Normally I just ramble thoughts off from my own mind. Today I present an excellent column from Phil Kerpen….enjoy:

Obama’s Top Five Broken Promises

mzev44 Economic, Patriotism, Philosophy, Political

In 2006 we were told by Nancy Pelosi and the new Democratic controlled Congress that they would get things done. They would work with Republicans for the good of the nation. They would end corruption once and for all. They would be transparent and work for the people. None of that took place and as a matter of fact it was the exact opposite. More corruption came out of the Democratic Party after 2006 than in recent years. Congress did nothing except name a bunch of Post Offices after a known KKK member and lion of the Democratic Party - Robert Byrd. The “Do-Nothing Congress” is amply named. And since 2006 our nation has gone straight down the toilet. I’m not blaming only Democrats. Republicans sold out their COnservative beliefs and spent, spent, spent, like their name was Bill Clinton. Bad move. Regardless this Congress has done NOTHING to bring the nation together. NOTHING.

Now comes Barack Obama. Straight from the heavens above! He promises to end corruption. He promises to be bi-partisan. He promises that no lobbyists will be in his cabinet. So what happens? He appoints lobbyists, he has members of his team resigning in disgrace because they are tax cheats, they put out this stimulus bill that will not stimulate ANYTHING and refuse to take in Republican ideas on it. They won so too bad for the Repubilcans! Way to be bi-partisan.

Does anyone care that the White House has taken the Census away from the Commerce Dept and moved it to the White House? Anyone even understand why they would do this? They are trying to change the electoral map! This is an outrage! Senator Gregg is going to be confirmed to be Sec. of Commerce and he’s a Republican so the White House takes away one of his most important jobs. This is a disgrace.

Is anyone aware of the wasteful spending in this new stimulus bill that is supposed create jobs and save the economy. They talk about creating these jobs in construction to fix bridges, roads and other infrastructure…wonderful. Those jobs wont last. When the job is done, you are laid off. Those are not permanant jobs. One of the items in the bill is an 88 million dollar plan to construct new schools in Milwaukee when there are 15 vacant schools already!!! WTF?!?

$150 million dollars to livestock insurance to cover honeybees and fresh fish??? Thats stimulus? That creates jobs for the middle class and lower class? This will help the economy? The worst thing is that Obama is walking around LYING to everyone and saying there is no pork and earmarks in this bill when there IS. How dare these people lie to us. They are stealing our money and telling us one thing while doing another. And the people walk around like zombies saying “OOOO Baaaaaa Maaaaa, OOOOO Baaaaaa MAAAAAA” WAKE UP ZOMBIES! They say this is an emergency and if we dont take action now then we will be up shits creek! Well than why are they loading up all this pork into the bill? Its like Al Gore saying the planet is dying and then adds to its death while asking the rest of us to stop. WTF is going on here???

$350 + million for education on sexually transmitted diseases. Great idea…how does that create jobs? How does this help the economy?

$650 million for coupons to help people switch to digital tv?!??!?! WTF?

$150 million for renovations to the Smithsonian. WTF!?!?!?

$70 million to help people to stop smoking. Great intentions but how does this help the economy?

Thats just a few of the items in the bill! This bill is almost $900 BILLION DOLLARS of guess who’s money? OURS! Not the Governments. Obama’s admin already has proven they dont pay taxes.

They say they are going to give tax cuts to everyone. Well what about the people who do not pay taxes? They will get a check in the mail for absolutely nothing. What is that? Sounds like WELFARE to me.

They cry about the deficit we are in but they want to spend their way out of it. How is that possible? The government needs to STOP SPENDING.

Oh and to top it all off, the Obama admin is going to cut Defense Spending by at least 10% and as much as 25%. We are in the middle of a war against terror. China and Russia are developing their weapons. Obama is taking apart ours. He is AGAINST the missile defense system that would prevent a missile from hitting a city in our nation. WTF?!?!!

To top it off they rushed this bill through and did not give anyone a chance to read it first! Its high time that the people of this nation know what is going into these bills before they are signed into law. It is unacceptable that these elected officials can insert nonsense into a bill without anyone knowing what was done.

Ok…let me stop….enough is enough. You get the point…or do you? I know a few of you do. But most of you dont. Obama lied. People were duped. I thought it would have taken a few years to expose this radical group of individuals who are taking over this country but as Charles Krauthamer said it only took a couple of weeks.

Obama has failed us already.

mzev44 Economic, Patriotism, Policies, Political, Values

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http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/94282/nyu-students-protest-lack-of-disclosure/Default.aspx

These young people, who have been trained by their hippie bleeding heart liberal parents, have barracaided themselves in the school cafeteria here in NYC. They are demanding the University to give up information about the finances the school has including the salaries of the Professors! They also want more scholarships for people from Gaza.

Here is a simple solution:

Tear gas, cops in riot gear, and permanent expulsion from school….after a month or 2 in jail.

Losers.

mzev44 Patriotism, Political, Values

Background: Republican Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire is being asked by President Obama to accept the Cabinet position of Commerce Secretary.

Great…Except that New Hampshire has a Democratic Governor, who would likely appoint a Democratic Senator, or at best a very weak RINO.

With the current balance in the Senate being 59-41 there is just enough to eek out a filibuster if needed to stop a run-away Democrat bill from passing - replace Senator Gregg with a Dem and that goes to 60-40, essentialy filibuster-proof.

We would be powerless to stop any Democratic legislation from passing…

and they’d know it.

YES WE CAN do something about it, sort of.

We can contact Senator Gregg and ask him to not accept the offer.

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Many Americans, and nearly all conservatives, are growing weary of all the hype and publicity revolving around the Obama presidency and upcoming inauguration.  In a book store recently I, from the doorway, could see his picture on the cover of a book or Magazine eleven, yes eleven times without even fully walking into the store.  Even some that voted for him agree that the “Obama dinner plate collection” is a bit overboard.

While I’m well past annoyed by all the press & publicity, I can actually see a great potential for this celebrity status to be put to good use.

There’s a role that a US President plays that isn’t in the constitution, or in any piece of legislature, or probably even written anywhere – it’s the role of Leader.  By that I don’t just mean Commander-in-chief or Chief Executive Officer, I mean the intangible Leader.

Most of my US readers are somewhat fans of football so I’ll use a football analogy:  Parallel the US President with the quarterback.  Most of the QB’s responsibility is to call the right play, and execute his part of that play.   Same as the President, he has to have a good plan, and successfully execute his role in said plan.

The quarterback, like the US President, also have a very large intangible role that accounts for, I’d say nearly half, of his value to the team.  And that is the role of Inspirational leader.  The QB and POTUS have to not just call the best play for the situation, execute their role in the play, but also must inspire the team to believe in three things:  The play he just called, his ability to execute the play and, most importantly- themselves.

For example, let’s look at President Bush2 post 9/11.  While many people didn’t support (or even want to acknowledge) his presidency, you can’t deny that he gave everyone a feeling of comfort.  In troubled times, nearly everyone looks to the leader.  And he didn’t let us down (at least not right away). 

He gave us confidence in 1. the idea that America would retaliate and seek justice, 2.  His ability to get us there and 3.  our ability as Americans to come together and overcome tragedy.

And that brings us to the point of this article.  Soon-to-be President Obama may be a Marxist, a product of corrupt Illinois politics, a glutton for political celebrity, a manufactured by the DNC, or all or none.  But one thing he is for sure, is an inspirational leader.

In our current economic situation, not only do we need a good plan, and sound execution, but we need belief & confidence.  Much of the US condition is based on “consumer confidence”.  And while the real permanent solution is fiscal responsibility, we also need a big dose of individual belief, and here’s why Obama might be the guy to help:

From: “Obama can save us!”

According to a survey published last night, 71 per cent of Americans believe the economy will improve during the first year of the Obama presidency and 65 per cent said they think unemployment will drop.

Asked about cash-strapped Wall Street, 72 per cent said they thought the stock market would recover.

Some 63 per cent were confident that their personal financial situation would improve.

So he’s doing what he does best, in fact possibly the only thing he’s actually good at, inspiring people to believe.

HOWEVER:

(and this is a big however)

The problem with Obama’s inspiration?

1.

He’s inspiring people to believe in the government, and not in themselves.

Admittedly yes it’s good that they’re being inspired to something, we really need a leader who will inspire people to believe in themselves.  Since its individuals that actually make up America and her economy.

2.

He’s inspired much of America yes, but some of the most important facets of the Economy, the “rich” – business owners, producers, and job providers, are not onboard with his plan, and therefore still quite uninspired.

I’m thankful that the economy is still good for me and my family - for now.  As for the future, I sway bettwen somewhat concerned, and really concerned.  I guess we’ll see.

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Ha! It’s that time of year again, time to [long drippy Christmas stuff edited].

One of my favorite things to do this time of year is go to a store, fight the crowds, etc just to have the guy, or gal, tell me “Happy Holidays” with their pasted on holiday smile.  And I respond with a resounding “Merry Christmas to you too!”, to which most of the time I get a relieved sounding “merry Christmas”.

That aside, here’s the point of this article:  December 25th is Christmas, whether you are a Christian, Jew, Atheist, Jedi, Muslim, or Martian.  You don’t have to celebrate it, you don’t even have to believe it, but December 25th is Christmas.  Just like December 26th is Boxing Day.  Now I don’t celebrate that, and unless you live in Canada or some parts of the UK you don’t either, but that doesn’t change the fact that Dec 26th is Boxing Day and December 25th is Christmas.

So, I repeat: 

December 25th is freakin Christmas!

Get over it

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So after all the calls to congress, late night senate sessions, more calls to congress, being on hold & disconnected at the white house, it’s come to this.

Yeah, we’re pretty frustrated.  We did everything legal.  We called, we petitioned our representatives and some of them even listened and we voted to NOT provide tax money for failing car companies.

And the president says, that’s ok boys I got yer back.

Too angry to type, this editor has thrown his shoes…and pen…and keys…and laptop-no wait, that was expensive.

Several questions have come up:

Did the Whitehouse tell anyone that “if congress doesn’t help, we will”?
If so, did the UAW walk away from negotiations knowing that they’d get paid anyway?

I happen to watch some video of GWB2 durring the 2000 primaries & election - wow what a different man that was.  It made me really sad acutally to contrast that guy with the now bought and beaten man we know as President.  He’s been given one more chance to stand on what’s left of his conservative principles…and he won’t do it. 

I really miss the GWB I voted for in 2000.  I really do, I liked that guy.  Not as much as people seem to like Obama, but pretty close.  I had really high hopes for him and our nation after that election. 

Got a bit off-topic but my point is, that here’s a final chance (and not many people get one) for redemption of his principles - I wish he’d take it.

NOTE:  This editor does not hate domestic cars, or UAW workers, and wants no one to be fired right before Christmas.  HOWEVER - the right principles and the right decision, are always the right principles and the right decision.

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