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So we start this all over again and 'round and round' we go.

All of which in my equation all but guarantees we are not on the verge of any meaningful recovery. Quite the opposite perhaps. The downward swirl of liberal policies continues to build on itself.

It is beyond debate that liberal policies have led to most of these dominoes that are now toppled. Liberalism in power has prevented this country from using much of our own energy. It has prevented the building of any refineries since before the days of Microsoft. It has prevented us from building nuclear power plants. It has dominated most production and labor policy for the Big Three automakers. It dictated that people who could not qualify for home mortgages should have access to them anyway.

Liberal cronies were in charge of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which were liberal enterprises to begin with. Liberal government has run Michigan for decades.

In fact, liberals have been PROUD of all of these beliefs as they have fought these battles one by one. In the childlike mind of a liberal utopian, the dots just never connect. In reality, those dots always connect - and they connect long before most people can visualize the lines. Thus an economic meltdown that hit us with breathtaking speed.

And the Obama cure? More of the same. More quashing of America's energy complex. More government interference into labor. More government interference into lending. More government interference into healthcare. More changing of contract law. More taxes on business. More incentives not to work or pay your mortgage or invest. More and more and more government - all because we need to solve things that government screwed up to begin with.

Recovery? Maybe. Maybe not. But no time soon.

- American Thinker

Why worry about an EMP attack?
"So it wipes out your bank accounts.
What's in there? I mean, really. The average American household is
carrying $121,953 in personal debt. What would be so bad if something
goofy happened and all the meters got reset to zero? And Joe Schmoe's
credit card debt is as nothing compared to what the government's signed
him up for. . . . When I first heard about EMP a few years back, the
big worry was that in a split-second it would vaporize trillions of
dollars of wealth. From the perspective of 2009, vaporizing trillions
of dollars of debt has something to commend it." - Mark Styne

"A liberal is a person who will give away everything they don't own." - Rico

"Hey, Obama has just nationalized nothing more and nothing less than General Motors. Comrade Obama! Fidel, careful or we are going to end up to his right,"  - Chavez

The union leaders say they are appalled that Democratic leaders are talking openly now about decimating government programs without first making a stand for bigger, broader tax hikes that could substantially offset budget cuts.  - California Union Leaders

The president's general line on the geopolitical big picture is: I don't need this in my life right now. He's a domestic transformationalist, working overtime - via the banks, the automobile industry, health care, etc. - to advance statism's death grip on American dynamism. His principal interest in the rest of the world is that he doesn't want anyone nuking America before he's finished turning it into a socialist basket case. This isn't simply a matter of priorities. A United States government currently borrowing 50 cents for every dollar it spends cannot afford its global role, and thus the Obama cuts to missile defense and other programs have a kind of logic: You can't be Scandinavia writ large with a U.S.-sized military.

Mark Steyn

The slavish manner in which the media lock stepped into Bush the near fascist for tribunals, wiretaps, intercepts, renditions, Patriot Act, Iraq, and Guantanamo, followed by choruses of Obama the sensitive, anguished overseer of tribunals, wiretaps, intercepts, renditions, Patriot Act, Iraq, and Guantanamo was one of the most frightening things I 've seen in  a free society in 50 years. - Victor Davis Hanson

Americans Largely Silent as Their Nation is Systematically Destroyed

What are Americans Waiting For?

I don't know what it will take to wake up the average American, but whatever it is, it hasn't happened yet…

The people currently stocking up on food, water, guns and ammo in record numbers, causing shortages in all the above at the retail level, are clearly awake and anticipating something, but what? Meet the "extremists..."

The people still trying to get a court somewhere in America to hear the arguments concerning the most secretive corrupt president in US history, have been awake for a long time. Meet the "birthers..." But they continue to have trouble waking anyone else up, including in the so-called halls of justice.

Is it a bankrupt dollar and a new international currency that will get their attention? - A North American Union? - An ACORN Army on their doorstep? What will be the final straw that breaks the proverbial camel's back?

I don't have the answer... Frankly, I expected the people to revolt long before now. Clearly, I had underestimated the depth of apathy and tolerance for anti-American nonsense in the average modern American. But then, so did our nation's founders, whom I'm certain are rolling over in their graves in disgust by now.

CHANGE BACK



- Trainer

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.


Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931 - 2005

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We're Living In Odd Times When Miss California Gets Tougher Questions Than the President - Dennis Miller

Hell, she's given better answers too.

Twitter / James Lileks: Maybe I'm old-school, but ...

JAMES LILEKS: Maybe I'm old-school, but "President fires CEO" looks as wrong as "Pope fires Missile."

Hard to believe, isn't it? America elected a 17 year old with ADD. - Comment #24

Obama Signs Law Banning Federal Embryo Research Two Days After Signing Executive Order to OK It.

I'm rereading Atlas Shrugged.  John Galt is the way to go.

Allies of Mr Obama say his weary appearance in the Oval Office with Mr Brown illustrates the strain he is now under, and the president's surprise at the sheer volume of business that crosses his desk. - Hot Air

Words fail me.

Obama mulls reaching out to moderate Taliban - NYT
Obama's British 'Gift Gaffe' Not Reported By U.S. Media
Barack Obama may subject US troops to International Criminal Court
Obama hails 25 new jobs amid massive losses

JIM GERAGHTY: "I'm fascinated by the Obama administration's mentality that the fact that violent Mexican drug cartels are raising hell just over the border doesn't justify additional border security or a fence, but it does justify making it harder for American citizens to own a gun."

    Here are some very interesting quotations of Thomas
Jefferson who has seemingly foretold our future:
          
        When we get  piled upon one another in large cities, as in
Europe, we  shall become as corrupt as  Europe.
        Thomas Jefferson
       
        The democracy  will cease to exist when you take away from
those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
        Thomas Jefferson  
       
        It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as
it goes --- a principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of
the world.
        Thomas Jefferson  
       
        I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent
the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of
taking care of them.
        Thomas Jefferson  
       
        My reading of  history convinces me that most bad government
results from too much  government.
        Thomas Jefferson  
       
        No free man shall ever be debarred the use of  arms.
        Thomas Jefferson  
       
        The strongest reason for the  people to retain the right to
keep and bear arms is, as a last  resort, to protect themselves against
tyranny in government.
        Thomas Jefferson  
          
        The tree of  liberty must be  refreshed from time to time
with the blood of patriots and  tyrants.
        Thomas Jefferson  
          
        To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation
of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
        Thomas Jefferson  
          
        In light of the present financial crisis, it's interesting
to read what Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:
          
        I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to
our liberties than standing armies.  If the American people ever allow
private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation,
then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the
banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up
homeless on the continent their fathers  conquered.

Thanks to that guy at work...

Unko bachana kaun chahega.

Who will want to save them.

The doctors who conducted the post mortem said the bodies of the terrorists were beyond recognition. "Their faces were beyond recognition."

There was no way of identifying them," he said. Asked how, if this is the case, they knew the bodies were indeed those of the terrorists, he said: "The security forces that brought the bodies told us that those were the bodies of the terrorists," he said, adding there was no other way they could have identified the bodies.

An intelligence agency source added: "One of the terrorists was shot through either eye

A senior National Security Guard officer, who had earlier explained the operation in detail to rediff.com, said the commandos went all out after they ascertained that there were no more hostages left. When asked if the commandos attempted to capture them alive at that stage, he replied: "Unko bachana kaun chahega (Who will want to save them)?"

    There's been a lot of talk about how the mainstream media failed the country during this last election cycle, and that because of that failure their days are numbered.

    I have to disagree. I think the media performed flawlessly during the two year election cycle. They managed the story, shielded their candidate, attacked the opposition, sat on damaging stories, and in short did everything a good state run media should do during an election cycle.

    In fact, the only sign of their incompetence was that McCain kept the race much closer than he should have, but that failure might be more due to the education system failing to properly propagandize the young voters, although they'll probably blame home-schoolers for that.  - Mark Halperin

Countdown 12 days to go

    Is that what that is, the presidential race? I thought it was the fuckin' gong show. If it wasn't for Sarah Palin, I'd move to fuckin' Sweden. It's pretty pathetic. I don't think you can be "pretty pathetic." It's mighty pathetic. Barack Obama, I guess if you want to be Mao Tse Tung I suppose you can be. I just don't think you should be the president of America. ...

    Barack, fuck you. Joe, fuck you. John McCain, God bless you for discovering a Republican with massive amounts of balls. The good governor, Sarah Palin, is the bureaucrat-crushing, status quo-punching conservative that I've been looking for. I knew of her before John did, I had worked with Gov. Palin on numerous issues up in Alaska, where she proved she was a "we the people" person and not a bureaucrat monger. We are voting Republican this year, not because of John McCain as much as for Sarah Palin. ... We are voting Republican, because we see that Barack Obama's voting record, not what he has been so cleverly scripted to say, but his voting record. If the guy likes France so much, why won't he just go there?* Why would you want to turn America into France? There's already a France. That's the way I see it. It's a clusterfuck, and it's heartbreaking, really.

 - Ted Nugent,

Back in 1990, the Government seized the Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada for tax evasion and, as required by law, tried to run it. They failed and it closed.

Now we are trusting the economy of our country to a pack of nit-wits who couldn't make money running a whore house and selling booze.

H/T Killem

PS: The Mustang Ranch has since reopened under new ownership.

- Theo Spark

A coup d'etat took place in this country during the past two weeks. If you didn't notice, perhaps you were distracted by the Dolphins whipping the Chargers, or Tina Fey's grotesque parodies of Sarah Palin, or perhaps you were immersed in blogs trying to prove that Barak Obama is a domestic terrorist. Regardless of the distraction, while our attention was diverted, a revolution took place. No shots were fired, but plenty of blood was shed. The United States ceased to be a capitalist economy and became a managed socialist state

- Syd

If you had purchased £1000 of Northern Rock shares one year ago it
would now be worth £4.95, with HBOS, earlier this week your £1000 would
have been worth £16.50, £1000 invested in XL Leisure would now be worth
less than £5, but if you bought £1000 worth of Tennents Lager one year
ago, drank it all, then took the empty cans to an aluminium re-cycling
plant, you would get £214. So based on the above statistics the best
current investment advice is to drink heavily and re-cycle.

- from the Spectator via Samizdata

Palin: "I hope all those investigators are spending a lot of money in Alaska!"

and...

Ladies, I think you should know--

--Seething, moonbat anger makes your butt look big.


- Comment on Ace discussing Palin Derangement Syndrome

"The bottom line is this. If you've got a rifle, you've got a shotgun, you've got a gun in your house, I'm not taking it away. Alright? So they can keep on talking about it but this is just not true. And by the way, here's another thing you've got to understand. Even if I wanted to take it away, I couldn't get it done. I don't have the votes in Congress."

- Barry Obama

Remind you of anything...

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., on CBS "60 Minutes": "If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them -- Mr. and Mrs. America, turn them all in -- I would have done it."

PETER KIRSANOW: "Judging from the local drive time radio shows, we bitter, religious pistol-packers here in flyover country remembered only two things from Obama's Berlin visit: the phrase 'citizen of the world' and Obama's failure to visit wounded troops at Landstuhl and Ramstein."

Today on CBS's Face the Nation, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in Afghanistan, told the paparazzi-pursued correspondent Lara Logan that "the objective of this trip was to have substantive discussions with people like President Karzai or Prime Minister Maliki or President Sarkozy or others who I expect to be dealing with over the next eight to 10 years. . . .

The notion that Obama will be dealing with world leaders for eight-to-ten years, possibly up through July 2018, suggests that either (a) he believes that not only will he be elected and re-elected, but the 22nd amendment will be repealed and he will be elected for a third term, OR (b) he was speaking casually and just meant two terms.

...and be President of 57 States to boot.

What really distinguishes veteran's reunions isn't the stories they tell but the secrets they keep. - Richard Fernandez

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards - Clair Wolfe

What Is A Veteran? A Veteran -- whether active duty, discharged, retired, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America', for an amount up to and including his life. That is honor, and there are way too many people in this country today who no longer understand that fact. - Theo Spark

When Gore won the popular vote in the 2000 election by half a percentage point, but lost the Electoral College -- or, for short, "the constitutionally prescribed method for choosing presidents" -- anyone who denied the sacred importance of the popular vote was either an idiot or a dangerous partisan.

But now Hillary has won the popular vote in a Democratic primary, while Obambi has won under the rules. In a spectacular turnabout, media commentators are heaping sarcasm on our plucky Hillary for imagining the "popular vote" has any relevance whatsoever.

- Ann Coulter

Liberalism is emotion posing as reason.

So now my last choice has the Republican nomination, and my last choice has the Democrat nomination...sucks to be me. I can't think of anything more likely to get conservatives out to vote for McLame than his lordship the O'bama.

A beautiful thing happened on the way to a 2008 Democratic nominee. Hillary Clinton obtained the feminist dream: She was treated equally. - Kathryn Jean Lopez

Might this election be the first ever to be decided by people on both sides voting against their party's own candidate? - Cold Fury