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He has made his mark, and it looks like this next election cycle is going to be fun to watch.

Ready for some more tingly leg Mathews?

Much more,
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My Friend,

The 2010 election offers all Americans - and especially Republicans - a critical choice. We can fight for the principles we believe in, or watch as Barack Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress take our nation down a costly, destructive path.

President Obama and the Democrats in control of Congress have gone too far in their quest to “change” America. Their radical, far left policies are undermining America’s founding principles and greatly threaten our nation’s future economic health and national security.

It is truly disheartening that in their desire to advance their far left agenda, the Democrats are totally ignoring proven ways to create jobs and get our economy moving again. Our opponents’ determined efforts to completely overhaul America’s health care system, drive our federal deficit to historic levels, and do serious harm to Medicare - serves as a powerful lesson as to the lengths they will go to advance their radical liberal agenda.

The issues we face today call for real, positive, effective solutions. That is why I am determined to remain in the U.S. Senate.

In recent months, a reporter dubbed me the “most formidable opponent of the Obama agenda.” For me, the bottom line is this: I will always put my country first and fight for what I believe is in the best interest of the American people.

Inconceivably the Obama White House and Democratic Congressional leaders continue to tell the national media that they are carrying out the “will of the people” and those who are speaking up against their policies represent only a “small minority” of voters.

You and I know that is not true. Vast numbers of Americans oppose their policies and are saying “No” to more lost jobs, more wasteful spending, more government control, more taxes and more debt.

What the Democrats are advocating is not the kind of change that is good for America and our children’s future. I’m proud to lead the fight against these policies and am honored to have you by my side.

Thank you for your ongoing and steadfast support.

Sincerely,

John McCain

Weasel Words From Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

Thank you for your message to Secretary Clinton sharing your thoughts and concerns. We value your opinion and will take it and the views of all Americans into consideration.

Secretary Clinton addressed this situation during recent remarks.

SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, trafficking of human beings, particularly of children, is a problem across the world. And it’s something that every nation should be addressing. The Haitian nation acted to protect children who were being removed from their country without appropriate documentation.

We have worked with the Haitian Government over the last two and a half weeks, three weeks, to help facilitate and transport children who are properly documented as having an adoptive family or guardianship awaiting them. So we know how to do this in the right way. And it was unfortunate that, whatever the motivation, that this group of Americans took matters into their own hands.

As you know, they have been charged with breaking the laws of Haiti. And we are engaged in discussions with the Haitian Government about the appropriate disposition of their cases. They’ve been granted consular access.

We are providing them the services that any American citizen who is detained is entitled to, and we will be working through the questions that the Haitian Government has and that - and looking for the best way forward on this.

But I would just end by underscoring that trafficking in human beings is a form of modern slavery, it is an abuse of the human dignity and the autonomy of individuals, and it’s particularly egregious when it takes children and either puts them into bonded trade or sells them for adoption or abuses them in other ways. So we take this very seriously.

Thank you for contacting the U.S. Department of State.”

Please God, I don’t ask for much.

                       

An Open Letter to Iran’s Grand Poobah

  The 22nd of Bahman may not ring many American bells but it’s shaping up as an eventful day for Iranians, and for the Great Satan if they follow through with their sinister plans.

It isn’t an official Iranian or Islamic holiday but it sure is time for celebration, as per Iran’s top “holy” cleric, commander in chief, chief bottle washer, and beard shampooer, ”Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. 

Sorry to sound disrespectful to a religious leader but what he said on Monday wasn’t very religious: ”Iran is set to deliver a ‘punch’ that will stun world powers during this week’s 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution.”

That threat doesn’t command or invite any respect so Ali gets none.

The Iranian revolution was effectively launched when Iran’s air force signed up for revolt by throwing its support to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini thereby giving him the gonads to order the seizure of the American embassy in Tehran in 1979.

Khomeini’s heir, Grand Poobah Ali Khamenei, went on to be somewhat more specific saying, “The Iranian nation, with its unity and God’s grace, will punch the arrogance (Western powers) on the 22nd of Bahman in a way that will leave them stunned,” according to an AFP report: http://bit.ly/dnFZEb

Big doings must indeed be in the Iranian playbook for the near horizon since Iran’s less-than-holy President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has chimed in with threats against the West to commemorate that mass kidnapping of Americans. 

Those threats coincide with a new Usama bin Laden tape so something must truly be afoot.

I feel an open letter to the ayatollah is in order.  This should be the prerogative of America’s President Barack Hussein Obama but I’m not certain he’s up to the task.  It therefore falls to me, Joe Citizen, to compensate for America’s ineffectual leadership.

Tuesday, February 9th (Bahman the 20th)

Dear Ali,

I hope no offense is taken to my use of your given name since no offense is intended. 

I feel this is a friendly, personal missive and I’d like us to be on a first name basis, sort of like when Barack had his beer summit here with Sgt. Crowley and that prof Henry Gates last July.

If and when you respond, you can call me Joe, ok, or Mr. C. if you insist on formality, and feel free to share the contents of this communication with Mahmoud and the other Muslim gutless maniac, Usama.

Now here’s the straight poop, as we say in the States. 

First of all, Ali, we Americans don’t take kindly to threats.  I might paraphrase the motto of our great state of Texas: “Don’t threat on me!”

That means, Don’t mess with us, okay?

We’ve been tolerating Iran’s nutty warnings for over 30 years now and I have to tell you, we’ve had enough, they’ve gotten very old.

If you want to come at us, then come at us, but cut the baloney.  We’ve been tolerating Iran’s silly saber-rattling and, recently, missile-rattling for much too long.

I’m not saying to bring it on because Americans really don’t want any more war.  However, if you choose to bring it on, starting on the 20th of Bahman or whenever, rest assured that you won’t get away with it.

You’re guaranteed to receive far more than you bring on.

You may be thinking that you have an easy mark with Obama in our White House but keep in mind it’s America’s White House, not his.  The Obama clan are very temporary residents.

With your nascent nuclear program, you may be thinking differently than you were after 9/11/2001.  Remember?  When Iranians were scared, if I can be indelicate, sh*tless, at the thought Iran would be blamed and that Tehran could be reduced to a molten puddle by September 12th.

You may recall that time when the toothless chants of “Death to America” were suspended for a while in your mosques as you wondered if the Great Satan would take out the Great Persian Charade.

It didn’t happen then but it could be in your future should your Bahman 22nd threats not be just the usual bluster.

There’s an eye of newt spoiling your hummus if you think Americans will let any president get away with minimal retaliation if you guys do something very stupid. 

Trust me, if you do something dumb by attacking us or our Western allies, either Obama will order a massive strike against your country or some disobedient officer will level Tehran and accept the consequences.  He will then become an American hero.

Either way, your sorry excuse for a country will be returned to the 7th century.

The good news is that then you could personally ask Muhammed where you went wrong.

Mind you, Ali, this is not comparable to one of your warnings.  As we say here, it’s not a threat but a promise and America follows through on its promises.

I know it’s late in the game but you made the rules and set the schedule.

The 22nd of Bahman is just two days away.  I seriously suggest you call off any plans in progress, call off your terrorist goons, or else both you and we will regret it. 

And trust me again, Ali, Iran and Islam will regret it far more.

I know Mahmoud believes the end is near as whackos on our street corners have been preaching for years and you may share that theory. 

Whether that theory comes to fruition, whether Iran succeeds in delivering its “punching” and “stunning,” know that Iran will have precipitated it, which may be what you wish to accomplish.

However, as our Boy Scouts say, Be prepared.  Be prepared with an alternative in case you merely succeed in wounding this sleeping tiger or our allies.  One alternative might be to evacuate Tehran posthaste.

I realize that the new Islamic terrorist battle cry ”Allahu Akbar” is Arabic and not Farsi but do keep in mind that our pledge of retaliation is delivered with our own version of “God is great.”  It goes, ”So help me, God,” which has the same effect.  In spades.

Sincerely,

(Mr.) Joe Citizen

Orwell loves Harry….he proves Orwellian speech is a truism with every word he says. AS does THE ONE and as does San Fran Nan. Hard to imagine 3 so called leaders of these United States being as foul a trio as these 3.

For them to simultaneously hold their respective positions of authority at this critical point in time is some kind of awful cosmic joke on US.

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“GOP Wants Obama to Start from Scratch on Health Care Reform”

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/61080

I won’t bother to link.  You know the stories.  The teleprompter in Chief’s slave, Barry Hussein can’t read it without some mental edit to figure out that CORPSE man is C’ore man.  I mean you are in the line of battle, take some shrapnel, do you yell out for the CORPSE MAN? 

And as demonstrated by his inability to function without a teleprompter in front of school kids, he has to have notes, lots of notes to talk at all.

Yet, CORPSE MAN never got much play. HUH?

BUT, let Sarah Palin write 3 notes on her hand and the liberal press goes crackpotty.  An envelope might have been better.  But, she gave a speech without teleprompters.  Something the POTUS appears to be incapable of.

Why do the Lame Streamers even wonder why we KNOW what a bunch of apologists for all things OBAMA they are? 

How much evidence do you need?

Rick Moran

All hail our great President for Life and his Miracle Socialist Revolution!

  Despite its huge crude reserves, the South American OPEC member relies on hydro-electricity for 70 percent of its power needs, and a drought has hit supply since late 2009.

  “We are ready to decree the electricity emergency, because it really is an emergency,” Chavez said in the first edition of a show on state radio air waves called “Suddenly Chavez.”

  With electricity cuts weighing on Chavez’s popularity ahead of important legislative elections in September, the government blames the shortages on the drought and soaring demand during five years of economic growth until 2008.

  But critics say poor management and under-investment have undermined the power grid and exposed the failings of Chavez’s “21st century socialism” policies during his 11-year rule.

  Analysts say power cuts have played a big part—along with water shortages and high crime levels—in cutting Chavez’s popularity levels from more than 60 percent a year ago to around 50 percent now.

  [...]

I’m sure Venezuelans will be on pins and needles at all hours of the day and night just waiting for Chavez to “suddenly” brighten their lives.

The inevitable results of socialism: shortages and rationing, along with economic stagnation.
This is also why we are in the Obama recession; he is following the same type of policies.

Don’t you just live our democracy in action. One Wall Street, One vote. LOL!!
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/08/us/politics/08lobby.html

Tom Blumer

This is the real reason that tax revenues are falling, as only the private sector pays net taxes.

Meanwhile, the federal government keeps growing and growing.

There’s a reason why Americans who don’t happen to work for the government or directly benefit from its largesse are not sensing an economic recovery. For them, it’s mostly not happening. ADP’s January employment report showing 22,000 private-sector jobs lost, the latest available jobs-related information available when this column was written, only confirms that feeling.

A look at what has happened to the nation’s inflation-adjusted Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the value of all goods and services produced in the economy, during the last six quarters is sadly instructive. Comparing the fourth quarter of 2009 with the second quarter of 2008, we see that:

  * Even after six months of “recovery,” the economy as a whole has shrunk by almost 2%.
  * Uncle Sam’s level of annualized consumption and “investment” has grown by 8.5%.
  * Despite the incessant pleadings of poverty by most state and local governments, their consumption and “investment” have hardly changed.
  * What remains, i.e., the private sector, is 3% smaller.

The private-sector shrink is really about 1 percentage point higher than indicated, because the above data treats General Motors and Chrysler as if the government and a meddling Congress aren’t in control of them. This of course is nonsense.

Meanwhile, the past year and a half has been a great period to be a federal government employee. While the private sector has shed almost 6.4 million jobs on a seasonally adjusted basis during that time, federal non-postal employment has leaped by over 150,000, a stunning increase of over 7.5%. Two-thirds of the increase occurred during the first eleven full months of the Obama administration, even though the severity of the recession was drop-dead obvious well before he took office. Even higher federal employment is on the horizon.

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There is little doubt that whether or not the economy ever returns to something resembling normalcy again, the government’s influence on our daily lives, absent a historic pushback, will be demonstrably larger.

Chalk all of this up as yet another “accomplishment” of what I have identified and have been calling the POR (Pelosi-Obama-Reid) economy since (imagine that) mid-2008.

Others, including editorialists at the Wall Street Journal and Investor’s Business Daily, have more recently named what we are living through “the uncertainty economy.” But the key to understanding what has transpired is accepting the truth about when it really began. Its origins go back to June 2008, when Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, and Harry Reid injected enough of the aforementioned uncertainty to cause deep concerns about the future among the people who matter most when it comes to creating and sustaining economic growth: entrepreneurs, businesspeople, and investors.

June 2008 is when the terrible triumvirate went visibly wacko on energy. In the name of “protecting” humanity from the horrible consequences of supposedly settled assertions that have since been exposed as utterly without credible support — namely that global warming is occurring, and that human activity is causing it — they promised to starve the nation of the conventional energy it needs to function, in the likely vain hope that acceptable, affordable alternatives will just, like, well, y’know … show up. The fact that they and their party intend to pursue their radical cap-and-tax plan in spite of the comprehensive scientific debunking that the colossal ClimateGate scandal represents merely proves that the business community’s fear-based mid-2008 reaction was more than justified. Their accurate advance perception was that the “climate change” discussion isn’t really about the environment; it’s about control.

At the same time, Pelosi, Obama, and Reid — but especially Obama — promised to punitively tax the 5% of the nation’s most productive so they could redistribute money to everyone else. These promises were routinely accompanied by heavy doses of business-bashing, pseudo-populist rhetoric. Again, those who saw big trouble on the horizon in mid-2008 from a potentially hostile government have been more than vindicated. Few of us ever thought that a president of the United States would be telling bankers who had money forced onto them at figurative gunpoint but who fully repaid their loans that he still “wants our money back” — and that he would then mobilize/mob-ilize his minions in an attempt to create the pressure to make it happen.

In mid-2008, perceptive entrepreneurs, businesspeople, and investors reacted defensively — as anyone who has decided that they are under attack would — by abandoning expansion plans, trimming employment, and cutting their spending to the bone. Thus, the second quarter of 2008 recovery from the previous quarter’s difficulties abruptly ended. In the third quarter, the recession as normal people define it began.

Matters only worsened in ensuing months. The decades-in-the-making Fannie Mae- and Freddie Mac-driven housing and mortgage lending debacles, the “stimulus” that has only stimulated bogus claims of jobs “created and saved,” and the Chicago-way conduct of the Chrysler and GM bankruptcies have only reinforced the business community’s justifiable siege mentality.

In this POR “Rebound? What Rebound?” economy, it should not surprise anyone that the government has become bigger, bolder, and more intrusive, while a worried private sector has contracted. Is there any good reason to believe that this has not been part of the plan all along?

The economic facts, once again, prove that this is the Obama recession, with no end in sight, as long as this extreme left wing ideologue continues with his insane economic policies.

Politicians who are buffoons, like Palin and the ex Illinois governor, need to be laughed at.
http://vodpod.com/watch/1243049-il-governor-rod-blagojevich-captured-with-his-pants-down

As a kid living on a farm in the middle of nowhere, I read a lot of comic books, some good and some bad. About the worst comic book I can remember from my childhood was the ultra-lame Prez comics, about the first teenage president. Prez was a bell-bottom wearing Commander In Chief with a shrtless Indian (Native American) FBI Director. To see how truly bad Prez was click here.

Even as a kid, the idea of a teenage president strained suspension of disbelief far more than flying shooting webs.

But what if America really elected a teenager president? What would the policies and directives of a hip teen president look like? Well according to Greg Lewis of American Thinker, it would look quite familiar.

The Obama administration resembles nothing so much as a big house in the suburbs where the parents are away for the weekend. In the absence of any responsible person to take charge, the Teenager-in-Chief is letting the rest of the adolescents run wild.


They’ve maxed out their parents’ credit cards and have begun working on their overdraft lines in earnest, as the T-I-C’s budget, which proposes a $1.5-trillion deficit for the coming fiscal year, attests. With “what, me worry?” aplomb worthy of a Mad Magazine cover boy, Barack Obama delivered to Congress a bloated document which proposes that more than 40 percent of federal spending be done with borrowed money, and some of the rest courtesy of renewed taxes on America’s “rich”—those people and small businesses making unholy annual incomes greater than $250,000.


And although there are several carloads of bullies pulling into the driveway who are about to enter the premises, the partiers inside remain oblivious to potential threats. They’re wrecking the furniture, eating their parents out of house and home, and in general carrying on like there’s no tomorrow.

So if whiteboy Bill Clinton was the “first black president,” is Barack Obama the first teenage president? (more...)

This is a HUGE problem. Michael Barone has written an excellent in-depth article on this increasingly important issue and you can read it on Townhall.com, Mon Feb 8, 2010. I don’t wish to duplicate his work but I don’t think it can be stated strongly enough. These unions have to be brought under control before it is too late – and it is very late indeed. Public service is an exercise in searching for oxymorons. They serve not the public but themselves, and are in place only to perpetuate their own power and existence. They flourish at the expense of the private sector. Mr. Barone said very succinctly that the public sector unions are a PARASITE sucking the life out of the private sector.

Let me reprise: GOVERNMENT PRODUCES NOTHING! Fully seventy percent of all new jobs in this country come from small business. By and large, small businesses do not use private sector unions, though are not necessarily anti-union. Unions in this day and age accomplish little and obstruct much. Unions have destroyed productivity in this country. With their intransigent attitudes towards management they have forced development and manufacturing off-shore to more business friendly environments, leaving the unions to complain bitterly at the dearth of jobs. It’s akin to circling the wagons and firing inwards. They have forced prices higher, made the very companies that were feeding them unprofitable and forced many out of business.

The unholy alliance between the public service sector unions and the CROOKED and UNPRINCIPLED politicians who prop them up must be broken. Like the politicians, these unions have forgotten whom they serve and why.

Here in the ONCE magnificent state of California we have unions and union thuggery run amok. This State is a model for exactly what will happen at the federal government level. Unions have a death grip on the state. The unfunded liability for pension funds alone in the state of California is ONE HUNDRED THIRTY BILLION DOLLARS. To bring that figure into proportion, the State at present faces a budget shortfall of FORTY BILLION dollars.

In a sad parody of the Washington Democrat binge-spending, the insane and out of control California State Assembly is pushing a ridiculously unsustainable ’single payer’ health care system of their own, to the tune of TWO BILLION DOLLARS PER YEAR.
Is it any wonder that the citizens of this country are up in arms? The measure of our discontent is palpable in Washington, Sacramento and rest of the country. The people are on the march they are being heard… and they will be COUNTED next November.

Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis

© Skip MacLure 2010

If I Die Before You Wake

If you haven’t heard this yet….hear it now.

http://www.andiesisle.com/ifidiebeforeyouwake.html

Find it here

Media Liberals Paint Conservatives as ‘Birthers’, But First Birthers Were Dems

By Lachlan Markay

Here’s something you won’t hear from the liberal media: that whole “birther” conspiracy movement? Yeah, that was started by a couple of Democrats, and neither is named Orly Taitz.

Their names, in fact, are Linda Starr and Philip Berg, according to John Avalon, author of the new book “Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America” (just to clarify, he singles out “wingnuts” on both sides of the aisle). Both were die-hard supporters of Hillary Clinton during the 2008 campaign.

Starr was cited as a source of the false documents that got disgraced CBS correspondent Dan Rather fired. Berg is an aggressive Pennsylvania attorney (and former Pennsylvania Deputy Attorney General) who filed a lawsuit against former President George W. Bush in 2004 alleging he was complicit in the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Despite these revelations, it probably goes without saying that the next time David Shuster claims that “most Republicans” are birthers, the theory’s history will go unmentioned.

But perhaps rather than roundly placing the blame on Rush Limbaugh for the birther movement, the New York Times might look into the movement’s actual origins.

And the next time the folks at National Public Radio see fit to suggest that all Tea Party protesters are birthers, maybe they should note that the first birthers were in fact Democrats.

According to Avalon, the movement started just after Clinton conceded defeat in race for the Democratic nomination:

  ...Starr turned her attention to Obama. “I determined that I was going to start digging up every bit of dirt that I could find on him,” she told me after I hunted her down in late 2009, “and that hopefully that I would find something against him that would convince the Democratic Party to dump him and make Hillary the nominee.”

  In the first week of August 2008, as the Democrats were getting ready for their convention in Denver, Starr called Philadelphia attorney Philip Berg and offered a challenge. Berg recalled the conversation for me: “She called me up and said, ‘Have you heard about Obama not being national born?’ I said, ‘Yes.’ She said, ‘Well, now it’s for real, and you’re the only attorney in the country with brass balls enough to sue Obama.’ “…

  On August 21, 2008, Berg filed the first Birther lawsuit, requesting an injunction to stop the Democratic Convention from going forward and alleging that Obama was born in Kenya, not Hawaii. He faxed notices to the DNC and Obama campaign headquarters, and the next day, he launched the Web site Obamacrimes.com with Starr’s assistance. The lawsuit went nowhere…

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In their usual style, the lefties try to be on both sides of the issue, claiming conservatives are all “birthers”, while using it against Obama when it suited them politically.
Maybe next they will claim that Hillary is a closet Republican.