The Porkulus Friday, Feb 20 2009 

Comarade Obama and Congress and Conservatism and Economics and Neo-Marxists and Socialism and Stupid People , , , , 1IDVET 17:36

Michelle Malkin has a good article on the porkulus bill:

Rebel Yell: Taxpayers Revolt Against Gimme-Mania

by Michelle Malkin

There’s something in the air. It’s the smell of roasted pork. President Obama heralded the signing of the trillion-dollar “stimulus” bill in Denver and promoted his massive mortgage entitlement expansion in Mesa, Ariz., at tightly controlled campaign events. But outside the Secret Service perimeters, a raucous grassroots rebellion against Beltway spending binges has caught fire. The new Boston Tea Party is here, baby, and it’s doused in barbecue sauce.

The first revolt took place on Presidents Day in Smurf-blue Seattle, where mom-blogger Keli Carender hastily organized a downtown demonstration to oppose what they called the “stimulus rip-off.” A motley band of nearly 100 protesters — moms and their kids, college students, libertarians, taxpayer groups, GOP activists — raised their voices and dined on pulled pork (donated by yours truly). They assailed both the substance of the overstuffed stimulus package and the short-circuited, nontransparent process by which it was passed.

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An Old Soldier Friday, Feb 20 2009 

Military 1IDVET 17:32

An old Soldier you should know. CSM Mellinger is the last “draftee” in the Army. This man has done more than most for the Army, and should be recognized by all as a national treasure.

It’s an older article. Go read about it:

America’s Last Draftee: “I’m a Relic”

America’s generals love to brag about their all-volunteer Army. That’s because they tend to overlook Jeffrey Mellinger. He donned his Army uniform for the first time on April 18, 1972, about the time the Nixon Administration was seeking “peace with honor” in Vietnam and The Godfather was opening on the silver screen. Nearly 37 years later, he’s still wearing Army green. Mellinger is, by all accounts, the last active-duty draftee serving in the U.S. Army.

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Sidebar:

I think I need to turn a corner in my blog. I need to stop cussing in my writing. It doesn’t really help. So, I shall endeavor to discontinue its use hence forth.

 

Who am I? Thursday, Feb 19 2009 

Comarade Obama and Politics , 1IDVET 18:13

Don’t know whom to credit for this, if you know, let me know.

Who am I?

I was raised in one country but my father was born in another. I was not his only child. He fathered several children with a number of women.

I became very close to my mother because my father showed little interest in me. Then my mother died at an early age from cancer. Later in life, questions arose over my real name. My birth records were sketchy and no one was able to produce a reliable birth certificate.

I grew up practicing one faith, but converted to Christianity because this was widely accepted in my country. But I practiced non-traditional beliefs and did not follow mainstream Christianity.

I worked and lived among lower-class people as a young adult before I decided it was time to get serious about my life and I embarked on a new career.

I wrote a book about my struggles growing up. It was clear to those who read my memoirs that I had difficulties accepting that my father abandoned me as a child.

I became active in local politics when I was in my 30′s and then burst onto the scene as a candidate for national office when I was in my 40′s. I had a virtually non-existent resume, very little work history, and no experience in leading a single organization. Yet I was a powerful speaker who managed to draw incredibly large crowds during my public appearances.

At first, my political campaign focused on my country’s foreign policy. I was critical of my country in the last war. But what launched my rise to national prominence were my views on the country’s economy. I had a plan on how we could do better. I knew which group was responsible for getting us into this mess.

Mine was a people’s campaign. I was the surprise candidate because I emerged from outside the traditional path of politics and was able to gain widespread popular support. I offered the people the hope that together we could change our country and the world.

I spoke on behalf of the downtrodden including persecuted minorities such as Jews, but my actual views were not widely known until after I became my nation’s leader. However; anyone could have easily learned what I really believed if they had simply read my writings and examined those people I associated with. But they did not. Then I became the most powerful man in the world. And then the world learned the truth.

Who am I?

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I am Hitler.

And you thought I was talking about Obama. Tsk, tsk.

 

The Hypocrisy of the Left Never Ceases to Amaze Thursday, Feb 19 2009 

Politics , , , , , 1IDVET 18:08

Back to the Bush is Hitler vs Obama is Hitler theory that the left feels they are now hurt because they are getting a dose of their own medicine.

Here’s a fine example of the hypocrisy involved:

OKC officer pulls man over for anti-Obama sign on vehicle

By Bridget Nash, Staff Writer

An Oklahoma City police officer wrongly pulled over a man last week and confiscated an anti-President Barack Obama sign the man had on his vehicle.

The officer misinterpreted the sign as threatening, said Capt. Steve McCool, of the Oklahoma City Police Department, and took the sign, which read “Abort Obama, not the unborn.”

Chip Harrison said he was driving to work when a police car followed him for several miles and then signaled for him to pull over.

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And a reminder of the left’s lunatic bullshit that went unchecked by the Secret Service, or resulted in anyone being pulled over for a bumper sticker, or sign in their window:

http://www.cafepress.com/timefordrinking.14389130

And another:

http://bumperstickers.cafepress.com/item/abort-bush-sticker-oval/11381789

Sooo, we’re just supposed to all be nice now that a communist douche nozzle is in charge? Don’t think it’s going to happen.

 

Ethics? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Ethics! Thursday, Feb 19 2009 

Comarade Obama and Congress and Politics , , , 1IDVET 18:02

Ethics? What ethics? In my opinion, every congress critter should be investigated for ethics. I think they are all crooks. Both parties. They should all be fired, tried, or both. Clean out both Houses of Congress and start over. Term limits would also prevent a lot of this bullshit. Career politicians are career crooks that have figured out how to suck the treasury dry, right under our noses.

Fire all them douche bags.

Analysis: Democrats self-destructing over ethics

By LARRY MARGASAK

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration and the new Congress are quickly handing over to Republicans the same “culture of corruption” issue that Democrats used so effectively against the GOP before coming to power.

Freshman Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., is only the latest embarrassment.

Senate Democrats accepted Burris because they believed what he told them: He was clean. Burris now admits he tried to raise money for Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who authorities say sought to sell President Barack Obama’s former Senate seat.

“The story seems to be changing day by day,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Wednesday.

The political mess for the Democratic Party, however, isn’t Burris’ conduct alone; it’s the pattern that has developed so quickly over the past few months.

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More corruption:

Obama Administration Corruption And Chaos

By Christopher G. Adamo

Somehow, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-CA) has been able to keep a straight face while decrying the “culture of corruption” among Republicans. In retrospect, the nature of the infractions on which she based the accusation seem almost quaint in comparison to the unfathomable abuses of federal monies and power now occurring under a Democrat controlled Congress and Executive branch.

For starters, she was forced to misapply the term to what were, in reality, only scandals, such as the sordid e-mails and text messages of Congressman Mark Foley (R.-FL) to congressional pages, or the amorous toe-tapping, apparently intended to incite interest from the occupant of the next stall, by Senator Larry Craig (R.-ID) in a Minneapolis Airport restroom.

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Democrat Corruption On A Roll

A series of corruption scandals involving high-profile Democrats—several tied to the Obama Administration—in the last few months has steered the party into a deepening ethics sinkhole not long ago occupied by Republicans.

The “culture of corruption” title that Democrats appropriately crowned Republicans with before taking over Washington has come back to haunt the donkey party in a big way. In a very short period of time, Democrats have gained substantial ground in earning back the disgraceful honor.

The latest Democratic scandal broke just a few days ago when former Illinois Comptroller Roland Burris contradicted his own sworn affidavit by admitting he tried to raise cash for the criminally indicted and impeached governor (Rod Blagojevich) who picked him to replace Obama in the Senate. Pointing out that Burris has no credibility, the state’s largest newspaper called for his resignation this week.

Burris is hardly Democrats’ only problem. His pal Blagojevich was arrested and charged in early December for operating a massive bribery scheme in which he sold the influence of his office, lucrative state jobs and contracts to the highest bidders. Federal prosecutors say he also tried to sell Obama’s vacated Senate seat.

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Obama Needs To Talk The Talk
By Dick Morris

It’s rare to criticize a politician for being all action and no talk, but that’s one of the big things that’s wrong with Obama’s battle against the economic crisis. One of the key variants in any stage of the economic cycle is what the president says is happening. If he talks down the economy, it drops. If he is bullish and optimistic, the markets are likely to listen. Particularly early in his term, when his credibility is high and the spotlight is shining on him, a concerted effort by Obama to inject optimism into his economic commentary could have a very positive effect.

Unfortunately, the president is so anxious to use the bad economy as an excuse to get every last little bit of government spending in the budget, he has pushed the markets down by a nonstop drumbeat of bad news and harsh predictions. When the president says that we may be entering a downturn from which there is no ready escape, investors, consumers, producers and businesspeople tend to listen and avoid any spending or risk. Obama has spent so much time warning of the disaster ahead that he is doing little from his bully pulpit to avert it.

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Porkulus Thursday, Feb 19 2009 

Axis of Idiots and Comarade Obama and Economics and Neo-Marxists and Politics , , , , 1IDVET 17:53

Maybe some of the porkulus bill won’t be accepted by some governors. I truly doubt it, but it would be in their best interest to turn down the parts that have strings attached, or force the state to match funds. I would.

GOP Governors Now Faced with Hot Potato

The stimulus bill has been signed into law. Every Republican in the U.S. House opposed it, and all but three (Specter, Snowe, and Collins) opposed it in the Senate. For the most part, Republicans stood united in opposing a bill that is clearly the biggest move toward socialism in the history of the country. Rather than cutting taxes and letting each American decide how to “stimulate” the economy, Obama and friends said, “Government knows best, and here’s how we’re going to do it.”

So what happens next? What happens if you are a GOP governor? You stand to receive billions from the bill, yet you philosophically oppose the entire plan. If you don’t believe in big government solutions, do you still accept big government funds? That is the question.

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Pennies from Heaven

By Bob Weir

We’ve all been inundated with opinions, from both sides of the political aisle, about the $780 billion Stimulus Bill. President Obama signed the huge package into law this week, promising that it will turn the ailing economy around. Republicans in the House voted against the bill, but didn’t have enough clout to keep it from being passed and sent to the Senate. Three Senate Republicans voted for it, providing just enough votes to keep it from being filibustered.

Okay, now that the political process has ushered the bill into law, it remains to be seen if it will in fact revitalize the economy and ease frozen credit markets. In order to get this legislation passed, Obama and his colleagues in the House and Senate, constantly predicted that Armageddon was our fate unless the government opened up the Treasury and sprinkled cash across the land, which will kick start the economy.

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‘A Paranoid Nation’: Daily Bad News

I promise this is the last time I will refer to my new book, “Paranoid Nation.” But not in my wildest dreams could there have been a more fitting title or theme to reflect the onslaught of insanity we’re bombarded with these days in media. Policy overkill is ruling the times.

For starters, look at the banks. They got hoards of bailout money, but lending hasn’t increased. And now that there are restrictions on the use of the funds and the salaries of their executives, many of those same institutions say they won’t need a second round of bailout money after all!

Plus, the markets were spooked by the dearth of details provided by the new Treasury secretary on how that second round of aid to financial institutions would work.

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Kalifornia Screamin’ Wednesday, Feb 18 2009 

Axis of Idiots and Conservatism and Economics and Education and Illegal Immigration and Politics and Socialism , , , , 1IDVET 16:43

California spends $6,245,000,000 annually on illegal aliens that don’t put one dime towards this support. The support comes in the form of health care, education, incarceration, and welfare. Hey! I know how California can save six billion dollars! Stop supporting illegal immigration! Hell, that alone would solve most of California’s budget problems. That and you could cut taxes for corporations and small businesses which would provide jobs. Cut some of the government bureaucracy, say 10% per annum for the next four years, and I think we’d have a winning budget. I would also cut the education boondoggle by 10% per annum as well. They are overpaid for the services that they provide. In fact, if you cut the education bureaucracy by that amount each year, you might actually get somewhere with educating children in this state. Education before administration. TM That should be the motto.

At least one county is starting on the right track:

Sacramento Cuts Free Health Care For Illegal Immigrants

Struggling with a $55 million budget deficit, a northern California county became the state’s first to eliminate free non-urgent health care for illegal immigrants and a civil rights group was quick to label the move unconstitutional.

Like many counties throughout California, Sacramento’s public clinics offer illegal aliens free medical care at an annual cost of millions of dollars. Sacramento County had five such clinics but two were closed as a result of the budget crunch and the remaining three will check for the immigration status of all patients.

The move, approved 3-2 by the Board of Supervisors, is expected to save the ailing county about $2.4 million dollars. With a population of around 1.4 million, Sacramento County is California’s prime agricultural region which for years has benefited from the cheap labor of illegal immigrants and lax enforcement of immigration laws.

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Obama’s Secret Administration Wednesday, Feb 18 2009 

Comarade Obama and Neo-Marxists and Politics and Socialism , , , , , 1IDVET 16:40

Obama’s secret administration. Transparency my ass. Whatever he can do to keep the masses in the dark about is overt socialist/green agenda, he will. America will wake up one day and ask WTF?

Funny how you libs howled at Bush and Co. yet not a peep from you fuckers now.

So much for transparency

Remember Barack Obama’s pledge to make this the Most Transparent Administration Evah?  Josh Gerstein at Politico notices a few items that seem to have slipped by the national media, thanks to a lack of openness on the part of Obama’s communications team.  Obama issued three executive orders and a handful of regulations without ever announcing them:

In his first weeks in office, President Barack Obama shut down his predecessor’s system for reviewing regulations, realigned and expanded two key White House policymaking bodies and extended economic sanctions against parties to the conflict in the African nation of Cote D’Ivoire.

Despite the intense scrutiny a president gets just after the inauguration, Obama managed to take all these actions with nary a mention from the White House press corps.

The moves escaped notice because they were never announced by the White House Press Office and were never placed on the White House web site.

They came to light only because the official paperwork was transmitted to the Federal Register, a dense daily compendium of regulatory actions and other formal notices prepared by the National Archives. They were published there several days after the fact.

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The GOP and Me Wednesday, Feb 18 2009 

Conservatism and Politics and Republicans , , , , , 1IDVET 16:37

I ain’t happy with the GOP either. You knuckleheads are more left than I care to see. The Republican Party is in sore need of fixing. The message isn’t there, the deeds aren’t there, the main principles that the Republican Party has been known for since Lincoln, aren’t there.

Less government, more freedom, and free market principles.Moderate Republicans need not apply.

Less government. More Freedom. Yeah, I know I am Libertarian at heart, but I gotta hang my hat somewhere.

You want my support? Earn it.

Hey, GOP… Where’s the plan?

After two successive election blowouts, the Grand Old Party — my party — sits in the minority. Republicans have held meetings and conference calls trying to figure out what went wrong and where to go from here. Hint… after such election beatings, there’s pretty much nowhere to go but up. However, how do we get there?

What I’ve been seeing so far has not filled me with confidence that the Republican Party has 1) gotten the message of the recent election losses, and 2) understands what to do next. Yes, there are some good signs that conservatives still have principles, such as when every Republican member of the U.S. House stood united against the outrageous, budget-busting, massive government intervention known as the stimulus bill. But, there has to be more to Republican recovery than just opposition. Americans want action. So… what’s the plan?

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More Econ 101 Wednesday, Feb 18 2009 

Axis of Idiots and Comarade Obama and Congress and Economics and Media and Neo-Marxists and Politics and Socialism and Stupid People , , 1IDVET 16:32

Since by all appearances, Congress has not taken Economics 101, I must keep revisiting this issue. It’s your fault, you voted for these morons.

A little Econ 101 from the good professor of economics himself:

Economic Miracle

by Walter E. Williams

The idea that even the brightest person or group of bright people, much less the U.S. Congress, can wisely manage an economy has to be the height of arrogance and conceit. Why? It is impossible for anyone to possess the knowledge that would be necessary for such an undertaking. At the risk of boring you, let’s go through a small example that proves such knowledge is impossible.

Imagine you are trying to understand a system consisting of six elements. That means there would be 30, or n(n-1), possible relationships between these elements. Now suppose each element can be characterized by being either on or off. That means the number of possible relationships among those elements grows to the number 2 raised to the 30th power; that’s well over a billion possible relationships among those six elements.

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And from his good friend the other professor of economics:

Upside Down Economics

by Thomas Sowell

From television specials to newspaper editorials, the media are pushing the idea that current economic problems were caused by the market and that only the government can rescue us.

What was lacking in the housing market, they say, was government regulation of the market’s “greed.” That makes great moral melodrama, but it turns the facts upside down.

It was precisely government intervention which turned a thriving industry into a basket case.

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