We are in deep, deep, trouble. There is no way the Dimwitocrat's borrow and spend policy is going to stimulate anything but the national debt. Obama said no earmarks. Wrong. Obama said no partisanship. Wrong. Obama said change. Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! President Obama is the very embodiment of partisan politics he derided during his campaign and a bunch of people hoping for better times bought into the canard and elected a consummate politician.
I did not understand the venom the left spewed at President Bush, but I am beginning to get a sense of it. Especially when President Obama laughed at the debt he inherited like it was not something that he did not need to consider. President Obama was wrong when he said tax cuts were discredited. President Bush and Republicans were voted out of office because of the Iraq war and borrowed spending on the war amplified the mortgage crisis we had been teetering on for years. A mortgage crisis made more terrible by Senator Chris "I did not know I was getting special treatment from Countrywide" Dodd and Barney "Supporting my lover at Fannie Mae is not unethical" Frank.
This is a time for sound fiscal responsibility, not unbridled borrowing and spending. We can not and should not rush into a trillion dollar, pork laden, social engineering experiment. Unfortunately, no one seems strong enough or poised to stop it.
Friday, February 6, 2009
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Waterboarding & Islamic Parenthood, A Perspective
Water board a couple of Islamic terrorist and the World denigrates America and accuses Americans of losing their moral compass and authority. For not living up to the high ideals of her founding fathers as contained in the Constitution.
To a certain extent I agree with the turn the other cheek crowd who argue that we should have turned to peaceful means to deal with fundamentally disturbed people who sponsored September 11, 2001. On the other hand, is it reasonable to believe that diplomacy will work with people who believe suicide bombers and honor killings are reasonable?
Consider Samira Ahmed Jassim, the self proclaimed mother of female suicide bombers whose recruiting methods focused on distraught women. And when circumstances did not provide enough natural candidates, dear old Mom may have organized the rape of some especially vulnerable women to enhance her recruiting. Mom then diligently tried to persuade her victims, errr, candidates, that it was nobler to become a suicide bomber rather than to live with the dishonor of having been raped. Clearly mom was a fiendishly thoughtful woman; but, I do not believe she would respond well to diplomatic efforts.
Or how about the honor killing (murder) of a 17 year old Kurdish girl, Du'a Khalil Aswad, who dishonored her family because she was attracted to a Sunni boy. Eight or nine men (probably the girl's father and her brothers and family members and friends -- remember the intent here is to redeem the family honor) dragged the girl from her home and hurled stones and insults at her for over a half hour until she died. This is such a strange and perverse manifestation of honor and religion that it is impossible for me to comprehend.
My brother-in-law believes that there are Americans who scheme and plan ways to Americanize other cultures. This is far too complex a notion for me. Rather, I think, lex parsimoniae, that to any reasonable person American culture, with its freedoms and liberties, is preferable to any other culture on earth. So by comparison, a reasonable person would rather adopt American culture then suffer under totalitarian, tribal or archaic regimes. Certainly I have no time for any culture that would beget mothers and fathers so uncaring of their children. And personally, I think water boarding a few terrorists pales in comparison to the love shown by these parents.
To a certain extent I agree with the turn the other cheek crowd who argue that we should have turned to peaceful means to deal with fundamentally disturbed people who sponsored September 11, 2001. On the other hand, is it reasonable to believe that diplomacy will work with people who believe suicide bombers and honor killings are reasonable?
Consider Samira Ahmed Jassim, the self proclaimed mother of female suicide bombers whose recruiting methods focused on distraught women. And when circumstances did not provide enough natural candidates, dear old Mom may have organized the rape of some especially vulnerable women to enhance her recruiting. Mom then diligently tried to persuade her victims, errr, candidates, that it was nobler to become a suicide bomber rather than to live with the dishonor of having been raped. Clearly mom was a fiendishly thoughtful woman; but, I do not believe she would respond well to diplomatic efforts.
Or how about the honor killing (murder) of a 17 year old Kurdish girl, Du'a Khalil Aswad, who dishonored her family because she was attracted to a Sunni boy. Eight or nine men (probably the girl's father and her brothers and family members and friends -- remember the intent here is to redeem the family honor) dragged the girl from her home and hurled stones and insults at her for over a half hour until she died. This is such a strange and perverse manifestation of honor and religion that it is impossible for me to comprehend.
My brother-in-law believes that there are Americans who scheme and plan ways to Americanize other cultures. This is far too complex a notion for me. Rather, I think, lex parsimoniae, that to any reasonable person American culture, with its freedoms and liberties, is preferable to any other culture on earth. So by comparison, a reasonable person would rather adopt American culture then suffer under totalitarian, tribal or archaic regimes. Certainly I have no time for any culture that would beget mothers and fathers so uncaring of their children. And personally, I think water boarding a few terrorists pales in comparison to the love shown by these parents.
Monday, February 2, 2009
re: Look at the Time, Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 1/30/09
Ms. Noonan is right. America needs it's politicians to recognize that times have changed and the old ways can not and should not be tolerated. President Obama left the crafting of his stimulus package to Congressional Demwitocrats who seemingly just could not resist the temptation to burden the package and taxpayers with amazing amounts of pork. The WSJ's analysis of the package can only justify about 12 percent of porkage as something that can actually stimulate the economy.
President Obama promised change but what he actually delivered was more of the same old partisanship by abdicating his role as consensus builder to the Goldmansachs Head (GSH - coined by Ms. Noonan in her article) suffering Speaker Pelosi and her merry band of pokers. Worse, because President Obama is still the darling of main stream media Republican disapproval was "reported" as Rush Limbaugh vitriol. Remarkably Speaker Pelosi came to the rescue by placing her GSH on display by attmpting to defend her pet condom project as "cost cutting" stimulus.
Americans need to wake up and realize the impact of the numbers being tossed around. Glen Beck's Inconvenient Debt puts our economic troubles in frightening perspective. We simply cannot afford the massive amounts of spending contained in President Obama's Stimulus Package. We need stimulus, but nothing is better than the Speaker Pelosi's GSH based porkage.
President Obama promised change but what he actually delivered was more of the same old partisanship by abdicating his role as consensus builder to the Goldmansachs Head (GSH - coined by Ms. Noonan in her article) suffering Speaker Pelosi and her merry band of pokers. Worse, because President Obama is still the darling of main stream media Republican disapproval was "reported" as Rush Limbaugh vitriol. Remarkably Speaker Pelosi came to the rescue by placing her GSH on display by attmpting to defend her pet condom project as "cost cutting" stimulus.
Americans need to wake up and realize the impact of the numbers being tossed around. Glen Beck's Inconvenient Debt puts our economic troubles in frightening perspective. We simply cannot afford the massive amounts of spending contained in President Obama's Stimulus Package. We need stimulus, but nothing is better than the Speaker Pelosi's GSH based porkage.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Obama's True Audacity
Obama’s promise to redistribute the wealth is nothing more than the biggest, pork barrel project any politician has ever tried. Simply put, Obama is trying to buy the election by promising a majority of taxpayers a refund that allegedly will create more jobs? A thousand dollar decrease in taxes will not, in and of itself, provide the incentive to someone making $250K or less to hire someone or start a new business. At the current minimum wage a business owner would need an additional $12K just to cover the payroll. Obama’s plan is nothing more than an elaborate ruse designed to show that he cares more about the majority of Americans earning less than $100K who are mindless enough to allow their vote to be purchased for a tax refund. That is the true audacity of Obama’s hope.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Representative Frank needs to be Enlightened
Barney Frank says deregulation caused this economic morass. LOL
No Barney, this mess was facilitated by your lack of oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Your sound bite supports Senator Nobama's felicitous comments, but it is an out right lie. Wall Street is indeed greedy but they were only dealing in the same mortgage securities that you were promoting through the Community Reinvestment Act and your lackadaisical over sight of Fannie and Freddie, probably brought on my your romantic involvement with Fannie Mae executive Herb Moses.
I sincerely hope the people of Massachusetts retire this embarrassment soon!
No Barney, this mess was facilitated by your lack of oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Your sound bite supports Senator Nobama's felicitous comments, but it is an out right lie. Wall Street is indeed greedy but they were only dealing in the same mortgage securities that you were promoting through the Community Reinvestment Act and your lackadaisical over sight of Fannie and Freddie, probably brought on my your romantic involvement with Fannie Mae executive Herb Moses.
I sincerely hope the people of Massachusetts retire this embarrassment soon!
Voter Fraud
It is hard to fathom how a lucid person can call anyone in general and Republicans in particular “subversive” or “criminal” for wanting to make sure that votes are legitimately cast. Of course, if the votes in question support your man, then I guess the ends justify the means. NOT!
Most likely the insults help assuage the intellectual dishonesty. By denigrating someone you can then feel superior to them and their ideas and therefore you must be right. NOT!
Nobama - Bad for the Economy, Bad for America!
Most likely the insults help assuage the intellectual dishonesty. By denigrating someone you can then feel superior to them and their ideas and therefore you must be right. NOT!
Nobama - Bad for the Economy, Bad for America!
Deregulation? Nobama the fault lies with YOU!
No Senator Obama, it was not deregulation that caused the economic morass we are in, it was ferocious and persistent protection of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by you and Representatives Barney Frank, Maxine Waters, Lacy Clay and Senators Barack Obama, Chris Dodd, Chuck Schummer and Chuck Hagel that enabled Acorn and others like them to give billions in "affordable" mortgages under the Community Reinvestment Act to people who could not afford them. Clearly YOUR policies are not good for America. Everyone needs to view this video on Burning Down the House: What Caused our Economic Crisis to understand that Nobama's philosophies are bad for America.
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