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  Déjà Vu for Obama Too:The H1N1 FiascoDecember 9, 2009 When I was growing up, my mother’s most repeated words of advice were: “Watch out, those words may come back to bite you” and “If you can’t fix it, then just leave it alone”. Mom was just warning me about the pitfalls of ignorant babble and clueless meddling. And so I present to you Obama aka “the clueless wrecking ball”. Or to rekindle John Kerry’s 2004 invectives, “If you can't get flu vaccines to Americans, how are you going to protect them against bioterrorism?”...“If you can't get flu vaccines to Americans, what kind of health...

Doddling With Your Credit:The Senator from Connecticut and the CARD Act of 2009 November 25, 2009 The most pestilential quality of Liberals is their ability to: (1) do something in their self-interest; (2) tell you that it is in your self-interest; (3) make the situation galactically worse with their meddling and (4) have the unmitigated gall to tell you that their meddling made it better. And such is the case of Democrat Senator Dodd; his Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure (CARD) Act of 2009 and your misery. First, let’s deal with the misery. I, like almost all Americans with a credit card, received a...

H1N1 and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcast of Liars: It’s Always Been a Matter of TrustOctober 28, 2009 From the Bizarro World come daily panic updates about the escalating H1N1 “Swine Flu” pandemic.   Half of the sane people in the country are becoming anxious over escalating pandemic risks and the other half of the sane population believes that this so-called pandemic is another Obamian subterfuge.  The crazy people are sitting it out in Washington DC. Nobody can be certain where the truth lies and {{ruffles & flourishes}}...it’s all Obama’s fault. Obama (probably) didn’t create the H1N1 virus.  And he (probably) would want to insulate...

Am I crazy or has CNN filtered out all audio of the MarchOn DC crowd so that it appears that speakers are talking to themselves???  Here is the link to what I was watching on CNN: CNN Live Stream

I came across this picture of MO quite by accident. It's on some "spiritual advisors" Myspace page which can be found HERE . Do you think it's real? I've never seen it in the MSM...or am I that out of touch? Am I crazy or is crazy the norm?

 Affirmative Action For The Motor City December 18, 2008 It was bad enough when only Congress held an economic gun to the American taxpayer’s head.  Hell, at least they had the Constitutional power of taxation as an ad infinitum bailout for their ineptitude and greed.  But when Wall Street jumped into the queue for public charity it really started to feel like a mugging.   These coddled “masters of the universe” where holding a gun to the country’s economic head.  These greedy bastards who paid our elected officials to turn a deregulatory blind-eye for over a decade while they squandered shareholder and...

The Economy Ain’t Good...But It’s Not That BadNovember 20, 2008 Rupert Murdoch must have been referring to the twits at Reuters when he commented this week that, “editors and reporters think their readers are too stupid to think for themselves.” Within a few hours on November 13, Reuters posted two sensationally irresponsible and disingenuous headlines: “Jobless claims reach 7-year high” and “Jobless claims hit 25-year high”. Probably hoping for government takeovers of their miserably failed businesses, the MSM is on a mission to convince the American public that the present economy is “the worst” since the Great Depression if not “the worst ever”....

    Coulterism — It Doesn’t Take a PhD August 20, 2008   Two PhD’s from Swansea University in Wales (UK) are sharpening their executioner’s axe in a jumbled stratagem to behead the greatest threat to their secular world of “radical multi-dimensional pluralism”, aka Ann Coulter. It’s been rumored that professors Samuel A. Chambers and Alan Finlayson are planning a course (counter-insurgency?) in “Coulterism” at Johns Hopkins University.  The course announcements are linked to a paper, “Ann Coulter and the Problem of Pluralism: From Values to Politics” that Chambers and Finlayson presented at the 2007 annual meeting of the...

The Crude Truth July 17, 2008 Most politicians, and all liberal politicians, are a disgrace to the concepts of good governance.  James Madison warned us about this in Federalist No. 10 when he cautioned that, “Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.” Today, in lieu of “enlightened statesmen”, American governance is dominated by Mini-Me Machiavellis adept at obtaining and retaining power for the sole purpose of...obtaining and retaining power. Good governance, or shepherding the will and best interests of the citizenry, has nothing to do with it. Immediately after John McCain admitted the previous error of his ways and voiced support for...

  New Emperor...Same Old Clothes July 3, 2008 It’s patently absurd how liberals run around chanting “change we can believe in” when, in fact, their new would-be Emperor Obama is the same-old disingenuousness in a new suit. Obama’s version of “change” began by greasing his millionaire buddies. A quick trip to the Obama campaign website reveals that Barack just can’t wait to start bestowing his largesse on “workers’, “working families” and the “middle class”. In fact, he’s so excited about playing political “trick or treat” that he confidently promises to immediately “eliminate income taxes for 10 million Americans” and “provide 150 million workers the tax...

   Cleaning Out The Carpetbaggers June 19, 2008 Nothing keeps a writer on his game like a good reader. In response to a recent article of mine I received an email from Bill, a reader, who asked, “Tell me what can be done, aside from outright militant revolution (as recommended by some of our forefathers) by the ones that truly love this country. Talk is cheap. Please advise.” In general, Bill was asking what a lone and caring citizen can do to alter this great nation’s present course into the loony bin and keep America as a “shining city upon a hill”. Although...

   Who’s Pumping It Up? June 12, 2008 If the U.S. Congress treated the taxpayer with the same largesse as the “Big Five” oil companies do...everybody would go out and lease a new SUV. But, as the average price of regular gasoline drove through the $4 per gallon level, the Congress of this country embarked on more certain-to-fail energy schemes...and did so with gaseous verbosity. The Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate’s latest confiscatory socialist scheme is a windfall profits tax “against” U.S. oil companies. The Democrats want to levy a 25 percent tax on oil company profits exceeding what they would determine to be "reasonable". The...

   Another Step In The Wrong Direction May 29, 2008 Whenever the government intervenes to solve a free market problem the outcome is always the same...ten new problems are created and the original problem remains unsolved. And Democrat Senator Christopher Dodd’s “Federal Housing Finance Regulatory Reform Act of 2008” is no exception. According to Dodd, this legislation, “marks tremendous progress in my ongoing effort to help stabilize our markets and provide relief to hundreds of thousands of Americans who, due to no fault of their own, are struggling to keep their homes.” “Due to no fault of their own”? What is he talking about? I...

   Are You Kidding Me? May 22, 2008  Talk about pots and kettles! Can you imagine receiving a solicitation letter from RNC (Republican National Committee) treasurer Tim Morgan asking if you’ve “deserted our Party”? Who should be asking whom about desertion? The very first sentence of the letter says it all, “I don’t want to believe you’ve abandoned the Republican Party, but I have to ask...Have you given up?”.Well...yes and no. Have I given up on the current Republican leadership and its goals (euphemism)?  Yes. Have I given up on my Conservative values (what the Republican Party was supposed to stand for)?  Never. The answer to...

   America’s Parents ― Dogs In An Alley May 1, 2008 I can remember that, as a child, my parents always warned me that if I acted badly, people would blame them for being bad parents. As an adult, I now understand the wisdom of their admonishments. And speaking of bad parents.... It’s always been puzzling to me how many Americans breed children with less concern than that which we give to the purchase of a new car. And nothing has crystallized this thought more than the recent video-taped beating of Florida teenager Victoria Lindsay by a collective group of eight teenage peers. Six teenage...

     Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes April 24, 2008 On May 20, 2006, the Democrats called for “change”. The Washington Post wrote that the Democrats, “Seeking to gain advantage on a potent election-year issue...are promoting ambitious ideas to lower gasoline prices.” At a kickoff event in Cleveland, Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said that, “Wherever you live, your gas prices are out of control, and you want to hold someone accountable for it.” And he did... Standing in front of a wind turbine, Reid cajoled that, “We have to change Congress.  If you want change – change Congress.”   Reid even said that the way to stop...

     The Whores of Babble-On April 17, 2008 Right before your eyes, you get to see the Book of Revelations played-out on the political stage. And you thought that this would be a boring campaign season.... It wasn’t until the candidate of “change”, Barack Obama, decided to rub elbows with multi-billionaire Gordon Getty and hundreds of other “regular folks” at a $2300 per head fundraiser that I realized we may be in the midst of the Anti-Christ (these billionaire-millionaire fundraisers occur as Michelle Obama reminds people that, “When you’re given the gift of advocacy, you don’t sell it to the highest...

     Connecticut Is For Lovers – And Murderers April 10, 2008 In a game of one-upmanship, Connecticut has decided that it is a state for both lovers and murderers.  But, please, hate crimes need not apply. Connecticut and its Democrat controlled Judiciary Committee, which “has been at the helm for 22 years and...has written all the laws governing crime and punishment” never saw a hate crime bill they didn’t love. The Democrats have seen to it that if someone even “intends to intimidate or harass a person...because of their actual or perceived race, religion, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity...

     Who Are We? ― I Would Expect We Are Americans April 3, 2008 Not incredibly, in its recent article, Who Are We? New Dialogue on Mixed Race, the New York Times is now pandering to tribalism. Talk about reaping what you sow.... It’s little wonder why the stock price of the NYT has collapsed by 50% over the last 5 years while the value of the Dow Jones Industrial Average has increased by 50% in the same period. The NYT can’t even understand what being an American really means. When the Times ponders something as idiotic as, “Being accepted. Proving loyalty. (and)...