Anyone concerned that banks are not to be allowed to repay TARP (bailout) loans? Anyone? Just checking. What government, having taken power, ever reliquishes it voluntarily?
Apr 05 2009
The Government is Not Giving Back Control of the Banks
Category: news and politics — Steve @ 13:57 pm
Apr 02 2009
Take the Barack-o-Poll
Category: news and politics — Steve @ 20:27 pm
I have a new poll up. Take the Barack-o-Poll in the right column (or click here) and let us know what you think of our Commander in Chief.
Tags: Barack Obama, polls
Mar 31 2009
Two Trillion Tons – and What Do You Get?
Category: music,news and politics — Steve @ 20:18 pm
With sincere apologies to the memory of Tennessee Ernie Ford!
Two Trillion Tons
(Click the link for mp3 audio…)
Tags: Barack Obama, socialism
Mar 31 2009
Steelers to Lose Super Bowl Trophies
Category: news and politics — Steve @ 15:22 pm
(Pittsburgh, PA) The Super Bowl XLIII Champion Pittsburgh Steelers, the only team to win six titles, will soon be losing half of those trophies. After a meeting between NFL Commissioner Rodger Gadel and President Barack Hussain Obama, Obama decided to redistribute half of their Steeler Super Bowl victories and trophies to less fortunate teams in the league.
“We live everyday in the country that invented the Super Bowl.” said Obama “We are not about to lose this Great American tradition in the wake of these difficult times.” Obama’s plan calls for the Steelers, who are a successful NFL team, to give half of their Super Bowl trophies to teams that are not successful or have not been as successful as the Steelers. “The Detroit Lions are just as much a part of the same fiber of the NFL as the Steelers and they should, no rather will, be entitled to a Super Bowl Trophy as well.” Obama explains in his plan that he has imposed on Godel and the NFL.
The Pittsburgh Steelers, who by virtue of hard work, excellent team play, stellar draft choices, responsible investing of free agents, careful hiring of coaches and excellent community service and commitment to their fans, has prospered greatly during the past 30 years and have won six Super Bowl Trophies. But President Barack Hussain Obama’s plan calls for the Pittsburgh Steelers to carry the larger burden of the NFL’s less successful teams. Obama went on to further proclaim, “In these difficult times we are all in this to work together. We must reclaim the NFL Championship Dream for every team, for every city and for every fan.”
“My plan will not affect 31 of the 32 teams in the league.” Obama assures. That’s over 95 percent of the teams in the NFL will not have to worry about losing any Super Bowl Trophies. “The worst teams in the NFL and the teams that can’t seem to get a break and win a championship will no longer have to worry about going without a title.” Obama promises. “We are a country and league of hope. We all need to make a change. It does not matter the color of the teams uniforms, the personal decisions that the teams make or their performance, but rather if they are a member of this great American league.”
The Super Bowl XLIII trophy will be redistributed to the 0-16 Detroit Lions. Through no fault of their own incompetence, the Lions could not manage a victory all season and this trophy will help ease the pain of their lack of performance and give them hope once again. The redistribution of Super Bowl XL trophy will go directly to the Steeler’s division rival the Cincinnati Bengals. The Bengals who also have fallen on hard times have never won a Super Bowl. This victory will bring a smile to hundreds of Bengal fans all over the world as they can now celebrate. Finally, one of the Steeler’s two Super Bowl victories over the Dallas Cowboys will go back to the Cowboys since the league needs to provide hope in the face of difficulty and provide hope in the face of uncertainty. This is a heavy burden for the Steelers but together we can all prosper.
All hope is not lost for Pittsburgh fans, Barack Hussain Obama has another plan in place. Obama has meet with MLB and commissioner Bud Selig on a similar plan. The New York Yankees will redistribute two of their world series trophies to the Pittsburgh Pirates to ease the emotional stress of losing 16 straight seasons. This plan will help stimulate the Pirates and enable them to regain the American Dream. Barack Hussain Obama will be meeting with the NHL and Michael Phelps in the upcoming weeks as this issue is high on his agenda for “Hope and Change.”
Oct 15 2008
Obama’s Plans for Redistribution of Wealth
Category: news and politics — Steve @ 10:28 am
How to rob from wage earners to pay non-wage earners. Have we as a nation decided that socialism works better than capitalism?
Obama [was] caught on video telling an Ohio plumber that he intends to take the profits of small-business owners and “spread the wealth around” to those with lesser incomes.
The fracas over Obama’s tax plan broke out Sunday outside Toledo when Joe Wurzelbacher approached the candidate.
Wurzelbacher said he planned to become the owner of a small plumbing business that will take in more than the $250,000 amount at which Obama plans to begin raising tax rates.
“Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn’t it?” the blue-collar worker asked.
After Obama responded that it would, Wurzelbacher continued: “I’ve worked hard . . . I work 10 to 12 hours a day and I’m buying this company and I’m going to continue working that way. I’m getting taxed more and more while fulfilling the American Dream.”
“It’s not that I want to punish your success,” Obama told him. “I want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve got a chance for success, too.
Then, Obama explained his trickle-up theory of economics.
“My attitude is that if the economy’s good for folks from the bottom up, it’s gonna be good for everybody. I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”
Critics said Obama let the cat out of the bag.
“It’s clear that his main goal is redistribution of wealth, not growth,” said Andy Roth with the anti-tax group Club for Growth. “He’s perfectly happy to destroy wealth as long as he can redistribute it.”
Actually it is about punishing success. By punishing those who produce wealth and jobs, he can make the government the source of all benefits. This stuff makes me ill in a big way. Where is Ronald Reagan when we need him?
Oct 02 2008
UK Ambassador’s Leaked Letter on Barack Obama
Category: news and politics — Steve @ 22:43 pm
UK Telegraph has the text of a leaked letter from the British ambassador to the United States to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. I have no idea of the source of the leak, but it provides an excellent and dispassionate analysis of Obama, his background (both political and personal) and his policies. This is a cogent, meat-and-potatoes view of an inexperienced guy trying to become president.
Here’s the text; the bulk of it is after the jump, or you can go to the original here. My undergrad was in Political Science/International Affairs, so I’m always fascinated by one nation’s perceptions of another nation’s political processes.
This letter contains sensitive judgements. Please limit copying, and protect the contents carefully.
1. Ahead of Senator Obama’s visit to London next week, I thought it would be useful to give you a snapshot of his personality, politics and emerging policies.
Background and Personality
2. The key themes which are important in understanding Obama’s political makeup are the following:
- His struggle to understand his racial identity. His first book “Dreams from My Father” (1995) traces this struggle through Hawaii, New York, Chicago and Kenya. Raised by his white Kansas-born mother and her parents after his Kenyan father left, Obama made a conscious decision in the 1980s to choose his African-American identity – he worked as a community organiser in the poorest areas of Chicago, and went on to travel to Kenya to learn about his father. His decision after Harvard Law School to settle back in Chicago led to growing integration into the city’s black middle class culture and provided him with the political laboratory from which his career was launched;
- His personal makeup drives his view of politics. Obama talks of wanting to reach out to all Americans (“no red states or blue states, only the United States”). “I will never forget that in no other country on earth is my story even possible. It’s a story that hasn’t made me the most conventional candidate. But it is a story which has seared into my genetic makeup the idea that this nation is more than the sum of its parts – that out of many we are truly one.” The race issue is present in the campaign – the debate continues to rage over how much. Obama wanted to avoid it as much as possible until the Reverend Wright videos forced him to make his elegant speech on race in March and then, when this was clearly not enough for the latest Wright outburst, to disown him completely and leave his church;
- Star quality. Obama has always had it, at least since his arrival at Harvard. A friend in the progressive Chicago establishment said, “I honestly don’t remember what it was about him, but I was absolutely blown away. I said to several people that this guy, who is now 30 years old, is some day going to be President. He will be our first black President”. That was in the 1990s. His rise has been meteoric. He first came to the notice of the national political establishment when he won the Illinois Democratic primary for the US Senate in early 2004. But it was his mesmerising speech to the 2004 Democratic Convention in Boston which propelled him to stardom, at a low point for his party. He is the only black member of the Senate. He is already the most successful black elected politician in American history, to the discomfort of Jesse Jackson and others;
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Tags: Barack Obama
Sep 12 2008
Things Just Keep Getting Interesting-er
Category: news and politics — Steve @ 14:51 pm
Here’s the latest Intrade chart on the probability of each candidate winning the presidential election. My, how things have changed. Is it any wonder the Left has become so intolerably shrill and confused recently?
Tags: Barack Obama, democrats, intrade futures, John McCain, politics, Republicans
Sep 10 2008
Probability of Obama Bumper Sticker vs Vehicle Type
Category: funny stuff,news and politics — Steve @ 08:45 am
Jun 20 2008
Dispelling the Lies about Barack Hussein Obama
Category: funny stuff,news and politics — Steve @ 16:19 pm
There are a lot of lies floating around about BHO, so in the interest of fairness, here is the real truthiness. (HT: IMAO)
LIE: Barack Obama once went on a killing spree through all 57 states.
TRUTH: There aren’t actually 57 states. He misspoke.LIE: The only thing Barack Obama loves more than America is jihad.
TRUTH: Barack Obama loves many things more than America.LIE: You have to be retarded to think Barack Obama is a good candidate for president.
TRUTH: You could also just hate America and wish it ill will.LIE: Barack Obama was originally raised as a Muslim.
TRUTH: Barack Obama converted from Wiccan to Islam in his teens.LIE: Barack Obama’s middle name is Hussein.
TRUTH: It’s actually a swearword unfit for print. Directed at your mom.LIE: Barack Obama wants to seize your guns.
TRUTH: He has no interest in your guns. After you’re imprisoned for owning firearms, he’ll let the police do as they may with them.LIE: Barack Obama has a long record of being a liberal.
TRUTH: Barack Obama doesn’t have a long record of doing anything. Name one liberal thing he’s done. Name anything he’s done. Come on; I dare you.LIE: Barack Obama is planning to kill the pope.
TRUTH: Liars! There is no way anyone could have found out about his plan!LIE: Barack Obama sold out Israel to Iran in exchange for a bag of magic beans.
TRUTH: The beans aren’t really magic.
Glad we were able to settle that…
Tags: Barack Obama, politics
