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Use your Finger, Save a Tree

Posted by Gar on Friday, February 27, 2009 4:43:58 PM
On occasion some people come up with really stupid ideas and decide to run with it despite any better advice they might receive along the way. Tree huggers have a greater tendency than others to engage in this type of behavior.
The Wallypop company is in production with an article better left to Third World countries (in my opinion)
A cloth toilet wipe, obviously an item whose time is at hand. The product is touted as an environmental measure to save a tree or two.

I will admit the company has a nice selection of styles to choose from though.
The basic wipes are a single layer of soft flannel and one layer of knit terry.
The premium wipes are a single layer of soft flannel and one layer of super soft velour.

The wipes also are available in a hemp material for those who are into an altered state of cloth.
Perhaps the oddest part of the hemp style is the issue of one side being smooth and the other side being 'loopy' When I hear that, I think of Velcro which is a hook and loop fastener. Somehow that does not bring about a desire to try any of the products, but different strokes for different folks is a term which comes to mind.
I won't go in to the "Sherpa" style, that is perhaps just TMI. (made to carry a bigger load?) (sorry)

Oddly enough the same company also makes sandwich bags for use in the lunch box. My personal recommendation would be to purchase separate colors and patterns of material to be certain no mix ups occur.

And for the unenlightened, there is of course a "How To" page at the website for the product. Oh silly me, and I thought it would just be insert finger A in....


Wallypop is a company based in Des Moines Iowa, I would have presumed it to be something more likely to come from Bezerkeley Ca or even the Peoples Demokratik Republic of Santa Cruz (Ca.)
In this item I believe we have found why they call it dope. The hemp material being used, seems as if it might be left over stems and seeds they didn't need and finally found a use for.
 

And through all of this I made no mention of the "Save a Tree, use your finger" adage. (until now)
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Obama CAN Fix the Economy

Posted by Gar on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 10:43:36 AM
The market reaction to PBHO's speech highlights an easy fix for the US economy.
 
PBHO need only enter the Whitehouse, close the door and say nothing for the next nearly four years.
It would also help if did nothing else to "fix" the economy, but if all he can do is sitdown and shutup, it would help a bunch.
 
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ACORNista's & Your Money At Work?

Posted by Gar on Monday, February 23, 2009 9:20:28 PM
ACORN who is in line for a major chunk of pocket change ($2b) in the Porkulus Law (your money and mine) is beginning the first of what promises to be a multi city, multi state approach to foreclosure civil disobedience. (homesteading someone else's home).
 
The concept of homesteading is actually an old one in this nation, it's just that it has never been tried on property which is already owned by someone other than the Federal Government.
 
But the folk's who helped elect your resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave are busy at the process of "Stabilizing" neighborhoods from the evil bankers, mortgage brokers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac neer do wells who loaned money to people who never had a hope in hell of being able to pay a real mortgage payment.
 
PBHO is in process, and seems to be on target with his unstated goal of El Presidente For Life in much the same way Hugo Chavez has rigged the system in Venezuela. Chavez used thuggsterism to influence votes where he could, and elswhere he used the cash flow from selling oil to America to buy the hearts and minds of the enough people to get a new consitutonal amendment passed allowing him to run for office until muerte (death).
 
PBHO is the consumate Community Organizer (Chicago Thugster Politician) who understands that if he can only get enough people fooled for long enough it won't matter what the rest of think when the unthinking automatons wake up to what they've lost in the process of Socialization of the nation. Presuming of course that the brain dead morons who are willing to go along with the program give a rat's rear end in the first place.
 
But... back to ACORN and the home in Baltimore.
In the link above Donna Hanks admits to being in arrears and unable to make the payments or to repay the arrearges.
But instead of understanding how life works and getting on with it (life) ACORN comes along with the grand idea of "calling attention to the foreclosures"
Yo dudes and dudettes, have ya'' been living in the cave next door to Osama Bin Laden? If you have been, check it out, maybe you can get a satelitte dish too so you can keep up on the NEWS.
The foreclosures aren't a secret afterall, I'm thinking there might be a few mental institutions with patients who haven't been paying attention to the problem. But the rest of us who actuall live in the real world? Trust me when I tell you, we noticed.... last year.
 
For you ACORNista's who feel like this might be a way to stay busy until the Brackster takes over as Emperor for Life. Take a break, you're nothing if not just irritatingly self centered and boring in your pursuit of "something to do" to justify the position of Community Agitator.
 
As a matter of fact I have a better idea for all the ACORNista's and how to stay busy.
Use the $2b dollars headed your way to buy up some of the homes that have been forclosed plus an enormous amount of chemicals for making crack and start your own business!
 
I highly reccomend you do all of your own Quality Control testing on site at the crack labs and use as much of it as possible yourselves also.
I hear it's what kept Che Guevara on the Revolutionary trail for so long although his was probably Organiclly grown on the hillsides of Columbia..... Hey now theres a thought too, if all the ACORNista's could just make enough money selloing crack made in the formerly foreclosed homes turned crack labs, they could all move to Columbia where the Revolucion is just waiting to happen, and in Columbia there are no gun laws to prevent the ACORNista's from taking up arms in the struggle against the evil governments of the world.
 
The above concept would easily solve several problems in one fell swoop. Most importantly it would eventually move all the ACORN morons out of the country I live in.
 
 
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'Hanoi" Jane Fonda & Gathering Of Eagles

Posted by Gar on Sunday, February 22, 2009 9:25:37 PM
Hanoi Jane Fonda has quite a following these days, and has since she went to Hanoi to pose on top of a North Vietnamese anti aircraft gun in 1972.
Right at this particular moment in time she has a following though of the Gathering of Eagles who have still never heard a single word of contrition from the old hag.
The GOE folks are picketing the theatre where Hanoi Jane is appearing in a stage production. The  fact that Hanoi Jane has called her action "regrettable" doesn't seeem to carry much weight with any other 'Nam Vets besides myself and appears to cross all known socio-economic strata including political affiliations.
 
I spoke to a Dr. last year who was a Corpsman in 'Nam who happens to also be very politically LeftOCentric in his views.
In the middle of the disagreements we were discussing, I asked him if he could excuse Hanoi Jane for the action she  had taken.
His answer was a definite NO! with several mild expletives added.
When I asked him why not he told me he'd never heard her apologize to the men & women who served in uniform in 'Nam and until she made a full and unambiguous apology there was nothing to discuss regarding the .... (not so mild expletives left out) 
 
In the linked article it mentions it has been 46 years since the old hag was on Broadway, another 46 would have beeen just about right.
 
 correction:
p.s. I apologize for the slip up in stating the old hag "posed on top of a North Vietnamese", instead of on top of a North Vietnamese anti aircraft gun, I meant no disprespect to my former enemies the North Vietnamese
 
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Ministry of Truth - Obama Style

Posted by Gar on Sunday, February 22, 2009 8:24:28 PM
Renaming larger deicits as smaller deficits is the answer PBHO has come up with. Creating soundbites telling the American people he is going to reduce the budget deficits by half as we enter 2013 is a soundbite the Big Media Obama Supporters like MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS ad nauseum will be able to play throughout the week and beyond.
 
And in essence that is all it will amount to, just another soundbite to fulfill the Public Relations need to keep both the unwitting public and witless public at ease while the deficits mount higher and higher.
 
Over at the Washington Post the headline is "Obama's First Budget Seeks To Trim Deficit" 
 
Nice rhetoric, easily fits into a 15 second soundbite format. Unfortuantely it doesn't seem to be precisely true.
While offering platitudes regarding deficit reductions, he is also about to usher in a new attempt at Health Care Reform - vis-a-vis Nationalized Health Care.
Nationalized Health Care can be touted as a panacea to what amounts to a fundamentally flawed system. BUt the current health care system is flawed because the Federal and State governments have a role in the process. Medicare (socialized healthcare for a few) and Medicaid (socialized health care for more yet) are the tip of the iceberg when considering a fully intergrated National Health Care Program.
 
The only possible way to make a fully integrated Socialized Health Care plan work is to include every living soul still breathing in the plan, so as to encompass as many to pay for it as possible.
Of course that sounds noble and high minded, except I'm not sure if I want the same health care system the crackheads down the street can afford. Could be that I have zero interest going to the County hospital to wait for an hour or two to have my arm reattached.
 
 It's very possible I have no interest in seeing the advances in medicine brought to a near halt by the lack of funding when the Federal Socialized Health system decides the cost of a new cancer anti-viral immunization drug is far to costly for the benifit derived.
 
When the federal bean counters are placed in charge of who gets which medical care based on cost effectiveness, can anyone guess what might happen to the elderly, the chronically ill, those without a prayer of a chance to be "productive" citizens as defined by the appropriate  Socialized Medical Benefit Pamphlet?
 
Efficacy of Treatment Pamphlet #7376.328.0025.
 Long Term Beneifit Determination of Eligibility for Life Extending Care
Sub Section 32.89: Life value shall be determined by percieved or verifiable ability to produce tangible asset accumulation or resultant overall tangible beneifits to the population of the Nation as a whole. (Note: All members of Congress are assumed to have an inherent ability to benefit the Nation in their sacrificial work toward the conmon good of the Nation, and are to be offered all medical treatements irrespective of any other negative cost analysis, including the age of the Congress Person.)
 
But I have digressed again. The cost of the recent Generational Theft Act of 2009, TARP, and the rest of the Socialist Wealth Redistribution Enhancement Programs are to funded by increased taxes on "Rich Folks", businesses and corporations.
 
Hmmmm.... I wonder how many businesses that might convince to come back from Mexico, Canada, China, Taiwan etc. etc.... to the United States to employee AMERICAN workers.
 
Although without a specific statement by the POTUS PBHO, it may be that his re-employment programs are not specifically targeted at Americans only. It may just be part of his Global Welfare Stimulus Program for Equitable Benefits to Third World Nations of Earth and Iran.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Qur'an Challenge

Posted by Gar on Saturday, February 21, 2009 6:01:01 PM
allah Akhbar? ( I don't capitalize child abusers names)
 
 
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1% Savings of Generational Theft Act of 2009

Posted by Gar on Saturday, February 21, 2009 5:30:10 PM
The plan to save more than 1% of the cost of the Generational Theft Act 2009 annually.
Which means of course it could be paid off in less than one hundred years, or less than the time most think it wil take, which is an ill defined grandchildrens grand children will pay it off, or five generations.
 
CONgress (to be distinguished from PROgress) wants Wall Street to run more efficiently.  The free market tends to do that anyway to a degree, but I see the point the CONgress pinheads are making now that they have decided to Socialize the country.
 
But, I submit that CONgress should lead by example in this area of efficiency, downsizing, and doing more with less.
 
To lead the way in this climate of austerity and save enough to pay for perhaps 1% of the most recent Stimulus/Socialization/PorkButt Bill which is now law, the following changes should be enacted either voluntarily by CONgress or involuntarily by dictate of the American Voters.
 
First and foremost:
The Congress consists of 100 Senators and 435 Representatives. Downsizing by 50% over the course of six years.
The redistricting made necassary by the downsizing should be handled by discretion of the voting public, not gerrymandered by any elected or appointed officials. 435 / 2 = 217.5 It might be best to leave it to the voters to elect either a) one full Representative, b) rip one in half or c) just use 217.
I suggest plan b, since it will detract from the field of candidates those who aren't truly interested in the job for the right reasons.
 
The plan then is to reduce the staff allotments by 25% for the remaining CONgressional Critters.
 
That will leave only 267 members of CONgress to cause problems and pass useless laws restriciting the freedoms we do still have.
 
The savings in base pay at that point will be $44,273,600 annually for the Non-Members of CONgress.
 
The savings in staff costs would be approximately $433.4 million each year since the House of Ill Repute spends roughly $1.3 million per member on staff ( 218 x 1.3 = $283.4 million savings) and the Senate spends roughly $3 million per member on staff ( 50 x3  = $150 million)
 
With the further reduction in costs associated with the 25% staff reductions:
House of Ill Repute: Instead of $1.3 million per member, it will be $975,000 per member for a savings of $69.55 million each year ($282.1 million - $212.55 million)
 
In the Sin of the Senate chamber:
Insteadd of $150 million (@ $3million per member x 50)
It would be $2.25 million per member x 50 for a savings of $37.5 million
 
Total staff reduction cost savings annually?
 
$433.4 million + $107.05 million = $540.45 million
 
Another side issue in savings will be CONgressional earmarks legislational graft.
Each year approximately $15 Billion is spent on pet projects for CONgressional Critters.
Reducing the number of CON Critters is a nifty 50 reduction amounting to $7.5 Billion in annual savings at the end of six years.
 
The total savings in this plan at the end of six years is $8.04045 Billion dollars annually, or just a bit more than 1% of the Porkulus and Generational Theft Act of 2009
 
The last issue to deal with is the retirement problem in CONgress. If they spend a single term in office they get full retirement. That amounts to a figure very close to the actual salary of a sitting Congressional Critter.
 
So a requirement that they serve a total of 30 years in CONgress to get a retirement would help with extended costs down the road.
BUT, removing their retirement entirely would be a better idea, they could get signed up for Social Security and put all of the money (yours and mine) they paid in to their retirement accounts (if they actually do that) in to the Social Security Fund and then be ready for retirement at age 70 or 72.
 
Eliminating the CONgressional barber, hairstylists, banks, shoe shiners, etc. etc... might lend itself to an understanding that the CONgress is not really the New American Aristocracy, but instead are actually just well paid public servants. 
 
I've now woken up from my dream and will return to reality.
 
 
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130 Million Migrant Workers

Posted by Gar on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 1:08:35 AM
130 million migrant workers, just a drop in the bucket for the ChiComs. Except that many of them are just a little unhappy these days due to the rising unemployment in China. In Guangdong Province all by itself they have 20 million Chi-dudes and Chi-dudettes walking around with nothing much to do except be hungry and angry.
 
And The messiauuuuhhh is worried about a few million? I mentioned a couple of weeks ago what it might look like when the job loss issue began to hit the ChiComs in a major way. Due in part to the slow delivery of news from "Official" sources in China, the word is just recently beginning to get out, Like the Kurt Russell movie, there is Big Trouble in little China.
 
The ChiComs are growing concerned about the "hostile forces" which have been milling about and clashing with police in the past few months. Even the ChiComs who can lose a few tens of millions and never blink an eye have reason to be concerned if those tens of millions become hostile enough to take out their aggression on the "State"
 
The problem of course is that China doesn't routinely offer information about the size of the labor market, the total number of unemployed or the size of Whang Chou Meins laundry list of new submarines we need to worry about. I will mention again that we need to worry about those quiet boomers because Billy Bubba Clinton allowed the tech for quiet propulsion systems to be sold to China over the objections of the US Commerce Dept. No one knows how much that payment was yet. But it cost plenty for the people who have to try to keep track of those ChiCom boomers.
 
As usual, I have digressed... oh well.
 
ChiCom solutions for social unrest tend to run toward very public displays of military preparedness such as was used in Tianamen Square in 1989. Is Obama still in awe of the Chinese the way he was during the Olympics? Does he secretly consider the solutions used by the ChiComs as being a logical extension of The Fairness Doctrine? Obama's buddy Bill Ayers considered the 'final solution' for 20 million ultra conservatives to be a rational response to the overthrow of the government in existence at the time. But now Obama and Bill Ayers ARE the government. The anarchy they had espoused is no longer necassary it seems.
Keep your powder dry.
At any rate, there is a tipping point even for the ChiComs when it comes to unemployment and unhappy Chinese workers. When that point comes, I do not look for the ChiComs to settle in and implode quietly, the easiest answer for the Chinese is a war of conquest against their neighbors close by. If the Chinese win the war... they win more land, more industrial base, and releive the population pressure at the same time.
If the chinese lose the war of conquest, they win anyway by simply releiving the population pressures and then returning to the industrial process when the dust settles.
 
Consider for a moment the industrial capability of China. Just how much and how fast could they crank out the necassary materiels for a military campaign and still feed the masses of people who work those industries is information some of the spooks in the NSA might have.
 
America was in that position in WW II with respect to the rest of the world. We built stuff faster than the Axis powers could blow it up and Japan could sink it.
We won.
 
Who's next? 
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Let Them Eat Cake!

Posted by Gar on Friday, February 13, 2009 10:49:11 AM
Red Nanny is off to Rome, stimulus bill be damned! The report of Red Nanny needing to make the plane for a trip to junket trip to Rome comes as no surprise to most of us I'm sure.
That b***h has no concept of honor or public service. We The People get tp pay her and pay for her junket trips to wherever she goes on her gov't 757. And now in the midst of voting for or against the largest Pork Bill in the history of the freakin' planet - she's in a hurry?
 
The people of San Fransicko have foisted this Libtard Moron on the Nation as a whole. The city of San Fransicko shou8ld be held accountable  for such a travesty of ignorance in voting agaisnt the public welfare.
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Der Fuehrer Barack

Posted by Gar on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 11:33:41 PM
In 1933 Der Fuehrer rose to power in what became Nazi Germany by promising the German people the boon of economic progress. Germany at the time was still depressed from the 1929 Wall Street Crash.
 
Allow me to digress- and perhaps paying attention to the links highlighted in yellow will explain my thinking here.
 
In 1932, the German people were open to any suggestion on how to rebuild their economy and stop the suffering of the 30% unemployment rates.
 
At that time along came Franz von Papen as Chancellor who did a spectacularly poor job of it. He lost out to a forgettable gent by the name of Schleicher who also did a very poor job.
It was then Jan 28th 1933, the President of Germany von Hindenburg was convinced by von Papen to appoint a relative political novice to the job of Chancellor.
Chancellor Adolph Hitler then held the reins of power.
By making the prOmises which the people of Germany wanted to hear, whether true or not, Hitler rose beyond the point of being controlled by either the rest of the Reichstag or  Hindenburg and was able to establish himself as Der Fuehrer "The Leader". (not yet the German Messiah)
 
In February 1933 the push came to end the threat of the Social Democrats and Communist party in Germany ushered along by Dutch Communist Martinus van der Lubbe who set the Reichstag building on fire.
The SA and SS militias began the hunt along with the aid of the police, while the German People stood by and watched the action occur.
 
The result of the cleansing and destruction of competing political parties was The Führerprinzip (Führer principle).
Hitler at that time requested and was given the power to rule without parliment and had total control of the country. The new Totalitarian State was born.
 
One party rule was granted in the quest for rebirthing the nation to greatness and worldwide power. Everything from the churches to the various communication medias were place in servitude to Der Fuehrer.
 
Does the analogy lend itself to the current form of Rule by Messiah?
 
Der Fuehrer Barack O    (all quotes of Der Fuehrer Barack from this link until noted)
  •  
  • Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath.
  • The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms. At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because We the People have remained faithful to the ideals of our forebears, and true to our founding documents.
  • So it has been. So it must be with this generation of Americans.


    Hitler:       (all quotes of Hitler from this link until noted)
  • MORE than fourteen years have passed since the unhappy day when the German people, blinded by promises from foes at home and abroad, lost touch with honor and freedom, thereby losing all. Since that day of treachery, the Almighty has withheld his blessing from our people. Dissension and hatred descended upon us. With profound distress millions of the best German men and women from all walks of life have seen the unity of the nation vanishing away, dissolving in a confusion of political and personal opinions, economic interests, and ideological differences
 
Der Fuehrer Barack
  • That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age.
 
 
Hitler
  • The misery of our people is horrible to behold! Millions of the industrial proletariat are unemployed and starving; the whole of the middle class and the small artisans have been impoverished. When this collapse finally reaches the German peasants, we will be faced with an immeasurable disaster. For then not only shall a nation collapse, but a two-thousand-year-old inheritance, some of the loftiest products of human culture and civilization.
 
Der Fuehrer Barack
  • Homes have been lost, jobs shed, businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly, our schools fail too many, and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.
 
Hitler
  •  All about us the warning signs of this collapse are apparent. Communism with its method of madness is making a powerful and insidious attack upon our dismayed and shattered nation. It seeks to poison and disrupt in order to hurl us into an epoch of chaos.... This negative, destroying spirit spared nothing of all that is highest and most valuable. Beginning with the family, it has undermined the very foundations of morality and faith and scoffs at culture and business, nation and Fatherland, justice and honor. Fourteen years of Marxism have ruined Germany; one year of bolshevism would destroy her.
 
(I will interject a note of my own here:)
Even the Planetary pus-wad Hitler was able to see the destruction of his nation by the spirit robbing nature of Marxism and Communism. So why do the American Democrat Socialists want to revisit that failed concept?
 
Der Fuehrer Barack

  • On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas that for far too long have strangled our politics.
 Hitler
  • The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and co-operation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life....
  • Turbulent instincts must be replaced by a national discipline as the guiding principle of our national life. All those institutions which are the strongholds of the energy and vitality of our nation will be taken under the special care of the Government.
  • The National Government intends to solve the problem of the reorganization of trade and commerce with two four-year plans:
  • The German farmer must be rescued in order that the nation may be supplied with the necessities of life....
  • A concerted and all-embracing attack must be made on unemployment in order that the German working class may be saved from ruin....
  • The November parties have ruined the German peasantry in fourteen years.
  • In fourteen years they have created an army of millions of unemployed. The National Government will, with iron determination and unshakable steadfastness of purpose, put through the following plan:
  • Within four years the German peasant must be rescued from the quagmire into which he has fallen.
  • Within four years unemployment must be finally overcome. At the same time the conditions necessary for a revival in trade and commerce are provided.
  • The National Government will couple with this tremendous task of reorganizing business life a reorganization of the administrative and fiscal systems of the Reich, of the Federal States, and the Communes.
  • Only when this has been done can the idea of a continued federal existence of the entire Reich be fully realized....
  • Compulsory labor-service and the back-to-the-land policy are two of the basic principles of this program.
  • The securing of the necessities of life will include the performance of social duties to the sick and aged. In economical administration, the promotion of employment, the preservation of the farmer, as well as in the exploitation of individual initiative, the Government sees the best guarantee for the avoidance of any experiments which would endanger the currency.
 

Der Fuehrer Barack   (new link)

  • It's time to trade old habits for a new spirit of responsibility. It's time to finally change the ways of Washington so that we can set a new and better course for America.
  • There is no doubt that the cost of this plan will be considerable. It will certainly add to the budget deficit in the short term.
  • But equally certain are the consequences of doing too little or nothing at all, for that will lead to an even greater deficit of jobs, incomes and confidence in our economy.It is true that we cannot depend on government alone to create jobs or long-term growth. But at this particular moment, only government can provide the short-term boost necessary to lift us from a recession this deep and severe. Only government can break the cycle that is crippling our economy, where a lack of spending leads to lost jobs, which leads to even less spending, where an inability to lend and borrow stops growth and leads to even less credit.

    ....It's not just another public works program...
  • ...And that's why we'll invest in priorities like energy and education, health care and a new infrastructure that are necessary to keep us strong and competitive in the 21st century....
There is more Socialist drivel following in that speech, suffice it to say Obama has read history and chosen to repeat its errors to the detriment of the nation and its people.
All in the name of Socialist Democrat power grabbing.
All hail the messiuuhhhh of Chicago.
 
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Gazan Stimulus Plan - But Arms Shipment Halted

Posted by Gar on Saturday, February 07, 2009 1:40:16 PM
Israel has begun it's own form of an idiotic Stimulus Package. One which is just as goofy as the one being worked on by the CONgressional New American Aristocracy members today.
 
The attempt by a group known as The Legal Forum for the Land of Israel was to stop the suicidal  flow of money to Gaza without assurances the money wouldn't wind up in the hands of Hamas. Those assurances actually would mean very little though, since the Hamas Militants are the guys with the guns, RPG's and rockets.
The tax money which was collected on behalf of the Palestinian Authority by Israel was for the purpose of funding the corrupt civil service municipal employees.

The real concern by Legal Forum for the Land of Israel is of course the money being used by Hamas to fund weapons purchases similar to, if not actually those being held by the government of Cyprus in a separate incident. The shipment of those weapons would have been meant as restocking efforts for the continuously expended artillery and rocket attacks agaisnt southern Israel.
Can't make home-made rockets without parts don't you know.

The weapons being held in that case were first identified as artillery shells plus other arms. No one is willing to mention what "other arms" is, so it leaves us to ponder what they might be. And since Iran is in the business of fighting a proxy war against the Evil Zionist Regime  through Hamas... those 'other arms' could be anything up to and including enough raw material to create a 'dirty bomb' of radiological components. Or maybe just a bunch of rocks or bulletts, no one is telling for now. 
 
 The Cypriot flagged ship was bound from Iran to Gaza when it was stopped in the Red Sea by the American navy, who then let it go its merry way because they had no legal authority to stop it. (shades of the Current O'Wussie Administration's policy?) 
The President of Cyprus, Dimitris Christofias, has stated neither the ship nor the arms will be returned to Iran.

The UN Security Council Sanctions Committee gave the Cypriots 'clear guidance' on the problem of whether or not the cargo was a breach of sanctions against Iran and Iran's shipments of arms to other nations. If 'clear guidance' was offerred by the UN Security Council Sanctions Committee then it signals the next committee which will be targeted by Islamo-Fascist for control of.
Similar to the way the committees governing Human Rights abuses are held sway over by nations such as Zambia, Angola, Cuba - yada, yada yada ya.

There is no mention of a claim for Insurance against loss of cargo by Iran or Hamas in this incident. Obviously Hamas will need to find new funding for the loss of the shipment though. Could be a bit more difficult if the price of Iranian oil remains below US$50 bbl.
The Iranians may be able to hold bake sales and yard sales to make up the cash flow though.
 
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Chavez' Checking Account Running On Empty?

Posted by Gar on Friday, February 06, 2009 11:51:01 PM
The current downard pressure on oil prices has caused a few problems for the Socialist Thugster of Venezuela.
The state ru oil company is a few billion behind ($7.68b) in payments to a bucket load of private contractors who provide the means for Venezuela to continue pumping oil from both land and sea based fields.
 
Poor Hugo, he may have to put off some of the Socialist Utopian Dream Projects he's been anxious to use to convet his countrymen into Good Little Socialists.
He needs to be able to spread enough graft, and goodwill to make the people feel good about making him El Dictator For Life like his compadre Fidel was. Until he is confirmed as the Top Dog Forever, he has to maintain some sort of control over his natural tnedencies of Thuggery, but when he gets the nod... look out
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Wheres the Hope? Wheres the Change?

Posted by Gar on Friday, February 06, 2009 9:04:47 PM
 

Now No Hope & Where’s The Change?

Nominees for Cabinet positions:

Gov. Bill Richardson, issues with  political donations and state contracts awarded to the people who made the donations. oops

Nancy Killefer, non payment of taxes and a tax lien on her home since 2005. oops

Sen. Tom Daschle, oops, more taxes not paid and forgot the limo loan from a buddy. Plus the $2 million paid by a Law firm, despite not being a lawyer and not being registered as a lobbyist. Ooops ($140,000+)

Oh well, Timothy Geithner made it through the process, despite non-payment of taxes. ($34,000) no oops here, since he was confirmed.

Then there is William Lynn, the former top lobbyist for Raytheon Corp. who was appointed to the position of Deputy Defense Sec. oops… one lobbyist slipped through the no lobbyist campaign pledge.

I understood the desire for change in Washington D.C., I just couldn’t believe Obama would provide it with his background in Chicago Thugster Gangland politics. At least not in a direction any free thinking citizen of this nation might be interested in, with the obvious exception of the Kool-Aid Drinkers from the Far Left.

Then the Washington Insiders - Hillary Clinton was chosen for Sec State,  and Sen. Ken Salazar as Sec of the Interior, Rep. Ray Lahood for Transportation Sec., and Eric Holder, the new Attorney General, who is left over from the Clinton administration and known for his part in the pardon by Pres. Clinton of tax evader Marc Rich after Rich’s wife made a campaign donation of unknown size to Clinton. And then of course lets not forget Leon Panetta a former California CONgressman and former Republican who switched when the Republicans began a shift to right of center politics (gasp) and most recently from the Bubba Clinton administration, he's a real change.... sort of.

Hope & Change? Are y’all sure this is what you were hoping for?

Now I’m hoping for change too. Where's a good honest Commie Liberal when you need one? Oh that's right he's the Prez now.
 
great........
 
Space travel hasn't come fast enough to make the change that needs to be made for those of my age.
 
dang.
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Islamic Equality on the Horizon? Here?

Posted by Gar on Thursday, February 05, 2009 10:49:38 AM

Faith based equality. What does that mean to a guy with a Muslim name who is in charge now?

  • "The goal of this office will not be to favor one religious group over another --

And yes, the links for the Lefties are always in bold pink for a reason.

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