Willie, Mike & Maurice

  I have to admit that on a personal level I sort of like Mike Huckabee.  I really didn’t follow his career in Arkansas and I really wasn’t a supporter of his during his recent primary campaign for the Republican Presidential Nomination of 2008.  Since I didn’t know much about Huckabee I really didn’t know what he stood for, but he did espouse a flat one rate national sales tax that certain economists (79 including a Nobel Laureate) calculated would bring in and equivalent amount of revenue to the Federal Government at the rate of 23% with certain “exemptions” for poor people from paying any of it.  At that time “non-partisan” legislation was presented to both chambers of Congress under the enumeration of HR25 & S256. 

 

Also at that time I personally wrote his campaign a letter (unanswered) asking what “Constitutional” changes were going to be implemented “simultaneously” to insure that the Congress (with its insatiable appetite for spending to endear their candidacies to their electorate) from taking that “sales tax” (thank you) and then initiating another “normal” income based tax that would of course be touted as just for the “rich” on top of the sales tax (like the 16th Amendment to the Constitution was touted which authorized the “income based tax” without apportionment in 1913.  Note: The original tax return taxed 1% on income over $3,000 to $500,000 when it then moved with a 6% “surtax” on income over a half million dollars, a lot at both ends of the bracket in 1913).  I also knew that the Constitutional Amendment process was daunting and lengthy.  In truth I knew there was to be no assurance from such action by the Congress so in short I never got on the Huckabee bandwagon.  I knew in the long run we would end up with “both” tax systems stacked upon each other.

 

As a side note: Just recently as the Democrat controlled Congress is contemplating all the budget busting propositions such as Cap’N Trade, Obamacare, Nationalization of certain industries to benefit targeted constituencies, etc along with a long list of tax and mandate increases, Nancy Pelosi is now discussing in addition to all this the “stacking” of a national sales or VAT tax to boot.  Hmmm…..

 

Back in 1988 during the Democratic Primary season as it sought to select its 1988 Presidential nominee, Al Gore, a rival of Mike Dukakis, first introduced the “lax” furlough policy in the criminal justice system of Massachusetts where Dukakis was Governor.  The charge was that this policy was dangerous to the population at large.  This charge didn’t seem to resonate in the Democratic Primary, but it did in the General Election when it was disclosed that Al Gore was correct in his assessment of the furlough policy because through it in its most egregious case a convicted killer named Willie Horton, who had been sentenced to life (without chance of parole), walked away from furlough and went on to immediately twice rape, beat, pistol whip, knife, bind fiance, steal car and escape.  (I’ll score this one as Al Gore being correct in exposing the travesty of the Massachusetts “furlough” program.)  Many attribute this situation as contributing heavily to his defeat by George H.W. Bush.

 

In like manner it came to light this weekend that Governor Huckabee may have a similar albatross hanging around his neck.  Namely this concerns the murder of 4 police officers in Washington State in an “execution” style this past weekend “allegedly” by Maurice Clemons (the politically correct phrase for this is “person of interest”).  This guy is equally as bad a character as Willie Horton and while it could be argued that when he (unlike Horton) was given clemency by Huckabee he had not “yet” been found guilty of murder, which is true, but he had been declared an “habitual criminal” by the age of 18 and had been given 60 years in prison for his crimes because of this reason.  After his “Huckabee” release he was convicted for two armed robberies and incarcerated under a 10 year sentence which he was soon released from.   After extensive crime thereafter including raping a child he was arrested and a Liberal Judge in Washington State required that he post a bond that even he could afford.  It was during this “bail” period that he completed the 4 executions of the police officers.

 

The bottom line here is there would be a number of people alive today and children protected from life maring rape if Huckabee didn’t decide to give Clemons (as he said at the time of the clemency) a 2nd chance.  Wow, I hate it when I hear that officials have such warm hearts to give second chances to those like Clarence that had already a life of crime and declared a “habitual criminal.”  Truth in speaking should at least require that Huckabee call it a 24th or 25th chance (or whatever.)

 

So, like Michael Dukakis’ fate, I believe this is (or at least should be) a “deal breaker” and future considerations of Mike Huckabee as a Presidential candidate and such plans should be discarded.  I believe he has some explaining to do, but to none more appropriately than to the families of the dead police officers and the parents of the raped child (even assuming we let the numerous armed robberies slide).

 

LATE UPDATE:  To be completely fair I should mention that it has come to my attention that Huckabee did not release him from prison but “commuted” his 60 year sentence to 47 years.  Aparently in Arkansas 47 years is a term that can be considered by the Parole Board not 60 years.  Clemmons applied for release with the Parole Board and it was granted.  After his release he committed a couple more serious crimes in Arkansas for which he was arrigned, BUT the Prosecuting Attorney failed to file certain legal papers by a deadline and the courts released him on a summarial basis.  THIS IS THE REASON THAT I NEVER HAVE BELIEVED THE CLAIMS OF THOSE ON THE LEFT OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE ISSUES THAT THEY WOULD SUPPORT “LIFE WITHOUT CHANCE OF PAROLE” IN CAPITAL CASES as some type of solution in opposition to Capital Punishment.  I want to tell you that such a sentence in all reality does not exist (with the exception of maybe Charles Manson).  So in view of this “new” information I must say that where I may find “less” direct culpability of Huckabee than believed above, I still find that he made this all possible with the type of criminal management that has caused thousands and thousands of innocent deaths in order to avoid the very rare phenomenen of “false imprisonment” or erroneous capital punishment not to mention 2nd chances or 24 or 25th chances whatever.

 

LATER UPDATE:  12/1/2009.  Problem solved.  This guy got nailed by a cop today and we will no longer have to deal with this low life.  So there is usually a bright side of a very dark story.

November 30, 2009 | Filed Under Political Correctness, Presidential Politics | 1 Comment 

“Collective” Praise by School Children

  Now back at the Florida Headquarters from Ohio then Nashville (nearly adjacent to the EIB network) J

I wanted to post a personal email I sent to a couple of friends last night that are occasional readers and commenters here at NSL, though not on the flattering side.  I have taken the liberty of nominal editing and redaction of some actual personal numbers in this republished letter, but you can trust that they were just the same significant, at least to me.

I’d hope that while the left is taking a page out of the Mao Tse-Tung songbook of “collective” praise by school children for the leader (mmm, mmm, mmm) that some might read the article (below) about the “real world” and learn something about how finance actually works, but then again that is why they say about SOME teachers: ”those that can do, do …. while those that can’t do, teach.”  New York is worried and perplexed about why the income tax revenues from the recent piled on tax of the “wealthy” this year is not meeting expectations even after adjustment for the recession.  The truth is (and to their future and intensified dismay) because it was enacted just this year the “wealthy” have not yet been able to implement their “end game” economic plans.  This year down 20% but look out for additional exodus from New York that will not only erode some of the planned increase, but take money off the table that previously existed under the prior tax structure.  You might say, “well, that is a state problem,” but they can’t run away from the Federal Government.  This is the naiveté of the left.  These people are the primary employers in the country and just watch them move investment & production offshore because of this type of stuff and cap & trade, etc.  [Just like Obama did in 2008 with the proceeds of his book sales income invested almost entirely in foreign investments.]

 

Though just a small player in the financial world, I am a “tax refugee” from Ohio myself.  I make most of my income from stocks and the stock market.  My margin cost (i.e. investment interest) can run to 50% of my gross proceeds (and has been 80% in the past).  Ohio is one state that does not recognize the legitimate expenses of producing income and wants to tax the gross not the net.  Even the Federal Government allows this type of expense though be it “below the line” as they say and then they also have an “unfair” “run off” of Schedule “A” deductions and of course taxing the gross through AMT outrage.  Any self respecting “progressive” won’t see anything wrong with this at all and others will justify it by accusing and citing what they personally didn’t like about George Bush or some ad hominem comment like that, but the bottom line is this is costing governments “revenues” and they just can’t seem to grasp that.

One example is that I myself now file as a Florida resident (and you can be sure I am dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s religiously on the residency game).  I went ahead and calculated my hypothetical OHIO taxes for 2008 (just for personal humorous entertainment since I became a refugee in 2007).  Well, I laughed when the computer gave me the answer.  Even though the rate is about 30% lower than CA, if I were an Ohio resident in 2008 I would have sent them a check for $XX,XXX.  If they had responded favorably and reasonably to my petitions to have margin or investment interest deductible against investment income, I would have only had to pay around $XX,XXX in taxes.  A couple of Republicans proposed this legislation (which I think I may have influenced) but the “progressives” shot it down.  Their “progressive” ignorance not only cost them the $XX,XXX extra tax they wanted from me but the amount I would have paid if they had allowed investment interest deduction as well.  In short they lost it all.  You say “no big deal” but remember I am not the only one.  I meet “tax refugees” down here all the time.  Ted Turner is one by his own admission. (though I didn’t meet him)

 

If teachers or people want their children to learn something that will be of value apart from some inane mantra about the leader however creepy it may seem, they should teach them the lessons of this article (just think how delicious the response would have been if it were George Bush they were singing about 2001-08).  Since people still have certain freedoms the schemes of the left are doomed to failure, but I think they know this and realize that they will have to deal with what we once thought of “as” our freedoms.  [just for starters take note of the Baucus health care bill requiring the young & healthy to buy health insurance or pay $3,800 +/- “tax” under penalty of fine and imprisonment in the gulag (most likely un-constitutional now ….. pending future vacancies) in order to subsidize health care for the older and other uninsured (which now looks like will include “illegal aliens” by simply declaring them legal).  Just think what a world wide health care magnet that will make us…….we’re so wonderful]

 

About the article below, read it, memorize it and don’t forget it…………. They already tried this with the aviation and marine industries during Clinton and it failed so badly that Teddy Kennedy led the repeal himself. But along the way it cost untold thousands of jobs and was a “net income loss” for the Treasury.  The Democrats bragged about it being a luxury tax on the rich.  No “rich” person paid the tax and none were denied luxury yachts or private jets or non-jet aircraft, yet they (the rich) still created a lot of jobs…….overseas.  What is it they say about what the deffinition of insanity is?  But what the hell, change is coming.  (heard that before too)  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090927/ap_on_re_us/us_taxing_the_rich

September 28, 2009 | Filed Under Administration, American Left, Economics, Health Care, Political Correctness, Politics, Taxes, The Left | 1 Comment 

Shameless “Mainstream Media” Scandal

  I found with great amusement that Palm Beach Post published yesterday (Wednesday 9/16/2009) for the first time a so called “Breaking News” :) story and detailed the saga of a Florida International coed 20 year old Hanna Giles and 25 year old political activists James O’Keefe video sting on ACORN’s willing assistance in fraudulent house financing, counseling for tax evasion conspiracy, enable and counseling an illegal activity (prostitution) and facilitating the smuggling of illegal under age girls to be used in the sex trade business as prostitutes (sex trafficing) in numerous of their branch offices.  This is a story that is 6 or 7 days old but the mainstream media has been conspicuously absent on the story. 

 

At last the New York Times mentioned the story yesterday without any discussion or explanation of the merits of the story, but used their article as a battering ram against Conservatives ….. unbelievable.  ACORN has now been stung in 5 separate cities and as I understand it there are quite a few more feet to fall on this matter.  The initial response by ACORN was that it was “doctored” and was a vendetta and not based in reality, but today admitted (what else could they do) that this was unacceptable behavior.  I have been calling for Obama to disavow this ACORN group, but like the mainstream he remained silent until AFTER his cover was provided by ACORN itself when they issuing a self-condemnation statement.  A couple of days ago the Senate voted 83-7 to cut off ALL funding by the US Taxpayer to ACORN.  I wonder where those coward 9 other Senators were when the vote was taken?  Let’s see if Nancy follows through in the US House of Representatives and if the President signs it.

 

The thrust of the NY Times article was to complain that the “right” has been trying to draw a non-existent link between Obama and ACORN ever since the primaries.  Since the NY Times has chosen to invoke this line of attack please allow me to set the record straight.  That comment from the NY Times is a cheap attempt to disassociate Obama from ACORN and is itself a cover up such actual association.  Obama’s association with Acorn is long and deep.  Even in this last primary season, the Obama campaign paid ACORN $888,000 for campaign services.  That’s right, Obama paid a “tax exempt organization” (for those of us in the professional tax industry that would be 501-c-3 non profit corporation) in order to assist in his campaign (under the gise of voter registration and we know how fraud laden that little operation was) especially after they came out and announced support for Obama.  ANYWAY…….that is not just a single event, but he has had a long-term association with ACORN.

 

I am enclosing at the end of this post a copy of  page one (Title Page) of the N. District of Illinois Civil Case Docket in an action by ACORN against CitiBank in 1994 with Obama serving as a Page One Lawyer in the 2nd position on the listing of Lawyers representing ACORN after he joined the recently granted “class action” status of the Buycks-Roberson v. CitiBank with his own cases against CitiBank that he filed himself.  [FH-IL-0011-7500 | FH-IL-0011-7501 | FH-IL-0011-9000].  There are numerous other examples of continued close contact between Obama and ACORN over the years from training their employees to consulting.  [It doesn’t seem his training of their employees was a very effective endeavor.]  Not to mention that during the campaign Obama addressed ACORN in a speech (available on video for all to see) in which he promised that they (ACORN) would have a seat at the table (if he was elected President) in establishing policy for his administration.

 

For those of you new to Next Stop Lauderdale, Buycks-Roberson v. CitiBank was a landmark case against the banking industry by ACORN resulting in an “out of court” settlement that led to a chain reaction of events where the Democrats in Congress pursuaded Fannie May to re-write their loan standard downward (on the basis of “affordable housing”) and that became the first domino in the current housing crisis resulting in the subsequent current collapse of the banking industry and a national recession.  For a full white paper exposing this story and the fact that Obama is probably the single most responsible politician connected to the current financial crisis and recession go HERE.  (You can forget those protests of Obama  himself as he asserts that he “inherited” this mess from Bush).

 

I would like to conclude by saying that these two brave kids Giles & O’Keefe are indeed the Woodward & Bernstein of this current generation.  They are probably deserving of a Pulitzer Prize award for Investigative Reporting but don’t look forward to that since the vast majority of the 18 Board Members are from Liberal Mainstream Publications or Liberal Academic Institutions and these are the same crowd that selectively has chosen to ignore this story since it didn’t follow their own story line and bias.

__________________________________________________________________________

 

September 17, 2009 | Filed Under American Left, Main Stream Media, Political Correctness, Presidential Politics, The Left, Uncategorized | 3 Comments 

ACORN’s Shocking Criminal Conspiracy

  One thing I found interesting this week.  Once Again ACORN is caught with egregious conspiracy to commit a crime this time involving illegally obtaining home loan, Federal Tax Evasion counseling, condoning illegal activity and facilitating human trafficking of alien illegal minors for prostitution and conspiring to prepare fraudulent tax returns to obtain non-withheld credits based on declaration of children in illegal trafficking for “Earned Income Tax Credit” and after multiple indictments throughout the country on voter registration you hear nothing from the beloved mainstream press about the incident ……..and now get this.  The (Democratic) officials in Baltimore (the scene of the crime) decide not to investigate ACORN but to investigate the two videographers that set up the sting and recorded the incident.  Wonder if they ever investigated 60 Minutes when they did any of the hundreds of similar stings on television.  It will be interesting to see if honest people of goodwill allow this stand in Baltimore or if they are all corrupt.

I am sitting back and going to wait for those that respond to this letter by asserting wrongs of the Republicans as though anything is on the same level as Human Trafficking of minors for sexual purposes.  Also I am sure the defenders and those that are defenders by their silence see nothing wrong with this because how much less is this than the murder of innocent babies that doesn’t seem to bother them either.  Further tax evasion (not tax avoidance) doesn’t seem to be a problem because multiple leaders of the Democratic party practice the same while talking of tax fairness out of the other side of their pocket book.  The mainstream press should be ashamed and are fully complicit in this type of activity due to their continued silence in disrespect to their Constitutional responsibility and have in effect provided “safe harbor” for the evil this represents and not inadvertantly.  You say it is isolated? ………..and I laugh.  I do have to hand it to the Census Bureau who fired ACORN as a contractor for the Census in 2010 as a result of this.  I wonder who is going to defend this no matter how circuitiously the defence is postulated.

You say this wasn’t a crime, and I’ll correct you and say it was a “criminal conspiracy” and you might say where was the conspiracy and I’ll say that the person (the ACORN Accountant) that provided most (not all) of the criminal counseling offered to prepare the tax return for a discounted price (for a “new” business) which closed the criminal loop with an offer to participate and induce the crime.  This is sort of like the average run of the mill hooker/John sting where they police cannot move until there is offer to commit a crime (description of services) and a price to play.

How criminal must those be in the Administration be that hired ACORN in view of their repeated fraud and criminal indictments throughout the country over the past several voter cycles.  Everyone with an ounce of honesty knows this is a politicall pay back off. 

It is time for Obama to stand up and condemn this organization regardless of the personal cost it is to his fund raising machine if he has an ounce of integrity.  His failure to do so will link to his personal culpability since he has worked so closely with them in the past.  For goodness sakes, he has appologized for every other evil as he sees it that he didn’t personally commit since he was inagurated. …….I’m waiting.

September 13, 2009 | Filed Under Administration, Political Correctness, Presidential Politics, The Left | 1 Comment 

Government Ministry of Thought

  The White House is now asking publicly for ordinary citizens help it rain in what it calls disinformation about the Presidents healthcare program.  They have published an email address flag@whitehouse.gov for people to write to snitch on people expressing their dissatisfaction with the program.  Check out this Public Service Announcement by the White House HERE.  What has come to this country is CHANGE, but I’d prefer to retain my freedoms such as speech, thank you.  It is interesting that from the same people that made sure that George Bush wouldn’t tap the phones of overseas Jihadists calling their operatives in the USA we are getting and executive branch campaign to collect names of dissenters from the Presidents programs.

Anyone that has a bit of common sense can examine statements by the White House and Members of Congress as well as past video comments by Barry and realize that this is indeed designed to move us to a “single payer” Canadian style program ultimately.  Their claims to the contrary about the plan is in fact the real disinformation campaign. They are even lying about the language itself that is contained in that 1,000 page monstrosity.  But that is what a democracy is all about.  People have preferences.  If you are for the Canadian system and all that this may mean like Barry, then so be it.  But they should be honest about it and not so surreptitiously conniving to force something down your throat through the strategy of dying by a thousand small lashes.

This country is founded the principle of freedom of speech and political thought and it is clear that the administration is trying to crush this.  He has ordered his lieutenants to hit back twice as hard.  They were smart, they charged the opponents at the Town Hall meeting preemptively with wearing swastikas and rough house and intimidation in disrupting the meetings even though this was not so according to many police reports around these events.  This was a couple of days before they launched their own Brownshirt activity by loading the Town Halls with SEIU (Service Employees International Union) and ACORN affiliates to intimidate the old people attempting to enter the halls.  Of course those preemptive comments about the opponents would serve to permit the Administration and Democrats in Congress to say the opponents were striking back and making it up.  Too bad this time it is on tape.

Reports are that many opponents at many town meetings were told it was full while SEIU members were ushered to alternate doors for entry.  This is flat out suppression of speech.  This whole thing is becoming rather Orwellian in the manner that Obama is running this thing.  This is much like the “Black Panther” intimidation during the election that the White House got the charges dropped on after they got into office.  Let me tell you there is one hell of a storm brewing folks.

The most interesting and hypocritical thing of it all is that Barry is calling out those voices of protest as noise makers interrupting his work.  These are people that are voicing their objection to his plans.  Here you have the Organizer (scratch that) Agitator and Chief that spent his career organizing protest now using strong arm tactics to stomp it out.  But I don’t mind in the least, because I believe he is making mistakes that will lead to death (of his Administration).  I guess Rush was correct when he hoped for Obama to fail (as to his programs) even though the left media tried to distort the truth of what he actually called for.

Be sure to cancel your subscriptions to all newspapers and periodicals that are supported by the State Controlled Media and be SURE to cancel your memberships to AARP who has sold out their membership in favor of their blind acceptance of this direction.  Send the message.  Now go ahead and report this “fishy” blog post to the Government Ministry of Thought.

August 8, 2009 | Filed Under Administration, American Left, Health Care, Political Correctness, Politics, Presidential Politics, U.S. Constitution | 1 Comment 

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.

June 13, 2009 | Filed Under Democratic Hypocrisy, Economics, Global Warming, Muslim/Islam, Political Correctness, Politics, Taxes, U.S. Constitution, War on Terror | 6 Comments 

Your Daughters in Combat

     I remember when the “Equal Rights Amendment” was first out in the early 1980’s and Alan Alda was running around promoting it by reading its very simple language implying that nothing is wrong with this benign statement.  It basically came down to this one sentence section:

Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

     This was a time in history just after the discontinuation of the military draft by the United States, which was led by the anti-war (Vietnam) movement. 

     They felt that minorities were unfairly affected by the draft system since fewer of them went to college and enjoyed a college deferment and fewer yet of them had the political influence that the left claimed white America enjoyed to avoid conscription. (although it didn’t seem to help me much)  Anyway it was a political football.

     This was in the political soup soon after the Bakke decision by the Supreme Court of the US (SCOTUS) which bared “quota” systems in college admissions, referred to as “reverse discrimination.”  The case in question was related to the University of California’s policy of accepting Black (the term they used then) students into Medical School with a GPA of less than 2.5 while not accepting white students with averages that were often much higher than the 2.5.

     I realized from the Bakke case that as soon as the “Equal Rights Amendment” passed that the next time we had a shooting war of sufficient size that the “volunteer” don’t ask don’t tell army wouldn’t be adequate and that it would take one lower court level case of one draft resistor to force the conscription of women.  Of course idiots like Alan Alda went around wringing their hands sighing that such concern was ridiculous since there wasn’t a draft for men even, much less women.  What an idiot.  He didn’t have the acumen to project what every level headed person could figure out which was that the next “big one” would expose women to the draft with this amendment.  It will only take that one case to strike down any gender preferences and such strike down would carry equal weight as to job type, meaning combat.

     Do you want you daughters in Combat?  If so you want to vote for Barack Obama.  Obama has come out in favor, skipping the dicey game of the Court System (if there were an equal rights amendment) moving directly to his recommendation that the law be changed to require women to sign up for the stand-by draft like all males must do today upon turning the age 18.  Check out this news article from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette: 

Candidates differ on female draft

     Monday, October 13, 2008By Jerome L. Sherman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.     Even as the U.S. confronts two long wars, neither Sen. John McCain nor Sen. Barack Obama believes the country should take the politically perilous step of reviving the military draft.     But the two presidential candidates disagree on a key foundation of any future draft: Mr. Obama supports a requirement for both men and women to register with the Selective Service, while Mr. McCain doesn’t think women should have to register.

     Also, Mr. Obama would consider officially opening combat positions to women. Mr. McCain would not.

     “Women are already serving in combat [in Iraq and Afghanistan] and the current policy should be updated to reflect realities on the ground,” said Wendy Morigi, Mr. Obama’s national security spokeswoman. “Barack Obama would consult with military commanders to review the constraints that remain.”

     According to his campaign, Mr. McCain supports the current Department of Defense restrictions on women in combat units, including armor, field artillery and special forces.

     In 1980, President Jimmy Carter revived the Selective Service system, which compiles a list of nearly all men in the U.S. between 18 and 25 in case a crisis forces the government to undertake a massive expansion of the military.

     Both Congress and the Supreme Court have exempted women from registration because of the combat rules.

     For years, that position has rankled some women’s rights groups and men who face penalties for not registering — including loss of employment with the federal government — at a time when female soldiers regularly find themselves in dangerous situations in Iraq and Afghanistan, both conflicts without defined battlefields.

     Mr. McCain, a decorated former Navy pilot who spent five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, speaks often of how his military service has helped prepare him for the role of commander in chief and how his time as a captive in Hanoi reinforced his love of country.

     Yet he doesn’t want to see a return to mandatory service, for men or women, according to his presidential campaign.     “Sen. McCain strongly believes that an all-volunteer force is preferable to a conscripted force,” said Paul Lindsay, a spokesman for the campaign. “The tools available to recruiters have historically enabled the all-volunteer force to attract sufficient numbers of qualified recruits.”     His views are echoed by many high-ranking officers in the military, who prefer a force of motivated volunteers. But some of the same officers have also expressed concerns about the strains of more than six years of sustained combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, especially if the U.S. commitment in both countries doesn’t end in the near future.

     Mr. Obama has said repeatedly that he will draw down the U.S. military presence in Iraq if he becomes president, but he has also said he would increase the number of troops in Afghanistan, where Taliban forces have seen a resurgence in recent years.

     During a CNN/YouTube debate for Democratic presidential candidates last year, he said he doesn’t “agree” with the draft.

     But he did say women should be expected to register with the Selective Service, comparing the role of women to black soldiers and airmen who served during World War II, when the armed forces were still segregated.     “There was a time when African-Americans weren’t allowed to serve in combat,” Mr. Obama said. “And yet, when they did, not only did they perform brilliantly, but what also happened is they helped to change America, and they helped to underscore that we’re equal.     “And I think that if women are registered for service — not necessarily in combat roles, and I don’t agree with the draft — I think it will help to send a message to my two daughters that they’ve got obligations to this great country as well as boys do.”

     Elaine Donnelly, a former member of President Bill Clinton’s Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces, dismissed Mr. Obama’s comparison of the roles of women and black soldiers, arguing that males and females, in general, aren’t equal on the battlefield.

     “There are differences between men and women where physical strength is an issue,” said Ms. Donnelly, who heads the nonpartisan Center for Military Readiness. “There are a lot of civilian feminists who are making unreasonable demands on the military.”

     Nancy Duff Campbell, co-president of the National Women’s Law Center, argues that women should have a chance to compete for any position in the armed forces.     “I hope a new president will revisit the restrictions,” she said.

October 13, 2008 | Filed Under American Left, Political Correctness, Presidential Politics | 9 Comments 

Money For Nothin -Global Warming

  You know the likes of Al Gore and others have been complaining about Global Warming and have been sending up those alarms for some time now.  And of course I have been so irreverent and callous to do nothing but make fun of them and their kinky theories but more importantly their draconian solutions (as profitable as they may be).  ……….but I have now come to realize that Global Warming is actually a much bigger problem than I thought and even a bigger problem than Al Gore or that “consensus” of Scientists has believed.  You see this problem isn’t related to just Earth, it is related to numerous other planets and moons in the Solar System.  Wow………just think if we could tap the carbon offset credit market on those planets.  So let’s summarize here:  What do Triton, Jupiter, Mars, Pluto, Venus and Earth have in common (besides the fact that they are all undergoing a phase of Global Warming)?   Are you smarter than a 5th Grader?

Sorry time’s up………………. the answer is:  The Sun…………….. Yep, they don’t have the internal combustion engine, nor coal fired power plants, nor incinerators, nor cows (flatulence), nor most importantly…. man (at least I don’t think so).   That ain’t workin that’s the way you do it Get your money for nothing get your chicks for free NOTE THE FINDINGS:

   28 Jun 1998 - NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and several ground-based instruments show that temperatures on Neptune’s largest moon have increased dramatically since the Voyager space probe in 1989. So much so, in fact, that Triton’s surface of frozen nitrogen is turning into gas, making its thin atmosphere denser by the day.“At least since 1989, Triton has been undergoing a period of global warming,” says astronomer James Elliot, professor of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Percentage-wise, it’s a very large increase.”Elliot and colleagues from the Lowell Observatory and Williams College reported their findings in the June 25 issue of Nature. Triton’s 5 percent increase in temperature from about -392 to -389 degrees F would be like the Earth experiencing a jump of some 22 degrees F in just nine years. CITATION  NOTE: Yahoo citation no longer on website.

04 May 06 - Jupiter is growing a new red spot and the Hubble Space Telescope is photographing the scene.“Red Spot Jr.” as it is being called, formed after three white oval-shaped storms—two of which were at least 90 years old—merged between 1998 and 2000.The study was led jointly by Imke de Pater and Philip Marcus of University of California, Berkeley.“The storm is growing in altitude,” de Pater said. “Before when they were just ovals they didn’t stick out above the clouds. Now they are rising.”This growth signals a temperature increase by as much as 10 degrees Fahrenheit in that region, she said. CITATION

28 Feb 07 - Simultaneous warming on Earth and Mars suggests that our planet’s recent climate changes have a natural—not human- induced—cause, says Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of the St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russia.Earth is currently experiencing rapid warming, which the vast majority of climate scientists says is due to humans pumping huge amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Mars, too, appears to be enjoying more mild and balmy temperatures.This Mars warming says Abdussamatov “is evidence that the current global warming on Earth is being caused by changes in the sun.”“The long-term increase in solar irradiance is heating both Earth and Mars,” he said.“Abdussamatov believes that changes in the sun’s heat output can account for almost all the climate changes we see on both planets. (I agree.)Mars and Earth, for instance, have experienced periodic ice ages throughout their histories. “Man-made greenhouse warming has made a small contribution to the warming seen on Earth in recent years, but it cannot compete with the increase in solar irradiance,” Abdussamatov said.By studying fluctuations in the warmth of the sun, Abdussamatov believes he can see a pattern that fits with the ups and downs in climate we see on Earth and Mars.All planets experience a few wobbles as they make their journey around the sun. Earth’s wobbles are known as Milankovitch cycles and occur on time scales of between 20,000 and 100,000 years.These fluctuations change the tilt of Earth’s axis and its distance from the sun and are thought to be responsible for the waxing and waning of ice ages on Earth. (I agree. The Milankovitch cycle is called the “Pacemaker of the Ice Ages.”)Abdussamatov also dismisses the greenhouse effect, in which atmospheric gases such as carbon dioxide help keep heat trapped near the planet’s surface.He claims that carbon dioxide has only a small influence on Earth’s climate and virtually no influence on Mars. (I agree.)Abdussamatov suggests that the sun holds something quite different in store.“The solar irradiance began to drop in the 1990s, and a minimum will be reached by approximately 2040,” Abdussamatov said. “It will cause a steep cooling of the climate on Earth in 15 to 20 years.” (I agree.)“Abdussamatov’s work has not been well received by other climate scientists.” CITATION  

9 Oct 02 - Astronomers today said Pluto is undergoing global warming in its thin atmosphere even as it moves farther from the Sun on its long, odd-shaped orbit.Pluto’s atmospheric pressure has tripled over the past 14 years, indicating a stark temperature rise, the researchers said. The change is likely a seasonal event, much as seasons on Earth change as the hemispheres alter their inclination to the Sun during the planet’s annual orbit.They suspect the average surface temperature increased about 3.5 degrees Fahrenheit, or slightly less than 2 degrees Celsius.Pluto remains a mysterious world whose secrets are no so easily explained, however. The warming could be fueled by some sort of eruptive activity on the small planet, one astronomer speculated.Though Pluto was closest to the Sun in 1989, a warming trend 13 years later does not surprise David Tholen, a University of Hawaii astronomer involved in the discovery.“It takes time for materials to warm up and cool off, which is why the hottest part of the day on Earth is usually around 2 or 3 p.m. rather than local noon,” Tholen said. “This warming trend on Pluto could easily last for another 13 years.  CITATION

29 Nov 07 - Once styled as Earth’s twin, Venus was transformed from a haven for water to a fiery hell by an unstoppable greenhouse effect, according to an investigation by the first space probe to visit our closest neighbor in more than a decade Like peas in a cosmic pod, the second and third rocks from the Sun came into being 4.5 billion years ago with nearly the same radius, mass, density and chemical composition.But only one, Earth, developed an atmosphere conducive to life. The other, named with unwitting irony after the Roman goddess of love, is an inferno of carbon dioxide (CO2), its surface hot enough to melt steel.But this was not always so, says Hakan Svedhem, an ESA scientist. Venus, he believes, may have been partially covered with water before it became doomed by global warming.  CITATION  NOTE: Yahoo citation no longer on website.

October 9, 2008 | Filed Under Global Warming, Political Correctness, The Left | Leave a Comment 

The Global Warming Consensus Nuts Just Lost

  This article is to point the folly of Al Gore and the rest of you dolts that have bought the mantra of Global Warming – Hook, Line and Sinker.  The big crime is the assertion that this is “settled science.”  It is not only now called into question by the group from which the assertion first came, but also is starting to lean in the direction that and degree of settlement on the science is in the direction the point that Global Warming if it indeed exists is not man made HERE.  Are 50,000 Physicists enough to shut up the lie that the scientific community is in consensus on Global Warming?

For goodness sake, what is settled is the fact that man’s unique contribution to the carbon in the atmosphere is limited to 2-3 percent.  Now for those of you that hold the arrogant view of the mainstream on Global Warming and think the rest of us are right wing nuts should read the link below and crawl back into your hole of ignorant bliss.  

Oh by the way, I know you think that CO2 emissions are pollutants, if so don’t tell anyone because you are so misguided that you will be totally embarrassed when your peer “crowd” learns of your ignorance.  Did you enjoy Al Gores speech today where he said we must have our energy grid based on renewable energy up within 10 years?  Yes the guy that bragged about breaking the TIE in the Senate on the Ethanol legislation.  Those of you that do not already know of the folly of this legislation please allow me to refer you to my previous post on the matter HERE.

July 18, 2008 | Filed Under Environment, Global Warming, Political Correctness, Politics | 11 Comments 

The Folly of Al Gore

dr-william-gray.jpg  Dr. William Gray is reputed to be one of the foremost meteorologists in the world and probably the foremost meteorologist concerning hurricane forecasts and is considered to be a “pioneer” in that field.  If you have heard any annual predications of hurricanes you should know that it is most likely Dr. Gray’s publications from which this is drawn.

Dr. Gray considers that the theory behind Al Gore’s thesis on Global Warming is “ridiculous” and was the product of people (scientists) that according to Dr. Gray “don’t understand how the atmosphere works.”  Dr. Gray believes that the Earth is currently going through a “normal” warming cycle but that the impact of humans on that is “simply too small to have a major effect.”

Dr. Gray addressed the University of North Carolina on the same day that Al Gore received in part the current year award for the Nobel Peace Prize.  He commented that we were brainwashing our children and described the presentation of Inconvenient Truth to school children as “being fed all this.”  He stated that a natural cycle of ocean water temperature was related to the content of salt in the water which was responsible for rising temperatures, which he acknowledged, but he said that same cycle meant that a period of “cooling” would begin soon and last for several years.

He went on to state that those that linked Global Warming to the increase in Hurricane activity were wrong.  He says that we will look back in 10-15 years and see how foolish this current proposition is.  He also says that he realizes that his viewpoint has made him an outsider in popular science circles, but that “It bothers me that my fellow scientists are not speaking out against something they know is wrong.”   ”But they also know that they’d never get any grants if they spoke out. I don’t care about grants.”  Of course when that (cooling cycle) occurs, the left will claim victory resulting from their diligence on the matter now………. J

For additional support for Dr. Gray’s position see my post titled It’s All a Bunch of Hooey (Man Made Global Warming) referencing work by Reid Bryson of the University of Wisconsin and widely know as the “Father of Scientific Climatology.”

October 14, 2007 | Filed Under Global Warming, Political Correctness, Politics | 13 Comments 

Next Page »