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...:)
Saturday, May 30, 2009
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.
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.
Friday, May 29, 2009
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.
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.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
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.
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?
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?
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
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.
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.
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.
Sunday, May 24, 2009
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.
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.
Friday, May 22, 2009
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?
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?
Thursday, May 21, 2009
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.
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.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
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.
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....
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
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!
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!
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?
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.
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.
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