"Change!" "Change!" "Change!"
It became an election mantra..."I am the candidate for change!"..."Join with me, and help me CHANGE America!"
We ate it up. We were so entralled with the idea, the concept, the notion of change, we did not even slow down to ask, "Change what?"..."Change how?"
We just knew, we wanted change. So, we lined up, by the thousands, many weeks in advance of the actual election date, to vote for Mr. Change.
And Mr. Change won by God! By a landslide.
So, what is Mr. Change going to change? Well, he is keeping his promise. With the exception of the Secretary of Defense - which means we are NOT getting out of Iraq anytime soon, he is changing all the Secretary and Under-secretary positions from those that George W. placed to those that William Jefferson Clinton placed....change? Hell, looks like we are going back to the days of "Well, it depends on what you mean by sex..." and "Hey, honey. Want to see what I can do with this cigar?"
If this is his idea of change, maybe we need to start looking for loopholes in the Constitution about electing morons to the office of POTUS?
Monday, December 1, 2008
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
The Right of Free Speech ---- and work
To begin, I had a quote at the bottom of my work email. The quote was the text of the 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Following this quote was a logo to Join NRA (National Rifle Association), with a built in link on the logo.
Now, our company does NOT have any policy about tag-lines on emails, and I believed, wrongly apparently, that as long as my tagline was not racist, sexist, did not denigrate lifestyles, religions, philosophies, etc. etc. I was safe putting this tagline on my e-mails.
However, after having this on my tagline since around the 1st of October, imagine my surprise, chagrin, and then anger when I received an email from my AVP (Associate Vice-President) who gently informed me that he had received feedback that "some people" found my tagline offensive and that they would like for me to remove my reference to the NRA. "OFFENSIVE??!!" What the hell?!??!
I actually wrote a reply to my AVP to tell him how I felt. Our company strongly embraces diversity. We attend diversity classes (mandatory), we have diversity built in to our company goals and objectives. I embrace diversity!! Strongly!! I believe our country can only survive when we rid ourselves of hate groups, racists, sexists, and so on.
I also believe in the 1sts Amendment to the Constitution which says, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Let's start this right off with a fact. The Consitution does not state anywhere that there shall be "a separation of Church and State..." That actually came from a letter written by Thomas Jefferson. So, let's just skip that and go to the second phrase, "...abridging the freedom of speech..." That's a good thing. I came from the generation that wore tee-shirts that said "Fu** the Draft" and that was eventually ruled as freedom of speech and could not be used as a reason to arrest people. I have lived through the veterans, (I am a) Baby Boomers, GenXers, GenYers and whatever you want to call this "new" generation of wanting to look like the neighborhood "gansta" or "bitch-ho". And always, FREEDOM OF SPEECH has been guaranteed, except of course, yelling "FIRE" in a crowded room or theater.
Now, if my company does not have tagline requirements, and if I am guaranteed by the US Consititution freedom of speech, why can I not have a tagline that suggests that people join the National Rifle Association?
Maybe it is because there are a lot of little chickensh** for brains people out there that think if you make a law against something, EVERYBODY in the LAND will follow that law. Yeah, sure. That's why every prison in every state in the Union is overcrowded, because of law abiding citizens.
Just so you will know, I removed the tagline, completely. And I have stepped up my search for a project manager position OUTSIDE of my company.
Now, our company does NOT have any policy about tag-lines on emails, and I believed, wrongly apparently, that as long as my tagline was not racist, sexist, did not denigrate lifestyles, religions, philosophies, etc. etc. I was safe putting this tagline on my e-mails.
However, after having this on my tagline since around the 1st of October, imagine my surprise, chagrin, and then anger when I received an email from my AVP (Associate Vice-President) who gently informed me that he had received feedback that "some people" found my tagline offensive and that they would like for me to remove my reference to the NRA. "OFFENSIVE??!!" What the hell?!??!
I actually wrote a reply to my AVP to tell him how I felt. Our company strongly embraces diversity. We attend diversity classes (mandatory), we have diversity built in to our company goals and objectives. I embrace diversity!! Strongly!! I believe our country can only survive when we rid ourselves of hate groups, racists, sexists, and so on.
I also believe in the 1sts Amendment to the Constitution which says, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Let's start this right off with a fact. The Consitution does not state anywhere that there shall be "a separation of Church and State..." That actually came from a letter written by Thomas Jefferson. So, let's just skip that and go to the second phrase, "...abridging the freedom of speech..." That's a good thing. I came from the generation that wore tee-shirts that said "Fu** the Draft" and that was eventually ruled as freedom of speech and could not be used as a reason to arrest people. I have lived through the veterans, (I am a) Baby Boomers, GenXers, GenYers and whatever you want to call this "new" generation of wanting to look like the neighborhood "gansta" or "bitch-ho". And always, FREEDOM OF SPEECH has been guaranteed, except of course, yelling "FIRE" in a crowded room or theater.
Now, if my company does not have tagline requirements, and if I am guaranteed by the US Consititution freedom of speech, why can I not have a tagline that suggests that people join the National Rifle Association?
Maybe it is because there are a lot of little chickensh** for brains people out there that think if you make a law against something, EVERYBODY in the LAND will follow that law. Yeah, sure. That's why every prison in every state in the Union is overcrowded, because of law abiding citizens.
Just so you will know, I removed the tagline, completely. And I have stepped up my search for a project manager position OUTSIDE of my company.
Monday, October 6, 2008
Is he, or is he not......your call, my friends
John McCain has declared B. Hussein Obama's relationship with the Reverend (but not apparently reverent) Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. off-limits to criticism within his campaign. Back in April, McCain had condemned the North Carolina Republican Party for an ad they were running that called Mr. Obama "too extreme" because he (Obama, not McCain) attended the church the Reverend Mr. Wright lectured from. McCain says the American people do not want that kind of politics. Mr. McCain, sir, I disagree. This is exactly what the American people do want. Because, you see, sir, they don't want to try to think about what a candidate tries to promise them as POTUS, but what dirty laundry can be aired about the "other guy." It's a shame that Americans no longer want to think for themselves, why they want to be spoon fed some slop that we would never have fed our pigs, why they want to see the absolute worst about our candidates, but then, that's 21st century (and the last third of the 20th century) politics.
When was the last time you actually heard a candidate state what they intended to do once they took office? Oh wait, that would have been last week when Governor Sarah Palin was debating Senator Joe Biden --both participants did make personal statements - with Biden usually prefacing his statements with a dig at McCain. Shame! Sir! Shame! -- a debate should not be a WWF interview about whose ass is going to get kicked this night.
OK - my original question was, "Is he, or is he not..." not what? A terrorist supporter. Of course, by now you know, I am asking about B. Hussein Obama. His history is somewhat shady in that category, as he is a known acquitance of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, the founder and leader respectively, of the Weather Underground group -- as a quick catch-up on this 1970's terrorist group, the Weather Underground, or Weathermen, was an American radical left organization founded in 1969. The group organized a riot in Chicago in 1969 (ok, no big deal - many of today's Big 10 colleges have riots everytime they win a big football game, but...) the Underground also bombed buildings in the 1970's. Their platform was pretty simple, "the establishment of a white fighting force to be allied with the black liberation movement and other anti-colonial movements to achieve the destruction of U. S. imperialism and achieve a classless world - e.g., world communism. Well! So much for Mr. Ayers. Oh by the way, Mr. Ayers says he has "no remorse" for bombing government buildings. He said this on 9/11 to the NY Times. Sometime in 1972, Bill Ayers is quoted as saying, "“Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that’s where it’s really at.” One last thing, on 9/11, the Muslim terrorists slammed a jet into the pentagon. In 1973, Bill Ayers participated in a bombing of the Pentagon. Of that day, Ayers wrote: "Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon. The sky was blue. The birds were singing. And the bastards were finally going to get what was coming to them."
The Ayers tie to Obama? Ayers and Obama were on the same nine-member board of the Woods Fund of Chicago, and he "lives in" Obama's neighborhood, "but not somebody I exchanged ideas with on a regular basis." For his part, Mr. Ayers contributed $200 to Obama's reelection campaign in 2001. Kind of as a side-bar, the Woods Fund gave $40,000 to the Arab American Action Network (AAAN) in 2001 and $35,000 in 2002. This was while B. Hussein Obama was director of the Woods Fund board (1999-2002). The AAAN actively supports open borders and education for illegal aliens in American, and it supports an active Anti-Israel line which has stated that the establishment of Israel is a "catastrophe." The U. S. State department has labeled AAAN as a terror group.
Next terrorist that B. Hussein Obama has ties with is Raila Odinga, who claims to be Obama's cousin, who is a Luo tribesman (as is Obama), who won his position as Prime Minister of Kenya after he brutally called out a jihad war on those who didn't elect him the first time, killing hundreds of men, women and children. Odinga is a practicing Muslim, associated with Al Qaeda, who wants to, and is, instilling Sharia law in Kenya, the same law that is followed by the TALIBAN! Obama campaigned heavily for Odinga in 2006, and took time out from his campaign to call him repeatedly on the phone, expressing his concern, and his support. Because of his campaigning in 2006, a Kenya government spokesman denounced Obama during his visit as Odinga's "stooge". (Source: BBC News in America). Real interesting fact about Odinga - he campaigned for President of Kenya as a man who was in touch with the populist and he stood for CHANGE!!!
Now, that's two, and before I get into the next terrorist, I want to ask, is Obama a Muslim? Well, it seems in Islam, if your father is a Muslim, you are indeed a Muslim. Although Obama's father "divorced" his mother when Obama was 2, Obama's first name - Barack, and his middle name - Hussein, are definitely Muslim in origin. And Obama says, he has "left" Islam. Well, in the Quran, if you leave Islam, you become what is known as an "apostate" and the faith will usually put a "death price" on you; but for some reason, this has not happened with Obama, which means one of two things, Obama has not left Islam, or, well, we are not sure what the other thing could be. Obama went to a private Muslim school in Indonesia until he was ten years old. However, he claims to be a Christian of "deep-faith", which brings us to his third tie to terrorism, his church.
Obama is a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ, an unashamedly African-centric church, not afro-centric, African-centric, which, according to their own website, http://www.tucc.org/ has adopted the Black Value System, written by the Manford Byrd Recognition Committee in 1981. From their website comes the following:
"We are a congregation which is Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian... Our roots in the Black religious experience and tradition are deep, lasting and permanent. We are an African people, and remain "true to our native land," the mother continent, the cradle of civilization. God has superintended our pilgrimage through the days of slavery, the days of segregation, and the long night of racism. It is God who gives us the strength and courage to continuously address injustice as a people, and as a congregation. We constantly affirm our trust in God through cultural expression of a Black worship service and ministries which address the Black Community."
Here are their 12 points of Black Ethics:
1. Commitment to God
2. Commitment to the Black Community
3. Commitment to the Black Family
4. Dedication to the Pursuit of Education5. Dedication to the Pursuit of Excellence
6. Adherence to the Black Work Ethic
7. Commitment to Self-Discipline and Self-Respect
8. Disavowal of the Pursuit of "Middleclassness"
9. Pledge to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills available to the Black Community
10. Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting Black Institutions
11. Pledge allegiance to all Black leadership who espouse and embrace the Black Value System
12. Personal commitment to embracement of the Black Value System."
Well, nothing earth shattering there, unless you compare these 12 Black ethics value with these:
1. Commitment to God
2. Commitment to the White Community
3. Commitment to the White Family
4. Dedication to the Pursuit of Education
5. Dedication to the Pursuit of Excellence
6. Adherence to the White Work Ethic
7. Commitment to Self-Discipline and Self-Respect
8. Disavowal of the Pursuit of "Middleclassness"
9. Pledge to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills available to the White Community
10. Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting White Institutions
11. Pledge allegiance to all White leadership who espouse and embrace the White Value System
12. Personal commitment to embracement of the White Value System."
But! But! But, they are almost the same -- where did the latter 12 points of White ethics come from? From a theoretical white supremacist candidate's church, from a website by Erik Rush, in which he states these 12 points as the ethics of a proposed candidate -- and asks, "How many Americans would vote for a presidential candidate who was a member of a church that professed the following credo?"
(source: http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0307/0307obamination.htm)
Wonder who was the pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ until Obama's campaign said, "Wow, man, you need to disengage from this screwball - association with him could hurt your chances of being POTUS!" Well, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Jr. was the pastor and is announced as the Pastor Ereritus on their website. It was "brother" Wright, who in March of 2008 said, "...and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, not God Bless America. God damn America — that's in the Bible — for killing innocent people. God damn America, for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America, as long as she tries to act like she is God, and she is supreme."
But Wright apologized for his words, and Obama accepted his apology for the entire nation saying "Had the reverend not retired, and had he not acknowledged that what he had said had deeply offended people and were inappropriate and mischaracterized what I believe is the greatness of this country, for all its flaws, then I wouldn't have felt as comfortable staying at the church." Thanks, B. Hussein Obama for clarifying that...how about all the crap that the Reverend Wright has poured out in the years you sat, listening to him before you were the President-elect - whoops not yet, unless you believe the media - candidate for POTUS?
And Obama, in his ObamaRama way, stated at first, he had never heard Wright make statements from the pulpit that were controversial, but then, he changed his mind (I started to say he reneged, but I was so afraid I would be hammered for using that word, I decided not to), or what he really meant to say - he is pretty good at that, or so it seems, maybe he is just a little more like Biden than we thought - he is becoming a Gaffe King. I seem to remember just last month, when he spoke about his Muslim faith, before being corrected to actually say, his "Christian faith" because, after all, that's what he meant, really, actually. One or two more things about his "church" and terrorism. Recently, the Trinity United Church of Christ; first, the Trinity Church preaches Liberation Theology, which Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope, said, in 1984, "...have embraced the marxist fundament option." and, "it explains Christianity as a praxis of liberation and sees itself as the guide to this praxis. However, since in its view all reality is political, liberation is also a political concept and the guide to liberation must he a guide to political action..." and second, the Trinity Church in 2007, bestowed its highest social achievement award to Louis Farrakhan, the head of the Nation of Islam and sometimes activist with the New Black Panther Party (critics have said of the New Black Panther Party, that they are: that they are starkly anti-white, and also anti-Semitic. The NBPP is considered by the Southern Poverty Law Center to be a 'black racist' hate group, and even many of the mildest critics of the organization seem to believe that, at the absolute least, the NBPP's provocative brand of black supremacy undermines other civil rights efforts.) leader Malik Zulu Shabazz (a self-proclaimed anti-white, anti-semitic leader).
I guess that is really something to think about, America, before you go and cast your vote. If your vote really matters. It seems the media in American has evangelized Mr. B. Hussein Obama as the next POTUS already. Pity!
When was the last time you actually heard a candidate state what they intended to do once they took office? Oh wait, that would have been last week when Governor Sarah Palin was debating Senator Joe Biden --both participants did make personal statements - with Biden usually prefacing his statements with a dig at McCain. Shame! Sir! Shame! -- a debate should not be a WWF interview about whose ass is going to get kicked this night.
OK - my original question was, "Is he, or is he not..." not what? A terrorist supporter. Of course, by now you know, I am asking about B. Hussein Obama. His history is somewhat shady in that category, as he is a known acquitance of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, the founder and leader respectively, of the Weather Underground group -- as a quick catch-up on this 1970's terrorist group, the Weather Underground, or Weathermen, was an American radical left organization founded in 1969. The group organized a riot in Chicago in 1969 (ok, no big deal - many of today's Big 10 colleges have riots everytime they win a big football game, but...) the Underground also bombed buildings in the 1970's. Their platform was pretty simple, "the establishment of a white fighting force to be allied with the black liberation movement and other anti-colonial movements to achieve the destruction of U. S. imperialism and achieve a classless world - e.g., world communism. Well! So much for Mr. Ayers. Oh by the way, Mr. Ayers says he has "no remorse" for bombing government buildings. He said this on 9/11 to the NY Times. Sometime in 1972, Bill Ayers is quoted as saying, "“Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that’s where it’s really at.” One last thing, on 9/11, the Muslim terrorists slammed a jet into the pentagon. In 1973, Bill Ayers participated in a bombing of the Pentagon. Of that day, Ayers wrote: "Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon. The sky was blue. The birds were singing. And the bastards were finally going to get what was coming to them."
The Ayers tie to Obama? Ayers and Obama were on the same nine-member board of the Woods Fund of Chicago, and he "lives in" Obama's neighborhood, "but not somebody I exchanged ideas with on a regular basis." For his part, Mr. Ayers contributed $200 to Obama's reelection campaign in 2001. Kind of as a side-bar, the Woods Fund gave $40,000 to the Arab American Action Network (AAAN) in 2001 and $35,000 in 2002. This was while B. Hussein Obama was director of the Woods Fund board (1999-2002). The AAAN actively supports open borders and education for illegal aliens in American, and it supports an active Anti-Israel line which has stated that the establishment of Israel is a "catastrophe." The U. S. State department has labeled AAAN as a terror group.
Next terrorist that B. Hussein Obama has ties with is Raila Odinga, who claims to be Obama's cousin, who is a Luo tribesman (as is Obama), who won his position as Prime Minister of Kenya after he brutally called out a jihad war on those who didn't elect him the first time, killing hundreds of men, women and children. Odinga is a practicing Muslim, associated with Al Qaeda, who wants to, and is, instilling Sharia law in Kenya, the same law that is followed by the TALIBAN! Obama campaigned heavily for Odinga in 2006, and took time out from his campaign to call him repeatedly on the phone, expressing his concern, and his support. Because of his campaigning in 2006, a Kenya government spokesman denounced Obama during his visit as Odinga's "stooge". (Source: BBC News in America). Real interesting fact about Odinga - he campaigned for President of Kenya as a man who was in touch with the populist and he stood for CHANGE!!!
Now, that's two, and before I get into the next terrorist, I want to ask, is Obama a Muslim? Well, it seems in Islam, if your father is a Muslim, you are indeed a Muslim. Although Obama's father "divorced" his mother when Obama was 2, Obama's first name - Barack, and his middle name - Hussein, are definitely Muslim in origin. And Obama says, he has "left" Islam. Well, in the Quran, if you leave Islam, you become what is known as an "apostate" and the faith will usually put a "death price" on you; but for some reason, this has not happened with Obama, which means one of two things, Obama has not left Islam, or, well, we are not sure what the other thing could be. Obama went to a private Muslim school in Indonesia until he was ten years old. However, he claims to be a Christian of "deep-faith", which brings us to his third tie to terrorism, his church.
Obama is a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ, an unashamedly African-centric church, not afro-centric, African-centric, which, according to their own website, http://www.tucc.org/ has adopted the Black Value System, written by the Manford Byrd Recognition Committee in 1981. From their website comes the following:
"We are a congregation which is Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian... Our roots in the Black religious experience and tradition are deep, lasting and permanent. We are an African people, and remain "true to our native land," the mother continent, the cradle of civilization. God has superintended our pilgrimage through the days of slavery, the days of segregation, and the long night of racism. It is God who gives us the strength and courage to continuously address injustice as a people, and as a congregation. We constantly affirm our trust in God through cultural expression of a Black worship service and ministries which address the Black Community."
Here are their 12 points of Black Ethics:
1. Commitment to God
2. Commitment to the Black Community
3. Commitment to the Black Family
4. Dedication to the Pursuit of Education5. Dedication to the Pursuit of Excellence
6. Adherence to the Black Work Ethic
7. Commitment to Self-Discipline and Self-Respect
8. Disavowal of the Pursuit of "Middleclassness"
9. Pledge to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills available to the Black Community
10. Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting Black Institutions
11. Pledge allegiance to all Black leadership who espouse and embrace the Black Value System
12. Personal commitment to embracement of the Black Value System."
Well, nothing earth shattering there, unless you compare these 12 Black ethics value with these:
1. Commitment to God
2. Commitment to the White Community
3. Commitment to the White Family
4. Dedication to the Pursuit of Education
5. Dedication to the Pursuit of Excellence
6. Adherence to the White Work Ethic
7. Commitment to Self-Discipline and Self-Respect
8. Disavowal of the Pursuit of "Middleclassness"
9. Pledge to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills available to the White Community
10. Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting White Institutions
11. Pledge allegiance to all White leadership who espouse and embrace the White Value System
12. Personal commitment to embracement of the White Value System."
But! But! But, they are almost the same -- where did the latter 12 points of White ethics come from? From a theoretical white supremacist candidate's church, from a website by Erik Rush, in which he states these 12 points as the ethics of a proposed candidate -- and asks, "How many Americans would vote for a presidential candidate who was a member of a church that professed the following credo?"
(source: http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0307/0307obamination.htm)
Wonder who was the pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ until Obama's campaign said, "Wow, man, you need to disengage from this screwball - association with him could hurt your chances of being POTUS!" Well, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Jr. was the pastor and is announced as the Pastor Ereritus on their website. It was "brother" Wright, who in March of 2008 said, "...and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, not God Bless America. God damn America — that's in the Bible — for killing innocent people. God damn America, for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America, as long as she tries to act like she is God, and she is supreme."
But Wright apologized for his words, and Obama accepted his apology for the entire nation saying "Had the reverend not retired, and had he not acknowledged that what he had said had deeply offended people and were inappropriate and mischaracterized what I believe is the greatness of this country, for all its flaws, then I wouldn't have felt as comfortable staying at the church." Thanks, B. Hussein Obama for clarifying that...how about all the crap that the Reverend Wright has poured out in the years you sat, listening to him before you were the President-elect - whoops not yet, unless you believe the media - candidate for POTUS?
And Obama, in his ObamaRama way, stated at first, he had never heard Wright make statements from the pulpit that were controversial, but then, he changed his mind (I started to say he reneged, but I was so afraid I would be hammered for using that word, I decided not to), or what he really meant to say - he is pretty good at that, or so it seems, maybe he is just a little more like Biden than we thought - he is becoming a Gaffe King. I seem to remember just last month, when he spoke about his Muslim faith, before being corrected to actually say, his "Christian faith" because, after all, that's what he meant, really, actually. One or two more things about his "church" and terrorism. Recently, the Trinity United Church of Christ; first, the Trinity Church preaches Liberation Theology, which Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope, said, in 1984, "...have embraced the marxist fundament option." and, "it explains Christianity as a praxis of liberation and sees itself as the guide to this praxis. However, since in its view all reality is political, liberation is also a political concept and the guide to liberation must he a guide to political action..." and second, the Trinity Church in 2007, bestowed its highest social achievement award to Louis Farrakhan, the head of the Nation of Islam and sometimes activist with the New Black Panther Party (critics have said of the New Black Panther Party, that they are: that they are starkly anti-white, and also anti-Semitic. The NBPP is considered by the Southern Poverty Law Center to be a 'black racist' hate group, and even many of the mildest critics of the organization seem to believe that, at the absolute least, the NBPP's provocative brand of black supremacy undermines other civil rights efforts.) leader Malik Zulu Shabazz (a self-proclaimed anti-white, anti-semitic leader).
I guess that is really something to think about, America, before you go and cast your vote. If your vote really matters. It seems the media in American has evangelized Mr. B. Hussein Obama as the next POTUS already. Pity!
Friday, October 3, 2008
Think People! How did FANNY MAE and FREDDY MAC get us into this mess?
OK - a lot of this information is about Fanny Mae (and her evil-twin Freddy Mac) pre-congress takeover. I will try to make this interesting.
FACT
Fannie Mae is a GSE (Govt. Sponsored Entity) regulated by Congress.
Fannie Mae buys mortgages from other companies.
It is backed by the taxpayers for all losses, but keeps all profits.
Bill Clinton, POTUS 1992 - 2000, Democrat, "great-thinker", cigar smoker (Obama likes the occasional Cuban beauty too), grammarian (what does "sex" really mean), was the President who relaxed Home Loan Requirements so anybody could "live the American dream," and own a home - even if they were nowhere near able to afford said home.
Between 1998 and 2008, Banks across American made no-down-payment, 120% of assessed value loans. This was all based on President Clinton's Home Loan Requirements edict. This stupid lending to unqualified loan applicants becomes known as Sub-prime lending.
Franklin Raines and James Garelick (part of President Clinton's gang/administration) were put in charge of Fanny Mae. They were promised BIG BONUSES if they met their loan targets.
President George W. Bush proposed an "OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE" (if that sounds familiar, it was one of the strings that Joe Biden kept hitting during last night's VP debate - Oversight - Oversight - Oversight! Hell, wonder where he got that from?) - BUT the DEMOCRATS in Congress derailed that proposal ---- Rep. Melvyn Watt, (D-NC) Committee on Financial Institutions & Consumer Credit. stated, “I don’t see much other than weakening the bargaining power [of] poorer families to get affordable housing.” In other words, housing they could not afford to make payments on, or pay the taxes for.
Between 1999 and 2004, Raines (CEO FANNY MAE) earns $100 million in bonuses. Garelick (Prez FANNY MAE) earns $75 million in bonuses.
In 2004, Enron collapses, congress investigates, Executives Skilling & Lay go to jail, for fraudulent bookkeeping. Congress responds with the Sorbanes-Oxley Act, more heavy regulation of corporations, but still NO REGULATION OF FANNY MAE.
An OMB (Office of Management & Budget) investigation finds massive fraudulent bookkeeping at Fannie Mae. False numbers triggered executive bonuses every year. Congress holds no hearings, no one goes to jail, or is punished.
WHY NOT?
Because Fannie Mae was giving millions of $$$ to Democratic causes, such as the Rev. Jesse Jackson & ACORN. Fannie Mae was also paying millions of $$$ to 354 congressmen and senators, from both parties. SO, who got the most money?
#1 Sen. Christopher Dodd, (Democrat-CT) Chairman of the Banking, Housing, & Urban Affairs Committee. Senator Dodd is currently leading the charge to take $700,000,000,000 dollars from the American taxpayer to bail the failing credit lenders out - a government handout that our children's children's children will be paying for.
#2 Sen. Barack Obama, (Democrat-IL) Federal Financial Management Committee. Well, everybody knows about Senator B. Hussein Obama, the President-elect of the United States, according to the media five weeks before the Nov. 4 election.
#3 Sen. Chuck Schumer, (Democrat-NY) Chairman of the Finance Committee. The State Attorney General of California, in late-August 2008, announced that his office may investigate Senator Schumer over the Freddy Mac collapse -- it seems that perhaps, maybe Senator Schumer may have "leaked" confidential information about the ability of the company's ability to survive. What a terrible way to pay back all those millions of dollars he took from Fanny Mae.
#4 Rep. Barney Frank, (Democrat-MA) Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. Representative Frank led the democratic push to stall, and eventually kill the Reform Act which would, maybe, have prevented the downfall of his "sugar-mommie", Fanny Mae.
In 2005, A Reform Act was presented by President Bush and a certain leading Republican Senator, Senator John McCain, which would have provided for "oversight" of both Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac! McCain stated, in 2005, when presenting The Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act:
“If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole.”
But, none of the top 4 recipients supported the legislation (in case you don't remember who, let me help: Dodd, OBAMA, Frank, and Schumer.) The reform act is blocked by Democrats, led by Dodd and Frank and the act never mae it out of committee.
None of the politicians millions of dollars in payments from Fanny Mae was returned, NOT ONE THIN DIME of this money, tainted by fraud.
2008 and guess what! Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac go bankrupt and the government, under Democratic rule in House and Senate takes the failed GSEs over completely. Lehman Brothers, goes bankrupt from investing in bad mortgages. AIG get $85 million in loan guarantees, after insuring bad loans & projects. Taxpayers will ultimately pay BILLIONS of their hard-earned dollars to BAIL THE DEMOCRACK LEAD CONGRESS OUT!!!
Senator John McCain favors revising regulations & loan standards, selling off Fannie & Freddie.
Democrat senator Chris Dodd, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee and a leading architect of the bill, said he understood people wanted to "stick a finger in the eye of the bankers and tycoons" (wonder if he considers his eyes as targets for those fingers!). But he also said (glibly, that) the crisis, if not tackled, would soon cause college loans, car loans, home mortgages and small business finance to dry up, bringing economic catastrophe to ordinary Americans. (Won't bother him or Obama, they are now millionaires, thanks to Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac).
And Senator B. Hussein Obama (presumed President-elect) is still wondering why his bank-account is not getting those regular deposits from Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac.
Primary Source: Prof. Dennis Jantz, 2008, Power-Point presentation.
secondary sources:
Congressional Record, 5/25/06
“Hannity & Colmes,” Fox News, 9/16-9/17/08
Herald Tribune, 4/18/08
New York Times, 9/13/03
www. govtrack.com, 9/17/08
Various internet sites
FACT
Fannie Mae is a GSE (Govt. Sponsored Entity) regulated by Congress.
Fannie Mae buys mortgages from other companies.
It is backed by the taxpayers for all losses, but keeps all profits.
Bill Clinton, POTUS 1992 - 2000, Democrat, "great-thinker", cigar smoker (Obama likes the occasional Cuban beauty too), grammarian (what does "sex" really mean), was the President who relaxed Home Loan Requirements so anybody could "live the American dream," and own a home - even if they were nowhere near able to afford said home.
Between 1998 and 2008, Banks across American made no-down-payment, 120% of assessed value loans. This was all based on President Clinton's Home Loan Requirements edict. This stupid lending to unqualified loan applicants becomes known as Sub-prime lending.
Franklin Raines and James Garelick (part of President Clinton's gang/administration) were put in charge of Fanny Mae. They were promised BIG BONUSES if they met their loan targets.
President George W. Bush proposed an "OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE" (if that sounds familiar, it was one of the strings that Joe Biden kept hitting during last night's VP debate - Oversight - Oversight - Oversight! Hell, wonder where he got that from?) - BUT the DEMOCRATS in Congress derailed that proposal ---- Rep. Melvyn Watt, (D-NC) Committee on Financial Institutions & Consumer Credit. stated, “I don’t see much other than weakening the bargaining power [of] poorer families to get affordable housing.” In other words, housing they could not afford to make payments on, or pay the taxes for.
Between 1999 and 2004, Raines (CEO FANNY MAE) earns $100 million in bonuses. Garelick (Prez FANNY MAE) earns $75 million in bonuses.
In 2004, Enron collapses, congress investigates, Executives Skilling & Lay go to jail, for fraudulent bookkeeping. Congress responds with the Sorbanes-Oxley Act, more heavy regulation of corporations, but still NO REGULATION OF FANNY MAE.
An OMB (Office of Management & Budget) investigation finds massive fraudulent bookkeeping at Fannie Mae. False numbers triggered executive bonuses every year. Congress holds no hearings, no one goes to jail, or is punished.
WHY NOT?
Because Fannie Mae was giving millions of $$$ to Democratic causes, such as the Rev. Jesse Jackson & ACORN. Fannie Mae was also paying millions of $$$ to 354 congressmen and senators, from both parties. SO, who got the most money?
#1 Sen. Christopher Dodd, (Democrat-CT) Chairman of the Banking, Housing, & Urban Affairs Committee. Senator Dodd is currently leading the charge to take $700,000,000,000 dollars from the American taxpayer to bail the failing credit lenders out - a government handout that our children's children's children will be paying for.
#2 Sen. Barack Obama, (Democrat-IL) Federal Financial Management Committee. Well, everybody knows about Senator B. Hussein Obama, the President-elect of the United States, according to the media five weeks before the Nov. 4 election.
#3 Sen. Chuck Schumer, (Democrat-NY) Chairman of the Finance Committee. The State Attorney General of California, in late-August 2008, announced that his office may investigate Senator Schumer over the Freddy Mac collapse -- it seems that perhaps, maybe Senator Schumer may have "leaked" confidential information about the ability of the company's ability to survive. What a terrible way to pay back all those millions of dollars he took from Fanny Mae.
#4 Rep. Barney Frank, (Democrat-MA) Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. Representative Frank led the democratic push to stall, and eventually kill the Reform Act which would, maybe, have prevented the downfall of his "sugar-mommie", Fanny Mae.
In 2005, A Reform Act was presented by President Bush and a certain leading Republican Senator, Senator John McCain, which would have provided for "oversight" of both Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac! McCain stated, in 2005, when presenting The Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act:
“If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole.”
But, none of the top 4 recipients supported the legislation (in case you don't remember who, let me help: Dodd, OBAMA, Frank, and Schumer.) The reform act is blocked by Democrats, led by Dodd and Frank and the act never mae it out of committee.
None of the politicians millions of dollars in payments from Fanny Mae was returned, NOT ONE THIN DIME of this money, tainted by fraud.
2008 and guess what! Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac go bankrupt and the government, under Democratic rule in House and Senate takes the failed GSEs over completely. Lehman Brothers, goes bankrupt from investing in bad mortgages. AIG get $85 million in loan guarantees, after insuring bad loans & projects. Taxpayers will ultimately pay BILLIONS of their hard-earned dollars to BAIL THE DEMOCRACK LEAD CONGRESS OUT!!!
Senator John McCain favors revising regulations & loan standards, selling off Fannie & Freddie.
Democrat senator Chris Dodd, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee and a leading architect of the bill, said he understood people wanted to "stick a finger in the eye of the bankers and tycoons" (wonder if he considers his eyes as targets for those fingers!). But he also said (glibly, that) the crisis, if not tackled, would soon cause college loans, car loans, home mortgages and small business finance to dry up, bringing economic catastrophe to ordinary Americans. (Won't bother him or Obama, they are now millionaires, thanks to Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac).
And Senator B. Hussein Obama (presumed President-elect) is still wondering why his bank-account is not getting those regular deposits from Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac.
Primary Source: Prof. Dennis Jantz, 2008, Power-Point presentation.
secondary sources:
Congressional Record, 5/25/06
“Hannity & Colmes,” Fox News, 9/16-9/17/08
Herald Tribune, 4/18/08
New York Times, 9/13/03
www. govtrack.com, 9/17/08
Various internet sites
And the WINNER is.......
Last night, we had the pleasure of hearing our two Vice-Presidential candidates debate issues on TV. Governor Sarah Palin answered questions provided by the moderator of the debate in a straightforward manner, sometimes changing the topic, but always speaking (well, almost always) her mind and stating her position. Senator Joe Biden also answered questions provided by the moderator of the debate, but Joe took a little different tack - instead of answering straight forward, he decided to use the type of political rhetoric that all of us in America seem to have accepted as the "right way to politic". He answered more than 75% of his questions by attacking Senator John McCain's campaign, and Governor Palin's candidacy.
It was interesting to watch. It was also quite humerous, IF you are a person who really understands how we got into this shithole of a situation America is now in - financially and economically speaking. You see, the Democracks are blaming everything on George W. Bush, current POTUS. And that's a lot like saying that FDR handled the Great Wall Street Crash of 1927 by going on TV and telling Americans everything was alright -- which is also what Joe Biden did on the Katie Couric communist power hour show the other night -- almost true, except the crash occurred in October 1929, Herbert Hoover was the POTUS at the time, and TV was still more than 15 years away from most households in the US. Even 12 years later, when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor (Dec. 7, 1941, a Day that that will "Live in Infamy", although most Americans seemed to have pretty much forgotten it!) Americans had to listen to the real President FDR ask Congress for war against Japan on them old-fashioned tube-based Radios - remember them?
You see, we really don't care if a candidate for President is able to handle the job - hell, we've proved that in the past 5 or 6 elections -- and we don't really "elect" the President, because we have not had a President in the past 5 or 6 elections actually elected by the Popular Vote - that would be democratic, and we are not a democracy, we are a democratic Republic - which means that a bunch of OTHER elected officials elect our other officials -- kind of a good ole boy club, you see. (Sidebar -- I am pretty sure if you are reading this you have heard of "superdelegates", or people at the RNC and DNC who help elect, oops, nominate the candidate -- but are you aware that our Constitution prevents any seated U. S. Congressman from being a Presidential College elector? Yep, its true - Article 2, Section 1, second paragraph, final statement.)
So, as I was saying, nobody really cares that the POTUS, if he does not have a Congress willing to stand behind him, can really do too much in the way of change. Oh crap - I used the "C" word! Shame on me. Presidents can not create bills in congress, congress has to do that. Presidents can not make a law a law, without a bill first. Presidents can not affect the budget of the U.S., they can only create their best shot at it, then they have to give it to Congress to approve, which they seldom do without adding their own mega-ton or two of pork fat! Presidents can not declare war, they have to ask Congress for approval - and yes, congress did approve this current war we are in. So really, what can the POTUS do? Well, he/she (it's going to happen - just wait and see), can veto a bill and prevent it from becoming a law, unless Congress has a 2/3 vote of approval over the veto, and then the bill becomes a law after all. Our Constitution starts with Section 1, which gives "all legislative powers" to the Congress.
The POTUS is, by Constitutional appointment, Commander-in-Chief of the Army and the Navy and of the state's militia, and he can grant reprieves and pardons to criminals, except those being impeached. He can make treaties, if the Senate approves of them. And, he can nominate ambassadors, judges, and other people who must be approved by the Senate. Oh, and annually, he can address the Congress and tell them what "without portfolio" if you will.
So how the hell did we get into this economic shitpot we are in? Congress! Plain and simple.
So, who was the winner of last night's VP debate?
Guess we will have to wait four years to see. Because the media has already elected B. Hussein Obama. The media has been announcing Obama as the President-elect since the DNC finished its floor show of nominating him. That was a done-deal too, before B. Hussein Obama even took the stage, on the night he was not supposed to, Joe Biden's night. The Messiah had to come onstage and give his "yes" man a hug, show him he was not upset about that "articulate, bright, clean" racist statement Slugging Joe made a few months before about his future Boss.
So, when B. Hussein Obama becomes POTUS, that will make Joe Biden President of the Senate, and Ms. Nancy Pelosi (the wicked witch of the west) shall be Speaker of the House -- Do I sense here a new "Axis of Evil?" I think the U. S. is in for a mighty rough four years.
It was interesting to watch. It was also quite humerous, IF you are a person who really understands how we got into this shithole of a situation America is now in - financially and economically speaking. You see, the Democracks are blaming everything on George W. Bush, current POTUS. And that's a lot like saying that FDR handled the Great Wall Street Crash of 1927 by going on TV and telling Americans everything was alright -- which is also what Joe Biden did on the Katie Couric communist power hour show the other night -- almost true, except the crash occurred in October 1929, Herbert Hoover was the POTUS at the time, and TV was still more than 15 years away from most households in the US. Even 12 years later, when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor (Dec. 7, 1941, a Day that that will "Live in Infamy", although most Americans seemed to have pretty much forgotten it!) Americans had to listen to the real President FDR ask Congress for war against Japan on them old-fashioned tube-based Radios - remember them?
You see, we really don't care if a candidate for President is able to handle the job - hell, we've proved that in the past 5 or 6 elections -- and we don't really "elect" the President, because we have not had a President in the past 5 or 6 elections actually elected by the Popular Vote - that would be democratic, and we are not a democracy, we are a democratic Republic - which means that a bunch of OTHER elected officials elect our other officials -- kind of a good ole boy club, you see. (Sidebar -- I am pretty sure if you are reading this you have heard of "superdelegates", or people at the RNC and DNC who help elect, oops, nominate the candidate -- but are you aware that our Constitution prevents any seated U. S. Congressman from being a Presidential College elector? Yep, its true - Article 2, Section 1, second paragraph, final statement.)
So, as I was saying, nobody really cares that the POTUS, if he does not have a Congress willing to stand behind him, can really do too much in the way of change. Oh crap - I used the "C" word! Shame on me. Presidents can not create bills in congress, congress has to do that. Presidents can not make a law a law, without a bill first. Presidents can not affect the budget of the U.S., they can only create their best shot at it, then they have to give it to Congress to approve, which they seldom do without adding their own mega-ton or two of pork fat! Presidents can not declare war, they have to ask Congress for approval - and yes, congress did approve this current war we are in. So really, what can the POTUS do? Well, he/she (it's going to happen - just wait and see), can veto a bill and prevent it from becoming a law, unless Congress has a 2/3 vote of approval over the veto, and then the bill becomes a law after all. Our Constitution starts with Section 1, which gives "all legislative powers" to the Congress.
The POTUS is, by Constitutional appointment, Commander-in-Chief of the Army and the Navy and of the state's militia, and he can grant reprieves and pardons to criminals, except those being impeached. He can make treaties, if the Senate approves of them. And, he can nominate ambassadors, judges, and other people who must be approved by the Senate. Oh, and annually, he can address the Congress and tell them what "without portfolio" if you will.
So how the hell did we get into this economic shitpot we are in? Congress! Plain and simple.
So, who was the winner of last night's VP debate?
Guess we will have to wait four years to see. Because the media has already elected B. Hussein Obama. The media has been announcing Obama as the President-elect since the DNC finished its floor show of nominating him. That was a done-deal too, before B. Hussein Obama even took the stage, on the night he was not supposed to, Joe Biden's night. The Messiah had to come onstage and give his "yes" man a hug, show him he was not upset about that "articulate, bright, clean" racist statement Slugging Joe made a few months before about his future Boss.
So, when B. Hussein Obama becomes POTUS, that will make Joe Biden President of the Senate, and Ms. Nancy Pelosi (the wicked witch of the west) shall be Speaker of the House -- Do I sense here a new "Axis of Evil?" I think the U. S. is in for a mighty rough four years.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
How many "zeros" in a billion???
I got this in an email about 3 minutes ago....I have to share it.
How many zeros in a billion?
This is too true to be funny.
The next time you hear a politician use the word 'billion' in a casual manner, think about
whether you want the 'politicians' spending YOUR TAX money.
A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of
putting that figure into some perspective in one of it's releases.
A. A billion seconds ago it was 1959.
B. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.
C A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age. Unless you subscribe to the Creationist theory and in this case, "In the beginning, God..."
D. A billion days ago no- one walked on the earth on two feet.
E. A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.
While this thought is still fresh in our brain...
Let's take a look at New Orleans!
It's amazing what you can learn with some simple division.
Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu (D) is presently asking Congress for 250 BILLION DOLLARS to rebuild New Orleans
Interesting number...
what does it mean?
A. Well... if you are one of the 484,674 residents of New Orleans (every man, woman, and child) you each get $516,528.
B. Or... if you have one of the 188,251 homes in New Orleans , your home gets $1,329,787.
C. Or... if you are a family of four... your family gets $2,066,012.
Washington, D. C.!!! ---> HELLO! ---> Are all your calculators broken??
Look at the following list - tell me what all these taxes have in common, then read on down.
Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL License Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inh eritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax)
IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Tax
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service charge taxes
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax (Truckers)
Sales Taxes
Recreational Vehicle Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Tax
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax
STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?
Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago...and our nation was the most prosperous in the world! We had absolutely no national debt...We had the largest middle class in the world...and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.
What happened?
Well, its pretty simple really. Can you spell 'politicians!?'
And I still have to press "1" for English
I hope this goes around the USA at least 100 times
I would like to add no CEO's got multi-million severance pays for bankrupting companies, they use to go to prison for that; not get rewarded.
How many zeros in a billion?
This is too true to be funny.
The next time you hear a politician use the word 'billion' in a casual manner, think about
whether you want the 'politicians' spending YOUR TAX money.
A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of
putting that figure into some perspective in one of it's releases.
A. A billion seconds ago it was 1959.
B. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.
C A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age. Unless you subscribe to the Creationist theory and in this case, "In the beginning, God..."
D. A billion days ago no- one walked on the earth on two feet.
E. A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.
While this thought is still fresh in our brain...
Let's take a look at New Orleans!
It's amazing what you can learn with some simple division.
Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu (D) is presently asking Congress for 250 BILLION DOLLARS to rebuild New Orleans
Interesting number...
what does it mean?
A. Well... if you are one of the 484,674 residents of New Orleans (every man, woman, and child) you each get $516,528.
B. Or... if you have one of the 188,251 homes in New Orleans , your home gets $1,329,787.
C. Or... if you are a family of four... your family gets $2,066,012.
Washington, D. C.!!! ---> HELLO! ---> Are all your calculators broken??
Look at the following list - tell me what all these taxes have in common, then read on down.
Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL License Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inh eritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax)
IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Tax
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service charge taxes
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax (Truckers)
Sales Taxes
Recreational Vehicle Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Tax
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax
STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?
Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago...and our nation was the most prosperous in the world! We had absolutely no national debt...We had the largest middle class in the world...and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.
What happened?
Well, its pretty simple really. Can you spell 'politicians!?'
And I still have to press "1" for English
I hope this goes around the USA at least 100 times
I would like to add no CEO's got multi-million severance pays for bankrupting companies, they use to go to prison for that; not get rewarded.
The men running for Prezedint and the things they say!
JOE BIDEN - on History and the current credit thingie
Joe Biden's denunciation of his own campaign's ad to Katie Couric got so much attention last night that another odd note in the interview slipped by.
He was speaking about the role of the White House in a financial crisis.
"When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed," Biden told Couric. "He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'"
The crash, which occurred in 1929 was about 10 years before TV became a commercial reality (sometime in the late 1930's). But what is worse, it happened 4 years before FDR became President. At the time of the crash, Herbert Hoover (of later FBI fame {infamy?}) was President.
OR
When the government announced the continued reaching for a socialistic world for America, also known as "let's take over all the finances from Wall Street and the banks, Biden said the bailout of AIG was "a bad idea."
OR
Biden's statements in Ohio that he was "against clean coal technology".
OR
Biden drew glares when he suggested that in Delaware "you can not go into a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent." I can only assume he meant the Western Asia Indians, and not the Chippewa.
BUT MY FAVORITE
Obama is "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy." I am a native (almost) Mississippian. If I were in political office and made that kind of statement, I would be forced to step down as the Senate Majority Leader -- oh wait, that was Trent Lott praising Strom Thurmond.
B. HUSSEIN OBAMA on Barry Obama
1. Called himself a law professor (he's not and never has been)
2. Claimed credit for nuclear leak legislation that never passed
3. Said his mother and father fell in love amidst the turbulence of Selma (he was conceived four years before)
4. Fellow organizers say Sen. Obama takes too much credit for his community organizing efforts.
5. Claims "nobody had indications Rezko was engaging in wrongdoing" -- yeah, like "nobody ever imagined planes flying into the WTC". Additionally, Obama has accepted more then $12,ooo in campaign contributions from Rezko.
6. "Was forced to revise a critical stump line of his on Saturday — a flat declaration that lobbyists ‘won’t work in my White House’ after it turned out his own written plan says they could ..."
7. "Sen. Obama said ‘I passed a law that put Illinois on a path to universal coverage,’ but Obama health care legislation merely set up a task force.”
B. HUSSEIN OBAMA on Interesting Family Members
While speaking to a group of veterans on Memorial Day, Obama claimed to have an Uncle who was involved with the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp during WWII. That’s interesting, considering his mother was an only child. As if that weren’t already enough, it just so happens the Russians were responsible for liberating Auschwitz, not the Americans!
But wait - a similar mix up in a speech made in 2002. In this particular speech, Obama relates his grandfather to WWII and the liberation of the same concentration camp.
B. HUSSEIN OBAMA on Big Oil and his "campaign for change."
"In a new ad, Obama says, 'I don't take money from oil companies.': Two of Obama's bundlers are top executives at oil companies and are listed on his Web site as raising between $50,000 and $100,000 for the presidential hopeful."
B. HUSSEIN OBAMA on the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution
Obama has denied his handwriting appeared on an old questionnaire that said he supported a ban on possessing a handgun, and he said he has never taken that position. Actually, his writing does appear on one of the two versions of the questionnaire.
B. HUSSEIN OBAMA on weather -- ok this is really just a stupid statement he made.
Last May, he claimed that Kansas tornadoes killed a whopping 10,000 people: “In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed.” The actual death toll: 12
B. HUSSEIN OBAMA on the sacrifice of our brave men and women in the Middle East
Feb. 2008, Obama of IL said that he had misspoken when he suggested that the lives of more than 3000 American soldiers killed in Iraq had been "wasted". Obama made this statement at a rally - and here is the whole quote. “we ended up launching a war that should have never been authorized and should have never been waged, and to which we now have spent $400 billion and have seen over 3,000 lives of the bravest young Americans wasted.”
But the one thing that really get my back up, is Obama's stand that he is not a muslim. Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008, speaking with ABC's Geo. Stephanopoulos on "This Week", he was trying to criticize the quiet smear campaign suggesting he is a Muslim (if it quacks like a duck, and walks like a duck, it ain't a pit bull), he (B. Hussein Obama) was outlining his "Christian faith" and "accidentally" said "my Muslim faith." Of course, he corrected himself immediately. Here is the exact quote; you decide what he meant: "Let's not play games, what I was suggesting -- you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith. And you're absolutely right that that has not come."
Oh well, he can't keep his story straight about much else either.
Let's move on to the other guys.
SARAH PALIN on Good Guys and Bad Guys
This is not a misspeak or a gaffe; this just makes good sense
To Katie Couric, Extra-Ultra Liberal Princess -- "Is is obvious to me who the good guys are in this one, and who the bad guys are. The bad guys are the ones who say Isreal is a stinking corpse, and should be wiped off the face of the earth. That's not a good guy." 9/25/08
SARAH PALIN on meeting with a foreign Head of State
The night of the first Presidential Debate, the evening news, MSNBC, announced that Palin acknowledged that she misspoke when she stated she had never met with a "Head of State" before this week at the U.N. It seems she met with the President of Iceland, in October in Anchorage.
SARAH PALIN during her VP Speech at the RNC
"I stood up to the special interest and lobbiest." The Communist News Network, oh, I am sorry, CNN reports that she was the first Wasilla Mayor to hire a lobbiest. It helped secure $11M in special funding for the town. OMG! She hired somebody and it helped the town, it didn't hurt the town, she didn't get a house at 1/4 its appraised value -- Good God what a bitch!
Again, she stated, "I championed reform to stop the abuses of earmark spending by congress." Apparently that is not true either, according to CNN (again), who state in her two years as Gov. of Alaska, Palin asked congress for $453M in earkmarks. Now, it does not say she GOT the money, just that she asked for it. Seems to me -- ok, I am editorializing, but I am a conservative, that any governor who does not ask Congress for some of the money collected in TAXES back, should face impeachment. Better to give the money (can you just send cash - like you did in Iraq so we can conveniently lose it?) to Alaska for a bridge that don't go nowhere that give it to a country that hates America, kills its citizens, and burns its flag.
I could go on, and in fairness I should, but I am not going to. I am going to say, because Matt Damon does not like Sarah Palin, and because Oprah & Halle Berry (she of the plastic mammaries) is in love with B. Hussein Obama and the Rev. Jesse Jackson also "loves" Obama, although I think I heard him say that he wanted to cut his (Obama's) nuts off, and because Obama wants to give convicted felons the right to vote (I am particularly against this just because, and because, oh most because Ted (do you remember Chappaquiddick, 1969, the murder of Mary Jo Kopechne, the commuting and total forgiveness of a jail sentence by a Judge (Boyle) and DA, the secret inquest at the order of the MA. State Supreme Court) Kennedy supports Obama - I would vote for the Republican ticket even if someone who really is not a Republican was on the ticket -- oh wait, there is a man and woman on the ticket who are not really republicans.
God Bless the USA, and God Save Ireland
Joe Biden's denunciation of his own campaign's ad to Katie Couric got so much attention last night that another odd note in the interview slipped by.
He was speaking about the role of the White House in a financial crisis.
"When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed," Biden told Couric. "He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'"
The crash, which occurred in 1929 was about 10 years before TV became a commercial reality (sometime in the late 1930's). But what is worse, it happened 4 years before FDR became President. At the time of the crash, Herbert Hoover (of later FBI fame {infamy?}) was President.
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When the government announced the continued reaching for a socialistic world for America, also known as "let's take over all the finances from Wall Street and the banks, Biden said the bailout of AIG was "a bad idea."
OR
Biden's statements in Ohio that he was "against clean coal technology".
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Biden drew glares when he suggested that in Delaware "you can not go into a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent." I can only assume he meant the Western Asia Indians, and not the Chippewa.
BUT MY FAVORITE
Obama is "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy." I am a native (almost) Mississippian. If I were in political office and made that kind of statement, I would be forced to step down as the Senate Majority Leader -- oh wait, that was Trent Lott praising Strom Thurmond.
B. HUSSEIN OBAMA on Barry Obama
1. Called himself a law professor (he's not and never has been)
2. Claimed credit for nuclear leak legislation that never passed
3. Said his mother and father fell in love amidst the turbulence of Selma (he was conceived four years before)
4. Fellow organizers say Sen. Obama takes too much credit for his community organizing efforts.
5. Claims "nobody had indications Rezko was engaging in wrongdoing" -- yeah, like "nobody ever imagined planes flying into the WTC". Additionally, Obama has accepted more then $12,ooo in campaign contributions from Rezko.
6. "Was forced to revise a critical stump line of his on Saturday — a flat declaration that lobbyists ‘won’t work in my White House’ after it turned out his own written plan says they could ..."
7. "Sen. Obama said ‘I passed a law that put Illinois on a path to universal coverage,’ but Obama health care legislation merely set up a task force.”
B. HUSSEIN OBAMA on Interesting Family Members
While speaking to a group of veterans on Memorial Day, Obama claimed to have an Uncle who was involved with the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp during WWII. That’s interesting, considering his mother was an only child. As if that weren’t already enough, it just so happens the Russians were responsible for liberating Auschwitz, not the Americans!
But wait - a similar mix up in a speech made in 2002. In this particular speech, Obama relates his grandfather to WWII and the liberation of the same concentration camp.
B. HUSSEIN OBAMA on Big Oil and his "campaign for change."
"In a new ad, Obama says, 'I don't take money from oil companies.': Two of Obama's bundlers are top executives at oil companies and are listed on his Web site as raising between $50,000 and $100,000 for the presidential hopeful."
B. HUSSEIN OBAMA on the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution
Obama has denied his handwriting appeared on an old questionnaire that said he supported a ban on possessing a handgun, and he said he has never taken that position. Actually, his writing does appear on one of the two versions of the questionnaire.
B. HUSSEIN OBAMA on weather -- ok this is really just a stupid statement he made.
Last May, he claimed that Kansas tornadoes killed a whopping 10,000 people: “In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed.” The actual death toll: 12
B. HUSSEIN OBAMA on the sacrifice of our brave men and women in the Middle East
Feb. 2008, Obama of IL said that he had misspoken when he suggested that the lives of more than 3000 American soldiers killed in Iraq had been "wasted". Obama made this statement at a rally - and here is the whole quote. “we ended up launching a war that should have never been authorized and should have never been waged, and to which we now have spent $400 billion and have seen over 3,000 lives of the bravest young Americans wasted.”
But the one thing that really get my back up, is Obama's stand that he is not a muslim. Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008, speaking with ABC's Geo. Stephanopoulos on "This Week", he was trying to criticize the quiet smear campaign suggesting he is a Muslim (if it quacks like a duck, and walks like a duck, it ain't a pit bull), he (B. Hussein Obama) was outlining his "Christian faith" and "accidentally" said "my Muslim faith." Of course, he corrected himself immediately. Here is the exact quote; you decide what he meant: "Let's not play games, what I was suggesting -- you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith. And you're absolutely right that that has not come."
Oh well, he can't keep his story straight about much else either.
Let's move on to the other guys.
SARAH PALIN on Good Guys and Bad Guys
This is not a misspeak or a gaffe; this just makes good sense
To Katie Couric, Extra-Ultra Liberal Princess -- "Is is obvious to me who the good guys are in this one, and who the bad guys are. The bad guys are the ones who say Isreal is a stinking corpse, and should be wiped off the face of the earth. That's not a good guy." 9/25/08
SARAH PALIN on meeting with a foreign Head of State
The night of the first Presidential Debate, the evening news, MSNBC, announced that Palin acknowledged that she misspoke when she stated she had never met with a "Head of State" before this week at the U.N. It seems she met with the President of Iceland, in October in Anchorage.
SARAH PALIN during her VP Speech at the RNC
"I stood up to the special interest and lobbiest." The Communist News Network, oh, I am sorry, CNN reports that she was the first Wasilla Mayor to hire a lobbiest. It helped secure $11M in special funding for the town. OMG! She hired somebody and it helped the town, it didn't hurt the town, she didn't get a house at 1/4 its appraised value -- Good God what a bitch!
Again, she stated, "I championed reform to stop the abuses of earmark spending by congress." Apparently that is not true either, according to CNN (again), who state in her two years as Gov. of Alaska, Palin asked congress for $453M in earkmarks. Now, it does not say she GOT the money, just that she asked for it. Seems to me -- ok, I am editorializing, but I am a conservative, that any governor who does not ask Congress for some of the money collected in TAXES back, should face impeachment. Better to give the money (can you just send cash - like you did in Iraq so we can conveniently lose it?) to Alaska for a bridge that don't go nowhere that give it to a country that hates America, kills its citizens, and burns its flag.
I could go on, and in fairness I should, but I am not going to. I am going to say, because Matt Damon does not like Sarah Palin, and because Oprah & Halle Berry (she of the plastic mammaries) is in love with B. Hussein Obama and the Rev. Jesse Jackson also "loves" Obama, although I think I heard him say that he wanted to cut his (Obama's) nuts off, and because Obama wants to give convicted felons the right to vote (I am particularly against this just because, and because, oh most because Ted (do you remember Chappaquiddick, 1969, the murder of Mary Jo Kopechne, the commuting and total forgiveness of a jail sentence by a Judge (Boyle) and DA, the secret inquest at the order of the MA. State Supreme Court) Kennedy supports Obama - I would vote for the Republican ticket even if someone who really is not a Republican was on the ticket -- oh wait, there is a man and woman on the ticket who are not really republicans.
God Bless the USA, and God Save Ireland
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