Seventy five of the metro areas included in the report are expected to have double digit unemployment by the end of 2011. Cities such as Abilene, Texas aren't expected to regain their pre-recession job levels until after 2020. Some metro areas are even later such as Carson City, Nevada plus Anderson, Indiana among others which are expected to recoup their losses after 2021. Antonio Villaraigosa, Mayor of Los Angeles who is also the current President of the USCM made the following statement at the conference:

"It's time for Congress to get on with the serious business of legislating short and long-term solutions to our jobs crisis…. We need to stand for a new world order in federal spending. It's time to bring our investments back home. We can't be building roads and bridges in Baghdad and Kandahar, and not Baltimore and Kansas City.

Strangely enough I find myself thinking the same thing about Afghannyland. There are perhaps a few tens of thousands of Taliban and Al Qaeda all together. Let those morons have the whole country to themselves. That puts them all in one easy to deal with location and makes for a target rich environment for their elimination.

It  is the consensus of opinion of the conference attendees that much of the second-half growth recovery will be dependent on the price of oil stabilizing or continuing to decline. And with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia prompting the drop in the price of oil, it may actually happen.

The price of gasoline is hoped to drop under US$3.50 by the fourth quarter. Villaraigosa also touched on the need to raise the national debt ceiling and called on "posturing politicians" to yield to the necessity of the rise in the debt ceiling. It may be presumed the Leftist Pinko Commie La Raza supporting Mayor Villaraigosa was calling primarily on those politicians adhering to strict budget cuts from the Republican side of the aisle to roll over and play dead, along with all of the moderate Democrats who are playing like conservatives to hold on to their jobs after the 2012 election cycle ends.

The report linked above and HERE, notes that the Gross Metropolitan Product (GMP) of many of the cities exceeds by wide margins some of the GDP numbers of the international community. (beginning on page 3) In the report is the fact that Raleigh, No. Carolina beats out Cuba for GDP and I'm thinking that's really not much of an accomplishment.

The report also shows a rise in the rankings of the metro areas of Washington D.C. with the rise being fueled by the federal government Porkulus spending. With two consecutive years of decline in 2008 and 2009, 2010 was a year of modest growth in GMP for some metro areas. New York metropolitan area GMP stood at US$1.28 trillion, Los Angeles came in Second with US$738 billion followed by Chicago and Washington D.C.

The most troubling finding in the report (page 8) is that there will be 50 metropolitan areas for which this will comprise a lost decade, and of the metro areas included in the report, 103 still have double digit unemployment while 70 of those areas will still have double digit unemployment by the end of 2012. While Mayor Villaraigosa offered a valiant attempt at an upbeat report at the conference, it should be noted he is a moron and  the effects of the recession will continue for quite some time yet.

The effects of the recession on the nation as a whole will have even longer term consequences which are as yet unknown in relation to the loss of job skills and the inability of younger job seekers to succeed in their search for career job development skills outside of wanting to know if we will Super Size those fries. A lost decade has far reaching implications across every segment of our society, it should be avoided if at all possible.

I see the spammer's still reign supreme and blitz any sort of actual blog post occurring here, so I ask again (for my own edification) what is the lure here at TH since Chris regal left because the site techies wouldn't bother to keep the spammers off the site?

No better now than it was a few months ago. Why is anyone still here at spam central?

18 of the top 20 posts are spam and Gunny G is gone.. Busy for a couple of months and this place has gone to hell in a handbasket.
Anybody knowing what happened to Gunny G would make my day to let me know.

An animated unemployment map showing tghe progression from 2007 through March 2010.
How disappointing it is to have watched the current regimes focus on the non-issue of health care while the stark reality of being out of work strikes so many families.

When Chris Regal left Town Hall for good reasons, TH went to hell in a handbasket. The spammers now run amok with impunity and trash the site to the point of burying the real posts in a hodgepodge of ads for shoes, jewelry, cell phone batteries, and every other kind of ChiCom junk made on that side of the planet.

What a bummer it is to see this happen.
Did anyone hold a funeral for the TH Blog while I was gone?

American Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki has been shown to have an American birth certificate making him ineligible for the scholarship he used to go to college.

Former diplomatic security agent Ray Fournier was given the job of digging down deep to get to the bottom to stay on top of who the schmuck really was. So he went to New Mexico and did a search at the bureau of vital statistics and found the birth certificate.

Is it just me or does it seem surreal that we can prove the legitimate birth of a radical Islamist Jihadist Cleric, but cannot indesputably prove the legitimate birth of the Pretender-in-Chief of the USof A?

FoxNews Report with more details

It's time for CONgress to go home and stay there. They aren't really needed now that the Chosen One is on the job and has his handy dandy Executive Order pen in hand.
Bi-Partisan legislation? Whatever for, the godlette of1600 doesn't need no stinkin' legislation. Just another Executive Order to do the job.
Below are the Executive Orders signed so far by the Annointed One of 1600.

And now the Moron of 1600 is on the path to further his personal Socialist agenda.

"The challenges we had to address in 2009 ensured that the center of action would be in Congress," Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director, told the newspaper. "In 2010, executive actions will also play a key role in advancing the agenda."

As I said, no need for CONgress to stay in town, they can go home and we can turn down the heat in the CONgressional offices and save a bundle on heating bills.

Barack Obama	January 21, 2009	Executive Order 13489 - Presidential Records
Barack Obama	January 21, 2009	Executive Order 13490 - Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Personnel
Barack Obama	January 22, 2009	Executive Order 13491 - Ensuring Lawful Interrogations
Barack Obama	January 22, 2009	Executive Order 13492 - Review and Disposition of Individuals Detained at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base and Closure of Detention Facilities
Barack Obama	January 22, 2009	Executive Order 13493 - Review of Detention Policy Options
Barack Obama	January 30, 2009	Executive Order 13494 - Economy in Government Contracting
Barack Obama	January 30, 2009	Executive Order 13495 - Nondisplacement of Qualified Workers Under Service Contracts
Barack Obama	January 30, 2009	Executive Order 13496 - Notification of Employee Rights Under Federal Labor Laws
Barack Obama	January 30, 2009	Executive Order 13497 - Revocation of Certain Executive Orders Concerning Regulatory Planning and Review
Barack Obama	February 5, 2009	Executive Order 13498 - Amendments to Executive Order 13199 and Establishment of the President's Advisory Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships
Barack Obama	February 5, 2009	Executive Order 13499 - Further Amendments to Executive Order 12835, Establishment of the National Economic Council
Barack Obama	February 5, 2009	Executive Order 13500 - Further Amendments to Executive Order 12859, Establishment of the Domestic Policy Council
Barack Obama	February 6, 2009	Executive Order 13501 - Establishing the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board
Barack Obama	February 6, 2009	Executive Order 13502 - Use of Project Labor Agreements for Federal Construction Projects
Barack Obama	February 19, 2009	Executive Order 13503 - Establishment of the White House Office of Urban Affairs
Barack Obama	February 20, 2009	Executive Order 13504 - Amending Executive Order 13390
Barack Obama	March 9, 2009	Executive Order 13505 - Removing Barriers to Responsible Scientific Research Involving Human Stem Cells
Barack Obama	March 11, 2009	Executive Order 13506 - Establishing a White House Council on Women and Girls
Barack Obama	April 8, 2009	Executive Order 13507 - Establishment of the White House Office of Health Reform
Barack Obama	May 12, 2009	Executive Order 13508 - Chesapeake Bay Protection and Restoration
Barack Obama	June 23, 2009	Executive Order 13509 - Establishing a White House Council on Automotive Communities and Workers
Barack Obama	July 1, 2009	Executive Order 13510 - Waiver Under the Trade Act of 1974 With Respect to the Republic of Belarus
Barack Obama	September 29, 2009	Executive Order 13511 - Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory Committees
Barack Obama	September 29, 2009	Executive Order 13512 - Amending Executive Order 13390
Barack Obama	October 1, 2009	Executive Order 13513 - Federal Leadership on Reducing Text Messaging While Driving
Barack Obama	October 5, 2009	Executive Order 13514 - Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance
Barack Obama	October 14, 2009	Executive Order 13515 - Increasing Participation of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Federal Programs
Barack Obama	October 28, 2009	Executive Order 13516 - Amending Executive Order 13462
Barack Obama	October 30, 2009	Executive Order 13517 - Amendments to Executive Orders 13183 and 13494
Barack Obama	November 9, 2009	Executive Order 13518 - Employment of Veterans in the Federal Government
Barack Obama	November 17, 2009	Executive Order 13519 - Establishment of the Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force
Barack Obama	November 20, 2009	Executive Order 13520 - Reducing Improper Payments
Barack Obama	November 24, 2009	Executive Order 13521 - Establishing the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
Barack Obama	December 9, 2009	Executive Order 13522 - Creating Labor-Management Forums To Improve Delivery of Government Services
Barack Obama	December 11, 2009	Executive Order 13523 - Half-Day Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies on Thursday, December 24, 2009
Barack Obama	December 16, 2009	Executive Order 13524 - Amending Executive Order 12425 Designating Interpol as a Public International Organization Entitled To Enjoy Certain Privileges, Exemptions, and Immunities
Barack Obama	December 23, 2009	Executive Order 13525 - Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay
Barack Obama	December 29, 2009	Order of December 29, 2009: Original Classification Authority
Barack Obama	December 29, 2009	Executive Order 13526 - Classified National Security Information
Barack Obama	December 30, 2009	Executive Order 13527 - Establishing Federal Capability for the Timely Provision of Medical Countermeasures Following a Biological Attack

Barack Obama	January 11, 2010	Executive Order 13528 - Establishment of the Council of Governors
Barack Obama	January 16, 2010	Executive Order 13529 - Ordering the Selected Reserve and Certain Individual Ready Reserve Members of the Armed Forces to Active Duty
Barack Obama	January 29, 2010	Executive Order 13530 - President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability

Judicial Watch has given us their list of the Top 10 most corrupt poliTICKians....The White House must be [a] Seething or [b] proud of having so many of their "kids" on the list.
Will Barry Soetero Obama [lamadamadingdong]get a bumper sticker for his limo?

Two of mine made the Dis-Honors List, and me too!


Barry being who he is, I'm betting on him being proud that his protegees have done so well (bad) as to make the list of the Top 10 political hooligans in Washington D.C,
The list below is almost exclusively democRATs, but it is a bi-partisan list with one repugnant example from the (formerly) Grand Old Party.

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released its 2009 list of Washington's "Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians." The list, in alphabetical order, includes:

1. Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT): This marks two years in a row for Senator Dodd, who made the 2008 "Ten Most Corrupt" list for his corrupt relationship with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and for accepting preferential treatment and loan terms from Countrywide Financial, a scandal which still dogs him. In 2009, the scandals kept coming for the Connecticut Democrat. In 2009, Judicial Watch filed a Senate ethics complaint against Dodd for undervaluing a property he owns in Ireland on his Senate Financial Disclosure forms. Judicial Watch's complaint forced Dodd to amend the forms. However, press reports suggest the property to this day remains undervalued. Judicial Watch also alleges in the complaint that Dodd obtained a sweetheart deal for the property in exchange for his assistance in obtaining a presidential pardon (during the Clinton administration) and other favors for a long-time friend and business associate. The false financial disclosure forms were part of the cover-up. Dodd remains the head the Senate Banking Committee.
2. Senator John Ensign (R-NV): A number of scandals popped up in 2009 involving public officials who conducted illicit affairs, and then attempted to cover them up with hush payments and favors, an obvious abuse of power. The year's worst offender might just be Nevada Republican Senator John Ensign. Ensign admitted in June to an extramarital affair with the wife of one of his staff members, who then allegedly obtained special favors from the Nevada Republican in exchange for his silence. According to The New York Times: "The Justice Department and the Senate Ethics Committee are expected to conduct preliminary inquiries into whether Senator John Ensign violated federal law or ethics rules as part of an effort to conceal an affair with the wife of an aide…" The former staffer, Douglas Hampton, began to lobby Mr. Ensign's office immediately upon leaving his congressional job, despite the fact that he was subject to a one-year lobbying ban. Ensign seems to have ignored the law and allowed Hampton lobbying access to his office as a payment for his silence about the affair. (These are potentially criminal offenses.) It looks as if Ensign misused his public office (and taxpayer resources) to cover up his sexual shenanigans.
3. Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA): Judicial Watch is investigating a $12 million TARP cash injection provided to the Boston-based OneUnited Bank at the urging of Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank. As reported in the January 22, 2009, edition of the Wall Street Journal, the Treasury Department indicated it would only provide funds to healthy banks to jump-start lending. Not only was OneUnited Bank in massive financial turmoil, but it was also "under attack from its regulators for allegations of poor lending practices and executive-pay abuses, including owning a Porsche for its executives' use." Rep. Frank admitted he spoke to a "federal regulator," and Treasury granted the funds. (The bank continues to flounder despite Frank's intervention for federal dollars.) Moreover, Judicial Watch uncovered documents in 2009 that showed that members of Congress for years were aware that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were playing fast and loose with accounting issues, risk assessment issues and executive compensation issues, even as liberals led by Rep. Frank continued to block attempts to rein in the two Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs). For example, during a hearing on September 10, 2003, before the House Committee on Financial Services considering a Bush administration proposal to further regulate Fannie and Freddie, Rep. Frank stated: "I want to begin by saying that I am glad to consider the legislation, but I do not think we are facing any kind of a crisis. That is, in my view, the two Government Sponsored Enterprises we are talking about here, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, are not in a crisis. We have recently had an accounting problem with Freddie Mac that has led to people being dismissed, as appears to be appropriate. I do not think at this point there is a problem with a threat to the Treasury." Frank received $42,350 in campaign contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac between 1989 and 2008. Frank also engaged in a relationship with a Fannie Mae Executive while serving on the House Banking Committee, which has jurisdiction over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
4. Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner: In 2009, Obama Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner admitted that he failed to pay $34,000 in Social Security and Medicare taxes from 2001-2004 on his lucrative salary at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), an organization with 185 member countries that oversees the global financial system. (Did we mention Geithner now runs the IRS?) It wasn't until President Obama tapped Geithner to head the Treasury Department that he paid back most of the money, although the IRS kindly waived the hefty penalties. In March 2009, Geithner also came under fire for his handling of the AIG bonus scandal, where the company used $165 million of its bailout funds to pay out executive bonuses, resulting in a massive public backlash. Of course as head of the New York Federal Reserve, Geithner helped craft the AIG deal in September 2008. However, when the AIG scandal broke, Geithner claimed he knew nothing of the bonuses until March 10, 2009. The timing is important. According to CNN: "Although Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told congressional leaders on Tuesday that he learned of AIG's impending $160 million bonus payments to members of its troubled financial-products unit on March 10, sources tell TIME that the New York Federal Reserve informed Treasury staff that the payments were imminent on Feb. 28. That is ten days before Treasury staffers say they first learned 'full details' of the bonus plan, and three days before the [Obama] Administration launched a new $30 billion infusion of cash for AIG." Throw in another embarrassing disclosure in 2009 that Geithner employed "household help" ineligible to work in the United States, and it becomes clear why the Treasury Secretary has earned a spot on the "Ten Most Corrupt Politicians in Washington" list.
5. Attorney General Eric Holder: Tim Geithner can be sure he won't be hounded about his tax-dodging by his colleague Eric Holder, US Attorney General. Judicial Watch strongly opposed Holder because of his terrible ethics record, which includes: obstructing an FBI investigation of the theft of nuclear secrets from Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory; rejecting multiple requests for an independent counsel to investigate alleged fundraising abuses by then-Vice President Al Gore in the Clinton White House; undermining the criminal investigation of President Clinton by Kenneth Starr in the midst of the Lewinsky investigation; and planning the violent raid to seize then-six-year-old Elian Gonzalez at gunpoint in order to return him to Castro's Cuba. Moreover, there is his soft record on terrorism. Holder bypassed Justice Department procedures to push through Bill Clinton's scandalous presidential pardons and commutations, including for 16 members of FALN, a violent Puerto Rican terrorist group that orchestrated approximately 120 bombings in the United States, killing at least six people and permanently maiming dozens of others, including law enforcement officers. His record in the current administration is no better. As he did during the Clinton administration, Holder continues to ignore serious incidents of corruption that could impact his political bosses at the White House. For example, Holder has refused to investigate charges that the Obama political machine traded VIP access to the White House in exchange for campaign contributions – a scheme eerily similar to one hatched by Holder's former boss, Bill Clinton in the 1990s. The Holder Justice Department also came under fire for dropping a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party. On Election Day 2008, Black Panthers dressed in paramilitary garb threatened voters as they approached polling stations. Holder has also failed to initiate a comprehensive Justice investigation of the notorious organization ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), which is closely tied to President Obama. There were allegedly more than 400,000 fraudulent ACORN voter registrations in the 2008 campaign. And then there were the journalist videos catching ACORN Housing workers advising undercover reporters on how to evade tax, immigration, and child prostitution laws. Holder's controversial decisions on new rights for terrorists and his attacks on previous efforts to combat terrorism remind many of the fact that his former law firm has provided and continues to provide pro bono representation to terrorists at Guantanamo Bay. Holder's politicization of the Justice Department makes one long for the days of Alberto Gonzales.
6. Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL)/ Senator Roland Burris (D-IL): One of the most serious scandals of 2009 involved a scheme by former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich to sell President Obama's then-vacant Senate seat to the highest bidder. Two men caught smack dab in the middle of the scandal: Senator Roland Burris, who ultimately got the job, and Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, emissaries for Jesse Jackson Jr., named "Senate Candidate A" in the Blagojevich indictment, reportedly offered $1.5 million to Blagojevich during a fundraiser if he named Jackson Jr. to Obama's seat. Three days later federal authorities arrested Blagojevich. Burris, for his part, apparently lied about his contacts with Blagojevich, who was arrested in December 2008 for trying to sell Obama's Senate seat. According to Reuters: "Roland Burris came under fresh scrutiny…after disclosing he tried to raise money for the disgraced former Illinois governor who named him to the U.S. Senate seat once held by President Barack Obama…In the latest of those admissions, Burris said he looked into mounting a fundraiser for Rod Blagojevich -- later charged with trying to sell Obama's Senate seat -- at the same time he was expressing interest to the then-governor's aides about his desire to be appointed." Burris changed his story five times regarding his contacts with Blagojevich prior to the Illinois governor appointing him to the U.S. Senate. Three of those changing explanations came under oath.
7. President Barack Obama: During his presidential campaign, President Obama promised to run an ethical and transparent administration. However, in his first year in office, the President has delivered corruption and secrecy, bringing Chicago-style political corruption to the White House. Consider just a few Obama administration "lowlights" from year one: Even before President Obama was sworn into office, he was interviewed by the FBI for a criminal investigation of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's scheme to sell the President's former Senate seat to the highest bidder. (Obama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and slumlord Valerie Jarrett, both from Chicago, are also tangled up in the Blagojevich scandal.) Moreover, the Obama administration made the startling claim that the Privacy Act does not apply to the White House. The Obama White House believes it can violate the privacy rights of American citizens without any legal consequences or accountability. President Obama boldly proclaimed that "transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency," but his administration is addicted to secrecy, stonewalling far too many of Judicial Watch's Freedom of Information Act requests and is refusing to make public White House visitor logs as federal law requires. The Obama administration turned the National Endowment of the Arts (as well as the agency that runs the AmeriCorps program) into propaganda machines, using tax dollars to persuade "artists" to promote the Obama agenda. According to documents uncovered by Judicial Watch, the idea emerged as a direct result of the Obama campaign and enjoyed White House approval and participation. President Obama has installed a record number of "czars" in positions of power. Too many of these individuals are leftist radicals who answer to no one but the president. And too many of the czars are not subject to Senate confirmation (which raises serious constitutional questions). Under the President's bailout schemes, the federal government continues to appropriate or control -- through fiat and threats -- large sectors of the private economy, prompting conservative columnist George Will to write: "The administration's central activity -- the political allocation of wealth and opportunity -- is not merely susceptible to corruption, it is corruption." Government-run healthcare and car companies, White House coercion, uninvestigated ACORN corruption, debasing his office to help Chicago cronies, attacks on conservative media and the private sector, unprecedented and dangerous new rights for terrorists, perks for campaign donors – this is Obama's "ethics" record -- and we haven't even gotten through the first year of his presidency.
8. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA): At the heart of the corruption problem in Washington is a sense of entitlement. Politicians believe laws and rules (even the U.S. Constitution) apply to the rest of us but not to them. Case in point: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her excessive and boorish demands for military travel. Judicial Watch obtained documents from the Pentagon in 2008 that suggest Pelosi has been treating the Air Force like her own personal airline. These documents, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, include internal Pentagon email correspondence detailing attempts by Pentagon staff to accommodate Pelosi's numerous requests for military escorts and military aircraft as well as the speaker's 11th hour cancellations and changes. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also came under fire in April 2009, when she claimed she was never briefed about the CIA's use of the waterboarding technique during terrorism investigations. The CIA produced a report documenting a briefing with Pelosi on September 4, 2002, that suggests otherwise. Judicial Watch also obtained documents, including a CIA Inspector General report, which further confirmed that Congress was fully briefed on the enhanced interrogation techniques. Aside from her own personal transgressions, Nancy Pelosi has ignored serious incidents of corruption within her own party, including many of the individuals on this list. (See Rangel, Murtha, Jesse Jackson, Jr., etc.)
9. Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) and the rest of the PMA Seven: Rep. John Murtha made headlines in 2009 for all the wrong reasons. The Pennsylvania congressman is under federal investigation for his corrupt relationship with the now-defunct defense lobbyist PMA Group. PMA, founded by a former Murtha associate, has been the congressman's largest campaign contributor. Since 2002, Murtha has raised $1.7 million from PMA and its clients. And what did PMA and its clients receive from Murtha in return for their generosity? Earmarks -- tens of millions of dollars in earmarks. In fact, even with all of the attention surrounding his alleged influence peddling, Murtha kept at it. Following an FBI raid of PMA's offices earlier in 2009, Murtha continued to seek congressional earmarks for PMA clients, while also hitting them up for campaign contributions. According to The Hill, in April, "Murtha reported receiving contributions from three former PMA clients for whom he requested earmarks in the pending appropriations bills." When it comes to the PMA scandal, Murtha is not alone. As many as six other Members of Congress are currently under scrutiny according to The Washington Post. They include: Peter J. Visclosky (D-IN.), James P. Moran Jr. (D-VA), Norm D cks (D-WA.), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), C.W. Bill Young (R-FL.) and Todd Tiahrt (R-KS.). Of course rather than investigate this serious scandal, according to Roll Call House Democrats circled the wagons, "cobbling together a defense to offer political cover to their rank and file." The Washington Post also reported in 2009 that Murtha's nephew received $4 million in Defense Department no-bid contracts: "Newly obtained documents…show Robert Murtha mentioning his influential family connection as leverage in his business dealings and holding unusual power with the military."
10. Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY): Rangel, the man in charge of writing tax policy for the entire country, has yet to adequately explain how he could possibly "forget" to pay taxes on $75,000 in rental income he earned from his off-shore rental property. He also faces allegations that he improperly used his influence to maintain ownership of highly coveted rent-controlled apartments in Harlem, and misused his congressional office to fundraise for his private Rangel Center by preserving a tax loophole for an oil drilling company in exchange for funding. On top of all that, Rangel recently amended his financial disclosure reports, which doubled his reported wealth. (He somehow "forgot" about $1 million in assets.) And what did he do when the House Ethics Committee started looking into all of this? He apparently resorted to making "campaign contributions" to dig his way out of trouble. According to WCBS TV, a New York CBS affiliate: "The reigning member of Congress' top tax committee is apparently 'wrangling' other politicos to get him out of his own financial and tax troubles...Since ethics probes began last year the 79-year-old congressman has given campaign donations to 119 members of Congress, including three of the five Democrats on the House Ethics Committee who are charged with investigating him." Charlie Rangel should not be allowed to remain in Congress, let alone serve as Chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, and he knows it. That's why he felt the need to disburse campaign contributions to Ethics Committee members and other congressional colleagues.

A short recap:

George Soros and Rebecca Peters want your guns. (expletive deleted) them and the horse they rode in on.

Being POTUS isn't enough for this (series of expletives deleted)? He has to get in the middle of MY TV set before the SuperBowl? Now the SuperBowel movement is pontificating in the pregame show for the SB. And I have to be honest, this is not a happy inducing moment for me.

I like football as much most, and more than some, without being crazy about it. Enough not crazy about it that I haven't watched much this year because of my workload.

But the Superbowl is another matter entirely. Kind of like that other game all the sissy boys like to watch where the ball is a small round, white orb and they have to wear leather gloves to protect their hands to catch it. And there isn't any intentional contact made between players which would snap a small tree off at the base.

The Blather Monkey in Chief is doing his best Blather Fest still and this is wrong. Just plain old wrong.

I'm going to make a new sign. I had one when BJ Clinton was Prexbo, and it fit on the TV when he was talking.
You remember the signs Rush was touting?

HE'S LYING

Time to get the sign back up......

Neville Chamberlain preached "Peace for our time" when he had met with the German Chancellor before WW II. Something about the Liberal mindset seems to prefer the non-admission of reality and to prefer living in a world of make believe, happy thoughts and suicidal servility to those who are in truth "The Enemy"

Whether American Liberals or British Liberals, they all wear the same suit of Socialism with as much camouflage as necessary to prevent the average room temperature IQ citizen to ignore the obvious political ideology.

A case in point is Simon Tisdall who writes for the UK Guardian and who is now lambasting the United States for beefing up the defensive stance of the Middle East. Mr. Tidall's thought being that the entirely defensive nature of the United States position against a nation whose leader openly admits to a purpose of pushing the nation of Israel into the sea and an agenda of slaying "The Great Satan" - America is somehow a failure in common sense!

• In Iran, after 12 months in office, Obama has got nowhere by making nice. He didn't try that hard. He didn't try for that long. And now it seems the US is reverting to type.

Reverting to type for the United States has been in the case of the United Kingdom to send tens of thousands of young men to war to maintain the freedoms which we in the United States have held so dearly in the past. Generations of Liberal Ideology have stunted and shriveled those freedoms, but what remains is still far more than what the bulk of the world is able to experience on a daily basis.

The capstone of Socialism is a pathway to Communism and the utter defeat of the rights of the individual over those of the government and those who run the government. The elitists who continue to plan the demise of the foundations of America are intent on that very goal.
Suborning all rights, freedoms and human emotions to the needs of the greater good of society. Somehow ignoring that society is comprised of myriads of individuals with as many goals, ideas, dreams and wishes as there are people living in a particular society.

Mr. Tisdall has yet to castigate the Obama man-Child in a meaningful fashion, perhaps due to an unreasonable or entirely reasonable expectation for the Obama Man-Child to again reach out to the enemies of this nation in friendship and brotherly love.

Only a few options seemingly remain for the current illegitimate Administration in Washington D.C. to maintain an air of acceptability for the largest proportion of the population.

1. Obama must either reign in his Muslim/Liberal sympathies and actually perform in the War on Jihad, or
2. He must find a way to convince a majority of otherwise intelligent citizens to give him more time to work on his failures in domestic economic policy and his complete failure at international policy.

This is after all what happens when On-The-Job-Training is applied to the office of the President of the United States. It's not as if he lied about his resume.....very much, although his resume is actually very, very sparse and there are huge gaps with no explanations forthcoming.

How seriously must the consequences of history repeating itself be, before a general awakening occurs and the blot of Socialism is wiped clean from the Nation of America?
And it is my contention, the obliteration of the pestilence on the human spirit which is named Socailism will need to wiped clean or the American Experiment in Freedom will be wiped clean from the planet.
Given a choice in the matter, it would be my desire to know this nation has a few more hundred years to celebrate.