So, how does it feel to be a big-time Wall Street investor?
You are, you know... Whether you know it or not, you (and your children and grand children, and your children's children's great-grand-children) just invested over a Trillion (that's a one with twelve zeros after it) dollars in home loans for people who wouldn't have qualified for a loan of any kind, were it not for government meddling.
And the Left says that this crisis is the product of "The Free Market" running wild.
Well, it's nothing of the sort. As a matter of fact, this is about the furthest thing from what the "Free Market" would have done under any circumstances, save the ones that have been put into place by social engineering Democrats, and Socialist Activists.
We all know that a drowning man will drown you too, if you are not careful when you try to save him, and the American Taxpayer is about to be drowned while saving the drowning Mortgage and Banking Industry. (And it wasn't even the choice of the Taxpayer whether to try to save these entities. The people who made the mess in the first place just decided to use your money for this, whether you like it or not.)
Tomorrow, I will post again on this, and I will lay out the chronology and the process by which the Democrat Party and the Socilalists among us have set up this catastrophe, and how they profited both financially and politically every step of the way, and how they are attempting now to lay the blame for their own corruption and incompetence at the feet of the Republican Party, and President Bush.
Be informed. Do your own research. Make sure that you know the real story.
The only way to solve a problem is to know what actually caused the problem in the first place, and to eliminate any influence those factors may have had.
This is the fault of Democrats, start to finish, and it is going to be the undoing of the American economy at best, and the World economy at worst. But it has happened, and those responsible (some of them) are the Economic Advisory Team of one of the candidates for the Presidency of the United States.
Our country has lurched violently into Leftism and Socialism this week, and I do not know what to do about it.
But SOMETHING HAS to be done about this.
These Taxpayer funded bailouts are the most outrageous thing that has ever been foisted upon the American People by our elected representatives, and we ought not put up with this abuse of power and corruption.
But we probably will...
After all, who has time for Revolution and overthrowing the Government?
We have mortgages to pay for...
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Showing posts with label Democrats. Show all posts
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
There's Your Trouble...
"Senator Clinton is claiming basically the entire eight years of the Clinton presidency as her own, except for the stuff that didn't work out, in which case she says she has nothing to do with it," [Barack Hussein]Obama said in an ABC News interview.
According to the article from which I pulled that quote, Mrs. Bill Clinton is slipping in the polls.
But we didn't need the article, or even the poll results to know that... All we have to do is watch Mrs. Bill Clinton's behavior, and read her press releases.
Her Husband can't seem to understand why the Press doesn't report about her experience and her public life, but he isn't concerned enough about it to release the records of her activities in the White House when he was President...
He is, however, willing to talk about himself on her behalf at any opportunity...
One of her biggest financial supporters was indicted today by a Federal Grand Jury...
She saw fit to attack her leading rival for the Democrat Nomination over something he wrote when he was five...
Democrat Candidates for other offices around the Nation have begun to voice their concern for their own chances at winning election if she is the Democrat standard bearer in '08...
Despite undeniable U.S. success in the War in Iraq, she still refuses to apologize for voting to approve it (a stance which is sure to anger the Democrat Base...)
But her supporters can't seem to figure out why she would be slipping in popularity.
Don't the American People know how smart she is?
Don't they know what she will make the Taxpayer (whoever THAT is...) do for them?
Don't they know how important Socialist Healthcare is?
Oh, wait... HERE'S why!
"[Mrs. Bill]Clinton is running for president in a sexist culture that persists in seeing strong, capable women as suspect. " says Newsday.com.
"It's not that voters and her opponents think Clinton's experienced and competent, and they don't like or trust her. It's that they think she's experienced and competent and that's why they don't like or trust her."
She's not only a woman oppressed by a sexist culture, she's OVERQUALIFIED!
Keep thinking that, Dems...
Oh, how I want her to get the Democrat Nomination!
Please, please, PLEASE let her run!
It IS her turn, after all...
According to the article from which I pulled that quote, Mrs. Bill Clinton is slipping in the polls.
But we didn't need the article, or even the poll results to know that... All we have to do is watch Mrs. Bill Clinton's behavior, and read her press releases.
Her Husband can't seem to understand why the Press doesn't report about her experience and her public life, but he isn't concerned enough about it to release the records of her activities in the White House when he was President...
He is, however, willing to talk about himself on her behalf at any opportunity...
One of her biggest financial supporters was indicted today by a Federal Grand Jury...
She saw fit to attack her leading rival for the Democrat Nomination over something he wrote when he was five...
Democrat Candidates for other offices around the Nation have begun to voice their concern for their own chances at winning election if she is the Democrat standard bearer in '08...
Despite undeniable U.S. success in the War in Iraq, she still refuses to apologize for voting to approve it (a stance which is sure to anger the Democrat Base...)
But her supporters can't seem to figure out why she would be slipping in popularity.
Don't the American People know how smart she is?
Don't they know what she will make the Taxpayer (whoever THAT is...) do for them?
Don't they know how important Socialist Healthcare is?
Oh, wait... HERE'S why!
"[Mrs. Bill]Clinton is running for president in a sexist culture that persists in seeing strong, capable women as suspect. " says Newsday.com.
"It's not that voters and her opponents think Clinton's experienced and competent, and they don't like or trust her. It's that they think she's experienced and competent and that's why they don't like or trust her."
She's not only a woman oppressed by a sexist culture, she's OVERQUALIFIED!
Keep thinking that, Dems...
Oh, how I want her to get the Democrat Nomination!
Please, please, PLEASE let her run!
It IS her turn, after all...
Monday, October 29, 2007
John Edwards For President!!
From the Concord Monitor Online...
Edwards plans big for presidency
Candidate: $acrifice must be priority, too...
(Cool! We Americans LOVE sacrifice!)
John Edward$ $ay$ if he's elected pre$ident, he'll in$titute a New Deal-like $uite of program$ to fight poverty and $tem growing wealth di$parity. To do it, he said, he'll a$k many American$ to make $acrifice$, like paying higher taxe$.
Edward$, a former (1 two-year term) Democratic senator from North Carolina, says the federal government $hould underwrite univer$al pre-kindergarten, create matching $aving$ account$ for low-income people, mandate a minimum wage of $9.50 and provide a million new $ection 8 hou$ing voucher$ for the poor. He also pledged to start a government-funded public higher education program called "College for Everyone."
"It i$ central to what I want to do a$ pre$ident to do $omething about economic inequality. I do not believe it i$ okay for the United $tate$ of America to have 37 million people living in poverty," he $aid in a meeting with Monitor reporter$ and editor$ this week. "And I think we need, de$perately need, a pre$ident who will $ay that to America and call on American$ to $how their character."
Hey, Idiot... When are Americans going to demand a president who will call on America's POOR to show their character, and stop making choices and engaging in behavior in their OWN lives that lead to poverty?
Why is anyone still listening to this dolt?
The people of North Carolina were so impressed with how much he accomplished for them in the Senate, that after only two years, they decided that his work was done, and released him from further service as their Senator so that he could pursue bigger and better ambulanc... er... bigger and better things.
"I think if we want to fund the thing$ that I think are important to $hare in pro$perity, then people who have done well in this country, including me, have more of a re$pon$ibility to give back," he $aid. Later, he added: "There are no free meal$."
Oooooh, yes, there ARE!!
Like other Democrat$, Edward$ named hi$ top three prioritie$ a$ ending the war in Iraq, enacting univer$al health care and overhauling the American energy $ystem. "Tho$e are three thing$ in$tantly I would do," he $aid.
INSTANTLY. He would INSTANTLY do those three things.
He would then use the remaining seven years, eleven months, twenty-nine days, twenty-three hours, fifty-nine minutes and fifty-nine seconds of his presidency to give every American, (except you, there...) free pre-kindergarten, a free college education, free Section 8 housing vouchers, a chicken in every pot, and HUGE PECTORAL MUSCLES.
All at taxpayer expense, of course.
No, wait! At the expense of RICH taxpayers. (You know, all those Americans who have spare money lying around that they are not using, and probably wouldn't miss anyway.)
(Like, well, like John Edwards!)
I have a question...
When are these Democrats going to stop dragging their feet, and promise the American People what we REALLY want?
We want a Million Dollars.
Apiece.
It's as realistic as all of the other stuff they are promising...
Edwards plans big for presidency
Candidate: $acrifice must be priority, too...
(Cool! We Americans LOVE sacrifice!)
John Edward$ $ay$ if he's elected pre$ident, he'll in$titute a New Deal-like $uite of program$ to fight poverty and $tem growing wealth di$parity. To do it, he said, he'll a$k many American$ to make $acrifice$, like paying higher taxe$.
Edward$, a former (1 two-year term) Democratic senator from North Carolina, says the federal government $hould underwrite univer$al pre-kindergarten, create matching $aving$ account$ for low-income people, mandate a minimum wage of $9.50 and provide a million new $ection 8 hou$ing voucher$ for the poor. He also pledged to start a government-funded public higher education program called "College for Everyone."
"It i$ central to what I want to do a$ pre$ident to do $omething about economic inequality. I do not believe it i$ okay for the United $tate$ of America to have 37 million people living in poverty," he $aid in a meeting with Monitor reporter$ and editor$ this week. "And I think we need, de$perately need, a pre$ident who will $ay that to America and call on American$ to $how their character."
Hey, Idiot... When are Americans going to demand a president who will call on America's POOR to show their character, and stop making choices and engaging in behavior in their OWN lives that lead to poverty?
Why is anyone still listening to this dolt?
The people of North Carolina were so impressed with how much he accomplished for them in the Senate, that after only two years, they decided that his work was done, and released him from further service as their Senator so that he could pursue bigger and better ambulanc... er... bigger and better things.
"I think if we want to fund the thing$ that I think are important to $hare in pro$perity, then people who have done well in this country, including me, have more of a re$pon$ibility to give back," he $aid. Later, he added: "There are no free meal$."
Oooooh, yes, there ARE!!
Like other Democrat$, Edward$ named hi$ top three prioritie$ a$ ending the war in Iraq, enacting univer$al health care and overhauling the American energy $ystem. "Tho$e are three thing$ in$tantly I would do," he $aid.
INSTANTLY. He would INSTANTLY do those three things.
He would then use the remaining seven years, eleven months, twenty-nine days, twenty-three hours, fifty-nine minutes and fifty-nine seconds of his presidency to give every American, (except you, there...) free pre-kindergarten, a free college education, free Section 8 housing vouchers, a chicken in every pot, and HUGE PECTORAL MUSCLES.
All at taxpayer expense, of course.
No, wait! At the expense of RICH taxpayers. (You know, all those Americans who have spare money lying around that they are not using, and probably wouldn't miss anyway.)
(Like, well, like John Edwards!)
I have a question...
When are these Democrats going to stop dragging their feet, and promise the American People what we REALLY want?
We want a Million Dollars.
Apiece.
It's as realistic as all of the other stuff they are promising...
Thursday, October 25, 2007
The Democrat Plan For Your Paycheck...
Copied and pasted directly from the Committee On Ways And Means Republicans Website...
Press Release
Memo: McCrery on "Mother of All Tax Hikes"
October 25, 2007
By Ways and Means Republican Press Office
MEMO
RE: “Mother of All Tax Hikes” Bill
TO: Republican Members, Republican Staff
FROM: Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Jim McCrery
My Friends,
At a bipartisan Ways and Means caucus last night, Chairman Rangel outlined his long-awaited “Mother of All Tax Hikes” legislation. The basics of the package are simple: This is the largest individual income tax increase in history.
The bill will add a 4% surtax on Americans earning more than $150,000 a year ($200,000 for couples). That is on top of the scheduled expiration of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts. So, under Democrats’ plan, over the next few years, the individual income top tax rate in the United States will rise from 35% to 44%. By way of comparison, the other 29 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries – basically other developed nations - have an average top marginal tax rate of 35.7%. In fact, only five OECD countries would have higher top marginal tax rates in 2011 than the United States if the Democrats’ bill is enacted.
This crushingly high tax rate will affect approximately 10 million taxpayers directly - including those who report business income, like small business owners and farmers - but the damage will ripple throughout our economy. Because small businesses and family farms often pay their income taxes as individuals, this is a massive tax hike on the engine that drives job growth in this country.
In addition, the surtax is on adjusted gross income, not taxable income. This sounds like a technical issue, but it means that Rangel’s bill will erode the value of a series of tax deductions – including for mortgage interest, charitable giving, medical expenses, state and local taxes, and the standard deduction. And, because the surtax kicks in at $150,000 for individuals and $200,000 for couples, the bill creates a monster of a marriage penalty.
Chairman Rangel will claim that these tax increases go to provide tax cuts to 90 million Americans, but he is selling pure snake-oil. Many if not most of those taxpayers are getting a purely imaginary “tax cut.” Some of them are the roughly 20 million people that Republicans shielded with the Alternative Minimum Tax patch. Millions more are people who have benefited from the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, and only get “tax cuts” if you assume that the 10% bracket, marriage penalty, and $1,000 per child tax credit will expire. Others, like single people who will now be eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credit, are getting a tax refund from the government even though they don’t actually pay income taxes.
It will take time to analyze this bill and sort through the data, but we know from the start that the 90 million figure is pure hokum. In fact, before you know it more taxpayers may wind up paying higher taxes – and fewer paying less - under Rangel’s plan than they did last year.
Which brings us to the larger fallacy of the Democrats’ “paygo” system. There is no need to “pay for” protecting taxpayers from a massive AMT tax hike. The government never meant for the AMT to affect middle-class Americans, and we have a responsibility to make sure it doesn’t. By arguing that preventing this tax increase requires us to raise taxes elsewhere, Democrats are trying to lock Congress into a system where we are guaranteed to raise taxes by $3.5 trillion over ten years.
That’s right. $3.5 trillion. The baseline that the Democrats are using for “paygo” includes revenue from an “un-patched” AMT and from the tax increases that occur when the 2001 and 2003 tax laws expire after 2010. Together they total $3.5 trillion over ten years. If we play by the Democrats “paygo” rules, that is the size of the tax increase we are imposing on the American people. That will hurt our nation’s competitiveness and cost us American jobs. The Rangel bill is the first step down a road none of us want to follow, and I urge you to oppose it strongly.
Press Release
Memo: McCrery on "Mother of All Tax Hikes"
October 25, 2007
By Ways and Means Republican Press Office
MEMO
RE: “Mother of All Tax Hikes” Bill
TO: Republican Members, Republican Staff
FROM: Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Jim McCrery
My Friends,
At a bipartisan Ways and Means caucus last night, Chairman Rangel outlined his long-awaited “Mother of All Tax Hikes” legislation. The basics of the package are simple: This is the largest individual income tax increase in history.
The bill will add a 4% surtax on Americans earning more than $150,000 a year ($200,000 for couples). That is on top of the scheduled expiration of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts. So, under Democrats’ plan, over the next few years, the individual income top tax rate in the United States will rise from 35% to 44%. By way of comparison, the other 29 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries – basically other developed nations - have an average top marginal tax rate of 35.7%. In fact, only five OECD countries would have higher top marginal tax rates in 2011 than the United States if the Democrats’ bill is enacted.
This crushingly high tax rate will affect approximately 10 million taxpayers directly - including those who report business income, like small business owners and farmers - but the damage will ripple throughout our economy. Because small businesses and family farms often pay their income taxes as individuals, this is a massive tax hike on the engine that drives job growth in this country.
In addition, the surtax is on adjusted gross income, not taxable income. This sounds like a technical issue, but it means that Rangel’s bill will erode the value of a series of tax deductions – including for mortgage interest, charitable giving, medical expenses, state and local taxes, and the standard deduction. And, because the surtax kicks in at $150,000 for individuals and $200,000 for couples, the bill creates a monster of a marriage penalty.
Chairman Rangel will claim that these tax increases go to provide tax cuts to 90 million Americans, but he is selling pure snake-oil. Many if not most of those taxpayers are getting a purely imaginary “tax cut.” Some of them are the roughly 20 million people that Republicans shielded with the Alternative Minimum Tax patch. Millions more are people who have benefited from the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, and only get “tax cuts” if you assume that the 10% bracket, marriage penalty, and $1,000 per child tax credit will expire. Others, like single people who will now be eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credit, are getting a tax refund from the government even though they don’t actually pay income taxes.
It will take time to analyze this bill and sort through the data, but we know from the start that the 90 million figure is pure hokum. In fact, before you know it more taxpayers may wind up paying higher taxes – and fewer paying less - under Rangel’s plan than they did last year.
Which brings us to the larger fallacy of the Democrats’ “paygo” system. There is no need to “pay for” protecting taxpayers from a massive AMT tax hike. The government never meant for the AMT to affect middle-class Americans, and we have a responsibility to make sure it doesn’t. By arguing that preventing this tax increase requires us to raise taxes elsewhere, Democrats are trying to lock Congress into a system where we are guaranteed to raise taxes by $3.5 trillion over ten years.
That’s right. $3.5 trillion. The baseline that the Democrats are using for “paygo” includes revenue from an “un-patched” AMT and from the tax increases that occur when the 2001 and 2003 tax laws expire after 2010. Together they total $3.5 trillion over ten years. If we play by the Democrats “paygo” rules, that is the size of the tax increase we are imposing on the American people. That will hurt our nation’s competitiveness and cost us American jobs. The Rangel bill is the first step down a road none of us want to follow, and I urge you to oppose it strongly.
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Representing The Views Of His Constituents...
Ladies and Gentlemen...
Representative Pete Stark-D, Ca.
And National Policy, by which we all will have to abide, is DAILY being created by him, and others like him, based on this type of blind hatred and rage.
They should make this guy into a Reality TV Show.
He should have Cameras and Microphones on him 24/7/365.
Let's get that Liberal Agenda, and the attitudes that it is based upon right on out there, for everyone to plainly see!
Thank you, Rep. Stark!
Today you did a service to your Country.
Representative Pete Stark-D, Ca.
And National Policy, by which we all will have to abide, is DAILY being created by him, and others like him, based on this type of blind hatred and rage.
They should make this guy into a Reality TV Show.
He should have Cameras and Microphones on him 24/7/365.
Let's get that Liberal Agenda, and the attitudes that it is based upon right on out there, for everyone to plainly see!
Thank you, Rep. Stark!
Today you did a service to your Country.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Anatomy Of An Ass Kicking...
"The United States has alienated its allies, dismayed its friends and inadvertently gratified its enemies by proclaiming a confused and disturbing strategy." - Jimmy Carter
From the New York Times Dot Com...
October 17, 2007
Support Wanes in House for Genocide Vote
By CARL HULSE
Worried about antagonizing Turkish leaders, House members from both parties have begun to withdraw their support from a resolution supported by the Democratic leadership that would condemn as genocide the mass killings of Armenians nearly a century ago.
Almost a dozen lawmakers had shifted against the measure over the last 24 hours, accelerating a sudden exodus that has cast deep doubt over the measure’s prospects.
Some representatives made clear that they were heeding warnings from the White House, which has called the measure dangerously provocative, and from the Turkish government, which has said House passage would prompt Turkey to reconsider its ties to the United States, including logistical support for the Iraq war.
Until today, the resolution appeared to be on a path to House passage, with strong support from the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi of California.
It was approved last week by the House Foreign Affairs Committee. But this evening, a group of senior House Democrats had made it known they were planning to ask the leadership to drop plans for a vote on the measure.
The Democrats have clearly bitten off more than they, even with their sizable mouths, can chew here.
I still believe that the supporters of this idiocy should be imprisoned and charged with the crime of Treason. ( Whether they intended to alienate one of our allies by this or not is irrelevant. If I run over a child with my truck while groping for my cell phone in the floor, I am still responsible for the results of my actions, whether I intended to kill a child or not.)
There should be consequences for stupidity, even if you are a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
ESPECIALLY if you are the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Nancy Pelosi is third in line for the Presidency of the United States, behind the Vice President.
She has responsibilities beyond what is politically benificial to her particular political party.
But she does not conduct herself as if this is the case.
She sees herself as a Democrat Leader, not a servant of ALL of the people.
She, at least, should be removed from her position as Speaker of the House.
This whole attempt by her, and the rest of her party to disrupt the Supply Lines to our troops on the feild of battle is disgusting (at best,) and criminal (at least.)
If any of you who may read this will not join me in condemning this action, and calling for the punishment of those involved, then don't you EVER AGAIN tell me that you support the troops.
You DON'T.
(Hat tip to Mike from Mike's America for the Jimmy Carter quote.)
From the New York Times Dot Com...
October 17, 2007
Support Wanes in House for Genocide Vote
By CARL HULSE
Worried about antagonizing Turkish leaders, House members from both parties have begun to withdraw their support from a resolution supported by the Democratic leadership that would condemn as genocide the mass killings of Armenians nearly a century ago.
Almost a dozen lawmakers had shifted against the measure over the last 24 hours, accelerating a sudden exodus that has cast deep doubt over the measure’s prospects.
Some representatives made clear that they were heeding warnings from the White House, which has called the measure dangerously provocative, and from the Turkish government, which has said House passage would prompt Turkey to reconsider its ties to the United States, including logistical support for the Iraq war.
Until today, the resolution appeared to be on a path to House passage, with strong support from the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi of California.
It was approved last week by the House Foreign Affairs Committee. But this evening, a group of senior House Democrats had made it known they were planning to ask the leadership to drop plans for a vote on the measure.
The Democrats have clearly bitten off more than they, even with their sizable mouths, can chew here.
I still believe that the supporters of this idiocy should be imprisoned and charged with the crime of Treason. ( Whether they intended to alienate one of our allies by this or not is irrelevant. If I run over a child with my truck while groping for my cell phone in the floor, I am still responsible for the results of my actions, whether I intended to kill a child or not.)
There should be consequences for stupidity, even if you are a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
ESPECIALLY if you are the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Nancy Pelosi is third in line for the Presidency of the United States, behind the Vice President.
She has responsibilities beyond what is politically benificial to her particular political party.
But she does not conduct herself as if this is the case.
She sees herself as a Democrat Leader, not a servant of ALL of the people.
She, at least, should be removed from her position as Speaker of the House.
This whole attempt by her, and the rest of her party to disrupt the Supply Lines to our troops on the feild of battle is disgusting (at best,) and criminal (at least.)
If any of you who may read this will not join me in condemning this action, and calling for the punishment of those involved, then don't you EVER AGAIN tell me that you support the troops.
You DON'T.
(Hat tip to Mike from Mike's America for the Jimmy Carter quote.)
Monday, October 15, 2007
This Should Not Go Unpunished!
NOW can we charge them with Treason?
If not, what more would they have to do?
Would they have to actually GO to Turkey and Iraq, and blow up bridges ahead of U.S. Supply Convoys?
If not, what more would they have to do?
Would they have to actually GO to Turkey and Iraq, and blow up bridges ahead of U.S. Supply Convoys?
Monday, September 10, 2007
Manipulating Ignorance, The Favorite Pass-Time Of Democrats
"With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. Consequently he who moulds public sentiment, goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. He makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to be executed... " Abraham Lincoln
From the International Herald Tribune...
Democrats make pre-emptive strike on Iraq reports
(That means that the reports are GOOD for America.)
WASHINGTON: Leading Democrats on Sunday preemptively assailed the expected findings on Iraq due this week from the top U.S. general in Iraq as "dead, flat wrong" and said that President George W. Bush's calls for continued patience there would simply extend an "unconscionable" and "completely unacceptable" policy.
The pointed comments from the Democrats, including Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee and a presidential hopeful, and Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, seemed designed to undercut the impact of the much-awaited reports from General David Petraeus and Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador in Baghdad.
"This president has no plan how to win and/or how to leave," said Biden, before whose committee Petraeus and Crocker will testify on Tuesday. He said that Bush was putting American troops "into the middle of a civil war to maintain the status quo," adding, "that is unconscionable, and he's wrong."
But Republicans laid down their own markers. Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said that the troop increase was "undeniably working" and that "the only way we're going to lose this war is to have politicians in Washington undercut the surge."
Rather than withdrawing, he said on Fox, "Now's the time to pour it on."
Let me ask you a question.
Would you rather the United States WIN the War in Iraq, or LOSE it?
Do you have any doubt what the Democrats are trying to do here?
Is it working?
Are you willing to let them do it?
From the International Herald Tribune...
Democrats make pre-emptive strike on Iraq reports
(That means that the reports are GOOD for America.)
WASHINGTON: Leading Democrats on Sunday preemptively assailed the expected findings on Iraq due this week from the top U.S. general in Iraq as "dead, flat wrong" and said that President George W. Bush's calls for continued patience there would simply extend an "unconscionable" and "completely unacceptable" policy.
The pointed comments from the Democrats, including Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee and a presidential hopeful, and Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, seemed designed to undercut the impact of the much-awaited reports from General David Petraeus and Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador in Baghdad.
"This president has no plan how to win and/or how to leave," said Biden, before whose committee Petraeus and Crocker will testify on Tuesday. He said that Bush was putting American troops "into the middle of a civil war to maintain the status quo," adding, "that is unconscionable, and he's wrong."
But Republicans laid down their own markers. Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said that the troop increase was "undeniably working" and that "the only way we're going to lose this war is to have politicians in Washington undercut the surge."
Rather than withdrawing, he said on Fox, "Now's the time to pour it on."
Let me ask you a question.
Would you rather the United States WIN the War in Iraq, or LOSE it?
Do you have any doubt what the Democrats are trying to do here?
Is it working?
Are you willing to let them do it?
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Thoughts On Talking Donkeys, Talking Elephants, And Talking Dogs...
Did you watch the CNN-YouBoob Democrat Debate the other night?
Me neither.
I was amazed that the potential candidates for the most powerful position in the world are frightened to appear on the Fox News Network and spew their talking points before an actual newsman, so they chose instead to go to CNN and answer questions from snowmen, sock puppets, and animated cartoon characters.
It appears that the gavels of power are indeed in the hands of America's children.
While listening to the ensuing coverage of this nonsense in the days since, I have been reminded of a story that I heard a long time ago, but has stuck with me...
The story tells of a man who saw a classified ad in the newspaper which read: "FOR SALE: Talking dog, 10 years old, $10.00. Call (telephone number.)"
The man was intrigued, so he dialed the number and asked if the ad was for real.
"It is", replied the voice on the other end. "Come on by and check him out."
So the man drove to the house where the supposed talking dog was being offered for sale, and knocked on the door.
He was invited inside, and offered an opportunity to talk to the dog before he made his decision.
After exchanging pleasantries with the dog (who could indeed talk, and very well...) he asked the dog how he learned to talk.
"Well," the dog began, "when I was a puppy, I was trained as a seeing-eye dog and assigned to a sweet old blind woman who lived in New York City. She believed that I could learn to talk, and spent several years patiently working with me. I finally got the hang of it."
"Where is she now?" the man asked.
"She was killed in the World Trade Center Bombings on 9/11. I managed to dig myself out of the rubble, and began searching for her, but I never found her."
"That's so sad!" said the man, almost in tears.
"Yes... I was, however able to save the lives of seventy-four survivors who were trapped in the rubble. Because I could talk, I was able to direct rescuers to the exact spot where people were buried, and even comfort the victims while they waited for help to arrive.
"After that, I joined the Army, and went to Afghanistan to fight in the War on Terror. I was able to learn the language over there, and move among the Taliban Fighters, learn their secrets and plans, and report them to the American Forces. I pulled two tours of duty, and was given the Congressional Medal of Honor."
"Amazing!" exclaimed the man. "How did you come to live down here in Florida?"
"Well, by this time, I had faced death so many times, and done so much during my short life, that I began to wonder what it would be like to be a regular old dog, and live with a normal family as their pet. I ran away, made my way down to Florida and retired, so to speak. "
The man turned to the man who was selling the dog. "That's the most amazing story I have ever heard! I'll take the dog. I have one question, however..."
"Okay," replied the seller. "Shoot..."
"Why would anyone in their right mind sell such an incredible dog for only ten Dollars?"
"BECAUSE HE'S A BIG FAT LIAR!!"
It doesn't matter whether you are listening to the first potential female President, the first potential black President, or a talking dog...
You'd best be sure that you understand exactly what is being said, and whether or not you can rely on it before you decide to buy anything.
Me neither.
I was amazed that the potential candidates for the most powerful position in the world are frightened to appear on the Fox News Network and spew their talking points before an actual newsman, so they chose instead to go to CNN and answer questions from snowmen, sock puppets, and animated cartoon characters.
It appears that the gavels of power are indeed in the hands of America's children.
While listening to the ensuing coverage of this nonsense in the days since, I have been reminded of a story that I heard a long time ago, but has stuck with me...
The story tells of a man who saw a classified ad in the newspaper which read: "FOR SALE: Talking dog, 10 years old, $10.00. Call (telephone number.)"
The man was intrigued, so he dialed the number and asked if the ad was for real.
"It is", replied the voice on the other end. "Come on by and check him out."
So the man drove to the house where the supposed talking dog was being offered for sale, and knocked on the door.
He was invited inside, and offered an opportunity to talk to the dog before he made his decision.
After exchanging pleasantries with the dog (who could indeed talk, and very well...) he asked the dog how he learned to talk.
"Well," the dog began, "when I was a puppy, I was trained as a seeing-eye dog and assigned to a sweet old blind woman who lived in New York City. She believed that I could learn to talk, and spent several years patiently working with me. I finally got the hang of it."
"Where is she now?" the man asked.
"She was killed in the World Trade Center Bombings on 9/11. I managed to dig myself out of the rubble, and began searching for her, but I never found her."
"That's so sad!" said the man, almost in tears.
"Yes... I was, however able to save the lives of seventy-four survivors who were trapped in the rubble. Because I could talk, I was able to direct rescuers to the exact spot where people were buried, and even comfort the victims while they waited for help to arrive.
"After that, I joined the Army, and went to Afghanistan to fight in the War on Terror. I was able to learn the language over there, and move among the Taliban Fighters, learn their secrets and plans, and report them to the American Forces. I pulled two tours of duty, and was given the Congressional Medal of Honor."
"Amazing!" exclaimed the man. "How did you come to live down here in Florida?"
"Well, by this time, I had faced death so many times, and done so much during my short life, that I began to wonder what it would be like to be a regular old dog, and live with a normal family as their pet. I ran away, made my way down to Florida and retired, so to speak. "
The man turned to the man who was selling the dog. "That's the most amazing story I have ever heard! I'll take the dog. I have one question, however..."
"Okay," replied the seller. "Shoot..."
"Why would anyone in their right mind sell such an incredible dog for only ten Dollars?"
"BECAUSE HE'S A BIG FAT LIAR!!"
It doesn't matter whether you are listening to the first potential female President, the first potential black President, or a talking dog...
You'd best be sure that you understand exactly what is being said, and whether or not you can rely on it before you decide to buy anything.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Perception Is Reality...
SHARES TUMBLE AROUND WORLD...
DOW DOWN 416...
WORST 1-DAY DROP SINCE 2001...
(All from the Drudge Report.)
(Along with THIS one...)
MAG: Did the Drudge Report Help Tank the Stock Market?
Well, did it?
The first paragraph from the article about the Drudge Report helping to tank the Stock Market says "Greenspan warns of likely U.S. recession." That was the headline right near the top of the widely surfed Drudge Report yesterday afternoon and this morning, referring to a speech that former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan made the other day via satellite to a business conference in Hong Kong. Many market watchers are blaming those comments– along with a weak durable goods report and the plunge in the Chinese stock market – for today's stock market sell-off."
Wait just a Cotton-Tailed minute...
Didn't Alan Greenspan retire last year?
What in the World gives him the power to come in off the Beach and crash the Stock Market whenever he feels like it?
You want an even better angle on the same story?
Here you go...
From the Tugboatcapn News Service...
Stock Market Experiences Worst One-Day Drop Since 2001 Only Two Months After Democrats Reclaim Congress...
How about this one?
Stock Market Crashes Following Al Gore's Oscar Win...
Or this headline...
Dow Down 416 Points Following News Of Democrats Opposition To Bush's Iraq Troop Surge Plan...
These things have nothing to do with the Stock Market Plunge, you say?
Oh, Yeah?
I have as much evidence that Al Gore, or the Democrats taking Congress, or their opposition to Bush's Iraq plans causing the Stock Market Crash as the Left has for Mankind's role in Global Warming...
Perception is Reality...
DOW DOWN 416...
WORST 1-DAY DROP SINCE 2001...
(All from the Drudge Report.)
(Along with THIS one...)
MAG: Did the Drudge Report Help Tank the Stock Market?
Well, did it?
The first paragraph from the article about the Drudge Report helping to tank the Stock Market says "Greenspan warns of likely U.S. recession." That was the headline right near the top of the widely surfed Drudge Report yesterday afternoon and this morning, referring to a speech that former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan made the other day via satellite to a business conference in Hong Kong. Many market watchers are blaming those comments– along with a weak durable goods report and the plunge in the Chinese stock market – for today's stock market sell-off."
Wait just a Cotton-Tailed minute...
Didn't Alan Greenspan retire last year?
What in the World gives him the power to come in off the Beach and crash the Stock Market whenever he feels like it?
You want an even better angle on the same story?
Here you go...
From the Tugboatcapn News Service...
Stock Market Experiences Worst One-Day Drop Since 2001 Only Two Months After Democrats Reclaim Congress...
How about this one?
Stock Market Crashes Following Al Gore's Oscar Win...
Or this headline...
Dow Down 416 Points Following News Of Democrats Opposition To Bush's Iraq Troop Surge Plan...
These things have nothing to do with the Stock Market Plunge, you say?
Oh, Yeah?
I have as much evidence that Al Gore, or the Democrats taking Congress, or their opposition to Bush's Iraq plans causing the Stock Market Crash as the Left has for Mankind's role in Global Warming...
Perception is Reality...
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