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Young Auctioneer Auctions off Guns The Wagoner County Oklahoma Sheriff's office held an auction of guns from its property room on 19 August, 2017.  For a segment of the gun auction, the auctioneer was a boy, about 12 years old. He does an excellent job.  You may have to scroll down the facebook page a bit to see the video. Link to facebook video: The firearms went for surprisingly low prices, compared to most gun auctions that I have seen. The Marlin .22 rifles went for about $100, and Browning patent Auto-5 type shotgun only brought $200. It is...

I watch Barack Obama speak - with his ever-present teleprompter to help him keep all his lies straight and prevent him from butchering the English language worse than 'Dubya' on his worst day - and I wonder: how does his head not explode trying to contain all the contradictions? Remember when Obama preached on his commitment to end pork spending and earmarks while back-to-back signing porkulus and an omnibus bill containing nearly 9,000 earmarks? Remember Obama preaching "fiscal responsibility" while at the very same time racking up more spending that ALL the past presidents in history, from George Washinton to...

Time for a puzzle. It’s a simple question: Which chief executive am I? And to make it really easy, it’s multiple choice, and there are only two options: A. Barack Obama B. Rick Wagoner How hard can this be? Here come the clues: I took over an organization that was bleeding red ink, and I expressed my determination to fundamentally change the organization. But my numbers for years on end only produced even greater red ink. I explained that the desired change could not come about overnight, but that we would get there through incremental progress.

WHY IS RICK WAGONER FIRED AND NANCY PELOSI STILL WORKING?April 1, 2009 Apparently, it's OK for Obama to fire the head of General Motors, but Bush can't fire his own U.S. attorneys. It is generally agreed that the Obama administration's demand that Rick Wagoner resign as chairman of General Motors is the price of GM's accepting government money. To promote the sales of GM vehicles, Obama says the government will stand by your GM car warranty. And all the taxpayers will get a lube job. The new GM owner's manual will come with a disclaimer: "Close enough for government work."...

Watching Obama is a psychiatrist's delight. Here we have a middle-aged man with no real-world accomplishments, but with truly astonishing grandiosity and a rock-star following that confirms his Jesus Christ Complex at every opportunity. Obama must have real, ingrained grandiosity, the kind that is anchored deep in the soul. He goes ‘way beyond the usual high-fallutin' rhetoric from presidential speech writers -- because he has just fired the President and CEO of General Motors, something no previous president, including FDR or JFK, would ever have imagined doing. That's not rhetoric, and it isn't just show. It's an political gamble unprecedented...

Under ousted chief executive Rick Wagoner, General Motors and its political action committee gave twice as much to Republicans as they did to Democrats. From 2000, when Wagoner took over the Detroit-based auto-maker, through the end of last year, GM and its PAC contributed $1.7 million to Republican candidates and committees, compared only $815,000 to Democratic ones, according to a POLITICO analysis of Federal Election Commission and Internal Revenue Service records.

In forcing the resignation of General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner, President Obama said he was seeking a fresh start, a "new vision and new direction," for the beleaguered automaker. But some critics are questioning why the president of the United Auto Workers union didn't meet the same fate, to signal a fresh start on the other side of the bargaining table. Even though UAW President Ron Gettelfinger argues that his workers have made significant concessions in recent years, critics say Gettelfinger should have gone the way of Wagoner -- whose ouster could be seen as the final judgment for GM's...

ncidentally, the government "overhaul" of GM is a useful shorthand for where we're heading: The first quid pro quo for the government giving you money (or "investing", as President Obama and David Brooks say) is that it gets to regulate your behavior. Not just who sits on your board or (see Sarkozy last week) where your factory has to be. When the government "pays" for your health care, it reserves the right to deny (as in parts of Britain) heart disease treatment for smokers or hip replacement for the obese. Why be surprised? When the state's "paying" for your health,...

Wall Street’s big March rally was officially on hold after the White House rejected turnaround plans from General Motors Corp. and Chrysler and gave investors a reality check on the economy. All the major indexes fell more than 3.5 percent, including the Dow Jones industrial average, which lost more than 280 points. Financial stocks weighed heavily on the market. Fears of an automaker bankruptcy have been looming over investors for months, and the latest developments, which included the removal of GM’s CEO Rick Wagoner, made the market even more uneasy not only about the industry, but the overall economy. However,...

If you think that no precedent was set by President Obama's firing of Rick Wagoner, think again. _______ Dear President Obama: One of the challenges we’ve confronted from the beginning of buying US debt is what to do with the state of the struggling US economy. In recent months, my government has been reviewing requests by the US government for additional government assistance from the Chinese government, as well as plans developed by the US government to restructure, to modernize, and to make itself more competitive. Our evaluation is

Watching the president of the United States effectively fire the chief executive of General Motors Corp. unnerved some other CEOs, who said the move crossed a troubling threshold of government involvement in the economy. But other executives said the government acted reasonably in removing Rick Wagoner. "We know they'll oust a CEO. We know they'll change the board. Will they dictate terms of the union contract? And do you have to call your congressman to get a car?" asked James E. Rogers, chief executive of Duke Energy Corp. Mr. Rogers said ousting Mr. Wagoner as GM's CEO raised questions about...

President Obama is casting his decision to oust Rick Wagoner as General Motors CEO as a break with the past for the U.S. auto industry. Obama, in his remarks on the administration's rejection of the latest restructuring plans submitted by GM and Chrysler, said that the U.S. cannot let the auto industry vanish, but also cannot continue to excuse poor decisions. Speaking in the Grand Foyer of the White House, Obama said he is confident that GM "can rise again," but only if it undergoes a "fundamental" restructuring. The president said Wagoner's departure is "an initial step" in the restructuring....

President Obama didn’t want any advice from Congress on the decision to ask GM CEO Rick Wagoner to resign, according to Carl Levin (D), Michigan’s senior senator. “He didn’t ask us about it, he informed us,” Levin told reporters in a conference call Monday afternoon. “The president said he’d already decided.” Levin said he and three other lawmakers were informed of the decision in a phone call Obama made from the Oval Office. Obama told the members of Congress that Wagoner needed to resign so that the administration could show the public it was making an effort at a fresh...

Obama has abused his power in a way that is UNPRECEDENTED in American History. He should be impeached for abuse of authority. Obama is not the Board of Directors of GM. The board of directors should stick a sharp stick in Obama's eye by REINSTATING Wagoner. Obama has NO AUTHORITY to ask for his resignation. The GM BOD should reinstate him immediately.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Street's big March rally was officially on hold Monday as concerns about the future of the auto and financial industries led investors to take a break from buying. Major market indicators fell at least 3 percent, including the Dow Jones industrial average, which lost fell 260 points. The White House rejected turnaround plans from General Motors Corp. and Chrysler on Monday, warning that more concessions were needed from unions and creditors before they could be approved. Fears of an automaker bankruptcy have been looming over investors for months, and the latest developments made the market...

Rick Wagoner will leave his post as CEO of bailed-out General Motors with a $20 million retirement package, the company's financial filings show. In this March 12, 2009 file picture, General Motors Chief Executive Officer Richard Wagoner listens... In this March 12, 2009 file picture, General Motors Chief Executive Officer Richard Wagoner listens as President Barack Obama, not pictured, speaks about the economy at Business Roundtable, an association of chief executive officers of leading U.S. companies, at a hotel in Washington. Although the Treasury Department has barred GM from paying severance to Wagoner or any other senior executive, Wagoner is...

The forced departure of GM CEO Rick Wagoner represents the new corporate reality in the bailout era. It's hard to argue against government intrusion of any kind when corporations become the recipients of massive sums from the Federal Treasury. The argument of those who assert that the federal government has no right or no business intervening in the operation of the company is unavailing and unpersuasive. When you go to the public trough, not once, but twice, you risk foregoing your corporate independence. Do those who will be outraged at Obama's action maintain that GM should have been allowed to...

Arizona Sen. John McCain posted on Twitter today that "calling for GM CEO to resign is unprecedented window dressing." "GM needs restructuring as part of pre-negotiated bankruptcy package," he added. The 2008 Republican presidential nominee is referring to the Sunday resignation of General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner, who was forced out by the White House in an effort to give the embattled auto company a "clean slate."

President Obama fired his first CEO last night -- forcing Rick Wagoner to step down as head of General Motors. Wagoner, who had been at the helm of the automaker for eight years, hit the road after the administration threatened to withhold bailout money from the company if he didn't. Just over a week ago, Wagoner -- who has been lampooned on "Saturday Night Live" for his role in the industry's collapse -- had vowed not to resign. "I plan to stay here until we get things well in shape and on track," he said on Mar. 19. The GM...

He’s going to have to work on the hair . . . But when it comes to big, splashy firings it looks like Pres. Obama has his Trump shtick down, very publicly handing GM CEO John Wagoner his walking papers. On Morning Joe just now, Richard Haas of the Council on Foreign Relations chillingly called the phenomenon in which presidents fire private-sector CEOs a “brave new world.”