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Calling FEMA..... FEMA Where Are You?

Posted by Gar on Saturday, January 31, 2009 5:08:47 PM
Where's FEMA? The vaunted managerial skills of Obama seem to be MIA in the frozen states of the South.
I found a mention of FEMA  being directed by The Chosen One on Thursday to help with the crisis which began six days ago in Kentucky, but that seems to be a rather substantial time lag for an Agency which is supposed to react to EMERGENCIES as if they were actual EMERGENCIES. Emergencies such as in Kentucky where people are dying of the cold weather. Might have been nice to have some help right away to get the roads cleared, the electricity back on, food and water to the ones who need it etc. etc..
 
What is noticeable by its absence though is the lack of Big Media Outlets noting the lack of FEMA response, the lack of Big Media Outlets holding Obama responsible for the lack of response by FEMA and Obama's choice for Acting FEMA Administrator (Nancy Ward)
All in all, there seems to be no concern whatsoever on the part of Big Media Outlets such as PMSNBC, CNN, CBS, ABC, or the Official News Outlet of the Obama Administration Al-Arabiya regarding the lack of performance by the current administration at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
 
We were told throughout the Pre-Coronation of the skills which The Chosen One would bring to the Oval Office. I'm sure the good folks in Kentucky would like to have seen some evidence of those skills to manage the crisis.
 
All it would have taken was a phone call to the head of FEMA by Obama to ask the Acting Administrator Nancy Ward if she had been watching The Weather Channel recently and noticed there were a few hundred thouseand folks in deep caca in the South.
 
Although it is of course very likely that The Chosen One was very busy formulating another attack on Rush Limbaugh or maybe wrapped up in a game of pick-up on the White House basketball court I suppose.
 
At any rate, the nation and those in the south can rest easy tonight knowing that The Chosen One is on the job now, and tending to the plight of his peons, serfs, citizens and that all will be well when they wake up., mostly alright anyway.
 
It seems FoxNews is reporting the National Guard being sent to the region don't have chain saws to clear the roads they need to use to get to some of the affected areas.
And FEMA is sending 50-100 generators to the State of Kentucky. I could be wrong about this, but I'm pretty sure I could run  (or drive) down to the local Orchard Supply Hardware and pick up fifty generators today in the time it takes to get there and get them loaded in  a truck.
So my question would be this: If FEMA is a National disaster relief agency as their website implies and they can only lay hands on 50-100 generators, who the heck has the rest of the equipment they are supposed to have?
 
Here again, I am not a Certified Disaster Relief Management Specialist but it does strike me that more than fifty generatrors might be handy for an area the size of Kentucky. Seems like a common sense sort of idea, and that may be the problem, since I'm sure Federal Disaster Relief doesn't follow any sort of logic a mere human such as myself might understand.
 
Which brings me to the last question:
If this is the best The Chosen One can do in an emergency of such slow onset (it does take some time for a storm to get from point A to point B)
What is going to happen when the Radical Muslim Extremists which The Chosen One is/has been courting decide to turn on him for being a Sycophantic Political Dwarf! and an American Pig Dog explode a dirty bomb in a major metropolitan area? Will the respoinse be as slow? Will The Chosen One notice the problem or will he still be tied up choosing what kind of dog to stain the carpet in the Lincoln Bedroom?
 
Lets hope The Chosen One has more time for On-The-Job training before  it occurs.
 
 
 
 
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Tax Drones of the American Economy & Spumoni

Posted by Gar on Thursday, January 29, 2009 12:32:52 AM

I can understand why the IRS leaves Chuck "No Tax Bill For Me" Rangel alone, Chuck is the VIP of the HW&MC from the NAA (New American Aristocracy) who oversees the budget and processes of the IRS.

So it is only to be expected that the NAA member Rangel who failed to pay his taxes and then got caught might not have to pay a single cent of fines or interest. Why shouold he? He is a godlike being (small g) who is better than the common folk he represents, and has more  important things to think about than how much he owes in taxes on his Domincan Republic properties. Besides how can he be expected to know the ins and outs of the tax code just because he writes the tax code from his position in the House Ways and Means Committee?
 
What a bunch of schlubs we are for being put out about the special treatment he gets from the IRS. Despite the issue of when I got caught after the fact, with an error in my taxes, I was given thirty days to come up with the $2,000 I owed PLUS another $1,500 in interest and fines.
 
But, no the New American Aristocracy are brighter, more compassionate, wiser, and just plain old better people than those of who are the tax drones of the American Economy. To be completely fair about the whole issue, some legal eagle out there in the wide world of legaldom should start a foundation to fund the tax payments for the New American Aristocracy so they in CONgress don't have to expend themselves in the burden of actually paying taxes. We could all put on bake sales, mud wrestling events, garage sales ( there seem to be a lot of garages which could be sold right now) and with the proceeds the tax burden of our CONgress persons could be taken care of.
 
That would be a very fair answer for the CONgress persons, and that way they would never again run the risk of getting in trouble with the IRS at all.
 
I feel so good about the idea I'm going out for a spumoni ice cream to do my part to stimulate the economy.
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Global Warming Event Sticks Cruise Ship in St Lawrence River

Posted by Gar on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 12:02:33 AM
A cruise ship got stuck in Global Warming on the St. Lawrence River in Canada. The CTMA-Vacancier got stuck in the Global Warming Event Interface with the temperature hitting a -40 Centigrade. As Global Warming Events go, this was a doozy. -40 c.??? I haven't seen it that cold since I was in the Sea of Japan sitting on a Destroyer making way back to Vietnam. during a cold winter in 1970.
 
A crusie ship getting stuck in a Global Warming event on the St. Lawrence may not be that big a deal, but... the Global Warming Event Breaker ship which was sent to break the cruise shiop loose got stuck in the Global Warming Evbent Interface too.
 
I was pondering on that and realized it has got to take a metric buttocks load of Global Warming Event Interface to stick one of those, even in the St Lawrence river. Turns out the 300 folks on the cruise ship were going to go on a cross-country ski trip on the Land Based Global Warming Event Interface Powder in the Chic-Choc mountain area. Dummies. If they were just feeling too warm, they could have gone to the supermarket, taken their clothes off and stood in the walk-in freezer for awhile.
 
Or perhaps the local Food Bank, since an awful lot of thoise in the US of A are running short on food to put in the walk-ins coolers these days.
It is day 7 of the Messiuuhhhh's Reign and we are still short of rain on the Left Coast. Very short, in some areas of the state we have less than 60% of normal rainfall.
If the Messiuuhhh wasn't so taken up with making cetain babies can't be born outside the United States, and making certain the Club Gitmo residents were getting a fair shake he (The Mesiuuhhh) could take a swing through the West and fix the environmental non-raining event.
Perhaps on his way to the Western Whitehouse in Hawai'i he can make a stop and cure out ills. At least there are many who are waiting breathlessly for him to do so. I'm not one of them, but there are quite a few who seem to be turning red in the face.
 
Hope they remember to breathe again some day, some time right after 2010 would be good enough though.
 
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Bold University, Language, Literary, Scholastic Hierarchy of Intelligentsia Theologians and Artists.

Posted by Gar on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 1:24:24 AM
The need is dire and getting worse everyday. The newest Federal Dept. of the Messiuuuhhh needs to be immediately formed.
In reading at the Cheeky Monkey regarding the lack of adjectives to describe the current occupant at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, it occurred to me that all of us, both Libyaruls, and Conservatives are indeed going to run out of adjectives to describe the most recent miscreant to occupy the White House and the shortage is dire.
 
The Dept of Adjective Creation and Renewal must be formed without a moments hesitation on the part of CONgress. The budgetary matters appear to not be so important after all, since not enough Democraps and RINOpublicans are on board yet anyway, and with Tim Geithner sworn in, it should all be fixed by next week anyway.
 
But the need for adjectives to describe the Messiuhhhhh is a problem which is of vast importance to all Americans. Here it is, Jan 26th, not even a full week of the Immaculate Coronation of the Messiauhhhhh and many of the BMO's (Big Media Outlets) are running out of adjectives for BHO.
That is simply not acceptible, BHO the M'uhhhhh must be feted daily with an endles series of invective adjectives. The most common of adj.'s used are already wearing thin and becoming stale after the repetition of Chrissy Matthews, Katie The Very Perky Couric, Charles Gibson and the rest of the BMO talking heads talking out their anal orifices.
 
This unseemly lack of descriptors can not be tolerated.
The Dept of Adjective Creation and Renewal and Innovation (DACRI) should be formed with input from the Bold University, Language, Literary, Scholastic Hierarchy of Intelligentsia Theologians and Artists. Proper decorum and phraseology is a must.
 
The flowery language at times now used to describe the BHO is often unmanly and puts me in mind of Ferdinand the Bull.
The little bull who refused to fight. Hmmm.... that is perhaps appropriate...but I shan't digress.
 
The flowery language is not good enough for the M'uhhh. He, the Chosen One must have strong virile descriptors to make the world fear the very thought of his wrath. The way all of the Trekkies feared the Wrath of Khan before Capt. Kirk vanquished the evildoer.
 
The one bright spot in an otherwise empty landscape is Sen Inhofe (OK) who called the BHO's Exec. Order for state control of auto emissions and CAFE standards "environmentl thuggery". The term may not be as full of the spirit of bi-partisanship as some on the Left would want, but by golly it is at least a manly sort of invective. Thuggery, thug, thugmeister, I think the Senator from Okalahoma is on the right track at least.
I can only surmise that Sen. Inhofe, unlike Chrissy Matthews didn't feel a thrill run up his leg at the mention of The BHO.
 
 
 
And now that the video has been out for all the world to see, does Chrissy Matthews ever feel like a little girl when he goes out in public?
And does Chris Matthews use the same airport mens room as Sen. Larry Craig? Do they both "get the thrill" or both have a "wide stance"?
 
Never mind, that brings up mind pictures which require brain bleaching and lobotomies.
 
Back to DACRI though, that might be a safe place to find jobs for some of The BHO's tight buddies from Academia, like Bill Ayers, Bill could probably use a cushy little job like that.
maybe the Rev. Wright could help out too, they both seem to have a way with words which BHO appreciates.
 
In looking around for items with the Word of Wisdom from Bill Ayers I happened across this interview he gave to "Revolution" Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party USA. Again I say hmmmmmmm........ but at any rate one of BHO's good buddies Bill Ayers had this to say in the interview regarding being dis-invited to a "progressive" (socialist) education conference.
 
  • They said in the body of the letter: we want to position progressive education not as radical, but as familiar and good. Now that just steamed up my ears because if you’re saying you’re a progressive educator… That’s one of the things that’s actually annoyed me for about 40 years of being a progressive educator: the separation of the concept of progressive education from the concept of politics and political change. You can’t separate them…and this is a contradiction, incidentally, that goes all the way back to the beginning of progressive education and really the beginning of the conversations about the relationship between school and society. But John Dewey was one of the brilliant, brilliant writers about what democratic education would look like and was himself an independent socialist. But he never resolved a central contradiction in our work, the contradiction between trying to change the school and being embedded in society that has the exact opposite values culturally and politically and socially from the values you’re trying to build in a classroom. This contradiction is something progressive educators should address, not dodge. So this is what got me going. That’s a short version.
The link carries the entire interview, Bill Ayers is just a typical, average academician from Chicago. hmmmm....right.
 
Bill Ayers is just a "guy in the same neighborhood" as The BHO, ... right.
 
Nope this country isn't in trouble for electing the first President who gave his first Official press interview to Al-Arabia. or maybe we're in deeper doo than we've ever been in as a nation.
Could be that as Red Nanny in The House of Ill Repute in D.C. gets the Fairness Doctrine up and running, the only outlet for dissent will be a more direct form of Representative Government By The People. 
 
Are you ready?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Jobs? What Jobs? Just More Taxes. - BOHICA

Posted by Gar on Thursday, January 22, 2009 9:31:57 PM
The Joint Committee on Taxation can't pin down how if or many jobs will be created by the $1Trillion stimulus package the Commie in Chief Obama wants to spend. Thomas Barthold is the Acting Chief of Staff for the JTC and is only able to give a nod and a shrug when being pinned down to give an answer to Rep Camp in the hearing to find out what good the $1,000,000,000 package of Liberal Pork Spending is going to do for the economy. I'm not shocked or even moderately surprised, as a matter of fact it leaves me not even slightly incredulous.
The tax and spend Liberals (including George W Bush) have always looked at me and my fellow Americans as nothing more than the Holders of the American Piggy-Bank.
We create wealth, they spend it. Damn.
 
Every Military and Ex-Military person out there knows BOHICA don't you.
 
 
 
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No Stimulationizing Required - A Perfect Mortgage Storm

Posted by Gar on Thursday, January 22, 2009 1:18:26 AM
Who lost what? The sub-prime mortgage crisis isn't as real as the hype and press coverage wants it to appear. At least it seems that way to me when I do a reality check.
Yes, I understand the loss of  profits on papaer and the resulting loss of what some homeowners felt was their "right' to a profit or equity. The reality shows a slightly different story though when I consider that the only loss being discussed is the bloated increases over the past ten to twenty years, dependant on the locality in question.
 
But in reality, the homes which were worth $125,000 twenty years ago are still worth more today than they were then. Unless of course the factor of a disgruntled foreclosee punching out the windows and kicking holes in the walls is part of the latest appraisal value.
 
The hype and the 'bad news sells papers' attitude coupled with the ignorance of politicians thinking they could run a mortgage business better than any real estate banker seems to have come together to create a perfect mortgage storm.
 
To be honest, the politicians share the lions share of the blame in this mess for having caused the ballooning prices in the first place, but the mass hysteria of thinking "the value is lost forever' played on the fears of people who shouldn't have bought into a mortgage in the first place.
That fear plus the shadow losses of imaginary profits on housing price escalations has given rise to the rest of the problems. A homeowner who is suddenly faced with the loss of several thousand or tens of thousands of dollars in imaginary profit and the need to go back to an apartment after living life to the max in a four bedroom four bath house is not going to b happy about the prospect.
 
The other problem with the hyper-inflation of housing prices was the flooding of the market with new homes which 50% of the people shouldn't have been buying. But with the profits so easy for so long, the housing boom continued, meaning more jobs building homes, more jobs furnishing those homes, more jobs landscapng the yards, more profits for The Home Depot, Lowes Home Improvement, Wal-Mart, etc. etc. etc....down the line.
 
It seems to me after reflecting on this for the past five weeks that there isn't really a huge loss which has been sustained except to the National Ego.
We are no longer the Nation of Homeowners with White Picket Fences and two cars in every garage.
The downside to the letdown is that there are likely to remain far too many homes on the market for two or three, or even four years.
(just a guesstimate on my part).
That glut of housing will percolate through the rest of the economy for certain, too many houses means not enough building going on to keep all of the building industry moving along nicely. That means we don't need as many tile stores, brick masons, yada yada ya.
 
Unemployed plumbers don't buy new cars, whether GM or Toyota.
Realizing there are two primary economies at work in this country is fundanental to understanding how I got to this point. There is an external economy covering all of the exports to all of the other nations of the world, whether it's rice to Thailand, computers to japan, Software to everybody on the planet, or lumber to Greenland.
 
The other facet to our livelihood is the internal economy, it's what I create when I sell a Super Dooper Wanget to Fred in New York and Fred sells a Thromoidal Pluperfect Pup Washer to Louise in Utah and... you get the picture.
 
That internal economy is in dire straits because we've been pusing it to the limits on afterburner far too long. Perhaps as far back as the 80's when we started the program of outspending the Soviets into bankruptcy.
 
 
The building industry is the largest chunk of the internal economy in this country and has been since the Second World War, when that goes out of whack the rest falls like a row of dominoes. The need for housing is almost universally considered the high water mark of most Americans and their dream for a piece of the pie.
 
If it isn't, how were so many people convinced to buy homes they couldn't afford even in the best of times, let alone the current political fiasco of government intervention in private industry?
 
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Two Cows, How many Do You Have?

Posted by Gar on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 12:21:07 AM
As is often the case, a farm setting can be used to illustrate the realities of life. Political Science is no challenge for the "Farm Allegory" to explain the basics of.
 
Political Science for All

DEMOCRAT

You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none. 
You feel guilty for being successful. 

You push for higher taxes so the government can provide cows for everyone. 

REPUBLICAN

You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
So?

SOCIALIST

You have two cows.
The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor. 
You form a cooperative to tell him how to manage his cow.

COMMUNIST

You have two cows.
The government seizes both and provides you with milk. 
You wait in line for hours to get=2 Qts.
It is expensive and sour.

CAPITALISM, AMERICAN STYLE

You have two cows.
You sell one, buy a bull, and build a herd of cows.

BUREAUCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE

You have two cows.
Under the new farm program the government pays you to shoot one, milk the other, and then pours the milk down the drain.

AMERICAN CORPORATION

You have two cows.
You sell one, lease it back to yourself and do an IPO on the 2nd one. 
You force the two cows to produce the milk of four cows. You are surprised when one cow drops dead. You spin an announcement to the analysts stating you have downsized and are reducing expenses.
Your stock goes up.

FRENCH CORPORATION

You have two cows.
You go on strike because you want three cows. 
You go to lunch and drink wine.
Life is good.

JAPANESE CORPORATION

You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. 
They learn to travel on unbelievably crowded trains.
Most are at the top of their class at cow school.

GERMAN CORPORATION

You have two cows. 
You engineer them so they are all blond, drink lots of beer, give excellent quality milk, and run a hundred miles an hour. 
Unfortunately they also demand 13 weeks of vacation per year.

ITALIAN CORPORATION

You have two cows but you don't know where they are. 
You break for lunch.
Life is good.

RUSSIAN CORPORATION

You have two cows.
You have some vodka.
You count them and learn you have five cows. 
You have some more vodka.
You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. 
The Mafia shows up and takes over however many cows you really have.

TALIBAN CORPORATION

You have all the cows in Afghanistan , which are two. 
You don't milk them because you cannot touch any creature's private parts.
You get a $40 million grant from the  US  government to find alternatives to milk production but use the money to buy weapons.

IRAQI CORPORATION

You have two cows.
They go into hiding. 
They send radio tapes of their mooing.

POLISH CORPORATION

You have two bulls.
Employees are regularly maimed and killed attempting to milk them.

BELGIAN CORPORATION

You have one cow.
The cow is schizophrenic.
Sometimes the cow thinks he's French, other times he's Flemish. 
The Flemish cow won't share with the French cow.
The French cow wants control of the Flemish cow's milk 
The cow asks permission to be cut in half.
The cow dies happy.

FLORIDA CORPORATION

You have a black cow and a brown cow.
Everyone votes for the best looking one. 
Some of the people who actually like the brown one best accidentally vote for the black one.
Some people vote for both.
Some people vote for neither.
Some people can't figure out how to vote at all.
Finally, a bunch of guys from out-of-state tell you which one you think is the best-looking cow.

CALIFORNIA CORPORATION

You have millions of cows. 
They make real  California  cheese. 
Only five speak English.
Most are illegal.
Arnold  likes the ones with the big udders.
 
And you thought farming was difficult?I really like Real California Cheese.
 
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UN Wants a Bake Sale For Gaza

Posted by Gar on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 12:16:18 AM
Many gazillions are needed for Gaza to be rebuilt. No Sunni Shiite. Looks like Hamas needs to get out the donor list and start making calls. Or have a bake sale.
Saudia Arabia has already pledged $1Billion for the job. The emphasis there is on the word pledged, the Saudi's haven't actually sent any money, just pledged to do so.
From my perspective on the world at large, I see the problem as having begun when the people of Gaza elected a bunch of thugs, murderers and terrorists to put in charge of Gaza. We in the United States only elect one thug at a time, I guess that's supposed to be a better idea, although it doesn't feel like it tonight on the eve of the coronation of King Obama.
Does anyone else see the similarities between King Obama and Nicolai Carpathia of The Left Behind series?
(I'm not at this time postulating the Anti-Christ Theory in relation to King Obama, just noting the similarities between King Obama and a character in a book)
 
Dang, I have indeed digressed (but it's only the first time..... so far)
 
At any rate, thugs, murderers and terrorists were elected, and they acted out their parts as terrorists. Rocket and mortar attacks on Israel on a daily basis for more than a year.
Israel responds with force to stop the attacks and so the Zionists are named the guilty party in this fracas. Don't look for the logic in that, there isn't any.
Some time ago I wrote a piece with the title  Rocket Attacks From Mexican Drug Cartel Continues. Noting the city of Escondido in California in the first sentence allowed everyone to think for a few moments that a city in the United States was under attack by drug lords from Mexico.
When they clicked on the links to the news story, Lo & Behold! the attacks were on Israel - again.
Instead of Sec State Clinton a link went to Egypt warning Israel not to cross into Gaza, instead of a Boy Scout Camp near San Dieago, it was a demand from Hamas that Israel not attack.
 
The number of hits on that article was over seven hundred in a single day. If a report on Israel being hit again gets posted, it might get ten,twenty or thirty and then nothing.
The difference is that so many people have become used to the attacks on Israel that it no longer matters or makes an impression on them.
 
That is a distorted view of the world which at the end of the day is unacceptable.No nation on the planet can allow that sort of behavior from people who have promised to wipe it off the map.
Remember that Hamas is fighting a proxy war against Israel for Iran. Hizbullah is fighting a proxy war against Israel for Syria. The stakes in this political game are enormous for Israel, and for far too long the United States has been holding Israel back from behaving like a sovereign nation would normally want to do.
Demanding Peace Accords instead of allowing Israel to rid itself of the problems is not a solution, it is nothing more than a stop gap measure meant to placate both the EuroWeenies and the UN sychophants in this country.
Israel has complied to a large extent because we the United States are the only super power on their side.
 
It is not a long term solution which will allowe Israel a future without immediate threats to its existence.
The rallying cry for the Left has been the '67 war was begun by Israel and they have never given back the Occupied Territories!
 
Whats left out of that blather are the tank divisions amassed on the border by Egypt, and the hundred thousand troops amassed on the border also. The expulsion of the UN Peace Keeping Force and Egypts closing of the Strait of Tiran to all Israeli shipping.
 
What happened was Israel chose tyo perform a pre-emptive strike against hostile nations. over the course of the past four plus decades, the situation hasn't really changed much for Israel. Of the three major players in the Six day War, egypt, Syria and Jordan, only Egypt has tried to normalize realtions to some degree.
 
Whats left for Israel is to decide which devil to dance with. The United States? I can't imagine why they would want to.
 
And in the midst of all the turmoil of fighting a war against hamas terrorists, Israel still allowed humanitarian aid to the Gazans to cross the border. That is an incomprehensible battle plan by nearly any standard used in any other battle.
 
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Media Reaching For Sympathy For Sub-Primers

Posted by Gar on Sunday, January 18, 2009 9:22:28 PM
The media outcry against the unfairness of the housing market crash has been the normal blathering.
The housing market crash "hits" minorities hardest, the housing market crash "crushes' Hispanics", the housing market crash "grinds into slumgullion" the under educated (read that as not finishing high school?)
 
I know the average reader here is far above average in understanding concepts, so I'll run through this quickly.
Senators Barney Frank, Chris Dodd (primarily) and a few other mostly Democrat Senators leaned hard on the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac lending Monoliths to make loans which were deemed to be sub-prime. Meaning the folks getting the loans couldn't qualify for a regular loan like the rest of us who buy homes.
The folks with little or no credit history, small incomes, incomes which might be irregular in nature, folks who may only have some form of entitlement income such as SSI or another form of State Welfare.
 
So now the bleating  by the bleeding hearts (AP writer) is that those undeserving of a real loan are being hardest hit by the problems of the economy. No Feces Sherlock? The folks who couldn't afford to buy a home in the first place but who were shoehorned into a loan to put them in the ranks of the Landed Gentry are having a hard time?
 
Join the crowd, take a number and get in line.
 
  • They haven't made their $2,500 home loan payment in four months. The couple, who have three kids, have been waiting since October for a loan modification from IndyMac Federal Bank, which was seized by the federal government last July. They hope it will bring their payment down to a more manageable level of around of $1,500.
A manageable level. Gosh, when I bought my first house, that's what was suggested to start out at. Something I could manage even in the winter layoff while I was working the construction trades building houses I still can't afford.
Somewhere along the line the Utopian Socialist Dream of a completely egalitarian society crept into the CONgressional conciousness and the Socialist Democrat mantra became the standard against which all is measured.
 
Not just housing or employment, but everything which exists is meant to be shared by all according to their wants (not needs).
With a very few exceptions, and those exceptions are what define the essence of what it means to be a Liberal Socialist democrat.
 
Liberal Democrats believe in an egalitarian society, except for themselves. Social Security is a boon to mankind and should be granted to all who enter the country - except for members of CONgrss, who have their own very special retirement system.
 
Socialized Medical Care and Insurance is the right of every person who steps foot in this country, except for those who tread the Hallowed Halls of CONgress, for themselves they have a right to a 'specialized Health Care Plan.
Which means they don't pay for it, we pay for it and they get the best of care at the most prestigious hospitals because the members of CONgress are 'more important' than the common ilk.
 
"Housing Market Collapse Preys Upon The Least Able To Cope With Reality" would have been a better headline.
 
If life was fair, the house collapsing would have fallen on the heads of those members of CONgress who caused the crash in the first place.
 
 
 
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Young Americans Documentary

Posted by Gar on Sunday, January 18, 2009 7:35:48 PM
THIS is Pat Dollard, and this is Frankenstein (Frankenstein is the one to worry about)
 
Is it plausible to presume counter-terrorism surveilance can be used agtainst a populace to keep it in control?
 
Seems plausible to me, and I consider most conspiracy theories to be on the edge of the Outer Limits and/or fo9lks who are in need of a rubberized room.
 
Socialism is system of government which always, with no exceptions, places the interests of the Central Government in a position higher than that of any individual citizen or even that of any group of citizens.
Obama and his cronies are Socialists, what harm might they be able to do with a megalithic information gathering capability?
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Hamas & Human Shileds

Posted by Gar on Sunday, January 18, 2009 1:01:37 AM
Hamas has, and still does, use humans as shields to attack the Israeli IDF.
 
The video uses  a European dating convention rather than an American style.
Instead of Month, Day Year, the convention used is Day, month and then year. The date which might in the United States appear to be July 1 2009 is actually January 7 2009
 
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Hinckley, McCain, Barak & Jodie Foster

Posted by Gar on Sunday, January 18, 2009 12:00:16 AM
John Hinckley, the failed assasin of Pres. Reagan - Up for Release?
Reportedly John McCain sent the following  letter to John Hinckley, the letter has been leaked by an unnamed source to the press.
Hinckley you will remember is the delusional fop who was obsessed with Jodie Foster and wanted to make a name for himself to attract her attention
The wonders of the American mental health system are shown by the degree of recovery the young man has been able to achieve. Also the letter shows the compassion which Sen McCain is able to muster up for a man who should be despised until the day he rots in prison.
 

Return address redacted.

To: John Hinckley

From: John McCain.

My wife and I wanted to drop you a short note to tell you how pleased we are with the great strides you are making in your recovery. In our fine country's spirit of understanding and forgiveness, we want you to know there is a non partisan consensus of compassion and forgiveness throughout.

My wife Cindy and I want you to know that no grudge is borne against you for shooting President Reagan. We, above all, are aware of how the mental stress and pain could have driven you to such an act of desperation. It is probably a good thing you used such a small caliber weapon and only wounded President Reagan.

We are confident that you will soon make a complete recovery and return to your family to join the world again as a healthy and productive young man.

Best Wishes,

John and Cindy McCain

P.S.:While you have been incarcerated, Barak Obama has been banging Jodie Foster like a screen door in a tornado. Just thought you would like to know.

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Global Warming Killing Spanish Moss

Posted by Gar on Saturday, January 17, 2009 6:44:07 PM
Global warming continues unabated across the globe. Striking most recently in the Netherlands and causing sprained ankles and even broken limbs.
The sprains, fractures and broken limbs the Dutch are experiencing are due to the most recent manifestation of Global Warming in the Netherlands and the Dutch canals. With hundreds of thousands of Dutch taking to the canals to rediscover the joys of skating the canals, the most obvious peril is to slip and fall on the ice. And as they do, they will mangle the occasional body part.
The less obvious peril is getting run over by a train. That would occur as the skaters are transferring from one canal to another across the rail tracks. Being run over by a train I have to admit is not the most common concern which comes to mind when I think of ice skatiiong.

Enough of the Dutch are taking to the canals to have prompted the ProRail, who operates the Dutch rail services, to have required the train engineers to go slowly so as to avoid hitting the track crossing canal skaters.

It seems the freezing of the canals was a more regular occurrence in the 19th Century and has been a rare occurrence more recently, until the onset of Global Warming has brought about the recent temperature changes being experienced in the past several years.

One of the Dutch people old enough to remember the canal freezings is Gus Gustafsson and had this to say.
"For us, it's in our genes," said Gus Gustafsson, 68, a retired insurance executive, explaining why he and his wife had rushed out to buy new skates and take to the ice under a cloudless blue sky. "It was like a frenzy that came over people, including lots of kids, like my granddaughter, who is 5."


In an apparent reference to the influx of Muslim Arabs to the Netherlands, Gus remarked he had not noticed any people of Arab descent on the canals. Gus was also apparently making note of the connection the Dutch have historically had to the canals as part of a National Identity. Gus really needs to take a few sensitivity classes at the local Sensitivity Awareness and Dogma Center foR Awareness Potential (SADCRAP)
Puts me in mind of the Diversity Center in downtown Peoples Republic of Santa Cruz in California. I had dinner across from their building this weekend with my son at Lillians Italian Kitchen. The food was absolutely fantastic, but the atmosphere with the comings and goings across the street was redolent with hatred of the various bumper stickers I saw on some cars.
The one that was probably the funniest though was one which noted that:
"John Wayne Rode Side-Saddle"
 
I'm thinking the "The Duke" would have been able to correct that individuals concept of reality if he were still kicking today. But I have digressed.

There has been a mixed bag economic report from the skating frenzy sweeping through the Netherlands with the canal freezing caused by Global Warming also.
While many of the Dutch have cancelled ski trips and stayed home from work to enjoy the skating, the sales of skates is tenfold what it might normally be.
Henk Haitsma, 62, the owner, was not complaining. His shelves were swept clean. "I sold 3,000 to 4,000 pairs of skates in the last 10 days," he said. In that much time he would have sold several hundred in other years.

With skates which for the best available, can cost as much as $1,129, that can be a very sizable boost to a sporting goods store or chain which has struggled in the recent economic downturn, which may have some connection to Global Warming too if we could but dig deep enough through the frozen ice and /or permafrost to find it.

In other Global Warming related news, temperatures in single digits and wind chills cold enough to make even the hardiest North Easterner seek shelter have struck in the western section of New York. Even Donald Trump took the extreme measure of lighting his "hair" on fire to stay warm.
Oddly, on Friday the temperature in Anchorage Alaska was twenty degrees warmer than the temperature in Alabama, where it fell to a overnight low of 22 degrees.
I wonder if  Al Gore in Tennessee could see Russia from the front porch of his 22,000 square foot mansion? Or if he did, would it just bring up thoughts of a large frozen and flaming dessert? And what type of International Flap might it cause if Al Gore jumped in the ocean to do a Polar Bear swim and caused the sea level to rise enough to swamp five or six million Bangaladeshis where the mean elevation is  about one jet ski wake above sea level.
 
Global Warming is a harsh religion, with few redeeming qualities and increasingly requires large infusions of money from the Global Warming Neophytes to maintain the advertisment campaign so as to keep the awareness properly pointed toward the reduction of all Free Market Economies (Evil Bastiches that they are) to a point of sustainability of a proper Third World World for All, including the Most Evil Bastiches of All, The United States of America.
 
Long Live the Goracle, Dip that freak in water and let him freeze like a Gorecicle
 
 
And I nearly forgot, Save The Spanish Moss, fire up those smudgepots.


This most recent evidence of Global Warming threatens to kill off at least part of the Spanish moss hanging from trees in the South, while in Illinois the temperatures dipped to 32 degrees below zero.
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Observable Facts Notwithstanding, No Shiite

Posted by Gar on Monday, January 12, 2009 12:00:20 AM
The observable facts as noted in a study released  today show that despite widespread concern throughout the scientific community, not all researchers can agree on the genesis or outcome of what is occurring worldwide or even at one set of glaciers. In Iraq's Sunni Triangle, they call that No Shiite.
Those observable facts sadly refute to a degree the issue of Gorebal Warming and the First Saint of the Millenium, ALGoracle.

Three computer models were used to test the observable results at Helheim Glacier, the largest glacier in Greenland. Two of the models which were based on the assumptions of greenhouse gasses (caused in large part by the Goracles Lear Jet and high carb diet) creating global warming were tried, but found to leave nagging questions for Andreas Vieli and Faezeh Nick of Durham University in Britain.

"They simply don't fit what we have observed," said Vieli in an interview.
(a very minor problem for the Goreacles many believers)

Vieli and Nick used a computer model which posited the melt off event being triggered by conditions in the area where the glacier meets the sea. The observable facts and the computer model reportedly "fit like a glove" Vieli said. (another very minor problem for the Goreacleites)

"Whatever happens at the terminus provokes a strong and rapid reaction in the rest of the glacier. The result has been a significant loss of mass" as huge chunks of ice drop into the ocean, a process known as calving, Vieli explained.
OK, big chunks of ice in the ocean are still just a mior detail in an otherwise perfect scenario for Personal Wealth Enhancement by the Goreacle.

It should be noted that the Helmhein glacier began to slow down in 2007. That means it isn't sliding in to the ocean as fast as it was when the EnviroGreen-O Goreacleites were using the Helmhein to point to the evils of people traipsing around the planet in Hummers, Limo's and Lear Jets....and Chevrolets and Fords and Chryslers.
Vieli has suggested the method of making long term forecasts based on short term results which only span a few years may lead to unwarranted assumptions and erroneous data. That would be another Sunni Triangle moment there for those who don't easily recognize it.

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) made the very disturbing announcement in 2007 of a rise in sea levels of between 18 and 59 centimetres. (7.2 inches to 23.2 inches) by the end of the century. Not good news for the few million Bangladeshi's whose entire nation is roughly three or four feet above sea level. But good news for the Bangladeshi fishermen who lost their fishing boats in the typhoon a while back. Now the fish will come directly to the fishermen when a big ship goes by and makes a smallish wake.

At any rate the study which was used to make that prediction failed to take into account some of the more recent studies which show the impact of ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica. Since those studies have been taken in to account, the upper limit of 59 centimeters has been removed. (seemed to be to much Shiite in the Triangle even for the UN simpletons to shove around)

The disclaimer made by Vieli of the narrow range of the computer model being used for predictions does indicate that caution should be used to include observable results and that warming, irrespective of the cause (such as the SUN rising in the morning), can be a disaster for many of the low lying nations of the world. Such as the Bangladeshis just mentioned.

Vieli and Nick's study was focused on only the Helheim Glacier and Vieli warned against using such an isolated study as a prediction model for the entire planet. That in itself makes the guy's credentials suspect. Every climatologist oriented scientist worthy of his Federal Grant Money (FGM) knows that even the slimmest possibility of being able to create hysteria from nearly no evidence, or better yet from conflicting evidence patterns is how further Study Grant Dollars are made a slam dunk. And FGM is the route to getting published, and it's publish or perish in the wild and wacky World of Academia.
 
 
And NOW for something completely different
 
 
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Heart Attack Grill

Posted by Gar on Sunday, January 11, 2009 2:15:40 PM
For those of you too far away to make the pilgimage to Chandler, Arizona. Eat your hearts out. That by a strange circumstance might be healthier.
The Heart Attack Grill is a real burger joint in Chandler Az.
 
I could go on, but the video says it all so very well I don't need to.
Except for the short blurb up front since it is from a TV station. I recommend boycotting the TV show they're pushing.

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