I must say I have about had it with lying progressives on the left, their willing accomplices on the right, and their obedient lap-dogs in the “mainstream” media in placing this recession at former President Bush’s feet.

Let’s be clear. That claim is a big steaming pile of something you don’t want to step in.

George Walker Bush was elected our 43rd President November 7, 2000 and inaugurated January 20, 2001. His tax policies caused the recession (a mild one to be sure) he inherited from Clinton to reverse itself. By mid-term of his second term (2006), we were pretty “flush” financially. I don’t know about anyone reading this, but MY investments were sailing along just fine.

But, the liberal/progressive wing of the Democrat Party convinced “we the people” that despite our seeming economic prosperity, we were “mired in an unwinable war in Iraq” ~~ a war that we just happened to be winning, DESPITE the obstruction of the left ~~ and that we needed “a change”. Well, a “change” is exactly what we got…mind you, it wasn’t a change for the better…not by a long shot. The newly elected Congress, with both Houses being controlled by Democrats took their seats in January of 2007 (elected in November of 2006).

Here’s where it gets tricky…follow this very closely. CONGRESS controls the pursestrings of the US Budget through the end of September of 2007, we were still operating under a Republican budget (the budget cycle runs from October 1 – September 30). In that year the Dow Jones Industrials hit its historical high of 14,164 (October 9, 2007).

After ONE year of Progressive (socialist) Democrat fiscal policy (October 10, 2008), the DJI was at 8,451 (clue time – that’s a destruction of 40% of the wealth in the country). Five months later (March 6, 2009) it was at 6,627 (that’s a further erosion of 22% in FIVE MONTHS and a total loss of over 53% in less than 18 months). During this same period, the mortgage scandal rocked the country and was largely to blame for the woes in the DJI.

Now, here’s where it gets good.

Who was it that had been warning us about the inevitable housing collapse and the need for more regulation and oversight on at least 5 differnent occassions since 2003? Who TOLD us the housing sector was going to blow up in our faces were steps not taken to reign in Fannie & Freddie?

George W. Bush.

Who joined him in those warnings in 2005?

John McCain.

When did the mortgage troubles start?

In the mid-70s during Carter’s administration (Community Reinvestment Act)

Whose policies exacerbated the Banking/Mortgage sector by forcing banks to give mortgages to people who had absolutely no ability to repay those loans, promising that Fannie & Freddie would buy the “bad paper” from them?

Bill Clinton’s

Who took his seat as a newly elected Senator in January of 2007?

Barack Hussein Obama.

Who obstructed President Bush on reform/regulation, every step of the way while they were in the minority for the first 6 years of GW Bush’s Presidency?

Liberal/Progressive Democrats Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Kent Conrad, Chuck Schumer, Chris Dodd & last but certainly not least, Barack Hussein Obama.

I should add, there were a handful of Republicans in there, too led by Arlen Specter.

Who continued to poo-poo the CLEAR warning signs of impending disaster, telling us all along that “things are just fine” through 2007 after they took control of both Houses of Congress?

Yup, the liberal/Progressive Democrats led chiefly by Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and Kent Conrad and the same handful of Republicans.

NOW, who is attempting to lay the blame for the economic woes we now suffer at the feet of George W. Bush?

The very same liberals/progressives in Congress who actually brought this fiasco to bear, including the sitting President ~~ Barack Hussein Obama.

I know that I’m going to catch hell from those who are enamored with and awestruck by Obama because the DJI is back over 10,000. For those simple-minded people who are obviously not paying attention, I offer the following.

About a year ago, our money supply consisted of roughly $800 billion dollars (the total number of dollars actually circulating in our economy). To “revitalize” and “stimulate” the economy, the Federal Reserve was directed to print a TRILLION dollars and injected it into circulation, effectively devaluing the dollar by 120%.

Would you like to know what a trillion dollars looks like? Click the following link.

http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html ~~ That’s 50 pallets x 100 pallets, stacked 2 high. But, I digress…back to the topic at hand.

This means that each dollar you had last year is now worth roughly 45¢. This also means the 10,000 Dow is really closer to 4500 in real value in last year’s dollars. The sad reality is that, since its inception in 1913, the Federal Reserve has devalued our dollar by over 97%. That means that what costs you a dollar today, would have cost you less than THREE CENTS in 1913.

Obama ~~ or as the Administrator of this site rightly calls him, Obastard ~~ is selling us down the river and doesn’t give a rosy rat’s rear-end WHAT we think of him. He is a Liberal Progressive, cut from the same cloth as Woodrow Wilson, FDR, & LBJ, and despises America. “We the People”, according to the Founders, have the DUTY to throw off the chains of tyranny if/when the government becomes oppressive, restricting the God-given liberties of the people.

I can only ask, “What’s taking so long?”

In case it is not “moderated” into the thread I’ll drop it here because the ramblings of Press need to be read, and so do the replies.  Especially the ones that point out how absurd these lefties are…

My reply to :

mmmmysharona

“The reason that there are so few progressive talkers on radio is that the market is dominated by owners and programmers who want conservative radio.”

Posted as example one of the leftist disconnect from reality.  You’ve never run a business nor been near anyone who has, have you?  Don’t answer, you’ll probably lie anyway since reality is so distant from you.  But here’s a dose of it:  Business owners are in business to earn money.  To do that they do what makes them money, sell what sells.  You can’t just dump something out there and make people buy it.  Either it is wanted or it fails.  Conservative talk is wanted and makes money and thus station owners sell it.  Leftist propaganda doesn’t, hence the dearth of lefty shows and the demise of Air Amerika.

“Period. In EVERY market where there is a competing progressive show, that show beats even the likes of Rush and Hannity.”

This is an example of why you make a claim like above; you have no connection to facts.  Or you just don’t care.  This isn’t even a lie, it’ a fantasy.

“…If anything, we lost MA because the President and Congress are not being progressive enough and they are caving to the right wingers!”

And here’s the final example.  Obama isn’t being socialist enough so the answer from an irate Citizenry is to elect a moderate conservative.  This is why the left can’t stay in power long even when they do manage to steal it.  Again, you didn’t lie, you fantasized.  Your statement is so outrageous on the face of it that it takes one’s breath away.  The only initial  response afterwards is laughter.

And THAT is the real reason the Lefty Network died:  Regular people just can’t take that kind of crap, or Bill Press et al, seriously.

December 26, 3:49 PMColumbia Conservative ExaminerAnthony G. Martin

In the dead of night on December 17, 2009, President Barack Hussein Obama placed the United States of America under the authority of the international police organization known as INTERPOL, granting the organization full immunity to operate within the United States.

According to Threatswatch:

Last Thursday, December 17, 2009, The White House released an Executive Order “Amending Executive Order 12425.” It grants INTERPOL (International Criminal Police Organization) a new level of full diplomatic immunity afforded to foreign embassies and select other “International Organizations” as set forth in the United States International Organizations Immunities Act of 1945.

By removing language from President Reagan’s 1983 Executive Order 12425, this international law enforcement body now operates - now operates - on American soil beyond the reach of our own top law enforcement arm, the FBI, and is immune from Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
What, exactly does this mean? It means that INTERPOL now has the full authority to conduct investigations and other law enforcement activities on U.S. soil, with full immunity from U.S. laws such as the Freedom of Information Act and with complete independence from oversight from the FBI.

In short, a global law enforcement entity now has full law-enforcement authority in the U.S. without any check on its power afforded by U.S. law and U.S. law enforcement agencies.

A bit of background is in order here, and Hot Air provides it:

During his presidency, Ronald Reagan granted the global police agency Interpol the status of diplomatic personnel in order to engage more constructively on international law enforcement. In Executive Order 12425, Reagan made two exceptions to that status. The first had to do with taxation, but the second was to make sure that Interpol had the same accountability for its actions as American law enforcement — namely, they had to produce records when demanded by courts and could not have immunity for their actions.

Barack Obama unexpectedly revoked those exceptions in a change to EO 12425 last (week)…

http://www.examiner.com/x-3704-Columbia-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m12d26-US-placed-under-international-policestate

And he’s not shy about it, either…

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-amending-executive-order-12425

People can hem and haw all they want about global government and a “New World Order” but this is not merely more mortar in the joints, it’s another brick wall all by itself. And some of you were wondering where Obama would get his “enforcers”? Guess what, I just found ‘em for you.

I was driving to the doctor this AM and heard some Brit on the news talking about how wonderful it was that Obastard and his familiar, erm, wife, had put in all the effort, or sacrifice to use her word, for the Olympic effort and how everyone, especially the African nation representatives, just loved him/them(in spite of everything European officials have been saying about him lately)…

On the way home the first news item out of the block was that Chicago had been eliminated in the first round of voting. While I know it’s probably petty I just could not help but smile. Not merely at the smack down for The One, but at the thought of the absolute tantrum he’s certainly throwing on AF1.   I do feel for all the poor people trapped on that Boeing with him, though.

So, I guess the next questions are, how will they blame this on Bush(I have an answer for that), what will be The One’s excuse and how much screeching is going to come from MayorDaleyville?  The first, as I note, seems obvious; the left will cry that Bush so poisoned world opinion against the US that even the mighty charm of The One, and the “sacrifice” of his wife could not overcome it.  And, of course, his mindless minions will believe every absurd word of it..

 How The Ego himself will Spin it is a little harder to tell.   If he’s angry enough he may well use the leftist talking point and blame it on bush.  Considering the latest unemployment figures he’s really running out of any other options on any issue.  It’s all gotta be Bush because the only alternative at this late date is The One ain’t all he was cracked up to be.  While the rest of the world may well be coming to realize that the odds of Obama himself ever questioning his own ego are below any ability to measure.

Lastly, what of Chicago?  What of the corrupt politicians that comprise every single tax-stealing government thug in a 100 mile area?  What of all the Obama cronies who he certainly promised the chance to steal from an Olympic project?  All those union thugs who won’t get those imaginary and transient “48,000 jobs” and all those fat cats who won’t get to sell their run down properties for exorbitant sums?  And that isn’t even considering all the money wasted to maintain the unwanted and unneeded infrastructure after the Olympics toddle away…
 
Well after they finish chewing off parts of their own extremities in fits of petulant impotency you can bet they won’t blame Obastard.  They helped put his sorry ass in power and if he owed them before he surely owes them now after a failure like this.  Problem is, they can’t publicly call him on the carpet for it because them they can’t try to recoup their losses at a later date.  So as with all the rest of the minions they’ll blame Bush, or the world in general, or racist conservatives.
 
In the meantime, while I really just can’t stop laughing the more I think about this, you can bet the One will be more desperate than ever to ram something through as a sop to his handlers.  So if you thought you’d seen the last of healthcare and federal sales taxes guess again.  the One is further in debt now than he ever has been…though not nearly so far as he’s put the rest of us.

There is just nothing at all that i can possibly add to this piece.  Read it…and weep.

October 01, 2009

Sympathy for the Devil

By Robin of Berkeley

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/sympathy_for_the_devil.html

Ted Kennedy died a little after midnight after a year long battle with brain cancer.  The Senator, long referred to as the “Liberal Lion”, spent his last few days trying to get the law that he put in place to cover his seat in 2004, should he win nomination for POTUS, changed back now.  Then it was to prevent a nominally Repub governor from appointing a RINO to his seat.  Now it’s to keep the seat from being vacant since that’s no longer a problem.

This pretty well defines Teddy specifically  and the Kennedys in general.  Do whatever it takes to maintain power and forward a left wing agenda.  If you have to twist the law, run over the Constitution or BoR, or lie about murdering a girl on a bridge in the dark of night, so be it.  For decades Kennedy yelled, cursed and drank his way through his career, promoting legislation to restrict the rights of gun owners, tax the productive to pay for the lazy and covering butt for his fellow lefties.  Unless, of course, they stepped off the Democrat Plantation.  Then Ted’s true tolerance shined through.

They say you aren’t supposed to speak ill of the dead but this is one dead white guy that earned just about all the vitriol that will be heaped upon him over the next week or so.  Even as we are deluged in a state funeral and endless media coverage of the demise of this “great” man most of the US will know him for what he was:  A murderer, a drunkard, a womanizer, a hypocrite, a race-baiter, a partisan hack and the Kennedy who just never could quite make it.

The US is better for his failures than his “successes”, and he’s one of the few people whose demise leaves the world a brighter place.  We can only hope that there is a just God and Mary Jo Kopeckne finally gets the justice she and her family had to wait forty years for.  At least for those of us left behind things are better already.

Rest in peace, Teddy.  I pray for your eternal soul even as I hope there is an angel assigned to kick your metaphysical ass for the next couple millenia.

Obama and the Titanic.  With a -12 approval index already it’s just a matter of time before they show as synonymous in the dictionary.

“Jimmy Carter” may be cited as an alternative pronunciation…

**With thx to ColonialMarine at FC

Before pursuing socio-economic changes, due to the somewhat specious argument that humanity is the chief cause of Global Climate Change (GCC), an analysis for reducing man made CO2 must be done. The reason for this is because the worst offenders (India, China, sub-Saharan Africa, etc), according to the Kyoto Protocol (KP), are required to do little, if anything, to reduce their CO2 levels. The United States is a carbon sink, but would be required by KP to spend TRILLIONS on a problem to which it is a net non-contributor.

The analysis must include:

- Irrefutable scientific proof that human activity, rather than solar output, is causing Global Climate Change

- The percentage of Global Warming/Cooling (GW/C) attributable to human activity.

- Scientific study showing X% reduction CO2 will result in Y% reduction of the rate of GCC.

- The cost in USD / % reduction of CO2

- Necessary technologies for achieving said reduction including:

  - the costs of R&D,

  - manufacturing,

  - distributing,

  - installing,

  - operating and maintaining those technologies,

  - source(s) of funding and any negative environmental effects thereof.

- Economic impacts of the technologies on the nations’ people, businesses, and governments.

- Cost of minimizing natural changes in “greenhouse gas” levels to maintain target GCC rate.

- Cost/benefit ratio for entire process and arguments against spending resources preparing for the inevitable, rather than trying to stop the unstoppable.

Before the GCC propagandists (GCCPs) distract us, we must realize a few things about our atmosphere. First and foremost is how much each of the Greenhouse Gases (GG) contribute to the Greenhouse Effect (GE). We must also ask the most glaring question – Just how much of the GE is caused by human activity? The answer? “NOT MUCH”.

When not adjusted for the Water Vapor (WV) in our atmosphere, CO2 accounts for 73.4% of the GE. Methane accounts for 7.1%, Nitrous Oxide adds another 19%, CFCs and other misc. gases comprise 1.4%

Again, this is NOT accounting for the major GG – Water Vapor.

Once WV is added to the mix, the percentages drop to insignificant, approaching comedic, levels. You see, WV accounts for 95% of the total GE and it cannot be ignored. When adjusted for WV, CO2 suddenly accounts for 3.6% of the GE. Methane, Nitrous Oxide and the other misc. gases account for 0.36%, 0.95% and 0.072% respectively.

To further exacerbate the GCCPs, we must also realize the vast majority of GGs occur naturally. Humanity accounts for 0.001% of WV, 3.325% of CO2, 18.338% of Methane, 4.933% of N2O, and 65.711% of the other offending gases. Those percentages seem high, but you have to remember all of them combined (man-made and natural sources) comprises FIVE percent of the GE. Water Vapor, almost all of which is natural in origin accounts for 95% of the GE.

To answer the question that preceded this lengthy explanation, humanity accounts for roughly 0.28% of the Greenhouse effect, if WV is taken into account. That figure rises to a mere 5.53% if one does not.

Information for the above found here:

http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html

To further complicate the GCCPs stance on this subject, we must remember that 35 years ago in the mid-1970s the experts had the following to say on global COOLING:

“We have about five more years at the outside to do something,”

    a.. ecologist Kenneth Watt April 19, 1970.
Hmmm…that one sounds familiar.

“the world has 10 years or less to turn things around before it is too late”

Al Gore, concerning global warming/climate change – July 2008

But, let’s get back to the 1970s, shall we?

“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”

- Harvard biologist George Wald, 1970.

“Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”

- New York Times editorial page, 1970.

“If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder in 1990, but eleven degrees colder by the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age.”

- University of California, Davis Prof. Kenneth Watt.

Earth is warmer because solar output is higher than it was 35 years ago, not because of anything humanity has done, or CAN DO.

In fact, Dr. Roy Spencer, who made his career studying climate for NASA states, “Were it not for weather, the natural greenhouse effect would cause the surface of the Earth to average 140 degrees.”

  http://www.reason.com/blog/printer/118878.html

The reason for this, according to Dr. Spencer is our weather patterns short-circuit the GE. Funny how we never hear about that.

In conclusion, and I’ve only begun to scratch the surface, Global Warming/Cooling and Anthropogenic (Manmade) Climate Change are nothing more than a group of people trying to get rich by scaring the masses. They are aided and abetted by those in the liberal mainstream media.

When Mr. Gore figures out a way to put a dimmer switch on the Sun then, and ONLY then, can we talk about humanity’s affect on Earth’s climate. Until that comes to pass, I invite Mr. Gore to sit down, shut the heck up, and quit perpetuating the grand daddy of all hoaxes upon humanity.

So, what’s the skinny on Global Warming/Climate change? Only that the argument is so thin, it’s anorexic.

Dan Hennessy resides in Grand Forks, ND and has been studying the dynamic in the hysteria perpetuated by the Climate Change Propaganda Machine for 5 years.

I’ve decided to embrace the label.  Why, you ask?  Because as someone on the radio is heard to say, “words mean things”.  He’s correct so far as he goes.  What he fails to acknowledge is that in the modern world of leftism the things words mean are dependent on the desires and agenda of the word user.  What was once a descriptive term used to denote an ugly form of humanity can suddenly become a tool to silence those who don’t think like you.

Such is the case with “racist”.   Might as well embrace it. The word once meant someone who bases their opinion of another on the color of their skin. Now, according to the Obamabots, it means anyone who opposes Obastard. So based on the NewSpeak definition I am a racist! Thank you and have a nice day…

Such is the style of the tolerant left.  It’s the final expression of what we used to call the race card but must now call the race deck.  There’s just too much use of it to refer to the device in a singular fashion any more.  And therein we arrive at the problem, the issue of meaning and acceptance, even embracement, by those tarred and feathered with it.

I disagree with Obama’s policies.  I do not buy his Euro-leftist medical scheme or his billions in bailouts.  I do not accept that government taking over major public corporations to “save” them is the logical, let alone Constitutional, thing to do.  I can’t be quiet about the massive debt he is creating with the full and willing participation of a Democrat CONgress.  I hope he fails and I am smart enough to realize and understand that just because HE fails doesn’t mean the United States fails.  I am not stupid enough to think the events at Townhall meetings are anything but what they are, grasroots anger at bloated government expansion.  Nor am I dumb enough to not recognize the Chicago style union thuggery for exactly what it is.

In short, I oppose Obama and as such, according to the tolerant left, I am a racist.  Because, you see, none of the above matters.  Policy and principle and the Rule of Law and faith in the Constitution and Bill of Rights are not legitimate reasons to speak up.  The only reason, according to an increasingly shrill left, to speak against The One is because of the color of his skin.  They chant this, not because they believe it but because people have for so long been conditioned to recoil from the racist label that they know they can silence their rational opposition without engaging in debate.  Debate they can no t win.

This is the verbal and written equivalent of those SEIU thugs at the Townhall meetings.  And it will work as it always has in the past…unless we choose to refuse to accept their redefinitions.  Embrace the term while laughing at the stupidity and arrogance of those who sling it about.  Take away its mystery and power by greeting it with a smile and a nod. 

“Yes,  I oppose Obama and his unconstitutional policies and if you call that racism then by all means, call me a racist!”

From here on I do so.   I encourage everyone at every Townhall and every public encounter and private discussion to accept the label with pride.  If this be their new meaning then so be it.  A racist opposes Obama, so they say.  I do, so I am and that is something to be proud of and if that bothers them they have only two choices, shut up about it and find a new label or admit to their own disingenius use of a sad shade of NewSpeak.

That and they need to find a new word  to describe people like Jesse Jackson and Robert Byrd, though somehow I think the irony may be lost on them.  Most everything else seems to be these days…