Rescue me!

You remember the fear, at the end of September, the world was going to collapse. The credit market had frozen up, there was no lending going on. If the government didn't pass a 850 Billion dollar package to infuse the banks with the requested cash, the world markets would crash and burn, end of the world. Of course the public was told the bailout was only 700 billion but there was no reporting of the media during the election of all the tacked on pork from our good democratic public servants bringing home their dollars to ensure their re-election next cycle.

This economic problem was all because of George W Bush. Yeeeeeeeeaaaahh, something like that. The media didn't investigate anything prior to reporting what happened in September. There was nothing reported about Barney Franks association with his "friend" and his association with Freddie Mac. Chris Dodd and Countrywide.

The democrats said that after the money would be allocated to the TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) program, an advisory board would be appointed. There hasn't been any board created and money is being given away right and left. As of yesterday the Secretary Paulson reversed his intention of what the TARP program would do. We won't buy troubled assess ts, we'll just fund banks.
American Express, a credit card company, is now a commercial bank in order to get 3.5 billion dollars. Now there is the discussion of bailing out the Big Three auto makers, which is nothing more than a bailout for the UAW on the backs of the Nation.

It's time for American voters to be really pissed off. It is not going to change in the coming administration. You Obama voters believed you were getting a tax cut, that won't happen. 47% of you who voted for Obama don't pay taxes anyway. If we could simply hook up all the illegals, the folks who don't pay income tax, and convince them Obama has the right answer, we could make America such a better place. Well MSNBC will have you believe that, America doesn't like you MSNBC and that is why your viewership is in the tank.

Does everyone wish to be the next American Idol?

As I reflect on what happened during the past election, I understand now that the advent cable tv has made people feel a sense of urgency to get on tv. In the 1970's, the afternoon airways was filled with gameshows and the Merv Griffin show, where oddities such as pet tricks and Hollywood celebs would show up to discuss upcoming gigs. Nothing really new there. But then, Merv's motif morphed into Phil Donahue in the late 70's-early 80's. And daytime talk became about victimization. He "cared". Kleenex flew out of boxes in Donahue's audiences faster than the Federal Reserve is running off 100's on the printing press now for this "bailout". Daytime talk then splintered in the late 80's. Oprah Winfrey, who understood how an audience can further a career, and those like Jerry Springer who just went mob mentality with their shows in order to get ratings. Oprah steered herself towards the Hollywood set and after realizing her impact on markets, decided she would then endorse specific items, such as books in her book club, a mere mention of something she enjoyed or used sent sales skyrocketing. I applaud that, she created a empire from her show. That is what free market capitalism is all about.
Jerry Springer created a market as well, but to those folks who wanted so badly to have 10 minutes on tv and he appealed to the baseless portion of society. He had success, and many more mirror image shows popped up on cable. Then right around the time that lawyers were able to advertise on television, SHAZAM, here comes the Honorable Judge Wapner, the People's Court. And today there is Judge Judy, Judy Joe Brown, Judge Karen, and an endless list of people who can't wait to appear on the show to air their differences simply because they will be on television.
In the late 1990's, CBS created Survivor, the first "reality" show. Reality my ass. It's all scripted. And that show opened the door to all the shit which is on network and cable tv today. American Idol, Amazing Race, Biggest Loser, Top Chef, Bartender Wars, Ice Truck Drivers, Tow Truck Drivers, Deadliest Catch, Tattoo parlors, shows featuring the lives of Hulk Hogan, Ozzy Osbourne, Kim Kardasian, I could go on and on. I really could care less about these people or the shows, but alot of people are watching them. How many of the fellow US citizens that say they are so stressed now at work and with their families are spending time watching this crap?

So as the millennium rolls over and the technology for the internet expands, some dweeb 20 something decides he's going to create a "social site" called Myspace, soon after, Facebook is created. The creators of these sites make millions of dollars and people flock there by the tens of thousands. People can't wait to post pictures of themselves and friends. Post intimate information of themselves, pictures of them in compromising situations at times, disclose information about themselves they would never do if you had met them in person at a local bar. Why? Well, I heard of someone who was related to a cousin of a husband of a sister who posted something on Facebook and now his video is being shown on the Today show. Oh Really.........

I guess it's all about gratification. CNN, FOX, MSNBC, all the cable news shows are asking for people to send in their photos or videos of the latest disaster. As you can see from the story attached below, prominent people are caught up in this internet swirl as well. Go back a few weeks and look at TE Chris Cooley from the Washington Crackheads who was making a post to his blog and photographed his playbook while he was naked and there was a picture of the german helmet wearing turtle in his picture. Interesting he was having a very bad year, and going into this season was supposed to be on of the top 5 tightends in the NFL but dropped off the radar screen or mention until that event happened. He is still a douche bag in my opinion.

And then there was today. All the stories about Sarah Palin and the unnamed McCain sources saying Sarah Palin didn't know Africa was a continent, met staffers in a robe, threw temper tantrums, you remember hearing all these stories last week. It was all bullshit from someone on youtube, a man by the name of Dan Miruish. Phony stories, and he was a fellow at the Harding Institute of Freedom and Democracy. It doesn't even exist. But did one reporter ever go and research it? NO. Carl Cameron? NO. Andrea Mitchell? NO. Bill O'Reilly? NO. Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck? Nope.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/arts/television/13hoax.html?_r=1&oref=slogin


We've created a Nation which seeks fame and fortune at any expense, and if you can destroy someone in the process all the better. Just look at this, WhocanIsue.com. Sick.




FACEBOOK FOLLIES GET PLAYER IN HOT WATER
Posted by Mike Florio on November 13, 2008, 4:14 p.m. EST
We’ve caught wind of the fact that a photo of an NFL player in the immediate vicinity of a huge bong on a glass table with lines of a white powdery substance recently made its way onto a Facebook page, temporarily.
As we hear it, once the player’s team found out about it, the picture was removed.
Per a league source, the Facebook account belongs to a family member of the player in question.
It’s unknown whether the league office is aware of the situation. Under the substance-abuse policy, a positive drug test isn’t the only thing that can get a player in trouble. A player can be added to the program based on behavior.
A couple of years ago, for example, then-Raiders receiver Randy Moss had to scramble to avoid being placed into the program after merely admitting to smoking marijuana “every blue moon” during an interview with Bryant “Rick Romo” Gumbel.
We’ve seen the picture, but we’ve been asked not to post it. Ordinarily, we’d post it anyway, but we’re in a fairly decent mood this afternoon.

Veterans, I salute you today!

I had difficulty logging in to post earlier today, but I wanted to pass along my thanks to all of those fallen and current US veterans today. Your service has made this largest experiment in freedom in a representative Republic possible for the past 230 plus years. Thank you for your service, and for those of you still on the front lines today around the world and serving in our current wars, you are not forgotten either. Come home safe and sound. God bless.

Pinocchio and the Hobbit.

During today's fair and balanced Meet the Press, America got to watch an unabashed lovefest between Tom Brokaw and the "roundtable". The bottom photo is John Meacham, editor of the "unbiased" Newsweek magazine. I wished there had been a better side shot of Mr. Meacham. Very concerned look here in this photo. But a side view of this left leaning freak, would show a nose so large that Pinocchio would be jealous.

The top photo is of the "esteemed" leftwing Presidential historian, Doris Kearns Goodwin. She never met a democrat she didn't embrace or write about. The Messiah now is a cross between FDR and LBJ in her mind prior to getting into office. The Messiah is, BHO? Ooops, cant mention his middle name. What has happened to Doris? Her physical appearance looks like she has morphed into a hobbit-like character from a Harry Potter novel. Good god Doris, you are almost 1 year older than my mother, you were born January 4th, 1943, and you look like hell. Your eyes are sunken, hairline receding, and your vernacular on Sunday was as pro Socialist as it ever was. Don't pass your FDR bullshit off on me sister. 1930-1945, you'll be hard pressed to revise history in your favor when it comes to me . There are a few of us out here who understand American history. Doris, before you want to wrap up this Nation in a full government blanket to protect us peons from ourselves, you couldn't hold a candle to my mother. My mother could have been the CEO of any auto corporation, running it with plain and simple common sense. Someone who understands fiscal responsibility. And someone who has a proven track record of creating a business and knows every aspect of doing so.

I think we should have a one on one faceoff. Doris Goodwin, who has done nothing, who has created no jobs, versus, my mother. (she'll be happy to see this in the morning) who created jobs and managed a very successful business.

Obama is going to mandate "volunteer" service for the Nation. Come on down to FGCU Doris and have a debate. My mother will kick your ass hobbit. And when my mother is done schooling you, I'll jump in to talk about those pesky FDR years.

If the World gets it. Why can't America?

Another story from England.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1084111/PETER-HITCHENS-The-night-waved-goodbye-America--best-hope-Earth.html


The night we waved goodbye to America... our last best hope on Earth
Last updated at 9:52 PM on 08th November 2008
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Anyone would think we had just elected a hip, skinny and youthful replacement for God, with a plan to modernise Heaven and Hell – or that at the very least John Lennon had come back from the dead.
The swooning frenzy over the choice of Barack Obama as President of the United States must be one of the most absurd waves of self-deception and swirling fantasy ever to sweep through an advanced civilisation. At least Mandela-worship – its nearest equivalent – is focused on a man who actually did something.
I really don’t see how the Obama devotees can ever in future mock the Moonies, the Scientologists or people who claim to have been abducted in flying saucers. This is a cult like the one which grew up around Princess Diana, bereft of reason and hostile to facts.
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The night America changed: Barack and Michelle Obama in Chicago
It already has all the signs of such a thing. The newspapers which recorded Obama’s victory have become valuable relics. You may buy Obama picture books and Obama calendars and if there isn’t yet a children’s picture version of his story, there soon will be.
Proper books, recording his sordid associates, his cowardly voting record, his astonishingly militant commitment to unrestricted abortion and his blundering trip to Africa, are little-read and hard to find.
If you can believe that this undistinguished and conventionally Left-wing machine politician is a sort of secular saviour, then you can believe anything. He plainly doesn’t believe it himself. His cliche-stuffed, PC clunker of an acceptance speech suffered badly from nerves. It was what you would expect from someone who knew he’d promised too much and that from now on the easy bit was over.
He needn’t worry too much. From now on, the rough boys and girls of America’s Democratic Party apparatus, many recycled from Bill Clinton’s stained and crumpled entourage, will crowd round him, to collect the rich spoils of his victory and also tell him what to do, which is what he is used to.

Just look at his sermon by the shores of Lake Michigan. He really did talk about a ‘new dawn’, and a ‘timeless creed’ (which was ‘yes, we can’). He proclaimed that ‘change has come’. He revealed that, despite having edited the Harvard Law Review, he doesn’t know what ‘enormity’ means. He reached depths of oratorical drivel never even plumbed by our own Mr Blair, burbling about putting our hands on the arc of history (or was it the ark of history?) and bending it once more toward the hope of a better day (Don’t try this at home).
I am not making this up. No wonder that awful old hack Jesse Jackson sobbed as he watched. How he must wish he, too, could get away with this sort of stuff.
And it was interesting how the President-elect failed to lift his admiring audience by repeated – but rather hesitant – invocations of the brainless slogan he was forced by his minders to adopt against his will – ‘Yes, we can’. They were supposed to thunder ‘Yes, we can!’ back at him, but they just wouldn’t join in. No wonder. Yes we can what exactly? Go home and keep a close eye on the tax rate, is my advice. He’d have been better off bursting into ‘I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony’ which contains roughly the same message and might have attracted some valuable commercial sponsorship.
Perhaps, being a Chicago crowd, they knew some of the things that 52.5 per cent of America prefers not to know. They know Obama is the obedient servant of one of the most squalid and unshakeable political machines in America. They know that one of his alarmingly close associates, a state-subsidised slum landlord called Tony Rezko, has been convicted on fraud and corruption charges.
They also know the US is just as segregated as it was before Martin Luther King – in schools, streets, neighbourhoods, holidays, even in its TV-watching habits and its choice of fast-food joint. The difference is that it is now done by unspoken agreement rather than by law.
If Mr Obama’s election had threatened any of that, his feel-good white supporters would have scuttled off and voted for John McCain, or practically anyone. But it doesn’t. Mr Obama, thanks mainly to the now-departed grandmother he alternately praised as a saint and denounced as a racial bigot, has the huge advantages of an expensive private education. He did not have to grow up in the badlands of useless schools, shattered families and gangs which are the lot of so many young black men of his generation.
If the nonsensical claims made for this election were true, then every positive discrimination programme aimed at helping black people into jobs they otherwise wouldn’t get should be abandoned forthwith. Nothing of the kind will happen. On the contrary, there will probably be more of them.
And if those who voted for Obama were all proving their anti-racist nobility, that presumably means that those many millions who didn’t vote for him were proving themselves to be hopeless bigots. This is obviously untrue.

Yes we can what?: Barack Obama ran on the ticket of change
I was in Washington DC the night of the election. America’s beautiful capital has a sad secret. It is perhaps the most racially divided city in the world, with 15th Street – which runs due north from the White House – the unofficial frontier between black and white. But, like so much of America, it also now has a new division, and one which is in many ways much more important. I had attended an election-night party in a smart and liberal white area, but was staying the night less than a mile away on the edge of a suburb where Spanish is spoken as much as English, plus a smattering of tongues from such places as Ethiopia, Somalia and Afghanistan.
As I walked, I crossed another of Washington’s secret frontiers. There had been a few white people blowing car horns and shouting, as the result became clear. But among the Mexicans, Salvadorans and the other Third World nationalities, there was something like ecstasy.

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They grasped the real significance of this moment. They knew it meant that America had finally switched sides in a global cultural war. Forget the Cold War, or even the Iraq War. The United States, having for the most part a deeply conservative people, had until now just about stood out against many of the mistakes which have ruined so much of the rest of the world.
Suspicious of welfare addiction, feeble justice and high taxes, totally committed to preserving its own national sovereignty, unabashedly Christian in a world part secular and part Muslim, suspicious of the Great Global Warming panic, it was unique.
These strengths had been fading for some time, mainly due to poorly controlled mass immigration and to the march of political correctness. They had also been weakened by the failure of America’s conservative party – the Republicans – to fight on the cultural and moral fronts.
They preferred to posture on the world stage. Scared of confronting Left-wing teachers and sexual revolutionaries at home, they could order soldiers to be brave on their behalf in far-off deserts. And now the US, like Britain before it, has begun the long slow descent into the Third World. How sad. Where now is our last best hope on Earth?

Big Bang Theory part deux.

Why is it this Nation must rely on foreign journalists to actually report the news? Below is a story from the Financial Times in England. Are you ready for this America? The President using Executive orders to force feed his agenda, all you 20 somethings who voted for change most likely don't even know what this term means. We are going to see a frenzy of legislation from Congress and Executive orders in the first weeks of this new administration that has never been seen in this Nation's history. Of course it will be spoon fed for the mass public who watches the national nightly news or reads USA Today, as actions which need to taken to secure jobs, the economic markets, and provide security for the masses. But the public won't bother to read the language of this legislation, they will be comfortable to have Brian Williams report to them about what is about to happen. Ted Kennedy has been working on a healthcare package for the past month, meeting with lobbyists and formulating a bill which will be introduced right after the coronation of the Messiah. The Socialist party of America has also been working on taking over your 401k and retirement programs. You folks have to know the government will take much better care of your retirement packages than you can. Fork it over folks. They've done such a bang-up job with Social Security huh? Now, you will fund Social Security with your 401k when the Feds take it over. But, no need to worry, you'll get 3% a year interest while your money is backed by US bonds and a 600.00 bonus. WOW! Aint that great? What a country.

William Ayers was right, a revolution starts with the youth. This started 20 years ago when T-ball games would no longer keep score in order to make sure the players didn't have self-esteem issues. It started with the flippant diagnosing of Ridalin to any child which acted out in class. Acting out? Don't punish, medicate. The Socialist party of this Nation has infiltrated the school system. It won't be but a month or so after the coronation of the Messiah, that there will be a requirement that all public school classrooms are required to have a photo of the Messiah hanging prominently. This wont be reported by Brian Williams or Katie Couric, on the nightly news, they will be all consumed about hard hitting news like what sort of dog the Messiah will select as the official National pet. No doubt he will select a dog. Dogs are socialist in nature. Labs, Retrievers, Sheppard's. Dogs are basically, feed me and I'll love you. Cats require you to earn their trust. There will not be a cat in the Messiah's family.

Get ready America, we have been set up for a blindside January 21st, 2009.



Obama set to push ‘big bang’ reform package
By Edward Luce in ‘Washington
Published: November 9 2008 19:17 Last updated: November 9 2008 19:17
US President-elect Barack Obama intends to push a comprehensive programme of social and economic reform beyond an immediate emergency stimulus package, Rahm Emanuel, the next White House chief of staff, indicated on Sunday.
Mr Emanuel brushed aside concerns that an Obama administration would risk taking on too much when it takes office in January. He said Mr Obama saw the financial meltdown as an historic opportunity to deliver the large-scale investments that Democrats had promised for years.
Tackling the meltdown would not entail delays in plans for far-reaching energy, healthcare and education reforms when all three were also in crisis, he said. “These are crises you can no longer afford to postpone [addressing].”
Mr Emanuel, Mr Obama’s first appointment after his emphatic victory over John McCain last week, added that Mr Obama would push hard during the 11-week transition before he is inaugurated for early assistance to the collapsing US car industry, which he described as “an essential part of our economy”.
His comments increased pressure on George W. Bush to approve a widely-touted $25bn emergency package for Detroit – possibly as part of a second emergency stimulus package to stave off further decline in the rapidly deteriorating US economy.
Mr Obama will meet Mr Bush on Monday and is likely to seek the outgoing president’s reassurance that he would not veto any stimulus package that could be passed as soon as next week when Congress meets for a “lame duck” session.
Sunday’s comments also reinforce the impression that Mr Obama’s transition economic advisory board – which includes leading lights of the Clinton era, such as Lawrence Summers and Robert Rubin – is tilting heavily towards a “big bang” approach that would combine a short-term stimulus with large public investments to raise the longer-term US growth rate.
In a radio address to the nation on Saturday, Mr Obama emphasised the urgency both of passing a fiscal stimulus package, which could include a middle-class tax cut, and of moving swiftly ahead on long-term public investments.
“We can’t afford to wait on moving forward on the key priorities that I identified during the campaign, including clean energy, healthcare, education and tax relief for middle-class families,” said Mr Obama. “We also need a rescue plan for the middle class that invests in immediate efforts to create jobs and provides relief to families watching their paychecks shrink and their life savings disappear.”
Economists have estimated the US budget deficit could more than double next year to almost $1,000bn, raising concerns about whether Mr Obama could deliver on expensive campaign promises including $150bn in investments in alternative energy over the next decade and a $60bn-$110bn plan to provide universal health insurance for Americans.
In contrast to 1992, when Mr Clinton postponed longer-term investments in favour of urgent budget deficit reduction, advisers to Mr Obama, including Mr Summers, who is tipped by some as his first Treasury secretary, are tilting towards investments. They emphasise that Mr Obama will stick to a medium-term goal of restoring fiscal discipline.
Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2008

Average folks doing extrodinary things

Born: April 20, 1830 at Drumbarty, Ireland
Entered Service in the US Army from Sumner, IL
Earned The Medal of Honor During the Civil War For heroism May 22, 1863 & March 14, 1864 at Vicksburg, MS & Ft DeRussey, LADied: September 03, 1911 at the age of 81
The Vicksburg campaign was waged from March 29 to July 4, 1863. It included battles in west-central Mississippi at Port Gibson, Raymond, Jackson, Champion Hill, Big Black River and numerous smaller battle fields. On the morning of May 22, General Grant launched what he hoped would be a crushing assault against Vicksburg. In the fighting that followed, the Union Infantry was repulsed and thrown back along a three-mile front. The Union Army suffered more than 3,000 casualties, and 97 Union soldiers earned Medals of Honor (the second largest single-day total in history.) First Lieutenant Menomen O'Donnell voluntarily joined the color guard in the assault on the enemy's works when he saw indications of wavering and caused the colors of his regiment to be planted on the parapet. He also voluntarily placed himself in the ranks of an assaulting column (being then on staff duty) and rode with it into the enemy's works, being the only mounted officer present. Lieutenant O'Donnell was wounded twice in this battle. Following the failed assault on May 22, a forty-seven day siege was laid against the city, which finally surrendered to Union forces on July 4.

This is my blood, standing up when he was called for service for his Nation, and was awarded the highest award in the military. Menomen wouldn't be going along with all the socialistic crap facing us now, thats for sure. He lived for 81 years during the start of the 20th century. Thats one tough son of a bitch. No Medicare, no Viagra, no Lipitor, no Zocor, no Ambien, wounded twice in battle during the Civil War and he never asked the government for anything.

Menomen is my hero and has been since I was a teenager. He is the epitome of the people which formed his Nation and their contributions should never be forgotten.