Headline: Rush in hospital, Libs to hold parades, the Obama will attend

Rush Limbaugh admitted to hospital with chest pains.

Ranking the 21st Century's First Two Presidents (well, one President and one Puppet)

For some today marks the end of the first decade of the 21st Century - these sadly are the people in the White House and their supporters - the ignorant in other words. No, we still have another year to go, but, be that as it may, there will only have been two presidents in office at the end of the first decade, next year. Though it is still early in history to attempt to rank presidents, this last year under the folly of the Obama forces one to reminisce about the good times, just a couple of years ago! The last couple of years have been pretty bad times for America and its people - the last year has been especially, excruciatingly, terrible - not just bad, but excruciatingly bad. So, if I were to rate the two presidents of the first decade of the twenty-first century based on Bush's last year in office and the Obama's first year in office, well, Bush would not make it into the top five and probably not the top ten, but certainly in the top twenty. If we take his term(s) in office as a whole, then he might well make the top fifteen. The Obama, on the other hand, based on just this first year (we won't look at his second year - the last year of the first decade, because 1) it hasn't happened yet, and 2) we can easily project based on his behavior this first year), well, the Obama wouldn't even make it into the top 50. But you say, GordianGuy there have only been 44 presidents (technically only 43, because we not sure the Obama really qualifies as a president - more like a puppet) so how can he not make the top 50? Well, I am saying he is just that bad, so that six other Presidents that have not yet even been chosen and elected are better than him. It should be noted that his rank now - is nebulously 51st, but as his of stupidity progresses and if he gets a second reign, his ranking could drop even further - so let's just say, he hasn't made the top 50 and leave it at that.

Stupid is, As the Obama Does

He waits three days before addressing the nation regarding the near disaster on a plane from Europe to America - on Christmas Day by the way, where a Terrorist from Nigeria - trained in Yemen by Al Queada, nearly blows the plane up, and in his address he reads a "press" release statement - blame Bush. Yes indeed it was a catastrophic failure of the system, and we can blame Bush for allowing another worthless government organization to come into existence - TSA, which eventually led to the mess on Christmas day. Anyone who flies knows that none of the junk that you go through at the security gates is worth a crap at stopping terrorists - because of the PC world we live in everyone but the terrorists are harassed. What was TSA's response to their failure on Christmas Day - punish the honest traveler by restricting him to his seat for the last hour of the flight, seated like a robot with hands on their knees. The real failure, though, is the Obama's inability to accept that terrorists exist, they are 99.99% Islamic, and male. His Home Land Security wonk, Napolitano, is even more inept than the Obama - but was regurgitating the Obama's party line - no Terrorists, no problem, the system worked. The scary part is that this is just the tip of the iceberg. Terrorists know that the Obama is weak on national defense, they know that the TSA is nothing but a facade, and they know that when it comes to terrorists the current system couldn't detect one if he walked up and introduced himself, (which is essentially what this terrorist did before getting on the Delta flight to the US) and showed the person at the gate his bomb - the 90 year old grandmother would still be felt up just to show the terrorist that we don't profile. Maybe it is time to make the Obama start flying on commercial airlines and put his life in the hands of the morons at the security gate - wonder if it would lead to a change?

Merry Christmas To All - Except the Obamacrats

Well, we should really, on this Christmas Eve keep the Obamacrats and the Obama in our prayers that they may find true wisdom (and brains and other things necessary to behave like humans). For Christmas this year the Obamacrats gave America a big sack of crap for us to wade through. To the Republicans, though, we owe a major Christmas wish of peace and prosperity for standing tall against the idiots on the left. When it comes to doing right (in all meanings of the word) we have to thank the Republicans. We wish a lump of coal to all the Obamacrats for their efforts to screw America.

My family and I wish America Merry Christmas!

The Delusional President

The Obama went on the Harpo show and told Americans that his grade for his first year as the Messiah, is a solid B+ - yeah, when pigs fly! By what standards can anyone truthfully say that the Obama deserves anything other than an F? I guess if your grading system has only two grades, A utter and total failure and B, well let's not go there. So, yes, in that system a B+ might be warranted. I am not opposed to someone having an ego, but unmitigated arrogance at the level that the Obama shows is downright disgraceful and unbecoming the leader of the free world. Let's face it, thing are worse at the end of 2009, then they were when the year started. The only bit of good news is that this modest recession is coming to the end of its cycle - as all do - and there is hope that by mid next year things will be chugging along again - that is until Obamacare kicks in and kicks the economy back to the curb. So, Mr. the Obama, a B+ you are not - you're not even mediocre.

Update: See Karl Rove's column over at the WSJ: The President Is No B+

It's not my fault

The Blabber in Chief spews to America - I have put my wading boots on, the BS is flowing thick and heavy.

With subtle, ah heck really not subtle the Obama blames Bush for his inability to make the hard decisions.

How does one take the Obama seriously anymore? It would nice to go a week or two without seeing him and better yet not hearing him. It is like receiving Chemo for cancer listening to him bloviate on and on and on. He should have stopped at, "I'm sending 30000 new troops to Afghanistan, Thank you." But no, he drones on trying to placate his leftist base.

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Large Hadron Collider, finally online!!

Wooo, Happy, Hoooo! World's biggest atom smasher sets first record.

After a year’s delay, the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva became the world’s highest-energy particle accelerator on November 30, revving up each of its twin proton beams to energies of 1.18 trillion electron volts. That smashes the record of 0.98 trillion eV held since 2001 by the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory’s Tevatron in Batavia, Ill.

The First Hypocrite

the Obama goes on the tube tonight, for the billionth time, to try and justify to the American people why it took him over three months to make a decision about sending new troops to Afghanistan. Ostensibly his blather will be about the War in Afghanistan, but the real theme will be about how to pay for the war. Now one would not normally be upset if the president said that this war is costing real money and we need to find a way to pay for it, so I propose a small increase in our income tax. But, now with the economy the number one thing on American's minds and the vast squandering of our tax monies that the Obama and his minions in congress are already engaged in, it is hard to stomach the hypocricy. I would be happy to see my taxes go up a bit to pay for this important war, but not when they are going to go through the roof because of his health care tax. Americans don't want government run health care, they want jobs and job security and they won't have the latter if the former happens. Already trillions are flowing out of the economy to pay for the Obama's socialist agenda, Americans can little afford more theft of their incomes to pay for the health care debabcle. The real decision the Obama needs to make is, Do the right thing in Afghanistan or the wrong thing with health care?

Update: Earlier, when I said that the president is going on the tube to justify his failure to make a decision months ago about Afghanistan, I was only partly right. He is trying to justify his indecision but more importantly, even beyond the tax increase theme, is his need to rationalize his decision to his leftist base. The majority of Americans don't need convincing that sending more troops to Afghanistan is the right thing, but there is the Obama's base, the socialist left - majority of Obamacrats in congress and the kook left, that he needs to play to. To most observers of this administration it is quite obvious that the Obama does nothing without approval from the extreme left. I cannot help himself - it is the tragedy of being socialist, one is but does not understand that they are - because they are so immersed, so brain washed that they are unable to see outside of their own little bubble.

A foreign policy Disaster: the Obama

With regard to foreign police they year 2009 has been a total disaster for our neophyte El Presidente, the Obama. Fouad Ajami in an article at the WSJ piles on: The Arabs Have Stopped Applauding Obama.

A Religion of Peace?

It would seem time that America wakes up to the reality Islam, as it seems to be infusing the world today is not the religion of peace that so many of its adherents proclaim it to be. It did not start out as such and we should wonder why it might be today. Over 1.2 billion individuals world wide claim to be practitioners of the faith. And as religions go, it really is a johnny-come-lately religion springing into existence in the 600-AD's, thousands of years after Judaism and 600+ years after Christianity, and yet it has managed to spill around the world, into almost every country. One wonders why? It does not seem to offer much in the way of hope for its practitioners and when things seem bleak it calls on the faithful - read most ignorant to strap bombs to themselves and kill the innocent - often other Muslims. This last week an Islamic fanatic went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood killing 13 and wounding 31 before being stopped by a female cop. Now for an Islamic disciple being done in by a woman has to be real insult to his religious sentiments. I bet she eats bacon with her eggs in the morning. Now, president pantywaist can't bring himself to come right out and condemn the murders and the Islamic religion behind them.

America was founded on Judeo/Christian principles - we are a Judeo/Christian country and while we are open to all faiths we are not open to the hatred practiced by any faiths - radical or not. If the Obama can come out and condemn those that kill murdering Abortion doctors then he can come out and condemn the Islamic fanatic that killed those men and women at Fort Hood. Liberal America needs to wake up to the truth that evil does exist in the world and often it disguises itself as a religion - a faith that claims billions of followers. One can't help but wonder if Islam is the religion of the lazy, the weak minded, those that rather than engaging in the world would rather die than do.

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Commrade Pelosi: "Death To America!"

Yesterday the socialist/communist party voted 220-215 to socialize medicine. The only thing saving us now is the fact that the bill has to be merged with the Senate and there is not guarantee that it will come out of there in its current form. The only good thing for America is that in 2010 those Democrats not in strongly leftist/socialist states and districts will no longer be in office. The fact that Pelosi and company blatantly ignored the will of the majority of Americans is testament that the socialist wing - ie all of the Democrats - have lost touch with America and its values. This new government socialization of health insurance, if it passed in a form similar to its current form will push millions of Americans out of their current health insurance plans into a government run form of health care. Only the rich - ie those making more than a $1 million a year, will be able to get decent real health care. The rest of us, while paying for millions of deadbeat American's health insurance will basically end up like those that go to the emergency room for their health care. The Republican fielded a bill that was 1/10 the size of the Democrat pile of crap and it was summarily voted down by the Obamacrats whose interest is not in fixing those problems that need fixing with Health care insurance but in extending government control over all American lives. If the Obamacrats were truly interested in medical insurance reform then the Republican bill was just that. Not one word of Pelosi's speech foisting the bill on America was true. There will be no increased competition - How can a new insurance option compete with the thousands available already? But more to the real point, the government option will squeeze out private insurance because the government doesn't have to make a profit and it can hide its overhead costs in the beauracracy, something that private insurance companies cannot do. Also, since the government option steals its money from the working class it can pay for anything without actually having to worry about actual costs. The other real issue that needs to be better addressed is the probable decline in the number of doctors leaving the practice to persue jobs that pay better. No doctor is going to work at a 50% loss. Let's face it the House bill is just plain dumb and stupid and starkly highlights the growing ignorance of the liberal class.

16 Million and Growing!!

WooHoo, the Stimulus is really kicking butt - unemployment reaches 10.2%!!! The last time that happened was 26 years ago. Way to go the Obama and his head stimulus honcho - Biden.

A Rose By Any Other Name

When is a tax not a tax, when the Obama say's its not, JACOB SULLUM: Obama’s Hidden Fees: When the president does it, it’s not a tax.

If Obama can deny that a charge is a tax even when it’s collected by the IRS and identified as a “tax” in the legislation creating it, he surely sees nothing tax-like in the money people are required to spend if they want to avoid that charge. Yet forcing people to buy insurance they do not want so their premiums can subsidize other people’s health care looks a lot like a tax-funded welfare program, even if the money does not flow through the public treasury.

Sobering

I have to admit that lately I have not had any faith at all in our government, Obamacrat or Republican and now after reading Peggy Noonan's latest column I think that I now understand why: We're Governed by Callous Children

We are governed at all levels by America's luckiest children, sons and daughters of the abundance, and they call themselves optimists but they're not optimists—they're unimaginative. They don't have faith, they've just never been foreclosed on. They are stupid and they are callous, and they don't mind it when people become disheartened. They don't even notice.

I would like to add that given this disengaged governance an entire class of American citizenry has been allowed to grow - millions - 47 Million at last count - that has come to rely entirely on the mindless, disinterested government for their existence. In some sense why should the rest of us care when millions of our "fellow" citizens don't?

Liberal Fads that Kill - kind of like Obamacare

This is what happens when rich countries try to inflict their trendy fads on poor countries - over at the WSJ, Bjorn Lomborg: Climate Change and Malaria in Africa.

Pelosi: Worst of the Worst

Nancy Pelosi, Squeaker of the House and Liar extraordinaire, has already inherited the title of Worst Speaker of the House ever and now she can also claim the title of authoring the Worst Bill in American History. Wall Street Journal: The Worst Bill Ever.

Not So Great Expectations

The Obamadministration is desperate to find anything that it can claim as a success - today it is the economy. The economy is beginning to show signs of life. The economy grew 3.5% in the July-September quarter. The White House propaganda machine was quick to claim credit for the growth on behalf of the Obama's economic policies. Unfortunately the data are against the White House's claims. The White House claims that the growth is evidence that the Stimulus is working. The facts are, of the nearly $800 billion in stimulus money that Congress appropriated, only $173 billion of it has been spent and of that only $47 billion has been spent on what could be called "shovel ready" programs, roads and other infrastructure jobs. The rest went to social spending and tax refunds to non-tax payers. The cash for clunkers program spent $3 billion and now we are finding that it had less of an impact than first estimated. Only 125000 of the nearly 700000 cars sold can be credited to the program. Only about a point and a half of the 3.5 points can be attributed to this one-time program. The only government initiative, and it is not really the government, it is the Fed, working are the low interest rates, which is helping with borrowing by businesses. The low interest rates are all Bush initiatives not the Obama's. The other piece of evidence against the White House's claims of glory is that historically, recessions typically last between 18 to 24 months and we are approaching the end of this recession so one expects the economy to begin trending upward. The real damning bit of evidence, though, is that Americans continues to lose jobs. One would have expected job loss to level off or start decreasing but it actually ticked up more than expected. In the coming years we will be paying for the $800 billion that was appropriated via borrowing so this growth really is an artificial blip in the long term.

The Lie Heard 'round the World

It's the lawyer's joke: How can you tell when Nancy Pelosi is lying? Her lips are moving. She is now on the television lying to Americans about the Democrat's Health Insurance destruction bill. Her minion Steny Hoyer is now lying about how open the process has been - when not a single Republican was allowed into the committee hearings to give input and nothing has shown up on the web. So, the next time that Pelosi accuses the CIA of lying, she needs to take a look at the transcripts of today's lie-a-thon and count the number of lies she and Steny have told America. I have put my wading boots on because the flow of crap from the crap-holes is even now oozing out of the television.

For the Obama and Civil Rights - Global Warming Comes First

Bret Stephens: Does Obama Believe in Human Rights?

In Massachusetts not long ago, I found myself driving behind a car with "Free Tibet," "Save Darfur," and "Obama 08" bumper stickers. I wonder if it will ever dawn on the owner of that car that at least one of those stickers doesn't belong.

the Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize for being seen to be Good

In light of the following column by Bret Stephens over at WSJ: A Perfect Nobel Pick I may have to rethink my position on the Obama's Nobel Peace Prize. Basically, he notes that the Obama joins a crowd of relatively obscure recipients whose only qualification is that they talk a lot about peace but actually don't do much about it. He terms them the Goodists.

Who are the Goodists? They are the people who believe all conflict stems from avoidable misunderstanding. Who think that the world's evils spring from technologies, systems, complexes (as in "military-industrial") and everything else except from the hearts of men, where love abides. Who mistake wishes for possibilities. Who put a higher premium on their own moral intentions than on the efficacy of their actions. Who champion education as the solution, whatever the problem. Above all, the Goodists are the people who like to be seen to be good.

These people don't actually do anything that leads to peace - that role belongs to the leaders - Churchill, FDR, Patton, MacArthur, Reagan, etc - no these are the guys and girls who were getting their asses kicked in high school while trying to talk some bully out of kicking their butts. That's the Obama, so he fits right in. There are of course a few exceptions - there was Teddy Roosevelt - certainly not a shrinking violet. There were a lot of kooks, Gore, Carter, Rigoberta Menchú, and some downright evil people Yasser Arafat, but in general the prize has gone to the talkers over the doers. So, the most extraordinary thing about the Peace Prize is how un-extraordinary it is. Had anyone of the liberals that were running against the Obama won the White House and spewed the drivel he has they too would have won the award. The award is not about America and our values but all about the Obama - and lets be clear not the person but his words - he's considered to be good.

Health Care Destruction

First of all I need to reiterate that they - the liberals (and everyone else) need to stop calling it Health Care Reform. There is nothing reformative about any of the bills that are being bantered about by the libs. A better word would be "destructive," because in the end that is what their effect will be - to destroy health care as we know it. So far, the Baucus bill and others are nothing but a mishmash of Congressese jammed together and called Health Care Reform. The CBO magically came up with a scoring, of conceptual language no less, that just perfectly matched the Obamacrat's estimate ~$900 Billion over ten years. To their everlasting dismay PriceWaterhouseCoopers in a report on the impact of Health Care Destruction, estimated that on the low side it will cause the price of premiums for a family plan will rise $4000 over that 10 years. (see) Part of the reason for the rise in premiums is the requirement that all comers be covered - so the premiums for those with pre-existing conditions will be very expensive and because the Senate bill has such a weak mandate that young and health uninsured be covered there will be gaps in the funding for the sick that will have to be made up by raising the rates on everyone else. Remember that the Senate bill is really a ponzi scheme - very much like Social Security - that requires millions of currently uninsured healthy people - people who are at low risk if using their insurance - pay into the scheme to cover those that will put huge drains on the scheme. All this to cover 15-20 million people (no illegal aliens need apply) who don't have insurance because they are poor or have pre-existing conditions - raising the covered from 83% to 95% they say, yet after 10 years there will still be 25 million uninsured - hmmmmm! I can't figure out if the 5% that won't be covered are the illegal aliens or the fact that nothing is perfect (an understatement). Is the 25 million not covered after 10 years include illegal aliens or is that the number of people the government system can't reach because of whatever - are they an excuse to further raise the rates and taxes on the rest of us to pick up the slack? So if 15-20 millions costs $1 Trillion - the floor, not the ceiling, how much will an additional 25 million cost us - $3 Trillion?

The Nobel Fake Award

Jeeze, Peggy Noonan too! A Wicked and Ignorant Award:

The members of the committee have also put the young American president in a terrible place. They make it look like all the talk of "The One," the heartthrob of the European elite, the darling of the international left, is true. They make him look prefabricated and inauthentic, an empty structure held up by essentially silly people. Which puts him at a disadvantage in his own country, because Americans don't really like it when flaky European politicians tell them how they ought to see him or the world. (Emphasis mine)

Unfortunately, Ms. Noonan, the Nobel committee has just affirmed what most of us already think about the Obama - a fake.

Being Great means being Loved by Norway

The problem I have with columns like this one from Michael Hirsh, Thanks for Not Being Bush, is that they start from the incorrect premise that somehow America was better before Bush - and not Reagan better but Bill Clinton better. The Hirsh's of the world forget that under Clinton the Telecom industries and the dotcom industries were regulated into the ground; that Fannie and Freddie were given free reign to lend to the unqualified - thus the housing collapse at the end of Bush's term. There was nothing great about the Clinton term in office - unless you consider being loved by everyone in the world - except the terrorists, which he ignored, which led to 9/11 - as being great. You see, those that are following the Obama around like a bunch of puppies believe that America is great only if the government is dictating every second of our lives and only if the rest of the world loves us. For them a great America is not about projecting strength and high moral values around the world - as Reagan and Bush did - no, it is about going with the world flow, socialism and sloppyism. I don't give a rat's ass if France or England or Norway for that matter likes the US and if the Obama and his band of merry incompetents would get out of the way and stop trying to micromanage everything the economy will take care of itself. If being great means being like the rest of the world then screw that.

Update: I was thinking further about what the Obama-bel Peas Prize means, not only is it a swipe at George Bush and Ronald Reagan, but it is a full open-handed smack of America. The Norwegians were not recognizing Obama's New American world leadership but Obama's New American followership. They are not acknowledging our willingness to lead but our willingness to follow the rest of the world. Obama is not a leader and his version of America is not as leading but following.

the Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize for Wishful Thinking

From a front page article at the WSJ (Obama Awarded Peace Prize) we learn the real reason he was given the award:

Agot Valle, a Norwegian politician and member of the committee, said in a phone interview that the choice of Mr. Obama was primarily related to his stance on nuclear disarmament. Ms. Valle said the committee last met on Oct. 5, and that the decision to choose him was unanimous. She said his recent work at the United Nations in late September to pass a resolution calling for a strengthened Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty helped his candidacy.

Translate: Obama was awarded the peace prize for a bit of puffery that he slathered on the Security Council about striving for a Nuclear Weapons free world - the same bit of puffery that got him "bitch" slapped by French President Sarkozy (remember this?). So, it turns out that the awarding wasn't really about anything of substance but about more of the same liberal blather heard since the days of Carter the Withered. World peas, blah, blah, blah! One has to wonder why Reagan and Bush weren't awarded the prize - both actually accomplished reductions in Nuclear Weapons and addressed head on the issue of proliferation. We know that Clinton's policies allowed North Korea to get the weapon - and India and Pakistan and we also know that the Obama's current policy will ensure that soon Iran has a weapon and NK will possibly use theirs on SK. The reality is, the award was given for not for action but for blathering.

I also think that the Obama should get the Field's Award - the Nobel for Mathematics - for the invention of new math that explains why a $10 Trillion health care bill won't cost us a penny.

And the Obama goes to - Who Else?!

Oh glory be to the Obama, glorious leader of we who be the citizens of the land and country of the Obama, that he has for the 11th straight year won the coveted the Obama Glory Be Prize. It was unanimous the decision by the council of the Obama to award the Obama the Obama award. May the glorious the Obama's ego be stroked. The council of the Obama sited his continued pontification on silly things as the reason for once again awarding him the Obama. The response of the rest of the world was one of great jealousy - Ho Hum, once Again! the Obama celebrated by sending another 11,000 Obamas to die in his fight to spread the word of the Obama. Glory be, to he that be, the Obama. Obama to you!

The Ignorant Krugman

Paul Krugman liberal columnist for the NYTimes wrote a thinly veiled plea for a second round of stimulus funding: The Uneducated American. The column is tacitly about the state of education in America and the impact of funding declines on education. In fact it is an appeal for a second stimulus bill. Instead of just saying, "Why don't we spend more of our current stimulus money on education?" Krugman is actually saying, "Pass another stimulus bill, some of that money should go to education." In the entire article he never once addresses the real problem with education in America. What does the great liberal suggest:

First of all, Congress needs to undo the sins of February, and approve another big round of aid to state governments. We don’t have to call it a stimulus, but it would be a very effective way to create or save thousands of jobs. And it would, at the same time, be an investment in our future.

Beyond that, we need to wake up and realize that one of the keys to our nation’s historic success is now a wasting asset. Education made America great; neglect of education can reverse the process.

Since lack of funding isn't the real problem with education, I would suggest that instead of pumping more money into the lost cause, why don't we just go find several million toilets and piss the money down them - the effect on education would be the same.

You too can succeed by doing nothing

So, what is the real meaning of the Obama winning the No-Bel Please Prize? Well, the most obvious meaning, is that it is an affirmation of the liberal principle: "That it is not what you do that counts, it's what you think you deserve." It is an affirmation of the growing socialism in this country. It sends the message to young people that achievement is not what it is about - just showing up gets you ahead. The prize symbolizes the movement to eliminate grades and measures of accomplishment; the movement to stop keeping score to protect the fragile psyches of our little ones. The sad thing is that there are people and groups that were nominated for this prize that are actually doing something to promote peace and for whom $1.4M would go a long way to helping their cause. Instead the prize goes to boost the fat head of a man who has accomplished nothing ever and especially nothing toward building peace. If the award is to be handed out for giving airy empty speeches then why didn't Castro or Chavez get it - well maybe they should - (see and earlier post). I'm surprised that thousands of liberals haven't come out of the woodwork screaming, "Hey I haven't done anything either, were's my prize?"

Why didn't all of the Nobel Prizes go to the Obama??

Ann Althouse has a riddle.

the Obama Gladly Accepts the Nobel Prize for Clowns and Meaning Well

I thought that I might give you a few excerpts from the Obama's speech accepting the Nobel Clown Prize:

I the great one, the Messiah, the Obama, gladly accept this prize on behalf of my ego. This prize means as much to me as the prize I won in 6th grade for just showing up at a little-league baseball team even though I was not on the team and did not play. I did show up, though. I know that I have accomplished nothing and that the world is less safe than it was before I took over the White House, but I have the audacity to blame that all on the former president ... Bush. I see this prize as a call to give more speeches that say nothing but do give hope to terrorists around the world that they one day rule us all. I will do all I can to insure that Iran and North Korea continue their weapons development and to help them join the nuclear world. When I said in my much derided babble to the security council that I wanted I nuclear weapons free world, I meant that, I want everyone that hates us to have free nuclear weapons. Only when those countries that hate us have weapons of mass destruction will they be able to settle the score with the great demon of the west, the US, which I hate - death to the infidel Americans. Thank you. I plan on using the money to help ACORN get my cronies out of Chicago before the weapons fall. Honk, Honk!

The 2009 Nobel Clown Prize has been awarded to the First Clown - the Obama

The Audacity of Audacity! For probably the last 10 or 20 years it has been pretty well given that the Nobel Peace Prize is nothing but a political prize given by a committee - not associated with the real Nobel Prizes given for real contributions to society - to individuals or groups that have actually not contributed to the promotion of peace. This year the final nail in the prizes' coffin has been set - the Messiah, the Great One, the Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. From a Washington Examiner piece, the opening paragraph, gives the reasons why the committee thought the Obama worthy of such a worthless prize - a total mockery of the Obama's world vision:

President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision designed to encourage his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation rather than unilateralism. (Emphasis mine)

Every president since the rise of the Soviet Union and the growth of the terrorist Islamic states have had this mission - so why give the prize to the Obama, who has had not one success in foreign policy since taking office - well, because the prize is not given for success and accomplishment but only as a reward for awkward stupidity. The world is still rolling around laughing from his UN Security Council speech to eliminate nuclear weapons and Israel is about to destroy Iran because the Obama's great diplomacy has led to great advances in Iran's Nuclear Weapon's program. I still haven't heard NK promising to give up its weapons. Given the Peace Prize committee's decision this year, I think that if I were to hear that I had won the prize I would immediately hold a press conference and decline. I would never want to be placed along with the pantheon of clowns that have won the award in the last decade.

My biggest disappointment, other than the final everlasting cheapening of the Peace prize to just another "he showed up" prize, is that the committee did not go all the way and include a co-recipients of the prize the other major players in the Obama circus - Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, Castro, Kim Jong Il, Hamas, and Hezbollah. I mean, afterall, fair is fair, if you are going to reward doing nothing to help peace why not include everyone?

The only sitting President to win the award for actually doing something to promote peace was Theodore Roosevelt in 1906, when he helped end the Russo-Japanese war. His negotiations led to the "Treaty of Portsmouth." Woodrow Wilson also received the prize, as a sitting president, but his prize was for work that led to World War II. And now the 3rd sitting president to receive the award, the Obama, gets it for doing nothing. In 2002 Jimmy Carter, a former president - in title only - received the prize for being a Bush critic.

In his 1895 will, Alfred Nobel stipulated that the peace prize should go "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and spreading of peace congresses."

I am trying to remember when Nobel's charter was changed from this to, "the peace prize should go to the person who blathers the most on the most inane subjects," which clearly fits the Obama and would be the reason for the award. I am sure that Sarkozy totally agrees with the choice!

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The Math Doesn't Add Up

I have tried hard to understand how the Obama can reform health care and pay for 30 million uninsured people and do it all for less than $1 T over 10 years. Clearly, I am missing something - or am I. Here's what I tried to do just considering the 30 million and the cost to insure them. Insurance premiums for a pretty good plan might cost $10,000 a year - (low for the current average family rate). So, 30 million people at $10,000 per year is $300 Billion and over 10 years that is $3 Trillion. Even if we cut the premium in half to $5,000 per year - which is in line with current average costs for individuals - that is still $1.5 Trillion and this covers only the 30 million uninsured. These numbers don't include the cost of pre-existing conditions - how many of the 30 million have medical conditions, cancer etc, that require more expensive treatments not often covered or covered only sparsely under current insurance policies? Will these 30 million new insurees have to pay a co-pay? Is there some belief that by creating a pool of 30 million people the rates will be much lower?? Well, if that is the case then the answer is right before our eyes - allow companies and individuals to shop across state boarders and allow for interstate pooling of insurees - in like industries for example - and current rates would come down. Why do we need a government run health care program? With $1.5 to $3 trillion floating around why not let it go to the industry? I guarantee that administrative costs will be 50 to 70% lower in the private sector than in the government sector. The majority of Medicare/Medicaid waste is on the government side of the house not on the other side.

Obamanomics at Work

The lead story of my Kindle edition of the WSJ: Jobs Data Cloud Recovery

Employers cut another 263,000 jobs in September and the unemployment rate rose to a 26-year high of 9.8%, raising worries that the persistently weak labor market could undermine a nascent economic recovery from the worst U.S. recession since the Great Depression.

The story goes on to say that while there are some indications that the economy is improving people are still losing jobs. It is also expected that:

"The pace of the recovery is likely to slow," said Nigel Gault, chief U.S. economist for research firm IHS Global Insight. "Ultimately, if we don't get job growth, we're not going to get sustained growth in consumer spending. How could we get a really strong recovery without consumers?"

Another bit of sobering news:

The number of unemployed -- officially at 15.1 million -- is greater than the population of all but four states. The proportion of people who have been searching for work for longer than half a year rose to 35.6% of the unemployed, from a third of the work force in August. The dismal state of the job market led to a decline of 571,000 in the labor force, a sign that discouraged workers have given up looking for work entirely.

Even Later that Day - somewhere Over the Atlantic

In unison, the members of the State-Run-Media call out, "Oh great one, the Obama, just one more press conference." (Out on the wing, the Fox News guy hangs on for his dear life.)

the Obama: Why yes, I think one more would be just appropriate. I never get tired of hearing myself talk. The Pacific Ocean sure looks blue today doesn't it boys?
a voice: Psssst, Mr. President, sir, that's the Atlantic Ocean.
the Obama: Atlantic, who in the hell authorized us to fly over the Atlantic? I thought we were heading home to D. C. Ah crap, that means we'll have to land in San Fransisco Washington to refuel. I hate that damn town all those Gates worshipers. Well, there is a bright spot! We can pick up some of the sour dough stuff, you know, bread and maybe a case of Anchor Steam. Cleveland sure makes great beer!!
The Press: How are you taking the IOC's decision to give the Olympics to Rio? Are you upset Mr. President?
the Obama: I was indeed saddened that they chose Rio de Janeiro in South Africa.
a voice: Psssst, Mr. President, Rio de Janeiro is in South America, Brazil sir.
the Obama: South Africa, South America, what's the difference, they both have south in their names. As I was saying to my beloved press, it is a crying shame that the Japanese - tossing a defiant glance toward the direction of the voice - In Brazil, which by the way is in South Africa, got the Olympics. General McFly (uhh McTurn - ah hell it was a Mc Something - speaking of McDonalds, can someone get me a Big Mac?), anyways McDougall was adamant that we send troops to compete against the Talleyrand or we would lose the Olympics. And what did the IOC do? They moved the competition to Turkey, Rio de Janeiro, Turkey. Bastards. I am going to call for a resolution in the UN sanctioning the IOC for Olympics proliferation. On another topic, I have spent the last hour with one of my closest aides working on a plan to place...
a voice: Pssst, Mr. President, he wasn't an aide sir, he was your personal steward, not an aide.
the Obama: That's what I said, Stewart, and thank god he doesn't have AIDS, whew - it was a close one there wasn't it Stewart, heh, heh. Anyway, Stewart and I come up with a plan to blame this whole Olympics/Afghanistan mess on Oprah, and for good measure David Letterman, cause if he had kept his mouth shut about doinking everyone on his show and trying to blackmail the IOC, we would have won - I'm sure of it. Anyway, that's it for me, time to grab a nap and get rested up - long evening ahead of me - gotta find out where they hid my Teleprompter - what a disaster that speech was to General McTurd of the IOC.

A Performance to Remember

I though that, in light of all that has gone on today as a result of the IOC's decision to give the 2016 Olympics to Rio de Janeiro and the devastating impact that has had on the Obama and Michelle and Oprah and the Daley family and Valerie Jarrett and the handful of other who stood to make millions if the Olympics had come to Chicago, that I would give a few excerpts of the Obama's speech to the IOC. Maybe by carefully studying the speech we might find out where things went wrong for the Obama.

The Scene: A large room. Along a table that faces a large stage the IOC members sit, waiting the appearance of the Obama. The lights dim, over some loud speakers, blare strains of C. C. Rider, and somewhere thousands of simulated flash bulbs begin to pop, and the sound of thousands of cheering voice begin to rise with strains of C. C. Rider. A confused and aghast group of IOC members look around the room, shielding their eyes from a bright spot light that has appeared creating a circle on the stage. The Obama, dressed in a sequined suit strides out onto the stage to the increase roar of thousands of chanting fans, "Yes, We Can, Yes, We, Can, over and over almost drowning out the music. The Obama struts to the lectern and grabs the microphone from its holder and saunters to the center of the stage overlooking the table where the IOC members are seated, yelling "Thank you, Thank you very much." After talking a couple of bows the Obama walks back to the lectern and replaces the microphone in its holder. By now the music has died out and sound of the chants crowds are gone and the flash bulb pops have stopped.

the Obama: clearing his throat and glancing quickly from left to right and back, looking for his beloved Teleprompter, which is not there - Damn these IOC idiots, if they would just worship me like the rest of Europe all this would be unnecessary - I could be off touring the red light district with Axelrod and the other guys.
from somewhere off stage: Pssst, Pssst, Mr. President, Mr. President - your mike is still on.
A shocked Obama looks up: Holey shit, did I just say that? Heh, heh, - looking down at the IOC members, each with their mouths wide open and a stunned look in their eyes - Ahhhh, where was I, heh, heh, oh ya, As I was saying, I have come here to Copenhagen France to accept your selection of Chicago as the host of the 2016 Summer Olympics.
from somewhere off stage: in urgent tones - Pssssst, Psssssst, Mr. President.
the Obama: looking annoyed to be interrupted again - WHAT?!!
from somewhere off stage: The IOC, sir, hasn't made a selection yet.
the Obama: now looking really annoyed - Then what the hell am I doing here?
from somewhere off stage: Mr. President, you are giving a speech promoting Chicago as the best place for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
the Obama: looking a bit relieved - Yes, that's right, promoting. Members of the IOC, I think you'll find that my handling of the situation in Iran regarding their bid for the Olympics, will lead to a nuclear weapons free world. No, err, wait a minute, that's not the right speech - under his breath, but loud enough for the microphones to pick up and broadcast to everyone in the room - where in the hell is that Teleprompter when you need - damn IOC idiots. Oh, here it is, yah, now I got it. I have a dream, of a Nuclear Weapons Free World, a world in which our troops can compete in the Olympics if they are held in Chicago - that we they won't have to travel very far - see if you give the Olympics to Afghanistan like the General McCrazy guy was pleading to me this morning on the plane, then I would have to send the troops over there to compete against the Talywackers or some such group - I wasn't really paying attention to what he was saying I was trying to get my socks to match.
The Head IOC Member: Hah, Hummm, Mr. President, please sir stay on topic.
the Obama: Sorry, uh, er, as I was saying when you so rudely interrupted me, hey what are you doing here anyway, these are highly important talks between us and the Iranians on controlling their illicit Olympics program. You're not supposed to be her.
from somewhere off stage: a shocked sounding voice - Mr. President, he's the head of the IOC - the guys who are going to decide where the Olympics go in 2016.
the Obama: If I had my way we'd just hold our own Olympics and leave these guys out - they look too damned old to compete anyway. As, I was a saying, and everybody just stop interrupting me - if I can get through this I can still me the "Rod" for a brew at Betsy's cat house - as I was saying. We will not be sending any troops to Afghanistan to compete against these IOC putzes - no the troops are going to Chicago to tear down the ghettos and toss out the poor to make way for a new Olympic Village, complete with a Starbucks or two and other stuff. My friends there have millions riding on this decision and so do I for that matter. Anyway if the IOC would see fit to just give it to us we can get on with Stimulation of the Economy - at least that's what Michelle calls it - tee hee, hee! - he winks to the head IOC member - know what I mean Vern?? Yes, we can. Thank you, thank you very much.
The lights dim, the spot light comes on, the music comes up blaring C. C. Rider, the horns drowning out all other sounds. The Obama strides from the stage. The music fades
Back Stage
the Obama: - Yelling loud enough to be heard by the IOC members still seated shocked and awed at having just witnessed the Obama's speech - Is there still time to get to the cat house - I'm not inviting those IOC Cretans.

Even Later That Day

At yet another press conference in front of an adoring crowd of reports from the State-Run-Media - Fox News was prevented from attending

NBC News Reporter: Mr. President, It must have come as a blow to hear that Chicago was eliminated from the running for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
the Obama: a few tears in his eyes - Yes, yes, it was and I blame it on Bush and the vast right wing conspiracy led by Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. It was their actions that have prevented Olympic Care from moving forward. This would have brought millions of dollars to my crony-friends and a few thousand jobs to illegal aliens. The rumors of tearing down slums and displacing people are all made up - we would have moved those people to New York - don't want them milling around on the streets during an important event like the Summer Olympics - it would have embarrassed Michelle and me.
ABC News Reporter: Mr. President, What will you do know?
the Obama: tearing up even more - Well, Michelle and I will be holding a period of mourning in the Bahama's at one of our rich friend's homes and I will be ordering the flags at half staff. America has lost here and it's Bush's fault.
From the back of the crowd, being restrained by members of the Black Panthers, a Fox News Reporter yells: Mr. President, Mr. President, what about Afghanistan and General McChrystal's request for more troops.
the Obama: What, no, we won't be mourning in Afghanistan, I don't even know where that is. I said the Bahamas, their near Chicago and no, this McCrusty guy won't be traveling with us, what with all the press and others on Air Force One, there won't be any room. As to the troops, I am sorry to say that they won't be competing in the Olympics. Sob - Now Openly Crying.. Hic, Hic, I gotta go, Oprah and Dr. Phil are waiting for me, I have some issues to work out.

Later That Day

Later that day at a press conference after his speech to the Olympics Committee:

the Obama: Thank you, thank you, please not need to cheer!
Assistant: leaning in - Mr. President, no one is cheering, it's the press.
the Obama: a little dismayed - Oh, I just thought, given how important this speech was to the world and our goal of Olympics control - I just thought they would be cheering.
Assistant: Sorry Mr. President.
the Obama: That's okay, I'll still answer their questions.
Fox News Correspondent: Mr. President, how do you answer those who say, that given the state of affairs at home and in Afghanistan and Iraq, the President of the United States has better things to do then traipse off to Europe to lobby for a Chicago Olympics??
the Obama: That is an unmitigated lie, I did not have an affair here or at home. I'm ordering my Chief-of-Staff, what's his name - RAHM - TELEPROMPTER, to set up a call-in line so people can call in and tell on their neighbors for spreading these vicious lies about Health Care and my disinterest in, what the hell's that General's name - Crystal Light® - you know he makes Lemonade! Uh, yes, North Korea, I have this to say about that, we will not tolerate North Korea having the Olympics - it just ain't right. Our troops can't compete if they given the Olympics to North Korea, or Japan for that matter. Anyway, I was real stern with General Orders, I think that is his name, that there would be no new troops in Chicago unless we get the Olympics there and then they will really make a difference on the ground tearing down ghettos and low income housing to make room for a bright new Olympic Village - broad smile - hey, you know I was thinking, that we could send all those displaced poor people to, hey, where's that place where them bad guys are pushing us around - oh yes, New York City, we could send all those poor people to New York City and they could fight with those Talimen, Taliwomen - damn, where is that Teleprompter when you need it, going to have to have a talk with it when I get home.
Assistant: leaning in - ah Mr. President, the microphones are still on.
the Obama: looking out over a bewildered crowd of reporters and on lookers - Ah, sorry, where was I, ah yes, We will not give one inch to the terrorists, the Talismen, when it comes to the Olympics coming to Chicago. They will just have to be patient and wait their turn. Those damn Argentinians can be really brutal when it comes to the Olympics. As Biden has said, I will be tested - jeeze - I really need to find time to study - err, ahh, yes, we will not rest until Iran has given up their quest for the Olympics! We need Olympic Care Reform. Millions of Americans are going without quality Olympics. My wife, Michael, Mitchell, Maurine - you, know who I'm talking about and Harpo, are here with me pressing skin and wink, wink, nudge, nudging and offering large foreign aide packages to the Olympic Committee's families and friends so that we can get the Olympics the Americans need. The State-run-media, have told me that this will reduce unemployment in American by 0.01%, and raise the income of a couple of dozen of my closest crony friends. Thus, I will have a job in 2017 helping them to spend all the money they will have made because of my efforts to bring the Olympics home to Chicago. Poverty and want in America is a direct result of not having the Olympics in Chicago. I have asked Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to take the lead on sweeping legislation aimed at reforming the Olympics - in Chicago. So, when my critics, Rush Limbaugh, and the millions upon millions of disgruntled (and I might add, racist) Americans say that I am boondoggling, while Chicago burns, I say, Chicago is not burning, not right now anyway, cause we are still waiting to hear about getting the Olympics. Where was I, err, ahh, oh, yes, that's right, We will extend our hand to the Taliban in Rio de Janeiro, if they would just give up their bid for the Olympics. Hey, Rahm, would you get out a map and show the people where Rio is located in Japan and point out that it is strategically bad to locate an Olympics in South Africa. There's lions there for crying out load. Next Question.
NBC News Reporter: Mr. President, given all that is going on back home with Health Care reform, Nuclear Weapons in Iran and the advance of the Taliban in Afghanistan - What color scheme would you pick for the Chicago Olympics?
the Obama: looking delighted, with a big grin on his face - That is an excellent question, well, the kids named the dog, Bo and as for a color scheme, we chose brown for the carpets in the West Wing - hides the poop better. Next question.
ABC News Reporter: Mr. President, given all that is going on back home with Health Care reform, Nuclear Weapons in Iran and the advance of the Taliban in Afghanistan - Who do you think looked the best on this trip to Europe, Michelle or Oprah?
the Obama: with a sly look on his face - Another excellent question, hey Rahm, we gotta stop inviting those Fox News guys, they're always spoiling the mood - anyway getting back to this very important and relevant question to the whole issue of Olympics reform, I would say that that that Brazilian chick Mayora Tavares, had a real cute butt. And while we are on the topic if the Olympics go to Tokyo Brazil, we won't have anything to negotiate with with the Talisman in New York. Well, gotta go. Time to head home and get back to work talking non-stop on the morning shows - busy weekend.

Lemons and their Aides

You know the old saying, "When life tosses you a bunch of lemons, you make for Air Force 1 and jet off to Europe to lobby - with the other members of the black glitterati, including his wife, who has made such a major sacrifice jetting off to Europe on the tax-payer's nickle to help the 'kids,' - to have the Olympics in Chicago." And just to show us all that this was a working boondoggle, er, ah, I mean, a working trip, the Obama ordered the commander-on-the ground in Afghanistan to jump on a plane and fly to Copenhagen for a 20 minute in-depth chit-chat and photo op, on board Air Force 1 - in the President's cabin no less. I'm sure that this photo-op was very productive - the Obama gets to be seen (on camera) as really, really, really, being concerned about events in Afghanistan, while not seeming shallow for lobbying for urban Gentrification in Chicago. (On Board Air Force One - in the President's Cabin: the Obama: "Ahhh, general, you've had your 20 minutes, now get the hell out so I can finish practicing my speech to the Olympics committee. Oh, and hey, don't forget to stop at the cut out of me and smile for the press cameras. I need proof on the front page of the New York Times that I was actually doing work while on this boondoggle, er, important trip to help my Chicago, er, ah cronies, oh, er, ump, I mean the people of ACORN, darn that's not it - ah hell get out of here and stop whining about the Taliban. Next week I will extend my hand to them and let them beat the hell out of me - ah crap, where's that damn teleprompter when you need it - Rahm, what did I want to do with the Taliban? Errr, who cares, just go back to your tent and stop bugging me I got more important stuff to worry about - HEY Axel, where's Valerie Jarrett - need the name of that real estate company she owns or is associated with - need to know how many low income homes we will be plowing up to make way for the Olympic Village - ah, hell, you still here general? McChrystal: Ah, Sir, we didn't actually talk about Afghanistan and my request for more troops. You talked about Iran and how much you wished that their President, Chavez, would reconsider coming to the White House for Christmas. Sir, I really think that Chavez is dictator of Venezuela. the Obama: DON'T YOU CALL HIM A DICTATOR!!! YOU TIN STAR GRUNT. He's a freedom fighter for the interests of our Communist allies. And who the hell cares if he is leader of Iran or Iraq or the country of Copenhagen - he's a good man an idol of mine. Shit, I'm going to be late for my speech to the Olympics Committee you just need to get the hell our of here and let me get my smile just right - Rahm - where's that teleprompter - I can give a major policy speech on such an important subject without it. McChrystal: But Sir, Afghanistan, the troops." the Obama: You still here - what the hell do troops have to do with the Olympics - ah now I see, you're want to see more troops competing in the Olympics. What a great idea General - ahhh, what's your name... hell, never mind - how 'bout I just call your Mills, General Mills. I like that. Now what were you saying about health care - Rahm, where's that damn Teleprompter, and where that hell is Biden. Assistant: Mr. President... the Obama: Missy, you don't have to be so formal - just call me the Anointed One! Assistant: Sir, we didn't bring Vice President with us. the Obama: Who, I wasn't asking about the Vice President I was asking about Biden - ahhh, you know, some how I think that those two are plotting something. Assistant: Sir, which two are plotting something? the Obama: Weren't you paying attention, the Vice President and Biden. RAHM, the TELEPROMPTER - Does my hair look okay and the tie, does the tie match my underwear - oh wait I'm not wearing underwear - hee, hee ... Michelle really likes it when I go commando - get it? Wink, Commando in Chief - great title ay General Mills?? Hey, you still here? RAHM... Assistant: Sir, Mr. Emanuel did not come with us either. the Obama: Who?? Assistant: Sir? Mr. Emanuel, your Chief-of-Staff sir. the Obama: Who???? Assistant: Rahm, Sir - exasperated. the Obama: That's who I'm looking for, where the hell is he - RAHMMMMM - TELEPROMPTER. And don't you call him by Rahm, he's important and you need to address him more formally - Mr. Mills, it's Rahm Mills. I've heard that name somewhere. Assistant: Yes, Mr. President, my apologies, Mr. President, but Mr. President, there is no teleprompter. the Obama: looking dejected, I can't give a major policy speech without a teleprompter - hey general, what the hell is your name, ah yes, Orders, hey, General Orders, how does this sound: 'I have a Dream, of a Nuclear Weapons Free World, and toward the goal of that dream, We need to pull the Olympics from Japan and move it to Chicago.' Sounds great doesn't it? I'm done with you General Biden, go back to Korea and tell the troops I'm pulling for them to compete in the Olympics when they come to Chicago. Oh, and General, I'm goin' to want a full report from you on why you flew all the way here to, ah, looking at Assistant, where are we, ah yes Paris, just to tell me you want our troops to compete in the Olympics - when they come to Chicago - sly smile - that's wasting tax payer money just so you can boondoggle here in Paris Denmark. Fighting the Japanese should be your first priority not the Olympics. Now I gotta go - I hear they need me to give a very important speech on protecting the world from the spread of the Olympics.")

OUCH - Vive La Sarkozy

From Jack Kelly, via Real Clear Politics:

Nicolas Sarkozy was furious with Barack Obama for his adolescent warbling about a world without nuclear weapons at a meeting Mr. Obama chaired of the United Nations Security Council last Thursday (9/24).

"We must never stop until we see the day when nuclear arms have been banished from the face of the earth," President Obama said.

What infuriated President Sarkozy was that at the time Mr. Obama said those words, Mr. Obama knew the mullahs in Iran had a secret nuclear weapons development site, and he didn't call them on it.

‘President Obama dreams of a world without weapons...but right in front of us two countries are doing the exact opposite," Mr. Sarkozy said.

"Iran since 2005 has flouted five Security Council resolutions," Mr. Sarkozy said. "North Korea has been defying Council resolutions since 1993."

"What good has proposals for dialogue brought the international community?" he asked rhetorically. "More uranium enrichment and declarations by the leaders of Iran to wipe out a UN member state off the map."

Bummer, bitch slapped by a Frenchman - Poor President Pantywaist!

Pantywaist Obama - All I want is World Peace!

How does anyone take seriously another president calling for a world free of nuclear weapons; Jimmy Carter tried, Clinton wanted it and now the Obama. Carter and Clinton couldn't even get major arms control treaties signed. Just as the Obama was making his airy, breathless, empty speech on a nuclear free world the Iranians were about to drop a bomb on the Obama's utopian nightmare - they, the Iranians, have a second, secret, nuclear processing facility capable of producing 1 to 2 bombs worth of enriched uranium per year. So, what does the Obama decide to do? . . . put off any acknowledgment until after the "glow" of his great (he's rather proud of himself) speech had faded - and in the process piss of his needed allies the French and the Brits. Apparently doing the right thing is not as important as keeping the halo in place. Mr. the Obama, nobody took your duffus speech seriously, why do you? There isn't going to be a nuclear weapon free world anytime soon - not when you let the NK's and the Iranians gain nuclear weapons. The Russians and Chinese aren't going to give up their weapons anytime soon. One would think that the Obama's silliness hadn't been tried in the past - Do Carter and Clinton (and even Johnson) ring a bell? The Obama must have skipped his US History class for a Community Organizing Class put on by ACORN!

There is a column in the WSJ this morning: French Atomic Pique

Health Care Reform, NOT!

The more I read about and study the Obamacrat's Health care garbage the more I wonder why it is called "Health Care Reform." Usually Reform has positive connotations and what the Obamacrats are proposing has nothing positive to imply reform. They cannot possibly have any idea about what needs to be fixed, changed, updated or if anything needs to be fixed or changed, in just 8 months, actually just a 3 or 4 months. There is nothing innovative or creative or new about the Obamacrat's health care blather, so how can they call if "reform?" It is more like putting lipstick on a pig - as they said about Sarah Palin - and it is a very bad lipstick job at that. What they have is a lot of crap wrapped up in pretty ribbons and Obama's empty rhetoric and that is health care reform. The entire Obamaministration to date has been a realization of Mark Twain's adage - "It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt" - and that is what they have done - opened their mouths.

The Liberal Definition of Success

Every down and then one has an epiphany and finally begins to understand some thing. In case the "thing" is success - what is success. It dawned on me this morning that the most detrimental thing that liberalism has brought to our society today, is a warped definition of success and that it is this warped view success that is at the root of most of our problems today. Greed is one of the seven deadly sins, but when checked and reign in it becomes nothing more than striving to be better than we were before. So, what am I saying? I am saying that today the liberal definition of success is nothing more than Greed - in its most rampant form - combined with Envy - another of the seven deadly sins. You ask, "What does this have to do with Liberals?" Well, it has to do with liberals because it is the liberals who would have us believe that success is all about big house, big cars, fancy toys and piles of money. Their warped view of success is not about striving to achieve and achieving but about the possession of things. The whole sub-prime mess is about the liberals premise that everyone deserves a house. Once upon a time, and my readers from a couple of generations back will know what I am talking about, success was about setting a goal then working to achieve that goal. I have no problem with someone owning a big house, but if the measure of success is just the house itself then that is not success. The most successful people in this country are not always those with the most money or the most toys, in fact they are not even in the majority when it comes to truly successful people. But that is not what the libs would have us believe. No they want us to believe that only by having, have we achieved success. They always forget those that work their butts off day in and day out to raise a family and pay their home off and put their kids through college. Those people might never have the big house or the fancy car of all of the cool fancy toys, but by every measure they are the successful ones. The liberal's measure of success is the black kid who fails his way through high school but gets to college on a football scholarship and then makes a 7 or 8 figure salary playing in the NLF - dumb as a stump but has a big house, a big car and a lot of cool toys. He's successful, he's rich, so all you poor ghetto kids, black, white or brown, need to strive to be like him. But what about the kid who worked his buns off in high school to get good grades and some scholarships but still doesn't have enough money to go to the big tech schools like MIT or CalTech but instead goes to a small Tech school and gets his PhD in Physics. Has a nice home, 3 paid for cars - 2 of them over 10 years old with and with over 200K miles on them - one with nearly 400K. By the liberal's standards he's not successful even though he and his wife make pretty good money. According to the liberals they don't pay enough taxes so that those that chose not to work hard can have the nice house and the cool toys. In today's liberal world success is getting a trophy just for showing up despite the fact that your team lost. In today's liberal world success is envying what others have and then getting it without earning it.

Pretending to be Great

So, what makes a great Society? Well, one could just declare a Great Society like Johnson did and kick off the second greatest socialization of our country since FDR. We never achieved greatness but we spent a heck of a lot of money creating massive poverty. In the NYTime this morning, actually it was in yesterday's NYTimes I just got around to reading it this morning, is one of the stupidest articles I have read in a long time: A Long Way Down. The theme of the article: The rich got richer and the poor got poorer, in particular the middle class suffered the most, under Bush. The solution proposed by the article: Tax the rich more and give it to the poor, i.e. More Government Spending on Social programs will fix every thing. The authors of the article, not given, also use code phrases like:

Policy makers must also resist the reassuring but false notion that renewed economic growth can, by itself, raise living standards broadly. Government policies are needed to ensure that growth is shared.

This is classical socialist mantra: Spread the wealth, by letting those that have pay for those who would try to get. In the next paragraph they come right out and spew the Socialist tripe:

More progressive taxation needs to be accompanied by more progressive spending, on public education and on job training and job creation. Support for unions and enforcement of labor standards would also help to ensure that in the next economic expansion, a fair share of profits would find its way into wages.

In other words the government needs to do everything it can to ensure that there remains a permanent welfare under class because if people begin to succeed by trying then the liberal socialist agenda will fail.

So I began by asking what makes a Great Society and can conclude that it is not by declaring it and then creating a welfare state as Johnson did and from which 40+ years later we still have not recovered from and which apparently intelligent people think we should bolster even further. Kennedy's vision put us on the moon, Johnson's have put us where we are today - a society, not of great vision and vigor, but one of small ideas dependent on a government to think and do for us.

Missing the bigger picture

David Brooks had an excellent column, despite its political motivation, in the NYT this morning: High-Five Nation. He points out the difference in the way we, the US, behaved at the end of WWII and how we behave today. He brings up Joe Wilson's outburst during the Obama's lie-a-thon to congress (which is the real motivation for Brooks' column) and Kanye West's childish behavior at the VMAs. Both are great examples of how as a society we have degenerated into a phony self-congratulatory state, but he forgot (on purpose I am sure) to mention the three most important culprits in the world today - The Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. Together, the egos of these three far outstrip the combined egos of the entire NFL. Pelosi, Reid, and the Obama have all forgotten that a bit of self-deprecation and humility is the hallmark of true leadership. Brooks notes:

As The Times of London pointed out on the day of victory, fascism had stood for grandiosity, pomposity, boasting and zeal.

Grandiosity and pomposity are the very nature of the Obamaministration and the current liberal congress. They are so busy congratulating one another and trying to push their liberal agenda that they have forgottent that there is a nation of people out there expecting them to do the right thing, not their thing. So, while Brook's column was good and worth the read it falls short of addressing the bigger - by the scale of the world - issue.

The Implications of Small Things

Both the Wall Street Journal and the NYTimes (All the news fit to wrap your fish in) have front page articles on the Obama raising tariffs on tires made in China. Of course the WSJ takes the consumer friendly point of view - this will have an impact on low income people who buy the inexpensive Chinese made tires and the NYT takes the Labor Union friendly view - cheap Chinese tires cost Union jobs, sighting no evidence to support the assertion. Both papers did speculate, though, that the move by the Obama was a bone to the Unions as down payment for their support of his socialization of health care. Of course the Obama is not pandering to the union workers - he could care less about them and they will non be affected by socialized health care anyway - union workers already have gold plated health care and will surely not give that up for the public, clinic style health care the rest of us will be stuck with - he wants Union management onboard - socialists of a feather, etc, etc. The interesting thing is, only about 12.4% of US workers belong to unions (and I would bet half of them not by choice) so why push so hard to get the unions on board with socialized medicine? It is a perception issue - by getting the unions on board it gives the perception that the Obama has the US labor force behind him and he is for the workers. Most people don't know that only 12% of the work force belongs to unions, they also don't understand that the union won't be affected by the Obamacare. IF they understood all of this the majority of employees in this country would be fully against Obamacare. The Obama's move against China also points out that he doesn't care about those at the bottom of the income scale.

End of the Recession - Good Job President ---- BUSH!!

Well, some economists are saying that the recession is ending despite the continued rise in unemployment and home foreclosures. Lets give credit where credit is due - Good job President Bush!! It would appear that YOUR economic team did the right things to help end the recession. I am so sorry Obama your team's economic plan has done nothing but increase unemployment and as a result home foreclosures. Barely half of your nearly Trillion dollar stimulus spending has been spent and most of that for social programs that produce no long term returns. The people receiving the money are still poor and doing nothing to improve their situation. Also, Mr. Obama, the tax hikes that are rolling toward us like an out of control freight train - to pay for all of your squandering - will lead to further economic decline as more and more people lose their jobs as companies lay them off because the money sources they relied upon dry up as more and more funds are diverted to pay for your massive social programs.

My dread for 9/11

September 11, will be here this next Friday, sadly we will most likely have to put up with an embarrassing, world ass-kissing speech by the Obama. My hope would be that one of the 9/11 groups invites President Bush to give a speech, thus offsetting the Obama's clap trap and at least provide some semblance of dignity to our fallen heroes and victims. The last thing that we need to hear is some sappy "can we all just get along" speech from our supposed president. His job is to stand up and honor the fallen and exhault the greatness of our country not down play it by making a soft pitch speech that offends no one. Radical Islamists need to be insulted, they behave like animals and if what they say about the Muslim religion is really true, then they disgrace their religion with their primitive behavior. The Obama needs to say that because we are not about placating terrorists.

Secretary of State - Obama

One thing that has been obvious from the beginning is that the Obama's foreign policies have been unmitigated disasters. There is North Korea and their pot-bellied dictator thumbing their nose at the Obama. It took a Gore-ite - former pres. Bill Clinton to save a couple of nincompoop reporters that got their asses in a sling in the NK. Then there's Iran, the Obama has extended his warm hand of welcome to their crazed leader, Ahmadinejad inviting him and his zealots into the Nuclear club. At the same time the Obama has turned up his nose at Iran's attempt at free and fair elections. To the south of us in Central America, there is a country, Honduras, struggling to keep off the chains of communism, but has in addition to contend with bullying by the Obama and his communist sympathizers. His policies for Afghanistan and Iraq are falling apart as death tolls rise along with new insurgencies. And now comes Israel, which has just decided to allow more building in the West Bank despite pleas by the Obama to not do so because it was hurting his beloved Palestinian terrorists. Some think that Israeli Prime Minister, Netanyahu, is just agreeing to the new settlements as a way to placate his conservative base, but I suspect that it runs deeper. The Obama turned his back on a long time US ally in favor of the terrorists and so now Netanyahu knows that he and his country will have to go it alone if they want to survive. They will get no help from our weak minded president. Where is our Secretary of State while all of these disasters are occurring. Well, first she was in Africa placating the Obama's mother land and now she is meeting with ousted communist Honduran president Zelaya. Other examples of the Obama's gross incompetence as a world leader includes his chumming with communist Chavez of Venezuela. He kissed the ass of the liberal Euro-trash and bowed to a muslim leader - he's our president - but not much of a world leader.

We're all HOPING for change!

WSJ: North Korea Prepares More Weapons Fuel:

The Obama administration has been hoping those actions might indicate a willingness in Pyongyang to return to the six-party aid-for-disarmament talks the U.S. has used since 2003 to try to persuade North Korea to give up its pursuit of nuclear weapons.

That is the problem with liberal foreign policy - it is all about feelings and hope, rather than actual action. As they say in business, "Hope is not a management tool." Also, this shows the incredible naivete of the Obama and Clinton and their non-existent foreign policy: "We hope the world will be nice to one another; can't we all just get along!"

We're Saved, Unemloyment only 9.7%!

There is some terrific (ha, ha, ha) economic news - Unemployment reaches a 26 year high - but hey, less than expected!!! Good work the Obama and company!!

PS: One must always be careful when discussing unemployment numbers because what is reported by the labor department can and most times is quite deceiving. The 9.7% represents only new (i.e. first time) applications for unemployment plus those on the rolls right now, they do not account for those who have dropped of the rolls - no longer able to receive unemployment insurance - but have not found a job or are working part time, in this case a few hours a week. The actual unemployment numbers are around 17%, which is really quite a staggering number when you think about it - according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics there are 14.9 million people unemployed - the 9.7% number, but accounting for the actual number 17% - 14.9 million unemployed at 9.7% implies 155 million workers, of which 17% is 26.1 million without a job!!

It is NOT the U.S., It is Comrade Obama

In the Wall Street Journal this morning, more bullying from the Comrade Obama: U.S. Warns Honduras on New Vote.

The U.S. said it will cut off some aid and may not recognize the result of Honduras's upcoming presidential election, in an attempt to pressure the country's interim government to accept the return of its deposed president.

Let's be honest here, this is the Obama not the US that is threatening Honduras. The majority of Americans want a free, not Communist government in Honduras. It is only the Obama and his comrades that want it the other way around. So, the non-State run media ought to properly say, The Comrade Obama and his Polit Bureau are pressuring Honduras and leave the US out of it. No wonder the rest of the world looks badly on us, how can they not when so much of if has fought hard to throw off the chains of the Soviets only to see the once great defender of freedom embracing communism.

The Moral of the Story - Get off your dead ass and buy your own health insurance!

What we need less of right now is all of the sappy heart-string pulling blabber from liberals on the urgent need to reform health care - case in point Tom Daschle's bleeding heart commentary in the WSJ: Climbing the Hill on Health Care. What Americans need are hard facts and straight talk from the politicians pushing this monstrosity called Health Care Reform. All of the touchy-feely crap about making it to the top of the hill is just a diversion designed to make us feel as though they are letting their fellow Americans down by not getting behind the Obama and his minion's plan to save those with no health care. Everyone loves a good "father-son facing a challenge together" story, but in this case Daschle and the rest of the libs have once again missed the true moral of the story. The moral of the story wasn't that, when you are down and feeling sorry for yourself to just hang on because someone will ride to your rescue and haul your sorry ass up the hill to the top. No, the moral is that to get to the top, you need to stop feeling sorry for yourself and just try and don't worry about failing because all you have to do is get up and try again. There will be someone there to give you encouragement but the challenge is yours to face and conquer. The libs would have us all believe that there are 46 million Americans out there that need the rest of us to haul their sorry asses to the top of the hill. What I am saying is that there may be 46 million Americans out there that need the rest of us to stop mollycoddling them and push them to get off their lazy asses and walk up the hill themselves.

I am willing to concede that in America today, there are 46 million people that are need of help with health care. Note the change from Americans to people because of that 46 million 15 to 16 million are illegal aliens in this country against our laws and why should we be paying more than we currently are for their health care?? Now, of the 30 million left, and concede they are Americans, half or more chose not to have health insurance for whatever reason, so that leaves maybe 15 million Americans that don't have solid health care - like quality health insurance. So, how do we help them? Well, the libs do it by hurting the rest of us - by forcing us into having inferior health insurance - equality for all is the Socialist motto - so that the government can provide health insurance for those that don't have it. Hey, why don't we do something that is much better (rather than hauling their asses up the hill) like helping them to find jobs and start providing for themselves??

Health care in America is already the best in the world, because the standard isn't countries that steal the working classes incomes to pay for the lazy classes health care. The way to improve our health care system is to cut out the silliness and encourage everyone to take responsibility for their own lives.

The Rise of Communism in the Americas

With the fall of the Soviet Union and the decline of world communism, except for China, which is really quite Capitalist overall, the left in this country has been looking for new idols to worship. They have always had Castro and his little Soviet country but that was not enough, but then along came Hugo Chavez the smarmy little thug of the South America country Venezuela. Cheers rose loud above the din of freedom - hail to the new communist of the west. With the rise of Chavez there has been a similar rise in South and Central America countries going communist. One Country - Honduras, though, chose an alternative path and tossed out its president that was trying to use the same tactics that Chavez had used to become communist dictator for life. The Hondurans would have none of that and booted him out of office and out of the country. And what did our illustrative bleeter do, he stood up strong and tall - wait for it - for the communists. The Obama told the Hondurans put the communist back in power or I will bring the full weight of my administration to bear on your puny freedom seeking country until you break. Well, Honduras hasn't broken yet.

When governments are ruled by juveniles

Sometimes I think that the best thing for my health would be to retire and move to some island country in the Caribbean and hang out on the beach and drink rum drinks. Living in America today and worrying about what stupid thing the Obama and his cabal are going to do next is taking its tool. In the entirety of American history the Obama has to be the least serious president we have ever had. He and his group of merry henchmen (I'm being politically incorrect here on purpose) are like a bunch of fresh-out college grads giddy with their idealistic socialist views of the world running around making this and that decree and trying to actually execute the Marx/Engle playbook. Of course they would not be so successful if it were not for the old guard cold war communists Pelosi and Reid. Every time the Obama or one of his minions open their mouths and talk their feet enter so deeply you can see them emerging from their tushes. Every liberal out their piled on Bush when he came to office and yet when they take an honest look at his tenure there is not a single serious issue that they can point to that didn't help this country become great. The first 8 months of the Obama's reign of terror has done more to diminish this country then all of the liberal reigns in our history. Every one of the Obama's helpers is a sad excuse for a human being and even more a sad excuse for an administrator. The Obama turns his back on every single bad decision made by Holder and others the are working to destroy our country.

The KGB Couldn't Have Done it Any Better

When they were first created the CIA and NSA were designed to provide the Commander in Chief, AKA the President of the United States the means and ability to make international decisions in the know. The CIA for all intents and purposes was a Government Agency and the NSA was under the tacit control of the DoD - one of many intelligence groups under its control. Prior to the Church Commission, the CIA was, though a bit shady at times, an effective agency and though not always successful in its missions it did provide the best intelligence any agency could to our president. Post Church the agency has been a mere shadow of itself - a political tool of radical liberal presidencies like Carter, Clinton and now the Obama. Bush tried to restore the agency to its former glory but given the liberal bent of certain Congress people and agency insiders to leak classified information to anybody and everyone especially the press it is hard for the CIA do be very effective at doing its job. Because of Church and liberal administrations we missed the fall of the Wall and 9/11. Now we have the nincompoop Holder trying to prosecute the very people that have kept his ass safe since 9/11. The NYTimes has a silly liberal leaning article this morning that uses such inflammatory words as "brutal" to describe CIA interrogation tactics like "threatening" to kill the terrorist's family. Panetta, as director of the CIA, is a liberal pansy unable to stand up against the communist ideologue Holder - and to be honest I don't think he intends to stand up to the Obama administration - he was put there to help kill the agency. I bet there are some old guard Soviet KGB agents wishing they had thought of getting a communist elected to the White House during the Cold War. All of their efforts were for naught then, but now with Communism in the White House we are on our way into the crapper.