors that have not been completely supportive of Obama’s massive taxpayer funded giveaway, said that these states represent “the proverbial black belt” of this country and should be all over the free cash handout. Saying he was insulted that anyone would actually have the nerve to second guess the Democrats in Congress who slapped this financial boondoggle together and the man in the White House who signed it, Clyburn and his South Carolina home state Republican Governor Mark Sanford have been going at it over this stimulus bill since it’s conception.
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2-20-09
I can only assume a shiny new Harry Reid Voluntary Tax DVD is included in every federal employee’s welcoming goodie bag when they hire on as an explanation for why so many of these folks don’t pay their taxes. There is little doubt among the rest of us peons that landing a cushy job with the federal government would indeed be a dream come true.
Just think, a fat paycheck, gold plated bennies, a retirement pension to die for, virtually guaranteed lifetime employment no matter how lousy one’s job performance turns out to be and plenty of other people to shove any real work off on to. In fact, while we continue to get beat over the head with the latest unemployment figures by the doom and gloom Obama administration, the federal government workforce is actually growing like a noxious weed and will probably continue to do so as long as there are journalists loyal to “The Won” looking for one of those payback jobs.
An unusual number of journalists from prominent, mainstream organizations started new government jobs in January, providing new kindling to the debate over whether Obama is receiving unusually favorable treatment in the news media.
Just what kind of tax payment system is in place that allows so many of these federal employees to just bug out of paying their legal obligations? Why does it seem there are no real repercussions for these people when it is discovered they collectively owe over three and a half BILLION dollars in back taxes, an average of some $7,000 for each delinquent employee?
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2-19-09

There should be little wonder why Wall Street has absolutely cratered since Obama took office. Investors know history (unlike the glassy eyed Obama supporters) and can see right through the daily “crisis” diatribe coming from the new administration. Hey, maybe that’s why New York Times stock trades for less than the cost of it’s Sunday edition?
President Barack Obama has turned fearmongering into an art form. He has repeatedly raised the specter of another Great Depression. First, he did so to win votes in the November election. He has done so again recently to sway congressional votes for his stimulus package. In his remarks, every gloomy statistic on the economy becomes a harbinger of doom. As he tells it, today’s economy is the worst since the Great Depression. Without his Recovery and Reinvestment Act, he says, the economy will fall back into that abyss and may never recover.
This fearmongering may be good politics, but it is bad history and bad economics. It is bad history because our current economic woes don’t come close to those of the 1930s. At worst, a comparison to the 1981-82 recession might be appropriate. Consider the job losses that Mr. Obama always cites. In the last year, the U.S. economy shed 3.4 million jobs. That’s a grim statistic for sure, but represents just 2.2% of the labor force. From November 1981 to October 1982, 2.4 million jobs were lost — fewer in number than today, but the labor force was smaller. So 1981-82 job losses totaled 2.2% of the labor force, the same as now.
Read the rest of this Bradley Schiller Wall Street Journal article here>>>
2-19-09
A man minding his own business and merely driving down the street was pulled over last week by an Oklahoma City police officer not for a traffic violation or suspicion of lifting a pack of gum from a corner convenience store but for a non-pro Obama sign displayed in the vehicle’s rear window. This must have been some sign to get pulled over by the police huh? The offending message?
“Abort Obama, not the unborn.”
abort
Pronunciation: \ə-ˈbȯrt\
Function: noun
1: the premature termination of a flight (as of an aircraft or spacecraft), a mission, or an action or procedure relating to a flight -a launch abort
intransitive verb
1: to bring forth stillborn, nonviable, or premature offspring
2: to become checked in development so as to degenerate or remain rudimentary
3: to terminate a procedure prematurely -the pilot decided to abort due to mechanical difficulties
transitive verb
a: to induce the abortion of or give birth to prematurely
b: to terminate the pregnancy of before term
c: to terminate prematurely
d: to cancel -abort a project -abort a spaceflight
e: to stop in the early stages -abort a disease
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2-19-09
CNBC’s Rick Santelli goes ballistic on Obama’s idiotic plan to bail out homeowners who have found themselves in upsidedown and or unmanageable mortgages. Santelli proclaims “it’s time for a Chicago tea party in July!”
“How about this president and new administration. Why don’t you put up a website to have people vote on a referendum to see if we really want to subsidize the loser’s mortgages or would we like to at least buy cars and buy houses in foreclosure and give them to people that might have a chance to prosper down the road and we reward people that could carry the water instead of drink the water kool-aid…”
It looks like Rick failed to read the CNBC employee handbook before going on this verbal rampage! Question “The Won” and his economic plans? How dare he!
It’s kinda fun to see someone in the lamestream media finally tell it like it is…isn’t it?
2-18-08
Barack Obama has very quietly ordered an additional 17,000 troops to the country of Afghanistan shortly after flying all over the country loudly promoting his nearly one trillion dollar government spending spree in front of thousands of people and dozens of well placed TV cameras.
Lord knows we have seen enough of Obama’s face on our television screens for the last two years but when it comes to controversial issues we seem to learn about them via press releases. He did the same thing when he reversed George W. Bush’s policy of not providing taxpayer funds to foreign abortion groups, an executive order he signed late on a Friday afternoon…with no media around. Brave guy this community organizer.
Fox News reports,
Afghanistan was supposed to be the “Good War.” At least that what voters were told during the presidential campaign as liberals argued resources had been drained from Afghanistan to fight the war in Iraq.
But when President Obama announced his first troop deployment to Afghanistan, he did so quietly in the form of a paper statement from a press secretary after he signed the largest stimulus package in U.S. history — a contrast to President Bush’s announcing his troop surge for the war in Iraq before a prime-time audience on TV.
“We got a paper statement rather than a speech because this is not a surge,” said retired Maj. Gen. Ret. Bob Scales. “This is surge lite.” I wonder who decides when a troop deployment is a surge or it’s merely considered surge light -ed.
The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. David McKiernan, had requested 30,000 troops. On Tuesday, the president authorized 17,000 troops and the Pentagon identified 12,000 to send.