Monthly Archives: December 2011

RANDOM THOTS ABOUT OBAMA, HOLDER AND PELOSI

Posted on December 17, 2011 | Leave a comment

A man of the people or a member of the 1% ?
Barack Obama took 11 days in August to vacation on the exclusive island of Martha’s Vineyard.  Now the President has planned another 17 day vacation in Hawaii.  Rounding it out, that’s about one month of vacation out of the last 6 months in office.  Mrs. Crosby once said of her husband, “Bing  was a golfer who sometimes sang for a living”.  Dare we say, our President is a tourist who sometimes gives campaign speeches for a living?

Speaking of speeches
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder recently went to the LBJ library to give a speech denouncing Texas law that requires voters to present a photo ID before entering a voting booth.  Holder argued that requiring an ID for voting was somehow discriminatory.

Those who came to hear him speak were required to show photo ID cards to enter the library and hear Holder speak.

Pelosi-speak
Apparently sober, but stumbling a bit nonetheless, Nancy Pelosi, formerly third in line for the Presidency explained how helping people stay on unemployment creates jobs.  “…extending the incr…cut and extending unemployment insurance is not only good for individuals, um it also has a macroeconomic impact, uh macroeconomic advisers have advised it will make a difference of 600,000 jobs”, she said.  One would have thought it would be microeconomic advisers who would come up with a number like that.  Perhaps it was just an estimate.  Video.

The former Speaker of the House did not explain why there was a need to say what was in this particular bill before passing it into law.

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FROM the OFFICES of the PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES

Posted on December 16, 2011 | Leave a comment

Executive Order 13589 — Promoting Efficient Spending

Section 1.  Policy.  My Administration is committed to cutting waste in Federal Government spending and identifying opportunities to promote efficient and effective spending….

As such, I have pursued an aggressive agenda for reducing administrative costs since taking office and, most recently, within my Fiscal Year 2012 Budget.  Building on this effort, I direct agency heads to take even more aggressive steps to ensure the Government is a good steward of taxpayer money.

BARACK OBAMA

THE WHITE HOUSE,
November 9, 2011.

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FROM the OFFICES of the WASHINGTON POST

It looks like Michelle and Barack will be flying to Hawaii each on their own planes.

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PORTRAITS OF AMERICA

Posted on December 15, 2011 | Leave a comment

The New York Times featured a front page story in last Sunday’s edition entitled The American Archipelago, an obvious take-off on the Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.  Solzhenitsyn’s book is the depressingly accurate first hand story of life and death in the vast system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union where millions died at the hands of Josef Stalin.  The Times author compares our current prison system and finds parallels with the atrocities of a heartless totalitarian dictator like Josef Stalin.

Please note this is a front page story in the leading newspaper in all of America and read around the world.  To a citizen in Europe for instance, the New York Times is the most knowledgeable and the most reliable authority on life as it really is in the United States.  They may not trust our government but they do trust the New York Times.

“Keep America American” may not be a very catchy slogan, but who can condemn the idea of seeking to preserve the great American culture?  Chris Matthews did by characterizing the Mitt Romney slogan as call for return to the days of the Ku Klux Klan.  Matthews’ vision of the country of his birth must be similar to that of a certain Reverend who preached at a certain church in Chicago.

The New York Times equates our imprisonment of a few terrorists who plotted to kill us with Stalin’s policy of committing large numbers of his own people to death solely for the purpose of solidifying his own power.  Matthews’ message on MSNBC is that Americanism is best exemplified by a hooded mob of racist lynchers.  With reporting like this, it is no wonder that Fox News has found such success.

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DAMN THE TRUTH – DENY, DENY, AND THEN DENY IT AGAIN

Posted on December 14, 2011 | Leave a comment

 According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a government agency, the unemployment rate for 2008 was 5.6 percent and rising.  Obama said he would keep the oceans of the unemployed from rising, and the economy would start to heal, or something like that.  As anyone in partisan politics knows, unemployment continued its rise to 10.2  percent and only recently retreated below 9 to 8.6 percent.  Unemployment has grown by roughly 50 percent during the nearly three years of Obama’s term in office, two with Democratic control of the House and Senate.  This is the biggest obstacle facing the Democrats for the 2012 election.  They know it; they know it very well.

What do you call the willful suspension of personal integrity, honesty and common civility?  Debbie Wasserman Schultz.  All you need to know to judge who holds the moral high ground is to compare this woman the Democrats have chosen to head the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to anyone the Republicans have ever chosen to head the RNC.  Yes, the Republicans have had their scoundrels too, but none of them raised the needle on the obnoxious meter to the level of DWS, not even Howard Dean.

Watch the video.  Judge for yourself.

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STRAITS OF HORMUZ THREATENED WITH CLOSURE — GLOBAL ECONOMY AT PERIL

Posted on December 13, 2011 | Leave a comment

Iran has announced military maneuvers in preparation for a possible closing the Straits of Hormuz.  One third of the world’s supply of crude oil delivered by sea must go through this narrow passage between Iran and The United Arab Republics, at the base of the Persian Gulf, before the ships can reach the open waters of the Arabian Sea.

The crippling effect of a disruption in shipments lasting more than 60 days could rival that of the oil embargo in 1973.  That embargo set up the serious recession of 1974.  Long lines formed at gas stations when they had a delivery as the fuel quickly sold out.  It was difficult to find any station at all that was open on a weekend.  Iran knows the value of a threat, particularly in light of the present fragility of the international economy.  What we have here is a prime example of why stability in the Mid-East is so vital.

Not to worry.  It’s only a threat, and I’m sure our President will ask Iran not to do it.

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PAUL KRUGMAN GETS ONE RIGHT

Posted on December 12, 2011 | Leave a comment

Depression and Democracy is the title of Krugman’s column in the New York Times today.  I know little about the Hungarian political party known as Fidesz, but beyond that, what Krugman wrote was dead right as far as it went.  Democracy is under threat.

…the gravity of European political developments isn’t widely understood.

First of all, the crisis of the euro is killing the European dream. The shared currency, which was supposed to bind nations together, has instead created an atmosphere of bitter acrimony.

…a Europe-wide recession now looks likely

Europeans [are] furious at what is perceived, fairly or unfairly (or actually a bit of both), as a heavy-handed exercise of German power.

Nobody familiar with Europe’s history can look at this resurgence of hostility without feeling a shiver.

The ecojournalist doesn’t hesitate to use the H word either.  Krugman never was known for his political correctness, if you will pardon the pun.

…ominous political trends shouldn’t be dismissed just because there’s no Hitler in sight.

Now we must delve into uncertain territory, what the author thinks but doesn’t say.  Just which movement on the current scene does he think a figure like H best represents?  Krugman limits his remarks in the article to political parties in Europe.  Speaking domestically, would it be the Occupy movement or the Tea Party?

Spokesfolks from the left see the problems; they just don’t see the causes so they come to the wrong conclusions about the solutions.  They are looking at the malaise through a window when they should be using a mirror.

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GOT TALENT? YUP. THEN NEVER MIND THE MILK.

Posted on December 11, 2011 | Leave a comment

The networks are replete with Reality Shows that are unreal.  When we are shown lone individuals driven to the need to drink muddy water and eat insects and leeches because there is no other means of survival, we forget how big a crew it takes to film such an ordeal and never ask if the crew spends the night in a tent with the hero or are helicoptered back to their hotel.

Here we offer you some reality that is really real and, in reality, just as amazing. And we assure you, the camera crew was not helicoptered back to their hotel.

If this puts you in mind of Dueling Banjos, here is the link.

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WHEN YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO, YOU DO WHAT YOU DO KNOW…OR PLAY GOLF

Posted on December 10, 2011 | 1 comment

If President Obama knew how to create jobs he would be creating jobs because it would further his chances for re-election.  If his administration had a record of accomplishment the President would run on his record.  But he can’t because they haven’t.  The Messiah aura is extinguished.  Hope and Change is not a re-usable product.  And so, in such a situation what is a President to do to seek re-election?

A president does what he knows and plays every card he has, even if his best card is no higher than the Jack of Clubs.  Therefore, we are seeing an all out class war and a great deal of chest thumping reminding us that Osama bin Laden was found and executed on the President’s watch.  President Barack Obama may not know that Austrian is not a language or that the U.S. has only 50 states, but he does know how to use class warfare to demagogue his way into winning an election.

With respect to bin Laden, the real kudos, go of course, to the members of the military who actually did the job.  They are our heroes, not the people who ordered or authorized it.  Nevertheless, Obama should be given credit for his contribution to this success.

With no winnable path available on the high ground, the low ground is the only path left to the Democrats.  We yearn for a Reagan but it may be what we really need is a Lincoln.

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$38,500 FOR DINNER WITH BARACK OBAMA

Posted on December 8, 2011 | Leave a comment

At least it wasn’t just lunch.  Yesterday, 20 people tossed in $38,500 apiece to have dinner with Barack.  And to think, I am happy if you just pick up the tab.

How do you suppose they came up with a number like 38 ½ thousand?  Did they start at 50, were offered 25, then agreed to split the difference?  Perhaps the 500 bucks was for the waitress.  But that’s not even 10%.

I said waitress.  Did I err?  Can you say that any more, or is it too gender specific?  How long has it been since you heard some one say “I’ll be your waitress this evening”?  There are no more waiters or waitresses; there are only server persons.  I don’t know what these people think they are hiding.  I can still tell if my server person is a waiter or a waitress, most of them anyhow.

Excuse me; I must sign off now.  My server person just called my number; my burger and fries are up.  I just need to get some ketchup and fill my soda cup.

ADDENDUM
AP reported the number as 35,800; Drudge puts it at 38,500.  I am going with the Drudge figure.  I can’t see Democrats leaving an 800 dollar tip.

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PUTIN AND THE PROTESTS

Posted on December 7, 2011 | Leave a comment

Thousands of protesters flooded the streets of Moscow to demonstrate against the election of Vladimir Putin.  The Russians were exercising a freedom of which they had long been deprived.  The Russian people know where they have been and do not want to go back there.

The United States is moving toward the place from which the Russian people have come.  The American people don’t know what it is like where they are going but many of them want to go there anyhow.  In the process, our freedoms are being lost bit by bit.

Those of us standing by the wayside shouting bridge out ahead may face difficulties having our voices heard, but heard they will be.  President Reagan was able to put an end to the Soviet Union because communism does not work.  We have the same thing going for us in the upcoming election.  The President’s policies do not work and the voters know it.

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