Now I know ....

why I haven't written more.



I'm Just Saying - who cares!

Bozo Biden to Bosnia

After Bozo Biden's latest gaffe he was shipped off to Bosnia and away for microphones. It seems the entire world now knows the previously classified location of the Vice Presidential secure bunker facility. Not that he's essential to this or any other government but some day there may be a Vice President that would actually need a secure location. Alas it's not the first time poor Joe has stuck his foot in it though. Here are a few of my favorite ones;

"Look, John's last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs."

"A man who will be the next President of the United States — Barack America!"

"...the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."

"When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened."

"Stand up, Chuck, let 'em see ya."

"Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me."

He'd have a hard time finding any argument on that last one.

I'm Just Saying - and they made fun of Bush!

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

This is a video of Tommy Emmanuel playing Somewhere Over the Rainbow. Acostic guitar truly at it's best IMHO.



I'm Just Saying - WOW!

Mother's Day

What better tribute to Mother's Day than to show what it is all about. Love!





Mother loved children, not just her own, but ALL children. Exhibiting the patience of Job and the wisdom of Solomon she was the consummate mother. Giving birth does not make you a Mother, it only gives you the opportunity. It's what you do with that opportunity that will make a difference in generations of children to follow. There is no substitute for a Mother.

I'm Just Saying - miss YOU Mother!

Union bailout

Unfortunately this is another fine example of the chosen one’s administration paying back his supporters at the expense of taxpayers. Not content with wasting billions of dollars on an industry that caused it’s on problems, the government has given control of Chrysler to the group most responsible for its downfall – the UAW. Meanwhile those that invested in the company by purchasing what was supposed to be secured bonds are left holding the bag. As if that were not bad enough the government is attacking the investors that don’t support bending over and grabbing their ankles by calling them vultures and threatening court action against them. Of course their bullying tactics have been successful against companies that saddled up to the federal teat because of the intense political pressure.

For more disgusting details see the article at Bloomberg;


I'm Just Saying - guess it's more change you can believe it!

Moonbats

The chosen one's new moonbat science adviser told us yesterday that global warming is SO bad that they are discussing "radical" technologies to cool Earth's air. John Holden said they are considering geoengineering the climate, including one option that includes shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun's rays.

He compared global warming to being "in a car with bad brakes driving toward a cliff in the fog." That coincidentally is also how I feel about the chosen one's administration.

Why don't we just get a big umbrella?

I'm Just Saying - where did he find this moonbat?

Government Money

Don't let your mouth write no check that your tail can't cash.

Seeing that quote by the famous statesman Ellas Otha Bates, better know as Bo Diddley, reminded me of the current situation that the chosen one has thrust upon American. Apparently his experience as a community organizer didn't exactly prepare him for the task at hand. Indeed the emperor has no clothes.

Here are some other great quotes about the government and our money from politicians, comedians, playwrights, and philosophers.

The taxpayer: that's someone who works for the federal government, but doesn't have to take a civil service examination. - Ronald Reagan

We have the best government that money can buy. - Mark Twain

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. - P. J. O'Rourke

When a government takes over a people’s economic life it becomes absolute, and when it has become absolute it destroys the arts, the minds, the liberties and the meaning of the people it governs. - Maxwell Anderson

The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice. - Aristotle

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. - Dick Armey

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. - Sir Winston Churchill

When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. - Benjamin Franklin

The government has no money that it didn't confiscate from the taxpayer. - Steve Stephens (OK, I might not have been the first with that thought but it's true)

I'm Just Saying - a fool and his money are soon parted.

Letterman - Synonyms

Letterman - vitriolic, caustic, acerbic, acrid, bitter, disagreeable, unpleasant, destructive, asshole. Those are just the clean synonyms to describe what used to be a comedian!

The Late Show should be renamed "The View at Night" because Letterman's rants remind me of all the hen pecking coming from its daytime model, the completely vacuous "The View." I stopped watching him a few years ago when he quit being a comic and became the attack dog for the DNC. However, I was flipping channels last night and saw Bill O'Reilly was on his show. It didn't take long to remember why I'd stopped watching. As soon as O'Reilly sat down Letterman said "I think of you as a goon." It didn't improve appreciably from there.

I was never particularly fond of O'Reilly but this kind of treatment by a supposed late night comic is unconscionable. Maybe vilifying conservatives is entertainment to the shallow minded liberal audience that applauds every rant but I think he's pretty much outlived his success.

If you'd like to see for yourself go to the video excerpt at CBS.

I'm Just Saying - it's time to put Dave out to pasture.

GIVE TAKE Act

The recently announced Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act, known as the GIVE Act, is anything but. It turns out the Volunteerism part was just a joke. It would have been more appropriately name the Taking Away Kids Emancipation Act. Quoting from Fox News

...the bill creates a "Congressional Commission on Civic Service."
The bipartisan commission will be tasked with exploring a number of topics, including "whether a workable, fair and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people could be developed and how such a requirement could be implemented in a manner that would strengthen the social fabric of the nation."

I believe this has been done before and everyone got to wear those cute little matching brown shirts and they were called the Hitler Jugend Bund der deutschen Arbeiterjugend, (Hitler Youth League of German Worker Youth)!

As Yogi Berra once said, "This is like deja vu all over again."
No one should be surprised by this since the chosen one said during a Colorado Springs rally,

"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that is just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded,"

I'm Just Saying - repeat after me Sieg Heil, Sieg Heil!

Shot Heard Around....

Well it may not be heard around the world but I think the unions got the message loud and clear. Wal-Mart fired about 2 billion rounds across the bow of the union's Employee Free Choice Act.

"...incentives for hourly workers include $933.6 million in bonuses that the retailer is handing out Thursday. There is another $788.8 million in profit sharing and 401(k) contributions, and hundreds of millions of dollars in merchandise discounts and contributions to the employees' stock purchase plan."

Only union thugs could name something that takes away the rights of employees the Employee Free Choice Act.

This insidious act requires the National Labor Relations Board to certify a union after a mere 51% of the employees have been coerced into signing union cards without further elections. Then the company would be forced into finding arbitration lasting 2 years for any unsettled employee disagreements. That along with stiffer penalties for unfair labor practices committed by employers but not unions should pretty much guarantee the failing labor unions a revitalized strong hold on employers. In other words unions would be Free to harass the holdouts since they know who has not signed up.

I hope Wal-Mart's employees can see this union shake down for what it is.

I'm Just Saying - sometimes Free isn't!

Are you happy?

If so, you haven't read the news lately. Here are a couple of items that should get the blood boiling this morning.

On AIG;

“People are rightly outraged about these particular bonuses,” Obama said. “But just as outrageous is the culture that these bonuses are a symptom of that have existed for far too long.” (source)

My outrage is directed at the bozos that gave AIG the money in the first place, not the company living up to it's contractual obligations. However, the second half of his quote is even more disturbing. The chosen one thinks the government should step in and prevent companies from rewarding it's employees at ANY time. Apparently in his world everyone makes the same amount of money regardless of their job performance. That sounds a lot more like socialism than capitalism!

Next on the piss you off for today agenda;
Obama May Use Legislative Ploy to Jam Through Health, Tax Bills

The administration and congressional Democrats are debating whether to use a parliamentary procedure called reconciliation to advance some of the biggest items on the president’s agenda. The move would allow Democrats to approve plans to raise taxes by $1 trillion, create a cap-and-trade system to rein in greenhouse-gas emissions, and overhaul health care without a single Republican vote.

Don't worry about a constitutional system of checks and balances that has been in place for over 200 years. Screw everyone that doesn't agree, we'll enact this into law and fund it whether you like it or not.

I'm Just Saying - you still happy?

Third ...Pick Withdraws

In honor of;

Democratic sources say that H. Rodgin Cohen, the leading candidate for Deputy Treasury Secretary, has withdrawn from consideration.

It's the third withdrawal of a top Treasury Department staff pick in less than a week.

I proudly present;



I'm Just Saying - yep, another one bites the dust!

Embryonic Stem Cell Research

The economy is going to hell in a hand basket and the chosen one decides it's time to give more money that we don't have to embryonic stem cell research. Brilliant! Boy that should get the economy going.

His advisers say the "move is a clear signal that science — not political ideology — will guide the administration." Exactly what part of science would that be? There have been NO instances of embryonic stem cell research achieving ANYTHING other than spending money. We are told that the "long-promised move will allow a rush of research aimed at one day better treating, if not curing, ailments from diabetes to paralysis." What, they can't cure global warming or my craving for chocolate chip cookies?

There was never a ban on the research only a restriction using taxpayer money. If these yahoos believed so strongly that this is the answer why didn't they put their own money into this scientific boondoggle? Even if this should be a topic for debate you would think the administration would be trying to figure out why their policies have driven the Dow Jones below 6700 for the first time since 1997 instead of pulling us out of the recession.

I'm Just Saying - looks like he's just paying off his supporters here.

StickItToUs Plan Pork

The Heritage Foundation has identified 9,287 earmarks in the chosen one's new StickItToUs Plan Pork. There is so much pork in this package that some Muslim countries are not even allowing their citizens to read about it!

Looking through the sample listing you will find Senator Hutchison listed once for the $2 million handout for the LBJ library. Senator Cornyn is not listed in this sample. Former presidential wannabe John Kerry is well represented in the sample with $29 million worth of porcine demands. But they are such good causes like the GoGirlGo Women's Sports Foundation in Boston. Here's his sample swine serving;

$5,813,000 Edward Kennedy Institute for the Senate, Boston
$22,000,000 JFK Presidential Library
$300,000 GoGirlGo! Boston, MA
$190,000 Berkshire Theater Festival, Stockbridge, MA
$238,000 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
$300,000 Shakespeare and Company

I'm Just Saying - if it smells like a pig - it's PORK.

Barney

No, not that one. I'm talking about the fagot one that put Fannie May and Freddie Mac into bankruptcy by insisting they loan money to people that could not afford to pay it back. Then he feigned indignity when the Bush administration asked for oversight. It was announced today that this twit has the audacity to "seek criminal and civil penalties on financial actors that helped cause the current crisis". This is some what akin to the Menendez Brothers seeking justice for their parents murderers!

I'm Just Saying - better get used to this kind of Audacity!

Roller Coaster?

Harry Smith told us this morning that the stock market has been "like a roller coaster" lately. Maybe he's never been on a roller coaster because the the ones I've ridden had to go UP before they went DOWN!

Since the chosen one has "fixed" all of our problems the market has been more like an anchor thrown into the Mariana Trench.

I'm Just Saying - try as they might, there's some things you can't spin.

It goes without saying

If "it goes without saying" long enough, eventually no one will hear it. I think that we should speak up more about our beliefs instead of just assuming everyone else understands. You know the old saying about what the word assume does - it makes an ass out of u and me! The silent majority has been silent far too long with the idea that if someone wants our opinion they will ask for it. Well it's time to share you opinion whether it's asked for or not. It seems that opinions of the majority no longer matter and the vocal minority is busy making sure that it never will.

This mini rant was brought on by Thomas Sowell's excellent column today - Is Talk Cheap? He actually mentions Hitler and Obama in the same column - of my the sky is falling! Of course I guess it helps that he is a black man otherwise cries of RACISM would be heard through out the land. As it is, he's simply dismissed by the left as a crazy old Uncle Tom!

I'm Just Saying - speak out, before it's too late!

More?

"Please sir, may I have more?" Who says life doesn't imitate the arts? But instead of saying "More! You want more?", the chosen one's administration is saying "Sure, just pull up to the trough and help yourself to someone else's money!"

Not satisfied with pissing away $150,000,000,000 on AIG they are now ready to give them another $30,000,000,000 that doesn't exist.

"It grew too vast to be supported by its institutions, communications, education, resources and legal structure." Sound familar? No, it's not a quote about the USA, it was made in reference to the Roman Empire. But at the current rate of disintegration it's only a matter of time.

I'm Just Saying - at least Oliver knew there were limitations!

Another WTF moment

I read the Houston Chronicle headline this morning and thought surely it must be April 1st and it was just a joke. In their infinite wisdom the Houston City Council and Mayor proposed to use $444,000 to pay off credit card debt to artificially inflate credit ratings of people that would not otherwise qualify to get a home loan. This is money leftover from a $1.5 million appropriation the city made for emergency home and roof repairs after Hurricane Ike.

WOW, where to begin? I guess you could start with that fact that it would be financial fraud to try and falsify credit ratings for the purpose of obtaining a loan. In the second place, isn't this why the financial institutions are in so much trouble now, because they loaned money to people that couldn't afford to pay it back? And last but not least, apparently the Mayor & Friends haven't had the opportunity to get out of their offices lately. Otherwise they would still see the hundreds if not thousands of blue roof tarps covering up hurricane damage. Here's a novel idea - how about using the money for the purpose it was appropriated for?

I'm Just Saying - WTF were these people thinking?

UPDATE - After news of this tax payer scam reached national attention the mayor has now decided to remove this from tomorrow's city council agenda. Duh!

Atlas Shrugged Redux

There's a great article from Stephen Moore at WSJ Online today titled 'Atlas Shrugged': From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years describing how Ayn Ryand's work of fiction turned out to be prophesy. Even some of her ridiculously insane ideas are looking like real life now. Here's an excerpt from the article summarizing her book;

....the moral of the story is simply this: Politicians invariably respond to crises -- that in most cases they themselves created -- by spawning new government programs, laws and regulations. These, in turn, generate more havoc and poverty, which inspires the politicians to create more programs . . . and the downward spiral repeats itself until the productive sectors of the economy collapse under the collective weight of taxes and other burdens imposed in the name of fairness, equality and do-goodism.

I'm Just Saying - doesn't that sound familiar?

Gasoline Prices

Here's more news you're not likely to hear from the MSM regarding the current gasoline prices. It's from the Washington Times - Price dip adjusts Bush's gas legacy. It points out that the current price of $1.33 (adjusted for inflation) is lower than it was when President Bush took office in 2001.

"I wonder if the same people who blamed the president for the increase in prices will now credit him with the reduction in prices. It's only fair,"...

Yeah right, I wouldn't hold my breath on that one!

If he was the all powerful evil one that the left made him out to be I wonder why he didn't do this before the election. You would have thought the right wing conspiracy could have salvaged the election by saving the day for everyone reducing their "pain at the pump". We could have avoided this whole recession thing if George had just done this sooner.

Just this morning I got an email that gave me the highlights of the chosen one's Energy Plan. The very first one listed is "Provide short-term relief to American families facing pain at the pump".

I'm Just Saying - what pain is that?