Evil Concealed By Money

The bottom line is that we've become a nation of thieves, a value rejected by our founders.

The Sector Formerly Known as Private

In January, when the heads of GM, Chrysler, and Ford return to Washington on their corporate jets, Democrats in Congress and President Obama will be more than happy to give them money. But, like the Godfather, the Democrats will ask Detroit for a favor in return. That favor may be boardroom seats, preferred stock, or strict regulations governing what type of cars Detroit can make, how they make them, and at what price they sell them. Instead of one CEO, GM will have as many as 535. Does anyone seriously believe that this will improve the company's fortunes?

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS ?

“My daughter’s preschool teacher calls Indians/Native Americans ‘1st Americans.’ I guess that’s the NEW PC term. I just hope I’m not calling my kids ‘Last Americans!’ ..... read on the internet.

Ivan and Boris Again

The Russian fable of Boris' goat and how it applies to what our U.S. politicians are doing to us by demonizing these "greedy" business executives.

A fiery Czech is poised to be the face of Europe

This fellow is a firm beliver in free markets, personal liberty, and believes global warming environmentalists are very wrong!

Minnesota Senate Recount, Update IV

Horrible voter fraud may result in Comedian Al Franken being elected to Senate.... !!!!

Liberals upset to discover that turkeys don't grow in their freezer cases

Oh my goodness....... do you mean real working class folks actually slaughter turkeys ?

Bailed-Out Citigroup Paid Bill Clinton $700,000--For Words, Just Words

Didn't Barack Obama tell us about how he was going to CHANGE the old poltico's influence on Washington and the back room deals between politicos and companys?

Well, take a look at this web of interconnected influence peddlers..... Bill Clinton getting 3/4 MILLION dollars simply for giving speeches to a company on whose board sits his former Secretary of Treasury, authorizing these payments to his former boss!!

The company is CITIGROUP..... going through financial difficulties and asking the DEMOCRAT Congress for bailout help.

Today We Learned Something Horrible About Liberals

Yes, it's quite a scandal in Liberal Land. Sarah Palin actually doesn't mind when turkeys are killed, almost in her very presence. Which is the rub, I suppose. Unlike the Governor, most liberals make sure they're somewhere else when animals are being slaughtered for food. Watch the video HERE

Mark Steyn has a pithy view of all this ......
If it bleeds, it leads

Follow up this Mark Steyn witticism with:
My fowl lady

Close Guantanamo Bay?

NEWS FLASH for Obama: "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you." to paraphrase Leon Trotsky.

Common sense, then and now

What Obama's Attorney General nominee said back in 2002 about needing to interrogate our attackers . Of course, back then he didn't know he might become A-G !!

"What will happen if Obama found inelligible by Supreme Court."

This article describes what would happen if Obama is found ineligible. It depends upon when that finding is reached.

There are several suits pending in courts in a dozen or so states seeking to find Obama ineligible to be elected President by virtue of having been foreign born. One of these has made to the U.S. Supreme Court. See the following:

SUPREME COURT RULING ON OBAMA'S ELIGIBIILITY FOR PRESIDENT

The case, unsuccessful at the state level, had been submitted to Justice David Souter, who rejected it. The case then was resubmitted to Justice Clarence Thomas. The next line on the court's docket says: "DISTRIBUTED for Conference of December 5, 2008." These Conferences are held out of the public eye and are where the Justices determine which cases it will hear. If four of the nine justices vote to hear the case in full, oral argument may be scheduled.

Were They Expecting Bernardine Dohrn as Secretary of Defense?

Why Obama will tend to govern as a moderate .............. ?

So How Do You Define 'The Same Washington Players'?

Obama promised CHANGE in Washington. "Change we can believe in" He criticized McCain as representing the same old Washington politics. In 2007 he said "The real gamble in this election is playing the same Washington game with the same Washington players and expecting a different result."

So how does his selection of old Washington hands that he has made so far represent CHANGE ? Read the gory details in ths article. My friends, if you voted for CHANGE, you have been bamboozled !!!!

Eric Holder -- perfect for Obama, bad for the country

This is a go-along to get-along guy. No wonder Obama wants to put him in charge of the nation's law enforcement.

President-elect promised change, picking insiders

President-elect Barack Obama promised the voters change but has started his Cabinet selection process by naming several Washington insiders to top posts.

Here's a sample of a "disputed" Coleman/Franken ballot

Here is an image of a ballot which Al Franken is challenging in Minnesota's Senatorial election. This is WORSE than "hanging chads" !!!!

Civics Quiz

Americans Fail a Basic Test on Their History and Institutions is the third major study conducted by ISI on the kind of knowledge required for informed citizenship. In 2006 and 2007, ISI published the first ever scientific surveys of civic learning among college students. Each year, approximately 14,000 freshmen and seniors at 50 schools nationwide were given a 60-question, multiple-choice exam on basic knowledge of America’s heritage. Both years, the students failed. The average freshman scored 51.7% the first year and 51.4% the next. The average senior scored 53.2%, then 54.2%. After all the time, effort, and money spent on college, students emerge no better off in understanding the fundamental features of American self-government. In 2008 the average test score was 49% !!!!

I believe most readers of this blog will score much better than that. Let's find out .....

TAKE THIS QUIZ YOURSELF .......... here...... and report your results (anonymously) in the box at the right

Then look at the National results ....... here ......

Zogby Poll of Obama Voters

Survey finds most Obama voters remembered negative coverage of McCain/Palin statements but struggled to correctly answer questions about coverage associated with Obama/Biden.

To me, this is prima facie evidence that the liberal/progressive/socialist left gets their information from the very biased Mainstream media.

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512 Obama Voters 11/13/08-11/15/08 MOE +/- 4.4 points

97.1% High School Graduate or higher, 55% College Graduates

Results to 12 simple Multiple Choice Questions

57.4% could NOT correctly say which party controls congress (50/50 shot just by guessing)

71.8% could NOT correctly say Joe Biden quit a previous campaign because of plagiarism (25% chance by guessing)

82.6% could NOT correctly say that Barack Obama won his first election by getting opponents kicked off the ballot (25% chance by guessing)

88.4% could NOT correctly say that Obama said his policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry and make energy rates skyrocket (25% chance by guessing)

56.1% could NOT correctly say Obama started his political career at the home of two former members of the Weather Underground (25% chance by guessing).

And yet.....

Only 13.7% failed to identify Sarah Palin as the person on which their party spent $150,000 in clothes

Only 6.2% failed to identify Palin as the one with a pregnant teenage daughter

And 86.9 % thought that Palin said that she could see Russia from her "house," even though that was Tina Fey who said that!!

Only 2.4% got at least 11 correct.

Only .5% got all of them correct. (And we "gave" one answer that was technically not Palin, but actually Tina Fey)

Obama Hears a Giant Sucking Sound

His legacy is spent before he gets his hands on it.

the really giant sucking sound is the auto sector, getting ready to gobble up whatever hopes Mr. Obama might have had for an ambitious, forward-looking presidency.

Let Detroit Go Bankrupt - Mitt Romney

In a New York Times Op-Ed, Romney argues for no bailout for Big Auto ..... force them into bankruptcy

Al-Qaida No. 2 insults Obama with racial epithet

Hmmmm... I wonder if Obama will "sit down and talk without pre-conditions" with Al Qaeda?

Former Obama opponent now suing to prove President-elect's citizenship

A former opponent of Barack Obama's has come back to haunt him over questions regarding Obama's citizenship. Alan Keyes files suit in California to block electoral votes for Obama.

Capitalism and the Financial Crisis

The blame for our current financial mess rests with government, with the major player being the Federal Reserve Board keeping interest rates artificially low and the congressional and White House market interference in the name of more home ownership. In the clamor for more regulation over our financial institutions, has anybody bothered to ask whether people in government know what they're doing?

How the Employee Free Choice Act Takes Away Workers' Rights

The Employee Free Choice Act would strip American workers of their right to a private-ballot vote, require companies to submit to binding arbitration, and increase penalties for unfair labor practices committed by employers but not by unions. Each of these provisions would be bad for American workers.

No UAW Bailout

NEWS FLASH : "The One" is not proposing bailing out the auto industry ...... he's proposing bailing out the United Auto Workers Union. It's payback time, isn't it?

Corporate Tax Relief on the Way?

Charlie Rangel proposes cutting corporate tax rates to 28%, down from the current 35%. BUT RAISING THE PERSONAL RATES TO 44% !!!! Add in state income taxes, Medicare tax and you are over 55% in some states !!!!! FIFTY FIVE PERCENT

Red-Hot October?

Fraud at work to misrepresent reality !!!!! Goddard Inst. for Space Studies screws up data BIG TIME and reports erroneous conclusions to the world.

Why Europe is secretly afraid of a socialist America

Europe can't handle not having a democratic / free republic whipping boy!

School supplies fake Social Security numbers to teachers

It's been going on in this school district for years. Wanna bet no one is punished?

Sea Ice Growing at Fastest Pace on Record

An abnormally cool Arctic is seeing dramatic changes to ice levels. Damn !!!! This kinda global warming has got to stop if we're gonna be successful in taking our economy back into the middle ages!

Obama: Fear and the Security Force

A sobering view of Obama's "Universal Voluntary Public Service" corps which he believes "We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded" as the military". As the writer says, they will not be called 'Brownshirts' or 'Blackshirts', but the difference between their behavior and those of our ugly Nazi and Facist past will likely be in name only !

It will take time ..... I probably won't be around to see it..... but I FEAR like hell for my grand children. Remember .... no you are too young, and our left-wing history departments never taught you ...... people derided Winston Churchill in the 1930's for trying to warn the world about Hitler!

First things first

Why Obama will NOT deal with changing our foreign policy ........ Americans NOW believe we are safe from terrorists (could it be that Bush made that happen ????? Naw.... not possible, must be the benevolence of al Qaeda). Obama will concentrate on remaking our economy into a State Run economy .... on the same model tried for so many years in Eastern Europe and the USSR.-, because he will never have a more compliant public and CONGRESS. He can re-jigger our foreign policy later.

Six Agencies Searched for Data on Joe the Plumber

And liberal Democrat ideologues huff and puff about "spying" on us by the NSA ? (yet are unable to produce one such case)...... here THEY GO INTO personal records, looking for dirt to use politically ....... if THAT isn't spying, I don't know what is.

Spam Turns Serious and Hormel Turns Out More

SPAM .... that tasty treat from WW II days !! Now they have SPAM Lite, SPAM with garlic, and many other flavors.

White guilt? Done; over; history

This seemingly impossible event occurred because the vast majority of white Americans didn't give a fluff about skin color and enthusiastically pulled the voting lever for a black man. Not just any black man. A very liberal black man who spent his early career race-hustling banks, praying in a racist church for 20 years, and actively working with America-hating domestic terrorists. Yet white Americans made Barack Obama their leader. Therefore, as of Nov. 4, 2008, white guilt is dead.

Hank Paulson, naked emperor

Members of Congress "...... fell for what Nobel Prize-winning economist F.A. Hayek called “the fatal conceit” — the disastrous idea that a federal bureaucrat has the knowledge to do a better job than the private market in organizing and directing an economy."

Europe Is Obama's First 'Global Test'

European "leaders" sent a six page letter to President Elect Obama basically calling on him to play ball the European way and agree to turn the levers of American power over to others. All the high-minded post-modern verbiage about global solutions to global problems included in that document is the eurospeak way of saying that Europeans want a final say in how American power is exercised. It is what Europeans mean when they use the words "multilateralism" and "globalism.".

Will President Obama concede where President Bush did not? Will he pass his first global test? It's impossible to know until Obama moves into the White House. But the stakes are far higher than many Americans may realize.

Time Of Death: Oct. 3, 2008

The Republican Party died on this date.

In the election we were " given the choice, in its purest form, between Stupid and Evil last week. And Stupid is so stupid he doesn't even recognize Evil when they wake up in bed together and his hind end is sore."

Tolerance In Higher Education

Student severely beaten for wearing a McCain/Palin button on a college campus. Accused of being "racist" .

Bailout Lacks Oversight Despite Billions Pledged

Not only did Paulson back off on his original plans on how to spend the $700 BILLION given him by Congress, the squabbling amongst this dysfunctional Congress has prevented setup of the oversight bodies they themselves DEMANDED !!!!!!

And some people want our nation's health care system to be run by these bureaucrats???

Obama’s illegal alien auntie: The rest of the story

The lame-duck Republican president did the Democratic president-elect a generous — and dangerous — favor right before Election Day: Putting politics above homeland security, the Bush administration ordered immigration authorities across the country to halt all deportation enforcement actions until after the campaign season was over.

Let Pres. Bush know your objection to the auto bailout

If you agree that more bail outs will increase the burden on U.S.
taxpayers , please call and let President Bush know now!

The phone number for the President's comment line is: 1-202 456-1111. It only takes a little time. Wait for an operator don't go to the automated system. That system does not allow enough time for your message.


When the operator answers you will be asked what state you are calling from.

As a sample, here is what one of my readers said: "I'm calling to urge President Bush not to agree to a bailout plan for the automobile industry. It will increase the already high tax burden on U. S. citizens. When the last bailout was passed President Bush received negative press and disappointed U.S. citizens. Obama is setting up the President to take another political fall."

Georgia congressman warns of Obama dictatorship

"It may sound a bit crazy and off base, but the thing is, he's the one who proposed this national security force," Rep. Paul Broun said of Obama in an interview Monday with The Associated Press. "I'm just trying to bring attention to the fact that we may—may not, I hope not—but we may have a problem with that type of philosophy of radical socialism or Marxism."

Broun cited a July speech by Obama that has circulated on the Internet in which the then-Democratic presidential candidate called for a civilian force to take some of the national security burden off the military.

"That's exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany and it's exactly what the Soviet Union did," Broun said. "When he's proposing to have a national security force that's answering to him, that is as strong as the U.S. military, he's showing me signs of being Marxist."

“Dreams” Controversy Goes Global

Controversy over who REALLY authored Obama's "Dreams ...." book continues, grows.

Also check out Ayer's book:
William Ayers' forgotten communist manifesto: Prairie Fire

Minnesota Ripe for Election Fraud

Minnesota is becoming to 2008 politics what Florida was in 2000 or Washington State in 2004 -- a real mess.

No Bailout for the Auto Industry

Time to REALLY remake the auto industry. Either they do it themselves (unlikely) or Guvmint will do it for them (Aw Crap !!!!)

Choose something like a star

Good advice .....

Robert Frost urged us to "choose something like a star" to stay our minds on and be staid. For conservatives, that star is the principles on which the United States was founded.

Oh this damned Global Warming !!!!

Oh this damned Global Warming ..........

Agenda disappears from Obama Web site

well...... there go the promises !!!!!!!!! Hope you libs are happy. Sure didn't take long, did it?

Fed Defies Transparency Aim in Refusal to Disclose (Update2)

This feels like an imperial government if not outright skullduggery!

Worry, but be happy: Coping with an Obama presidency

This very best advice I've read for dealing with the Obama Presidency........PLEASE circulate this widely by clicking on the little envelope with the arrow - below.

What price popularity?

".....the prospect that, thanks to ascension, America will once more be liked and respected around the world. Those aroused by this prospect can be divided into two categories. The first are the folks who believe, with the naivety only a certain type of liberal can possess, that a gesture (the election of Obama) can transform, lastingly and without cost, the way the world views us. These people are fools."

Reid, Pelosi Urge Treasury to Extend Aid to Automakers

How much ya wanna bet that there NO, nada, zilch, none, zip in the way of union concessions that Pelosi and Co. demand in return for bailing out the auto companies, while asking for everything to give by the Company? The greed of these 100,000 auto workers ($76/hr including benefits = $15 billion per year) and their union bosses are as responsible for the auto company's failures as is the management.

ACORN: Who Funds the Weather Underground’s Little Brother?

A full report on ACORN's underhanded dealings....

"The Association of Community
Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)
has become America’s most prominent left-wing
community group. Little-known until
now, ACORN has played a major role in
the sub-prime mortgage mess that has undermined
Americans’ support for free market
problem-solving and set off a worldwide
chain of financial troubles. It is also implicated
in vote fraud schemes from coast
to coast. ACORN aims to give America
change that socialists can believe in – by
any means necessary. It is deliberately organized
to avoid scrutiny. But with an FBI
probe underway, millions of dollars in back
taxes owing, and a racketeering lawsuit
pending, it may finally have to answer for
its many misdeeds."

On Dec.1, 2007, Senator Obama announced that he
would meet with ACORN in his first 100
days as U.S. president. He said, “Before I
even get inaugurated, during the transition,
we’re going to be calling all of you in to
help us shape the agenda. We’re going to be
having meetings all across the country with
community organizations so that you have
input into the agenda for the next presidency

of the United States of America.”

Draw your own conclusions - add your comments

Tough Sledding Ahead -

This writer makes the case for a world-wide depression for the next ten years.... during which the U.S. dollar's value goes to ZERO. Scary, but credible reading.

What's Happening In Minnesota?

Hard evidence of voter fraud underway in Minnesota ...... moving towards getting Al Franken (D) elected over Senator Norm Coleman (R). This is exactly the sort of fraudulent manipulation of votes going on after election that we have seen in Ohio and Washington in previous elections.

President Obama's First Test

The Russians are off to fast start to test Obama.... announcing the deployment of missiles along the Polish border to counter our recently announced plans to defend against Iranian launched missiles. Russia also announced rescinding plans to abolish 3 missile divisions. It has deployed a Russian task force led by a nuclear missile cruiser to the Caribbean. There are rumors that Russia's new President, Medvedev, will resign, citing changes to the constitution, and new elections would be called. Putin then could be elected to two more nonconsecutive terms, serving from 2009 to 2021. This is very similar to the run-up to the Cuban missile crisis of the early 1960's where Krushchev sensed a weak new President and sent nuclear missiles to Cuba - 90 miles from our shores.

Let us hope that Pres. Obama doesn't deal with THIS guy, "without pre-conditions" !!

Big Labor’s Bill to End Secret Ballots Gains Momentum

Flying under the VERY misleading banner "Employee Free Choice Act", labor unions expect this Democrat controlled Congress to abolish prospective union members rights to cast a secret ballot. Called "card check", this law will require workers to sign a card, publicly, under the eyes of the union organizer thugs in favor of unionizing. Of course, few persons put into that position would refuse. It represents the antithesis of "Employee Free Choice" !!!! What a joke. This will be Obama's pay off to the unions.

The 'rigid' Obama -- will he react to 'change' well?

Warner Todd Huston, in describing Obama's evident inflexibility, says...

In a 2001 interview with WTTW in Chicago we were introduced to an Obama that thought that the civil rights movement failed because it didn't "redistribute the wealth." Just this month Obama used that same line in an encounter with the now famous "Joe the Plumber." Also in the 2001 interview, Obama seemed to say that the Constitution needed to be cast aside as inadequate for our times. Has his opinion on that changed any over the last seven years? There is no reason to expect it has.

But ....... not to worry..... CHANGE is coming !

A McCain campaign highlight

We're the land of the free for one reason only: We're also the home of the brave.

Russia to base missiles on EU border: Medvedev

And the saber rattling begins already......... is Obama up to it????

The Treatment of Bush Has Been a Disgrace

The headline says it ALL !!!!!

Investigator: No Evidence Palin Violated Ethics Law

Palin violated no laws and has been cleared of ethics violations. Talk about being a little bit late reporting this finding !!!!!!!

Bin Laden's Media mouthpiece convicted

Another bin Ladin lackey bites the dust .......

Say Goodbye to America

Either way ........ there is likely to be "war in the streets" !

No Questions, Please

Most OBAMA supporters do not realize that Obama has not had a press conference since September. Most don't realize how he has banned newspapers and reporters who ask tough questions, or whose editorial pages don't back Obama's candidacy.

Everything You Wanted to Know About the Obama Online Fundraising Scandal in Less Than 5 Minutes!

The Obama campaign is the FIRST and ONLY presidential campaign to turn off online address verification when raising money online.

The Obama campaign also chooses to not to use free or cheap tools that allow them to screen foreign IP address and foreign credit cards.

Finally, unlike the Clinton and McCain campaigns, the Obama campaign refuses to disclose their donor list.

Al-Qaeda propaganda chief killed in Pakistan strike: officials

I'll bet you didn't read about this in your MSM !! This guy, al-Masri was on our top list for years.... we finally nailed him!

Khalidi of the PLO - Obama's friend

Here is detailed evidence of Khalidi's ties to the PLO. This is another in a loooooooooong string of questionable alliances that Obama has made over the years. This fellow Khalidi is an " advocate for the PLO who Obama says helped him with his thinking about the Middle East".

Senator Stealth

How Obama advances radical causes when no one’s looking.

Obama Civilian Security

In his own words .... " we gotta have a Civilian National Security Force that is just as strong (as our military)"... does this portend a raising of Brown Shirts or SS or KGB ????? Frightening !

Obama Aunt leak raises questions

Aunt is illegal alien (one of the 10[?] million) ordered by judge to leave the U.S. four years ago. Obama campaign complains that "leak" of these facts is "deplorable". Aunt made illegal foreign contribution of $265 to Obama campaign...... it is being "given to charity" (ACORN ?).

Too Progressive Already

We are about to reach the tipping point where the number of people who pay ZERO income tax exceeds the number who do. At that point, we go downhill very fast. This Obama administration may do that. "The power to tax is the power to destroy." Read also: Taxing Times

Hidin' Joe Biden

Incredible ....... "loose lips" Biden hasn't given a news conference since September and doesn't allow questions from reporters when he's on the stump..... guess it's kinda hard to speak through a muzzle.