Supreme Court Red Flags Chrysler Race To Finish

Just when the President's task force thought they were in position for a final run at the checkered flag, Ruth Bader Ginsberg waved the yellow caution light, raising the possibility of a disqualification.

There was a little problem of the Indiana State Pension Fund being flattened by the president's economic blitzkrieg. The state of Indiana filed a petition which was overruled by the state court of appeals and then Indiana petitioned the Supreme Court of the United States.

The Blitzkrieg has been a relentless assault on private ownership of car companies, banks, insurance companies, and private secured investors. A large part of the media has been silent on whether it is even constitutional for the runaway government to use public funds for bailouts of unions and foreign auto companies as well as its well-connected friends in the financial industry.

With a stroke of the Czar's pen, the hundreds of years old tradition of honoring business contracts was abrogated by the Obama administration.

Obama and his team have added many concepts to the vocabulary of American political thought:

Systemic Risk: Anything that tends to damage the image of the administration-connected financiers of the banking and insurance communities.

Jobs: Those abstract and formerly real things which can be both created or saved by the Messiah but can never be counted or denied.

Green Shoots: The power of massive spending of taxpayer dollars to create a phony impression of consumer optimism and short-term economic rebound coincident with President Obama's policy speeches.

Gingrich at Republican Fundraiser Says Obama�s �Already Failed� - Yahoo! News

Gingrich at Republican Fundraiser Says Obama�s �Already Failed� - Yahoo! News

Traitors in Hillary Clinton State Department? What?

Also in George Bush's state department, and Bill Clinton's and other presidents going back twenty years. But Hillary is in charge now and she needs to cull over the State Department. People who follow this sort of thing shouldn't be surprised that state department officials routinely "go native" or go belly-up for dictators. It's rather the culture of some elements in the State Department, an element which sees itself in the role of creating a foreign policy which is superior and more knowledgeable to stated goals of whomever is the President.


It must be said that there are thousands of loyal, devoted, career state department officials who have done much to advance causes of democracy and freedom around the world, but the two academic elites who were spying for Cuba represent a certain element which has also characterized State.

The arrogance of the left-liberal academic elite is no more apparent than in the statements of these pampered state department double agents.

Suicide Squads in Gaza Respond to Obama's Peace Offering

A squad of suicide bombers intercepted by the Israeli Defense Forces now lie dead in a field surrounded by explosives. These fanatical fascist terrorist robots even wired some horses with explosives in the hope of killing American civilians. President Obama might tack an addenda onto his recent Middle East speech addressing this problem. Hamas controls Gaza and is either directly or indirectly responsible for these attacks. If the Israelis had not withdrawn from Gaza in the vain hope of encouraging a peace process, the right-wing Hamas and other Islamic Extremist Factions wouldn’t now be in control.

We can expect either no comment from President Obama at all or a lukewarm comment at best. This kind of horror needs a clear statement from the president since it spoils the cause of peace. The same applies to the West Bank. Stop the terror, first—then we’ll talk.

The President, however, lives in the world of fantastical ideas and it is far more comfortable to deal with the abstract, which can be changed with a few words of clever language, rather than with facts on the ground, which cannot.

Why the Albert Camus Novel "The Fall" Should Be Required Reading in Congress - Associated Content

Why the Albert Camus Novel "The Fall" Should Be Required Reading in Congress - Associated ContentIf you've never read this novel, you ought to. If I were God, a president, a king, or Heavyweight Champion of the World, I’d make everyone read “The Fall” twice.

You can do it easy! Just read my piece on Associated Content by clicking on the title.

Castle to Vassal: A Filmscript Series about the Nobama White House

We now rejoin our feature docu-drama about the Nobama White House. We must repeat that any resemblance of character to persons living or dead are entirely coincidental. We resume our program now with Vice-President O'Biden aloft in Air Force One and circling the Statue of Liberty as panic-stricken New Yorkers take flight down below:



WIDE ANGLE:

Thousands of people are running everywhere...shrieking, falling all over themselves in panic. A baby carriage gets loose from a mother's hands and rolls helplessly into the street, an infants little head bobbing. Cars are crashing everywhere while others dodge the terrified people....

SECRET SERVICE MAN ONE (V.O.)
Sir, you've got to take this call--it's the president!

VICE-PRESIDENT (V.O.)
This is what it's all about...national security!...look at those damn people down there! let's give 'em a damn show! The president?... Here, give me that phone...

PRESIDENT NOBAMA
Joe, Joe, Joe!... You got to use the teleprompter...justlike I do...there's a reason for that.

VICE-PRESIDENT
Yes, Sir....

PRESIDENT NOBAMA
And tell the pilot to get his ass and yours back on the ground, you hear?

VICE-PRESIDENT
Yes, sir!...

The Vice-President appears forlorn and tells an aide to tell the Captain to bring the plane down...

FADE OUT:

ON Statue of Liberty becoming smaller and farther away in NY harbor.

FADE OUT:

The PRESIDENT is back in the Oval Office with his feet up on his desk. He is throwing paper "basketballs" into a hoop he has set up across on the opposite wall.

CHIEF OF STAFF
(hurrying in to Oval Office)
Barry! Barry!... You've got a presser in twenty minutes...

PRESIDENT NOBAMA
No sweat, Runn!... and stop calling me Barry, will you?

CHIEF OF STAFF
Sorry, chief... but I'm in a hurry....

PRESIDENT NOBAMA
So what are people wearing in New York these days?
CHIEF OF STAFF
Dunno...! Should be like Chi....

PRESIDENT NOBAMA (sings)
Chicago!...Chicago!...My kind of town...
(fires another paperball)
A press conference, you say? Now what kind of press conference would that be today?

CHIEF OF STAFF (sighs)
GM, remember?

PRESIDENT NOBAMA
The bankruptcy? Oh, that! No problem there. It's in the teleprompter isn't it?

CHIEF OF STAFF
Yeah, but..

PRESIDENT NOBAMA
I guess I'll wear the usual...subtle pinstripes, dark tie, white shirt... no, maybe the cameras will pick up a blue shirt better!...

PRESIDENT NOBAMA
And Michelle's all ready to be picked up. I wonder if we should take the smaller jet.... I just can't decide...or Air Force One...

CUT TO:

The White House lawn, filled with reporters and broadcast vans. The PRESIDENT walks out in long strides to face the microphones. He adjusts his tie, again and again, a gesture which is an NOBAMA trademark entrance.

PRESIDENT NOBAMA
This is going to be short, folks...Michelle and I have a date to see a Broadway show. That's in New York, of course!

There is a rush of bemused affection rushing through the assembly of news reporters....
CHORUS OF REPORTERS
Oooooh!....aaaaaaaah!...a date, he said " a date." Ooooooh!...Aaaaaah! We hope he won't be late....OOoooooh!....Aaaaaah..It's in New York, you know, a Broadway Show, a date, we hope, he won't be late....to Broadway!

PRESIDENT NOBAMA
Alright, folks, thanks but there'll be no need for that.

CHORUS OF REPORTERS
Oooooh!...aaaaah!...

PRESIDENT NOBAMA
(looking at his watch)
All right now...it's late...and I've got to be going but first, but first, first I want to say that I have no interest in being a car company CEO.

CHORUS OF REPORTERS
Ooooooh!....aaaaah!

PRESIDENT NOBAMA (perturbed)
(forces a smile)
Alright,then...all right...and I have no interest in running a car company....

There is suddenly a disturbance behind him which causes the president to halt his speech and turn his back to the crowd. Runn Emmanual pops up whispers something in the president's ear, something the press strains to hear....

CHIEF OF STAFF (whispers)
Bing...it's Bing!

PRESIDENT NOBAMA (whispering)
Detroit Mayor Bing?
(irritably and too loudly)
Tell him not to worry. GM Headquarters will remain in Detroit!

CHORUS OF REPORTERS
Oooooh...what's that he says?
CHORUS OF REPORTERS
GM Headquarters will remain in Detroit? How does he know this? Oh, what a wizard he is! So smart!..so Harvard-educated!

The president then turns back to the crowd and the teleprompter.

PRESIDENT NOBAMA
As I say, I have no interest in running a car company. My man Fritz here...
(pauses, motions toward Fritz)
has my full confidence and he will be the one making the decisions with regard to operations...

PRESIDENT NOBAMA
The key thing to remember is that we're saving or creating 50,000 jobs and it's only going to cost the taxpayers 80 billion dollars. That's a small price to pay when you think of how much the UAW has done for GM and for America.

PRESIDENT NOBAMA
And the new GM will no longer be making the cars that bigoted tight-fisted conservatives drive around places like Dallas, Texas. The new GM will be making tiny, fuel-efficient little gizmos that will gradually replace the motorcycle as the most fuel-efficient vehicles on the highway.

PRESIDENT NOBAMA
These new Green vehicles will be powered by the hard work of poor dirt farmers in hick havens like Iowa and Nebraska--places where smart people don't want to live. Corn is what I'm talkin' 'bout!--ethanol!...or from wood chips and other scrap materials!....

PRESIDENT NOBAMA

Within 4 years, just in time for my next election, we'll be filling our swimming pools with ethanol! And we'll put a federal tax of $2.00 a gallon on oil so that we can beat the Europeans at their own game, adding up to yet another reason to buy cars from Government Motors.
(laughing)
Ha-ha...and not from those stupid Chinamans who bought the Hummer, ha-ha!

PRESIDENT NOBAMA

And to those conservative,skeptical doomsayers who say that ethanol will raise the price of food for everyone around the world, let me just say that my tax cuts on those making less than $250,000 a year will subsidize poor hardworking working families who can now afford to shop with Michelle and I at Whole Foods, Inc.

PRESIDENT NOBAMA
Now I'd like you to imagine a future where our houses are heated by the sun and wind. Think of the Green jobs that will provide as we all joining hands to move back to full employment by the year 2010, or perhaps later.

PRESIDENT NOBAMA
Now I see it's getting time for us to be off to New York. I'll take a few questions before leaving you in the capable hands of Fritz Henderson.

The reporter enclave is suddenly in a frenzy, shouting out a hundred questions. The President appears bewildered. Runn Emmanual whispers again into the president's ear.

REPORTER

But what about Ford? Ford is the only car company that didn't come to the government for a handout. Won't Government Motors be competing with private car makers like Ford? And what about Honda and Toyota and the others who make cars in the US? Won't it be unfair to them?

PRESIDENT NOBAMA
Oh, dear...Look what time it is. I've got to be off. Air Force One is running and you know how much fuel you can burn off while idling on the runway...

The President sprints off the stage with a wave and a smile. Runn Emmanuel quickly pushes Fritz to the microphones.

PRESIDENT NOBAMA (shouting)
Good luck, Fritz!

FADE OUT:

Tune in next week as President Nobama plans a trip and major speech at Cairo University. That's in Egypt, if you don't know. If you don't know, your services are highly desirable and much in demand at the Nobama White House. We remind you also, in the event you missed some parts of our series, to scan down to the archived sections for previous postings of this ground-breaking docudrama.

Geithner Reassures China of U.S. Economic Recovery During Peking Visit - Associated Content

Geithner Reassures China of U.S. Economic Recovery During Peking Visit - Associated Content

Spending Explosion Mandates Massive Federal Tax Increase--Bernanke Speaks

We're doomed! The U.S. is digging a massive monetary hole with its stimulus plans—GM and Chrysler bailouts, AIG, the Big Banks, the UAW, cap and trade, social security and Medicare deficits, and a planned program of universal health care.

Yet, Bernanke told Congress today that the U.S. will stop printing money? Really? That would mean that we'd need a 60 percent federal tax increase to make up the record deficits of the Obama administration.

That'll be good for the economy. Should we join hands now and sing the Internationale?

Goodbye, Comrade.... I'm off to the Salt Mines.

Big Government Spending Pushes Stocks and Mortgage Rates Higher

The Obamanomicians are trying to counter the force of gravity and a number of other scientific rules. For every action there is a reaction. The Fed and Treasury have given injected billions into the economy and it's been the kind of push that energized the stock markets and stimulated buying on credit. It's hard to be entirely thrilled by the stock market performance (though we thank God and Obama (one and the same) for little things)at the sub 1000 level. I'll make my bows to Obama if the S @ P gets to 1250 where the losses would be less devastating.

To further stimulate the housing market, the Fed has pursued a policy of buying up vast quantities of Treasury bonds to keep interest rates down. Inevitably, the rising yield curves and low prices is having the opposite effect. Home mortgage rates are rising, and could choke off any small signs of recovery. The "green shoots" may wither and die as rate inflation takes hold even as oil prices climb.

There's no doubt we're in a high interest rate la-la land of the future. Perhaps we can sell our older teenagers and college graduates into slavery to make up the difference in dollar strength.

Unfortunately, we're still in Government Ownership Mode and the spending will continue as we guide GM and Chrysler through their bankruptcies. Somehow the jobs of 50,000 UAW workers have become more important than the other 6 million unemployed.

America Just Bought a New Car for 80 Billion Dollars

America just bought a new car for 80 billion dollars but no one should think of driving it. The U.S. Government is the only driver, and Fritz Henderson is merely its mechanic.

The U.S. government is now competing with Ford and with the Japanese makers for market share. There is no dearth of money to lend to car buyers with shaky credit, no lack of money for legal fees in bankruptcy (the bankruptcy lawyers have a sunny disposition), and no regulatory obstacles to acceptable performance except for free market capitalism.

I wouldn’t expect that free market capitalism would be any sort of problem for the Obama administration. Obama went on television yesterday to tell people he didn’t want to have anything to do with the car business but still found time to make a personal phone call to reassure Detroit’s mayor that GM headquarters would remain in Detroit and not move, as many had said. It was so decreed by the man who wants nothing to do with the car business.

Mysterious Air France Disaster Needs Scientific Investigation

The Air France passenger jet that vanished off the coast of South America poses some questions that need to be resolved. Air liners aren’t supposed to dive into the water because of storms or hits of lightning.

Apparently, the automatic radio transmitter was able to send a message that the electrical system had malfunctioned but there were no other warnings of problems, and no calls from the crew.

The word was put out immediately that “authorities” did not suspect terrorism, but I don’t know how that could be figured out so quickly. I don’t necessarily believe there was an explosion but I do tend to resist explanations that are too hasty and have no purpose other than to calm anxious minds and hearts.

The plane wasn’t equipped with mechanical controls and was flying by “wire” and isn’t it possible to sabotage even the most redundant systems? I’m just saying…

We’re not idiots. We need to keep an open mind on this. It’s worth the money to retrieve the “black box.” We need to know… At least the Wall Street Journal has enough integrity to mention that “officials can’t rule out a bomb.” That’s a good way of putting it, too. Rule it out through solid scientific investigation, but not with a public relations campaign.

Gates Warns North Korea Re Nuclear Weapons Development

It seems that the Obama administration has stepped up its action plan against the North Koreans and their recent nuclear and missile tests. The indifference the North Koreans have shown to the world is apochryphal and surely the defiance was aimed at the Obama administration, the U.s. and its allies particularly.

A stepped up action plan in the Obama adminstration typically means additional talking. Keep in mind that Obama and his crew have been unable to get any action out of the United Nations.

Hillary Clinton warned the North Koreans. President Obama himself warned the North Koreans. And now Defense Secretary Gates warned the North Koreans. Presumably, the comments from the Defense Secretary may be viewed as being something more serious than earnest hand-wringing worrying by Obama admin policy wonks.

But let's hope the shark has teeth if the whip should come down. It would be a great tragedy to underestimate the North Korean military. Their troops are disciplined and tough, the type of soldiers who make the Taliban and Al Qaeda troops look like a bunch of boy scouts.

I know it is the fashion among political analysts to mention how frequently the NK leadership threatens their neighbors. The message we're to get is that it's all bluff, bluster, and sabre-rattling. But wouldn't all that bluff, bluster, and sabre-rattling give you an advantage against your opponents should you suddenly decide to launch an attack?

We've got 28,000 troops there and that's said to be sufficient--for now. That's not a great number, certainly, but the ROK troops are there, too, and neither are they a bunch of wussies. I'd sleep with one eye open where N. Korea is ooncerned, and I hope there is plenty of backup ordnance to halt an irrational move by the North Korean dictator.

Meanwhile, over at the state department, people are working feverishly in air-conditioned rooms to arrange a parlay...:)

President Obama Explains Sotomayor's Message

Brian Williams asked President Obama for a response to SCOTUS nominee Sototmayor's statement affirming the superiority of her own moral positioning by virtue of her Hispanic background. Sotomayor essentially said that race and nationality accounted for a lack of judicial acumen among "white men."

President Obama's rationalization for Sotomayor's lapse was pretty weak. It was the sweeping generalization of "white men" that can't be erased by Obama's erudition or that of anyone else. Most "white men" are thrilled with the achievements of African-Americans, Asians, Hispanics, and other ethnic groups within our melting pot country. This is a fact. Unfortunately, the people who so blithely play upon racial politics as a means to an end will not accept this fact. Opposition to President Obama became "racism" during the campaign and opposition to Sotomayor similarly becomes "racism" in the wake of her nomination. Continuing to suborn the democratic process to superficial racial characterizations and divisions is nothing but a smokescreen to blur the facts.

Among the reasons to oppose Sotomayor are:

Sotomayor's anti- Second Amendment Rights positions. She upheld an appeals court judgment regarding the conviction of a New York man who was arrested for possessing namchukas, those wooden things used by martial artists. This is a most extreme position as few people are hurt with namchukas each year. What I'm saying is that Sotomayor will absolutely support state and local legal assaults on Second Amendment rights.

In New Haven Connecticut, Sotomayor agreed with a lower court decision to throw out the results of a competitive test for city firemen, even though two Hispanics were among eligible group who had scored high on the test. Those two Hispanics and several other firemen who also scored high were rejected from the pool of eligible applicants for promotion. The reason for throwing out the test results was that no African-American candidates had scored high on the test.


This kind of reasoning is absolutely crazy and undermines an individual's desire to excel. Sotomayor's decision does not help AFrican-Americans, and it seems to assume some inferority than cannot be countermanded except by judicial action. African Americans excel at many things and in all areas. If we were to restrain anyone's desire to be the best, we would be doing great harm to humanity in general.

If I were a boxer with a Caucasian complexion who was matched against Mike Tyson, should Tyson be made to compete against me with his feet and hands tied together so that he could not move more than two inches in any direction? (Even under those circumstances, Tyson would probably win). President Obama was chief of the Harvard Law Review. Should he have been hampered or restrained in his grade performance so that a weaker performer who competed against him would not feel bad? This kind of thinking is not only harmful, it is un-American.

Charles Payne, FBN Commentator Warns Against the Kool-Aid

Every morning I'm switching between CNBC's Squawk and Fox Business Network's first spot. So far as business news goes, there's a regular parade of stars on both channels. I know it's weird to call business commentators "stars" but these people are certainly more talented than motor-mouthed hacks like Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann who freely comment on all and sundry matters without knowing a single thing.

So I like Quintanilla, Quick, and Kernan, but I also like Jenna Lee, Alexis Glick and Charles Payne and the rest of their crew. It's Payne I want to praise today. I'm so tired of wussy types like over-pressed political commentator John Harwood who comes on CNBC by dictate of the producers.

Charles Payne breaks the mold and he's big enough to break most anything. Yet, he has an easy, matter-of-fact manner from which hype is conspicuously absent. One of those gentle giants who was brought up to tell the truth by his mama, a guy unafraid to go his own way, whether it's Wall Street or Mean Street.

Payne is able to praise the accomplishments of singularly talented and courageous African-Americans but doesn't deride the rest of the world when he does it. It's all matter-of-fact, straight, honest, good natured, sardonic, and best of all, he's a man in control of his ego.

The buzz on Wall Street today is how the Fed may be pushing up interest rates in its program of "quantitative easing," shorthand for pumping tax dollars into the economy. The big worry is that the sharply rising rates will negate the "stimulus" effect and that appears, for today at least, to be what is happening. People are looking for signs to justify whether the stimulus plan is working, or whether it is not working, and will mortgage the future in cheap dollars, high prices, sharply increased inflation, and a further depressed economy. It's easy enough to find signs that will support your "side" to play against the other "side."

Pro-Obama types tend to point to the market which is about 1500 points higher than its March lows as a sign that things are improving. Jenna Lee mentioned this to Charles Payne, my hero du jour.

"People can always make money in the market," says Payne (no matter what it is doing) "but don't drink the Kool-Aid," he cautions.

Burris and Blajojevich Live Cuts!

Obama Says "Words Should Mean Something."

Short clip of beautiful downtown North Korea...click on the headline...

Obama Could Impose Value Added Tax

The Europeans are doing it so naturally, the people on the Obama team will adopt it.

It looks like a tax, it walks like a tax, it talks like a tax but President Obama often tells us that nobody getting over $250,000 a year will see an increase in taxes. Guess what? The president is lying or, as the current language revision has it, the president is selling you something with a “counter-factual” argument.

You don’t know “counter-factual?” Well, you do know “overseas contingency operation” so take it from there.

Anyway, the administration is now pushing a value-added tax which will be paid by anyone who buys things from store. You know, those people at the bottom of the economic food chain? With all the reckless spending, the Obamanamas have recognized they need additional revenues (there is a limit even upon extorting the wealthy) so they’re going to place a tax on manufactured items.

Nobody will blame Obama for the rising prices, will they? He’s “inherited” the worst economic situation in modern times. What a mess! And now he’s got three chief priorities:

1) Redistribute America’s income.
2) Get more money from the working stiffs.
3) Bribe his supporters like the UAW.

Picking Good Classic Books to Read - WSJ.com

Picking Good Classic Books to Read - WSJ.comWith the auto company mess, I'm in need of some diversion so I just read Cynthia Crossen's comments on good books and what makes them classics...

Are You Clueless Tonight? Bailout Roulette--Fight Back!

Sung to the tune of Elvis Presley's "Are You Lonesome Tonight", this is the anthem for hard-pressed Americans who have not an inkling of the financial travesties going on in Washington. Bank bailouts, insurance commpany bailouts, auto union bailouts, stimulus, TARP, Pork, TALP -- billions going down the drain so quickly that Americans, except for a select few, are not up to the task of participating in their government. It's amazing how little people know about the vast, unprecedented 3-Card Monte played by Barack Obama and his phalanx of academic flunkies. Here are just a few questions people should be asking themselves?

Why does the Government allow one financial institution to fail while it gives billions to another?

Why are the Government car companies competing with private car companies and using Our Money to run private corporations out of business?

Why should we believe Obama's economic team when they call some businesses "too big to fail?"

Why is the Government throwing billions at GM and Chrysler and the UAW while screwing over the secured debtholders?

Why does private equity fund Cerberus, owner of Chrysler, get a free ride from the Government and is not required to invest some of its own billions to "rescue" Chrysler?

Why should anyone buy a car from a government monopoly owned car company that competes unfairly with private industry?

Obama Supreme Court Choice Reflects "Empathy"

More changes in the lexicon of American government. You already know that the "war on terror" has become the "overseas contingency operation." Other concepts have been stood on end, too, but the latest is reflected in President Obama's choice of Sonia Sotnomayor as nominee to the SCOTUS.

We got a clue when the President went on TV to tell us that his nominee had to have "empathy" and an "ability to see through other eyes." Yes, that tugs on the heartstrings. We can forget about jurisprudence and the other irksome components of the U.S. constitution. We're going to elevate a new religion of victimization. The eyes his empathetic choice is supposed to see through won't be eyes of those who must pay out billions of dollars in nuisance lawsuits. We can expect that this choice will be popular with that component of the bar associations of America which makes a thriving business of filing lawsuits against the government and any private business big enough to rub two dimes together.

Obama's choice is purely political, of course. He's looking forward to the next election cycle, demonstrating once again how little he cares for leadership and how much he cares for image.

Obama Team Tries to Prolong the Honeymoon

The Obama Administration still tries to maintain the honeymoon atmosphere that characterized its early moments, at least according to the manner in which it was presented to a fawning populace in the MSM. But there are signs that the hysterical nuptials that led to President Obama’s elections are now giving way to buyer’s remorse, and possibly to an early divorce. It’s a little bit the way a cynic once described marriage—thirty minutes of flame followed by four years of ashes.

Here’s a brief run-down:

Billions thrown away to bankrupt Chrysler and the UAW while taxpayers are hammered by the economic downturn which is exacerbated by the Obama team’s failed spending policies. Now we are due to watch a repeat performance as GM follows Chrysler into bankruptcy court.


North Korea tests missiles and nuclear bombs while the president, in his inimitable effect style, is snubbed by the world community which cheered his election.

Unemployment continues to rise to unprecedented levels as toxic mortgage assets continue to combine with reckless spending, a cheapening dollar, and rising food prices to weigh down a recovery.

Will someone tell me how we are better off with this new team in Washington? I’d really like to know. I’m tired of hearing about the “Great Leap Forward” that America will take at some point in the ever receding distant future.

National Security Messages from President Obama

Did I Hear This Right?

President Obama says we should close Guantanamo Prison because it doesn’t reflect who we are as Europeans. Errr…correct that—Americans.

He says Guantanamo is a “mess” that his administration is forced to deal with on a daily basis. The president strongly implied that his administration officials were too busy with bank and insurance company bailouts, paying back unions, acquiring auto corporations, jousting with Rush Limbaugh, and figuring out how to raise taxes without anybody realizing it. In other words, people should understand he has better things to do than to be thinking about mundane terror activities which might be unleashed by the hard-core Islamic militants at Guantanamo.

Al Qaeda is actively planning to attack us again, the President told us. You have a right to wonder where he got that information. From the detainees, would you think? We do know that 3 “detainees” were waterboarded, just like those pranksters who water boarded each other in YouTube videos.

We know this because President Obama wants us to know that. Mr. Obama declassified the memos himself so that they could be used for propaganda purposes and for domestic political reasons. Mr. Obama strongly implied he knew way more than we do about the results of those interrogations, but he doesn’t want us to know what some of the thwarted terror plans were. I wonder if they were like the ones in the DirecTV 101 series called “Sleeper Cell.” You know, the one where terrorists smuggle radioactive fuel cells into the Hollywood Bowl and detonate IEDs in other crowded places. Why doesn’t President Obama think we are strong enough to know what information came out of the interrogations? Was it too terrible for words? Certainly, a man of such vaunted oratorical skills could find a way to explain it to us that won’t have us wetting our pants. Perhaps he wants us to believe that we are completely safe now and can set our priority of expenditures to expanding his unprecedented domestic spending and social agenda.

At least, it is comforting to know that “we've launched an effort to secure all loose nuclear materials within four years.” But that leaves me with questions, too. Is an “effort to secure all loose nuclear materials within four years” exactly the same as getting it done before Al Qaeda can explode a dirty bomb in one of America’s cities?

Knowing as we do that President Obama is so fond of image and protocol, we can expect to receive world-wide accolades as we pursue that goal with exceptional degree of priority concern for the legal rights of terror suspects.

So sleep well, America. And don’t worry about the results of those terror interrogations. It is enough for you to know what you have already learned from the declassified memos, that the Obama team has produced another ongoing reality show called “Americans Behaving Badly.” You don’t need to know that your city, subway, or workplace was the target of the next planned Al Qaeda attack, nor how the attack was to be accomplished.

You need to know only two things: President Obama will protect you. And ignorance is bliss.

Pelosi Faces Media Offering Brick Wall

Her face stretched as tightly as a pair of cheap Velcro pants, House Speaker Pelosi told reporters she had "nothing more to say" on her CIA accusations of lying and misleading Congress. One reporter asked if she was aware of calls for her resignation as House Speaker and calls that her security clearance should be revoked.

At the very least, she should press the President to declassify the information obtained from the CIA's enhanced interrogation program. We deserve to know to what extent, if any, AMerica was saved from additional terror attacks. The Obama administration felt no reticence at releasing and declassifying the interrogation memoes, so why interpose this sudden roadblock to information vital to our national judgment? This is the "transparent" administration we heard so much about during the campaign?

The Great Obama Vs. Cheney Debate - Associated Content

The Great Obama Vs. Cheney Debate - Associated ContentThey were in different cities giving speeches but, with only minutes separating them, the televised appearances had the look of a debate. Click on the headline to get the whole story.

Obama National Security Speech Weak, Says Cheney

President Obama deserves praise for reversing his position on releasing the CIA interrogation photos, said Dick Cheney at a speech following the Obama National Security speech today. It was the nearest thing you can get to a debate over a highly emotional issue--American safety from terror.

Ironically, New York Top Cop Ray Kelly today revealed the arrests of four Jihadis who planned bombings of Bronx synagogues. The men were also plotting to shoot down military aircraft with missile launchers but are now heading instead into federal court.

Cheney was steady and low-key in his approach. President Obama seemed somewhat defensive as he reiterated his plan to close Gitmo. In spite of the muted approach, Cheney drove straight to the core of the matter, saying that the Obama people were more interesting in publicizing the "method of the questioning than the content of the answers."

The President who says his administraitonb will be "transparent" has refused to tell America what horrors it was saved from by the Bush-Cheny efforts and the records remain classified. It doesn't make sense, of course, to hide from America the followup attacks that Al Qaeda had planned. It's politics at its worst and the President's posturing about "values" looks weak in the face of terror attacks such as the ones that occurred in Washington, in NYC, and in Schenksville.

To hear the administration prating about its high-toned preachiness, you'd think America had waterboarded thousands of terrorists yet there were only three, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad among them. KSM's words to his captors were that he wouldn't talk about additional planned attack or say anything else until he was brought to New York to see his lawyer. Clearly, thousands more Americans may have been murdered while KSM went through a ten-year appeal process.

U.S. Government Auto Corporations Vs. Ford

You can't call me un-American unless you call the President un-American, too. The government should be busted for violating its own anti-monopoly laws. Using taxpayer money to leverage the competition out of business is illegal. The constitutional lawyer-president knows this. Yet, the government is so heavily involved in GM and Chrysler that it is essentially competing with the only (so far) independent American car company (Ford) using its own money and paying its own debts with private capital.

I'm calling for a boycott of all Chrysler/Fiat/Government vehicles and all GM vehicles until the taxpayers are paid back and the government gets out of the car business. Unfair competition of the Government owned monopoly of American cars could force Ford out of business. That's what President Obama's task force wants--all three American car companies under governmental ownership.

Fight back! Boycott Chrysler GM Government Motor Corporation! Buy a Ford or any of the other makers producing cars with private capital.

Fox Television Series "24" Has a Hopeful Season Finale - Associated Content

Fox Television Series "24" Has a Hopeful Season Finale - Associated ContentEscape from the real world--read my review of the Fox "24" season finale....

Obama's Green Future is an Unclear Certainty

President Barack Obama, great orator that he's supposed to be, said that his new rules on CAFE standards will give a "clear certainty" to car companies. This worries me. First of all, I wonder if there is such a thing as an "unclear certainty." Unclear certainties, if there are such things, might be such things as Nancy Pelosi telling reoporters she had no idea she was being briefed on waterboarding.

Where the car companies are concerned, an "unclear certainty" might be something like knowing that you can't afford to buy a new car with an extra $1300 tacked on to it by the Obama dictate because you can't even afford to buy one without the $1300 bucks on it. The reason, of course, is that we'll be concentrating our financial forces on paying for additional household electricity and heating expenses caused by Obama's cap and trade regulations.

It's going to be no fun living in a world without pickup trucks and driving around instead in little wheeled buckets. We'll cut down on carbon emissions that way but it could be tough passing those 8 mile per gallon tractor trailers who splash mud on your windshield in winter driving conditions. Of course, lots more people will get killed when that happens but that just means a whole lot less people breathing our carbon emissions. Green at last!

Obama Says New Car-Fuel Rules Give Industry 'Certainty' - WSJ.com#articleTabs%3Dcomments

Obama Says New Car-Fuel Rules Give Industry 'Certainty' - WSJ.com#articleTabs%3Dcomments

Pelosi Third in Line for Presidency

Now I'm really scared! My brain-dead brain didn't realize that, in the event of a massive attack a la "24" on the president and VP, Mrs. Nanny Pelosi would then be president. The realization came to me via Newt Gingrich comments about the Speaker. I kind of wish I didn't know that.

House Speakers get a lot of info that other members don't get. Making enemies with the CIA by lying about their briefing of her does not make me feel comfortable in the least.

She should resign now before she does further damage to the country and to the president. Everyone knows Pelosi is the worst kind of left-liberal elitist politician that America doesn't need. Democrats despise her as much as many Republicans do. When shall we be free?

President Obama: Daughters Protected by Men With Guns

I was struck by a remark made by the president yesterday with regard to his daughters and the prospect of future dating. Obama pointed out to future suitors that his little darlings were “surrounded by men with guns,” and that he was comfortable with this arrangement. At last, I found a point of contact with President Obama. Well…half a point of contact anyway.

The president’s daughters are cute and smart and it is imperative that they be protected from the many who would want to do the president’s family harm. Unfortunately, the president’s men and women do not want to extend the same protections to those of us who also have daughters, and wives, and young sons who may need protection of the sort that Melia and Sasha have.

In the president’s case, armed Secret Service agents and others are close at hand. The time to assistance would be measured in nano-seconds, not in hours or minutes for the rest of us. We live in the country, very far from police. In the event of a violent attack on our household members, police would arrive in time to file a report but could do little else.

Do Eric Holder and Hillary Clinton care? They’d say they do, but really, really, they don’t. They would merely click tsk-tsk while we were loaded into the hospital or morgue wagon. Too bad, they will say—a tragedy. Which doesn’t help much when you are a victim of violent crime.


I approve of the president protecting his lovely daughters from terrorists, rapists, or even from those who would do lesser harm to them. Perhaps Mr. Obama will refine his anti-gun position to recognize that 2nd Amendment rights protect all Americans.

The only thing I would add to President Obama's statement is that some households are protected not only by "men with guns" but by women with guns, too.

Don't Worry, Republicans: We'll Always Have Pelosi

It's a closely guarded secret at the CIA. Early in the election cycle, a team of rogue Republicans, responsible for coordinating the well-known Right Wing Attack Machine, approached the CIA with a plan to deceive Nanny Pelosi regarding terrorist interrogations. Numerous CIA officials are reported to be part of the plot to deceive the Democratic Party House Speaker and the conspiracy has been festering for a long time at Langley.

Pelosi has recently exposed the CIA plot, calling the intelligence agency a "bunch of liars." Pelosi says she was on an astral plane while attending the CIA briefing which was conducted in the presence of several other Congressmen who were there and were not participating in the scheduled Pelosi seance. Pelosi often attends seminars in the astral plane and believes that her departures have positive impact on Democratic political strategies and in the formulation of policies.

However, recent CIA leaks reveal that Pelosi may be just another rich Republican masquerading as a left-liberal politician with the purpose of bringing down the party. There is much speculation among Democrats that CIA Chief Leon Panetta may also be part of the conspiracy--Panetta yesterday denied that Speaker Nanny Pelosi had been lied to at the briefing. Panetta says he does not approve of Pelosi's unauthorized departures from the earthly realms, and hopes the Speaker will soon return to earth.

Meanwhile, Senator Patrick Leahy is calling for further investigations of the matter, something strongly opposed by the President. Leahy is not a devotee of astral projection but is a believer in the popular left-wing Democratic Party cult and party game of Seeking Solace by Placing One's Head in Dark Places.

NRA-ILA :: BATFE Reform Bill Introduced In U.S. Senate

NRA-ILA :: BATFE Reform Bill Introduced In U.S. SenateIs there any lunatic fringe legislation that Sen Patrick Leahy would oppose? Just the opposite--Leahy is a cracked coconut as he calls for public prosecutors to punish those who saved America from further Al Qaeda attacks. Being of the privileged class with life-long entitlement, Patrick Leahy has plenty of protection at his home, but doesn't want you to have any, nor any of the other 2nd Amendment rights. Typical of the Democrat looney-left, Leahy completely ignores constitutional rights and constitutional amendments he doesn't like.

I can't think of anyone more embarrassing to moderate Democrats than Patrick Leahy, unless it is Nanny Pelosi who doesn't recall a 2002 briefing she had with the CIA regarding terrorist interrogation techniques. President Obama must find both of these people embarrassing at a time when he's trying call attention to major domestic policy issues. Obama recently stood up to the whack-jobs when he declined to hand Al Quaeda a propaganda victory by refusing to publicize photos of imprisoned Al Qaeda operatives.

Anti-2nd Amendment Nanny Pelosi (Government Knows Best) joins Leahy in a competition for dunces of the year.

Click on the headline to learn more about NRA efforts to protect our constitutional rights.

Definition of Torture: Listening to Obama Press Secretary Robert Gibbs

“We want to give the people that work in the CIA the tools they need to keep us safe, but do so in a way that also protects our values,” said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs. UMMMMMHHHH…. What was Gibbs talking about?

Well, the Obama administration feels that waterboarding is torture, and in its new and highly selective “opennness” is releasing lots of information about the CIA and its workings in the war on terror. Oh, and we will not be using the words “war on terror” any more, under orders from the Obama Pin-Brain Trust.

Also considered forms of torture by the Obama administration are loud music and sleep deprivation. I expect next that interrogators will have to adopt new rules of etiquette and a dress code. Interrogators will advise detainees of their Miranda rights, and provide prompt referals to lawyers provided at the expense of the government.

What gibberish is Gibbs uttering when he says “we want to give the people that work in the CIA the tools they need to keep us safe but do so in a way that protects our values.”

What tools are these, I’d like to know? Subpoenas? Search warrants? Television appearances? At least, the president has bowed to common sense and refused to give in to his party whack-jobs in releasing photos of CIA interrogations. If you saw a picture of Robert Gibbs exercising upside-down in gravity boots would you think of Abu Gharaib? Sure you would.

Five Good Reasons to Buy a Ford - Associated Content

Five Good Reasons to Buy a Ford - Associated Content

Pelosi: Wicked Witch of West Continues Dark Cabal

Aside from not giving a damn about American troops and handing Al Qaeda a propaganda victory, House Speaker Pelosi now wants us to believe in a case of Pelosi Selective Amnesia regarding CIA national security briefings. Pelosi was there for the briefings. Instead of acting like the Rotten Princess she is and accusing the CIA of lying, the Wicked Witch of the West should merely admit she was too stupid to understand the complexities of national defense after the World Trade Center was incinerated. Pelosi doesn't speak English, you see, or at least not the kind of English the rest of world speaks.

Pelosi English is really some kind of perverse bat language, an emission of little sonic squeals of self-delusion, follow-the-leader, and panic. Pelosi belongs in a bat cave with Bin Laden's stinking dessicating corpse.

Pelosi's a liar, a disease, a malaise, a pestilence. How Democrats can abide her in the exalted position of Speaker of the House is beyond me.

Pennsylvania Leads the Country in Corrupt Politician Sweepstakes

Our new Pennsylvania auto license plate model should be:

"What do you mean it's illegal?"

Because really, our state leaders seem not to know the difference between public service and self-service at the state's treasury.



Let there be no doubt that Pennsylvania leads the country in the habit of corrupt political offices. Corruption in politics is so entrenched in Pennsylvania that perpetrators, even when caught and indicted, are surprised that their corrupt activities are considered illegal. Of course, no one ever really gets indicted--except for priests like Father De Sica and people with Italian names.

For decades, corrupt officials in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania have been selling offices and jobs at a rate exceeding that of the old Tammany Hall. Two judges have been convicted of getting kickbacks from custodians and builders of juvenile facilities.

For decades, teachers who wanted jobs had to pay up in advance.

Governor Ed Rendell won $2000 at one of his favorite slots casinos and didn’t report it as required of a public official. As with all official failures of character and judgment, the Governor’s mouthpiece chalked it up as a “clerical oversight.”

The cover up of a spate of sexual harassment and predatory sexual activity by a prominent East Stroudsburg University official continues to fester in a lawsuit against the university. The man-boy sex scandal has besmirched a university which has stood for decades as a model of integrity and social responsibility.

Representative Murtha, a doddering old fool is there ever was one, continues to pass along federal millions of dollars to his relatives and to his favorite airport—Murtha Airport. It’s so busy at Murtha Airport, with its 6 flights a day, that a bevy of turtles recently crossed the airport runways without a single casualty.

That’s Pennsylvania, folks—a blue-state feeding trough for government vultures.

Five Good Reasons to Buy a Ford - Associated Content

Five Good Reason to Buy a Ford - Associated ContentAmericans should resist government owned car companies. One way of doing that is to buy a Ford... If you can't buy a Ford, consider a Honda or a Toyota--they employ U.S. workers in their plants around the country, too.

Chrysler Bankruptcy Proceeding Smoothly - Associated Content

Chrysler Bankruptcy Proceeding Smoothly - Associated ContentThink of buying a Ford. Ford is using its own "green," not yours, to make cars. The Ford Fusion Hybrid gets 41 miles per gallon and the Ford Focus is continuing strong among first-time economy minded buyers.

In a recent Ford publicity event, professional auto drivers managed to get over 1400 miles on a single tank of gas in a Hybrid Ford Fusion. Check it out on the Ford website if you don't believe it.

Comedienne Wanda Sykes Didn't Do Obama Any Favors

Maybe she's funny, but not from what you see in the short clips shown all over the MSM. Sykes' remarks were positively hateful, showcasing all that is ugly, petty, and mean about Democrat left-wing. It's the kind of stuff you can hear daily on Sirius Left on such shows as the Alan Bennet show. It involves a lot of "organic" material such as talking about someone's kidneys or body noises, kind of an eighth grade humor but without the humor.

The White House provided some guidelines to Sykes' before her "peformance" but forgot to mention not to mention Rush Limbaugh. Rush Limbaugh has projected a far greater figure in the administration than lesser known lights--say, the Vice-President?

Well, Sykes' did manage to obey one White House dictum. Her dialogue was not to use the "N" word, sometimes used in her outside appearances. The result was boring, on the level of a dead cat bounce. Which goes to show how untalented some comedians are when deprived of material not playing upon racial sterotypes.

Meanwhile, Inside Air Force One Over the Skies of Manhattan...

EXT. SKIES OVER MANHATTAN - DAY

A huge airplane arcs slowly across the sky near the Statue of Liberty. Behind it are two attack F-16 Air Force Jets. The plane is labelled Air Force One. As the camera pulls back to ground level, we see hordes of people running from buildings, running along the streets in a panic, shouting and leaping to cover in ditches or under parked cars.

CUT TO:

INT. PASSENGER COMPARTMENT 747 - DAY

The VICE-PRESIDENT is careening joyfully down the aisle as the plane careens and banks wildy.

VICE-PRESIDENT
Whee!...
(singing)
Off we go, into the Wild Blue Yonder....tata-ta-dah!

SECRET SERVICE MAN ONE
Sir! Sir!...Somebody down on the ground wants to speak with you...

VICE-PRESIDENT
Well, tell 'em to wait, goddammit! Can't they see I'm busy?

SECRET SERVICE MAN ONE
Just the point, sir...they say there's a panic down below...

PULL BACK TO:
EXT. SKIES OVER MANHATTAN - DAY

The president's jet lumbers about the Statue of Liberty in a hard turn.

VICE-PRESIDENT (V.O.)
Whee!...Who ever said the Vice-President job made you an invisible man?
(breaking into song)
Off we go...into the Wild Blue Yonder...ra-ta-ta-da...

TERRIFIED CITIZEN
Run! We're under attack!

TERRIFIED CITIZEN
Ohmigod!...It's happening! It's happening again! The second time it's happening!...

TERRIFIED CITIZEN TWO
Third...
(running like mad)

TERRIFIED CITIZEN
Third? What do you mean third?

TERRIFIED CITIZEN TWO
Just shut up and run...or we'll be turned to dust!..to cinders!...to shadows on the pavement!

PULL BACK TO:

WIDE ANGLE:

Thousands of people are running everywhere...shrieking, falling all over themselves in panic. A baby carriage gets loose from a mother's hands and rolls helplessly into the street, an infants little head bobbing. Cars are crashing everywhere while others dodge the terrified people....

SECRET SERVICE MAN ONE (V.O.)
Sir, you've got to take this call--it's the president!

VICE-PRESIDENT (V.O.)
This is what it's all about...national security!...look at those damn people down there! let's give 'em a damn show! The president?... Here, give me that phone....

Give "Em Hell, Barry

The Associated Press: Obama: Send me credit card legislation this monthIt's true that the credit card sharks offer credit even to cadavers lying in the morgue and waiting for burial. As you wouldn't give heroin to a child, neither should you give a credit card to anyone below a certain age--probably about 40, considering the numbers of people who can't "just say no" to plastic. Obama's bill would prohibit companies pushing credit cards to kids under 18, to be exact. But we're all paying for the excesses right now. Obama, dude.... I know that some 7 year olds are responsible for themselves and everyone above 14 should be, but I forgive you this credit card bill. The credit card sharks take advantage of kids, the elderly, the uneducated, the undisciplkined and unfortunately, we have plenty of all of those categories. If the card companies must act like irresponsible children, then they need a spanking and you won't hear me crying about excessive government control of free enterprise, not in this case anyway.

The Seven Best Unemployment Utopias

The best places in the world to be jobless include Spain, France, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark and Norway. All of those countries spend a large percentage of their GDP to provide jobless benefits. In fact, many European and Scandinavian workers celebrate losing their jobs by going on vacation. Belgium is an especially good place to lose your job because there is no time limits to benefits. No one has to worry about whether the government will extend benefits because everyone’s benefits are extended. The Danes are also generous in that they pay an unemployed worker 90 percent of his regular salary. One can almost hear the groans of the belt-tightening as unemployed workers head to the beaches of the Italian or French Riviera.

Of course, there is bad news, too. In spite of one’s desire to be unemployed in these overseas Utopias, you will be denied admission to the party. Work permits and visas are tightly restricted. For an employer, hiring anyone is expensive and so unemployment is high. The European economy is contracting at a more rapid pace than in the U.S. In Germany, for example, economic contraction is expected to be 6%, far worse than here in the hyper-productive United States. This means that those generous countries are likely to be behind the curve in world economy recovery, if it comes.

But for workers in those countries with universal government health coverage , unemployment isn’t as bad as all that.



Moi? Je parle Francaise! Hmmmmm….

Miss California: Gay Marriage Is Not So Hot

Needing to get off the economic roller coaster ride, I think I’ll turn my attention toward a deeper subject. Did Miss California USA, Carrie Prejean, allow herself to be photographed wearing only panties or not? At least, we can presume Miss California’s panties are not in a bunch as are the panties of Pageant spokesman Roger Neal. Roger says that Carrie Prejean violated section 2, paragraph 4 of the California Beauty Bomb Charter. Wait a minute! Isn’t Perez Hilton’s real name “Neal?” Well, that explains a lot and now we have a situation where two huffy bitches are trying to get Miss California booted from the title spot.

Could that have something to do with Prejean’s partiality to heterosexuality? “EwwwwYuck!,” says Perez. Which is all there is to say on the subject, according to Pageant Spokesman Roger Neal. Hey, wouldn’t that be “spokesperson?” I hope not—that would mean the San Jose Mercury News also had a lapse in political correctedness…. I copied the word directly from one of their columns.

Obama White House Attempts to Muzzle Vice President Biden

To see what hzppened last week in the wild and whacky White House, be sure to watch our previous series episode entitled "Homeland Security Prepares Attack Plans Against Canada." You can find it below... And now, without further delay, tune to our latest episode of zany White House antics as the "Obama White House Attempts to Muzzle the Vice President." :



FADE IN:

PRESIDENT NOBAMA is sitting on his desk in the OVAL OFFICE. Strewn about the floor are piles of balled up paper, sheets of which are being ripped from a huge document on the desk. One by one, PRESIDENT NOBAMA rips off a sheet, balls it up, and then throws it across the room to a basketball hoop affixed to the nearby wall.

CUT TO:

The camera rolls along toward the huge bound document on the President's desk. Finally, it stops on the title. It reads: "Stimulus Budget Bill"

PULL BACK TO:

WIDE-VIEW of room reveals CHIEF OF STAFF RUNN EMANUAL sitting in an armchair against the wall. PRESIDENT NOBAMA hits a three-pointer, jumps up, claps his hands.

CHIEF OF STAFF
(jumping up, too)
Bravo! Bravo, Mr. President!

There is a pink phone on the desk. That's the special phone reserved for the President's wife. It rings, causing the president's face to frown.

PRESIDENT NOBAMA
Would you get that please, Runn?
CHIEF OF STAFF
(stepping smartly)
Sure I can. That's my job. Let me handle it. I can handle it. I can do plies, pirouettes, and I can sing too--but I'm fast, fast, faster than lightning!

PRESIDENT NOBAMA (frowning)
It's okay, Runn...just answer it, will you?

CHIEF OF STAFF (brightly)
I'm on it.
(picks it up)
Hello?

SPLIT SCREEN:

MICHELLE NOBAMA (shouting)
CAN'T YOU PUT A MUZZLE ON HIM?

The CHIEF OF STAFF has a look of alarm on his face.

CHIEF OF STAFF
On Bo? What's wrong? Has he bitten one of the kids?

MICHELLE NOBAMA
Not Bo, you jerk! The vice-president!

The PRESIDENT notes the tone of alarm in Runn's voice. He stops throwing paper basketballs into the hoop and watches Runn closely.

CHIEF OF STAFF
What's he doing now? Oh, no! Not another impromptu press conference!

PRESIDENT NOBAMA
What is it? What is it?

CHIEF OF STAFF
Okay, bye...I'll tell him.
(hanging up the phone)
It's the VICE-PRESIDENT, sir--he's doing another presser on TV.

PRESIDENT NOBAMA
Damn him! Turn it on!

CHIEF OF STAFF
What channel?
PRESIDENT NOBAMA
Anything but Fox. We don't own them yet but soon we will...

CHIEF OF STAFF
We have the largest stake in MSNBC--too bad Olberman's not on. Or Matthews. Or that clownish guy from the Boston Globe...whatzisname, the fat one?

CUT TO:

The Vice-President is being interviewed in the aisle of an airplane.

VICE-PRESIDENT
So..in answer to your question as to why I'm flying today...It's because I'm patriotic and flying is patriotic. So is walking down into a subway tube! Just like all those nice clean-cut articulate people do in Brooklyn and Queens every day.

REPORTER
But you said...

VICE-PRESIDENT (flashing anger)
I KNOW WHAT I SAID...
(halts himself, chuckling)
Heh-heh... But that was in the past..long past....and the Obama administraition and I have come to grips with this...this awful pandemic...this pig thing...err...scratch that, will you? Not a pig thing at all...it's an agriculturallly caused mishap--that's what I meant to say.

REPORTER
But Mr. Vice-President...that was just this morning you made the statement that you wouldn't let your own family fly on airplanes or go down into the subways...

VICE-PRESIDENT
It was? Was it this morning?
REPORTER
Yes, sir.

VICE-PRESIDENT (puzzling, smiling)
Well, yeah!...That shows how quickly the Obama team can react to threats. We're on top of it! A morning threat it was...gone in the afternoon! Could Bush do that? And here I am in an airplane already! Are you ready to have your picture taken, guys?

PULL BACK TO:

EXT. SKIES OVER MANHATTAN - DAY

A huge airplane arcs slowly across the sky near the Statue of
Liberty. Behind it are two attack F-16 Air Force Jets. The
plane is labelled Air Force One. As the camera pulls back to
ground level, we see hordes of people running from buildings,
running along the streets in a panic, shouting and leaping to
cover in ditches or under parked cars.

DISCLAIMER: ANY RESEMBLANCE TO REAL PERSONS ARE STRICTLY COINCIDENTAL. THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED HERE DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT THE VIEWS OF THE MOEURSALEN NEWS NETWORK. WE ARE UNABLE TO PROVIDE PHOTOS OF THE AIR FORCE ONE TERROR FLYOVER OF NYC BECAUSE ALL SUCH PHOTOGRAPHS HAVE BEEN SET ASIDE AS CLASSIFIED INFORMATION BY THE "REAL WHITE HOUSE." DO NOT QUESTION WHY CLASSIFIED INFORMATION REGARDING CIA INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES CAN BE RELEASED WHILE WHITE HOUSE PUBLICITY PHOTOS OF THE "REAL" PRESIDENT'S PLANE CANNOT BE. WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY ROBERT GLIBB COMMENTED THAT "TRANSPARENCY DOESN'T EXACTLY MEAN YOU COULD SEE THROUGH ANYTHING WE DO."

Chrysler Bankruptcy Puts Judge Gonzalez Under Pressure from Obama Administration - Associated Content

Chrysler Bankruptcy Puts Judge Gonzalez Under Pressure from Obama Administration - Associated Content

Obama Psycho-Babble Hides Underlying Issues

The avalanche of psycho-babble coming out of this administration is staggering. It is intended to be so. The Obama administration fills the air with so much verbiage that it is inevitable that a challenge to one statement can be excused by a reference to another. So it is with the Democrats' torture initiative. The torture initiative is intended to keep media tongues wagging and to put Republicans on the defensive while the socialization and nationalisation of America takes place.

It's rather a hoot to hear billionaire Obamadores like Warren Buffet and Bill Gates praising the Obama stimulus plan to high heavens in the media even though they privately recognize the dangers. Bill and Warren are likable and agreeable fellows, as only billionaires can afford to be, and their greatest desire is to be left alone. The easiest way to be left alone when you're a sucessful capitalist billionaire is to praise the Obama administration so as to keep the communication lines open to the White House. That way you'll be the last billionaire fed to the aligators. Billionaires and Obama, they need each other, you see, if the rest of America is to be suborned.

Obama foreign policy continues to suck and no amount of psycho-babble can disguise the weak efforts and failures at national defense and international engagement. The international community, led by Germany, do not want to flood their economies with government Euros as Obama requested. Not one of our European allies wants to help with real troops in Afghanistan. Pakistan has accommodated with the Taliban in the Swat Valley and now finds itself in a fight which, if lost, will mean that our friends in the Taliban will have nuclear weapons. Did I forget Iran?

Defense Secretary Gates today warned Obama that his glad-handing of Iran's Chief Holocaust Denier will be met with a closed fist. It's no wonder Homeland Security Comedienne Janet Napolitano spends all her time contemplating her navel and worrying about ex-military people joinging militias.

Reality is something that this administration refuses entirely to deal with.

Billionaire Investor Warren Buffet Shares Berkshire Hathaway Wisdom at Annual Shareholders Meeting - Associated Content

Billionaire Investor Warren Buffet Shares Berkshire Hathaway Wisdom at Annual Shareholders Meeting - Associated ContentClick on the title line to read what the Oracle of Omaha had to say today...

Standard and Poor Shakes Off the Devil 666

MDC - Java Chart - WSJ.comIt was March 6, 2009 when Standard and Poor's Index entered the last circle of hell with a performance level of 666. THere's a lot of exhuberance today as the index closes at 907.24 on a day when the broad market, reflected in the Dow Jones Industrials, climbed more than 200 points. Everyone seems to be breathing more freely today as the bulls seem to be running but hello! What about those toxic assets? Did they magically disappear?

Last I heard they were still being held on the bank books growing multiple heads. Meanwhile, enjoy the enthusiasm--and a near 300 point rise of an oversold, panicked market. I don't expect a return to the 1400 plus levels but can't really muster real enthusiasm until the S@P hits 1200.

Click the tag line if you want to see the S@P yourself.

Government Gamble on Corn-Ethanol Loses Big

Government's always behind the curve and that's something the Obama administration won't tell you. Several large ethanol producers have gone out of business and many critics are not saying the corn-based fuel isn't as clean as it was claimed to be. Other critics say that the corn is needed to feed people and livestock, not put in gas tanks.


The biggest problem, as always comes in the form of government bureaucrats and their pointy-headed seize-the-moment thinking. Producers were told by the government to produce specific volumes of ethanol, something that doesn't make sense in terms of today's petrol prices and consumption cutbacks due to recession.

Most cars and trucks can't use fuel with any more than 10 percent ethanol without creating havoc to their engines. Some regulators still want to push ethanol content higher but the car companies, you know, the ones which may go bankrupt, won't honor the warranties if an excess of ethanol does damage to the engines.

There are some cars that can run on E85--an 85 percent ethanol content--but with GMs problems and Chrysler's, we're not going to have more of them any time soon. So once again the bureaucrats have failed us, pushing a product that is only economically efficient when oil price spikes to the point where a gallon of gas costs 70% of the price of a bushel of corn. Not the case right now, not with the rise in commodity prices.

More bad news may be found in the fact that ethanol production uses a great deal of energy in the process. Corn-based ethanol produces only 1.8 times the amount of energy used to make it, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Government Looks Stupid in Chrysler Bankruptcy

Yeah, well, we'd all like to save the high paying jobs and excellent benefits of Chrysler workers but what about the workers at Ford. You'd have thought that Obama might have at least made a friendly nod to the only car company that didn't suck up TARP bailout funds. Ford is on the same playing field as the rest of them but has managed to keep its pride, toughness, and integrity intact.

But I suppose the Obama Team Motor Corporation of Steve Quadrangle Rattner et al now finds itself competing with the only private ownership car company in America. The government car company has to show plenty of deference to co-owner United Auto Workers and its CEO, Ron Greedyfinger.

Gettlefinger was on Fox Business this A.M touting the concessions they made in 2007 but couldn't tell his interviewer what those concession were. This is all confusing to the average schmuck though. Who actually directs operations at Government Motors and Fiat-Chrysler? Is Obama calling the shots? Gettelfinger? Or maybe the Agnellis are still pulling the strings from Italy. But wait a minute! Doesn't Canada own 2 percent of the company, too?

Oh, my! We're not in Kansas any more, are we, Dorothy?

Florida Attorney General Files Charges Against Angelo Mozilo and Countrywide Bank

The Florida Attorney General announced today the state was going to file charges against disgraced Countrywide Bank Executive Angelo Mozilo. Mozilo and his celebrity politician friends like Chris Dodd and others were pack leaders in shoving sub-prime loans into GSEs like Freddie Mac and FAnny Mae.

There's been a lot of questions raised by Senator Chris Dodd's lucrative relationship with Angelo Mozilo of the defunct Countrywide Bank. Friends of Angelo Mozilo got cheap loans with few questions. One hand washed the other, as Dodd and Barney Frank urged bankers to put out as much housing money as they could in the form of subprime loans. Freddie Mac and Fanny Mae, with congressional urging, could be relied upon to absorb as much bad debt as they could. It was all done "for Americans across the country" and now the very same Americans are done in by the rot and corruption.


There's no end of grabbing for riches when you're in Congress. But what is it with top Democrats and real estate deals? These "ventures" of Dodd and Mozilo cry out for investigation and it is good to know that, in Florida at least, the wheels of justice are beginning to turn.

The states have to do it because you can be sure the One-party congress won't conduct hearings on that.

Chrysler Files Bankruptcy

President Obama made the right decision, sort of, in pushing Chrysler into bankruptcy. The "sort of" part of it is that he demonized some of Chrysler creditors by criticizing " a handful of speculators" who wouldn't go for the government's easy-pass terms.

Now the thing to watch is the court proceedings where the judge decides what happens to the billions taxpayers (through the Obama team) already loaned to Chrysler. I'm sure there' some kind of government largesse the President Obama is planning, but the manuevers to disguise the fact promise to be both thrilling and illuminating.

Stay tuned for Three Card Monte.

VP Biden Attempts to Bankrupt Travel Industry

How Biden can say those idiotic things with such verve, such enthusiasm, such authority! On the day Chrysler files bankruptcy, Biden tried to do the President one better by telling people not to travel on airlines or other closed public transit systems.

"Someone coughs next to you and bingo!"

You'll die, according to Biden. You can almost hear him:

"G'head, airline passenger--make my day!"

Obama Team Recommends Easing Penalties on Crack Cocaine

Do we need a special "Granny Law?" Perhaps.

The Obama administration wants to ease the penalties for crack cocaine. The reason given is that it “unfairly targets” African-American communities. In other words, the Obama people are telling us that African-Americans are selling or using crack cocaine to a greater extent than the rest of us. I don’t know if that’s true; we’ve seen plenty of “white” crackheads lounging wild-eyed around the stoops.

The “deal” is that you get a minimum sentence of five years for 500 grams of powder cocaine and the same five years for 5 grams of crack.

The police organizations of America agree that there should be no disparity in sentencing. They want to make the sentences equal. Five grams of cocaine, whether crack or powder cocaine, should give you the minimum sentence.

This all shows you how screwed up the Obama administration really is when it comes to criminal law. The police chiefs want to get after those pampered white yuppies or muppies or preppies who acquire 5 grams of powder for a swell party on the Upper East Side or down below Houston. The cops have the right idea. It doesn’t make any sense to have an overall easing of cocaine policy. We all know what that money goes to support, that cocaine and heroin dealing go hand-in-hand with drug violence.

The Obama position is just another indication of the extent to which surrealism has crept into governmental functions. Pandering to people by encouraging a victim mentality, as the Obama drug plan would do, makes a mockery of police efforts at cutting down on drugs and violence on American streets. Cocaine is not black, not Hispanic, not Caucasian, not Asian—it’s an illegal and dangerous drug. It corrupts communities and people of every stripe.

Case in point, our local small-burg newspaper today arrested two Caucasian grannies yesterday for dealing illegal drugs (heroin, in this case) to the tune of $10,000 per week. Both “white,” the arrested grannies were age 65 and 70 respectively, and were sisters.

Is Your City on the White House Target List?

I wonder what city will next get buzzed by Air Force One and its escort of F-16s today. Rumor has it that the president’s White House team has filed secret flight plans to target a different city every day. Of course, not every city in America has a Statue of Liberty in its harbor to create a proper backdrop for one of the president’s slick rides. New York City was chosen to be the first American city to be buzzed by the signature passenger plane and its F-16 escort precisely because it presents the perfect photo opportunity for a White House team insecure about its national defense profile. Americans can be justly proud of the Obama administration in launching and keeping secret what President Obama called “classified” information about the New York City fly-over.

“Mission accomplished,” said the White House team.

Press Secretary Robert Gibbs seemed surprised at the negative public reaction to the flyover during his daily press briefing April 28. Gibbs seemed to forget he was Obama’s press spokesperson when he advised reporters to contact the White House for further information. Gibbs had to be reminded of his position by a quick thinking Fox News Network reporter. Gibbs took issue with the reporter's mild rebuke.

“It wasn’t as if we dropped a JDAM on ‘em or anything,” commented Gibbs, a wry smile softening his features.

An Obama, UAW, and GM Alliance to Form a New GM - Associated Content

An Obama, UAW, and GM Alliance to Form a New GM - Associated Content

O'Grady: The Idiot's Bible - WSJ.com

O'Grady: The Idiot's Bible - WSJ.comAfter President Obama's brotherly handshake with Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, autocrat Chavez gave Obama a book called "Open Veins of Latin America." Noone has bothered to ask Obama if he's read it already, if he's going to read it, or what he thinks about it. And of course, with no teleprompter available, Obama was speechless on the issue of democracy in Latin America.

Three prominent Latin American writers have called the book Obama received the "Idiot's Bible." Apparently, it's a stuck in cement view of 70s yankee-go-home-imperialism and us-and-them mentality. If that mentality had validity in the first place, Cuba would be a model for all the world instead of a nation frozen in time.

Read this Wall Street Journal article about the book if you want to know...

Obama Silent on Stepped Up Iraq Bloodshed

Stepped up attacks by homicide-suicide bombers in Iraq are directed at the apparent weakness of the new Obama administration and its pullback at any cost policy.

Leave it to the Obama team to diligently snatch failure from the jaws of victory. Could anyone have given a clearer message to the enemies of a democratic Iraq than this administration? How many times did Obama rally his pacifist legions on the campaign trail with exhortations of an Iraq withdrawal? This willingness to put partisan politics above all political reality will damage Iraq and strengthen the Taliban and Al Qaeda alliance, and threaten other governments in the region. And now Obama remains desperately silent, refusing to stand up for the great sacrifices made by Americans and Iraqis in ridding Iraq from murderer Saddam.

In order to please his pacifist international constituency, Obama believes too much in his often-touted rhetorical skills, his cult of hipster personality, and empty verbal reassurances from Secretary of State Clinton.

Napolitano to the Swine Flu Rescue

Janet Napolitano is taking quick action on a potential Swine Flu epidemic by directing Homeland Security to hand out fliers to travelers headed for Mexico. We expect that the written advisories will be written in every language including pictographs to be sure that travelers are able to read about the threat. Apparently, Napolitano feels that reading about the Swine Flu virus threat is likely to thwart further spread of the disease.

“It’s all about preparation,” said Napolitano on “The Morning Joe” show, April 27.

Napolitano said it was the state department’s job to issue travel restrictions if the flu showed signs of approaching epidemic proportions. But whatever action Homeland Security takes or does not take, you can be sure that Napolitano will impose the same restrictions and written warnings to travelers to Canada, a country which she recently described as a gateway for the 9-11 hi-jackers.

Be sure to read the docudrama entitled “Homeland Security Prepares Attack Plans Against Canada” posted previously on this blog site.

Homeland Security Prepares Attack Plans Against Canada

FADE IN:

INT. OVAL OFFICE - DAY

The PRESIDENT is sitting at his desk, BLACKBERRY in hand, texting to MICHELLE NOBAMA. Another buzzer on his desk is ringing but the PRESIDENT ignores it.

CLOSE UP ON:

BLACKBERRY screen. We can see the text which the PRESIDENT has received. The visible portion says "WTF are we going 2 do with this dog?"

CUT TO:

The PRESIDENT is texting frantically, glancing at the buzzing telephone. The buzzer keeps ringing in the background.

CLOSE UP ON:

BLACKBERRY screen. This time we see the PRESIDENT'S message sending out "We need 2 keep the dog, MICHELLE.

CUT TO:

BLACKBERRY screen. MICHELLE'S message reads: "The dog keeps nipping at the children. Can't you do something?"

CUT TO:

BLACKBERRY screen. The PRESIDENT texts back: "Chill, MICHELLE, I'll send someone 2 u.

PAN TO:

The PRESIDENT'S face, annoyed, looking at the buzzing telephone. He picks it up.

PRESIDENT
Go.

CUT TO:

INT. HOMELAND SECURITY OFFICE - DAY

The Secretary for Homeland Security, JUNE NEOPOLITAN, a woman of late middle age, porcine, with cropped hair, is outfitted with black protective gear from head to toe. She sweeps up a visored face protector on her black helmet and whispers into the phone.

JUNE NEOPOLITAN
Can you feel it, Mr. President?

PRESIDENT
Excuse me? Feel what?
JUNE NEOPOLITAN
The storm clouds are gathering...

PRESIDENT
Yes, yes, I can feel it. But WTF are you talking about, June?

JUNE NEOPOLITAN
The militias. Can you feel them? Are you feeling them, Mr. President?

PRESIDENT
Sure, sure, I feel it. The storm clouds are gathering. I know, I know...

JUNE NEOPOLITAN creeps to the window, looks out.

PAN TO:

A throng of reporters, news trucks, and microphones is arrayed on the sidewalk outside.

JUNE NEOPOLITAN
Oh, dear!
(alarmed)
They're not happy. They don't look happy.

PRESIDENT
Who doesn't look happy, Mrs. NEOPOLITAN?

JUNE NEOPOLITAN
There's an angry crowd outside my window. Shouting!..signs!...Ohmigod!

PRESIDENT
(thoughtfully and with studied manner)
Hmmm... Well, are you sure they're not Tea Party people?

JUNE NEOPOLITAN
They're not Tea Party people, Mr. President. They're Canadians!
PRESIDENT
(strokes his chin)
Hmmm...Canadians, you say? Well, could that be because of your comments that the 9-11 terrorists came across the Canadian border? It could be that...hmmmm.
(his face puckers)
It could very well be that I think. At least, it's in the nature of that, or rather related to the nature of things, as you all know.

JUNE NEOPOLITAN
Mr. President?

PRESIDENT
Yes, June?

JUNE NEOPOLITAN
Are you still there?

PRESIDENT
I'm here, June. Very much here. I'm on it. I'll get someone out to you. Don't lose faith. Audacity, June, audacity! I'm on it.

The PRESIDENT hangs up the phone and pushes a button on his desk. Entering immediately into the room is the president's CHIEF OF STAFF, a short man whose height reaches just above the PRESIDENT'S belt line.

CHIEF OF STAFF
What can I do for you, sir? I can do anything, anything! I can make phone calls, I can sit on your lap, I can do a grande-plie, I can enlist the media to help us out of any jam, any jam, any jam at all!

PRESIDENT
That's what I've hired you for, Runn! To do what needs to be done. To get this administration rolling, to keep it rolling, to make things happen fast and snappy just the way we like them.
CHIEF OF STAFF
Fast and snappy, that's the way we like things, Mr. President. You want me to call some reporters at NBC?

PRESIDENT
I've already talked to the top GE execs, Runn. In return for cap and trade contracts,they'll do us a big favor. They assure me they'll make every account of JUNE NAPOLEON'S gaffe disappear or heads will roll. They've put the kabob on Santelli, on Kernan, on that whole runaway train morning thing on CNBC. What's it called?

CHIEF OF STAFF
Squawk. It's call Squawk, Mr. President.

PRESIDENT
Well they've got that cute girl...

CHIEF OF STAFF
Becky Quick? Too smart for words! And went to a shitty state school besides...

PRESIDENT
Well, we've got to get a lid on that Morning Squawk, that we do. That's when that garlic-nose Eyetalian Santelli guy started this whole tax rebellion thing.
(pauses)
State school, did you say?

CHIEF OF STAFF
Rutgers, I believe.

PRESIDENT
Rutgers? You kidding me?

CHIEF OF STAFF
Worked her way up the hard way.

PRESIDENT
It's not who you know, it's who you blow...
CHIEF OF STAFF (laughing)
Let's not talk about that, could we?

PRESIDENT
I'll soon decide what we talk about, Runn. I'm the PRESIDENT. I'm the PRESIDENT. The PRESIDENT gets to decide, and I will make that decision in due time, at the appropriate moment, when the time is right, as we get more distance between ourselves and the corrosive Bush policies, and as we get the country back on track. We will, you know, we will get the country back on track.

CHIEF OF STAFF
Mr. President?

The PRESIDENT is startled out of his revery.

PRESIDENT
Yes, Runn. What can I do for you? I mean...what can we do for each other? I mean..what can we do about the JUNE NEOPOLITAN thing?

CHIEF OF STAFF
Don't worry, Mr. President. We'll give it the MMO treatment. Maddow, Matthews, and Olbermann. They'll hit our base.

PRESIDENT
Yes, but the Canadians...

CHIEF OF STAFF
The Canadians? Oh, yes... Do you remember when you told America you wanted to revise the trade legislation with Canada?

PRESIDENT
I did?

CHIEF OF STAFF
You did. But you can do just that, only make the revision a more favorable trade deal for the Canadians than the one we have now. They'll be pleased. They'll stop laughing at us, and NAPOLEONO will announce that tensions with our border nations have been eased through clever diplomacy.

The PRESIDENT takes out his BLACKBERRY and looks at it again.

CLOSE UP ON:

A new message appears. "The dog has piddled. Get U R S over 2 the crib."

FADE OUT:

Tea Party Protesters Wonder Where It Will All End

The tea protest was the start of something special across the country, says one of my readers in an online conversation we're having. She worries that the people will drop the ball. But I don't think they will.

I think the feelings of the country with regard to this administraton will not quickly evaporate. President Obama and his team are sending out very mixed messages, messages that seem to change every day if not every minute. Everyone feels the growing anxiety...

It's kind of sad that this administration, with almost 100 days in office, spends all its time looking back on the previous administration, scapegoating, diverting attention, and relying on the "honeymoon" effect to keep afloat.

These are sad times for the country. A weak administration can only encourage our enemies. Obama goes about glad-handing every despot he can find but no one steps up. The Europeans are content to let the Taliban take over a nuclear Pakistan, as are many Democrats, shrugging their shoulders and washing their hands of it. For all of Obama's "American image improvement," all he's got to show for it is 3,000 trainers who will stay completely out of harm's way.

Hillary Clinton promised "consequences" against a North Korean missile test, and nothing more is said or done, not here, not in the U.N. The missile test was a clear violation of a Security Council resolution. Obviously, UN resolutioins are meant for people running short of toilet paper....

The stiimulus plan sailed right off the launching pad without hitting its intended target (the bad debt the financial institutions are carrying) and who knows what Obama will do about GM and Chrysler. He's the enemy of Wall Street one day and its best friend the next. He fires the GM chief executive and then has no plan except more layoffs and bankruptcy. Will he ride to the rescue by asking Congress for more bailout money? Who knows? He acts like the Oracle at Delphi except that the Oracle didn't have a teleprompter.

Leaking those CIA memos was positively asinine when they led directly to Bin Al shibh and Shekh Khalid Mohammad and thwarted an attack at LAX.

Things are so bad I've actually begun to feel sorry for Obama. I'm sure that's wasted sympathy, though, as he'd surely have none for me. With the arrest of those journalists in Iraq and Ahmadinajad's renewed anti-Semitic fulminations, it's all beginning to have the smell of another Jimmy Carter administration.

Associated Content - associatedcontent.com

Associated Content - associatedcontent.com

Only 3% of Newspaper Reading Happens Online

Only 3% of Newspaper Reading Happens OnlineIt's a valid story IMHO. I read crappy newspapers online (which is most of them) and buy print editions of the few really good newspapers which survive. Buzz reading online gives you exposure but not time to respond or develop your own ideas. Of course, you can't beat online reading for mindless fact gathering....

Geithner Testifies at Congressional Oversight Committee Hearing - Associated Content

Geithner Testifies at Congressional Oversight Committee Hearing - Associated Content

Reinventing America's Image Abroad

Was there any point to the President's trips outside the country? It's hard to point to any positive outcome from the G-20 conference and other Obama trips except that they were the modern-day equivalent of courtly visits. Obama was supposed to get NATO countries to support his military efforts in Afghanistan. Instead, all hte got was a promise of 3 to 5 thousand advisor/trainers who would stay safely out of harm's way. Maybe the U.S. should stay out of harm's when other countries are attacked and subverted.

Obama was supposed to reinvent "America's image abroad" as he often said during his campaign but all he's gotten so far is criticism from Sarkozy, Chavez, and Ahmadinajad and elsewhere.

Our Selective Moral Outrage - WSJ.com

Our Selective Moral Outrage - WSJ.comThis editorial by Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens must be read in its entirety. We live in a world of distortion about nearly everytihng.

In Praise of Michelle Obama's Victory Garden

I’ve been trying very hard to find some good news I could blog about the Obama administration. I suppose I could conjure up some praise, even if I’m not sincere, as I see many other people doing. Fortunately, Michelle Obama provided the opportunity for me to praise the administration when she brought a bunch of kids to her vegetable garden somewhere on the White House grounds. There are too many urban kids who have no idea how produce is grown, nor that chickens lay eggs, and cows give milk, and so forth. Just about every little kid in the world is fascinated by the way in which a little dumb seed grows into a plant that produces something after the flowers drop off. So now my praise is sincere, and I think that’s a productive avenue that Mrs. Obama should pursue.

Whassup, Bro', Obama Tells Chavez

The name-calling is OVER! For a few moments at least. A nice little tete-a-tete between Hugo Chavez Barack Obama resulted in an exchange of books, a fraternal handshake, and a temporary end to the name calling. A week before the President's visit, Chavez called Obama an "ignoramus." When the two met, however, it was all smiles and brotherhood, evidenced by an intimate handshake of the type reserved for one’s closest friends.

A little bit more reserve would have been in order there, Barack. Since it was your first time meeting Chavez, you might have stood your ground with a formal diplomatic style handshake. As it was, you appeared to be inviting him into your inner circle as a brother.

About the book, okay, you had no way of refusing a gift but, in your infinite wisdom, you could have at least indicated, by some phrase, retort, or gesture, that you were not about to join hands with socialist revolutionaries and sing the Internationale. Sooner or later, you’ll have to act in America’s best interests so, to be speechless in defense of America, presents an image of weakness to our aggressive critics and enemies.

Obama Car Czar Steve Rattner Met with Indicted New York Pension Fund Scammer - Associated Content

Obama Car Czar Steve Rattner Met with Indicted New York Pension Fund Scammer - Associated ContentMore of change you can believe in... I wrote this article for another great Colorado based web site: Associated Content.

Private sector beats recovery.gov in tracking stimulus cash - - Washington Times - Politics, Breaking News, US and World News

Private sector beats recovery.gov in tracking stimulus cash - - Washington Times - Politics, Breaking News, US and World NewsNot satisfied with reading Obama press releases about where your highjacked money is going? Now you have an alternative--a private tracking source. Excellent WSJ article by Amanda Carpenter...

Tea Parties Send Clear Message to Obama Administration

Look for the Tea Parties to continue into the next election cycle. Even small towns have held them. Expect the Tea Parties to pick up steam now that many middle class people who voted for President Obama are unhappy with looming out-of-control taxation. People have figured out that the government has gotten out of control, making a “Great Leap Forward” after fifteen years without tax increases.

Of course, tax increases by the states have gobbled up worker’s earnings and forced businesses out of high tax states. California’s nearly bankrupt and Gov. Paterson is trying to bankrupt New York with new state taxes. On the national level, the massive public debt will triple under the Obama program, and is currently being financed by our fellow Americans in Communist China.

But don't worry, we'll just appoint another "Czar." There's Obama's new auto task force "czar" and the new border "czar" so why not just appoint a "Bleed the Hard-working Taxpayer Czar?"

Strategic Plan for Somali Pirates: Public Fretting and Hand-Wringing

It’s really wild to hear the effete media talking about how it’s “impossible” to do anything about the Somali pirates. To them, it’s impossible to do anything to improve your lot, except fret and wring their hands, as they were doing for days before three Navy sharpshooters saved Captain Phillips.

I’m not a military expert but I’m not a defeatist either. We can brainstorm this thing and come up with a lot of solutions, I’m sure.

Rig up some decoy boats and float them through the Gulf of Aden to tempt the pirates. The decoy boats could be sufficiently armed to do the job or the firepower could come from other ships. Monitor the action with predator drones, as they did in the Maersk Alabama incident.

Although U.N troops don’t actually do anything, we could at least pretend to have a contingent of U.N soldiers monitoring the Somalia ports and docks to put pressure on the pirates. Even a “pretend” force is at least a message that the world community is united in the purpose of keeping the sea lanes open.

Air-drop leaflets informing fishermen and others of a thousand-yard rule for approaching small boats. After a period of time, begin strict enforcement, blowing violators out of the water. It’s possible that, in this scenario, some peripheral damage could be done, but let’s not forget that the Merchant Marine crews are also “innocent” people who are merely trying to make a living while carrying on world trade and relief efforts.

I could go on all day but I won’t. I do have lots of ideas, though, and so do you. Hand-wringing and self-flagellation are low on my list. Wait minute… I think the Pentagon is calling on my red line.

Democrats Defend President Obama from Rush Limbaugh Attacks - Associated Content

Democrats Defend President Obama from Rush Limbaugh Attacks - Associated ContentOld news, but still relevant, because it's shameless the way an entire knee-jerk political clique can unite to suppress one man's free speech...

Obama Auto Rescue Plans - Associated Content

Obama Auto Rescue Plans - Associated Content

MOH Recipient Ed Freeman Dies

MOH Recipient Ed Freeman DiesWhile we're talking about heroes....

The Good and the Bad Obama Weekend

We must first praise President Obama for approving the plan to whack the Somali pirates. Even more remarkable, the President didn't recommend they be mirandized beforehand. Of course, the Navy and the Navy Seals couldn't have been more perfect if they'd been starring in a made up Hollywood movie. This was the real thing, though, and before anyone says waxing three guys simultaneously is an easy lay-up shot, consider the waiting, the pressure, the self-discipline, devotion to duty, and the concentration it must have taken to wet the pirates down in their own blood without splattering brave Captain Phillips. There is not enough praise one could have for this happy ending for the crew, the captain, for the Navy, and for Americans in general.

And the bad news about the President's weekend seems trivial by comparison but, with five million unwanted, abandoned and abused dogs euthanized each year, you'd think the Obamas could have adopted one. It's not as if one's choice is limited, especially when one considers such large numbers of available puppies, purebreds, breeds.

So Teddy Kennedy and his wife, knowing the Obama dilemma, came riding to the rescue with a pure-bred Portuguese water dog. Why didn't the Obamas adopt a rescue dog? Adoption of rescue dogs is kindness and compassion. Unless one has a work-type reason, thoroughbred dogs are an ego trip or a fashion accessory. And I'm not buying into the "allergy" excuse--all dogs have skin.

Obama's Next Hostage Crisis - Wall Street Journal - Yahoo! Buzz

Obama's Next Hostage Crisis - Wall Street Journal - Yahoo! BuzzSome interesting ideas on how to resolve the hostage crisis off the coast of Somalia.

Bank Stocks Rally Behind Government Steroid Injection

The big news that propelled the financial markets over the 8,000 mark was due to the Wells Fargo earnings picture, about double what it was estimated to be. Nothing like a good shot of financial adrenaline to propel the bottom line. I'm not pretending I'm not happy with an up market. The Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac boondoggles, combined with other government sponsored flim-flam, caused me to lose thousands of dollars. Believe me, I'm no Wall Street mogul. I lost about ten Gs in an indexs fund and that's a lot of money to us, so I'm glad to get a little back.

Screw it, though... I'm not buying into the whole thing and the Obamamonics has effed things up, so far as I'm concerned. You don't treat a bubble with another bubble. This is a cover your ass government and a cover-your-ass stock market rally. What's going to happen when they stop pumping our money into it?

Another thing that bothers me. Wall street may have few saints but it's got more than the crew running Washington these days. With the Fed dumping on the private sector, we poor slobs are too diddled to remember or understand to what degree we were screwed.

Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated by Spies - WSJ.com

Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated by Spies - WSJ.comHere's some good news if you like living in the Stone Age. This is an area where government could actually do something so why do we not hear anything about it. Hackers and virus-spreaders are everywhere on the internet, too. Does anyone ever get caught? For violators I would recommend the death penalty or, at the very least, torture them by making them listen to a really long Obama speech.