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Misery Index? You’d Be Surprised At The Numbers [UPDATED]

August 29, 2010 Barack Hussein Obama Lies, Democrat Incompetence, Fiscal Irresponsibility, News, Opinion, The Economy View Comments

Austin Hill has a new post up at Townhall.com in which he discusses a term that I haven’t heard discussed in the media since the days of Jimmy Carter’s Infestation of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. That term? The misery index.

In simple terms, the misery index is calculated by adding the unemployment number by the rate of inflation. Sounds simple enough and using the raw data you would get the impression that things aren’t much worse now than before Obama took office. But that is deceiving.

By artificially growing the economy through political trickery designed to offset true unemployment numbers and inflation rates, the Obama Infestation has to this point been able to get around admitting they are making things worse. Utilizing the raw data available, the current misery index is sitting at 10.8352. How bad is that? Well compared to Carter’s numbers that is spectacular. But compared to George W. Bush’s 8.10, it’s beginning to look dismal.

But the numbers as I have said have been distorted by the Infestation and their desired to remain blameless for the economy. The 10.8352 number is derived from the current unemployment rate (9.6%) added to the current rate of inflation (latest numbers are from July – 1.2352%). However, what isn’t taken into account are the underemployed and those who have given up looking for work. If you were to factor those numbers Obama is looking nearly as bad as Carter.

The underemployment number according to Gallup (a Democrat friendly polling agency) is 18.3%. Added to the latest inflation numbers (July 1.2352%) and we get a misery index number of 19.5352.

Compared to Jimmy Carter’s high of 20.76 in 1980, Obama is looking pretty bad. What do you think?

*NOTE: The actual use of the misery index was to calculate an economic average over the previous 12 month period. The numbers stated in this post are for one single month – July 2010 – utilizing the most accurate data about that month.

[UPDATE 0207] Poking around the net for more accurate information regarding the data needed to calculate an accurate misery index metric, I came across an article related to a new misery index developed by Moody’s. In the Moody’s misery calculations, instead of calclating the unemployment rate added to the rate of inflation, fiscal deficit numbers are combined with unemployment giving a more accurate dynamic to the equation in my opinion.

Currently, the federal deficit as a percentage of GDP is 10.64% – an astronomical sum by-the-way and yet, the possibility of it rising before September 30th is great – and as stated above, the estimated unemployment rate is 9.6%. Add them together and you get 20.24. If you were to consider the underemployment numbers, we are in real trouble America. How about a misery index of 28.94 America?

Keep in mind, it is Moody’s who determines credit ratings for countries. No wonder our AAA rating is in danger.

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Obama’s MSM Shill, Questioning His Muslim Heritage, and Journalistic Malpractice

Amid the fresh controversy created by the recent release of the results of two polls showing an increasing number of Americans believe Barack Hussein Obama is Muslim, a headline on The Drudge Report caught my eye. It involves some items printed in that bastion of legitimate news, The New York Times (all the news that is fit to wrap fish in; or line bird cages for that matter).

On May 12, 2008, the NYT asked the question – President Apostate? The Times actually had the audacity to ask the questions that needed to be asked, however, they failed to deliver an answer.

From the NYT:

One danger of such charisma, however, is that it can evoke unrealistic hopes of what a candidate could actually accomplish in office regardless of his own personal abilities. Case in point is the oft-made claim that an Obama presidency would be welcomed by the Muslim world.

This idea often goes hand in hand with the altogether more plausible argument that Mr. Obama’s election would raise America’s esteem in Africa — indeed, he already arouses much enthusiasm in his father’s native Kenya and to a degree elsewhere on the continent.

But it is a mistake to conflate his African identity with his Muslim heritage. Senator Obama is half African by birth and Africans can understandably identify with him. In Islam, however, there is no such thing as a half-Muslim. Like all monotheistic religions, Islam is an exclusive faith.

As the son of the Muslim father, Senator Obama was born a Muslim under Muslim law as it is universally understood. It makes no difference that, as Senator Obama has written, his father said he renounced his religion. Likewise, under Muslim law based on the Koran his mother’s Christian background is irrelevant. – emphasis mine

The Times never went beyond this statement of reality. Instead they chose to point to his “chosen Christian faith”.

Since asking the question back in May 2008, the NYT and other “legitimate” news sources have conveniently avoided revisiting the question of Obama’s faith. However, in the dust-up created by the proposed Ground Zero Mosque (the so-called Cordoba House), questions of Obama’s faith has once again entered the American discussion.

A Pew Research poll revealed that 1-in-5 Americans believe Barack Hussein Obama to be a submissive of Muhammad’s delusional visions and rantings. A Time poll on the same subject revealed that 1-in-4 believe Obama is a Muslim. Given that Obama has hosted a Ramadan celebration at the White House, snubbed the Boy Scouts of America by not attending their prayer breakfast, and making statements supporting the planned Cordoba House, the American people are beginning to look more closely at the man with the middle name Hussein. But where is the press?

[cue crickets]

While we again wait for the main stream media to catch-up to the American people and ask the tough questions they should have asked prior to November 4, 2008, perhaps we should move on as if they will choose to continue to ignore their responsibilities in favor of being Mr. Obama’s dissemination of propaganda conduit. Although I think that is beginning to wear on the media as well. After-all, who can glean any information out of Robert Gibbs? The man stutters more than Mel Tillis.

As for the Emperor… What I can’t understand is the love affair that American academics have with the moron. I mean, who takes a teleprompter on vacation? Obama, that’s who. For someone who was to be a great departure from the poor rhetorical skills of George W. Bush he seems to be extremely dependent upon prepared remarks. Bush was best when he diverted from the prepared statements. Obama on the other hand can’t function without his teleprompter. Off-the-cuff Obama is a stammering idiot. No wonder he keeps Gibbs. Birds of a feather etc…

And what is with that smug Leninist posing? It’s like he has a need to show that he is superior to everyone else staring off into the distance in an attempt to show he’s a visionary. It’s called arrogance – a disease of the elite.

The American press has failed the American people. To get honest reporting about the Obama Infestation one has to read news sources in the UK. This fact alone should be proof positive of the journalistic malpractice being committed by the American dead trees and alphabets. Save FoxNews, America’s journalistic community is devoid of any integrity as they actively shill for the Progressive Utopian Emperor. And they aren’t even attempting to hide it anymore.

The White House addressed the latest questioning of Obama’s faith by having a Communications underling tell the White House Press Pool that Obama is Christian and he prays everyday. The fact that he prays everyday isn’t the concern of the people. What the people want to know is if he finds the need to orient his body towards Mecca when he does. “He prays everyday” what kind of fools do they think the people are? Muslims pray everyday as well – 5 times!

I don’t give a rat’s ass if he’s a Muslim unless he wants to be President. If he’s the President of the United States, in a time of war, against an enemy that is waging a war in the name of their religion, and that religion is the same one that the President is accused of being a member of, there are questions that need to be answered.

In 1960, many Protestant Americans worried that John F. Kennedy’s Catholic faith would be an impediment to his ability to govern. After-all, who would he be loyal to, the US Constitution which translates into the American people or the Pope. The same should be asked of Obama. Who is he loyal to? The Constitution – which he has a track record of downplaying as a contract of negative liberties – or is he a submissive to Islam? I fear the truth may be that he is a submissive follower of Islam. Especially when he refers to Muhammad’s horror novel as “the holy Qu’ran” and greets Muslims in perfect Arabic.

In 1960, the American press asked the questions and answers were given. John Kennedy WAS elected President and by all accounts his faith never played a direct roll in his governance. However in 2010, nearly 2 years into the Obama Infestation and the American people are still asking the same questions of Barack Hussein Obama. And like all the other questioning of Obama’s past, it gets avoided. Why is it so important for him to shield the American people from his past? Perhaps it is because he’s on a mission that he’s already explained to the American people at $20 a copy. His book “Dreams from My Father” outlines what his father dreamed of for Kenya. Perhaps Junior is following in his absent daddy’s footsteps and wishes to carry on his pappy’s dream in the United States. It’s called Communism.

At a time when the socialist societies of the world are beginning to downsize their governments, Barry O is expanding ours. Why? It fulfills the strategy of instituting socialism outlined by Columbia Professors Richard Cloward and Francis Fox Piven. The Cloward-Piven Strategy to Implement Socialist Revolution was written in 1966 at the height of civil unrest in the United States. Progressives and Socialists believed they could force revolution. The strategy was then and is now to overwhelm the system and cause it to collapse. It’s on its way thanks to Obama’s Keynesian economic policies.

But where is the press?

[more crickets]

I won’t hold my breath.

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A Vote for ANY Dem in November is Approval of the Obama Destruction Agenda

August 17, 2010 Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Hussein Obama Lies, Death Care, Democrat Incompetence, Elections, Fiscal Irresponsibility, News, Opinion, Orwellian Solutions, Pelosi - The Wicked Witch of the West, Presidential Politics, Taxes, The Economy, The Wicked Witch of the West, U.S. House, US Senate, socialism Comments Off

The Emperor is on the campaign trail, well sort of as he has been asked to stay clear of those wishing to actually win their seats. Anyway, he’s attempting to convince the American people to keep Democrats in power. His reasoning? Giving the GOP power will return the country back to the policies of George W. Bush. But is this accurate? No. This reasoning is so inaccurate let me count the ways….

First, Obama is President (like it or not) and he is who sets policy not Congress.

Second, George W. Bush couldn’t win in this political environment. Bush is not seen by Conservatives and Libertarians as someone who reflects the common desires of a smaller, less intrusive government. It was the spending of the 109th Congress under the direction of then policy maker George W. Bush which led to the disaster of the 2006 midterms and a repeat of that disaster in 2008 and the election of Obamaramadingdong. Remember the reasoning why every gullible voter was willing to vote for a vague empty suit. The promise of changing the status quo was too much to resist especially when that promise of change is masked by a cloud of ambiguity.

The election of Barack Hussein Obama was a precursor to a statement made by Nancy Pelosi in the days leading up to the approval of the Death Care bill. Remember when she said, “we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what’s in it”? Yeah that statement. Well in relation to the 2008 Presidential election Obama failed to identify what he wanted to change and what he wanted to change it into. He also failed to define in whom or what we should have hope. It was a calculated effort to keep the American voter away from details because if they knew the agenda prior to his election, he would never have gotten elected.

With Death Care the bill got passed so we could find out what was in it and the people do not approve. Likewise, we now know Obama’s change agenda and it too is not approved of.

Progressivism took a 100 year approach to getting their political will which culminated with the election of Obama. His aggressive agenda has alienated the American people who were looking for fiscal responsibility and freedom. Its far reaching intrusion into the lives of the American people are responsible for the creation of the TEA Party.

Speaking of the TEA Party, isn’t it ironic that the largest threat to the Progressive agenda was born out of said agenda? After-all, what exactly IS the TEA Party? Broadly, it is a rejection of Obama Progressivism and its policies.

Congress is polling at 11% which translates into only 11% of the American people believe that the agenda being forwarded by the Congress is in their best interests. The GOP has been out of power for nearly 4 years. The agenda from January 2007 to present has been a Democrat agenda [Read also: that includes the last 2 years of the Bush Administration] not the agenda of the Republican Party.

The GOP has been attempting to reassure the American people and in particular the Conservative “base” of the Party that they have learned their lesson. That remains to be seen. However, compared to the spendaholic ways of the 110th & 111th Congresses, the spending spree of the 109th seems like a spending binge. Sort of like a weekend spending bender that ends on Sunday morning with a hangover that produces promises of reform whereas the spending ways of the current Congress is better explained as being in a state of perpetual spending intoxication. They avoid the impact of the morning after by staying drunk from the night before. No sobering realization of self destruction, no promises of reform. While the GOP has been forced by the American people into a figurative SA (spending anonymous) 12-step program, the Progressive Democrats have no intention of giving up their drug of choice.

As the Emperor is out on the “campaign trail” remember that he only wants you to keep his party in power so they can spend more, tax more, and pass more legislation which erodes even more of your individual liberties. Also remember, he understands that come January 2011, his party’s majority is gone. He is also well aware of the fact that his Presidency is going to be restricted to 1 term. That is the price he was willing to pay for progressing the Progressive agenda.

This point is driven home by a post on the Democrat friendly Politico…

Q: Will Barack Obama be a one-term president?

A: Yes, he might last that long.

Honest to goodness, the man just does not get it. He might be forced to pull a Palin and resign before his first term is over. He could go off and write his memoirs and build his presidential library. (Both would be half-size, of course.)

The visions of the Fabian Socialists who invaded American academia in the early 20th century have their chance. It is Barack Hussein Obama. If he can’t close the deal before he’s tossed out of office and designated along with Jimmy Carter in the pit known as “the worst US Presidents in US history”, he will have certainly gotten them closer than ever to achieving their ultimate goal in the US, turning it into a full-blown socialist nightmare.

Failing to understand who Obama was in 2008 has resulted in what is occurring now. He can blame Bush all he wants but the truth of the matter is the American people understand that this economy is owned by Barack Hussein Obama and the Progressive leadership of the 111th Congress. No matter how much he tries to re-paint and revise that simple and undeniable truth into “this is all Bush’s fault”, this is his mess and it is getting worse not better due to his neo-socialist/neo-marxist ways.

It is now 2 years later and some of the damage can be controlled if only Congress were controlled by the opposition Party. Perhaps aggressive action can be made by a Republican Congress to curtail some of the more harmful items on the Obama agenda through its power of the purse. But in truth, the Obama years will take at least 18 more years to reverse. Giving Obama and Democrats another 2 years to do more damage double that time frame.

Consequently, if you cast a vote for a Democrat for any office this fall, it will translate into your personal approval of what Obama is doing to this nation. If you cast a vote for anyone, and I mean anyone including Dog Catcher, you are endorsing the complete and utter destruction of the greatest nation this planet has ever experienced. If you think that statement is far fetched, remember what Obama said about the election so Scott Brown. He made the case that it was the same angst with the status quo that swept himself into office which then elected Brown to a traditionally held Democrat seat.

In other words, a Democrat being elected Dog Catcher of your little hamlet will somehow be made to reflect the American people’s endorsement of Democrat policy. So short-circuit that by making sure every Democrat is relegated to political irrelevancy.

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Dems Poised to Feel Wrath of Voters in ’10 Just As GOP Did in ’06 & ’08

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana
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Democrats haven’t learned anything from the failures of the GOP in 2006 and 2008. They have consistently gotten it wrong over the last two election cycles. Democrats falsely believed that the rejection of GOP candidates in the past two election cycles were a rejection of policy. They ran on the mantra of the “Culture of Corruption” and won an unstoppable majority.

Was there corruption in the GOP? Yes there was. Many were beginning to get corrupted by the power that Washington D.C. infects. Many were using their offices to gain personally and others were using legislation to insure re-election. The Pork being enjoyed by many Republican members of Congress in the latter years of the Bush Administration led to the downfall of the GOP.

In 2006 Conservative voters had no one to vote for so they stayed home. In the 2008 Presidential race, the choice was between a Progressive Democrat and a Progressive Republican – Socialist or Socialist Lite. Identity politics played a larger roll than ever before in American politics. The euphoria created by the possibility of electing a minority candidate to the Presidency won over voters and rationale lost.

The GOP’s candidate was selected by the progressive main stream media because they all knew that if given the choice between a Democrat and a Liberal Republican, Conservative voters would bail on the Republican as they did in 2006.

Voter intimidation and fraud did play a roll in the 2008 races as well. But yet, the Obama Infestation doesn’t have any interest in making sure those crimes are never again repeated. After-all, they benefited from those crimes.

Since taking office, Obama and Nancy Pelosi have led their party to the far left. The sheer growth of the federal government and the near Imperial powers now granted to the President by this Congress must have the founding fathers rolling in their graves. The result of all this growth in government is record high deficits which are 4 times the size of those that led to the downfall of the GOP in 2006.

The $427 Billion deficit racked up by the Bush Administration in 2005 pales in comparison to $1.42 Trillion 2009 short-fall and seem like nothing in comparison to the projected 2010 deficit of $1.75 Trillion. To put the Bush deficits into context, during his 8 years in office, Bush added $4.9 Trillion to the national debt. If you just take the past two years in to account, Obama has already added $3.17 Trillion. If left unchecked with a hypothetical returning Democrat majority for the next 2 years, Obama’s contribution to the national debt over 4 years in office would be an estimated $6.34 Trillion and likely more.

Debt and corruption were the GOP’s undoing in 2006 and 2008. Now, the Democrats are facing 4 times the debt and double the corruption. The current Treasury Secretary is a known tax cheat. The former Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee is as well as evidenced by his 13 ethics violations and pending criminal indictment (because we all know there is an indictment in the works). Another Democrat member of Congress faces an ethics battle. Pelosi has failed to “drain the swamp” and seems to have encouraged her members to seek out ways to exploit the earmark process.

Nancy Pelosi’s most ethical and most transparent Congress in history is about to fall flat under the weight of its ethics violations and shady back-room deals. Remember what she said about the Death Care bill?

“We have to pass the bill so you can find out what’s in it.”

How about that transparency Nancy?

I won’t hold my breath waiting for her to answer.

Now Pelosi has another shell game in the works. As the school year is about to begin and the financially strapped states have less money to dole out for education, SanFran Nan and her band of miscreants are calling the House back into session in the middle of the August recess in order to pass “emergency” legislation totaling an additional $26 Billion in spending for teachers. Ask the question “why?” since nearly half of the American Robbery and Redistribution Act money is still unspent. After-all, wasn’t that supposed to fund police, firemen, and – umm, who else… that’s right – TEACHERS so they wouldn’t lose their jobs?

People this is nothing more than as cheap game of 3-card Monty. Chase the red queen but there is no queen on the table. It’s a ploy for votes and nothing more. The funds are already allocated to save teachers’ jobs if the Infestation wished to use it; but they don’t. They’d rather Pelosi do a little grand standing in order to buy some more votes and in the process increase the debt a little bit more in order to justify more tax increases in the future. You see if they use already appropriated funding to “save teaching jobs” it doesn’t make headlines. No headlines, no votes.

Before you go to vote on November 2nd remember a couple of very important items.

Obama promised that if the “stimulus” (aka the American Robbery and Redistribution Act) were passed unemployment wouldn’t go any higher than 8%. How’s that 9.5% unemployment feeling America? Or how about the estimated 17% – 24% underemployment for that matter?
Pelosi promised to drain the swamp and yet one Congressman has been sent to prison for taking bribes, and two more are under Ethics Committee investigations and expected to be expelled.
Democrats rode a wave of discontent over Republican deficits in 2006 and 2008 but the current budget deficit is 4 times higher.

And finally I want you to ask yourself a question…

Is your family better off today than you were in 2006?

OH.. before I go. I have a little misconception to clear up.

That surplus that all you Clintonian drones like to point to that Bush destroyed with his deficit spending… That was the brain child of a Republican. Rep. John Kasich of Ohio wrote the budget that created that surplus. Kasich is currently running for Governor of Ohio. And much to the dismay of Obama and Uncle Ted (Strickland), he’s leading in that race. And for the record… Uncle Ted rode that anti-GOP wave in 2006. Remember the quote at the top Uncle Ted.

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The Editorial Assassination of Grand Lake St Marys

July 23, 2010 Barack Hussein Obama, Death Care, Energy, Fiscal Irresponsibility, Fiscal Responsibility, Liberal MSM Bias, Libtards on Parade, MSM Ignorance, News, Ohio Politics, Opinion, Stupidity Comments Off

Today Mrs. Gribbit got a bit hot under the collar because of what some moron wrote in the Dayton Daily News about Grand Lake St Marys, the largest inland lake in Ohio. In order that the story is put into proper context, let me explain why Grand Lake St Marys is in the news to begin with.

There are two types of foreign algae growing in the lake that are producing neuro-toxic gasses. The state of Ohio has issued warnings not to come into contact with water in the lake. The exact source of the algae is unknown but agricultural run-off is highly suspected.

The author of an editorial in the Dayton Daily News puts the blame of not monitoring local farmers squarely on “local officials” in Grand Lake St Marys “community”. This infers that the “local officials” are a single body of elected persons who are charged with protection of the natural resources around the lake. Problem, because Grand Lake St Marys is located in two counties, there is no single body of “local officials” charged with said responsibilities. Each county has a different set of government officials.

As-far-as the local geography, on the Auglaize County side of the lake, I can think of no farms coming into direct contact with the lake. Between the city of St Marys and Grand Lake, there is a state park. South of the State Park on the eastern shore of the lake is a retirement community and a housing development which includes channels and boat slips accessing the lake. It isn’t until you cross the county line into Mercer County on the south side of the lake that you encounter any farm land. On the north side of the lake is a highway connecting St Marys with Mercer County’s largest city Celina, Ohio.

It is true that there are many farms in both Auglaize and Mercer Counties which raise livestock however, most of the farm land in both counties is used to raise grains. Corn, wheat, and soybeans are the cash crops of the area not as the article suggests cattle, hogs, and chickens.

As one who has been transplanted to the area from Ashtabula, OH via Dayton, I can say for certain that Auglaize and Mercer Counties do not raise as much livestock as other communities in this state. There are fewer dairies, cattle farms, hog farms, and chicken farms around here then there are in the eastern part of the state. That said however, I’ve not heard of Pymatuning Lake, Mosquito Lake, or Lake Erie being polluted by run-off from dairy and cattle farms. So that in itself renders the editorial writer’s point moot.

Several years ago, during the height of the spike in gasoline prices, many people began buying flex-fuel vehicles which utilize a fuel called E-85 as a way to keep their fuel consumption low. Ethanol was touted as a clean renewable alternative to gasoline and oil because it was refined corn. The process for distilling corn into alcohol (ethanol) produces a bi-product which can be expensive to dispose of or further refine into a substance as clean as drinking water.

In Lima, OH, there was an ethanol plant which did not have the facilities to further refine the corn-based bi-product into a clean material. Instead, they opted to give it to local farmers to spray on their fields to replace nutrients and many local farmers took advantage of this. Many of the local people suspect that it is this substance which has leeched into Grand Lake St Marys and I tend to agree with them. My reasoning? I find it difficult to believe that a new algae can develop from run-off that has been in the area for decades. Those farms aren’t new and neither are the crops or livestock they raise; but the algae is.

The only component recently added to the equation is that ethanol bi-product and yet, there is no mention of this in the Dayton Daily News editorial. Why? I suspect the political agenda of the green movement is preventing the idea of “a clean, renewable, alternative to gasoline” actually being a pollutant from being discussed. The greenies were so anxious to motivate the American economy away from oil that it seized an opportunity to push E-85 as a solution without knowing exactly what can of worms they were about to open. In typical liberal fashion, they pushed an idea as a solution without fully understanding what the long-range impact of their decisions would be. We see this with every liberal program, short-sightedness and myopia. Now, an entire community is made to suffer because of decisions at the federal level.

It is true that the farmers of the area had a choice to not accept the bi-product they sprayed on their fields but who among you would not jump at the chance to replace an expensive fertilizer with what is being marketed to you as a free, environmentally friendly, alternative to phosphates, ammonia-nitrate, and other harmful chemicals? Not one.

Lets face it campers, farmers do not have time to research the safety of a product. They take information provided to them and make their decisions. If someone is telling them that they are doing a good thing for the environment using this product which is derived from corn instead of chemical fertilizer, what farmer wouldn’t make that decision? Again, not one.

Now there are TWO foreign algae growing in the water of Grand Lake St Marys that are producing toxic gasses. The state says, “do not come in contact with the water”. There is a state park on the shores of this same lake and yet, the author of the Dayton Daily News editorial gripes about state and federal funding being used to clean up the lake. He would rather it remain a toilet than to clean it up. The state of Ohio has the responsibility for that lake not as he implies “local officials” which are difficult to identify.

In the event you are not aware of the origins of Grand Lake St Marys, it was build by man to feed into the Miami and Erie Canal. The federal government paid for the lake to be dug in the first place so that goods could be transported from Lake Erie to the Mississippi via the Great Miami and Ohio rivers. Grand Lake St Marys was hand dug in order to supply water to the canal that made connecting Lake Erie with the river systems possible.

Before I go, let me just remind the author of the Daily News editorial that if not for Grand Lake St Marys, Dayton itself would never have grown to the size that its become. No Grand Lake, no canal. No canal, no trade on the Great Miami River. Food for thought.

As a Conservative, I agree that federal spending is out of control and needs to be curtailed. But why not start with Obama’s failed Porkulus, his invasive health care takeover, or other federal programs that are nothing more than political payoffs to labor unions; and take care of our waterways with the money saved? You know, spend money on the things we’re supposed to spend money on instead of paying off the special interests? Sounds logical to me.

/rant

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Obama “The Jobs Killer” and Uncle Teddy – Ohio’s Recipe for Disaster

July 6, 2010 Barack Hussein Obama, Democrat Incompetence, Elections, Fiscal Irresponsibility, Fiscal Responsibility, News, Ohio Politics, Opinion, Stupidity, Taxes, The Economy Comments Off

Many of you know already that I refer to Barack Hussein Obama as “The Emperor”; however, I also have a nickname for the Governor of Ohio that is just as scathing. I call Ted Strickland “Uncle Ted or Uncle Teddy” in the same mold as “Uncle Ho” for Ho Chi Minh. I mention this only to put the title of this post into context.

Earlier today, I was reading an editorial written by Wayne Allyn Root that appeared in the Las Vegas Review-Journal in which the author ripped apart The Emperor as being “Obama “The Jobs Killer”. He said…

Obama is as hopeless, helpless, clueless and bankrupt of good ideas as the manager of the Chicago Cubs in late September. This “community organizer” knows as much about private-sector jobs as Pamela Anderson knows about nuclear physics.

It’s time to call Obama what he is: The Great Jobs Killer. With his massive spending and tax hikes — rewarding big government and big unions, while punishing taxpayers and business owners — Obama has killed jobs, he has killed motivation to create new jobs, he has killed the motivation to invest in new businesses, or expand old ones. With all this killing, Obama should be given the top spot on the FBI’s Most Wanted List.

Not a word of these passages do I disagree with for the record. However, if Obama deserves “the top spot on the FBI’s Most Wanted List” Uncle Teddy deserves a spot right next to him.

Since he assumed the post of Ohio’s Chief Executive, he has so severely mismanaged our state budget that libraries in this state are operating under reduced hours, mental hospitals have been closed, museums have had to find new sources of funding, and the state’s largest inland man-made lake is polluted with an unknown substance which has caused the formation of two types of algae that are expelling neuro-toxic gasses. On top of all of this malfeasance, the state of Ohio has been hemorrhaging jobs during Uncle Ted’s watch to a tune of 500,000 jobs that will NEVER return. NCR has left the state utilizing Obama’s Porkulus Package to relocate to another state, DHL is gone, and GM Moraine is closed taking with it many large and small support companies. Yet he has the bold-faced audacity to run for another term?!?

Since I have brought up the subject of the polluting of Grand Lake St. Marys, let me add that the local population has a few yet unproven theories about what may have been the root cause.

A few years ago when gasoline prices spiked near $5.00 per gallon, many in this country were touting ethanol as a potential source of clean-cheap fuel. Problem – the production of ethanol is not exactly clean.

During the distillation process, a bi-product mash is produced. Rather than refining that mash down, a local ethanol plant was distributing it to local farmers to spread on their fields. The idea was that it is made from corn so it should be safe for the soil. That may be, but it isn’t safe for ground water. Some of the fields which were treated with this substance are within a couple of dozen yards of Grand Lake St. Marys. Locals are speculating that it was this substance that probably leached into the lake which is causing the release of these neuro-toxins. Not to mention, the air quality around the lake is horrendous.

The State has issued a warning about the lake. No swimming, no fishing, and if you use the lake for sport, do not come in contact with the water. Wonderful! Makes me want to jump on a SeaDoo for an afternoon in the sun! NOT!

How about we return to reason? How about the people of the state deciding to not allow an inept political hack like Strickland to remain in charge? How about electing someone who has a plan to return our state to economic stability? How about electing someone who authored the budget that resulted in the federal budget surplus that Bill Clinton is so often credited with? That person is former United States Congressman John Kasich.

John has a plan to return Ohio to economic stability. Uncle Ted doesn’t. John has a plan to attract new business to Ohio. Uncle Ted doesn’t. John doesn’t see the solution to the state’s budget deficit in new and expanded taxes. Uncle Ted does.

So how about November 2nd being Uncle Ted’s notice to clean out his desk? Elect John Kasich because our state needs someone with a plan.

[NOTE] The ethanol plant cited in this post was closed in 2008 due to economic insolvency. Define that as ethanol being economically nonviable.

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AZ Immigration Law Opposition Ignorant of It

May 18, 2010 Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Hussein Obama Lies, Chicago Politics Goes National, Democrat Incompetence, Elections, Fiscal Irresponsibility, Illegal Immigration, Liberal MSM Bias, MSM Ignorance, News, Obama Fascism, Opinion, Orwellian Solutions, Presidential Distortions, Presidential Politics, Taxes, socialism Comments Off

Over the past week or so, a steady stream of news accounts documenting the Infestation’s complete ignorance to the Arizona Immigration Law speaks volumes about what this President and his people think of the rest of America. Their seemingly uniform opposition and condemnation of a law that none of them have even bothered to read is the epitome of arrogance.

A pattern is emerging about this President and his people that is rather unflattering to say the least. From the time when he unilaterally condemned the Cambridge Police for acting “stupidly” in the Henry Louis Gates dust-up, Mr. Obama set the narrative for his reign as Commander-in-Chief. “Take your ques from the Huffington Post, the Daily KOS, Keith Olbermann, and Chris Matthews, never mind the truth just get a statement out. We’ll worry about altering the public perception of what is true later.” [note: links omitted intentionally]

Yes, I accuse this Infestation of attempting to alter the perception of truth. Like the fictional “Oceania” in George Orwell’s ‘Nineteen-Eighty-Four’, this President and his Infestation thinks it can alter your perception of the facts by changing the language and skewing the narrative; and they have become frustrated when they meet opposition to their shell game.

Last Thursday we learned that Attorney General Eric Holder never read the Arizona Immigration Law prior to his statements condemning it. In the past few days, we have learned that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano hasn’t read it either even though she says that she wouldn’t have signed it. We also find out that at least one key member of the State Department also hasn’t read the law [see video]. This revelation comes after the Emperor apologized to China for our “human rights violations” due to its passage.

The following is a video of Assistant Secretary of State P.J. Crowley admitting that he hasn’t read the Arizona law but the law will lead to racial profiling. How can he say that if he hasn’t read it? H/T: Breitbart.tv

This President and his Infestation aren’t concerned with the truth, they’ll tell you what the truth is. At least that is their attitude. Your resistance, however, confuses them. “How dare you not believe them! How dare you believe the opposition to Obama’s Progressive “fundamental” destruction of America!”

The T.E.A. Party is growing and, dare I say, includes people who actually voted for Obama. People are realizing that the intoxicating affects of Obamania have worn off and it has left the mother of all hangovers behind. Unemployment numbers are unacceptably high. The deficit has quadrupled in a single year. The National Debt is unsustainable. But never mind all that! Our prodigal President’s answer to everything is to not only continue to spend more money and raise taxes, but to create new taxes as well.

Obama, his Infestation, and their surrogates in this real life “Ministry of Truth” (aka: the main stream media) are forced to oppose anything that becomes an impediment to the legalization of millions of new Democrat voters. That’s right. Their opposition to the Arizona law is all about votes in 2012 nothing more. That is why they don’t need to bother to read the Arizona Law. They will just oppose it on its face because it is a problem for Obama in 2012.

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This is News? Health Overhaul Will Increase Nation’s Tab

April 23, 2010 Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Hussein Obama Lies, Death Care, Democrat Corruption, Democrat Incompetence, Fiscal Irresponsibility, Liberal MSM Bias, Libtards on Parade, Lunatic Lefties, MSM Ignorance, News, Opinion, Orwellian Solutions, Presidential Distortions, Presidential Politics, The Economy, This is News?, socialism Comments Off

I have for a very long time avoided using as a primary source any news agency other than FoxNews.com. My reason is obvious, they don’t skew the news with commentary and they don’t attempt to hide commentary as news. This is in direct contrast to what the liberal media and the moron who resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. would have you believe.

With the exception of references to articles obtained through the use of news aggrigators like The Drudge Report, almost all of the real news referenced here comes from Fox. That said however, there are times when even Fox will print something that makes you think, “What the hell were they thinking”. Case in-point, today’s headline reading, “Report: Health Overhaul Will Increase Nation’s Tab“.

Granted, this is an AP article so it is going to be filled with leftist spin and propaganda. All the news that’s fit to print as approved by the Obama Ministry of Truth. But give me a break, the AP and Fox actually think this is news? Every single person opposed to the Death Care bill knew that it would cost HUGE sums of money to implement. If the polls were correct in the closing days the number of Americans opposed to ObamaCare were in excess of 70% but they passed it anyway. We all knew the Emperor was lying through his teeth so why does it seem that the AP is shocked by this revelation? Because the referenced report originated from within the Obama Infestation.

The report in question was written by “economic experts” at the Department of Health and Human Services. The only news in the report is finding out that the Department of Health and Human Services actually employ “economic experts” but their conclusions aren’t news.

From the AP article on FoxNews.com:

A report by economic experts at the Health and Human Services Department said the health care remake will achieve Obama’s aim of expanding health insurance — adding 34 million Americans to the coverage rolls.

But the analysis also found that the law falls short of the president’s twin goal of controlling runaway costs, raising projected spending by about 1 percent over 10 years. That increase could get bigger, however, since the report also warned that Medicare cuts in the law may be unrealistic and unsustainable, forcing lawmakers to roll them back. emphasis mine

Anything new here? Beyond the Infestation finally admitting there are no savings and it isn’t even “deficit neutral” nothing new in my opinion. It says that the taxpayers will see an increase in federal spending due to this bill of 1% over 10 years only if the Medicare cuts are put into place. But we all know that won’t happen so that 1% will explode by $500 billion.

They passed the bill on the backs of seniors and the disabled.

It had to get done. It is an emergency. People are dying because of the lack of health care. If we don’t get this done, millions of children will be in danger.

This was all a bunch of male bovine excrement from the start. First off, it is illegal for any hospital to turn away someone in need of emergency health care. We all know that. Even illegal aliens know this fact. That is why they sneak across the border to an American hospital to drop their anchor babies on US soil. Secondly, there was no emergency. If ObamaCare had failed to pass, nothing different would happen. Progressive control of you – the proletariat – would be delayed.

American Socialists [see also: Progressives, Liberals, Populists] have been on a mission to gain control of the US health care system since the beginning of the last century. This quest has been their goal since Woodrow Wilson was Emperor. They think they’ve got it done but… it’s finality is in question.

Ask yourself, “why would Obama make Death Care the keystone of his reign?” Because his keystone was not the health of America, it was the advancement of Progressivism [see also: Socialism, Liberalism, Populism]. His goal was to get done all that which his Liberal [see also: Socialist, Progressive, Populist] predecessors were unable to get done. Wilson wanted universal health care as did FDR, Truman, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton. Once the government controls the purse strings of your health, they control you. Hello Big Brother. What’s next? Change the name of our nation to Oceania? Telescreens? How about the Thought Police?

Orwell wrote:

If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there in those disregarded masses, eighty-five per cent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated.[1]

You my dear reader are a “prole” in Orwell’s “Newspeak”. So am I and all the others of us out here in middle America who are against this massive government takeover of our lives. As Orwell wrote in ’1984′, we the “disregarded masses” could be the force to destroy “the Party”. And we must if we ever hope for our way of life to survive. Because Obama and his “Party” are destined to destroy it unless we act.

Note: This post has prompted me to create a new category for this blog – This Is News?

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So Much for a REPRESENTATIVE Government

March 18, 2010 Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Hussein Obama Lies, Communism, Death Care, Democrat Corruption, Fiscal Irresponsibility, News, Obama Fascism, Opinion, Orwellian Solutions, Pelosi - The Wicked Witch of the West, Presidential Distortions, Presidential Politics, The Wicked Witch of the West, U.S. House, US Senate, United States Constitution, socialism Comments Off

The US House today released the text of their Death Care Reconciliation bill which assumes the Senates Death Care bill was passed. This is the Slaughter rule in action.

By releasing this text, SanFran Nan and her lackey Steny Hoyer are making a unilateral decision to create a law in spite of the wishes of 73% of the American people who do not want this bill to become law. Pelosi and Hoyer, with the help of Louise Slaughter, are passing legislation that an estimated 217 members of the House would vote “NO” on.

The bill they are about to deem passed cannot pass the Senate today. Add to that the fact that it won’t be voted on in the House. The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that each House MUST pass the same language of a bill to comply with Article I Section 7.[1] What about each House MUST pass the same language does the Speaker and her cohorts not understand?

In a sense, their joint contempt for and perversion of the legislative process of this country is putting us on the verge of a dictatorial system where a President (in this case Emperor Obama) and a couple of minions in key positions (Pelosi and Reid) can in a sense ignore the Will of the People and do whatever they want. Why must Death Care pass? Because Obama wants it to pass. No other real reason. 85% of Americans like the health care plan they have now but Obamacare will likely put an end to that health care.

To this point, I’ve referred to Barack Obama as “The Emperor” in jest. But as of now it is no longer funny it is a very scary reality. His is assuming Imperial power with the aid of Nancy Pelosi, Steney Hoyer, and Harry Reid – The Emperor and his Legislative Jesters. He does have an interesting looking Court doesn’t he?

Assuming this thing goes forward on Sunday, expect several lawsuits to be filed on Monday challenging the Constitutionality of the procedure used to “pass” the Death Care bill. Once a federal court, any federal court, agrees to hear the case, the whole mess goes on hold. As I’ve said before, it could take YEARS for a final ruling.

To make a legitimate attempt at repeal, the Congress will need to shift power and there must be a 2/3rds majority in support of repeal to survive an Imperial veto. [Note: I did not strike out Imperial because that is in fact what it is at this point]

Relying on a 2/3rds majority for repeal in 2011 is a gamble; however if the federal court system can tie-up the bill’s enforcement until January 20, 2013, Death Care can die the death it so richly deserves. This is because after January 20, 2013, a repeal effort wouldn’t require a 2/3rds majority because Obama’s successor is going to be ready with the pen to sign the repeal of that POS Death Care bill the day he/she takes office and it never has to do any damage.

As of this writing, the votes in support of the rule are falling short of the 216 required for passage in the House. The proof will be in the pudding come Sunday afternoon and evening. If the vote does not happen before midnight, the votes do not and will not ever exist. Why else would Obama indefinitely postpone his planned trip to Asia? The ONLY reason for his not going is a lack of votes and Pelosi needs him in DC to twist arms.

Those voting “yes” against the will of their constituents will be facing the very real possibility of losing in November. If the Emperor promised these people appointments for their “yes” votes at the expense of their re-election, those appointments have the real possibility of coming before a Republican controlled Senate for “advice and consent”[2] also known as a confirmation hearing. What are the chances of an affirmative vote for confirmation of these appointments? Ask Senator Tom Coburn who informed “yes” voting Democrats today of what would happen.

The truth is, Representatives are selling their votes. The Emperor has convinced a bunch of them to “take one for the team” and in doing so doomed them to an early retirement from the House. So what has he promised them? There has to be something in it for them. What did Denny sell? Kucinich got on Air Force One on Monday at Andrews a “NO” vote and landed at Hopkins Airport a “No Comment” – translation “maybe”. Wednesday he’s a “Yes” vote in spite of his repeated announcements that he could not support a bill which did not include a “robust public option”.

Those on the far left who have been holding out for a “robust public option” are being wooed by The Emperor with language that says, “this is just the starting point”. Obama has said that single-payer is the goal but it isn’t realistic to get there overnight. You just can flip a switch and change without a trans-formative step. This is their trans-formative step. [Note: Not sure if trans-formative is an actual word but The Emperor uses it a lot] He said that Canada didn’t get to single-payer without this same trans-formative step.

Great. Look how well Canada’s system works.

My wife and I spend a tremendous amount of time at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and out in front of the main sections of the hospital known as the concourse there is a circle for traffic picking up patients. In the center of that circle there are 8 international flags representing the 8 countries from which the most international patients have come for treatment. Canada always has a flag displayed. There has never been a visit there when there hasn’t been a Canadian flag flying out in front of that hospital. NEVER. Witness by my own eyes so I do not have a citation because I am the source. I’ll let you judge the Canadian health system based solely on that fact.

MEMBERS OF THE US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES:

WE DO NOT WANT THIS TO PASS!
QUIT TINKERING WITH THE RULES AND LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE!
END THIS NOW!

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Article I Section 7 – Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a law, be presented to the President of the United States: [↩]
Article II Section 2 – He shall have Power,… and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, [↩]

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