Notable Quote

Posted on February 11, 2011
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Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.

Yogi Berra

A Lawless Government

Posted on February 10, 2011
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The Obama Adminstration has stated that it does not plan to obey the rule of law. It now stands in contempt of a federal judge.

White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs told CNSNews.com today that the administration will “rightly” continue to implement the Obamacare law even though the federal judge who sided with 26 states in declaring it unconstitutional said that his ruling was “the functional equivalent of an injunction” against the law.

In his ruling last week, Judge Roger Vinson of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida wrote that in his opinion an injunction is an extraordinary measure, particularly when a ruling is against the federal government.

The link to this article. Check out page 75 of the judge’s opinion linked above.

Posted on February 7, 2011
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Test post from iPod.

Wait for Me

Posted on January 29, 2011
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This is a poem by Konstantin Simonov written during the Second World War. It may have been the best known poem written during the war.

to Valentina Serova

Wait for me, and I’ll come back!
Wait with all you’ve got!
Wait, when dreary yellow rains
Tell you, you should not.
Wait when snow is falling fast,
Wait when summer’s hot,
Wait when yesterdays are past,
Others are forgot.
Wait, when from that far-off place,
Letters don’t arrive.
Wait, when those with whom you wait
Doubt if I’m alive.

Wait for me, and I’ll come back!
Wait in patience yet
When they tell you off by heart
That you should forget.
Even when my dearest ones
Say that I am lost,
Even when my friends give up,
Sit and count the cost,
Drink a glass of bitter wine
To the fallen friend –
Wait! And do not drink with them!
Wait until the end!

Wait for me and I’ll come back,
Dodging every fate!
“What a bit of luck!” they’ll say,
Those that would not wait.
They will never understand
How amidst the strife,
By your waiting for me, dear,
You had saved my life.
Only you and I will know
How you got me through.
Simply – you knew how to wait –
No one else but you.

1941

Payoff for Stimulus Spending Has Arrived!

Posted on May 27, 2010
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More government. That’s what the left preaches. More spending, more regulations, more intrusion into private life. And the payoff for all the “stimulus spending” you ask? Here’s a piece from USA Today:

Paychecks from private business shrank to their smallest share of personal income in U.S. history during the first

quarter of this year, a USA TODAY analysis of government data finds.
At the same time, government-provided benefits — from Social Security, unemployment insurance, food stamps and other programs — rose to a record high during the first three months of 2010.

Those records reflect a long-term trend accelerated by the recession and the federal stimulus program to counteract the downturn. The result is a major shift in the source of personal income from private wages to government programs.

The trend is not sustainable, says University of Michigan economist Donald Grimes. Reason: The federal government depends on private wages to generate income taxes to pay for its ever-more-expensive programs. Government-generated income is taxed at lower rates or not at all, he says. “This is really important,” Grimes says.

Can someone give the guys in Washington a quick lesson on economics? Please?

Should We Worry About “Big Unions?”

Posted on May 24, 2010
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Barry and the libs complain of too much money from “special interests,” usually refering to “Big Business” corrupting politics. They never talk about “big unions” and how they corrupt politics. Here’s a little piece about how several big unions, who march lock step with Obama, will try to save the Democratic majorities in Congress:

At least two influential unions will spend close to $100 million on the 2010 election, with most of those funds going to protect incumbents.

Union officials told The Hill they plan to help endangered members — particularly freshmen — who made politically difficult votes in a year during which an anti-incumbent mood has filled the country.

And the number will be even higher since the AFL-CIO declined to give its figures.

While the labor movement has displayed an aggressive tack in Democratic primaries, including supporting some challengers over incumbents, it remains concerned about the party retaining its congressional majorities.

As a result, it plans an enormous spending spree to help ensure Democratic control of Congress.

The Myth of “Green Jobs” Laid Bare

Posted on May 23, 2010
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There is a remarkable piece in the Washington Examiner which lays bare the myth of all the “green jobs” Obama and his friends are promoting. Seems that Spain, used as an positive role model for Barry, is facing economic catastrophe in part related to the myth of greening the country.

On eight separate occasions, President Barack Obama has referred to the “green economy” policies enacted by Spain as being the model for what he envisioned for America.

Later came the revelation that Obama administration senior Energy Department official Cathy Zoi — someone with serious publicized conflict of interest issues — demanded an urgent U.S. response to the damaging report from the non-governmental Spanish experts so as to protect the Obama administration’s plans…But today’s leaked document reveals that even the socialist Spanish government now acknowledges the ruinous effects of green economic policy.

Now the Spanish press is on to the story. Buried on page 34 of today’s Gaceta is this headline:

Spain admits that the “green economy” it sold to Obama is a bust
Spanish government leaks a report acknowledging the grave economic consequences of betting on renewable energy

The first few lines:

The president of the United States, Barack Obama, does not appear to have chosen well in basing his “green economy” on Spain’s. After the government of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero demonized a study by various experts on the economic downsides of renewable energies, it just leaked an internal document from the Spanish cabinet which is even more negative.

The lies from this administration just keep coming. And where is the main stream media with this story?

Who Are The Imposters?

Posted on May 3, 2010
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This is kinda cool. Click on the link below and find out how may people in the US have your name. There just happen to be 6 people with my name. Who would have figured?

HowManyOfMe.com
LogoThere are
6
people with my name in the U.S.A.

How many have your name?

Al Gore, Massive Carbon Footprint

Posted on May 2, 2010
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Victor Davis Hanson has a great piece today looking at Al Gore and his massive lifestyle (and corresponding carbon footprint.) While lecturing the world about the dangers of man made global warming, he consumes massive amounts of energy.

That advocacy—expressed through investments, partnerships, advertising, movies, lectures, books, private companies, ads, and essays—has made Al Gore fabulously wealthy. The recent climate-gate scandal concerning fudged science did not affect the religion of Gore, LTD.

Nor did the horrendous natural ash cloud that blanketed Europe—and in unprecedented fashion shut down all European air travel for days—remind a humbled Gore that sometimes nature in a second has the destructive power to alter the very way we live in a way that man does not over decades.

No, what ended the gospel of Gorism was Al Gore himself.

In this context, the recently purchased Gore second mansion at Montecito, in Oprah country, is of some national interest. Why would Gore purchase a second energy-guzzling estate, replete with several fireplaces, fountains and bathrooms, when he was stung so badly about his hypocritically profligate energy use in his Tennessee compound, his houseboat, and his private-jet junketeering? Does he understand that his newest mansion is a sort of volcanic ash-cloud that has now overwhelmed Earth in the Balance, Inc?

How does Gore reconcile this lifestyle? Hanson suggests:

A life professed spectacularly at odds with one lived seems a psychological mechanism akin to medieval penance. The sinner finds exculpation through loud confession of, or material payment for, his sins. And the payment is not just for past hypocrisies, but works preemptively—in the expectation of present and future enjoyments to come once the pay as you go formula is established: one new docudrama about a polar bear trapped on a melting ice shelf, one new mansion in and about Santa Barbara.

The more spectacularly Mr. Gore’s veins bulge, the more he hits the high notes with “digital brownshirts” and “he lied to us!,” and the more he weeps over shrinking ice caps, and coastlines on the rise, the more these manors—and others to come—become morally acceptable. In other words, gallantly bearing the environmental cross more than earns the Gores’ hot tub and Pacific view. By now, given the decade of Gore’s indulgences, I think he can do just about whatever he pleases and still enter the green fields of Elysium.

Amazing!

Can We Just Have Mexico’s Immigration Laws?

Posted on April 28, 2010
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Michelle Malkin has a great piece today on Mexican immigration laws. The Mexican president, Felipe Calderon, has denounced the recently passed Arizona immigration law as providing a gateway “to intolerance, hate, discrimination and abuse in law enforcement.” Yet Arizona illegal immigrant laws are modest in comparison to those of Mexico which include provisions such as:

Can’t we just get a copy of the Mexican laws passed here. That would put an end to illegals crossing the boarders and since the law is authored by the Mexicans themselves, should put an end to the idea that securing our national boarders is racist.

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