THE FEDERAL AND STATE GOVERNMENTS ARE KILLING AMERICAN FAMILYS, WITH TAXES AND NO JOBS, FOR TWO YEARS NOW ! TIME TO FLIP IT !
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Congrats, Tea Party members. You are aware, but you are not aware of this. President Obama is a reflection of me in 1975. My 25 year business career was on the rocks and my wife was divorcing me. At age 49, I was a failure. All my effort left me at square one. Actually, my failure in life was my fault, but no way could I have been convinced. I blamed it all on rotten government.
Understand that none of this is Obama’s fault, as he sees it. He will not bend, I can tell you. He is right and there is no two ways about it. He goes about the world apologizing for America. Obama has the power to cause suffering and death to get his way. Compare me with an ant’s power. But by God’s will, I was given a new life, new liberty, and happiness. All I have is the ability to influence people.
My bad feelings caused me to study the Constitution, and the legal procedure for taking the IRS to court. In studying the Constitution, I got the feeling that the writers were speaking to me, personally. I had a bigger than life calling. Obama studied the Constitution at Harvard Law School. Obama’s thinking process was influenced by Harvard doctrine. He speaks in his autobiography of being influenced by Marxist professors.
When I didn’t know what my future held, I had a bigger than life calling, from studying the Constitution. The American people today face a similar situation. The future is uncertain. This could be the end of America as we know her.
In 1975, I decided to go to sea, where I could be totally removed from all distractions, where I could look within for answers. I purchased a 37 foot sailboat and set sail on the South Atlantic. Let me first say that I never found satisfying answers in my Presbyterian religion. I don’t call myself a Christian. At sea, a couple of miracles occurred that convinced me of the power within me, which I attribute to God having a plan for me. One doesn’t have to have a religion to have God. In fact, a religion’s God is another religion’s Great Satin. It’s a cause for war.
I was in a violent storm. I had the feeling that God’s hand was on my wheel. Years later I read about John Newton, a terrible man, who joined the British navy. He was so bad the navy left him in Africa. Newton became captain of a slave ship. With Newton at the helm, his ship encountered a violent storm. During the storm, Newton found God and became a minister of the Gospel. Newton wrote Amazing Grace. “Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me.” The same goes for me.
After I left the sea, entering the same world I left, without any external influence, with a new and far different outlook, my life improved until today I can say if life could be any better, I don’t know how. There is too much in my life, now that I’ve the time to think back, to say my present good life is coincidental. Chance favors the prepared mind. Obama’s mind was muddled at Harvard. With all the power he has, he has succumbed to evil. He will go down in history as the worst president America has ever had.
God surely does have a plan for each of us. I learned this on my own. I’ve come to believe Jesus is my personal redeemer, simply in the fact that everything Jesus said was aimed at me, for my personal benefit.
God works in strange ways. Once I removed myself from all distractions, placing myself in an environment that could become life-threatening in minutes, without being consciously aware of it, Jesus’ truth started changing me; it was in me all the time.
“In earth as it is in heaven,” words in the Lord’s Prayer, has me here as Aquarius rising. Looking back on my life, I say there have been signs telling us of our future. We are at the threshold of a quantum leap. Here’s what astrologer Jeanne Avery says about Aquarius rising: “He becomes the water-bearer by walking to the beat of a different drummer.” The Gospel of St. Matthew tells about three Persian astrologers finding the birthplace of Christ by following the Star of Bethlehem. My star in the east, the rising sun, my astrological chart fits me like a hand in a glove.
Jesus was a profit of the Age of Aquarius. I’m an Aquarian messenger. According to my astrological chart, Astrologer’s Handbook says this about me. I’m able to work slowly and make “fundamental and irrevocable changes” in my own life and others lives. “Often there is a sense of destiny or a peculiar karmic mission which they must fulfill.”
Peculiar mission? I don’t think so. New and different, yes. We’re more than Muslims, Jews and Christians, something to fight over. According to Jesus, we are all God’s children. Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s and unto God the things that are God’s. Jesus is always absolutely and inevitably right in the end. We Americans are facing hard times. Here’s what Jesus said: “Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light” (Mt. 11:29,30).
America was born under the sign of Aquarius. Long live America, land that I love! Forget Obama. He is a Harvard trained loser. Spread Jesus’ everlasting truth. Without even being consciously aware of it, his truth worked for me; it can work for everyone.
No matter how many times Blackwater gets
in trouble or is sued under another name it still
manages to get lucrative contracts.
You would
think that the US public might get a
little bit riled up and even form a tar and
feather party rather than a tea party.
But probably this will not even make the
mainstream news to any extent.
Xe will guard CIA facilities in Afghanistan
and elsewhere. Watch out Afghans don't
get too close to the wrong places.
Of course exactly where these places
to be guarded are classified.
This new contract comes exactly one
day after a commission investigating war
zone contracts blasted the State Dept. for
awarding another 120 million dollar
contract to Xe for guarding U.S.
consulates under construction in Afghanistan.
The firm has been facing lawsuits and
possible prosecution since 2007. Apparently
Blackwater is for sale.
Maybe General McChrystal will buy out
owner of Xe services to keep himself busy.
Let's hope.
(I found this comment on a comment site. (I like to know where the site I put down here, went too!!
I did not write this comment. Someone else did.)
The benefits of teamwork are undeniable
when employees work well together the
company as a whole benefits.
Some managers consider teamwork building
sessions a waste of time and it's true that some
activities geared toward team building can be
ridiculous or ineffective.However, when
successful teamwork is fostered, the improved
communication coordination and morale results
in happier more productive employees.While you
don't want to waste your time with silly exercises
you may want to look for ways to promote real
tangible teamwork.
These are the concrete results to watch for as you
focus on building teamwork in your department.
1. Efficiency
With teamwork comes improved efficiency.
The last thing you want is to have two employees
reproducing the same projector doing the same
work when the task can be handled by one employee.
Make sure employees communicate regarding
task assignments, project scopes and how
projects intersect to maximize efficiency.
2. Morale
Employees who work well together are happier
which boosts morale.This makes your office a more
pleasant place in which to work,and that may lead
to better employee retention.
3. Information Preservation
If employees work together, valuable information
is shared protecting the company from injury or
loss when someone leaves the company.
When an employee works on a project by herself
and other employees don't know exactly what she
does or how to run the project this lone employee
handles a problem can arise when that employee
quits or is let go. Sharing information can cut down
on time spent learning valuable information a former
employee understood well.
4. Innovation
When successful teamwork prevails, innovation
skyrockets It's true that two heads can be better
than one; let your employees brainstorm for solutions
together, working out the kinks in project plans.
5. Reduced Waste
While teamwork building meetings can feel like
a waste of time, the resulting cooperation and
reduction of redundancy can more than compensate
for the time invested in collaborating
with one another. Encourage employees to look
for ways to reduce duplication of efforts and
streamline production.
6. Usability
When employees collaborate on projects that
affect other employees in the company, you'll
see great benefits in the usability and work
ability of projects. The employees who will
actually use the product or process in question
will have valuable input for those on the design
end of the product or process. If you give employees
a chance to work together as a team, you'll reduce
the need to rework projects products and procedures.
7. Unity
One of the most valuable benefits of teamwork is
the sense of unity that accompanies a positive work
environment. By fostering this sense of unity, you also
promote a sense of "all for one and one for all," which
is good for the whole company.
I thought the Tea party was about fighting to keep Americans/America ideals strong?
Is the tea party a Republican knock off (generic political party)
Because if it it is, I want no part of it!
I did not come on here to be manipulated by a bunch of Karl Roves.
It appears to me he is all over this site. Karl Rove is a sniveling "poor me" divider.
Haven't you people had enough of Rove?
I have had enough of him the minute he opened his mouth.
I see Tea party doesn't represent Americans.
If the party did, wouldn't you be supporting Americans overall views?
But your not. You people only support Republican views.
Right-winger fell off the map views.
You people are wandering around in the forest.
Did you lose direction?
Where is your compass?
I thought Tea party was in the middle of the road (where majority of Americans are)
Sure America is a Republic but that doesn't mean
Republicans should be running the show
because their name is similar to the word republic.
That's absurd.
ARTICLE IV OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES "GUARANTEES EVERY
STATE A REPUBLIC FORM OF GOVERNMENT.
Why because a bunch of lawyers over 300 hundred years ago
decided to create a party therefore lawyers own us?
I think not.The word republican doesn't mean shit. Its just a word.
What do republicans (as people) stand for anyway?
What is on the Republican agenda this time around?
Looking to win the White house back so they can once again
gain special interest, favors?
That's apparent. Its republican party M.O
Republicans could careless about America.
Their behavior says it all; past, present and future!
Republicans had their chance, but they fudged it up.
It is unlikely they will win in 2010 or 2012.
Americans are not interested in more of the same.
Politics is an oxymoron. It defeats its own purpose.
REAL ESTATE SALES TAX
So, this is "change we should believe in"?
Under the new health care bill - did you know that all real estate
transactions will be subject to a 3.8% Sales Tax? The bulk of these new taxes
don't kick in until 2013 (presumably after Obama's re-election). You can thank
Nancy, Harry and Barack and your local Democrat Congressman for this one. If
you sell your $400,000 home, there will be a $15,200 tax. This bill is set to
screw the retiring generation who often downsize their homes. Is this Hope
& Change great or what? Does this stuff make your November and 2012 votes
more important?
Oh, you weren't aware this was in the Obamacare bill? Guess what, you aren't
alone. There are more than a few members of Congress that aren't aware of it
either (result of clandestine midnight voting for huge bills they've never
read). AND, there are a few other surprises lurking...
For the most part, federal bureaucrat managers are measured in power by the size of the budget that they administer. As with most people who manage large groups in private or public sectors, these people tend to be ambitious. If you are rewarded by size of the budget, how will you behave? There're is no incentive to manage or reduce costs, and no reason to do so. Spending as much money as possible becomes the proper way to manage, and is the natural way to progress your career. This is rational behavior in an irrational environment.The second area is the difficulty of partnering and outsourcing. Has anyone actually tried to become a federal vendor? If one actually reads an RFP, imagine the costs of the consultants who prepared the document. The complex rules throughout the entire engagement mean that only the companies who can understand and abide by the rules, generally those with extensive legal and compliance groups, can even hope to participate in a bid, much less handle the complex and sometimes contradictory requirements of working with Uncle Sam. Do we imagine that these costs are not built in? For large bids, how much lobbying takes place? Most companies that could help lower the costs of government simply cannot participate, and those that can, drive up the prices to cover those extra costs.The most important are and the one dearest to my heart is the lack of task focused employment and the tight delivery of the "product" of that department with the minimum of resources. In the government, if an analyst is hired, he needs data to analyze. To get data, there needs to be software. To buy software in the government, you need consultants to write and respond to the RFP. To hire consultants, you need to perform an internal needs assessment. To perform the internal needs assessment, you need more analysts, who of course need more software. Take this circle forward for 40 years, and you have a supreme mess of people who do nothing but send reports to each other, generally informing other people why the reports do not include some data. In most federal agencies, more that half of all employees deliver nothing coinciding with the mission of the actual federal department. Try surviving like that you your business...healthcare has been trying, but some hospitals are finally noticing that most administrative employees have no purpose (this is what I fix as a living). Cut the extra people, and be surprised at the savings.
“I’m troubled by the use of military personnel — whether they be US soldiers or private mercenaries — performing a police or law enforcement function. While they may be experts in fighting wars, they are not constrained by the US Constitution as to how they operate as cops,” said former NYPD detective and owner of FLT Security Services, Sid Frances.
“Soldiers are soldiers and cops are cops. What’s next? Using smart bombs to crash into drug dens?” he asked.
Since its inception in 2003, the US Department of Homeland Security has faced significant challenges related to recruiting, retaining, and managing its workforce of over 170,000 employees.
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I am glad I am not the only one who sees a problem with private companies training our cops mercenary tactics.
Its time for intelligence driven martial law. It would wipe out private contracting services for good.
This is not China, Xe. Why don't you go live there, where you belong, your all communist!
It's almost payback time at the polls and it seems like we've been waiting forever. My band and I have written and recorded a song to remind us all how important this election is, short and long term. It's called "Rise Up Together!" and that's what I believe we are going to do on November 2nd to take back our country. You can listen to the song in its entirety and if you like it, you can follow the link below to CDBaby and purchase it. It's also available on iTunes, Amazon and many more worldwide.
"Now is your time,
Now is your choice,
Rise Up Together,
Or they will silence your voice!"
Chorus lyrics from "Rise Up Together!" Copyright 2009, Greg Phillips.
McChrystal crossed the line when he criticized civilian chain of command?
A decorated General is expected to take orders from a non military member.... is absurd!
What does a career politician know about military matters? Nothing. So why do they even weigh in? Makes no sense.
I propose, when we are at war, General of the military (not arm chair general of draft dodger era) step up to take command over military matters. Lets leave public policy matters up to President (of politicians)
We must separate the two in order to run an efficient and productive government. Don't you think?
Who says politician and General cant get along? General knows all too well the importance of being a team player (politicians are clueless about the importance of team work)
Lets do a switcher roo Politician be subordinate to military General.
Military general mentor politician make for a more rounded government.
Intelligence driven martial law anyone?
We are at war. War calls for leaders with experience.
We cant carry on depending on politician to win the war, when all politician has is his own interest at heart.
Separate but equal. Needs to be law.
here, here
government. Centralist is non political, non
religious influence run our country
like a business being that it is one.
I will admit there is no wrong/right way to create a
revolution. But I have learned you cannot force
politicians or any other government entity
to bow down to your wishes.
How then do we construct a revolution? Answer:
influence government to take action on your behalf.
Approx ten years ago I started influencing key
intelligence agencies not to err in their ways, by
openly expressing my point of view. I pointed
out what will happen if the intelligence community
does not take action to defend Americans interest.
I didn't just point out problems, I also
proposed solutions to the problem.
No one, especially not the US government,
wants to hear complaining. I mean would you want
to hear complaining on a constant basis? You
wouldn't (its annoying) You would start to think
citizens are a bunch of sniveling babies.
I mean really, if you cant help yourselves then what
makes you think the government is willing to
step up to the plate and assist you? If you
don't have a solution to the problem, then don't open
your mouth.
One thing is certain, I didn't start Centralist so
some Republican, Democrat, or Independent or
other political entity could make a name for
themselves. My main objective has always
been to start 'the people' revolution.
As Centralist quote is; "for the people,
we the people"
And NO! Centralist isn't the attempt to
overthrow the US government. Centralist
enhances our government, adds onto it.
Benefits citizens as a whole.
What is Centralist? Centralist minimizes
political influence and replaces it with
business initiatives. In other words subordinates
the political arena. Yes I said subordinates.
Instead of having politicians run the show
as in Congress or Senate, its proposed that
our intelligence community along with US
military work as team players.
Centralist is not a military state, nor is it
a totalitarian state either. I said Centralist is
"the people" revolution.
What may I ask; "Is our military, duty?" It
is to secure this country from foreign and
domestic enemies, right? Correct. So in
saying it is the military that will secure
Americans interest. Understand? I proposed
the military merge with key government
agencies and eventually emerge
as a newly reformed entity. Say like
for example FBI merging with the
military will produce the agency FIA.
What is the FIA? FIA is military intelligence
mixed with FBI agents. You can say military
is FBI mentor. Because that is what FIA is;
mentorship. You cant expect FBI to "just
become reformed" wave a magic
wand and *poof* FBI is FIA. Reality doesn't
work that way. In order to
reform [any] government the correct way,
you have to create policies and
programs that grant particular entity,
leadership positions. At the
same time instill team work initiatives.
Cant be successful without the
dedication to team work idealism.
Excluding is not the answer. Exclude important
entity and watch the dream of a revolution slip
through your fingers like sand.
Centralist is not about replacing US government
it is about reconstructing US government.
Move things around a little bit.
What will politicians be doing, what will be
their position? I propose board of directors.
Support services to the NIA.
NIA is National intelligence community
.[previously known as IC: intelligence community]
Yes IC has merged too.
Whats the objective with this merging? But of
course, keeping our government small.
Do we really need to duplicate? No. So
merging services is the answer.
Combining key agencies means for
greater services to Americans.
Maybe you are not aware, if it was not for
the intelligence community, this country
wouldn't have much protection at all!
Look at the NIC as hero's because that is
what they are. Soldiers are not the only warriors
that deserve credit for protecting this great nation.
Daily Devotions With Barry Leviticus
Well it looks like another hurricane season is upon us. Even as I sit here typing this, or I should say as the Lord is typing through me with his most holy typing skills, hurricane after hurricane is blitzing it’s way through the Gulf of Mexico. To many this is a scary proposition, but to the saved it is a time of celebration, because as we all know God uses hurricanes to punish the wicked, and by wicked of course I'm speaking of homosexuals and Moabites. God's punishment is only scary to the sinful; to God's chosen; it is dinner and a movie.
I have to say that I celebrate hurricane season with as much Christian enthusiasm as I do Christmas or Easter or NRA pledge month, you know God's anointed holidays. Every year me and my wife Sara Rebekah Mary Leviticus and my wonderful children Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego sit around the ice-cream maker singing hurricane carols:
Hark! The Herald Angels sing
Queers will die this morning. You will fry in hell tonight
Cause God hates all you sodomites.
Then we go outside and hunt for the chocolate heterosexuals that Jesus left in the night.
Pray with me now.
Oh Most Holy God.
Ye who shows the sinful the error of his ways,
even if the showing has no direct cause and effect relationship.
Teach us all how to be better heterosexuals.
And bless those heterosexual loins with thy loving hand.
amen.
In the news today, a group of German Catholics want to do away with Santa Claus because of the fictional figure’s commercial hype and replace him with St. Nicolas and the selfless giving they say he represents. I’m going to now tell them how to make this happen, starting with a story my now deceased missionary cousin told me about when he was in what was the Belgium Congo, now Katanga. My cousin’s mission, to bring Christianity to primitive villages in the Congo, the only means of penetration of the jungle, rivers, my cousin, on a return visit to a jungle village, came upon a problem. The elders told him of an old woman in the village who refused to accept Christianity. She believed God lived in a tree near her hut. The elders cut down the old woman’s tree. Instead of becoming a Christian, she died of a broken heart.
I asked my cousin about the moral of his story. He told me that was for me to decide. After considerable thought, not that Christianity is not for anyone, I decided that Christianity was not for me. I’m a deep thinker. I look within for my answers. I’m inclined to think my cousin thought he was serving Jesus and his simple message: we are all God’s children, including the old woman who thought God lived in her tree.
The church is stained glass windows, beautiful music, all the trappings, dogmas, and doctrines, not selfless giving, not the inner self. “I am the light of the world. He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life,” please follow me in my reasoning. Light travels in waves. When observed in the physics lab, wave collapses and becomes photon, a particle. Said photons, tiny packets of energy, are processed in our brains. We see a tree, there by natural law. Not so with our minds. A thought is shapeless, yet becomes manifestation. Man’s creations are by Higher Law, which happens to be the background of American constitutional law.
Once away from the Higher Law, out of fear, it is do unto others before they do unto you, reminding me that in Psalm 23, “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. . .”
I found the sea to be comparable to the valley of the shadow of death. While in a violent storm at sea, I felt that God’s hand was on my wheel; that I was saved for a purpose. At sea on a small boat, when everything could have gone wrong—when I was asking for a disaster, you might say—everything started going right. I’ve always given a lot of thought to my life. Being a pioneer, out of the mainstream of thought, in order to learn who I really was, a leap into the unknown, was it the luck of the draw that my sea adventure ended well?
From what Jesus taught, I believe luck favors the prepared mind. The cutting edge of science backs me. “The observer emerges as a co-equal in the foundry of creation,” writes quantum physicist Evan Harris Walker in The Physics of Consciousness. “The observer interacts with matter. Consciousness, the substance of this newfound reality that defines the observer, has fundamental existence.”
Religion, the law, and science are all out of the same mold. What is this President Obama tells us? Is our Constitution flawed, our liberties negative? The man is living in La La Land.
The microcosmic cannot be separated from the macrocosmic. When we take the clockworks universe apart, we find, says Walker, that “we can understand mind as including conscious experience and will. We can see how these fit into the physical processes of the brain that are involved in thinking. . .”
Were our thinking straight, there would be no question about it. St. Nicolas is preferable to Santa Claus. The Higher Law, which is behind life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, says that our highest purpose in life is to become selfless.
When we look within for our answers, I can tell you from experience, we don’t need the makers and keepers of our laws or God’s laws guiding us. God put each of us here for a special purpose, of which we are each capable of knowing. Think on this: If we’d been put here for authority’s purpose, with hive mentality, then God would not have said in Gen. 1:26, “Let us make man in our image.”
Presidential Seal Abandons Obama,
Moves to Vancouver, Canada
In what’s seen as another serious blow to public perception of the Obama administration’s competence, the presidential seal told reporter Payne Hertz, standing in for Rajjpuut, she was leaving her long time post in Washington, D. C. due to “irreconcilable differences” with President Barack Obama, top administration officials, the Obama czars and First Lady Michelle Obama. The seal, who doesn’t speak human languages vocally and is only semi-fluent in English, had to tap out her Spanish language answers in Morse code on a bongo drum in exchange for sardines turning a short interview into a long, drawn out beat-bop session. Our 96-year old veteran of the journalistic wars claims that he constantly found himself interrupting “the music” to get back to the thread of the interview . . . . “Rather like a really extended Greenwich Village poetry session,” according to Hertz. The video-recorded bongo serenade translates to this:
Hertz: Hola, Como esta` usted? (Hello, Wasap?)
PSL: Estoy harto de Obama hasta aqui (raises flipper above head and says, “I’m fed with Obama at least this much”)
Hertz: OK. How long have you served as the presidential seal?
PSL: Actually, I was the presidential sea lion, most of you humans don’t appreciate the difference . . . .
Hertz: Oh, yeah, I can see your tiny ears. And your flippers are really long; do you have any underfur at all?
PSL: Just a little, of course we sea lions can actually walk on all four flippers and are much more intelligent than those damn seals (sneers). That’s part of the problem. Obama gave me four promises and he’s reneged on all of them.
Hertz: Before we get into that, isn’t it true that Vice President Biden has accused you of “racism?” And . . . .
PSL: Oh, that again. I accuse the veep of stupidity, just as I accuse seals of stupidity. It’s not racism to say that a snail is slow, a skunk stinks or a seal is stupid. Take it up with National Geographic and Discover magazines. They’ve both done testing and seals average 70% lower IQs than we sea lions do and they come out only a point or two above Mr. Biden and Michelle Obama.
Hertz: You’re calling the First Lady unintelligent?
PSL: Look who she married. When it comes to capitalism and the spirit of the U.S. Constitution he’s an illiterate and an ignoramus. On economics, if you can show me a less intelligent fellow . . . .
Hertz: Hold it, you can’t just go around calling down the President of the United States . . . .
PSL: Listen, he made four promises to me and he didn’t keep one of them that’s batting .000 in my book and except for being a pretty-boy and making an occasional four-foot putt or three-point shot, there isn’t much there.
Hertz: Yeah, ah . . . . What were the promises?
PSL: For #1 He would introduce me within three days after the inauguration and explain to the American public the differences between seals and sea lions. He said it would be an excellent “teachable moment.” Instead he’s had the EPA undergo a “spread the intelligence” campaign to call us all “pinnipeds.” It’s like lumping human civilization in with monkey tribes and lemurs and calling you all “primates” to “spread the IQ wealth.”
Hertz: And?
PSL: #2 He said he’d provide me with my favorite snack after every televised appearance with him. #3 He’d allow me input into the Economic Recovery Board. #4 He refrain from any actions against gold traders . . . .
Hertz: Obama promised to allow a seal . . . .
PSL: Sea lion, damnit . . . .
Hertz: Excuse me, Obama promised to allow a sea lion to help make administration policy?
PSL: What? You think I could do worse?
Hertz: OK, OK, tell me more about the promises . . . .
PSL: Well, the most disappointing was about the “teachable moment” and then the snacks . . . .
Hertz: Skip those two . . . just promises #3 and #4.
PSL: Well, he tried to whip it past me, but while he was putting funded abortions in Obamacare, he also snuck in a bunch of onerous control over gold traders . . . I think it was on page 752 . . . I’ve got a cousin near Portland’s really going to be ill-affected by that one. As for the Economic Recovery Board people: they’re only a slightly paler shade of pink then Mr. “Jobs President” himself . . . they’re all experts at killing jobs.
Hertz: You’re claiming the president is a Marxist?
PSL: I swim in the water and hang out with sea lions; he populates his inner circle with commies . . . you get known by the company you keep . . . .
Hertz: That’s hardly conclusive . . . .
PSL: You don’t read much do you, fella?
Hertz: Excuse me?
PSL: You’re a liberal, huh? Dreams from My Father, well, youngster, his father’s dreams included 100% taxes.
Hertz: Well, you’re just a sea lion. Sorry, that was uncalled for, ‘er tell me about the problem with the snacks.
PSL: Pardon me too, I shouldn’t have referred to your age . . . . just get so damned mad, you can’t imagine what it’s like being surrounded by anti-American pinheads 24/7. It was right there in my contract, “four north Pacific herring” after every televised appearance with the two of us . . . and instead he pays me off with three of the tiniest, most tasteless . . . .
Hertz: I see, well it doesn’t sound like you got along very well . . . .
PSL: . . . dried out Delta Smelt, like eating french-fried cockroaches . . . .
Hertz: Did you say, Delta Smelt?
PSL: You’ve eaten ‘em, eh? So you catch my drift?
Hertz: But Delta Smelt are on the endangered species list. They’re stopping irrigation in California’s Central Valley because of the danger to Delta Smelt from being sucked into the piping systems . . . .
PSL: The fewer the Delta Smelt, the more environmental votes they get . . . .
Hertz: I can’t believe . . . .
PSL: Now, maybe you understand why I jumped off his lectern the other day . . . it was all just too much . . . .
Hertz: Well, there must have been something good about the experience . . . ?
PSL: Oh yeah, getting to sit in on sessions with Reid, Pelosi, Frank and Hoyer really made my day! Damn Keystone Cops . . . .
Hertz: (At this point the video-tape’s audio recording reveals only the snoring of a 96-year old man for the next twelve minutes. Hertz takes his afternoon siesta precisely at 2:45 every day . . . .)
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
Two questions appear to be answered even before a single vote is cast in the 2010 mid-term elections: Republicans are going to pick up a lot of seats in the House of Representatives and a lot of governorships as well. The G.O.P. winning 30-35 governorships is a crucial must in the eyes of the politically savvy if the personal popularity of Barack Obama is to be overcome in 2012 so the country can veer quickly away from Marxism. The governors will be in charge of drawing up district boundaries based upon the 2010 Census and for the G.O.P that means a huge opportunity to counter the Democratic Party machinery that so dominates in Big States with Big Cities like Illinois, New York, Ohio, and California.
Listening to House Republican Leader John Boehner, one comes to believe that the Republicans have faced up to the shortcomings which betrayed the voters in 1994 and again in 2004 . . . and that the G.O.P. will focus on creating jobs; express and enforce Constitutional-fidelity; aim to dramatically reduce the size and interference power of the federal government; defund Obamacare; aim to cut taxes, spending deficits, the National Debt; and the size and scope and power of the federal government. More than his words, it is the fact that Boehner has never, not even once, given us an “earmark.” That’s an utterly distinguished record of integrity.
Boehner talked about such “Congressional reform” themes last week while speaking at the American Enterprise Institute. Unlike the “reform” touted by Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Obama in naming all their corrupt bills, Mr. Boehner promised straightforward changes that would increase transparency and assist in reducing the growth of government -- including a promise that all legislation be constitutional—which may appear to be a token bow to the TEA (Taxed Enough Already) party but which would, according to the Wall Street Journal” provide the wonderful “practical effect of making the Constitution's limits on government part of our contemporary debates.” Glenn Beck must be purring like a kitten to hear that kind of talk.
Mr. Boehner's vow to publish the full text of all bills online at least three days prior to a vote, as well as allowing open rules on all spending bills are both simple, but sensational ideas clearly in line with the intents of the Founding Fathers. Besides joining the progressive Dems’ spending binge, the G.O.P. most disappointed conservative voters when former GOP leader Tom DeLay abused open rules constantly. Of course, Nancy Pelosi has seen DeLay’s evil practices and pushed all-in so that her legacy is the first Congress (in history? in long memory?) not to consider one single bill under an open amendment process . . . nothing is more corrupt than the agenda and the policies of Sweet Nancy from Nob Hill.
The country needs a statesman like William Proxmire again. Mr. Proxmire’s “Golden Fleece Award,” highlighting the most self-serving and corrupt use of the public trust and our taxes, kept his fellow politicians on their toes and somewhat honest. Thanks to Pelosi’s abuse of process, Arizona Republican Jeff Flake, a noted spending critic, has been absolutely prevented from putting embarrassing spending items before the media and public and up for a floor vote. Flake is also the sort of guy who would have exposed Obamacare to such intense ridicule that the bill would never have become law. Imagine him talking about the provision referring to Gold-Sellers in a healthcare “reform” bill . . . it would be hilarious. It’s unimaginable that the present funding of abortions under Obamacare would have occurred with Flake focusing every eye on the bill. If Republicans want to win back the respect of the voters for Congress . . . process reforms such as these are crucial. The G.O.P. canNOT succeed in their professed goals of restoring the Constitution, cutting spending, re-energizing the economy, and abolishing the entitlement state without first undoing the corrupt base of Congress’s evil tax-and-spend machinery.
A few crucial questions are still to be determined on November 2nd. Will the Republicans win the House (yes, they only need 39 seats, but will they win it , or win it with a 61-vote majority – a pickup of 100 seats overall – like Dick Morris is predicting?); will Republicans win the Senate (which Morris is also predicting)? Will the G.O.P. sit in 33 or more of the governors’ mansions? Will the apparent national “wave” of disgust with incumbents and progressives carry over to the individual states and see a lot of incumbents and progressives of both parties shooed out the door? But if the Republicans take the House, one has the feeling that a statesman of absolute integrity will be wielding the speakers’ gavel. Ex-health educator Rajjpuut, only hopes that Speaker Boehner is indeed in our future and that Mr. Boehner's either quits or cuts down markedly on his smoking . . . he looks like one we could bear to have around a long, long time.
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
George Bush saw Obama, Clinton, ACORN, and other progressives deliberately pushing the car (the economy) toward a 500-foot cliff (utter financial disaster) dived into the front seat, grabbed the steering wheel and slammed on the brakes creating a controlled skid that put the vehicle into the nearest friendly-looking ditch.
Damn You, Republicans, Damn You!
The Truth Shall Set You Free
“President G.W. Bush warned congress at least 20 times about the problem after January, 2005, when his administration made their first attempt to undo the evils of CRA legislation, especially the last three expansions by Clinton (1995 twice and 1998’s steroid version), but were defeated by the progressives. Finally thirty months later in July of 2007 a much weaker, watered down bill was passed by bi-partisan vote. It would prove far too little, far too late and the meltdown began soon afterward. However, it was sufficient help to the economy that Treasury Secretary Geithner in August, 2010, credited Bush with preventing a truly deep recession and preventing home prices from plummeting dangerously.” Rajjpuut
Those Kate Winslet aficionados among you are undoubtedly big fans of her 2008 movie The Reader. The haunting story garnered several Academy Award nominations including Winslett’s 6th for Best Actress (she’s had seven Golden Globe nominations). Of course, Winslett won the Oscar for The Reader. Without ruining the story for you, the plot goes something like this: a fifteen year old German boy is rescued by an older woman in the mid to late 1950’s. Some months later when he is well again he goes to thank her and is captivated by her romantically and eventually sexually. The boy grows up and goes to law school . . . while on a “field trip” he sees her again, on trial potentially for her life.
The theme of The Reader is almost shocking in its power . . . sometimes mundane hidden personal truth can be far more personally devastating then other seemingly obvious and horrific truth. And, GASP! that’s also the theme of this blog . . . why won’t the Republican Party reveal the truth about the financial meltdown that began in 2007? Rajjpuut has come to believe that some comparatively innocent failings of both a personal and party nature are so embarrassing to the G.O.P. that even though the truth about this issue can literally rescue the country from our present headlong plunge into Marxism and fiscal collapse, the Republican leadership and conservatives in general are ashamed to ‘fess up.
Here’s the truth (immediately below); why won’t the G.O.P. reveal it to the voters and save the country? Whatever the reason, it’s time for Republicans and conservatives to ‘man up’ and stop the present Obamanation of American principles, the free market, fiscal common sense and human decency. Time to save our children’s and grandchildren’s future. The villain is NOT Barack Obama, he’s only a minor villain . . . .
It’s well known that the American housing loan industry was the finest in the world before progressive legislators got involved. Our sparkling 64% private ownership of homes was the envy of the planet. Sub-prime lending (that is lending to people who probably can’t afford their mortgage and will default on their loan unless they win the lottery) was unheard of. Banks that failed just failed in those days and the government only stepped in on those rare occasions when something went very wrong in order to protect the depositors. Only 1 in every 404 home loans was made at less than 3% down payment in 1975, almost always to distinguished veteran officers from our military who were going to college and working part time. More than any other single person, Bill Clinton changed all that.
It’s NOT well-known that Bill Clinton was the first ACORN president, but he was. ACORN (originally “Arkansas Community Organizations for Reform Now”) was the brainchild of Wade Rathke created in Arkansas in 1977 to take advantage of Jimmy Carter’s Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 (CRA ’77). Much later when ACORN proved itself successful in Arkansas it was expanded across the whole nation, the “A” in ACORN stopped meaning “Arkansas” and came to mean “Association of.” Bill Clinton obviously was a political comer (elected Arkansas lieutenant governor in 1976 at the age of 30), but his politicking was made much easier with the backing of ACORN over the next 18 years. ACORN helped Clinton win the governor’s mansion in Arkansas 12 of the next 14 years as well as two terms as president of the United States. It happened this way . . . .
Wade Rathke, was a George Wiley lieutenant sent to establish a National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO) branch in the state of Arkansas. NWRO had been created by Wiley and Richard Cloward and Frances Piven in NYC to test out the Cloward-Piven Strategy (published in a 1966 article in The Nation magazine, The Weight of the Poor: a Strategy to End Poverty) and they planned to sufficiently overload the nation’s welfare system so that Congress would have to create a GNI (guaranteed national income) Law and abolish American poverty on the spot.
It didn’t work, but using Alinsky tactics (Saul Alinsky was a self-described “neo-Marxist” community organizer who had authored Reveille for Radicals and later Rules for Radicals) but by putting 8.2 million presumably unqualified new recipients on the welfare rolls, they did bankrupt New York City and almost bankrupt New York State. The federal government stepped in to bail out NYC in 1975. Despite their failure to get GNI and abolish poverty, Wiley, Piven and Cloward bragged publicly and in writing about their ‘great accomplishment.’ They told their eager followers that voter registration and housing were the next areas to test. Not surprisingly, ACORN today is known for voter registration fraud and exploiting and abusing the nation’s housing legislation . . . .
So Wade Rathke (who would later create the nation’s and the world’s largest union SEIU) created ACORN in Arkansas to carry out voter registration and housing “activities” of a highly questionable nature. ACORN during Clinton’s first run for governor in Arkansas registered roughly 24,000 persons to vote and then threw away all the paper work for would-be Republican registrants. Clinton won, of course. They were less successful in getting CRA ’77 housing loans. But thanks to their efforts (mostly in Arkansas), the percentage of home loans made at 3% down payment or less around the nation more than doubled from 0.24% in 1975 to 0.51% in 1985 . . . but it was a “drop in the bucket.” From 1977 to 1993 only about $100 Billion in CRA ’77 loans were even issued to questionable borrowers. This was nothing like bankrupting NYC . . . .
However, because of success in registering Democrats, ACORN was successfully expanding across the nation and was sufficiently strong to put William Jefferson Clinton into the Oval Office in November, 1992. Things changed overnight for ACORN and for CRA ’77. The process had not been very active or very successful during the ‘70s or ‘80s, because banks only had to demonstrate to CRA regulators a “reaching out to the inner city.” As a result, only about 100 billion dollars was loaned to questionable borrowers. In the two great ACORN concern areas, Clinton did ACORN proud. He created the motor voter act (“a 12-lane highway leading to voter fraud” according to critics) in 1993 and brought in Richard Cloward and Frances Piven to stand directly behind him during the White House signing ceremonies. Clinton moved next on housing . . . first by Presidential edict in 1993. He put teeth into CRA regs by using the regulatory process itself to more or less make law, skipping Congress altogether. From now on inner city dwellers were to become preferred home loan recipients, mortgage traditions and their poverty be damned. Clinton went outside the CRA regs and also ordered HUD to set quotas for "Affirmative Action Lending" through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. A new pressure fell upon the banking industry to make loans that banks would otherwise have rejected as “financially absurd.”
Subprime lending was virtually unknown before the multiple changes made by Clinton. The system was no longer recognizable as “free market.” Then it snowballed with more regulatory change and then two expansions of CRA law in 1995, the Clinton administration forced banks to loan more than a trillion dollars in high risk loans accepting as “income” items like welfare checks, unemployment checks, seasonal income, occasional part time work and other questionable sources of “qualified income.” By the end of 1995, 14% of all home loans were conducted with less than 3% down payments, many of them with no down payment at all.
With ACORN in the streets embarrassing and badgering and shaking down lenders (Barack Obama, an ACORN lawyer in Chicago, was reportedly one of the best at not only securing loans and future loan promises but also at getting large ACORN donations from the lenders he was shaking down!) and with officious federal regulators promoting and pushing and applauding bad loans not only with “the stick” of CRA and HUD but also using Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as “carrots” due to their nature as implicitly guaranteed by the federal government. Millions of loans were made, often at breakneck pace in the normally snail-action world of mortgages.
In 1998, Clinton’s steroid-expansion of CRA law was passed. It was a nightmare. Now “food stamps” were regarded as income. Now ACORN found that they didn’t need high-powered extorters like Barack Obama, anyone with an eighth grade education could secure a loan for an ACORN client . . . and they found that it was now just as easy to get a poor person into a $450,000 home as it had been to buy a $120,000 home ten years earlier.
President G.W. Bush warned congress at least 20 times about the problem after January, 2005, when his administration made their first attempt to undo the evils of CRA legislation, especially the last three expansions by Clinton (1995 twice and 1998’s steroid version), but were defeated by the progressives. Finally thirty months later in July of 2007 a much weaker, watered down bill was passed by bi-partisan vote. It would prove far too little, far too late and the meltdown began soon afterward. However, it was sufficient help to the economy that Treasury Secretary in August, 2010, credited Bush with preventing a truly deep recession and preventing home prices from plummeting dangerously. And ACORN, even as they got loans for illegal aliens and people without even a rental history, they were getting paid to market CRA loans and made millions as a result.
All of this corruption enforced by strong-armed government agencies put millions of people into homes they simply could not afford. This caused an artificial feeling of financial prosperity for everyone and trillions of dollars were going into bad investments including derivatives based upon these horrific loans. Now, 90% of these laws are still on the books while the tax payer must pay for millions of past risky loans and are forced to bail out the irresponsible banks, insurance companies, automobile companies and Wall Street. Until we totally remove the government’s power to coerce, bribe, reward and bail out irrational and unfree decisions in the UNFREE MARKET, more of the same is always possible. The free market was working fine, so fine it took thirty years of deliberate abuse for the unfree market to bring America to its knees. Too much government? Yep! Blame it mostly on William Jefferson Clinton.
You did remember that the system originally wasn’t broken, right? You did remember that the progressives set out to manufacture a crisis a la Cloward-Piven Strategy and Alinsky Tactics that would “overload the system?” You have heard Barack Obama talking about somebody else driving the car in the ditch and now wanting the keys back, haven’t you? Are you going to ignore the evidence and head back to your sitcom? How about thinking this over . . . ?
George Bush saw Obama, Clinton, ACORN, and other progressives deliberately pushing the car (the economy) toward a 500-foot cliff (utter financial disaster) dived into the front seat, grabbed the steering wheel and slammed on the brakes creating a controlled skid that put the vehicle into the nearest friendly-looking ditch.
So Monica, Paula and Jennifer weren’t the only ones, were they? Slick Willy also had his nasty way with you and with all the American public . . . .
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
Jim DeMint makes an excellent point. In the business [real] world, when an employee is fired they are escorted off the premises and not allowed to return for fear of future damage. What kind of damage can a group of ticked off congressional people do in the Obama Regime? I shudder to think.
Dems put out of a job in Nov will be able to come back and rob the nation blind http://bit.ly/9v0RKU
