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Blood for Votes (and other musings)
Obama claims that he doesn’t want to nationalize U.S. businesses, but as I see it, Obama has been in office a little over 4 months and he has turned our legal system upside down and stole the property that belongs to the “secured” and senior lenders to GM and Chrysler in order to essentially “give” those companies to the unions, his largest political financial supporters which are junior and unsecured. Nice payback payoff ……what is it they say; “elections have consequences.” This is more adept than the Russian Revolution of 1917. Remember the misery this brought Russia and others for nearly a century following that little experiment?
To the surprise of the executives in the car industry and dealers, he has dictated the closing of many car dealers nationally without a mechanism to insure that the survivors are not Political Favorites of Obama while many “successful and profitable” dealers are being closed outside of the parameters set up by the auto industry for continued existence. The only significant justification that you can deduce from this is that they are (as most in fact were) Republican supporters. He fired the head of GM and replaced him with an “Obama friendly” retired communications executive, Edward E. Whitacre Jr., who claimed on the day of the announcement that he “doesn’t know anything about cars.” Go figure.
Now he is running the banks and deciding how much their executives can earn. He has even hired a salary “czar” to establish their pay grade. He likes this idea so much that he is looking into expanding this to other industries. Steve Ballmer, CEO and co-founder with Bill Gates of Microsoft has been a supporter of Obama but stated that they will move Microsoft “offshore” if Obama continues down this punitive path of taxes and making companies non-competitive in foreign markets. While attacking US corporations that do business overseas and receive tax benefits for it and wealthy taxpayers not paying enough tax, he himself (according to his published personal taxes for 2008) almost exclusively invested those millions of book royalties U.S. Tax Exempt offshore companies and tax exempt bonds….check it out yourself.
We passed a $800 Billion pork laden program under the guise of “emergency stimulus” to save us from the “Bush economy” [see my link HERE on Obama and the “Community Reinvestment Act” that I posted this past October revealing the real cause of the financial meltdown] and used this urgency as the cover to violate his own campaign promise of posting legislation for 48 hours on the White House website so all could see its contents. He called it his “new transparency.” Instead he delivered the 1,000 page bill to the Republicans for first review at 11 PM with a final vote scheduled on it the following morning at 9 AM. Is this the transparency he promised? The only thing transparent is that we were played for fools.
The way we know that this bill has nothing to do with “emergency stimulus” (even as it was designed and written) is the fact that 2/3rds of it wouldn’t be spent until 2010 and 2011 with most of that being in 2011. But it couldn’t wait another 48 hours on the website for proper disclosure. After it was shot gunned through Congress, Obama took a vacation and didn’t even sign it till mid (the following) week. Heck, not even the rank and file Democrats had a chance to read it. But this has all turned out even worse than that because they have only spent 5% of it to date, but you probably recall that part of its sales pitch was that we had plenty of “shovel ready” projects ready to go to effect an immediate stimulus……….not so. The economy is now beginning to recover without much Federal Stimulus money and even though it will likely be a protracted recovery, maybe we should revisit this spending and cancel it and save our children and grandchildren much grief.
He further emphasized the urgent need of the “stimulus” package in order to avoid the unemployment rate from going over 9% this year. Well, that strategy worked and that ill designed “stimulus” package did pass and almost exclusively by Democrats but the unemployment rate already hit 9.4% last month. Now just yesterday he has fired the Inspector General who investigated some suspicious illegal activities of a crony of his own.
Every despot in the world is testing Obama and they are learning that they can get away with anything and they include not only Iran and Venezuela but N. Korea as well. N. Korea tested nuclear bombs and missiles in contravention of US and UN warnings and yesterday the UN passed a resolution permitting UN member countries to “interdict” N. Korean vessels suspected of caring weapons. Obama stated yesterday that he intends to challenge such vehicles on the open seas, but wouldn’t use force to board them………… Do you see what I see here? He has essentially neutralized even the weak action of the UN and stated IN ADVANCE that we wouldn’t actually stop them. What kind of leadership is this? Do you think N. Korea will be inclined to cooperate with the “spirit” of the UN action since we have notified them that we won’t enforce it?
He has been on a world wide tour apologizing for the “misdeeds” of America without mention the countries we saved, the poor people we have fed, etc. and he has even unilaterally stated to the nations of the world that the United States is NOT a Christian nation. Ok, I can live with that maybe if he let it go at that, but then he goes onto Moslem soil and states that the United States is one of the largest Moslem nations. Truth is, even by those metrics we are not. We would be far down that list. You may have noticed that he managed to exempt his own culpability from all these woes that America has brought on the world.
Obama and his party are doing everything to release real terrorist that we have captured while simultaneously strategizing to prosecute real Americans that protected us from them. Now Pelozi wants to release photos that even she agrees with U.S. Generals will cost American’s lives. People don’t understand why she would do that, but it is an easy assessment. She is playing to the political left in San Francisco that is demanding this. She has placed her reelection and position ahead of Soldiers lives. The Deomcrats once (often) said “Blood for Oil” as they criticized Republicans. I think this is much more clearly Blood for Votes. (You can’t come up with any other analysis of it.)
What is the cost of all this…………..? Essentially every economist (eliminating those with a White House connection) feel that the Obama program will bankrupt the country and leave our children with an insurmountable debt at a time they will already be going broke over the existing Social Security and Medicare problems. Obama said last week “you ain’t seen nothin yet.” With Cap & Trade and Cap & Tax he will permanently make the US non-competitive with the rest of the world so we can be seen as “politically correct” in solving a problem (global warming) that either doesn’t exist or is not caused by people. The primary Charlatan and Elmer Gantry of our era is Al Gore. He has already made $100 million propagating his junk science that he won’t debate with opposing scientists and he is on the threshold of making Billions by becoming the primary “broker” of carbon offset credits. Understand this is a Ponzi scheme that moves around the production of carbon but doesn’t reduce a single pound of emissions. Did I tell you that C02 is NOT a toxic substance and is necessary in the photosynthesis process? You breathe C02 in and out with every breath. If you didn’t you’d be dead.
Let me conclude and say I smell that Obama is on the threshold of betraying the Israelis in a fundamentally existential fashion and he is headed in the direction of being the biggest elected disaster in the history of the country………..stay tuned.
Jihad for Dummies
A plot to blow up New York’s JFK Airport was thwarted by FBI and others. Three are in custody and one on the run. Was this Muslim Extremist? Of course, but you have heard this story already so I am not going to comment on this at this time. I just want to say I sure hope these guys were nabbed through means which include WIRETAPPING suspected terrorists. We’ll just have to wait and see…….
Hamas Provokes Israel Again
In the past 16 days the “Palestinians” (Hamas) in the Gaza strip have fired 310 Qassam missiles into Sderot, Israel as the Israeli Government continues with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert “strategy” of not approving the IDF’s (Israel Defense Force) request (demand) to allow ground troops to go into Gaza and put down this menace. Wow, I guess the Palestinians should be happy that Olmert is the Prime Minster and not me. It takes a lot of patience to not respond adequately and protect your own people. This barrage of attacks has turned 23,000 residents of Sderot into Read more
Ron Paul Continued Discussion
I am setting up this post as a location to transfer some off topic discussion that has ensued about Ron Paul as it relates to the war question which stemmed from the abortion question. I don’t have much to add here other than a link to the video that spawned this thread, posted by Jim here at the Helvidus, a Pachyderm site. I am transferring the posts on my blog and cross posting a couple off topic comments at the Helvidus blog to this location to be on topic.
Post Debate Fox Interview of Ron Paul: HERE
Joe Biden Wants War (again)
So, Senator Joe Biden (D-Del) calls for the use of troops in Darfur here and doing so without checking with Jimmy Carter relative to what Jimmy calls a “pre-emptive war” here meaning that the security of the United States is not directly threatened. This is the same Joe Biden that is against the troop surge in Iraq even though he spent most of the past few years complaining that we need more troops in Iraq here. There’s nothing like the administration saying that it was going to actually do something to cause a Democrat to change his mind about Read more
The Misery Index
From the man that brought us the “real life” understanding of the Misery Index (as first articulated by economist Arthur Okun), Jimmy Carter has now declared that George Bush is the “worst President ever”…….whewww! He has been waiting for 25 years with hopes to transfer that title to some Republican. His only options have been Ronald Reagan, Bush the 1st and Bush the 2nd. For those of you that don’t know, Okun came up with a term that first took on popular meaning during the Carter Administration. It was called the “Misery Index.” This is an economic indicator that measures how badly Americans are suffering economically. Carter blew this index off the chart. The index was formulated by Read more
Cry Me a River
Well put this down on your “cry me a river” list (as quoted by SoftballMomin VA over at the FreeRepublic). This is about the Pizza shop (Super Mario’s Pizza) owned by the father of one of the six “Ft. Dix” terrorists. You may remember the one terrorist that used the cover of his Pizza Delivery job (for his father) to case out the targets at Ft. Dix. Now the Associated Press (AP) is reporting that the father’s pizza business has tanked to nothing. He also lost his privilege of delivering pizzas to the military post. Maybe he will feel better if he continues to tell himself that “kids will be kids.”
COOKSTOWN, New Jersey (AP) — The father of one of the six men charged with plotting to massacre soldiers at Fort Dix says the business that he’s nurtured near the base for years is all but ruined since his son’s arrest. Muslim Tatar, who has owned Super Mario’s Pizza for five years, said his lunchtime crowd from nearby McGuire Air Force Base and Fort Dix has largely disappeared, replaced by empty tables and nasty words from passing motorists. “Now I am a target,” Tatar, 52, said, adding that his business is “99 percent dead.” Tatar’s son, 23-year-old Serdar Tatar, was arrested Monday along with five others. Authorities say the men were preparing to buy automatic weapons to use in an attack on Fort Dix when they were arrested. They targeted the Army post, partly because one of them had delivered pizzas there and was familiar with the base, according to court filings. Authorities said the objective was to kill “as many American soldiers as possible.” Five of the men are charged with conspiring to kill uniformed military personnel, an offense punishable by life in prison. A sixth is charged with helping illegal immigrants obtain weapons, and could face 10 years in prison if convicted. All six defendants are being held without bail.
MORE: cnn.com
Anti-Jihadist
I just came across a Blog that is a pretty aggressive and strong voice against Jihadist Islam. You might want to check it out: Foehammer’s Anvil. He had a very appropriate verse reference for the site, it could be a tagline. “They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.” (words of Jesus in John 16:2)
The Radical Muslim blog is strongly pro-Islamic and seemingly equally active in their pursuit against those that wish to fight against Jihad which just came to me via Conversations with Brit and Grit and comments by Foehammer’s Anvil. You might want to check Foehammer’s Anvil out. You’ll find a link in my Blogroll…
Holocaust Denial
There is a recent email circulating that evokes at first the thought of “Urban Legend” or “Hoax” and seems initially as though it should be disregarded as nonsense. So a trip to snopes.com reveals that it is in at least part very true. The subject concerns the schools in the United Kingdom discontinuing teaching about the Holocaust because Read more