The Donald

Would it be too much of a stretch to assume the "Spooky Dude" George Soros bought the Donald off so he would not run for president?  After all, NBC is owned in part by General Electric and run by Mr. Jeff Immelt who is a White House regular.  Spooky Dude George contributes alot of $$ to NBC and owns their stock!

"Pure" Michigan Politics I would vote for him.....

David L. Dewey has a varied work background and now he wants to add county commissioner to that.
Running as an independent and on a campaign which is not spending money on signs or ads, Dewey said he is entering politics because he does not agree with where this country is heading and is not longer going to stand by and watch.
 
Dewey has worked as a recreation therapist, been in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia, has worked in the Michigan prison system in leisure activities, has sailed extensively and ran a charter service, worked as a mental health case manager, was in ownership of video stores, taught overseas in American schools, was principal for Walkerville Public Schools, was assistant principal/athletic director for Holton High School and has been in ownership of a crematorium. He has worked as a substitute teacher and is now a truck driver.
“And I know what it’s like to be unemployed,” he said.
 
Dewey is fiscally conservative, and believes the county has to look seriously at what services it can provide within its budget.
 
Instead of expanding the jail, Dewey said the county should look at less expensive housing for convicted criminals, such as barracks located at the wastewater facility.
 
Dewey said the county can’t keep adjusting the budget, but must have to make tough decisions on across the boards cuts among all the departments.
 
In economic development, Dewey said he sees heavy industry coming back into the county, and tourism needs to be promoted better. He suggests a passenger ferry route from Chicago to Muskegon, a casino located on the waterfront, and more promotion of tourism.

Book Review “Atlas Shrugged”

 By Ayn Rand 

Holy Cow!  1069 pages of micro font!  It took me on average 3 minutes to read a page!  I started this book back in July and just finished it Crazy!  Well, what can I tell you?  It is crazy similar to what is now going on in America. Weird that it was written in the ‘50’s.  If you have the time, I would add it to you “to read” list.  Don’t let the “looters” prevent you from reading this.  Tell them to get out of your way! 

Strong Leadership?

Oil Spill Timeline from RightChange on Vimeo.

Arizona Immigration Law

2.5 Million People cannot be wrong... can they?

From MSNSB.COM

"In July, Arizona will begin enforcing a new law that requires law enforcement officers to check someone’s immigration status if they have reason to suspect that he or she is in the country illegally. Do you think this is a good idea?"

Your vote counts as well

as of 1430Z 8 July 2010

This one will make you think!

"With breathless anticipation the crowd awaits the unveiling of the Obama Statue"

Excellent!

I remember somewhere I read something about States rights????  Humm where was that again.....

TJ Was a wise man...

When we get piled 
upon one another in large cities, as in Europe,
we shall become as corrupt as Europe .
Thomas Jefferson

 
The democracy will cease to exist
when you take away from those
who are willing to work and give to those who would not...

Thomas Jefferson

 
It is incumbent on every
generation to pay its own debts as it goes.
A principle which if acted on would save
one-half the wars of the world. 
Thomas Jefferson

 
I predict future happiness for
Americans if they can prevent the government
from wasting the labors of the people under the
pretense of taking care of them.

Thomas Jefferson  

 
My reading of history convinces me
that most bad government results from too much
government. 
Thomas Jefferson

 
No free man shall ever be debarred
the use of arms. 
Thomas Jefferson

 
The strongest reason for the
people to retain the right to keep and bear arms
is, as a last resort, to protect themselves
against tyranny in government. 
Thomas Jefferson

 
The tree of liberty must be
refreshed from time to time with the blood of
patriots and tyrants. 
Thomas Jefferson

 
To compel a man to subsidize with
his taxes the propagation of ideas which he
disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical...

Thomas Jefferson

 
Thomas  Jefferson said in 1802:
'I believe that banking institutions

are more dangerous to our liberties 

than standing armies.
If the American people ever allow
private banks to control the issue of their
currency, first by inflation, then by
deflation, the banks and corporations that will
grow up around the banks will deprive the people
of all property - until their children
wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers
conquered.'

From the American Thinker Blog

Anatomy of a Failed Presidency

   The following is an interesting article and I wonder how long Dr. Hunt can remain at NIH once the powers that be get wind of this article. 

 Dr. Hunt is a social and cultural anthropologist.  He has had nearly 30 years experience in planning, conducting, and managing research in the field of youth studies, and drug and alcohol research. Currently Dr. Hunt is a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Scientific Analysis and the Principal Investigator on three National Institutes on Health projects. He is also a writer for American Thinker.
 

       Another Failed Presidency

      An article from American Thinker by Geoffrey P. Hunt 
      Barack Obama is on track to have the most spectacularly failed presidency since Woodrow Wilson.  In the modern era, we've seen several failed presidencies--led by Jimmy Carter and LBJ.  Failed presidents have one strong common trait-- they are repudiated, in the vernacular, spat out.

 Of course, LBJ wisely took the exit ramp early, avoiding a shove into oncoming traffic by his own party.  Richard Nixon indeed resigned in disgrace, yet his reputation as a statesman has been partially restored by his triumphant overture to China

      But, Barack Obama is failing.  Failing big.  Failing fast. And failing everywhere: foreign policy, domestic initiatives, and most importantly, in forging connections with the American people. The incomparable Dorothy  Rabinowitz in the Wall Street Journal put her finger on it: He is failing because he has no understanding of the American people, and may indeed loathe them. Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard says he is failing because he has lost control of his message, and is overexposed.  Clarice Feldman of American Thinker produced a dispositive commentary showing that Obama is failing because fundamentally he is neither smart nor articulate; his intellectual dishonesty is conspicuous by its audacity and lack of shame.

      But, there is something more seriously wrong: How could a new president riding in on a wave of precedented promise and goodwill have forfeited his tenure and become a lame duck in six months?  His poll ratings are in free fall.  In generic balloting, the Republicans have now seized a five point advantage.  This truly is unbelievable.  What's going on?

  No narrative. Obama doesn't have a narrative.  No, not a narrative about himself.  He has a self-narrative, much of it fabricated, cleverly disguised or written by someone else.  But this self-narrative is isolated and doesn't connect with us.  He doesn't have an American narrative that draws upon the rest of us.  All successful presidents have a narrative about the American character that intersects with their own where they display a command of history and reveal an authenticity at the core of their personality that resonates in a positive endearing way with the majority of Americans. We admire those presidents whose narratives not only touch our own, but who seem stronger, wiser, and smarter than we are.  Presidents we admire are aspirational peers, even those whose politics don't align exactly with our own: Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, Harry Truman, Ike, and Reagan. 

But not this president. It's not so much that he's a phony, knows nothing about economics, and is historically illiterate and woefully small minded for the size of the task--all contributory of course.  It's that he's not one of us.  And whatever he is, his profile is fuzzy and devoid of content, like a cardboard cutout made from delaminated corrugated paper.

 Moreover, he doesn't command our respect and is unable to appeal to our own common sense. His notions of right and wrong are repugnant and how things work just don't add up. They are not existential. His descriptions of the world we live in don't make sense and don't correspond with our experience. 

 In the meantime, while we've been struggling to take a measurement of this man, he's dissed just about every one of us--financiers, energy producers, banks, insurance executives, police officers, doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, post office workers, and anybody else who has a non-green job.  Expect Obama to lament at his last press conference in 2012:

 "For those of you I offended, I apologize.  For those of you who were not offended, you just didn't give me enough time; if only I'd had a second term, I could have offended you too."

       Mercifully, the Founders at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 devised a useful remedy for such a desperate state--staggered terms for both houses of the legislature and the executive.  An equally abominable Congress can get voted out next year.  With a new Congress, there's always hope of legislative gridlock until we vote for president again two short years after that.

      Yes, small presidents do fail, Barack Obama among them.  The coyotes howl but the wagon train keeps rolling along. 

       Margaret Thatcher: "The trouble with Socialism is, sooner or later you run out of other people's money." 

      "When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both." - James Dale Davidson, National Taxpayers Union

       "The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." - Tacitus 

"A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own." - Unknown

Are we there yet?

The 10th Ammendment lives on!

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

 

The Roanoke Times
© February 1, 2010

By Michael Sluss
RICHMOND
The Virginia Senate took a stand against a key provision of a proposed federal health care overhaul Monday, passing legislation declaring that Virginia residents cannot be forced to buy health insurance.
The legislation targets the so-called "individual mandate" provision that could be part of a federal health care reform package being negotiated by congressional leaders. The Senate passed three identical bills by votes of 23-17, with five Democrats joining the chamber’s 18 Republicans in support of the measures.
Republicans in both houses have filed legislation taking on a controversial aspect of the reform package championed by President Barack Obama. Supporters of the legislation questioned the constitutionality of proposals that would require individuals to purchase insurance or be subject to a penalty.

“This is not a bill that deals with health care; it is a bill that attempts to reinforce the Constitution of the United States,” said Sen. Frederick Quayle, R-Suffolk, who is sponsoring one of the bills. “Never in the history if this country has the Congress of the mandated that all citizens of the United States purchase anything.”

Senate Bills 283, 311 and 417 state that no individual can be forced to purchase health insurance, even if coverage is provided by the person's employer.
Democratic opponents of the bills argued that any federal mandate would override the state law and render it useless. They also questioned whether a debate over still emerging federal legislation was a good use of the General Assembly’s time in a year when the state has a severe budget crisis to manage.
“We are legislating in theory and if we want to continue to do that and then tell our folks back home we’re accomplishing great things, that’s a wonderful thing to do,” said Sen. Creigh Deeds, D-Bath County. “We’re here to solve problems. We’re here to revive the economy. We’re here to close the budget gap. This legislation does none of that.”
The five Democrats who supported the bill are Charles Colgan of Manassas, Edd Houck of Spotsylvania County, John Miller of Newport News, Phillip Puckett of Russell County and Roscoe Reynolds of Henry County.

For a close friend

and cigar smoking bud...

Time to go Shopping at the ABC Store....

For the State of the Union address....

Going Viral?

The Cloward/Piven Strategy of Economic Recovery

From the American Thinker...

The Cloward/Piven Strategy of Economic Recovery


Using borrowed money for a band-aid bailout of the economy should seem backwards to most people. However, it likely is a planned strategy to promote radical change. Those naively believing that President Obama is simply rewarding his far-left base, and will then move to the political center, must wise up.

The assumption that Obama will need the nation to prosper in order to protect the 2010 mid-term election incorrectly assumes that he esteems free market capitalism. He does not. Rather than win through superior ideas and policies, the Democrat plan for success in the mid-term elections is to win by destroying political opposition.

Obama adheres to the Saul Alinksy Rules for Radicals method of politics, which teaches the dark art of destroying political adversaries. However, that text reveals only one front in the radical left's war against America. The Cloward/Piven Strategy is another method employed by the radical Left to create and manage crisis. This strategy explains Rahm Emanuel's ominous statement, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste."

The Cloward/Piven Strategy is named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. Their goal is to overthrow capitalism by overwhelming the government bureaucracy with entitlement demands. The created crisis provides the impetus to bring about radical political change.

According to Discover the Networks.org:

Rather than placating the poor with government hand-outs, wrote Cloward and Piven, activists should work to sabotage and destroy the welfare system; the collapse of the welfare state would ignite a political and financial crisis that would rock the nation... [Emphasis added.]

Making an already weak economy even worse is the intent of the Cloward/Piven Strategy. It is imperative that we view the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan's spending on items like food stamps, jobless benefits, and health care through this end goal. This strategy explains why the Democrat plan to "stimulate" the economy involves massive deficit spending projects. It includes billions for ACORN and its subgroups such as SHOP and the Neighborhood Stabilization Program. Expanding the S-Chip Program through deficit spending in a supposed effort to "save the children" only makes a faltering economy worse.

If Congress were to allow a robust economy, parents would be able to provide for their children themselves by earning and keeping more of their own money. Democrats, quick to not waste a crisis, would consider that a lost opportunity.

The Cato Institute reports that the plan will harm a faltering economy, intentionally causing increased job losses leading to increased demands for the aforementioned programs. Even the jobs to be created are set apart to render social justice, not economic revival. Robert Reich believes new infrastructure jobs should not go to white construction workers. Meanwhile, workers at Microsoft, IBM, Texas Instruments, and the retail market find themselves experiencing the life of the welfare poor.

If highly educated and trained workers continue to lose jobs and business falters as a whole, where will these jobless workers go? Could this be construed as revolutionary social reorganization that puts the underachiever above the achiever? Where is the future economic strength when jobless professionals collect welfare and unemployment while dreaming of a minimum wage job? For whites, there's not even the hope of a good paying construction job.

Because these programs are financed with deficit spending, the effect of the Cloward/Piven Strategy becomes doubly destructive. Talk about a perfect storm! The Democrat stimulus plan is a mechanism whose goal is the destruction of the traditional American way of life. It is bitter irony that the American taxpayer will actually fund the destruction of his own ability to live according to the values of our Founding Documents. It is not alarmist to identify this situation as a coup d'etat.

As the flow of money from the top of the economy dries up, job losses and mortgage busts will mount exponentially. The Democrat stimulus plan provides for welfare expansion but not for a robust economy that creates high paying jobs. Is this what Obama means when he warns, "It's going to get worse before it gets better?" If we are not bailing out corporate America so they can regain profitability, we must conclude Obama is working toward another end goal. Recognizing these attack methods reveals the only logical response -- an unwavering wall of "No!"

Nancy Coppock publishes The Jackalope's Voice.

More wise words from Big John K....

Brown was generating $1 million per day over the Internet. Not even Obama did that well.

My FEAR is that the Brown election in MA will panic Obama into an action of the type used by many besieged politicians with his power and problems.

It's called "LETS START A MAJOR SHOOTING WAR!"

Remember when the Lewinsky scandal broke? All of a sudden, Clinton felt that we should start bombing in Kosovo! Think of all the hot spots in the world right now and how easy it would be to provoke a major shooting war.

Obama could care less how many lives would be lost in such an action. He'll do anything to keep political power.

Brown's election proves that any Democrat or Republican in any district anywhere in America is in the cross hairs of anti-incumbent sentiment. And let me emphasize anti-incumbent. I don't think that it's just democrats that are in the hot seat. Failure to deliver cost-effective government services is really at the center of all this discontent. Local, state or federal level, it doesn't matter. Salaries and benefits are too high and results are too low. If you doubt that, just ride the local interstates and major highways in this state!

John

Things that make you go..

Hmmm??

The last few days there has been an increase in truck traffic here in the "View".
Now there is nothing particularity special about these trucks, the standard flat bed semi-tractor trailer rig.

What is special is the cargo these trucks are hauling. These trucks are hauling the unsung hero of the military logistics at its finest!

Floating causeway pieces!

Colonels speak tactics where Generals Speak logistics! Nothing happens until something moves and it is only fitting that the CJCS has emplaced an Army General (Keen) who by the way is a high speed low drag individual, in charge of the relief operation in Haiti. De ja vue Katrina/Rita with "angry" Honore! Where are the Navy Admirals or the Air Force Generals maybe they are busy speaking tactics?

Back to the floating causeway pieces, Port au Prince harbor as we all know is crappy and the big ships that have all the good recovery gear cannot pull up to the pier to off load their precious life saving and life giving cargo of cranes, bull dozers, water purification equipment, bulk food stuffs medical gear etc. So these floating piers will be shipped down to Haiti and will be in place in a few days. Helicopters can only do so much, landing craft can only do so much, floating causeways are the answer! Yes, we learned this little lesson this back during the invasion of Normandy!

 

Which by the way brings me back to the point of the post... The military is designed, manned, equipped and trained to kill and break things. These floating causeways are designed to bring ashore tanks, armored personnel carriers, ammunition trucks, bomb transport vehicles, fuel and heavily armed men who are trained to kill people and break things! Hoooa to the Transportation Corps!

So for all you tree huggers, liberal quacks and people who believe that spending money on the military is a waste of time remember Haiti, Katrina, Puerto Rico, and places in the Pacific hit by the tsunami, and other places hit by disasters, natural or otherwise it is real easy to be against the military when they are doing their JOB killing, breaking and securing in our nations interest. However, when they show up on the door step of what used to be your home offering a free ride out of hell you really should think about your values, beliefs and ideology and tell them to fuck off! After all what good is the military?


General Keens Badges.. We don't need no stinking badges. Double tabbed.. He needs to lift up his breast pocket flap to display all of his hoooa badges!
SF, Ranger, Combat Scuba, Pathfinder, CIB, EIB, Master Parachutist! I did not see Humanitarian or Philanthropist badges however he should get those as well!  Time Magazine should make the troops under his command people of the year!

Lobby Day In Richmond

Thanks to all the folks from VCDL and HRTP that are on their way to Richmond to "lobby" the politicians and convince/remind them who they are working for!

Gun owners to descend on Virginia General Assembly in Richmond (Martin
Luther King Day, Monday, Jan. 18th, 2010)

Complete Transformation of Gun Rights Laws Sought for 2010

As in years past, hundreds of members of the Virginia citizens Defense
League will gather at the General Assembly in Richmond at 9AM on the
morning of Martin Luther King Day (Monday, Jan. 18th, 2010) to conduct
coordinated lobby operations. Some will drive for hours to attend and
stay overnight in Richmond area hotels.

The theme for the 2010 VCDL Lobby day is "Transforming Gun Rights in
Virginia."

Bills have been filed already to (1) repeal the ban on concealed carry
in restaurants that serve alcoholic beverages, (2) repeal the ban on
purchasing more than one handgun a month, (3) allow a concealed handgun
permit holder to carry a concealed handgun in any government facility
being used as an emergency shelter, and (4) to streamline the
application process for concealed handgun permits by (a) allowing
applicants to apply for permits by mail and (b) without having to submit
to fingerprinting.

NOTE: Only a very few other states ban concealed carry in restaurants
that serve alcoholic beverages or ration handgun purchases, and 75% of
Virginia localities do NOT require fingerprinting anyway, including
Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William Counties, and the City of Richmond.

Throughout Lobby Day, hundreds of gun owning constituents wearing "Guns
Save Lives" stickers will visit legislators and staff members to discuss
the VCDL gun rights agenda, drop off the VCDL legislative analysis white
paper, and attend committee hearings. Many of these law-abiding
citizens will be carrying loaded handguns and bringing friends, family,
and kids in tow.

VCDL Lobby Day culminates in a rally on the capitol clock tower green at
11AM to listen to pro-gun rights leaders and speakers - videos of past
rallies can be found at VCDL.org's main page.

VCDL’s Lobby Day 2010 activities are summarized at
http://www2.vcdl.org/webapps/vcdl/vadetail.html?RECID=4582849

VCDL’s 2010 gun bill tracker can be found at
http://www.vcdl.org/static/2010leg.html and will be updated every day
the General Assembly is in session.

Media Contact:

Philip Van Cleave
President, VCDL
804-639-0600
President@vcdl.org

Wonder if Capitol Hill is listening?

"Seriously, Dems? Proposing (and God forbid) enacting such Draconian tax policies will only get the Democrats voted out of office, which wouldn't be a bad thing. I truly regret voting for Obama."

From the HILL.COM

Nuff said!