Wheee Doggies!!!! We can relax now - But can the Chi-Comm bond holders?

Reported on Bloomberg news today--- :

By Rebecca Christie

June 1 (Bloomberg) -- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner arrived in Beijing with a pledge that the Obama administration will control its borrowing as he sought to reassure China its holdings of U.S. government debt are safe.

“No one is going to be more concerned about future deficits than we are,” Geithner told reporters on the way to two days of meetings that start today in China’s capital.

Geithner will meet with Premier Wen Jiabao, who in March called for the U.S. to “guarantee the safety of China’s assets.” China is the largest foreign holder of U.S. government debt, which so far this year has handed investors the worst loss since at least 1977 on forecasts for ballooning federal budget deficits.

“I hope Geithner’s visit can soothe our nerves,” said Yu Yongding, a senior researcher at the government-backed Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and a former central bank adviser. “The Chinese public is worried about the safety of its foreign- exchange reserves,” Yu said in an e-mail. [. . . .]

Is it me Pilgrims, or does Timmie the Tiny Terror and Banker's Bully sound more like a slow payer facing his bent nosed neighborhood loan shark than the Treasurer of the United States of America calling on a foreign competitor country? For full story, go to:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=afg8MXnVGSGo&refer=worldwide#

Remember that little sing song from your youth?

Oh where, Oh where did Hellary go?
Oh where, Oh where could she be?

She used to be have such a powerful sweep
But the 'O' man has buried her deep!

Who'da thunk that a rank political amateur could defang both Hellary and Bubba so completely in such a short time? Or is it the man behind the curtain?

Dick Morris sums it up pretty well in his item in "The Hill" today ---- He tempted her with carrots and then harnessed her up way, way behind the lead dog ...... and she ain't got much of a view!

http://thehill.com/dick-morris/the-incredible-shrinking-clintons-2009-05-26.html

Ramirez knows how to get the 'O' man's attention.. again!

Bumper sticker of the week...........

Pravda? A news source? An Accurate Opinion piece?

Believe it or not..... while many of us so called 'right wing bloggers' have been accused of denouncing Obamanation's brand of Instant Socialism... who would of thought that Pravda Ru, would be the first news organization to be right on target?

American capitalism gone with a whimper

27.04.2009 Source: Pravda.Ru URL:
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/107459-american_capitalism-0

It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.

True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.

Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.

First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their "right" to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our "democracy". Pride blind the foolish.

Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different "branches and denominations" were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the "winning" side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the "winning" side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America.

The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America's short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.

These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?

These men, of course, are not an elected panel but made up of appointees picked from the very financial oligarchs and their henchmen who are now gorging themselves on trillions of American dollars, in one bailout after another. They are also usurping the rights, duties and powers of the American congress (parliament). Again, congress has put up little more then a whimper to their masters.

Then came Barack Obama's command that GM's (General Motor) president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of "pure" free markets, the American president now has the power, the self given power, to fire CEOs and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will. Come hither, go dither, the centurion commands his minions.

So it should be no surprise, that the American president has followed this up with a "bold" move of declaring that he and another group of unelected, chosen stooges will now redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the guarantee of automobile policies. I am sure that if given the chance, they would happily try and redesign it for the whole of the world, too. Prime Minister Putin, less then two months ago, warned Obama and UK's Blair, not to follow the path to Marxism, it only leads to disaster. Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our "wise" Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride.

Again, the American public has taken this with barely a whimper...but a "freeman" whimper.

So, should it be any surprise to discover that the Democratically controlled Congress of America is working on passing a new regulation that would give the American Treasury department the power to set "fair" maximum salaries, evaluate performance and control how private companies give out pay raises and bonuses? Senator Barney Franks, a social pervert basking in his homosexuality (of course, amongst the modern, enlightened American societal norm, as well as that of the general West, homosexuality is not only not a looked down upon life choice, but is often praised as a virtue) and his Marxist enlightenment, has led this effort. He stresses that this only affects companies that receive government monies, but it is retroactive and taken to a logical extreme, this would include any company or industry that has ever received a tax break or incentive.

The Russian owners of American companies and industries should look thoughtfully at this and the option of closing their facilities down and fleeing the land of the Red as fast as possible. In other words, divest while there is still value left.

The proud American will go down into his slavery with out a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is. The world will only snicker.

Stanislav Mishin

The article has been reprinted with the kind permission from the author and originally appears on his blog, Mat Rodina and is linked above to Pravda, RU

I reckon that about nails it Pilgrims..... I won't add a word..........

Another day - another wild claim-

Figures lie - liars figure!! Our old friend Kofi Annan (you remember him, the former UN incompetent and Food For Oil gang member) has found a new scam -- as head of Global Humanitarian Forum - based in Geneva. I reckon, just like his pal Bubba & Al Gorebot, he decided you can't go home again after living off the fat of other peoples land.

First today's headline:

Climate change causes 315,000 deaths a year-report

28 May 2009 22:22:42 UTC
By Megan Rowling

LONDON, May 29 (Reuters) - Climate change kills about 315,000 people a year through hunger, sickness and weather disasters, and the annual death toll is expected to rise to half a million by 2030, a report said on Friday.

The study, commissioned by the Geneva-based Global Humanitarian Forum (GHF), estimates that climate change seriously affects 325 million people every year, a number that will more than double in 20 years to 10 percent of the world's population (now about 6.7 billion).

Economic losses due to global warming amount to over $125 billion annually -- more than the flow of aid from rich to poor nations -- and are expected to rise to $340 billion each year by 2030, according to the report.

"Climate change is the greatest emerging humanitarian challenge of our time, causing suffering to hundreds of millions of people worldwide," Kofi Annan, former U.N. secretary-general and GHF president, said in a statement.

"The first hit and worst affected are the world's poorest groups, and yet they have done least to cause the problem."

The report says developing countries bear more than nine-tenths of the human and economic burden of climate change, while the 50 poorest countries contribute less than 1 percent of the carbon emissions that are heating up the planet.

Annan urged governments due to meet at U.N. talks in Copenhagen in December to agree on an effective, fair and binding global pact to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, the world's main mechanism for tackling global warming.

Okay Pilgrims, let's get real. One Hundred Fifty Seven Million folks die on this planet every year! Yup, 157,000,000 souls pass on. Aside from the fact that WHO claims that 150,000 die because of global warming (a fact many dispute), where in Sam Hell does Kofi the Hustler, get his 315,000 figure..... probably out of a part of his anatomy we don't discuss.

And if it were true - his overblown numbers tell us that .002% of the worlds annual deaths are caused by the effect of global warming. Or putting it another way, if the entire civilized world gave up our standard of living (by his words) 156,685,000 will die instead of 157 million.

Give me a break!! Keep your eye on that Copenhagen meeting Pardners, they gonna get into your pants pocket again! If Obamanation has left anything in there for them to get!!!

Oh, just in case you were wondering, that cute little red car is the new one being introduced on the market in India..... experts predict that it will cause 150,000 vehicle deaths per year in that one country --- maybe if we just cancelled the car -- all this would balance out? Nahh!!

A new advertising campaign starting up across the country?

Golly gee willikers, I wonder whose Birth Certificate they are wanting to see? Hope these get as popular as those Burma Shave Signs of old...........












'Native born,
The constitution says,
So why is Obama,
Hiding the early days?

Burma Shave

How 'bout it Pilgrims, add yours in the comments sections..... ~~

Empathy, Smempathy!!! Just ask Annie!!

I Feel Your Pain. Not Theirs. Yours.
Ann Coulter
Wednesday, May 27, 2009

God save us from liberal "empathy." After President Barack Obama announced his empathetic Supreme Court nominee this week, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, we found out that some people are more deserving of empathy than others.

For example, Judge Sotomayor apparently "empathized" more with New Haven, Conn., government officials than with white and Hispanic firefighters who were denied promotions by the city on the basis of their race.

Let's hope she's as empathetic to New Haven residents who die in fires fought by inferior firefighters as a result of her decision.

In the now-famous firefighters' case, Ricci v. DeStefano, the New Haven Fire Department administered a civil service exam to choose a new batch of lieutenants and captains. The city went so far as to hire an outside consultant to design the test in order to ensure that it was job-related and not racially biased. (You know, just like all written tests were pre-screened for racial bias back when we were in school.)

But when the results came in, only whites and Hispanics scored high enough to earn promotions.

Such results never entice Democrats to reconsider their undying devotion to the teachers' unions that routinely produce students who can't read, write or do basic math. Obviously, disadvantaged children from single-parent homes suffer the most from inadequate public schools -- and their tragic outcome bedevils the entire society for the rest of the students' lives.

Instead, Democrats hide the failure of government schools by punishing the high-scoring whites, Asians and Hispanics, who presumably learned everything they know at home. (If only successfully applying a condom were relevant to firefighting, public school graduates raised in single-parent homes would crush the home-learners!)

So naturally, New Haven city officials decided to scrap the exam results and promote no one.

Seventeen of the high-scoring whites and one high-scoring Hispanic sued the mayor, John DeStefano, and other city officials for denying them promotions solely because of their race.

The district court ruled that there was no race discrimination because the low-scoring blacks were not given promotions either -- citing the landmark case, One Bad Apple v. The Rest of the Barrel. (That's the sort of sophistry we're taught in law school.)

Concerned that Sotomayor's famed "empathy" might not shine through in cases such as Ricci v. DeStefano, the Democrats are claiming -- as Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs said on MSNBC -- that she was merely applying "precedent" to decide the case. You know, just like conservatives say judges should.

This was an interesting claim, in the sense that it was the exact polar opposite of the truth.

To be sure, there is "precedent" for racial discrimination by the government, but Plessy v. Ferguson was overturned in 1954 by Brown v. Board of Education. If Sotomayor had another case in mind, she wasn't telling: The lower court's dismissal of the firefighters' case was upheld by Sotomayor and two other judges in an unsigned, unpublished opinion, titled, "Talk to the Hand."

Not only that, but Sotomayor's fellow Clinton appointee, Jose Cabranes (who sounds like an "empathetic" fellow), issued a blistering dissent from the appellate court's denial of a rehearing specifically on the grounds that the case "raises important questions of first impression in our Circuit -- and indeed, in the nation."

A "case of first impression" means there's no precedent. If there were a precedent, it would be a case of, at least, "second impression."

If it were merely "empathy" that explained liberal judges' lawless opinions, one might expect some liberal judges to have empathy for the white and Hispanic firefighters being discriminated against today, and others to have empathy for the hypothetical black firefighters discriminated against in times past.

But all liberals only have empathy for the exact same victims -- always the ones that are represented by powerful liberal interest groups. As Joe Sobran says, it takes a lot of clout to be a victim.

Thus, the media and Democrats seem to find successful Hispanic attorney Sotomayor much more "empathetic" than successful Hispanic attorney Miguel Estrada.

After aggressively blocking Estrada's nomination to a federal appeals court during Bush's first term solely on the grounds that he is Hispanic and was likely headed for the Supreme Court -- according to Senate Democrat staff memos -- now Democrats have the audacity to rave that Sotomayor will be the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice!

If Sotomayor is not more empathetic than Estrada, liberals at least consider her more Hispanic -- an interesting conclusion inasmuch as Sotomayor was born in New York and Estrada was born in Honduras.

Forty-four of 48 Senate Democrats voted to filibuster Estrada's nomination to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, with congressman and professional Hispanic Raul Grijalva assuring them that just because "he happens to be named 'Estrada' does not give him a free ride."

The truth is liberals couldn't care less about Sotomayor being Hispanic. Indeed, liberals often have trouble telling Hispanic people apart, as James Carville illustrated on "Good Morning America" Wednesday morning when he kept confusing Miguel Estrada with Alberto Gonzales.

"Empathy," in Liberalspeak, is nothing but raw political power.

Copyright © 2009 Salem Web Network. All Rights Reserved.
> http://townhall.com/columnists/AnnCoulter/2009/05/27/i_feel_your_pain_not_theirs_yours

Pssst, can I ask you Pilgrims a question?

Monday, after presenting the wreathe at the Tomb of the Unknowns, Obamanation sped off in his parade of CO2 belching SUVs to Ft Belvoir for a round of golf...... per Google news:

Obama plays golf after Memorial Day observance
Mon May 25, 5:44 pm ET

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama hit the golf course after marking his first Memorial Day as commander in chief.

The president's motorcade took him to Fort Belvoir in Virginia. That's where he went for a game of golf more than a week ago.

Obama grabbed his clubs after he participated in Memorial Day observances at Arlington National Cemetery. He laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns and, in brief remarks, saluted the men and women of America's fighting forces as "the best of America."

It was not immediately clear who joined the president for the round of golf.

Now don't misunderstand me folks, I got nothing against the POTUS playing around of golf, but I got to thinking about all the bad press that 'W' got when he played a round of golf during the War in Iraq . He even had to give the game up because of the constant negative publicity he received.

Now - here's the question: Did any of you see a picture of 'O', standing on the 1st tee an hour after the Memorial services on your evening news? Nope? Neither did I!! And us with two wars going on and men dying.....

Ain't that a wonderment? Oh, I did hear that he 'paused' for a moment at 3 PM in Honor of the millions of folks who have died in uniform protecting that White House he's rooming in. That was nice......

First it was misdirection....... now it's -----

The inmates are flying OUT OF THE CUCKOO'S NEST!!

Stand proud Pilgrims, your President hand picked his environmental secretary and then sent him off to represent us: (oh the shame)

Obama's green guru calls for white roofs

President Obama's energy adviser has suggested all the world's roofs should be painted white as part of efforts to slow global warming.

By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent
Last Updated: 1:33PM BST 27 May 2009

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U.S. energy secretary, Steven Chu Photo: BLOOMBERG

Professor Steven Chu, the US Energy Secretary, said the unusual proposal would mean homes in hot countries would save energy and money on air conditioning by deflecting the sun's rays.

More pale surfaces could also slow global warming by reflecting heat into space rather than allowing it to be absorbed by dark surfaces where it is trapped by greenhouse gases and increases temperatures.

In a wide-ranging discussion at the three-day Nobel laureate Symposium in London, the Professor described climate change as a "crisis situation", and called for a whole host of measures to be introduced, from promoting energy efficiency to renewable energy such as wind, wave and solar.

The Nobel Prize-winning physicist said the US was not considering any large scale "geo-engineering" projects where science is used to reverse global warming, but was in favour of "white roofs everywhere".

He said lightening roofs and roads in urban environments would offset the global warming effects of all the cars in the world for 11 years.

"If you look at all the buildings and if you make the roofs white and if you make the pavement more of a concrete type of colour rather than a black type of colour and if you do that uniformally, that would be the equivalent of... reducing the carbon emissions due to all the cars in the world by 11 years – just taking them off the road for 11 years," he said.

Kind of gives a whole new meaning to 'white washing' our problems away, doesn't it???

Here is a Memorial Day story you probably didn't hear on your network news...

Supervisor Asks Woman To Take Down American Flag Reporting Carol Cavazos MANSFIELD (CBS 11 News) ― (London Telegraph)

Is it okay to show your patriotism at the office?

For one Arlington woman, the answer was "no" after she hung an American flag in her office just before the Memorial Day weekend. Debbie McLucas is one of four hospital supervisors at Kindred Hospital in Mansfield. Last week, she hung a three-by-five foot American flag in the office she shares with the other supervisors.

When McLucas came to work Friday, her boss told her another supervisor had found her flag offensive. "I was just totally speechless. I was like, 'You're kidding me,'" McLucas said.

McLucas' husband and sons are former military men. Her daughter is currently serving in Iraq as a combat medic. Stifling a cry, McLucas said, "I just wonder if all those young men and women over there are really doing this for nothing."

McLucas said the supervisor who complained has been in the United States for 14 years and is formerly from Africa. McLucas said the supervisor took down Debbie's flag herself. "The flag and the pole had been placed on the floor," McLucas said. But McLucas also said hospital higher ups had told her some patients' families and visitors had also complained. "I was told it wouldn't matter if it was only one person," she said. "It would have to come down."

McLucas said hospital bosses told her as far as patriotism was concerned, the flag flying outside the hospital building would have to suffice. Kindred Hospital Corporate Headquarters are located in Kentucky. They have yet to make a final decision on the matter. They have not returned our phone calls for comment. The Kindred Hospital Corporation was chosen as Fortune's most admired for 2009.

McLucas hopes they'll back her patriotism. "I find it very frightening because if I can't display my flag, what other freedoms will I lose before all is said and done," McLucas asked

I tell you what Pilgrims...... I see this anti-American thing coming down from the top, and now every dip-stick immigrant or Islamic convert-come-lately is exercising their new PC muscles. Ain't but two ways to cure the problem, the hard and ugly way --- or at the BALLOT BOXES --- let's hope Americans think long and hard every time they go near a voting booth the next few years.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me!!!

Soul Mates?

Just when you thought the world couldn't get crazier....

you pick up a newspaper or read one one the Internet and see an article like this one in the London Times:

Burping of the lambs blows roast off menu

Jonathan Leake, Environment Editor

GIVE up lamb roasts and save the planet. Government advisers are developing menus to combat climate change by cutting out “high carbon” food such as meat from sheep, whose burping poses a serious threat to the environment.

Out will go kebabs, greenhouse tomatoes and alcohol. Instead, diners will be encouraged to consume more potatoes and seasonal vegetables, as well as pork and chicken, which generate fewer carbon emissions.

“Changing our lifestyles, including our diets, is going to be one of the crucial elements in cutting carbon emissions,” said David Kennedy, chief executive of the Committee on Climate Change.

Kennedy has stopped eating his favourite doner kebabs because they contain lamb.

Now Pilgrims, you probably think I'm gonna tell you that this Kennedy fella's elevator doesn't go all the way to the top, but I'm not. That would be to simple an answer-- 'cause the world is full of elitist hair brains like this dude. That's the scary part.

Earths atmosphere is comprised of water vapor; apart from that, dry air consists of approximately
* 78% nitrogen,

* 21% oxygen, and

* 1% argon by volume,
and small amounts of other gases.

The amount of carbon dioxide is important to the earth's climate even though it makes up less than 4/100 of 1% percent of the total atmosphere.. yep -you read it right CO2 makes up 4/100's of One Percent!

Without that tiny amount of CO2, all things green, including those rain forests that everybody wrings their hands over, would plumb curl up and die..

Whee Doggies, where do these idiots come from -- and why do other idiots give them ink space? "Burpin' Lambs" indeed! Where's them fellers in the white coats. I'll bet ole' Al Gorebot soils hisself when he sees stuff like this.

Next time you Pilgrims see one of these airheads spouting such nonsense -- remember this high placed gooney bird, and put what you are reading in the right perspective.

'What's in your wallet, Mister?"

We are all familiar with that bank credit card advertisement. I came across this brief news item from Reuters this morning and, although I'm not sure why -- I find it troubling. So I'll just share it and see what you think...

Geithner carries fat fiscal burden but thin wallet
Fri May 22, 2009

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - What's in the wallet of Timothy Geithner, whose hands as U.S. Treasury secretary are on some of the fattest government purse strings in the world?

Not much, it appears, beyond a few bank cards, some euros and a worthless Zimbabwean bill.

Geithner, testifying to a congressional panel on Thursday about efforts to tackle the financial crisis, was shown a $50 billion bank note from Zimbabwe that has nearly no value due to hyperinflation in that African country.

Representative John Culberson asked Geithner if he had ever seen such a bill himself, prompting the Treasury secretary to reach into his pocket and produce a Zimbabwean note.

"I often have some foreign currency in my wallet," Geithner told Reuters during a break. "Want to see?"

Many of the slots in the thin, weathered leather wallet were empty. There were three cards with Visa and MasterCard logos -- all inserted upside down so the issuers could not be seen -- and a yellowed identification card of some sort.

From inside, Geithner pulled a small pile of receipts and papers, including a New York City transit card, pointing out there were some euros tucked in there too.

Anything else? Not a single U.S. dollar was in sight.

(Reporting by Jim Bourg; Writing by John O'Callaghan)

With current fiscal policies and Obamaflation facing us, I gotta wonder how long it's gonna be before we will be carrying $50 Billion American Dollar bills in our wallets. Maybe Geithner is just adjusting himself???

GM (Government Motors) presents new car!

In a special news conference yesterday, Government Motors announced its new concept car...

The new GM (Government Motors) proudly introduces the 2010 Obama....This car runs on hot air and broken promises. It has three wheels that speed the vehicle through tight left turns.

It comes complete with two Teleprompters programmed to help the occupants talk their way out of any violations.

The transparent canopy reveals the plastic smiles still on the faces of all the "happy" Democrat owners.

Thanks & a tip 'o the Stetson to ole' Air Force Bud from Missippi - Jim A.)

Ramirez on Obamanation's new role as Automaker in Chief!!

More dark clouds on the horizon are coming under the glare of sunlight....

Pilgrims, please note that this item from Fox Forum below is five weeks old, written before the most recent tyrannies demonstrated by the 'new Political Class elites'. I share it here, because I think we are about to see a whole new kind of class warfare in this great country. For years, the politico's have tried to pit the American people into perpetual class warfare... poor envying and hating the rich, middle class hating both the rich and the poor, rich looking down on the poor.......

A new battle line is being drawn across the country ..... the 'Political Class vs 'the rest of us!!!

April 15th, 2009
Warning — A New Political Class Is Taking Over America

By Bob McEwen and Rick Tyler
Renewing American Leadership Group

Is business or politics the culprit in our current plight?

Every business makes either a profit or a loss.

A profit allows it to provide jobs and livelihood for people while providing a product consumers ‘freely’ choose to purchase.

The commanding heights of the world’s most successful economy are being taken over by an utterly unqualified political class. We are watching CEOs who make business decisions to earn a profit being vilified and cashiered by politicians who haughtily make decisions to get votes.

Or it experiences a loss, whereby workers lose their livelihood and consumers are denied the good or service they produced or no longer wanted.

Each day free people voluntarily take money from their pockets to reward “entrepreneurs” who have produced goods andservices that are of greater value to them than the money.

That is why free enterprise economies create the inventions and innovations that are the envy of socialist nations.

The person responsible for leading these organizations (businesses), constantly seeking to satisfy the consumer, is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Every day their performance is put to the judges (consumers) for their approval. Success means jobs, profit, more goods and services, higher standard of living, tax payments, a better community and nation.

Thus, all energies are focused on keeping the business profitable.

Failure to satisfy the consumer means no jobs, no profit, fewer goods and services, lower standard of living, diminished tax receipts and a poorer community and nation.

Simple enough.

America is the richest nation on earth because we have, until recent weeks, honored and encouraged business success.

But today, too many do not seem to understand this basic concept. Politicians are not business people. Rather than seeking profits necessary for jobs and national prosperity, they seek votes. Decisions are motivated not by “what will best satisfy the consumer’?” but rather what will best benefit political success.

The question each morning before the CEO is, “will this help create a profit?”

The question each morning before the politician is “will this help create a vote.?

Two weeks ago Americans, and the world, saw the CEO and the politicians meet.

Edward Liddy is the voluntary CEO for the bereft AIG. Like those in FDR’s kitchen cabinet, he is a “$1 a-year-man,” working for less than 2 cents a week. He is seeking to use his skills to save AIG, its employees and the hundreds of companies and the thousands of their employees impacted by it.

Congress is, of course, well aware of this. So how did Washington politicians express their gratitude to the charitable Mr. Liddy? He was hauled in front of a Congressional Committee to be publically berated.

Here is the real sticker, however. He was not berated for anything he did. He was berated by the majority members in Congress for WHAT THEY DID!

They wrote a federal law, signed by the President of the United States and recorded into the United States Code, that it would be a federal offense for Mr. Liddy to deny bonuses to AIG employees if they had negotiated those bonuses prior to February 11, 2009.

Mr. Liddy, an honest businessman, had no choice by to follow the law. This action aroused the most severe hostility of the very Congressmen who wrote the law he obeyed.

Representative Paul Hodes’ (D-N.H.) fumed, “A.I.G.” now stands for “arrogance, incompetence and greed.” Hodes’ bile typified the hypocritical speechifying that members of Congress engaged in for public consumption. They were posturing political hypocrites and it all came at the expense of the law-abiding Liddy.

Not to be left out of this arrogant charade, the president, as he headed toward his helicopter and 5 jumbo jets waiting to whisk off the uber-community organizer to Europe, coerced the General Motors Corporation to fire their 31 year veteran and CEO Rick Wagoner.

Politicians who have never met a payroll or sufficiently satisfied a consumer to turn a profit at anything are laying down the law to private businesses about whom they should follow and how much money they should make.

America attained its greatness by entrusting its economy to the ruthless, but fair, disciplines of consumers in the marketplace. Mr. Obama and his fans on Capitol Hill are rapidly changing that system.

The commanding heights of the world’s most successful economy are being taken over by an utterly unqualified political class. We are watching CEOs who make business decisions to earn a profit being vilified and cashiered by politicians who haughtily make decisions to get votes.

That is a dangerous trade.

President Obama is not the first to follow this path. History is replete with predecessors.

America is populated with those who escaped their tyrannies. Where will we go now?

Former Ohio Congressman Bob McEwen is the Chairman of Renewing American Leadership. Rick Tyler is its Founding Director and spokesperson for former Speaker Newt Gingrich.

For the original column, go to:
http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/04/15/mcewen_tyler_obama_aig/

Protest Poster of the Month!!!

(Thanx & a tip o'the Stetson to old Air Force bud -Al)

More Obama mis-direction...... beware Pilgrims!!

After losing the Washington DC 2nd Amendment case in the Supreme Court, Obamanation and his beltway cabal have obviously decided to sneak in the back door. If they can't take our weapons away --- they'll take away the ammunition and we'll be left with wood and metal clubs on our gun racks. Here is just the latest example:

Georgia Arms is the 5th largest retailer of .223 Ammo in America . They sell 9mm, .45, .223 ammunition. They normally buy spent brass from the US Department of Defense. Spent brass is "one time used" shell cases used by our Military for training purposes.

They buy the brass, recondition it, and then reload the brass for resale to Law Enforcement Departments across the country, Gun Clubs, and Gun Shops. They normally buy 30,000 lbs of spent brass at a time.

This spring, Obamanation's new DoD wrote a letter to the owner of Georgia Arms and informed him that from now on the DoD will be destroying the spent brass, shredding it. It will no longer be available to the ammo makers, unless they buy it in a scrap shredded condition (which they have no use for).

The shredded brass is now going to be sold by the DOD to China as scrap metal, after the DOD pays for it to be shredded. The DOD is selling the brass to China for less money than the ammo makers have been paying, plus the DOD has to pay to have the brass shredded and
do the accounting paperwork.

This sure helps the economy now doesn't it? Sell cheaper to China , and do not sell at all to a proven US business. Any hidden agenda working here?
Obama is going after the Firearms Industry and our ammunition!!


The Georgia Arms owner even related a story that one of his competitors had already purchased a load of brass recently. The DOD contacted him and said they were sending someone over to
make sure it was destroyed. Shell cases he had already bought!

The brass has no value to the ammo maker if it is destroyed/shredded/melted. The ammo manufacturer only uses the empty brass cases to reload different calibers, mainly .223 bullets.

The owner of Georgia Arms says that he will have to lay off at least half of his 60 workers,
within 2-3 months if the DOD will no longer sell spent brass cases to the industry. Georgia Arms has 2-3 months of inventory to use, by summer they're out.

If the Reloading Industry has to purchase new manufacture brass cases, then the cost of ammunition will double or even triple, plus Obama wants to add a huge tax on each round.

You can read the information and see the DOD letter to Georgia Arms here:

The Shootist Site:

http://www.theshootist.net/2009/03/dod-ends-sale-of-expended-military.html

One of the more salient comments posted to this latest example of O's socialist programs reminded us that Law Enforcement Agencies (your local police department) are some of the greatest users of this reloaded ammo in their training programs. The point being, that we the tax payers have to buy that ammo for police training -- and we are once again, gonna get bit in the pocketbook when these law enforcement agencies have to start paying double and triple prices for their ammo.

All of those pilgirms who voted for 'Hope' and 'Change' should be plumb proud....

Because they sure brought it on!!! This letter from a fifty year Dodge Dealer in Florida sure explains the Change --- but whoa Nellie, where is the 'Hope'???

May 19, 2009

My name is George C. Joseph. I am the sole owner of Sunshine Dodge-Isuzu, a family owned and operated business in Melbourne, Florida. My family bought and paid for this automobile franchise 35 years ago in 1974. I am the second generation to manage this business.

We currently employ 50+ people and before the economic slowdown we employed over 70 local people. We are active in the community and the local chamber of commerce. We deal with several dozen local vendors on a day to day basis and many more during a month. All depend on our business for part of their livelihood. We are financially strong with great respect in the market place and community. We have strong local presence and stability.

I work every day the store is open, nine to ten hours a day. I know most of our customers and all our employees. Sunshine Dodge is my life.

On Thursday, May 14, 2009 I was notified that my Dodge franchise, that we purchased, will be taken away from my family on June 9, 2009 without compensation and given to another dealer at no cost to them. My new vehicle inventory consists of 125 vehicles with a financed balance of 3 million dollars. This inventory becomes impossible to sell with no factory incentives beyond June 9, 2009. Without the Dodge franchise we can no longer sell a new Dodge as "new," nor will we be able to do any warranty service work. Additionally, my Dodge parts inventory, (approximately $300,000.) is virtually worthless without the ability to perform warranty service. There is no offer from Chrysler to buy back the vehicles or parts inventory.

Our facility was recently totally renovated at Chrysler's insistence, incurring a multi-million dollar debt in the form of a mortgage at Sun Trust Bank.

HOW IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CAN THIS HAPPEN?

THIS IS A PRIVATE BUSINESS NOT A GOVERNMENT ENTITY

This is beyond imagination! My business is being stolen from me through NO FAULT OF OUR OWN. We did NOTHING wrong.

This atrocity will most likely force my family into bankruptcy. This will also cause our 50+ employees to be unemployed. How will they provide for their families? This is a total economic disaster.

HOW CAN THIS HAPPEN IN A FREE MARKET ECONOMY IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA?

I beseech your help, and look forward to your reply. Thank you.

Sincerely,

George C. Joseph President & Owner Sunshine Dodge-Isuzu

Is Obamantion and his beltway cabal of Socialist American business haters have really out done themselves in four months ...haven't they? Pardners, if you ain't mad right now -- you are six checkers short of a winning game!!!!

Ole' Uncle Sam taught me speed reading......

..but that was with my eyes, not my lips! Apparently there is a whole 'nother breed of 'speed reading out loud' talents in our midst. And your Congress has found a use for them. This article from the WSJ today tells the tale:

Need for Speed (Read) to Pass Climate Bill
By IAN TALLEY, May 20 2009

WASHINGTON -- Democrats in the House Energy and Commerce Committee have taken a novel precaution to head off Republican efforts to slow action this week on a sweeping climate bill. They are hiring a speed reader.

Republicans on the committee have said they may force the reading of the entire 946-page bill -- as well as major amendments that measure several hundred pages -- all aloud. This is a procedure lawmakers have a right to invoke. Republicans are largely against the bill, which aims to cut emissions of so-called greenhouse gases by more than 80% over the next half-century but would be costly.

Republicans haven't tried the tactic, but Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D., Calif.) is prepared.

A committee spokeswoman said the speed reader -- a young man who was on door duty at the hearing as he awaited a call to the microphone -- was hired to help staffers. After years of practice, the panel's clerks can read at a good clip. But the speed reader is a lot faster, she said.

"Judging by the size of the amendments, I can read a page about every 34 seconds," said the newly hired staff assistant, who declined to give his name. Based on that estimate, it would take him about nine hours.

It took the committee more than two hours Tuesday to debate and vote on the first proposed amendment. By the time Capitol Hill interns finally left for tacos and happy-hour drinks at the local Mexican restaurant, the panel had approved just three amendments. Among them was a proposal to give government subsidies to people who trade in old cars or trucks for new, more efficient ones.

Mr. Waxman has said he still hopes to finish the bill by Thursday, meeting his goal of moving the climate bill out of committee by Memorial Day.

"He's dreaming. It ain't going to happen," said Texas Rep. Joe Barton, the panel's ranking Republican. He added that Republicans "have 400 amendments that we could offer, but there are at least 75-80 that we almost have to offer."

It appears to me that those Dems will do whatever it takes to get this brother-in-law, boondoggling, tax money throw-away bill passed. Full steam ahead and don't spare the lips!!

For the full article, go to:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124278191732237461.html

Sail on..... Economic ship of state!! Obamanation style.......

In Reading PA., apparently there is no right to 'bare' arms.. even on mannequins....

Sexy Mannequin Can Stay at Eatery if Curves Covered
Posted By: Chaunte' McLean

READING, Ohio (AP) -- A curvaceous, scantily clad mannequin can keep her spot outside a Cincinnati area barbecue joint, but local officials want her to cover up a bit.

The life-size figure stands as a busty beacon outside a restaurant in suburban Reading owned by Kenny Tessel. He told zoning officials at a hearing Wednesday night that the advertising gimmick has boosted business 40 percent.

The 5-foot-10 mannequin is on the street wearing a bikini top and tight short-shorts, though Tessel brought her to the hearing draped in a long, sleeveless gray T-shirt.

The board said Tessel may continue to use the figure only if it's dressed more modestly in front of the restaurant, too.

He plans to appeal.

Lets hope that Bar Be Q prevails and the good citizens of Reading continue to enjoy her company................and cooking.

Are Community Organizers born clueless, or is that a developed social skill?

The Audacity of Unawareness

April 15th, 2009 5:03 PM Barack Obama, through his spokesman, claimed today that he was unaware of the tax day tea parties.

Granted, the MSM has done a good job in suppressing any sort of coverage ahead of time (and the little coverage they did provide was derisive at best),but how out of touch is the Community Organizer in Chief, really?

This much:

- He was unaware that he was attending a church (for 20 years) with a racist pastor who hates America .

- He was unaware that he was family friends with, and started his political career in the living room of, a domestic terrorist.

- He was unaware that he had invested in two speculative companies backed by some of his top donors right after taking office in 2005.

- He was unaware that his own aunt was living in the US illegally.

- He was unaware that his own brother lives on pennies a day in a hut in Kenya .

- He was unaware of the AIG bonuses that he and his administration approved and signed into a bill.

- He was unaware that the man he nominated to be his Secretary of Commerce was under investigation in a bribery scandal.

- He was unaware that the man he nominated to be his Secretary of Health and Human Services was a tax cheat.

- He was unaware that the man he nominated to be his Secretary of the Treasury was a tax cheat.

- He was unaware that the man he nominated to be the U.S. Trade Representative was a tax cheat.

- He was unaware that the woman he nominated to be his Chief Performance Officer was a tax cheat.

- He was unaware that the man he nominated to be #2 at the Environmental Protection Agency was under investigation for mismanaging $25 million in EPA grants.

For the love of God, there are people in comas that are more aware of world affairs than this guy.

(Thanx and a tip o' the Stetson to a fellow Texan)

LIAR LIAR !!!!

The Code of the West

The Tracker

He awoke with the stars still high in the skies
His head on the saddle he used for a pillow
Alert before he even opened his eyes
He’d been roused by a scratching armadillo

Rolling out of his bedroll he stood up and stretched
The sweet-sour smell of sleep all around
Rolling his first smoke of this newborn day
He listened quietly to the still prairie’s sound

Not wanting a fire he unhobbled his roan
Rolled his kit, forked the saddle and rode
For twenty-two days this had been his routine
Through weather and terrain that forebode

In his heart he knew that this was the day
That he would unload the weight on his chest
Not vengeance but justice was in his mind
As he sought to enforce the code of the west

Late afternoon as long shadows were reaching
He found the quarry he’d been tracking so long
He chambered a shell in his thirty-ought-six
Certain that he was righting a wrong

At last he’d caught up with the wagon packed drummer
The rascal who had run off with his wife
Holstering his rifle he swept off his stetson
And thanked them kindly for improving his life!

And rode on West into the sunset.....

Pecozbill - 2002

©

New meaning to the term.. Caught with his pants down....

Texas soldier leaped to defense sans trousers and boots!! In a sudden morning attack by the Taliban on his position in Afghanistan, he grabbed his helmet, flak jacket and weapon. His "I love NY" pink boxers and flip flops weren't the uniform of the day--
When 19 year old Zachary Boyd, was rudely awakened by the attack, he had no idea that an AP photographer was in the area and that he'd end up on the front page of the NY Times & London Telegraph.

The young soldier's dad said, "'I knew he was a boxer guy. I knew that for sure. I did not know they were pink, and I didn't know they said, 'I love New York'. He told his local Texas radio station WBAP. 'After I saw the picture I just laughed for about five minutes.'

Boyd, who graduated from Keller Central High School in 2007, decided to join the army because of the September 11 attacks. He was promoted to the rank of Army Specialist last week.

At an age when most American kids are 'trying to find themselves' or find a college to go laze the next four years away, Specialist Boyd is a very special lad!!! Like millions in the generations before him, he's the reason you are reading this in English, not your teachers or politicians!!!

Had an old friend pass me a story this morning that I got to share with all you vet's..... & fighter pilot fans....

This from a fighter pilot who runs a 2000 acre corn farm up around Barron WI, not far from Oshkosh. He used to fly F4Es and F-16s for the Guard and participated in the first Gulf War...
Submitted for your enjoyment, and as a reminder that there are other great, magnificent flyers around.

The Great Air Battle

I went out to plant corn for a bit to finish a
field before tomorrow morning and witnessed The Great Battle.

A golden eagle - a big bastard, about six foot
wingspan - flew right in front of the
tractor. It was being chased by three crows that
were continually dive bombing it and pecking at
it. The crows do this because the eagles rob their nests when they find them.

At any rate, the eagle banked hard right in one
evasive maneuver, then landed in the field about
100 feet from the tractor. This eagle stood
about 3 feet tall. The crows all landed too and
took up positions around the eagle at 120° apart,
but kept their distance at about 20 feet from the
big bird. The eagle would take a couple steps
towards one of the crows and they'd hop backwards
and forward to keep their distance.

Then, the reinforcements showed up.

I happened to spot the eagle's mate hurtling down
out of the sky at what appeared to be
approximately Mach 1.5. Just before impact, the
eagle on the ground took flight, and the three
crows which were watching the grounded eagle,
also took flight thinking they were going to get
in some more pecking on the big bird. The first
crow being targeted by the diving eagle never
stood a snowball's chance in hell.
There was a mid-air explosion of black feathers
and that crow was done. The diving eagle then
banked hard left in what had to be a 9G climbing
turn, using the energy it had accumulated in the
dive, and hit crow #2 less than two seconds later. Another crow dead.

The grounded eagle, which was now airborne and
had an altitude advantage on the remaining crow,
which was streaking eastward in full burner, made
a short dive then banked hard right when the
escaping crow tried to evade the hit. It didn't
work - crow #3 bit the dust at about 20 feet altitude.

This aerial battle was better than any airshow
I've been to, including the warbirds show at
Oshkosh! The two eagles ripped the crows apart
and ate them on the ground, and as I got closer
and closer working my way across the field, I
passed within 20 feet of one of them as it ate
its catch. It stopped and looked at me as I went
by and you could see in the look of that bird
that it knew who's Boss Of The Sky. What a beaut !!

(Thanx & a tip o' the Stetson to my internet Pal Jim G)

Every now and then, we need refresher courses........

FIREARMS REFRESHER COURSE

"Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." ~Thomas Jefferson


FIREARMS REFRESHER COURSE

1. An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.

2. A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone.

3. Colt: The original point and click interface.

4. Gun control is not about guns; it's about control.

5. If guns are outlawed, can we use swords and IEDs?

6. If guns cause crime, then pencils cause misspelled words.

7. Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.

8. If you don't know your rights, you don't have any.

9. Those who trade liberty for security have neither.

10. The United States Constitution (c) 1791. All Rights Reserved.

11. What part of 'shall not be infringed' do you NOT understand?

12. The Second Amendment is in place in case the politicians ignore the others.

13. 64,999,987 firearms owners killed no one yesterday.

14. Guns have only two enemies; rust and politicians.

15. Know guns, know peace, know safety. No guns, no peace, no safety.

16. You don't shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.

17. 911: Government sponsored Dial-a-Prayer.

18. Assault is a behavior, not a device.

19. Criminals love gun control; it makes their jobs safer.

20. If guns cause crime, then matches cause arson.

21. Only a government that is afraid of its citizens tries to control them.

22. You have only the rights you are willing to fight for.

23. Enforce the gun control laws we ALREADY have; don't make more.

24. When you remove the people's right to bear arms, you create slaves.

25. The American Revolution would never have happened with gun control.

Robert Jones, MSgt(ret), USAF (who encourages you to pass this on)

Found this 'warm fuzzy' in the UK Telegraph's Blog!! A great read!

Profiles in Courage: Sully, Susan...and Molly the Cow
Posted By: Stephanie Gutmann at May 9, 2009
Posted in: Eagle Eye

The Lord works in mysterious ways, delivering heroes just when we need them most.

It was a bleak January afternoon. There were months to slog through before spring came and the daily financial news was the most apocalyptic I'd ever heard. And then, on the 15th, there was that news flash: a crippled plane had downed in the Hudson....but, but... all 155 passengers were safe! They were standing on the wings! In the middle of the frozen river! With tugs and row boats and everything else New York harbor could muster racing toward them. For days afterward, a grateful nation turned over details of the amazing tale of US Airways pilot Chesly Sullenberger like children examining a gift train set: How he'd calmly told New York air traffic controllers "We're going in the river," how he'd walked the length of the fuselage in knee-high water to ensure everyone was out. And I sincerely felt at the time that "Sully", as the entire country came to know him, had been sent to us to lift our spirits and remind us what bravery looks like.

A few months later, a tense spring. Financial news still apocalyptic. And suddenly a YouTube link appears and we are mesmerized by a spunky little lady named Susan Boyle who marched into the Belly of the Beast of agesim and lookism with her chin up and a glint in her eye. Women everywhere wept and wept because...for a complex of reasons...maybe because we thought of all the times we'd told ourselves we were too old or too fat and hadn't held our chin up like Susan.

And now He has brought us the latest inspirational figure. The hills 'round New York ring with the name of Molly the Cow -- another lady with an unfashionably plump (500 pounds) figure. Just as the world shows itself, once again, all too ready to line up behind particularly dangerous leaders, this all-black heifer emerges to show us, literally, that we don't have to placidly follow the herd to destruction. Molly, she has only recently acquired this name, was one of a multitude of anonymous bovines standing in a pen outside the Musa Halal slaughterhouse in Queens, New York waiting to be herded inside when she apparently decided, "Oh no you don't, bub."

According to news reports she butted her way through a fence and then "charged up 109th Street with a butcher along with several responding officers hot on her tail. Witnesses, shocked at what they were seeing, steered clear of the animal ...After a chase that lasted nearly an hour, the New York City Police Department's Emergency Service Unit managed to corner the cow in a residential yard... Officers used tranquilizer darts to calm the animal, before loading her into a police horse trailer that was brought to the scene. It reportedly took at least a dozen cops to get the stumbling cow into the trailer." And not before she'd knocked a nice hole in the trailer all with her stubby horns.

Now, Musa Halal might have just come picked her up and dragged her back, except -- and here the story takes a post-modern twist -- Molly was now too famous! She was "the renegade cow" as one newspaper put it. The Daily News had ended its story on her with "Go Molly Go!." So the slaughterhouse instead released her to to the Center for Animal Care and Control in East New York which in turn announced that, as an unclaimed animal, she would go to the first viable owner who appeared. Offers poured in.

The ending is so sweet it's almost Disney-esque: Molly was claimed by an 60-acre organic farm on Long Island, about 15 miles from the Hamptons (should she be nominated to be a mascot at a film festival or something.) The owner has no untoward plans for her, only that she "eat some good organic hay and hang around with a lot of her friends." He has parked her across a fence from Wexler, a friendly steer (who is also a "rescue animal" having been taken over from a school-childrens' agricultural club that lost its financing) and the news media has already swarmed around taking pictures of Molly with her new "boyfriend." "Molly Escapes Death and Finds Love," blared the New York Post's headline.

"She can eat and sleep for the rest of her life," the farmer said. "She is not going anywhere. The bottom line is she will have a very good home.”

A lesson for us all: Never say die. Don't let the bastards get you down. Question authority. And always, always, Go for it!