THE WOES OF 2009...A POEM

The Woes of 2009…

At the end of ’08 the system was broke
And we limped into ’09 looking for change & hope
On the 20th of January the world stood still
As Barrack Hussein Obama took his place on the hill
With rabid supporters hanging on his every word
He spoke and spoke sometimes sounding absurd

Either way the deed was done
And now all we could do was wait for the fun
Wait & wait we all did
While the economy… continued to skid
With more bailouts, bonuses & companies too big to fail
This train called the USA kept rolling…right off the rails

While Geithner made excuses about the soaring deficit
Many started to wonder & question if he was fit
And in Congress with one bill after another
It was Nancy & Harry trying to outspend each other
The people cried out and even took to the streets
But the spending kept coming digging us deep

Stop the madness they pleaded & begged
If not we’ll all end up on a powder keg?
But somehow on deaf ears their pleas did fall
And now our dollar’s not worth much at all

In Hollywood some icons we did lose
With Farrah, Ed & Michael too
And on the diamond the Yanks were heaven
Winning championship # 27
And on Thanksgiving Tiger did fall
We just can't figure how he had time for them all

So now we’ve come to the end of 2009
And it seems Obama has lost some of his shine
With companies closing and more & more of us out of work
Many can’t believe they actually voted for this jerk
Hope & Change, Hope & Change, and Hope & Change they did say
But not much has blossomed with even less on the way

Now the beginning of 2010 will start with some fear
And the path for our nation quite unclear
With healthcare looming and global warming debates
In their hands lie all of our fates

Hopefully we’ll right this ship before it goes down
And common sense & reason will come back around
You know these poems I write as a way to inform & amuse
But I just wish I had some much better news…

THE WAR ON ALL FRONTS…WITHIN OUR BORDERS…

As America continues to be at war with itself the year of “discontent” rolls on to its end!

With unemployment numbers soaring to heights not seen since the mid-seventies and a financial system still teetering on the brink our leaders (or impostors), as I like to refer to them are still hell-bent on spending trillions of dollars thus contributing to unsustainable debt that no doubt will bring this country to its knees. With the healthcare debate leading the way with enormous bills from “Plastic face” (Nancy Pelosi) and “Dingy” Harry they are in a race to get “their bill” rammed down the throats of the tax paying American public; all under the guise of helping the indigent who relish in the chance to get something for nothing at the expense of others. Gee how has that been any different from any other Liberal initiative in the last 50 years?

Ronald Reagan summed it up when he said “"Government's view of the economy can be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." -- Ronald Reagan

These so-called “health-reform” bills are nothing more than a power-play by the Dems to secure their positions by having the general public so “broken & burdened with taxes” that they will have no where to turn but to the Gov’t…the model in place in every other socialist or communist nation. It is also part of the grand plan to “redistribute” wealth, bring down large corporations, provide ultimate Gov’t control and kill capitalism once and for all. Except of course for all of the money making schemes they themselves have in place with their companies or investments! It is the ago old “arrogance of liberalism” that believes that they are better than everyone else and therefore deserve what they have but no ones else does.

Certainly I do not have the stomach to read all the contents of the 2 bills but have reviewed some of it. Both call for the mandatory participation of all tax paying Americans with threats of fines and taxes for not. When can you remember in your lifetime that the Federal Gov’t forced you to have to do something? (Other than file taxes, but even that has its loopholes for approx. 40% of the people).

The facts are that “Democrats who claim this debate is just about helping the uninsured are lying because this bill will adversely affect every single health care plan, every patient, every doctor, and every hospital in America. This bill contains a government-forced insurance scheme that, besides being unconstitutional, will require every American to have a Washington-approved health plan or face steep penalties!”

Let’s face it this current Liberal congress cares for no one else but themselves, despite anything to the contrary that they say. They are rushing to get all this rammed down our throats before the end of the year going into an election year. This bill will send an already teetering economy over the edge and it’s almost like they want to inflict as much damage on us as possible while they can before we vote their sorry asses out!!

A BRIB BY ANY OTHER NAME IS STILL A “BRIB”
As the Dems presented their case in the senate yesterday, they needed every and I mean every Democrat to vote with them…2 hold outs Blanche Lincoln and Mary Landrieu of LA. were in doubt until of course Louisiana was given $100mm in Medicaid money written into the bill which has now been dubbed the “Louisiana Purchase”! Typical Liberal slight of hand to get what they want by any means necessary….at our expense of course.

I THOUGHT GRILLING SEASON WAS OVER…
Both Wonder boy Tim Geithner & Eric Holder were on Capital Hill this week to explain why the decisions they make just don’t make any sense.

Fist Geithner had to explain why the stimulus hasn’t worked despite contrary

comments from the Obama camp and why he approved payouts for AIG and other bail-out recipients that may have been over paid. Things got testy with several senators calling for him to step down but the best comment was:

“They weren’t calling for him to be fired but more so asking why he was hired?”

I guess if he couldn’t figure out the tax code enough to pay his own taxes, how can we expect him to run our economy. Another brilliant appointment by the Messiah!

Now there is talk of a 2nd stimulus to bail-out the first one and it was revealed that the administration fabricated facts about the numbers of jobs saved or created to cover their dismal performance. Say it isn’t so…The Obama camp not telling the entire truth…hey if their lips are moving their lying!!!

Then Eric Holder was grilled on his decision to bring the 9/11 terrorists to NY for a civil trial rather than a military trial. He seems to be hell-bent on holding to his bone-head decision which will do nothing more than give him and the Obama team a chance to put the Bush administration and the United States on trial thus furthering their plan to destroy democracy. It will also allow KSM a forum to spread his jihadist propaganda on a global stage at our expense. Speaking of expense, it is estimated that it will cost NYC $75 billion to host the trial for a city that is already facing financial collapse. Not to mention the poor families who lost loved ones on that dreadful day the heartache they will have to face all over again. This will be nothing more than a circus and have every other country in the world laughing at us. These killers have already begun to play the system by now pleading not guilty after they had already confessed; Of course their plan is to say because they were tortured. These guys plan to drag this out as far as they can to put further financial drain on our country and the idiots in charge will allow them to do it. Tell me again how any of this makes sense???


FORT HOOD TERRORIST (THAT’S RIGHT I SAID TERRORIST!)
The blame-game has already started with the call for Congressional hearings of who knew what and for how long in the case of Col. Hasan. Apparently this jihadist had been sending and receiving inflammatory communications with a radical Imam cleric in Yemen. He also gave indications that he was getting ready to put words into actions and carry out a jihadist plan against the west which all was intercepted by a San Diego based FBI group but never deemed serious enough to report. Now 13 people are dead, dozens more recovering from their wounds and our nation exposed for how vulnerable we really are. And yet the state-run media is still having a hard time saying the words “radical Islam terrorist” and are parading all kinds of alternate theories of what caused this massacre from a “disgruntled employee” to Pre-Post-Traumatic-Stress- Disorder. Now as this thing unfolds we realize that because of all of our PC- BS we didn’t take action to prevent this. When will we learn? This guy while at Walter Reed as an intern gave a 50-page Power Point presentation to the Sr. Dr’s on the nuances of Islam and the Koran where he made statements about suicide bombers, internal attacks and supporting fellow Muslims.

The one telling factor for me that summed up this guys intention was a slide that stated the following: “Muslims love death more than We love life”…

Now all of the Dr’s witnessing the presentation were said to be appalled and irritated since of course the assignment was supposed to be about medical practices, but no one stood up and stopped this guy’s impassioned rant to say “Hey Habbib you missed the point of this!!!” All because of fear of being criticized and spending the next several months in sensitivity training hell. PC will be the death of us all…

This is only speculation but his itinerary on November 5th might have gone something like this:

E-mail a few of my terrorist friends in Yemen…check
Give away personal possessions including copies of the Koran to my neighbors…check
Stop by 7/11 for some last minute items dressed if full Muslim garbs…check
2 hand guns…check
Extra ammo…check
Carry-out a cowardly act of terrorism against innocent Americans…check
Die in the process so Allah will reward me in heaven…ooh just a little short

Now all I have is pain and suffering from my wounds and my miserable POS life on earth is about to get a lot worse!!!

God is Great…

WHERE THERE'S SMOKE???

In my 51 years of life's experiences, there is one thing that has held true more times than not and that is an old saying my Mom passed on to me at an early age that "Where there's smoke, there's usually fire".

Given the present political and economic environment in which we now find ourselves, these words are echoing louder and louder. As you may recall, I wrote in a previous blog about my concerns for some of the issues that have been brought to light as late as yesterday concerning the over-stepping reach of the gov't into various aspects of our personal and private lives. At the time many may have dismissed my feelings as "far-fetched", but I ask you now to reevaluate your opinions, particularly given the announcements of the pay czar yesterday regarding limits on compensation.

Yes at initial view it looks like it only effects companies that received bail-out funds from the tax payers and many may say that why shouldn't the gov't have a say in what these people are paid and maybe that's a good argument. But don't limit your sight to only that. Let's look a little further into the legislation and the wording hidden deep into it's many pages that states to the effect:

"that the gov't may at it's discretion review and have access to all financial information from ANY company which it deems to be a substantial risk to the financial system of the USA up to and including limits and structures of employee pay"

Now that may not be the exact wording but the theory is the same. Think about that for a moment! How do we limit which companies fall into this category? Or can the gov't just decide for whatever reason they choose to mandate how companies are being run under the realm of them being a "potential" risk? Now hopefully it's not only me who believes that this kind of sweeping power is a bit over the "norm".

Typically I wouldn't be so alarmed but given the actions of this administration who at every turn has taken steps to bring down capitalism, devalue the US dollar as the market standard, make corporations the "evil enemy", despise anyone who earns and accumulates wealth, (outside of themselves of course), attacks anyone or anything that opposes their views and uses their power to control more and more of our individual lives.

So as they continue to march forward with their agenda under the guise of we "only want to help the impoverished and the minorities" who continue to fall for their hollow lies, they have put the wheels in motion to destroy the fabric of our democracy!

I do see some smoke coming from somewhere behind the curtain and although it may not appear to be a raging inferno that needs to be addressed immediately, don't be fooled...that is all part of the "grand-plan" enacted by the AXIS OF EVIL- (Obama, Pelosi & Reid) who want to distract and lull us into thinking that it is OK! Until such time that the embers they keep secretly stoking erupt into a fire so big that it scorches this country beyond recognition!!!


Keep your eyes and ears open and make sure those batteries are fresh in your smoke detectors...

Flame of Hope & Change...Not So Much!

This week the Obama administration and in particular the President himself endured another setback in his early leadership of our nation. After much deliberation and on again off again planning on whether he would personnally make the trip to Copenhagen to use his charm and gift for the speech to win the Olympics for his beloved Chicago, the bid fell short...way short! Even with the likes of Michelle and Oprah at his side (who was seen outside giving out cars to IOC members), Chicago went down in flames (no pun intended) as the 1st to be eliminated.

As Obama was quickly shuttled from the meeting to stem off even more embarrassment he did not miss an opportunity to speak into a microphone about the event. With the smugness of just having lost a pick-up basketball game during lunch, he stated that "sometimes you win and sometimes you don't" (quite profound from the man who invented modern speech as we know it don't you think?). But quickly he bounced back into true Obama form and blamed Bush for 8 previous years of deterorating international relationships as the reason for the loss. An thousands of miles away at almost the same moment Roland Burris (the Blogo appointee) from Illionis echoed the very same sentiment in the halls of the capital. (it's a good thing Obama kept his Blackberry so that they could "broadcast text" the party line throughout the Democratic party).

Now let's look at these comments. Who was it that at every chance to address an international audience condemmed the USA for all of their wrong-doings and painted a picture of an evil place worth numerous apologies to the world as a whole? I believe it was Obama himself who as late as last week at the UN even echoed such prose that it received praise from America haters Kudaffi & Chavez. Why would the world want to come here and spend their money?? If anyone should take responsibility for possibly contributing to the IOC decision to award the Olypmic games to Rio it's Obama himself. But then there's always the concept of responsibility that somehow has always been a "bridge too far" for the Liberals, but I digress.

This guy is so arrogant that he really believes that because of his charm the world will embrace him and he will win everytime he plays the game. The scary thing is that I believe he thinks it is a game! What he can't see is that he is swimming with sharks and his niavity and lack of experience in such matters is really showing. These countries will take a big bite out of his ass when he least expects it and won't even see it coming because he'll be too busy believing that they like him, how couldn't they? He'll be spending his attention on thoughts of how he wants the world to be and not how it really is. You know there's a big difference in organizing a bunch of low-rent folks who feel that they have been done wrong by the establishment and oranizing and protecting a nation from the real bad guys! I just hope that somebody gets a clue before it's too late.

I heard a comment the other day after Obama addressed the UN General Assembly and went soft on Iran much to the dismay of France & England and rambled on about a "nuclear-free" world that really hit the nail on the head. They referred to him as a "political adolesent". Now think about what comes to mind when you think of the definition of adolesent ?

Here let me help you;

Definition:

somebody in period preceding adulthood: somebody who has reached puberty but is not yet an adult
adjective

Definition:

1. experiencing adolescence: going through the period of adolescence, adolescent males
2. happening during adolescence: typically occurring during the period of adolescence
3. immature: involving, relating to, or meant for somebody who is immature

Now that should make you feel good...How's that hope & change working for for??

Do I Dare Say "Hitler-Youth"?

Yesterday it surfaced that children as young as 5 years old were being made to sing songs in public schools praising the pure existence of Barrack Hussein Obama!

Now I'm glad that music is still part of the curriculum in our schools when so many things have been cut back, but I am fundamentally concerned with the subject matter. Especially when the parents of these children were not notified of this occurrence by school officials! And as you listen to the words being sung by these pure and open minds, (except for the white kids who were all born racists), it certainly "smacks" of indoctrination similar to the steps taken by another eloquent speaker in 1939 Germany.

On other fronts I also have issue with the fact that we can't call Christmas-Christmas or sing carols, we want to give kids the choice to "opt-out" of the pledge of allegiance, we can't post pictures or refer to Santa Claus or even decorate Christmas trees because we might upset little Akmed, Lui or Deepak: and yet we can have our children be made to pay homage to Obama!!!

How are any of these things any different? Weren't the rights of non-Obama supporter children violated? Weren't they being forced to conform? Again to old Liberal "double-standard" if it benefits me and my cause its OK and allowed, if I disagree then its bad and must be stopped.

First I thought it was bad enough that he just piped his message into schools a few weeks ago and I was chastised for being overly critical of this action. But now this. What's next, subliminal messages played while we sleep to honor the great one or should we just fast-forward and go right to frontal-lobe removal to ensure that we "get in line"?

All I know is that I can't remember the words to the George W. Bush song that our kids were made to sing? Maybe it's because there wasn't one...the whiners made sure that the only comments made were laced with venom!

And the beat goes on....

WHY???

Every time I sit down to write one of these and my wife asks "What are you doing?" and I say "I'm writing my blog", she just rolls her eyes and walks away with that why are you wasting time on that stuff look.

Well it's just that there is so much going on that could and will have long term impact on this country and our lives as we know them that I can't just sit here and not express myself; in hopes that in some little way what I have to say may educate or inform those who choose to read this.

Where do I start? Asking a few questions may be a good place?

Why is it that since Obama took office there has been some sort of "crisis" each and every week? Do you think it is part of the "grand plan"?

Why is it that so-called "czars" the likes of Van Jones-

(a self proclaimed communist and radical and 2 time convicted felon)

and Jeff Jones- co-founder of the Weather Underground-

(you remember them- "home grown" terrosists that blew up the Pentagon & a NY police station)

, wrote the last stimulus package and are advising the President?

Why is it that when concerned, informed US citizens try to voice their concerns to their elected officals that they are dubed "the angry mob" and discounted by these same "arrogant-I'm smarted than you hipocrites", and yet when ACORN marches in full regalia yelling and chanting during the many bank "shake-downs" they perform that they are entitled as their God giving right of freedom of speech!

Why is that we have a science-czar by the name of John Holdren who once wrote about putting sterilization agents into the public's drinking water so that they could control the general direction of the population. And who proclaims that the US Constitution in now way, shape or form advocates that the US citizens have a right to a particular number of children! Um sounds oddly familiar to another country where this occurs...RED CHINA!!!

Why is it that Ted Kennedy is being treated like royalty? Yes I am saddened when people surcome to illnesses and pass away and feel for those close to him, and perhaps he is deserving of some recognition for his length of civil service. But let's face it, what other job would a Kennedy have? Perhaps he was a good man to those who aligned themselves with his far-left views and maybe championed the causes of the under-privileged. But other than being a Kennedy what did he really accomoplish in changing things in the world over to his point in really measurable results? You know it always amazes me how these people with more money than you can count and "high & mighty" lifestyles can identify with the common man! (You do remember the story that when John Kerry & his very wealthy wife went into a Wendy's during his presidential campaign and she didn't understand what the chili was.)

All I know is that where ever Ted Kennedy ends up...He's got a lot of "splainin" to do!!!

Why is it that our own government is investigating the CIA for possible offenses against "enemies" of our country? Or we are actually spending tax-payer money on legal represenatation of known-terrorists at Gitmo to make sure that their rights weren't violated? Rights...I wonder if our enemies or their governments worry about the rights of people who commit crimes against them and kill their citizens?

You know how sensitive I am about things like this and how it just disturbs me to think of those poor terrorists being forced to wear shoes, eat with utensils and use TP instead of their hands to wipe their asses! Oh the horror!!!

Why is it that these so-called "anti-capitalists" who are in czar positions within the Obama camp all have incomes in excess of $200k and net worths in the millions! How are they not just like the the very rich "capitalist pigs" they dispise? I guess it's ok for them to have wealth but no one else...their arrogance is appalling! How many of the under privilaged they profess to care about can make the same claims?

After all they are smarter than us you know...

Keep an Eye on the Other Hand!

Well I have to give it to them for their "text-book" approach to flooding the system with initiatives true to the ACORN/ COMMUNITY ORGANIZER MODEL!

For those who are ACORN-history challenged, the model I reference as spelled out by its creators is to present as many initiatives as possible at the same time into the governing system so as to create confusion and misdirection on which issues are more important than others. This "smoke-screen" of confusion is then used to mask the real underlying agenda that these people wnat to set forth. While everyone is trying to figure out what to focus on, things are being set in motion. When the smoke clears all we are left with is a question of HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?

This is exactly what the Obama administration is doing. Where should I start? First it was stimulis I, then it was foriegn relationships and arms treaties, then it was Cap & Trade, (which was overshadowed by the MJ thing as it slipped through the house), add in healthcare and stimulis II and what do you have? A lot of big issues all thrown into the pot. Kind of like that pot of Dinty Moore stew, can you really see all that is in it? And that is exactly what they are banking on. A lot of confused & uninformed people who just fall into line with that old feeling of WHAT CAN I DO? AFTERALL THE GOV'T SAID IT WAS OK!

The truth is that with all of these initiatives, they have spun their typical "this will help the impoverished" mantra all the time never saying how it will have tremendus negative impact on businesses, especially small business and the backs of the successful, who they dispise; all of which are the biggest creators of jobs!

There are still over 40% of the people in this country that do not pay or contribute taxes which means that the remaining body, ME & YOU, have to foot the bill to cover their lazy asses. This 40% is the same group that believes that the government should take care of them. This would be all well and good if the government had money to cover it!, but the reality is that they don't. So what they want to do is have us pay for it through increased taxes and penalties for working hard and being successful! This practice is in place in Europe where some gov'ts have taxed the so-called rich upward of 60% to cover their programs.

Bottom-line is that these increases will cause businesses to cut jobs thus contributing to the double-digit unemployment rates we are seeing. Now let me ask you; do you really care that a business gets a tax cut as long as it is able to keep people working, which ultimately helps the "little-guy" on an individual basis? or should we add to the lines of the unemployed, and have the gov't pay for them through increased taxes on US?

Where will the "nationalization" programs stop? First they took over the financal systems, then major manufacturing (GM), now it's healthcare and today I heard of a program whereby homeloans in default will be taken over by Freddie Mac so in essence the Gov't will own your property and be your landlord! Do you think Barney Frank will come fix the clogged up toilet if I call him?

Come on people, how much more can we march to the socialist lifestyle before the masses really get it???

And what's up with all of the "czars" that Obama has appointed (yes I said appointed and not elected). 32 at last count. These are people with special interest groups that are put in so-called key strategic positions that are not accountable to the US Congress. These people did not go through the usual confirmation process (since I'm sure most of them wouldn't pass), yet they are making policy and establishing infrastructure that will control our lives. One such "czar" John Holdren once wrote about putting sterilization agents into the public's drinking water so that they could control the general direction of the population. (can you say wacko? I couldn't make something like this up)

The truth is that Obama is creating a "parallel government" that is free from normal constraints generally imposed on such positions by virtue of the US Constitution. These guys are in a all-out sprint not to re-build America but to RE-MAKE AMERICA into their pet project before anyone really wakes up to see where their headed.

Get your heads out of the sand!

Has Anyone seen the USA?

As I reflect on the 233rd birthday of our country, I can't help but think of how much of it we have lost. From the MTV generation to reality TV to the era of ridiculus political correctness bits and pieces have just vanished!

What happened? What happened to the times when we were proud of this country and who we are? What happened to the times when we trusted our leaders and their decisions somewhat made sense for the greater good? What happened to not having to appoligize for being American? Dispite our differences and all of the faults we have as a people and our continued diversity, when it mattered we still stood together as "One Nation Under God"!

I'm not quite convinced that that statement holds true today as much as it once did. As a people we have become such a divisive bunch at the ready to launch full-scale attacks at each other for causes & beliefs that in the grand scheme of things are not so significant but all the while may do more harm than good. Kind of like "we can win the battle, but lose the war".

If we're not careful we may all lose and then perhaps our petty differences won't matter so much!

Let's look around people, get our heads out of the sand and really absorb the consequences of our actions. Let's try to put the pieces of this puzzle back together while we still can and the pieces are still ours to control!

The United States is the greatest country on earth and the sooner we realize the good in her as opposed to the bad and appreciate what we have been afforded as her citizens, then perhaps we can save what we once knew?

"GOD BLESS AMERICA"

Flys like a Butterfly...Stings Like a Bee...

I am outraged by the complete lack of compassion shown by Obama recently when killing a defenseless fly buzzing about during one of his endless interviews. He just swatted it away to a sooner than later death and let it just lie there on the carpet as the media frenzy rolled on. Perhaps this action will send fear and doubt into the likes of Kim Jung Il or the nut in Iran that Obama is a force to be reckoned with.

His actions were captioned by one news agency as "catlike with the prowess of a Ninja" Maybe they should bring back the Green Hornet and Obama could play Kato?

His actions also caught the eye of PETA who was also disturbed with his callus, cold blooded approach. Oh no, I think I'm hearing plans of "Apology Tour III" where Obama will travel to all of the bee farms to liberate them and the government has put the ORKIN-MAN at the top of their hit list for takeover...fear not insects!

You know I think all of this bru-ha-ha could have been avoided if he just would have used "Water-boarding" instead...

Where's the Outrage?

See the attached link about how Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac Execs are garnishing huge bonuses for driving the company into the ground!




http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/19/fannie.bonuses/

If I recall, the US Govt poured quite a bit of $$$ into both firms so where's the outrage and outcry calling for the heads of those folks as with other firms?

Let me see, employees took pay cuts, no bonuses, have stock that is worth nothing and even lost their jobs, but let's reward 4 or 5 executives with 1/2 million dollar bonuses for terrible performance! That's right out of the handbook...

Sounds like another case of Libs covering for their own or perhaps their own asses!

I'm Sorry "Cause I'm American"...

Over the last few days, I have been trying to digest the words I heard come out of the President of the United States mouth during his recent visits abroad. I am appalled & shocked that the leader of our country has taken this opportunity to put down the very country he has sworn to defend.

At every turn, he indicated that the US should be beholding to the Europeans and apologetic for our previous and future actions, almost to the point that we should be sorry for our very existence. Again taking a swipe at his predecessor he sounded like a "spurned" grade school child because no one wanted to play with him at recess!

It was embarrassing for him to take the "I'll follow you" attitude instead of putting the United States in the lead position as it has been and deserves amongst the worlds nations. He soon forgets that if it were not for the positive leading contributions the US has made throughout history to help they very European nations he wants to bow to, they wouldn't exist...or at least in the state that are today.

I realize that perhaps we need their support under the "why can't we all just get along" mantra, but when the rubber has to meet the road, these countries have always taken the easy way out. Short changing manpower and money to protect their own interests. Somehow we allow them to get away with it and we burden the load. They continue to do business with countries like Iran and Iraq and quickly turn the other way when its time for the check to come!

And these are the folks we need to apologize to. Somehow I'm missing something here....

Oh by the way, here's a picture of Obama giving one of those speeches....

I don't want to say I told you so!

I don't want to say I told you so, but in my last writing I stressed my concern for the govt trying to control businesses in the private sector and in particular compensation structures.

Well, this week all everyone is talking about is how Geithner wants "cart-blanche" power over such companies and the congress is trying to propose legislation that would provide him with what he wants. My good friend Barney Frank is at the leading edge of this bill.

The talk now is that it is not only Sr. Executives that can fall under such scrutiny but any and all employees of the company in question. They first will start with companies that accepted TARP funds, (and it is coming to light that many banks were forced into accepting this money whether they wanted or needed it and tactics such as threats of public audits were proposed if they refused). Sounds a little "KGBish" don't you think?

Anyway some banks are lining up to give it back to avoid having to answer to the govt on how they need to run their businesses...

There have also been comments that even non-TARP companies may suffer the same fate!

You guys still want to bury your heads in the sand???

Where can we learn how to "Goose-Step"?

Back in February, I commented on Obama's attack on CEO Comp (see full content in blog list to refresh your memory), and it sparked some criticism from some of the other local inhabitants of the 30022 zip code as being too far fetched and off target as I lamented on the expanding power being sought by the Obama team.

At the time, I questioned their motives to control private business and limit income potential. If I recall, I was chided for my comments that perhaps we should not teach our children to aspire for unbridled success since it seems that under such a plan ceilings on their achievement would be imposed. And I was also reminded that it had nothing to do with sales or motivation by all about accountability!

Now today, not more than 3 weeks later the Secretary of the Treasury went before a congressional panel to ask for unprecedented power so sweeping that it would virtually reach directly into the private business sector and could at their desire seize financial and physical assets of such companies, review compensation structures and even limit at their discretion any salary & bonus payments that they deemed to be disproportionate!

Now please tell me again how this kind of thought process differs from let's say 1950-60's Russia or Cuba or Communist China of today?

The argument I'll hear will be that it is only the financial institutions that will fall under this sweeping legislation since they pose the greatest threat to the economy.

Yeah to start with! But where will it stop? The financial sector is the core of all other business function. Without free markets within this sector and a business's ability the leverage debt stymied, it won't be long for the whole thing to come tumbling down.

And at the root of all of the control will be the Govt. They will mandate how and where we conduct business and what we are "allowed" to earn & save. Without wealth and the access to wealth the MASSES will be powerless. And without power and the wealth to sustain it, they will have no choice but to fall in line under the Govt.

Now tell me again what this is called...I seem to be at a loss!!!
(figuratively & financially)

Barry vs the Media

Say it's not so...could the very media who did all they could to the get their boy elected be getting a bit skeptical & frustrated with the round-about long-winded responses they are receiving at press conferences? And could Barry be getting a bit un-nerved by their assault to the point where he has mocked them? How Presidental!

Is the love-affair showing signs of strain? Have they moved to separate twin beds yet?

You know he was praised by some wacko left-wing group for the "beat-down" he issued to one of the reporters who ruffled his feathers. Where are the days when the media was encouraged to "nail" the president and do all they could to trip him up? Or throw shoes at him...Oh that was a Bush press conference. Somehow the rules of the game have changed when there is a Lib in the hot-seat! Its ok for them to throw rocks (or shoes or BS) but how dare someone throw any back...

You know Obama has been on every news outlet he could as many times as he could and all the time his mouth is moving...but nothing is coming out! Nothing of substance and reality that is...

Wonder-Boy Under Fire!

Given the recent brouhaha over the AIG bonuses, "Wonder-Boy" Tim Geithner has fallen under harsh criticism and scrutiny of how much and when he knew of these "contractually-Guaranteed" payouts for unsuccessful AIG execs; with some even calling for his resignation!

Now his defenders are quick to come to his aid indicating that it was under Bush that the original money was paid out to AIG (haven't we heard this somewhere before?) But what they craftily leave out is that it was Geithner and not Paulson who orchestrated the whole AIG bailout from the start. His allies also state that he is the "ONLY" one who really understands the TARP program so who else can we get to run it? After all look how smart he is! Yet I guess not smart enough to understand the tax code so that he could pay his own taxes...

And isn’t a little scary that out of all the successful people in our country he is the only one smart enough to do this job???

Now I'm not defending the AIG slugs that paid and received $165mm of our money for failed performance. I think they should be publicly flogged and made to have their next corporate outing at Gitmo.

But the truth is that this has been a comedy of errors with no signs that any of this bailout or Tarp has even worked. Most of the money given with no strings attached by the way, has gone overseas for other investments and has done little to stimulate the economy, ease lending markets, create jobs or really stabilize any of these so-called companies too big to fail! I liken some of this to the dot-com days when we measured companies not by their growth but more so by how fast their “burn-rate” was of cash infused by outside sources. And yet we kept pouring it in.

Now after all of this money has been unconditionally given and distributed the Congress is all of a sudden up in arms “Oh how did this happen?” what a travesty! The real travesty here is that these SOB’s are still in office! How many times are we going to let these idiots turn the other way on allowing things to happen and then come back and try to make themselves look good by trying to fix a problem they caused that most likely could have been avoided or at best handled differently? Now they’re calling for the return of the bonuses or even a 1000% tax on them to recoup the money!

Again I’m not defending AIG or the bonuses. They were given an opportunity and they took advantage of it. Sort of like when Franklin Raines restructured his comp plan at Fannie Mae under the watchful eyes of Chris Dodd & Barney Frank and walked away with a cool $91mm in 6 years! Now I didn’t hear talk of recouping or overtaxing that money!

And now Barney Frank has the “balls” to come on TV and get critical of AIG! Does this man not own a mirror? Perhaps we should send him one so that he could really see what a criminal looks like!

The Blame Game...

Over the last few days on various news outlets including Atlanta's own AJC (The Al-Jezzera Constitution), there have been bold headlines reading "OBAMA'S NEW STRATEGY: BLAME BUSH".

Now I am concerned on at minimum 2 fronts. 1st, how is this "NEW" news worthy of front page and homepage publication? This is kind of like the revelation a few years back when all of a sudden it was news that nicotine was addictive and harmful to the body!

DA, Hasn't this been the tact taken by Obama and his band of merry men from even before day one? And in addition have you ever known or heard of a liberal taking accountability for anything, unless of course they saw it as a benefit to them and then they claim they invented it!

I'm surprised it hasn't made headlines that the Obama's found a "floater" in one of the toilets at the White House (we can still call it that can't we) and they traced it back to "W". Can't wait til MTV does a segment of "CRIBS" on it!

Anyway what I'm seeing and it doesn't surprise me is that this administration is filled with a bunch of "sub-operatives" hell bent on deflecting any all scrutiny of their activities by setting off "smoke-bombs" to cover their tracks. (So much for transparency in Govt.) First it was the Rush Limbaugh stuff and now it's "Look at the mess we were left to clean-up by Bush".

wah-wah-wah!

At what point are these spineless excuses for civil-servants going to take some ownership? Oh wait a minute I had a moment of rational thought there and actually believed that they might do something admirable and might I add ethical...silly me.

The other point NOT making news is that we are going on how many? 4-5 cabinet nominees that can't figure out that not paying taxes is illegal! Now I don't really care on an individual basis who pays or doesn't pay, hopefully the IRS watches that, but what burns my butt is the "turn the other way" attitude towards unethical & deceitful behavior and how it has become an acceptable norm.

What's that old phrase about "Birds of a Feather"....

Anybody having "voter remorse" yet? Wish we had a program in place like when you get a loan and have a "Right to Rescind" period!!!

Just Keep Watching...

Speaker Pelosi treats Air Force like private airline

See the video at the attached link that discusses "Princess Pelosi's" cush life of wealth & priviledge at our expense...




America's Newsroom - FOXNews.com

Now Isn't That Special....

Officials: Taliban ops chief once held at Gitmo
By PAMELA HESS – 13 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul, formerly Guantanamo prisoner No. 008, was among 13 Afghan prisoners released to the Afghan government in December 2007.

He is now known as Mullah Abdullah Zakir, a nom de guerre that Pentagon and intelligence officials say is used by a Taliban leader who is in charge of operations against U.S. and Afghan forces in southern Afghanistan.
Rasoul is the latest example of a freed detainee who took a militant leadership role and a potential complication for the Obama administration's efforts to close the prison.

U.S. authorities handed over Rasoul to the Afghan government, which in turn released him, according to Pentagon and CIA officials. The officials, who spoke anonymously because they are not authorized to release the information, said Rasoul has joined a growing faction of former Guantanamo prisoners who have rejoined militant groups and taken action against U.S. interests. Pentagon officials have said that as many as 60 former detainees have resurfaced on foreign battlefields.

Pentagon and intelligence officials said Rasoul has emerged as a key militant figure in southern Afghanistan, where violence has been spiking in the last year. Thousands of U.S. troops are preparing to deploy there to fight resurgent Taliban forces.
One intelligence official told the Associated Press that Rasoul's stated mission is to counter the U.S. troop surge.

Although the militant detainees who have resurfaced were released under the Bush administration, the revelation underscores the Obama administration's dilemma in moving to close the detention camp at Guantanamo and figuring out what to do with the nearly 250 prisoners who remain there.

In one of his first acts in office, President Barack Obama signed an executive order to close the jail next year. The order also convened a task force that will determine how to handle remaining detainees, who could be transferred to other U.S. detention facilities for trial, transferred to foreign nations for legal proceedings or freed.

Please tell Obama the Campaign is Over!

Everytime I hear or see Obama give a speech they sound just like the ones we heard all through the campaign. Will someone please tell him that the campaign is over and he won...And why is he making so many trips to give these speeches, its unheard of for a new president to be doing this much traveling in the first 2-3 months of his term.

Perhaps that's all he knows how to do? Give speeches with "hollow" promises from a teleprompter instead of taking the lead on really fixing some of this mess. I don't know but perhaps his lack of "true" battle experience is starting to show?

"Hey I might have to really deal with something that might expose me"...ROAD-TRIP!!!

STIMULI

STIMULI
2-10-2009

Well I started to listen to the President last night but my eyelids won the battle of good and evil. So, I had to rely on some of my trusted correspondents in the field (Jack) to fill in the blanks.
In short (and I’m paraphrasing here), Obama made some statements to the effect the “The American people got ourselves into this …and now we have to rely on the government to get them out of it”…

Uhm…I guess we should publicly flog ourselves for being so irresponsible and causing all of this…because the Congress had no hand in it at all…because their hands were too busy filling their pockets!!!

Well anyway, when do we start to be fitted for those non-descript suits and flip-flops we will all be required to wear? I sure hope they come in other colors besides DRAB GREEN AND DRAB GREY?

Peace…Comrades…

THE GLASS IS ALWAYS 1/2 EMPTY- AND IT'S SOMEONE ELSES FAULT!

THE GLASS IS ALWAYS 1/2 EMPTY- AND IT'S SOMEONE ELSES FAULT!

Did anyone see the “Obama Mini-series” last night? Why is it that all the democrat’s do is portray doom and gloom in everything? So these people were struggling. No more than a lot of people I know including myself. Yet I don’t blame it on George Bush or the government. I just look at ways to improve myself and my situation.

Who I do blame it on is elitist “pin-heads” like Obama and Barney Frank who put money in their own pockets at the expense of others and then has the audacity to blame it all on somebody else. Wait why am I shocked, that is the Liberal way!

If the Messiah was so concerned with putting money in peoples pockets (other than his own), maybe he shouldn’t be spending $600 million on his campaign compared to $84 million on the McCain side. And give some of it to the people in his video. $600 mil could buy a lot of snacks for the kids! Or maybe Obama and Michelle shouldn’t be eating lobster and Iranian caviar for lunch like they did a week or 2 ago!

“IT’S GOOD TO BE THE KING”!

Misc. Items That Bug Me!

Misc. Items That Bug Me!

$700 billion dollars- You know I’ll admit that I’m not the smartest guy out there but certainly far from the dumbest. Probably more street-smart than book-smart on several fronts but for the life of me, I can’t figure out what Congress just did or plans to do with the $700 billion dollars we will have to pay for? What exactly is their plan for this funding? Can someone please explain it?

It appears to me that all they did was look like they had to react to something by “stealing” our money and passing this bill. God for bid they were a little proactive when it came to protecting the American people and economy. They certainly were when it came to re-structuring bonus plans so that they could line their pockets with millions while driving companies into the ground, or accepting record contributions or “sweet-heart” mortgage deals, positioning gay lovers into key director roles at government run agencies or rejecting any attempt to address these issues that would expose them for the greedy-sorry-asses they are!

Hurricane Ike- is it just me or has anyone else noticed the lack of media coverage for all of the devastation in Texas caused by hurricane Ike? When Katrina hit New Orleans all we heard about was all of the damage and who caused it and how the federal government didn’t do enough to avoid it, fix it and prevent it from ever happening again for months and months….we saw pictures splashed all over the news of looting and other horrific acts. Why is it that the same coverage doesn’t apply here and the State of Texas is doing all of the clean-up on their own?

Liberals & Religion- What’s up with the Liberals always panning religion? Are there no Liberals who attend church or try to put God into their own or their children’s lives? Instead they come up with sound-bite gems like “all Republicans cling to their bibles and their guns”. What nit-wit is responsible for that intellectual statement? If it were true, there would probably a few less Liberals out there because we would open our bibles to say a prayer before we put a “cap in their ass” for making such idiotic statements.

And what about Bill Maher with his new anti-religion movie? Is it just me or is anyone else out there repulsed by the mere sight of him and feels the uncontrollable urge to just smash his face!

Bill Ayers- Can someone tell me why this guy is not in prison? Instead he is lauded as an intellectual and esteemed member of Chicago-Illinois University so that he can continue to mold the minds of college students into the same far-left radical nuts like him. This may be a stretch but how is this type of training any different than the Al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan? You know when you look closer, this may be more dangerous since these people are already imbedded in our country and can eat at our principles from within…kind of like a cancer!

Obama- I don’t have a problem with him being of African-American decent, like I don’t have a problem with women leading nations. History has shown that many women have been very successful leading nations. My “rub” is that Obama’s views and doctrine are a breath away from the “socialist handbook”. Despite his lack of “true” experience and the fact that during his brief term in the US Senate he really hasn’t done anything of tangible measure, I really question his judgment and accountability when it comes to his associations with the likes of Bill Ayers & Jeremiah Wright. If he claims to be so mainstream and in touch with the ordinary American public, I would like to ask all of you to look at the views of the 2 people mentioned who he so closely aligns himself with, (until it became un-popular to do so), and say do these people share the views of anybody I know? I don’t think so. So, does that mean that we are out of touch with the overall beliefs of mainstream America? Obama is a bright and articulate guy who is extremely likable and can convey a message. Unfortunately his message is pretty hollow and nothing new from the typical liberal mantra (Dems for the poor- Reps- for the big business). You know if these guys are so against big business then why have so many of them profited from it?

Getting back to Obama’s ability to deliver a speech. He’s pretty good, but the last time I looked good speeches didn’t translate into accountable actions that will benefit this nation. I’m not completely sure that McCain is the answer either, but I sure hope that the majority of the people can look beyond the good speeches and hollow promises to start holding these politicians accountable. Unfortunately, my fear is that most of the people won’t take the time to educate themselves and make an uninformed decision based on what they perceive is a great looking package…have you ever opened a present that was wrapped in pretty paper with bows and told yourself that something so nice on the outside must have something great on the inside only to find out it wasn’t so? Look at all the bows Obama is wearing!

AIG- It has just come to light that after the US government (you and me) bailed out AIG to the tune of $85billion to keep them out of bankruptcy; these yahoos went on a “junket trip” to a California spa and spent a few hundred thousand dollars! When was the last time you were at a spa and could spend that much when you couldn’t pay your bills? These guys should go to jail…


Debate Hosts- Not sure that the choices thus far of debate moderators have been un-biased. It appears to me that they all have been from the main-stream liberal media and have had the latitude to sway some issues to their liking. I will say that Gwen Ifill did a good job on the VP debate although she is writing a book on Obama that she didn’t disclose prior to the debate. I was concerned with Tom Brokaw’s performance last night. The fact that he hand-selected the line of questioning and seemed to interject his own personal points I feel favored Obama. In a town hall setting, there was much more that they could have done to make the line of questioning more broad-based and personal so that we could really see the candidates. Why can’t we see a Brit Hume or Bill O’Reilly moderate one of these things? Do ya think it would raise a little uproar on the Libs side? Either way, I’m not really sure McCain did what he needed to. Maybe it’s his delivery but I felt that he came off as desperate while Obama was his usual cool self, even though what he says is BS!

Obama’s appeal- The question I have been asking myself is what are the real reasons of Obama’s appeal? Is Obama so popular because of himself or has he benefited mainly from the left’s hatred of George Bush? Like I mentioned earlier, he is a likable guy and a good orator, but are these loons who support him so blinded by their rage and dislike of everything Bush that they will turn to anything whether it’s good or not without really looking under the hood.

(Remember that nicely wrapped package?)

Powerful quotation from Thomas Jefferson

You know Thomas Jefferson was pretty smart guy...He once said....

"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation.

You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."


~~~ Thomas Jefferson ~~~

Ode to 2008…

Ode to 2008…

So now we’ve come to the end of ‘08
And I can honestly say it wasn’t that great
With war still raging on foreign fronts
And our congress jockeying with political stunts

But the American people they trotted on
Unaware that soon to come were other bombs
The houses they owned were soon too expensive
With interest rates & payments becoming increasingly intensive

The builders kept building but no one would buy
And soon the banks said the money went dry
So to the wayside they went one by one
Until it reached the point of virtually none

But still we moved on with most of us not knowing
That the real monster was still growing
We watched our money begin to shrink
And started to realize, hey something stinks

First it was the gas close to $5.00 we paid
Waiting in lines we hoped and prayed
Oh please don’t run out before I get my fill
Because I know I need it more than Country Club Jill
So at 3am we pumped when ever we could
Paying a crazy price but still feeling good

And for 2 weeks in July we put our worries aside
Watching from Beijing how sporting worlds collide
With Michael Phelps the records did fall
To our amazement 8 in all

And still moving on through the summer & fall
We turned our attention to a political call
The campaign for president was taking center stage
Filled with corruption, lies, passion & rage
The Libs made up stories the Republicans too
And we all wondered which were false & which were true
Obama was mesmerizing & Palin was cute
McCain & Biden dull… but who knew
So with Fox News playing 24/7
Our emotions ran the gamut from hell to heaven

And when in November when it was all done
It saddened me to think that the other team won
So now we can wait to see what the brother will do
And only hope that he can get it straight & pull us through

With bailouts, scams & CEO thieves
I think its time for everyone to roll up their sleeves
To put some common sense back into our lives
And realize that only we can help ourselves thrive
They blamed Bush and his policies for all of this mess
But the truth is it’s the congress that needs to confess

So to 2009 we all go
And a lot of us with little to show
Some looking for work others just trying to recoup
But listen up good because here is the scope
Stay focused on your target
Because this too shall pass
Even though at times it’s a real pain in the ass

So to keep marching on is what we all do
Because as Americans that is our only truth…

God Bless America

Washington and Wall street "fatcats"

The truth of all this is that the Washington and Wall street "fatcats" are to blame on both sides of the aisle. This has been coming since the Clinton years when we were so-called prospering and started to steam roll post 9/11 when the Bush administration was forced to spend so much to defend our freedom. How do you bankrupt a company like Lehman bros. and walk away with $45mm? (Good gig if you can get it!)

Frankly I was a bit annoyed this week (more than usual), to hear all of the liberal "experts" quickly and decisively point their crooked fingers at the Bush administration for all of this mess. What they seem to forget is that for the last 2 1/2 years the Dems have controlled the senate and congress and have done nothing to put check points in place to head off this disaster. Instead they spent the majority of their time fighting every move and counter move from Bush on issues that hurt and not help the "little" people they profess to care about. They spent more time making sure that terrorists at Gitmo had proper legal counsel & their rights were not violated. Rights---what rights? Even if they had any, the minute they picked up a weapon and pointed it at this country they lost them all. Or to make sure that illegal aliens were protected on mine and your dime!

The bottom-line is that for years the liberal mantra has been that they are for the working class and not big business like the Republicans. What have they really done for the working people? It is the biggest scam ever. They are all blinded by the mantra and can't really see the facts that the liberals have done nothing for them. It's the best sales-job (snow-job) in history. Especially with Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reed leading the charge!

Now under the Obama doctrine he is going to fix it all. This is the same person who is quick to condemn everyone else but also had plenty of opportunity as a member of the senate to bring about the so-called change he has promoted so loudly as the pillars of his platform but like all of his hot-aired friends did nothing. What change?

Such is the way of the liberal philosophy; take no accountability of anything unless it appears to be good, then say you invented it! Several years ago I was told a line that I feel sums up the entire liberal platform. I wish I had originally said it but I can't take credit for it.

But while speaking with a colleague about sports and politics one day he framed the entire liberal movement as follows: "If life were a baseball game, the liberals fell asleep...woke up on 3rd base and really thought that they hit a triple". Think about it.

The Country that was!

The Country that was!
11-3-2008

On the eve of the biggest political event of our adult lifetime, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a little worried. I’m worried that there are far too many un-informed people out there who will cast their vote on emotion and not facts. Worried that they didn’t take the time to really grasp what is at stake and how their lives will be affected in a negative way by making the wrong choice. I’m worried that either way the vote turns out; there will be issues to deal with in our day to day lives the likes of which our generation has not had to deal with.

I believe that the American people are a strong and resilient group that in time will deal with adversity and find ways to prosper. But in the short run, I don’t think that we deal with adversity as well as we should given the fact that for the most part the majority of us have not had to!

If the mini-gas crisis we just had is any indication then I think we failed. I know we all have issues with kids and money and other things that life throws at us but in reality those issues pale in comparison to other cultures that have to deal with gas issues and food issues and clean water and housing each and every day. Or closer to home those poor folks on the Texas coast who lost everything and still are living without.

You know it’s been said before how fortunate we are in America and how we take so much for granted for what we have access to on demand in every aspect of our lives. It’s only until those things are taken away or we have to go through more paces to get them that we realize the inconvenience and yet we still complain!


I am fortunate to still have my 86 year old father who lived through and endured 2 of the largest socially-impactful events in US history. The great depression and World War II. He has shared with me the issues this country faced during those times but until recently, did I really grasp the magnitude of hardship and uncertainty the American people faced.

Many on the other side of my views (and you know who you are) clamor about how in 2000 the government had a surplus and now 8 years later we have a deficit double in size. They make it seem that the Bush administration just arbitrarily spent the money. What they fail to factor in are the effects of that fateful day in Sept. 2001 when our world as we knew it changed forever. The cost of war both financially and in man power. The cost of rebuilding 2 nations so that those citizens can experience some of what we are privileged to; Schools, hospitals, utilities, food & freedoms. And yet life here in America has gone on with very little interruption to these individuals lives.

I know we are all Americans and should come together for the greater good but it still galls me a little that for the last 8 years the other side couldn’t do that. In fact they spewed more hatred than can be humanly imaginable and now on the eve of a possible win for their “savior” we are being asked to stand behind him and give him a free-pass! Where was this mutual respect over the last 8 years? Love or hate George Bush, nobody deserves the BS he has endured as a person from the leftist wackos. These people have absolutely no respect for anything or anybody who doesn’t share their views.

Somehow getting behind an Obama administration will be like Lemmings to the ocean!

The "Historic Event"

The "Historic Event"

As I sit in anticipation of tomorrow’s “historic event”, (I wish I had a dollar for every time I heard that in the last month ½), I am worried that I may not have gotten the correct incense & myrrh to lie at the messiah’s feet during his “IN-CORONATION”.

The love-fest for this man is scary and “cult-like”. From the media to the celebrities to the “Jones-Town” masses I have never seen such a phenomenon of blind faith and admiration with so little substance to base it on. And I also can’t understand the opposite phenomenon of rabid Bush haters that we have seen over the last 8 years. This once again reared its ugly head for me today. As I scuttled about from one end of the city to other in my attempts to earn a living, I had the opportunity to ride behind a $40,000 Lexus SUV that bore the sticker “WOMEN FOR OBAMA”. Now this in itself was not new or unique to me as I have seen the tee-shirts with “Mama for Obama”, and the beanie hats with similar banter, but this one was unique because of the efforts its owner put forth to convey their message.

This one had the “W” crossed through only to leave the remaining letters which spelled “OMEN”. Now as I repressed my immediate thoughts of running them into on-coming traffic so that they could die a fiery death for their stupidity and disrespectful deed I simply felt sorry for them that their hatred for a man that has kept their sorry asses safe for the last 7 years and afforded them the luxury of the $40m Lexus! I then studied the sticker further and realized that the remaining word of “OMEN” reminded me of a previous writing of mine where I compared the whole Obama thing to the horror movies of the 70’s most closely Damien. (For those unfamiliar with the movie, it is the 3rd chapter of the “Omen” series where Damien is the son of the devil and is put in line for the presidency of the United States). Do you see where I’m going with this?

Anyway, tomorrow’s event is unbelievable. How is this any different than any other inauguration? Aren’t they all “historic” events as we begin an era of new leadership for our country? Now is it the minority thing or the socialist thing that makes it so historic? I don’t remember any uttering of historic events when Clarence Thomas became the first black man selected to the Supreme Court. In fact, what I do remember is how the Libs tried everything they could to discredit him as a black man because his views differed from theirs!

One bright spot for me this week was having the honor to listening to “W’s” last address. Agree or disagree with all he has done the one thing you can’t argue is that the man is a class-act. From the way he treated the Obama’s on their visit to the White House to how he has handled the entire transition of power is head and shoulders above how the Clinton’s handled it 8 years ago. In fact, I think that all of the White House furniture is still intact! My only disappointment with his final address it that he just didn’t drop-trough right there to really show them the “W”! You know I’m not sure anybody would have faulted him if he did seeing all of crap this man has taken on a personal level during his term. After all the last president had extra-marital sex in the Oval Office so what’s a little mooning?

Getting back to the “IN-CORONATION”, I’m not sure that they can bring in enough of the “cool-aid” for the masses to drink to keep them in their psychotic stupor. The last I heard the Somali pirates had seized a tanker full of it and are asking for ransom. They stopped taking oil tankers since nobody really cared or paid the ransom. The cool-aid has much more street value anyway!

Do You see a Pattern Here?

Do You see a Pattern Here?

I’m no tax expert nor am I the smartest guy out there and I know that every time I bring something up or question the “goings-on’ around our new president; a lot of you say “Oh there he goes again with his slanted “right-wing” Obama hater views”. But this is more a matter of common sense and basic right and wrong. It just seems that everyone that Obama has “tagged’ to be in his cabinet has some sort of baggage involving unpaid taxes or illegal house help or perks that somehow have been forgotten to be disclosed until during the vetting process that cleared up their amnesia!

Now I know that this type of stuff goes on with all parties and I’m not saying that the republican leadership in Washington is any better. In fact, you have heard me on more than one occasion say that we should throw them all out and start over. But I guess my dismay comes from the point that even when these wrong-doings are discovered, everyone quickly turns the other way and makes it ok and accepted with excuses of “he didn’t know” or “she forgot” or “he didn’t have to know what the law was and oh by the way look how experienced he is”.

I wonder if those would hold up during anyone’s next IRS audit. I guess my point is that when did it become the “norm” for unethical and immoral practices to be ok? Especially with our elected officials?

Why are these people given a free pass just because we chose to put them in the positions they hold in spite of how smart or experienced they claim to be. And we wonder why our country is in a mess. I must have cut class that day when they taught that as long as you appear to be smart you can break the law! The funny thing is that these people who are being selected aren’t even honest with each other or the Obama team until well after the vetting process starts and only then “kicking and screaming” they divulge the truth. You would think that if that had any RESPECT for our new president or their party, they would remove themselves or not accept the appointment to save him some embarrassment.

Oh I forgot “Silly Rabbit Tricks are for Libs”!

CEO COMP

CEO COMP

I just read a blip on my MSN homepage about how Congress trumped Obama and wrote in additional sanctions on limiting CEO pay. I guess we are also putting limits on how successful people can become? Isn’t that what their really saying?

Now I’m not for all of the high-priced payouts that have occurred on Wall Street and with the financial sector as a whole especially when companies have under performed or gone completely belly up. It makes my blood boil to hear all of the disproportionate compensation packages failed CEO’s have garnered. I’ve spent most of my adult life in some sort of sales capacity and know first hand that if you didn’t “make your numbers” you didn’t get rewarded. And as painful as that can be in some cases, I’m ok with it because for the most part the burden of failure or lack of sufficient achievement somehow rested with me. (Oh I guess that means that I have to take accountability for my actions or lack thereof…how novel). The up side though was that the opportunity to get there was available! Having managed sales teams all over the country, I know for a fact that the “kiss of death” on performance is capping potential earnings.

When that occurs you get just what you asked for…people perform only up to the levels set forth and not one point higher. Its human nature you know. We all want to feel rewarded for our efforts even if they’re sometimes unattainable.

I can understand what I think they are trying to do and in some cases it does make sense. But it’s a thin line they tread. This country was built on people feeling that they had the opportunity to achieve and succeed with no restrictions on how far they could grow. Why now is it viewed as a crime to be successful? It’s almost like there is an all-out assault on anybody who’s achieved anything more than anybody else and they have to feel guilty for it. What they fail to realize is that these “successful” people are the ones who have created companies that create jobs that create livelihoods for the “vanishing middle-class”. I don’t remember seeing any job ads placed by Sammy the Crack-head for his burgeoning pharmaceutical supply company!

I guess the lesson here is that we need to start teaching our children that aspiring to achieve is the wrong path and that believe it or not even when the sky looks wide open they’ll soon bang their heads on the ceiling they can’t see! You see in this world controlled by big government, being better than anybody else is a crime.

Instead of teaching the down-trodden masses to be more self sufficient or attempt to better themselves by working their way out of their lowly situations, I guess it makes more sense to bring down the ones that have achieved so that everyone is equally suffering. Now what page of the handbook did that come from?

Anyway, as President of my own company, I am worried that I too might be targeted as having too much and fall under these limits of CEO compensation. I am fearful that my tennis shoe collection may be viewed as disproportionate compensation and therefore distributed to those only wearing flip-flops! They’re mostly size 10-1/2 so let me know your size so that I may be able to do my part as the “good soldier”!

big red train ...

On Thursday as I sat at my desk at the world-wide headquarters of Digital Vision CCTV, LLC, I was listening to President Obama give a speech from the Caterpillar home office. (Well it all depends on how you define listening?) It was more like BLAH-BLAH-BLAH-STIMULIS…BLAH-BLAH-BLAH-NANCY PELOSI…BLAH-BLAH-BLAH-BLAH… and then he made the next statement which all of a sudden perked my antenna.

During his talk of spending our money he said “it is the government’s responsibility to manage the American people’s level of knowledge”. Now let’s think about that, manage the American people’s level of knowledge. What does that really mean? It has a real Orwellian sound to it. Does it mean that he feels that the American people can no longer be free thinkers and that the gov’t. His gov’t would now filter and control what we are allowed to know; only dispensing information that they felt was appropriate? Depending on which news station you plug into, some of this is and has already happened with the left-wing media spinning their propaganda to sway the truth. What’s next the Vulcan mind-melt?

Now there is a full-court press to attack conservative talk-radio with some BS title of the “fair-doctrine”. In fact, during a recent Q&A session with Bill Clinton on a Latin radio show, he was asked if there should be more enforcement of media accountability by the government for the voices of opposition. (Translation-conservative talk-radio). Well who ever asked the question was clearly not familiar with the First Amendment (Right to free speech) and the fact that the constitution, our constitution prohibits such action! You know Karl Marx (remember him- the father of socialism), once wrote “The only true peace is in the elimination of all opposition to socialism”.

Don’t want to sound “chicken-littlish”, but a blind man could see the comparisons here. Forget the Vulcan mind-melt maybe we should go straight to “Invasion of the Body-Snatchers”? Or maybe we are all stuck in a lost episode of the “Twilight Zone” and when we wake up Ronald Reagan will be in the Oval office?

I’m not sayin…but I’m just sayin….keep an eye on those railroad tracks to see when that big red train is comin…wouldn’t want to be blindsided… (Anymore than we already are)….

And oh by the way, if you get a chance take a look at all of the wonderful programs our money will pay for in the supposed stimulus package…looks like the only stimulation here is when this is rammed up our butts!

Comrades,

Richard

Pelosi Just Couldn't Help Herself!

Pelosi Just Couldn't Help Herself!



Nancy Pelosi once again showed her true-colors as the ill-spirited, conniving nit-wit she really is. How could she standup time and time again and spew the lies she does in the name of positive actions that have the American people’s interests at heart. I’m not sure she even believes herself sometimes seeing that what she says is so far-fetched. I really think that they are making this stuff up as the go. They remind me of the character Jon Lovitz used to play On Saturday Night Live ("Tommy Flanagan, The Pathological Liar").

They can’t help themselves when they think they have an opportunity to take a swipe at Bush. No matter what is at stake! These are the same peace-loving, understanding and socially conscious individuals who want to save the American Dream from the hands of the evil “right-wing” idealists! As long as they get their way. But when then don’t they take hate and resentment to new lows. How can they continue to blatantly ignore the facts like they just don’t exist? It’s absolutely amazing…Where do you get glasses like that? I really want some…

And what’s with Barney Frank? He looks and sounds like a rodeo clown. (A gay rodeo clown!)

You know nothing would do my heart any better than to see “W” on his last day in office go to the House and really show them what “trickle-down” economics really means by standing up and pissing on all of them for 8 years to total BS….

Libs Crying Foul!

Libs crying Foul!

Oh my God, things have gotten heated at McCain rallies where citizens are calling out names vented towards the anointed-one! And the media is all over it…How dare they, who are these mean people? How dare they sling personal attacks?

Well, well, well, another case of Libs forgetting history. For 8 years they have done nothing else put just that, tearing at the character of George Bush in any form or fashion possible. I have never in my life seen such personal hatred for a person as these people (especially the media), have displayed toward the President of the United States. Whether you agree with his political policies or not at least have some respect for the office! These are the same people who claim that the Republicans are mean-spirited and they are the understanding, compassionate ones. Their whole existence is a freaking lie!

Again we can do what ever we want, when we want, how we want as long as it benefits us. Anything else is out of bounds. Please… these people make me sick; they squeal like baby pigs whose Mama just took her tit away!

I guess the Messiah will ride his donkey into town and we are supposed to lay palm branches at his feet…

And They Hate The Rich!

And they Hate the Rich!
9-26-2008

It’s amazing how all we are hearing are tales of the evil rich who need to be taxed more and give more to the “little people”. And how big corporations are the enemy who need to be brought down and their evil CEO’s hung in the streets by angry mobs who are entitled to some of their wealth just because they don’t have as much!

Well at least in a nut-shell that is what Mr. Obama states during his many speeches (well maybe without the CEO hanging part), but the rest is close. And in this political world we now live in it seems that “close” is good enough.

Now let’s see, we want to create more jobs for the middle-class and increase their wealth by taxing the evil corporations. Yet under Mr. Obama’s plan or at least how I understand it, the more I make the more I am penalized with taxes which forces me as a small business owner to not have as much incentive to fulfill my dream of making my company one of those huge evil corporations.

How is that if we tax corporations more that poor people get rich? Hey I’m no Alan Greenspan or Donald Radacike, but as I understand basic economics big corporations really don’t pay taxes. They just pass along any tax increases in their prices (that the little people eventually pay for), or they reduce their labor force by eliminating jobs or outsourcing them to countries we can’t understand on the phone, until they offset the costs of the additional taxes. So in the long run, we have less jobs and high prices on consumer goods and I guess this is going to make the poor rich?

You know the last time I looked; it was the big, middle and small corporations that were providing livelihoods to American families. It was their ability to compete in markets and develop and manufacture goods and services vital to the USA and all of its inhabitants. I don’t know of any jobs being handed out down at the methadone clinic or by people unable to run themselves let alone companies!

From the beginning of time there has always been the “Haves and Have-nots”. It’s just the way it is and nobody said it would be fair or easy. I’ve spent the majority of my life more on the “Have-nots” side but that doesn’t stop me from trying to cross the line.





See the list below:
5 Richest Members of Congress
Four out of the five richest members are Democrats
Posted September 26, 2008
1. Rep. Jane Harman (D, Calif.): $215.11 million
2. Sen. Herb Kohl (D, Wis.): $215.85 million
3. Sen. John Kerry (D, Mass.): $213.8 million
4. Rep. Darrell Issa (R, Calif.): $158.58 million
5. Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D, W.Va.): $79.4 million
Note the date and the number of Dems vs. Republicans. I wonder if any of these people got their fortunes from what might be called an “evil corporation” and I wonder how many benefited from “8 years of failed economic policies” from Bush that gave them tax breaks? I don’t recall hearing anything about how the refused to accept it and gave more to the little people. I will bet that each of these individuals listed paid less tax corporately and personally than you and I.

And you know what; I don’t really care as long as they ran ethical and successful companies that because of the tax breaks were able to provide livelihoods to American workers, goods and services at a reasonable price and continued to contribute to the positive growth of America. I have said from the beginning that the Libs are fighting the wrong enemy. They want to tear down the things in this country that have made it great and yet at the same time reap the benefits of the same. Someone please tell me how that is done? And also how has this “Marxist” approach worked for the “little people” of Cuba, Venezuela & China?