HAVE YOU SEEN THIS YET????

Hilarious. But this is exactly what some people need to see to realize how big a Trillion dollar figure is. Look at the table, and recognise that every five pennies stacked on that table is a representation of $2 BIL bucks.



Ric, of course I stole the link from www.Hoodathunkblog.com (readers: a must visit blogsite with much interesting off-the-wall stuff - as well as some of the most pragmatic wrapups of politics in Loudoun County you'll ever read) but I felt the need to give it a wider audience so everybody sees this one!!! You're still the Da Man!

Just what was going on, here?

It was just reported that David Kellermann, the acting chief financial officer of mortgage giant Freddie Mac, was found dead at his home.

WUSA-TV and WTOP Radio have said he was found dead in his Northern Virginia home. Kellermann, 41, was Freddie Mac's chief financial officer. He had held that post since September,2008. Suicide is suspected.

Freddie Mac and sister Fannie Mae, which together own or back more than half of the home mortgages in the country, have been rocked with skyrocketing defaults and have together received about $60 billion in federal bailouts.

Kellermann became acting chief financial officer in September 2008, after the resignation of Anthony Piszel, who stepped down after the September 2008 government takeover. The chief financial officer is responsible for the company's financial controls, financial planning and oversight of the company's budget and financial reporting.

Kellerman had served as a senior vice president, a corporate controller and a principal accounting officer for over 16 years prior to his more recent appointment.

More here

T.E.A. Washington Report.

I attended the DC TEA Party today.

1500 folks in the worst weather you could imagine. Rain and wind all day. Still didn't dampen the spirits of the folks who showed. We had a Code Pink crew walking amongst us, and a very, very small group (20 folks?) defending Obama over by the Treasury Dept. The Secret Service deliberately kept us separated.

What I keep thinking is that this effort is in it's infancy. This was but the first annual T.E.A. Party. Imagine how the ranks and the support will grow for the second...and the third annual T.E.A. Parties.
Many years ago, the veterans from the Vietnam Era would saddle up and ride to the Wall in an event called the RollingThunder. The first year, there were 2800 Harleys from across the region. Last year, there were in excess of 30,000. Given time and focus, these events will propagate attendance. It is inevitable.

Where this gets scary for Obama is...the day that even 10% of the Country decides to stop financing their own fleecing, and flat out boycotts taxes. How is the IRS going to prosecute 30,000,000 people at the same time. What will the yearly caseload look like? How many years of prosecutions to even break one percent? Where do you lock these folks up?How many personnel will that involve? Did they pay their taxes?

What I did find to be extremely offensive was the CNN interview that I saw a portion of. What I was left wondering is whether the CNN hack considered herself to be a journalist..or a commentator? If, indeed, she was shooting for journalist, she failed miserably. All the true journalist I know are neutral on issues. They are there to report facts, not interject their opinions.

As I pointed out in my last posting, this was never about Republican or Democrat. This is about tax payers , one and all. And maybe, it's high time we all took it back, fire Congress-- take their salaries in light of their recent malfeasance, and let them experience unemployment lines for a change.

{cough} horse crap{cough}

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran dismissed American government reports that senior U.S. and Iran envoys had a cordial - and promising - face-to-face exchange at an international conference, saying Wednesday that no "talks" took place.

Well, well, well... Told ya!!

You know...Bush was smart enough to know that Mahmoud "I'm-a-nut-job" would do exactly what they just did to the TOTUS.

I wish I could get a gander at this guy's grades. I'm not sold that he didn't just make up his time at Harvard.

Upcoming lecture in the Reagan Series

The Ronald Reagan Lecture Series
Will present:
The Virtues of Free Market Capitalism
Why Government controls and new legislation risk damage to our free market system

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 7:30pm
Town Hall, Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, Va.

I invite all to come out and explore the benefits of the free market system, and how it has seperated us from the rest of the world as an economic leader among nations.

The dangers of socialism, with it's government oversight in national business matters and the suppression of competition, is of grave concern right now. Wayne Abernathy will lay out the case for maintaining the financial model that made us strong and enviable.

Even if you lean towards a more liberal point of view, this is a chance to do your research on the down-side of removing the free market from business.

So, let me get this straight.....

It's perfectly fine to blast McCain when he says the "fundamentals of the economy are strong", but shouldn't raise a pulse or an eyebrow when the Messiah does it??

Am I one of a small number of Americans who see the double standard applied here by the White House? It comes on the heels of FIVE appointees that have tax problems (and I'm not even counting two minor appointments that had the same tangle), on top of a tax and spend House and Senate with no particular steady hand at the reigns to hold them back...

WASHINGTON - The economy is fundamentally sound despite the temporary "mess" it's in, the White House said Sunday in the kind of upbeat assessment that Barack Obama had mocked as a presidential candidate.

Obama's Democratic allies pleaded for patience with an administration hitting the two-month mark this week, while Republicans said the White House's plans ignore small business and the immediate need to fix what ails the economy. After weeks projecting a dismal outlook on the economy, administration officials - led by the president himself in recent days - swung their rhetoric toward optimism in what became Wall Street's best stretch since November.

During the fall campaign, Obama relentlessly criticized his Republican opponent, Sen. John McCain, for declaring, "The fundamentals of our economy are strong." Obama's team painted the veteran senator as out of touch and failing to grasp the challenges facing the country.

Emphasis, mine.

You can't have it both ways, kids. If it plays for you now, and was selectively fired at McCain in the election cycle...and the American people don't know the difference is hypocritical...then we really are more akin to the movie "Idiocracy" than I thought we were.

WHY we are WHERE we are

Well, well, well... I foretold this travesty all of 5 months ago. Because history supports the reasoning, I knew exactly where we were headed with this President's policies and their effect on economic conditions. Democrats do not understand even the simplest economic discussion, and the particular inner workings of one piece on all the others.

This , coupled with having to IGNORE the past, and the lessons that PROVE how best to avoid what we're having to endure these days. Will they look at real history, see FDR and Carter policies that drew out rough periods and caused lengthy recessions...or continue down this path of destruction and leave the Country in dire straits for a Republican to step in and fix in 2012?

Spending like drunken sailors pails in comparison to what Obama and a democrat controlled Congress are doing.

Typical...but not suprizing to those who truly know them..

Residual democrat waste

Ah...so THAT's what they call it now!!!

Native Intellectual Capacity.
What we old-timers call "common sense".
I tripped across an article and I'm now purchasing the book referred to in the discussion.

http://www.emorywheel.com/detail.php?n=25177

Although this is a piece about the author, and in that same vein, his assertions regarding the younger generation, some of the comments in the discussion below it are pretty much hearty endorsements for Professor Mark Bauerlein's point of view.

The book: The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future

This kinda ties in with my posting "The politics of me". Something changed in the last 20 years in the set of circumstances that these kids grew up in, as opposed to the world I grew up in, and this book probably has it's finger on those answers.

"Free the GOP" OpEd makes it's way into the WaPo...

Christine Todd Whitman just summed up what I've been saying for quite some time, now.
In a nutshell, she advocates for a more central GOP, as well as pulling the control of the GOP away from singular issue "social fundamentalists."

http://www.republican-leadership.com/node/669

Interestingly, she points out that the prediction of the failure exactly four years ago was actually realized THIS year. She notes those who led the attacks on the book "It's My Party Too: The Battle for the Heart of the GOP and the Future of America".

She points out that despite the fact that McCain won more votes from self-identified evangelicals/born-again voters than George Bush did in 2004, he lost the independent/middle ground.

Anyone who knows me has heard me say it before. There are three MAJOR areas of voters reflected in America (and this is a huge generalization...there are of course numerous microcasms.)
There is the far left...and it carries anywhere from 30% to 35% of the registered voters. This is completely conditional on candidate and issues of any given year.
Likewise, there is a 30%-34% representation in likely voters of the far-right persuasion. And like their counterpart, this is also conditional on candidate and issues in any given year.

The magical portion of the electorate in ANY given Presidential contest since 1980 (that's as far as I can personally attest to the phenomenum, but others may feel free to go further --with proof, of course) is the 32% to 36% of the middle. They identify themselves as independents. And the suburbs are awash in them. It's the fastest breeding segment of our society.

They decide elections. Period. However they break, is how things shake out. Bill Clinton was even smart enough to parody a centristic position in his terms. (remember that Republican-inspired "welfare reform" Bill??)

And again in 2000 and in 2004, a larger portion of that center believed that their security was better guarded in George Bush's hands than in Al Gore's OR John Kerry's hands.

Our task from this point ?? Adapt and overcome. Like the Marines.
Silence the things that are singled out as the most obnoxious rhetoric from Republicans, and actually court the ethnic groups with dangling carrots (we already own the carrots... fiscal constraint. Equal opportunities, heavily underscored with personal responsibility. Free enterprise that meets human needs and economic justice, yet allows BAD businesses to fall by the wayside. )

Yessir. I think the gal is onto something here. The only unanswered question that remains is how long we will walk in the desert before we accept the way back home.

The Politics of "Me".....

We've been witnessing it for about 20 years now, and it just keeps getting worse, and worse.
We have a whole generation that thinks that they are "literally" entitled. Their parents, wanting better for this generation, gave them anything they wanted...and asked for little in return. Most of them had no chores, no responsibilities in the house they grew up in, and never suffered the consequences of bad decisions.
Now, when they left home, and their parents were no longer responsible for their immediate needs, the next step in their agenda was to lobby the government to take care of those needs. And if you get enough of these morons together to vote as a Majority (aka -the last Election) we're all going to pay for their needs, nevermind the fact that WE worked hard, and belong to the "Do the Right Thing Club"--with special emeritus membership to the "No Matter What" Chapter...
Look, They walk into McDonald's and want to manage the stores on their first day...working the counter or the flipping station is for the "little people" in their minds.

When they started having children themselves, and thought that the government owed them "gold-plated" education for their sorry offspring, they vote time after time for referendums to fund schools. Many of them do not possess the "common sense" or the flat out logic to comprehend that they've just incurred huge debts in order to splurge on their kid's educations.
But there is another voter out there that is smart enough to understand that debt, but just doesn't care... because they know that they'll get the benefit of those schools and be long gone before the bill comes due.

Like the losers who started trading fuel futures at the end of the earning curve (those that were a day late and a dollar short) who were very impressed with themselves when they made $50 bucks on their fuel futures, and then had to hand the wife a $100 bill to fuel the family SUV....all the while never making the connection, or figuring out that not only were they in the hole $50 bucks, but they had also lightened the rest of our wallets equally.

We've seen three seperate, but distinctly similar revisions of this scenario. The first was the Dotcom boom and fall. More recently, the Real Estate boom and fall, and the last go around was the fuel futures rise and fall.
As a very wise man said... "First come the innovators, then the imitators, and finally, the idiots."
By the time the idiots are buying in on the failing stocks, the innovators have already moved on and are making their money on the next investment.

And this "entitled" culture has also removed the middle class (they now refer to themselves as the "Nuevo Riche"-- depite having $1.2 MIL homes that they cannot afford to fill with furniture, Cadillac Escalades that they cannot afford to fill with gasoline, and credit cards that they are just managing the minimum payments on), stomped on personal responsibility, sqaushed work ethic, and morally bankrupted a whole generation, and have started passing this tradgedy of ignorance onto another generation.

Where this gets tricky...

Now we have a culture of excess in this country. The culture is readily observed in Wall Street, and many CEO's of Corporations, where despite abysmal performance, they still are able to reign in multi-million dollar bonuses and salaries. And more recently, a few even give an in-your-face rationale when they are caught in a concatenation of spending sprees like it's the good 'ol days before the Company was moribund. Why in the world AIG executives didn't nix three splurges of the Company's dime (and our bailout money) is beyond intractable. It's yet another bastardization of entitlement.

Add to this Barney Frank's drafting of legislation to "bail" out Ford and GM, and you begin to see the general feelings of socialism in that particular waste of a human. In their heyday, beginning around 1993 --and with the takeoff of the SUV, those automobile giants made $10K of PROFIT on EVERY SUV that rolled off of the showroom floor. Not the Dealer...the MANUFACTURER.
So $10K for every SUV sold from 1993 until 2007 (when the price of gas dropped the desire to own one) was profit. That's AFTER the labor and materials was paid. What on earth did Ford and GM do with that money? I'm one person, but I say let 'em work it out in bancruptcy court.
The market takes care of these things.

If Toyota builds a superior product at a better price, then perhaps it should move to the front of the line and serve as incentive to these turds to put a little more effort into their profession. And don't even get me started on the effects of the Unions in all this. (In full disclosure, I should offer that I worked several years as a union "buster". I've had fingers poke my chest, bats swung at me, and been called a jack-booted thug more times than anyone can imagine--so before you start---anything a reader can hurl is going to be pretty tame compared to that)

EVEN more later.

Not for the lack of effort....

What I saw on Election Day was the way a proper ground war is run. There were massive phone banks, there were numerous precinct walks, and Melinda did a supreme job with the 72 Hour game, and was busy WELL BEFORE that time frame, too. As a previous member of several years (having dropped membership thruout a particularly disturbing period of the Committee) and a current member of just over a year, I can say without a hitch, that Glen Caroline ran and organized one of the most intense county efforts I've ever witnessed. (And my first time out the gate was for Reagan in 1978). In Loudoun, on the last week of calling, when the volunteers ran up against 9:00PM locally, they were still jazzed enough to call Colorado until it was 9:00PM there, too...

At the end of it all, if the whole McCain loss were a boat with a bad leak, the LCRC ran the pails much more effciently than many of her Va. neighbors, and much of the Country. The loss could have been huge, but it wasn’t anywhere near as catastrophic as it coud have been locally.

I see this newly fused LCRC as the model from which the State Party should be patterned in the future . There will always be some dissagreement, but we pushed the naysayers aside and forged ahead, our duties on display. We are inclusive, and the only ones we do not tolerate are those who attempt to misdirect the effort, nor those who chock the wheels, preventing forward motion, and this year will be our testament to a turning point.
We all worked as a team….dare I say, a machine. Having worked alongside of these fantastic people, I have a crystal clear picture of who is worth knowing, and who picked their feet up and let us push on their behalf.

This isn’t a club where “talk” is enough to stay. We need committed individuals to join an outstanding group to shoulder the loads and offer the County a clear champion for it’s citizens. And I don’t care what your particular issue is, so long as you can fall in and do your part, I'll always be glad to work alongside of you.

I’m very thankful for the whole Committee’s team and for Melinda out in the Sterling Office. I’d absolutely go out of my way for ANY ONE of these folks. They are the very definition of spirit, dedication and character. If anyone hasn’t made these people’s aqaintance, your life is not as rich as mine.

Obama's full disclosure of the tax situation

Whether he would disclose it, or not....we will...
We know Sen Obama will raise taxes for those making more than $250k. He won’t tell you, however, that people earning less than $250k will also pay more as well. Here are 4 clear ways that he WILL make the middle class pay more Taxes!

1. He has stated that he WILL let the Bush Tax Cuts expire. This will cause ALL American’s to pay 2000 level taxes...which are higher than today at every Income Level.

2. Senator Obama has proposed lifting the $94,700 payroll cap to support Social Security, adding an additional 12.4 percent tax on every dollar earned above that cap -- and in spite of his promise, impacting all those who earn between $94,700 and $249,999.

3. He will raise capital gains taxes from 15 percent to 20 percent. He says he's aiming at "fat cats" who make above $250,000. However, while only 1 percent of Americans make a quarter-million dollars, roughly 50 percent of all Americans own stock – and while investments that are through IRAs, 401Ks and in pension plans are not subject to capital gains, those stocks in personal portfolios are subject to capital gains, no matter what the owner’s income is.

4. Senator Obama has promised to raise taxes on businesses -- and to raise taxes a lot on oil companies. From both theory and practice, I know what businesses do when taxes are raised. Corporations don't "pay" taxes -- they collect taxes from customers and pass them along to the government. This means that the people who Obama promised tax relief will pay more for goods and services instead of taxes.

Four clear ways that Sen Obama will NOT live up to his promise that people making less than $250k will not pay a penny more in taxes....this claim is just not true!

Read on....if nothing else, it will help you make an informed decision on Nov 4th.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/senator_obamas_four_tax_increa.html

The only other point to make is that history proves that lowering people's taxes and dropping the Capital Gains tax are a sure fired way to jumpstart the economy. JF Kennedy did so, and we rebounded from the start of a recession. Reagan did so, and we pulled out of the Carter tailspin.

Hell, everybody else did it....

So, I'm going to jump in to complete the pool out there.
Polls.
My absolute favorite in polling is done by the Investor's Business Daily (which foretold the winner of the 2004 Presidential race by 3/10ths of ONE PERCENT). As far as polling goes, it doesn't get a whole lot closer than that, Ladies and Gentlemen. To put this in context, every other polling source (alright, to be fair...most of them) had Kerry up smartly going into the last 4 days.

Today, IBD has McCain and Obama neck and neck....both are just skirting the three percent over/under. 46.5 and 43.3 respectively. This was with 886 likely voters.

And today was the worst of the news in the past three days. The last survey to use 1060 likely voters was Oct. 23, where Obama had 44.8, and McCain showed a tight 43.7 trail. (That's ONE FRIGGIN POINT, ladies and gentlemen.)
Sources: http://www.tipponline.com/
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/docs/2008-IBD-TIPP-DAY14.htm


Now, if you'll remember, I said Kerry was up going into the 2004 contest's last days.

Presidential Hopeful John Kerry Has a 5.3% Lead Over President George W. Bush According to Newly Released Results in WHYY West Chester University Poll.
Publication: PR NewswirePublication Date: 29-OCT-04 (THIS IS 3 DAYS BEFORE THE NOV. 2ND ELECTION DAY)


And finally, in past years, Ralph Nader has garnered up to 4% of the final vote. If and when his name appears on the 2008 ballot, will it pull the same support ?

But WAIT!!!!!!! It gets better!!!
Actually, there appears to be a simple methodical error in the polls, and we can actually quantify it and adjust for it. This error is the hang-up rate, i.e. people who refuse to participate in the polls. It is far higher this election than previously. This makes sense, after all, what do you do when you get junk phone calls? You tell them to pi$$ off and hang up. Now suppose, instead, it's a pollster, and you decide to participate. But then they tell you that they have 100 questions, and will you take 45 minutes to participate -- NOW, will you tell them to pi$$ off? Don't laugh, some of these polls are as bad as that. Specifically, the CBS/NYT poll asks 100 questions, and they consistently show a 12%-13% lead for Obama. It's pretty clear that they are measuring only those people who are willing to answer 100 questions. If you look at other polls, the trend is plain -- those polls which ask the fewest questions show the best results for McCain. So this is the systematic bias in today's polls -- they don't count people who won't particiate, and those people are overwhelmingly McCain voters. So, why has Obama's lead been increasing lately? Simply because people are losing their patience with the left-wing biased media, and are hanging up at an increased rate as the campaign progresses. And that's all it is, the hang-up rate, and not a swing to Obama at all. Simple, eh? Lastly, we can remove this bias by treating the hang-up rate as a certain percentage McCain vote, and seeing what hypothetical percentage yields consistency between the polls, if you add them in. My rough rule of thumb calculation shows 80% McCain, and does not include the "excess", that is, those voters who just hang up right away, regardless of how many questions the pollsters want to ask. This all makes sense, as with all the junk phone calls we get, people don't have the patience for telephone-led processes like they used to any more. It's like the old famous Willkie phone poll, which showed only how a systematic bias controlled the result, well, today's sytematic bias is the vastly greater hang-up rate, which are McCain voters overwhelmingly. Look for a decisive McCain win on November 4.

Posted at Ace Of Spades by a genius named "proxy" at October 26, 2008 04:58 PM
I fully think "proxy" is definitely onto something here.

And all this is absolutely lacking in a discussion of the "Bradley Effect" which I believe will actually set some networks back on their heels when they see just how far off their exit polls were from their realtime results.

Results for Oct. 27th indicate that Obama's lead has decreased from 3.2 to 2.8 ...as undecided voters appear to be joinging McCain in larger displays.

October 29- Exactly 4 years to the day of Kerry's 5.3 Lead in the polls in 2004, and with 9.2% still undecided, Obama goes from 4.0 points up yeserday to a mere 3.0 points over McCain today. And the margin of error? +/-3 points...

October 30th... Obama is up today by 4.1%, and his people have already admitted their need for a 7% lead to overcome "Bradley's Effect". I think we're closing in Pennsylvania and leading in early voting in Florida.

The short case against Barack Obama

http://www.box.net/shared/loez4y1v3a

And then the long one.

First up is Capital Gains taxes. If these rates go to 30%, as Obama has indicated he will strive to achieve, you can kiss job creation goodbye. By trying to appeal to the job seekers and the working class by actively using Class Warfare, Obama can effectively curtail any new job creation with a single sweeping rise in Capital Gains taxes. Those that have the money actually do reinvest that money to make more money. One of the biggest side effects and benefits from them doing so is the creatiuon of jobs. These folks generally make 25% on their initial investment, but it's risky because of the high return. They could make the 25% ...or with equal ease, they could lose their initial investment. As if the stakes weren't already high enough, Obama could stifle all that activity by a rise to a 30% penalty for removal of those monies from protected areas ...immediately trouncing the 25% gamble that these folks already face.
In short, don't hate these folks for trying to make more money and providing employment for millions as they do it...be very afraid when they decide not to gamble and just leave the money in the protected "floorboard cracks" as they acrue a modest 3 to 4% on what they already have.
And they're in a prime position to just leave it there until Obama is gone, which is exactly what will happen when he produces no jobs over his four year reign.
This is complicated by the view he holds on socialism... or "spreading the wealth around".
He's said he'll give 95% of folks a refund. Since 40% already get a refund, or better yet...don't even file a tax form, this amounts to wealth redistribution... again on the shoulders of those who provide the jobs in the first place.
JUST IN: an important confirmation about Obama and wealth redistribution. In this recording, from a 2001 call-in Public Radio talk show in Chicago, Obama (who was then a university lecturer) explains that the Civil Rights movement's primary shortcoming was that the litigation it pursued failed to address redistribution of wealth. This puts the lie to assertions such as the one made by General Powell that he is a moderate and does not intend to pursue such policies.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOtdbqjDHJI


Has anyone ever had a poor person or one that makes a $100K household (that's Daddy AND Momma) earning give them a job? ...and mowing their grass once a week doesn't count.

Next up is his healthcare plan. What Hawaii learned sometime back as they presented a dead ringer for Obama's plan is that presented with those who pay for insurance, and those that recieve it free from the governent...those that previously paid for it would let their paid insurance go, and opt instead for the "free" coverage. This worked so well for Hawaii, that they actually halted the program after a mere 7 months, and it ended up severely in the red.

We continue with the intolerance of his campaign to hear dissenting views. They'd rather not be bothered with people who shoot legitimate holes in his plans, and they're ready to use the courts to shut those people up for good. There will be no freedom of speech under Obama, because his minions have already demonstrated that they're prepared to use Gestapo tactics against anyone who does not fall in line.

Further, Obama's standing as a legitimate candidate is in jeopardy due to the fact that he will not produce a birth certificate for inspection. Despite the fact that no trash can in Alaska has been left unturned, a simple request for a birth certificate and school records has never been provided.

If we go further, his associations with domestic terrorists (let's go further, and call them UNREPENTANT domestic terrorists) is of grave concern. If Obama claims the highest post in the Nation, a domestic terrorists will have the ear of a sitting President. This would have never been tolerated during the Bush years by the opposition, yet Obama is excused, and his minions are all too happy to explain it away.

And as the last issue I'll address (but not nearly completing a list of the deficient qualities of "the One") there is his uncanny ability to be all things to all people. Bill Clinton even had trouble with this one. Obama is smooth. But his record is thin. Very thin. Aside from writing a book or two, he has no accomplishments. He sat thru (and we mean SAT THRU) his Illinois Senate period, with 150 "present" votes. He has scarcely 134 days in the Senate before he began to manage his campaign.... He failed to come back to Washington to excercise his responsibilities as a sitting Senator, and his minions even poked fun at McCain for doing exactly that.
He failed to vote for the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac regulation asked for by McCain in May, 2006 (while Frank, Waters, Dodd, Schumer and others voted against it, Obama must have been hiding in the Cloak room... doing one better on his previous "present" votes.

The Obama camp is pretty clear on their vision for America

If you like throwing out everything that is America right now, and replacing it with rampant socialism.

A very well written piece that uses the words of the Obama supporters and associations to explain exactly why you WILL be taxed under Obama, and how he sees the world, and how he intends to change it. Trust me, America...after four years under the Obama Regime, you will be begging for another change. But by that point, it may be too late. The damage will be done, and there will be no fixing it with another election.
Look ...Carter made an inexpereinced decision on Iran (and who we'd support there ) way back in the late 70's. THAT MISTAKE is at the root of our problem with Iran even today, thirty years later. There was no "do-over", there was no reversing the damage. There are members of our armed services that died very recently because of Jimmy Carter's vision for Iran in 1977.



http://wizbangblog.com/content/2008/10/17/national-anthem-cut-from-obama-rally-what-it-means.php

This guy needs his own show!!!

A good friend sent me the link to this guy's Youtube appearances.
Check him out. What a breath of fresh air.
You all knew that I want to look around in the Republican Party and see at least as many African-Americans in attendance as there are caucasions, right? We are the natural choice for those that want to break out of the shackles the Democrats want to keep them in.

http://dirtyharrysplace.com:80/?p=4913

And check the comments below the piece. There are links to some of his other pieces. This guy was destined to have his own show if he'd have been selling Obama.

Senator Obama has a rally in Leesburg.

INTERESTINGLY, however, were the massive amount of Maryland and D.C. tags that lined every street that I traversed in my efforts to find a parking spot.
And then again, as I tried to navigate North on Rt. 15 towards Lovettsville that evening after the event. The road was all but choked with Maryland and D.C. tags.

Since all of Judy Feder's campaign money came from Montgomery County in the Socialist State of Md. ---is it too far of a fling to see them coming across the river to see their Messiah?

And what a tolerant bunch, too. Several of us were in the VIP area, when we whipped out McCAIN/Palin banners right in front of "the One". One of the supporters actually came over and grabbed those signs. So much for the pesky First Amendment, right? (I've seen Obama signs at McCain Rallies and they were not grabbed, but the rest of those attending all got a good laugh at the misguided idiots holding them--since we all recognized that without alot of those in attendance, their right and ability to display those signs would have been squat.)

I ended up in an interview with BBC when the reporter who had seen us raise the banners asked me how I felt to have had it ripped away. I summed it up quickly, and hope that it ends up in full report, and not lay in pieces on the cutting room floor.
This country is proud of the right to voice an opinion where the mere utterance is not cause for torture or retribution towards the speaker after or during the fact. I then offered the same point that I made above regarding Obama signs in Republican events.

All in all, this was not such a large rally. There were somewhere around 8000 people in attendance, far below the projected nubers I'd heard before the event. And when we take into account that ALOT of those present were ACTUALLY from Maryland and the District, it impacts the actual numbers representing Loudoun.

The other shoe will drop on Monday when Palin is scheduled for a rally in Leesburg. I promise not to yank any Obama signs out of any misguided hands that day. I am, after all, a very civil and gregarious kind of guy.

UPDATE: LeeJ has again lost his mind and is ranting again.
” So Monk how did it feel to have your McCain sign ripped away from you????”

To tell you the truth, it’s exactly what I expected from an intolerant blowhard with regard to my first amendment RIGHT. (you remember those don’t you- because I can assure you that the very people who thought that the Bush Patriot Act was “the devil” just turned around and did it one better ). That I didn’t put a foot in his gut and fight to keep that sign is a testament to my temperment. It was all about drawing the EXACT reaction from those there that I got. It was my desire to be documented on BBC and a couple of other news outlets that I did interviews with after the incident. And it highlighted the fact that those people will gladly trample the rights(especially the First Amendment to the Constitution) of those who don’t share their lunacy

The "Death Spiral" has begun

Unless Americans wise up and pay attention to the facts of the leadup to the failed Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac debacle. Most Americans outside of those of us who watch events unfold minute by minute are oblivious to those facts, and as such, they will ignorantly suppose that Bush and Republicans are behind this chapter. Unless the biased press starts doing it's job and reporting that Barney Frank and Chris Dodd had a whole lot more to do with this failure than any Republican, the situation and it's outcome is bleak.
Now the Market falls under 9000. To most Americans, again , who ignorantly trust the mainstream media....this is directly proportionate to the "bailout".

In truth, it isn't. Companies and individuals who will have to pay higher Capital Gains taxes under Obama are moving their assets into places where they'll be safe until 2012. Until then, rather than invest those assets, they'll stuff them away and collect interest on them. If McCain is elected, this all stops dead in it's tracks on Novemebr 5th, and reverses course. With someone who understands the impact of Capital Gains Taxes on the flow of money to the markets at the helm, companies and individuals will open up those floor boards and will invest in growth again.
But if Obama wins, they'll close the floorboards and sit it out for four years (that'll look an awful lot like 1976 and Carter's administration).

As they continue to do this, the market, already in a precarious position due to democrats manipulation, will continue to fall. Those ignorant of the situation will see this, and be even more determined to vote for Obama, because they lack the information to reason that he and his ilk are exactly the ones who put us here.

So, in the end, those too ignorant to follow the breadcrumbs for themselves will inevitably connect the last remaining parts needed to gear a "Death Spiral" of electing Obama.

And there, at the bottom of the well, is where we'll sit for four years.

An excellent read.

I have a party to attend tonight, so I need to be brief.
I did come across a very interesting article to share with those who hadn't found it yet.

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=308186097284712