The World According to Me.

I am not a true baseball fan but I am a sports fan. Man I love this World Series. Any time that a game can be determined by the pitcher alone, is awesome.

For the first time in nearly two years the GDP is up. Woohoo. However, how true is that figure? Unemployment is near 10%, interest rates from the Fed have flat-lined, debt has passed one trillion dollars. The problem here is that the "good news" is propped up by bad actions. Cash for Clunkers, flat interest rates, Government stimulus all of these aspects are UNSUSTAINABLE. What does that mean? That this growth, is fake. It is a misrepresentation of current situations for the "hope" that it makes people feel good. Remember, Obama Money is YOUR MONEY. Ask yourself this, what has all this stimulus and redistribution done to help your personal situation.

Well it finally came out, the Bush Administration had emails from the EPA on global warming that proclaimed there was a chance certain emissions were potentially killing people. What the email probably didn’t say is that the EPA has been vastly inaccurate in the past with such proclamations. But why focus on that when you can simply say “see, Bush was bad”. Liar, liar pants on fire Opps EPA: http://philadelphia.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/stories/2009/05/11/daily21.html http://domesticfuel.com/2009/07/02/epa-official-wrong-on-ethanol-and-biodiesel-yields/ http://www.lre.usace.army.mil/_kd/Items/actions.cfm?action=Show&item_id=3269&destination=ShowItem http://www.takoma.com/archives/copy/2004/03/epa.html http://www.computertakeback.com/recycling/Whats_Wrong_With_R2.pdf http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2009/06/16/does-epa-have-the-wrong-gas/ http://www.heritage.org/Press/FactSheet/fs0034.cfm http://www2.fluoridealert.org/Pollution/Aluminum-Industry/Eastalco-claims-EPA...

So we claim to be fond of the European style of democracy and pseudo-socialism. Everyone works equally, gets paid equally and all things are just. They are just, just not accurate. London has led a bandwagon of simply ignoring debt to cover social progress. It was always viewed as "the debt will figure itself out", well..it hasn't. Now London finds itself in quite a predicament. It needs to drum up money and the preferred method, selling off property and assets. Now when a business begins this process it is called 'liquidation' and is usually a pre-cursor to bankruptcy and overall failure. But, hey, social progress is awesome and the ends justify the means. Right? London Bridge is Falling Down

Any corporation of good size has corruption. It is inevitable, on one level or another. This is because whenever you put large groups together under the guise of a common cause, for PROFIT, you will have issues. There is no corporation or government organization in the United States of America that doesn't have some level of corruption somewhere within the organization. Now does that mean you wreck the 'system' or 'corporation' to rid the 15% or less that could be problematic, of course not. But you do remove the issues when you find them and make adjustments to, at least, attempt to remove the possibility in the future. Now when FOXNews runs over 300 stories talking about ACORN corruption, this is misleading as it would lead you to believe the entire entity was problematic (ENRON-esque). When any logical person would conclude "there are bad apples in every bunch". What should enrage individuals/citizens is the fact that most news agencies (or groups calli...

Health care costs more now than it did 10 years ago. Wow, really? Nobody ever said it wasn't expensive and needed a cost fix (cough, lawyers, cough). People don't want the government to run it. Why is that so hard for liberals to get? Maybe they need to read what Hitler and Facists were pimping in the 20-30's...shocker...HEALTHCARE and the ENVIRONMENT....woohoo.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2009/09/15/quijano.tea.party.racial.cnn Yup...that's right. So there were some SERIOUS Uncle Tom's with Bush then.

This book really illustrates how America has the long term memory of a Goldfish, personally I blame reality TV :) The book takes a deep look at America in the 1920-30's per WWII and reviews America's collective opinion on Progressivisim, Socialisim, Nazisim and Facisim. You'll be surprised.

How to solve the Health Care issues in the United States of America. To solve the problem of “health care” in the USA we must first define the problem. The conditioned problem has been access and costs. To address these two primary concerns you must first address the three elements that control them, namely: Pharmaceuticals, Litigation, Tax-funded option. In this white paper we will discuss, in brief but thoroughly, how to address the health care issue as defined above. Tax-funded Option Much like with the public school system, public library, trash and recycling services the public in mass has agreed that some social needs are attainable under a Capitalist society. In keeping with this tradition that some help to the masses from the masses is sustainable in a Capitalist environment we suggest the following: Tiered- Health Care Service. Tier I: Tier I applies to children under the age of 18. This service would be entirely taxpayer paid for children that cannot be covered under other ti...

Dear Senator, As you may or may not be aware the majority of US Citizens are NOT in favor of the Administrations proposed Health Care Plan. This plan, adds an insane level of complexity to the health care system and in this removes my ability to choose the insurance I want, to petition companies the way in which I want and to access the services I want without some level of Government interference. The secondary issue with this proposed effort is the cost. There is no fixed answer on cost. President Obama has failed drastically to show where and how this insane level of spending will come from. “Taxing the rich” as is commonly thrown around on the hill and by the administration is NOT ACCEPTABLE. The highest paid 5% in the US pay over 30% of the income tax, the top 50% pay 94% of the income tax, this is BY NO MEANS FAIR! When did the United States of America encourage the methodology of “tax the other guy as long as it isn’t me”. This is non-sense. However the cost and the loss of pers...

It is amazing that people insist on throwing sand back and forth in the sandbox. "Well we may suck but you did to", what kind of 3rd grade argument is that? And CNN, primary Ruben Navarrette...keeps it going. Try to be an adult # Story Highlights # Ruben Navarrette: Obama administration mishandled health debate # He says president hasn't been clear on what he wants or how to pay for it # He says Republicans blame Obama for spending without admitting their own role # Navarrette: Republicans botched efforts to reform Social Security

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You couldn't ask for more vindication for the working class. Watching elite Senators sit in a state of confusion because they can't understand why the people they work for are so tired of their non-sense. The vast majority of town hall meetings to discuss health care, since Congress left for the summer, have ended in devastation with..in come cases..congresspersons being escorted away from their own event by police. I'm not advocating violence by any means but it is nice to see people finally get off the couch and express their opinion. It is also amazing to watch the Democratic and Liberal media try to say "the GOP or RNC is setting this up" cause God knows, someone with a 51% approval rating and a Congress with a 30% approval rating can't have any enemies. Wake up already.

As a nation the US now seems hell bent on supporting the lowest common denominator. Individuals who, without personal discretion, spent more than they had, lived a very socialist lifestyle sucking off the tit of others and now the government using the tax dollars of responsible individuals to pay for it. The vast majority of income tax is paid by the top 5% earners in the US, 94% of all income tax is paid by the top 50%. How about we STOP scrapping the bottom of the barrel and lowering the bar of success to allow failure to be rewarded. Individual bankruptcy was up 34% last month. So with all this stimulus, where are those individuals "bailouts"? I guess they can make up part of our 10% unemployment now. It truly amazes me how people can have a high approval rating of this administration when they have assisted in double digit unemployment and a 13.5+% deficit spending (it was 4% when Bush left office, so you can't blame them..sorry). I can only imagine what this place wi...

Remember: IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institu...

Father's Day is tomorrow and I can't help but think about my dad. I look back on his life and his times and I am constantly amazed. The things this man saw and the events he went through are substantial. This is a man that was born in the 1940's. In his youth he saw the close of World War II, the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the assassination of a US President, a man on the moon, Vietnam, the dawn of technology, the birth of the Internet and numerous other universal events that I had to read about in a history book for the most part. I think about my father often. The life he lived and lives, the things he has seen and the things he has overcome. My dad was born the son of a Marine in the bowels of South Philadelphia. He spent his days going to Catholic school and playing stick-ball, basketball and any other sport with his friends. He started working when he was barely a teen. Unlike today's youth he didn't complain about having to work at the age of 16 or ...

So regardless of income, you'd get it. This is a GREAT idea. At some point this nation has got to start rewarding those amongst us (the vast majority actually) that paid their bills and live within their means. For to long we've been playing second fiddle to the failures of society. The odds of a responsible person making responsible choices with a 15k tax credit is far more probably than a person who got in a loan for much more than they could afford with no plan of paying it back. Simply bailing out foreclosure after foreclosure is and endless cycle of stupidity. Finally someone in Congress has realized you can not routinely punish successful and responsible individuals. Good on yah

A woman in a hot air balloon realized she was lost. She lowered her altitude and spotted a man in a boat below. She shouted to him, "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am." The man consulted his portable GPS and replied, "You're in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above a ground elevation of 2,346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude. "She rolled her eyes and said, "You must be a Republican." "I am," replied the man.. "How did you know?" "Well," answered the balloonist, "everything you told me is technically correct. But I have no idea what to do with your information, and I'm still lost. Frankly, you've not been much help to me." The man smiled and responded, "You must be an Obama Democrat." "I am," replied the balloonist. ...

What I think I think: I see all these notes flying around on CNN and other 'news' (used loosely) agencies that say "America - how can it repair its image with Muslims?". Hmm, well how about the fact that a recent poll said 1 in 5 (yes only 20%) of Americans had a favorable view of Muslim countries. Kind of hard to have an outward 'happy face' when internally you hate the person. Maybe we should stop caring about what other groups/countries think about us until we get our house in order. If 80% of citizens don't particularly like a group, you need to fix that first and find out why that is before you being fake patches to make everyone feel good. If you're American what have you got on the bad corner: 1) 9/11 terrorist attacks which killed more people than Pearl Harbor 2) Beheading of US citizens 3) 2 attacks on the World Trade Center 4) Bombings of US embassies in Africa 5) Constant threats against Israel (a US ally) 6) Moves towards Nuclear weapons 7)...

The ultimate driving machine.

Since it is more than debatable that humans effect on the climate will destroy it for human life, enviro-nazis (including governments) are altering their data. Since the days of Sam Kinison when he'd joke about "we have deserts, we don't live in them because nothing grows there" we have pretty much all expected death from malaria, disease and famine to be high in African countries. However now people are saying you can see the effects of humans on the climate by looking at death tolls in Africa from things like, hmm, Malaria and famine. Ridiculous. There are real things humans could do to lessen their damage tally, such as solar powered communities or hydro powered towns, but that would be too obvious. It is far more innocuous and convoluted to say general climate effects. That opens a lot more purses than simply solar or hydro power, things that have been around for decades. BS on the Evo

Sorry, you break in to rob a joint, it is on. I don't care if he shot you 15 times at point blank range...don't break in! Stupid system we have here. dumb

Awesome. As a LIFE NRA member, I couldn't be more happy. Routinely bills are piggy-backed for liberal concerns, it is great to see a BOR concern get in. I also find it highly hilarious that the vast majority of municipality, city, county, state and federal laws pertaining to restricting gun, are generally SHOT down. That should tell us something, the majority is IN FAVOR of guns, not opposed to them. They are IN FAVOR of enforcing existing laws, not appending new ones.

To all the folks and politicians who want to 'close GITMO' I will ask you this, fine then, take the prisoners of this institution and keep them entirely in your state. They will become YOUR responsibility. The military has effectively handled them for nearly a decade, but some feel a necessity to interfere in something they can't comprehend. I was ecstatic to see that Obama was shut down on funding, maybe politicians are finally listening to the people in their states who routinely vote against bringing these persons to the USA. And this qualification of adding them to a SUPERMAX facility because 'other terrorists' are there, please elaborate 99% of these "other terrorists" were domestic, aka US CITIZENS! Hence, jailed in a US JAIL. Stop interpreting half of the story to benefit a non-common interest.

Ah, please explain what sense it makes during a recession/depression with the lowest GDP/Spending Drops since the 1950's, and Chrysler in Bankruptcy with GM following, to levy a new government regulation on the car industry? Obama wants to place a 35.5mpg mandate on vehicles in the US by 2016 (conveniently when Obama no longer will be in office). Exactly how can he do this, oh that's right, because the US government bought controlling interest in auto companies. Go socialism. 35.5 my @ss

The Obamaman Can Hilarious.

I'll take any Supreme Court judge as long as they aren't black. Could you imagine if Obama said something like that? Or if the US Congress said something like that? Pretty sure that would be a ACLU nightmare led by the league leader, Rev. Sharpton. But for some reason, when Congress and the President dictate (without saying it verbally) that the next Supreme Court nominee can NOT be a white man, nobody has a problem with it. Is there still that much guilt in this society? Apparently the best person for the job doesn't matter, but color and sex do. The Supreme Courts job is to enforce the rule of law, not to create or model it. When Obama says things like wanting judges to understand the plaintiff or defendants' 'life' that is a huge problem. The Supreme Courts role, and the judiciary as a whole, is not to create the rules and watch individual circumstance but to apply the rules fairly and blindly across the board regardless of color, situation or upbringing. It...

...now leads the nation in unemployment.

Finally, video of US forces telling Iraqi police to step up....awesome. This video is 5 minutes long, heavy on FBOMBS so be aware of your speakers ;)

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Reverend Al Sharpton 106 West 145th Street Harlem, New York City , New York 10039 Fax: 212 690 3070 Dear Reverend Sharpton: I have read about you with much interest since learning of the protest you plan to lead against me in Maricopa County in June as a way to force my resignation or removal from office. Your public proclamation leads me to the conclusion: not only do you not understand Arizona ; you also do not understand democracy. As the elected Sheriff who, so far has been elected to five consecutive four-year terms, I answer to the four million residents of Maricopa County . I do not answer to the whims of the media, or locally and nationally elected officials who want open borders and who have their own agendas. Nor do I answer to a publicity hound outside interloper who has demonstrated no interest in looking for the truth before making loud uninformed noises. While your public outcries are colorful, there are several instances where you have inserted yourself into other people...

in the past 3 months to lobby the federal government. They spent over 9M of tax payer dollars to ask for 'more' tax payer dollars. And for some reason Obama's crew can't figure out what the 'tea parties' were about. Well lets make it simple CRAP LIKE THIS. Nice zippy oversight by the administration. This is why you do not give the night cashier the managers title after 3 days on the job at McDonalds. They lack experience. Here ya go: -- General Motors Corp., which devoted $2.8 million to lobbying in the first quarter of 2009 --Bank of America Corp., which reported spending $660,000 lobbying while receiving its $45 billion in help; --Wells Fargo & Company, with $700,000 in lobbying costs and $25 billion in bailout money; --Goldman Sachs, which spent $670,000 while receiving its $10 billion; --Morgan Stanley, which spent $540,000 while also getting $10 billion in assistance; --PNC Financial Services Group, spent $135,000 -- nearly double what it did at the end...

Oops. " On the day the new Congress convened this year, Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation to route $25 billion in taxpayer money to a government agency that had just awarded her husband's real estate firm a lucrative contract to sell foreclosed properties at compensation rates higher than the industry norms. Mrs. Feinstein's intervention on behalf of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was unusual: the California Democrat isn't a member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs with jurisdiction over FDIC; and the agency is supposed to operate from money it raises from bank-paid insurance payments - not direct federal dollars. Documents reviewed by The Washington Times show Mrs. Feinstein first offered Oct. 30 to help the FDIC secure money for its effort to stem the rise of home foreclosures. Her letter was sent just days before the agency determined that CB Richard Ellis Group (CBRE) - the commercial real estate firm that her husband Ric...

"Yeah, uh! Get up, now! Ow! Knock out this! Super highways, coast to coast, easy to get anywhere On the transcontinental overload, just slide behind the wheel How does it feel When there's no destination - that's too far And somewhere on the way, you might find out who you are Living in America - eye to eye, station to station Living in America - hand to hand, across the nation Living in America - got to have a celebration" I almost feel bad for this guy. I really think he had no idea of what he was doing attacking a US vessel and no contemplation that he could be killed or captured. We should start a massive PR campaign with/around Somalia because these fools were just looking for a way out. Seems they are given this anti-American rhetoric from birth and just run with in, like a lot of their brethren in the Middle East. Now that said, I'm not close to saying "go easy on 'em". It will be interesting to see what this court officially sentences him wit...

Perez Hilton, I didn't even know who this person was till I saw something on the news yesterday. Apparently this guy (and I use that term loosely) was questioning Miss American contestants. He asked one what her interpretation of marriage was. She said "..I believe marriage is between a man and a woman". Perfect and correct answer. This celebretard Perez then gets all kinds of bitter, because he is gay, and does some dumb video blog yelling at her. Get over yourself Hilton it isn't her fault that your first name is Perez and not Paris. Stop force feeding this politically correct crap down our throats. No, same sex marriages are not right and not something the law can enforce. Now, same civil rights are but that doesn't seem to be what people like Perez are fighting for. Next contestant is Genine Gerafalo who claimed that anyone at a "Tea Party Rally" was a white racist redneck and that the conservatives of the country were now ragging racists. This clown...

I was working in the yard all day, though it is hard smashing the rocks with a pick-axe, digging trenches, laying mulch and moving what seems like 100lbs bags of soil, I can't think of an experience that brings you closer to nature. Most normal people think it is gross to use your hands, without gloves, to work in the yard. I love it. Can't think of anything that toughens your skin up faster than swinging a 8lb pick, or hauling dirt from one spot to another. There is just something special about doing the work yourself, while you watch others pay to have it done. Go Spring.

Directly from CNN article: updated 2:08 p.m. EDT, Fri April 17, 2009 King: Waterman finds Chesapeake Bay 'dying daily' * Story Highlights * Efforts are under way to save the Chesapeake Bay's economy, environment * Waterman Don Pierce has been working the bay for 48 years * Shoreline development has outpaced conservation, restoration efforts, Pierce says * "She's dying daily," he says of Chesapeake Bay Directly from Carroll County Times (Maryland) article posted the same day: ANNAPOLIS — A new survey has found the Chesapeake Bay’s adult population of blue crabs has increased substantially over last year after new management measures were put in place. The Virginia Institute of Marine Science and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources announced the results of the winter dredge survey Friday. They conduct the survey by dragging selected areas of the bay and counting the number of crabs found. The most recent dredge survey estimates the t...

Ah, Fox and CNN. Where to start. Each one has its own bias. I was, for a very very long time an avid CNN viewer, literally the TV would be on CNN when I got home from work and stay there. Until the 2008 elections. I could not believe how much CNN backed the Democratic party. Almost to a point of annoyance. For every on RNC member on a panel there would be 2 DNC, usually one black man and one woman. The RNC person was almost always a white male. What I couldn't believe was the entire lack of respect for the opposing candidates on the Republican side. Now before you go "damn right-wing Republican" understand these FACTS: - Member of the Democratic Party - Libertarian - NRA Life Member What does that equal? Me. Not a single word up there said Republican. In fact, I've never voted for a presidential republican candidate. Maybe my lack of line loyalty allows me to have an open mind where others seen inherently sheltered. I have very strict guidelines for leaders; 1) be hon...

Obama made around 2.6M dollars in 2008, he paid less than 33% in taxes. Biden made over $265,000, he paid just about 25% in taxes. So, how much did you pay?

For the life of me I can't understand how Tea Parties, right-wing extremists and Republicans got linked together. DHS released a completely, IMO, illegal audit of its citizens basically stating any protest not praising the government was a 'problem' or could be problematic. You should be very cautious about a government that deems to oversee your utilization of the 1st amendment. You should also give pause when any non-conforming legal protest is vastly critical in government eyes. No matter your affiliation or views if you are a citizen of the United States and actually believe in the Bill of Rights, you should have problems with DHS reports being issued on legal matters. So far, in all the 'unclassified' reports I can read, I haven't seen one mention of anything illegal.

Lately you hear all these sob stories of little investors or Joe the Plumber who bought GM bonds and if this or that company goes under, they lose their money. Well, that is the life of investment. Please show me where it is written that you don't lose in an investment. I have yet to see a single investment that has no risk and no possibility of failure. Are we honestly in the practice of bailing out companies because their investors will lose money? It seems to be the road GM is trying to take their current situation. Pulling on the heart strings and stating 'look at our 6B in bond holders that will lose their investment'. Yes, losing all you money because you decided to sink everything into one company is sad, however, that is the name of the game. It is a risk/reward system. Let me ask this of the heart string pullers, would you feel so sad for those invested fully in Exxon? Or maybe AIG? I bet the 'feeling' would be different. GM for decades succeeded by buildin...

What is this festival we have in the USA with using Czar/Tsar as a 'leader'. Drug Czar, Auto Industry Czar, Financial Czar and now for the win, Border Czar. Last I checked Czars & Tsars in history didn't work out so well. I can recall a few off the top of my head who met their demise by a hail of bullets in 1918. Maybe we should switch to Ministries :)

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All this tea party jazz has liberals and the like that thought they owned marches, rallies, blogs, forums, YouTube and the like in a tizzy. They just can't believe that people would come out for causes other than; race relations, the environment or human rights. The concept that an event could happen that they haven't sanctioned is just mind numbing. On to the tea parties. I've followed a couple of liberal blogs and news reports essentially dissing anyone of the thousands involved in the tea parties as "useless", "unimportant" or "disrespecting history". Excuse me, ah what? Reminds me of the George Carlin statement: My Stuff: Have you ever noticed that your shit is stuff and someone else's stuff is shit? The idea that you can't use the term "tea party" without degrading its historical value is wrong. Historically it was used to represent taxation without representation. That is what we currently have when the majority of peopl...

"Americans will pay more in taxes in 2009, according to the report, than they will spend on food, clothing and housing combined" - Tax Foundation Group That is something to think about come APR 15 this year, you're paying more to the government then you need to be alive. So you're living to serve the government. Ask yourself this, is this what America was founded to do? Pay taxes? You need to work at least 103 days from January 1, 2009 just to pay your taxes for 2009. So nearly 1/3 of the year is done simply to pay taxes. The lowest tax state in the Union is Alaska, the same place where nobody seemed to take their Governor seriously during the election. The top states that charge the most; New Jersey, New York, California and Maryland round out the top five all majority Democrat states. That should tell you some thing right there. If you like working for nothing, you're getting your way. Fun times

Woohoo, go Navy SEALs. 1 hostage safe, 3 terrorists dead. AWESOME.

Now Iraqi leaders and other middle-eastern leaders are worried about what will happen when US forces pull out in the next 2 years. These are the same leaders that proclaim how they don't want western involvement. Okay folks, you can't have it both ways. However in their defense, this is partially the US's fault. Had we just let the military be a military and not a police force, this rationalization would have happened years ago. Instead, we did a "Police Bailout" for Iraq and simply used our armed forces as policeman. Dumb. There will be no clean way out of Iraq for Iraqis unless they are willing to stand up and defend their country from insurgent forces from Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran and Afghanistan. Until that occurs, there will constantly be a policing issue. Iraqi security is dependent on some type of agreement between the US and Iran. but we like you

Gun laws in the United States make little if any sense. Some how individuals have reasoned in their minds that if there were no guns, there would be no murder. Or some level of that logic. However that is simply, patently, false. Human psychology and makeup dictates that humans, by nature, are aggressive creatures. Humans are also thinking, and persistent creatures. What that means is that if a person really wants to do something, they'll find a way to accomplish it. You can find this in a two year old child. If a child is walking along hitting the family pet with a plastic bat and you remove the bat and tell the child "don't hit the dog", next thing you'll see is the child with a broom handle hitting the dog, "don't hit the dog" you say as you take away the broom, five minutes later the child will hit the dog with a brush and so on and so forth. The moral is, the child 'wants' to hit the dog with something, the child will find the tool. Adul...

So they want 2M to save the Captain, fine, have the shipping company do it. As soon as the man is handed over, blow up their 28' crap boat. :) Not the brightest bulbs in the tanning bed

So Somali Terrorists, oh sorry Pirates..Libby's like to make you think of Jack Sparrow, took over a US flagged ship. This is the first time this has occurred in over two hundred (200) years. In fact, this hasn't happened since Thomas Jefferson enacted the Marine Corps in 1801 to face pirates off Tripoli (oh, yeah..Islamic Fundamentalists..the US's first "global" conflict). It is also important to remember, Jefferson attempted to form a coalition of nations, France led the charge "not" to get involved. Makes you wonder why the terrorists felt they could attack a US flagged ship? Think about this there were over 100 hijacking by sea off the Somali coast in 2008 leading to over 80M in ransom paid, none of which was a US flagged vessel. Now, for the first time a US flagged ship was attacked and boarded. What is generally not being talked up is that the 20 US citizens on board fought off the pirates after hiding in the steering bay of the vessel. Once they cl...

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here Why do people not understand that this is a BAD thing. In the last 6 months the number of private sector jobs has fallen, the number of public sector (government) jobs has increased. What does that mean? LARGE, HUGE, SLOW government control of everything. Follow this out. If the government becomes the complete benefactor supplying everything from your job to your car to your mortgage payment, are you likely to vote out of office the people who put you there? Are you likely to vote for a conservative person who will cut debt and spending? No, you wouldn't. Your lively hood is dependent on the government. Try to critical think people, I know it is hard because it doesn't involve American Idol, Dancing with the Stars or a Plasma TV, but please make an attempt to use at least 1% of your brain.

Got to love the guy for being completely passionate about his objective :) Awesomness

So NK went ahead with the missile launch, which nearly everyone expected. Apparently it was, as usual, a failure. Two parts of the missile broke up over Japan and the "satellite" never made it in to orbit according to everyone but NK. It will be interesting to see how this gets handled in the global community given a depression..oh stop your happy thoughts thinking it is a recession..and the fact that the UN once again committed nothing to world peace (aka, will not send forces unless they observe to the middle-east). Obviously NK does not care one bit about sanctions. And embargoes and such only, ONLY, hurt the people of the nation, not the leadership. If you think differently, take a look at Cuba post 1950s. No citizen uprising is going to occur in NK so stop wishing and hoping world. You're going to have to deal with Jongy for a while to come. My suggestion, remove the US forces from NK and Japan. There is no reason for troops/bases there. None at all. Japan isn't ...

Can you say "slight invasion of privacy"

Um, who does this help? Someone please raise their hand? This entire budget does nothing to help me or anyone I know, but we all get to pay the bill for it. I'd love to hear from someone that actually is being helped by this. Hi grandkids, you owe us money

So April 1 came and went with "things" happening, but nothing "happening". The moral of this story? Buy a Mac :)

Why is it that government can simply not do anything correctly? So they want to provide "stimulus", again, and buttress a failing methodology of redistribution of funds. So instead of simply adopting a flat tax rate, which would automatically save nearly everyone in the country money, they impose archaic, slow, complex and simply dumb processes. The latest is a ridiculous effort that complicates the employer tax methods to give employees a whopping $15-$20 dollars back a week. Are we kidding? Seriously, are we kidding? Because I'm deciding now between laughing or crying. This is just moronic. You give 170B to AIG, you give 2.5B to Pakistan and you give your citizens a total of $1,040.00 for the year. Awesome. For a government of and for the people, we sure do screw ourselves. We have to be the most generous populous ever to walk the globe. We apparently care far more about giving our funds away than retaining them. Just look at this process. It couldn't be more irrit...

Maybe you should really understand who is being effected. Here is the resignation letter of an AIG executive. Read the whole 2 page letter, you'll then understand why government involvement in private business is a horrible idea.

"The Revolution - A Manifesto" - Ron Paul "Common Sense" & "Rights of Man" - Thomas Paine

More horse crap courtesy of your federal tax code. Federal taxes will HIKE up the price of cigarettes this week. And to fund what? CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE. Can anything, I mean anything be more hypocritical? You're funding children's health with something the government can't for the life of it deal illegal but IRS codes it to death as a terrible substance. Now I don't smoke cigarettes, never have, however this is unjust. Our federal government is using tax code to punish people who use a legitimate and legal product. Now it does come down to freedom of choice, you choose to smoke. However, don't misinterpret freedom of choice from selective IRS legislation. If we can't make the product illegal (see prohibition and its wonderful outcome), we should not allow our government to simply tax it out of control. Write your local politician and tell them "this is garbage and a full expression of taxation without representation". I believe fully in children ...

The name "Freedom Tower" was slowly removed last week and replaced with "World Trade Center One" as the name for the 1776 floor building that will replace the terrorist attacked world trade center. Why? Because "Freedom" wasn't marketable.

Obama asked 16 world leaders from "the worlds strongest economies" to get together in a huge kumbaya meeting to find out why they collectively suck. Lets look at a few of the winners selected: Invitees include U.N.'s Ban Ki-moon, India, China, EU, Mexico, Russia, Brazil U.N. leader Ban Ki-moon: um, he doesn't run a country but I guess we can pretend he does. India: a country that is just seconds away from nuclear war with our really good friends in Pakistan. EU: again, not a country Obama. Mexico: oh winner winner, I thought he wanted leaders at this event? Russia: well at least we have a leader. Not necessarily your friend Obama but keep drinking your own kool-aid Brazil: ah, same president that said "blond haired, blue eyed people were responsible for all that ales the economy" awesome. Obama - YOU are the president of the UNITED STATES, act like it. You need to make decisions on your own that are for your country. You can't keep going "hey guys, ...

In recent weeks the DOW has climbed 21%, that in all economic terms is the start of a bull market. The question is, is it permanent? Housing has also been moving slowly upward as far as sales of existing homes and new construction goes. This has all been playing out while Obama unleashes a 3.8T spending spree. Now, the spree has not been signed off on so a lot of people ask "why spend it?". The question is, are financial sectors moving forward because they are more solid now than last year or is this movement a direct result of the foreseen eminent passage of this budget? That is a core question. I don't think anyone, liberal or not wants a 3.8T debt. Maybe I'm wrong. Obama also recently established a "tax" group to look for more revenue in the tax code. Of course he did, he is spending more than all the US Presidents combined. Here is a simple remedy that would net more tax revenue and lessen nearly everyone's taxes (seems impossible right?). A flat tax...

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Go Allah, rock on So there is a Muslim only community, now aside from the "it was started by terrorists"..which is not confirmed..who cares? There are more than a few neighborhoods in places like, oh, FLORIDA that are pretty much Jewish only communities without announcing it. The only mistake this crew made was 1)being Muslim and 2)Calling it, yes, Islamberg. And the one article comment "they have a firing range that all the citizens use", wtf? How did you confirm this? Oh, you didn't. Then don't print it. I'm a member of a gun club, am I now a terrorist because I regularly go to a firing range? Come on. Now the media is making it seem vastly organized an nearly an epidemic. However, setting up shop in places like NY and VA, I'm not so sure. You aren't exactly far away from gun totting Americans in these two areas. Anyway, stay tuned to this story as it could get interesting.

The auto industry, excuse me...GM and Chrysler. Ford should submit a libel and slander document for how they are getting lumped in with the two losers of D-town. Ford has taken NO bailout money, GM and Chrysler on the other hand are back at the public tit hoping for more money. Now Congress will do what it always does, stick its chest out open its plume and tell the world how bad these companies are. People like Chris Dodd and Barney Franks, maybe even Reid, will tell you these are terrible companies, not worthy of taxpayer funds (because we all know how close to the vest the US Congress keeps those). Then, in a seeming 180 about 4-7 days later, they will give Chrysler and GM the money. It is all a show. That's it, just a show. A way of US Congressman trying to keep their jobs. I mean, who wants to be the Rep form Michigan or the two Senators when you vote "no" to bailing out the largest work supplier in your state? The two companies face a March 31 deadline to win conces...

CO2, Carbon dioxide is the natural substance caused by the breakdown of oxygen. So every time you breath reading this, you're releasing what the EPA would like to call a controlled pollutant. You bad bad person, don't you care about the environment?! Stop breathing! Selfish. The EPA in recent months, along with many environmental-Nazi's (yes not all environmentalists are insane, but a few loud ones are), has suffered "ice cap" setbacks. Recent studies in the US and Europe showed some of the following; any changes had a 50/50 shot of working or not working, the ice caps were actually 900,000 sq miles larger than we thought and global warming had leveled off. These are not fun facts if you make money saving the environment because, as with the medical industry, there is no money to be made in the cure only prolonging the illness. The EPA will attempt to act as a savior for the masses, protecting them from the big bad companies polluting 'our' air. That is no...

Welcome to a 2009 US Government version of Enron. Remember Enron, Ken Lay, the company & ceo that got grilled..arrested..now dead..for playing a shell game with money and lying to investors? Well what would you say if I told you that an "institution" was purchasing another "institutions" assets with funds that didn't exist, but the "institution" could create. Sounds very shady right? Well that is exactly what the US Government is doing currently. We are purchasing "assets" from the Treasury with the use of the Federal Reserve. We are doing it to the tune of 1T dollars. This will be catastrophe for the US dollar and interest rates in the near and long term future. You simply can not create money, and we did. We are going to print money on debt that doesn't exist yet. This is the household equivalent of you taking a "credit card check" writing cash to yourself, then paying another debt. You didn't have the money to pay the...

Brian Dawkins Burn prevention clinic ADA Community Activities » From 2007-08, hosted the Brian Dawkins Burn Prevention Classic - Raised over $150,000 for Burn Prevention Foundation » Raines Athletics Football - Donated $100,000 to build a new weight facility » Forest View Pop Warner Football (Jacksonville, Fla.) - Donated $50,000 for footballs and equipment » From 2004-07, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation - Contributed $12,000+ (for every interception made, Turkey Hill Dairy donated $1,000) » In 2008, donated $10,000 to the neonatal unit at Children's Hospital in Philadelphia in the name of his twin daughters » In 2007, donated $3,000 to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation through promotion with Family Chrysler Jeep » From 2004-07, partnered with ACME to bring cheer to numerous families at various women's shelters » In 2007, presented nearly 100 kids with Christmas presents through the Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition » 1996-current, has been an active me...

California NEVER ceases to amaze me. Sen. Dianne Feinstein doesn't want solar panels in the Mojave, even though they technically could power the entire country for a year, because they would not be in the spirit of conservation. WTF is she talking about? How is not burning coal for energy NOT in conservationists best interests? Cali, have a quake already and fall off :) WASHINGTON (AP) -- California's Mojave Desert may seem ideally suited for solar energy production, but concern over what several proposed projects might do to the aesthetics of the region and its tortoise population is setting up a potential clash between conservationists and companies seeking to develop renewable energy. Nineteen companies have submitted applications to build solar or wind facilities on a parcel of 500,000 desert acres, but Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Friday such development would violate the spirit of what conservationists had intended when they donated much of the land to the public. read mor...

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9 Principles 1. America Is Good. 2. I believe in God and He is the Center of my Life. God “The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the external rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained.” from George Washington’s first Inaugural address. 3. I must always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday. Honesty “I hope that I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider to be the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.” George Washington 4. The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government. Marriage/Family “It is in the love of one’s family only that heartfelt happiness is known. By a law of our nature, we cannot be happy without the endearing connections of a family.” Thomas Jefferson 5. If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it. Justice “I deem one of the essential principles of our gov...

The Federal Reserve wrote a check to the Treasury for 1 trillion dollars. They didn't have that money, they just invented the figure. This will cause astronomical inflation and plummet the dollar value. In a process of 18 hours after this news, Gold value went up 75 dollars. That should tell you something. Keep an eye on this.

Why? AIG did what the US Congress allowed them to do. They violated no law of the package they were given. Chris Dodd admitted he put a clause in that allowed AIG to pay back employees/consultants in the form of bonus checks. Yet, when the heat cranked up...Congress yelled at AIG: "HOW DARE YOU DO WHAT WE, AHH, TOLD YOU TO DO! - BASTARDS" Umm, Congress didn't you OK this? Yup you did. Nice work. And now there is a rumor that Congress wants to stick its fat fingers in Credit Cards. Apparently they aren't too happy the CC are simply cutting back limits and removing holders. Even though this is 100% legal as it is part of their business model. So yet again, government wants to stick its hands in business. Get..the..hell..out.

Hedge Funds : A hedge fund is an investment fund open to a limited range of investors that is permitted by regulators to undertake a wider range of activities than other investment funds and also pays a performance fee to its investment manager. Each fund will have its own strategy which determines the type of investments and the methods of investment it undertakes. Hedge funds as a class invest in a broad range of investments extending over shares, debt, commodities and so forth. * explain it more This ENCOURAGES corruption.

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Burn Pits - in all basic form, the burning of large quantities of..."crud". The DoD does this in a war zone as a form of clean up. For decades the practice has been in place and the VA is just now studying to see if this is a health problem for soldiers et. al.. Really? Really?!? We need a study for this? I'd think it would be obvious to assume that if smoking cigarettes is bad for you, inhaling burning toxic fumes is probably bad too. I know I'm going out on a limb. How about you skip that study and fund research to create a plausible respiration system for soldiers to use in the field when "burn pits" are necessary??? Oh, smoke is bad

Chris Dodd, Chair of the Senate Banking Committee, first claimed "I knew nothing of bonus protection in the stimulus package for AIG" then about 5 hours later "I put in the bonus clause". Rushing to his defense was the Treasury Secretary who said, basically, "the Administration made me do it", laying blame at Obama's feet. So the question is, who do you trust? This is some really nice change we've got here. At least Obama didn't lie, this is change. With Bush it took at least a few months to find out how moronic people were, with Obama you find out the same day. Thumbs up to that. The questions is, will these fools get re-elected and is it possible to simply throw them out of office? "I put it in, but it wasn't my fault"

Taxing AIG bonuses So because Congress couldn't read the bill they wrote, they are now attempting to use the IRS to legislate. Via tax code they are attempting to "get money back" because they couldn't write a bill correctly. So they have wasted days/weeks coming up with possible tax solutions. Lovely. I guess it would have been too difficult to write something like: ..monies provided to an institution for the purpose of financial stabilization provided with US Treasury funds will not in any way or form be used to pay for salary or prior services not prudent to the survival and buttressing of the current or future financial stability of the institution. At no point should US Treasury funds be used to pay for present or past employee or consultant efforts or resources. In the case of divergence from this passage will result in removal of the equivalent number of funds from the provision and no further requests for monies will be granted.

Today during the AIG hearing, Congress came out admitting they didn't know that the bonuses were OK'd by the stim pkg. Apparently, NOBODY read the damn thing, but they did sign away 800B of your dollars!

22 US Army soldiers, not National Guard, were used to patrol the streets of Alabama following a shooting spree. This is 100% illegal per the Constitution post reconstruction! 22 US Army soldiers and no one is saying "we ordered it". The governor said "we didn't", the Whitehouse didn't comment, and the Army doesn't know how it happened. This type of constitutional violation carries a 2 year prison term. Keep your eyes out people!!!! This is ILLEGAL. see it here

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I'm telling you now, you want to lose weight..start eating wraps instead of sandwiches and the rest of the crap you throw in your body. These are so simple to do and you can flavor them any way you like. Here are some essentials: Mission Wraps, whole grain/herb/tomato/basil/etc...there are a ton of flavors Shredded lettuce Shredded cheese Shredded meat (turkey/chicken/steak/veal) Light Ranch Dressing Now you can mix and match as you like. Some variation I add are things like: Franks Red Hot, Chili peppers, various mustards, mushrooms, bell peppers, etc. You can make breakfast wraps: 2 eggs, American cheese, onion, bell peppers. Mix them up in a pan, put them in a wrap with some hot sauce or salsa. Perfection. For dinner, roast a small chicken. Pick it clean. That will provide chicken wrap variants for a week. Take steak, cut into thin strips. Rub with a tablespoon of butter, add italian seasoning and garlic. Now stir-fry with mushrooms and onions, throw in a wrap with ranch dressin...