This'n'That July 1st[DiPonzio;Crap&Tirade;FluffyQuote]

Wounded Cop Update A Rochester police officer who was shot in the back of the head earlier this year underwent a second brain surgery last week. On June 23, Dr. Paul Maurer attached a synthetic skull to the head of 23-year-old Anthony DiPonzio at Rochester General Hospital. Maurer says DiPonzio's surgery was "textbook smooth." The rookie officer was walking back to his patrol car after investigating complaints of drug activity when he was shot by one of the resident "Lil' Bastards" in the back of the head in January. A 14-year-old "Lil' Bastard," Tyquan Rivera, later surrendered to police and was charged with attempted murder and assault. Police said he shot the officer with a .22-caliber rifle. The Lil' Bastard, who has since turned 15, pleaded not guilty and is being held without bail at a children's detention center. The Public Must Read When Congress Won't! Members of the house didn't bother to read the 1200+ page HR2454 let alone the 309 page amendment that Porky Waxman dropped on the floor of the House last Friday at 3:09AM....AM!! So it's up to us to read what they won't and spread the word!! Not only did the amendment correct spelling and grammar, it also purchased a single democRAT hold-out vote for THREE POINT FIVE BILLION DOLLARS!!! Rep Marcy Kaptur, Toledo, Ohio, was awarded a new federal power authority with up to $3.5Billion to piss away at her discretion. As all national politics and politicians are beholden to someone-probably many someones-this gives Ms Kaptur lots of our money to piss away on her contributors and supporters!! Hopefully, this was the largest pay-off Porky Waxman had to make; if all 435 crooks in the House held out for the same money-it'd cost your great grandchildren and my grandchildren somewhere in the neighborhood of $1.523Trillion.... but as ACORN-COI, Fluffy obama and the congress seem to think, what'sa trillion here, a trillion there?!?! Remember Fluffy's Interview With S.F. Chronicle Editorial Board?? It didn't take us long to find Barack Obama's original quote, which came from a videotaped interview he did with the San Francisco Chronicle editorial board very early in the presidential campaign, January 2008."Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket," Obama told the Chronicle . "Coal-powered plants, you know, natural gas, you name it, whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers." Til Nex'Time....

This'n'That; June 30th[Honduras;Biltmore;TARP;GM]

Fluffy And "Rob'em" Condemn Presidential Removal ACORN-COI through their mouthpiece Fluffy obama along with Secretary of State Hillary "Rob'em" Clinton condemned the military action that removed Honduran President Jose Zelaya from office last Sunday. Mr Zelaya was attempting to hold an unofficial vote to determine support for a change to Honduran law that would allow him to run for subsequent terms as president. Now that H.R. 5 has come to light, we better be on the lookout for soviet-type moves toward a communist dictatorship for the U.S. The condemnation aligns the executive branch with Hugo Chavez, the Venezulan rat-hole dictator, who said he'd overthrow any successor. NOTE: H.R. 5 is the House proposal to remove the two-term restriction on the U.S. presidency. More To Asheville Than Biltmore Estate Granted, the primary attraction in the Asheville, N.C., area is the estate. There is even more to see than the several attractions on the estate's grounds. One only has to go two miles north of the citycenter, near the estate's entrance to find a treasure-trove of neat stuff to see!! Biltmore Village was originally built to house and provide necessities for the craftsmen and laborers building The Biltmore House. Today, the cottages and retail shops provide visitors access to 30 unique shops and 10 cafe's and restaurants. ACORN Continues To Screw The Taxpayer! Congress originally authorized up to $700 billion in TARP investments. And we know that $439 billion has been committed to various programs. But how much of that money are taxpayers likely to see again? And to what extent will they be compensated for making those investments? The Congressional Budget Office tried answering those questions in a report they issued last week. The primary finding is the CBO’s estimate that subsidies in the TARP program [read: Loss to the Taxpayer!] are $159 billion. Taxpayers put up $439 billion and, in return, now own assets (incuding recent repayments) of $280 billion. The biggest subsidies are for housing ($50 billion), the auto industry ($40 billion), and AIG ($35 billion). The next biggest subsidy is for the bank investments that haven’t been repaid ($24 billion). That figure includes subsidies for the original TARP investments in Citigroup and Bank of America . The CBO estimates that the additional investments in Citigroup and Bank of America involve subsidies of about $7 billion, of which $5 billion is for Citi and $2 billion is for B of A. The B of A figure may increase, however, when Treasury finalizes a plan to guarantee some B of A assets. CBO estimates that the banks who have repaid the TARP also received small subsidies. Taxpayers got their money back, but CBO believes that they weren’t fully compensated: dividend yields were below market rates, and taxpayers bore significant risk. (Caveat: CBO’s estimate does not include the value of the warrants that ten big banks will repurchase.) These estimates do not include several programs that have been announced but not yet implemented. These include additional support to GM (GMGMQ.PK -see below), expansion of the TALF, creation of the PPIP, and support for small business loans. Another way to examine this information is to look at the subsidy rates that CBO estimated for each of these programs: The subsidy rate for housing is 100%. The housing program is the only part of TARP in which taxpayers do not receive assets whose value might offset some of the TARP spending. The next highest subsidy rates are for the auto industry (73%) and AIG (50%). The subsidy rate for the extra Citigroup support (20%) is almost twice as high as the subsidy rate for the extra Bank of America support (11%). That difference is primarily driven by the asset guarantees provided to Citigroup, which CBO believes involve higher subsidies that the additional capital investment in the firm. Treasury is working on a plan to provide guarantees for some Bank of America assets, so the BoA subsidy rate may change. As noted above, CBO believes that the repaid investments involved a small subsidy. Taxpayers got their money back, but weren’t fully compensated for bearing risk and receiving below-market dividends. This figure may change once Treasury repurchases warrants. GEN MOTORS(Other OTC: GMGMQ.PK) >>>Last Trade: $1.1445 >>>Trade Time: Jun 29 >>>Prev Close: $1.1445 >>>1y Target Est: $0.33 >>>52wk Range: $0.27 - $16.35 >>>Market Cap: 698.79M >>>EPS (ttm): -$56.845 >>>Div & Yield: $0.00/0.00% Another Suggestion For ACORN-COI And Fluffy [Given ACORN-COI's penchant for communist-style government takeovers of private companies, they might consider the "K-Y" division of Johnson & Johnson! Each time ACORN-COI makes it's "back-room" suggestions to/demands on the Congress, the resultant "screwing" is eventually gonna hurt the taxpayer... and hurt badly!! With each impending "screwing," the IRS could send a 5 pound tube to each taxpayer. Check out below, this latest attempt at "screwing the taxpayer to the wall" Given the stock information above, ACORN-COI/Fluffy accountants are making their typical investments: $60 Billion in cash for a 50% stake in a $698.790,000 company-a company that loses $56.85 per share annually!! WHADDA DEAL!!!] General Motors Corp is heading to bankruptcy court on Tuesday to seek approval to sell its assets to a "New GM" in a plan to reinvigorate the automaker under U.S. government ownership. GM is seeking approval for the sale from U.S. bankruptcy Judge Robert Gerber just 30 days after filing for Chapter 11. Under the deal, brokered by the ACORN-COI administration's autos task force, the company would sell its assets under Section 363 of the bankruptcy code to a "New GM" and continue to operate its best assets, like Chevrolet and Cadillac, while gaining access to billions in funding from the U.S. Treasury. GM's old assets would remain behind in bankruptcy court to be liquidated. The deal faces several objections from bondholders and those concerned about the fate of its dealers, but no competing bidders have emerged as an alternative to the U.S. government's $60 billion financing for GM, including a proposed equity investment of $50 billion that would give the U.S. Treasury a 60 percent ownership stake. Til Nex'Time....

This'n'That; June 29th[McHughSwitch;LocalGov't]

ACORN-COI Screws GOP Again! [One has to admit-If they can't buy the seat, they circumvent the election process. Given that they are completely unfamiliar with fair elections, ACORN-COI couldn't beat Mr McHugh one. Because they couldn't win fairly, the organization of thugs is attempting to promote him into ineffectiveness!] Striking again at the already beleaguered republicRAT party, ACORN-COI mouthpiece Fluffy obama today [06/02/009] will announce the appointment of Rep. John McHugh (R-N.Y.) as secretary of the Army. In tapping McHugh, the top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, ACORN-COI sidelines yet another senior GOP lawmaker. The veteran congressman from upstate New York joins his former colleague from Illinois, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, and Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, the ambassador-designate to China, among the ranks of republicRATs in the ACORN-COI administration. McHugh’s appointment comes just over a month after administration officials helped push veteran Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter to switch from a republicRAT to a democRAT which wasn't much of a loss since Specter rarely deviated from the democRAT playbook. “ACORN-COI has made an outstanding choice in John McHugh on his credentials,” said former Rep. Tom Reynolds (R-N.Y.), who also represented upstate New York. “He’s a leading expert on Armed services that members on both sides of the aisle respect. ... On any major issue on armed services, I wanted to hear John McHugh’s opinion.” McHugh has won Congressional reelection with ease — taking 65 percent last year — but his successor may have a more difficult time in a district that ACORN-COI carried — something that surely didn’t go unnoticed by the ACORN-COI thugs. McHugh’s departure — which leaves only two republicRATs in the 29 seat New York congressional delegation — sets off a likely fight for his seat, which ACORN-COI carried over republicRAT John McCain in November 52 percent to 47 percent. Sources say McHugh’s chief of staff, Robert Taub, is likely to be an early frontrunner for the Republican nomination. “This seat is one of the best opportunities for democRATs to pursue now that McHugh out of the way,” said Reynolds, who is also a former chairman of the National republicRAT Congressional Committee. “Already we’re watching the democRATs downplay their chances but make no mistake, you can bet they’ll be as forceful in this as they were in NY 20 [special election].” NY Gov't Continues To Screw It's Citizens [The United States Constitution specifies {10th Amendment}: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." If Guvner "Double-Dealin'" Dave signs this into law, I fear the the people of New York will not see through the ruse!! This law will make it easier to reduce the people's representation in government closest to their homes and lives. The government in Albany is "maximum arrogance" personified!!! Practically everything from each years' bloated, unbalanced budget to the most mundane regulations are decided by the "three men in a backroom." Having and keeping the village, town, district boards and governments, while usually another level of taxation, also is communication with those who understand the local and regional problems at hand. There have been rare examples of local politicians breaking through the glass walls surrounding those arrogant state parasites and that possibility must continue!!] The Senate approved legislation Wednesday that would make it easier to cut or consolidate layers of local government in New York, a measure that supporters hailed as a significant step toward relieving tax burdens across the state. The bill, drafted by the New York State attorney general, Andrew M. Cuomo, simplifies what is now a byzantine set of laws specifying how voters or government officials can choose to dissolve or merge towns, villages and the hundreds of special districts that provide water, sewage treatment and other services throughout the state. Senate passage of the bill — which was approved by the Assembly on Monday — was also a political victory for Mr. Cuomo, who by proposing legislation in May and persuading lawmakers to approve it in a matter of weeks, overshadowed Gov. David A. Paterson, who embraced a related proposal last year but did little to advance it at the time. All told, there are more than 10,000 taxing entities in the state, ranging from special districts that provide volunteer fire departments to those responsible for disposing of duck waste or maintaining fallout shelters. Special districts are especially plentiful on Long Island, where they generate half the special district tax revenue in the state. Many districts are considered by critics to be little more than patronage mills. Til Nex'Time....

This'n'That; June 28th[CommonSense;ACORN-COI;HeavyElement]

Finally, Common Sense Arrives On Capitol Hill

On Wednesday, June 24, on Capitol Hill, Congressman Doug Lamborn of Colorado, Congressman Thaddeus McCotter of Michigan and Congressman Scott Garrett of New Jersey formally announced the creation of the Congressional Sovereignty Caucus – an entity dedicated to preserving U.S. sovereignty. More than 30 other members of the House of Representatives have already enrolled. The Congressional Sovereignty Caucus was established to protect and defend the rights of American citizens and the interests of American institutions from the increasing influence of international organizations and multilateral agreements. It will also promote policies and practices that protect U.S. self-determination, national security, and constitutional principles and defend American values from encroachment by globalists. The recent nominations by the Obama administration have shown us that there are people who believe American citizens should be subject to international law and that the United Nations trumps the United States Constitution. This realization makes the Congressional Sovereignty Caucus more important than ever. Our Founder and Honorary Chairman, LtCol Oliver North, stated in his weekly nationally-syndicated column this week that “I am not a citizen of the world. Nor are the leaders on Capitol Hill who are members of the Congressional Sovereignty Caucus. We’re American citizens. We raised our right hands and took an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic and bear true faith and allegiance to the same…”

ACORN-COI And Fluffy Continue To Piss Money Away

Bloomberg News reports today on some of the more egregious unintended consequences of the Economic Stabilization legislation (Bank Bailout) that was passed last October. In particular, one of the tax breaks extended under the legislation will result in a $2.7 billion benefit to London-based Diageo Plc, which benefits from tax breaks received by rum distilleries it owns in the Caribbean, according to the report. Soon after the bill’s passage in October 2008 TCS [Taxpayers for Common Sense] highlighted the extension of numerous tax sweeteners, including for rum companies, producers of wooden arrow, and racetrack owners. TCS’s analysis of the rum giveaway can be found here. A longer TCS analysis of the other tax sweeteners extended under the legislation can be found here.

The financial market bailout bill that was enacted earlier this month included a litany of extraneous tax provisions, particularly the so-called "extenders." These arcane provisions benefit a range of disparate interests, such as manufacturers of children’s wooden arrows, television and movie productions, and rum distillers. That last one has generated some controversy. White House Deputy Press Secretary Tony Fratto and others argued that the "rum tax" provision would provide funding just to the Puerto Rican and U.S. Virgin Island governments, and not to distillers. However, as USVI documents chronicle, the Diageo agreement reveals that the island governments are merely middle men before half of the money passes on to the rum distillers. For example, currently Cruzan in USVI gets 35% of the excise tax revenue generated by their rum sales in the U.S.

For many years, rum imported to the U.S. was subject to a $10.50 excise tax per proof gallon. For deficit reduction purposes, the excise tax was increased in 1985 and again later to its current level of $13.50. Under long-standing U.S. law, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands are entitled to a $10.50 "cover over," or rebate on the excise taxes. The U.S. has routinely extended a "temporary" additional cover over of $2.75 (total $13.25), leaving only 25 cents going into the U.S. Treasury. The most recent extension passed in the financial markets bailout bill was retroactive to January 1, 2008 (the date of the previous extension’s expiration) and extends through December 31, 2009. According to a Joint Committee of Taxation analysis, the two year increase to the $13.25 cover over rate will cost taxpayers more than $192 million.

Finally, despite the deal moving forward, not everyone in USVI is happy with the deal. USVI Senator Neville James said, "To give the people's money away to a foreign company replete with cash and equity is mind-boggling. There is economic development and then there's giving away the ranch." Neville concluded by saying that, "These flat giveaways of excise tax rebates create a cause for concern. The agreement is simply too one-sided against the territory. Free project, free property, free tax exemptions and the people's money force me to say -- so much for our negotiating skills.”

Rum distillers and their allies try to hide the fact that they are receiving direct taxpayer subsidies from the way the rum excise tax cover over has been implemented. But the Diageo/USVI agreement makes clear that U.S. taxpayers are about to become unwitting silent investors in a $250 million rum distillery in St. Croix and that $2.1 billion of tax revenues will be benefitting Diageo’s bottom line for the next 30-years. Looks like there will be a little bit of all of us ($2.1 billion tax dollars) in the Captain.

The Latest Fluffy obama Discovery

~ Heaviest Element Discovered ~

Research has led to discovery of the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, Governmentium (Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons.

Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert; however, it can be detected because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A minute amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that normally takes less than a second to take as long as 4 years to complete.

Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2-6 years; it does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neurons and deputy neurons exchange places. In fact, Governmentium's mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganization causes more morons to become neurons, forming isodopes. This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration.

This hypothetical quantity is referred to as critical morass.

When catalyzed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium, which has half as many peons but twice the number of morons. Poisoning by this metal is lethal at small doses.

Til Nex'Time....

This'n'That;June 27th[Energy-Ponzi;ACORN-TermLimits]

Latest ACORN-COI "Ponzi Scheme"

Just when ya think the government can't get any worse.....IT DOES!!

At the outset, the 44 democRATs who voted against the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 are to be applauded!! On the other hand, the 8 republicRATs who voted for the the scam should be denigrated!! Those eight are:Bono-Mack[Ca-45], Castle [De-0], Kirk [IL-10], Lance [NJ-7], LoBiondo [NJ-2], McHugh [NY-23], Reichert [Wa-8] and Smith [NJ-4].

Only the "KoolAid drinkers" and the "KoolAid media" think this has any positive effect on the American way of life!!

How, in any coherent thought process, can this have a positive effect on the global affects of climate changes, warmer or cooler? In order to achieve the affect the "KoolAid drinkers" think is possible, global legislation is an absolute necessity!! How is ACORN-COI going to control all the third-world ratholes on the planet?? Are they going to sell carbon credits to some poor bastard living in a Kenyan mud hut so he can buy kerosene for his oil lantern?? Fluffy obama and his handlers at ACORN-COI need to pull their collective heads out of their collective asses!!

ACORN-COI Try To Crown Fluffy "King"

[Has anyone heard about this legislative affront to "the will of the people??" I stumbled across it while looking into the recent energy bill which supports both the climate hoax and ACORN-COI-Fluffy communistic domination of the American people. A new amendment to the Constitution will just seal the fate of "a free American people!!" ACORN-COI was able to purchase the last presidency and install Fluffy obama as their mouthpiece; with ratification of this amendment they can continue to purchase the presidency and install whomever they want as their mouthpiece!! One only has to look at the four-term presidency of Franklin Roosevelt to see the damage a defacto monarch can do to the national economy and the American way of life. Had FDR not passed away in office, how long could he have held his "kingship??"]

Introduced two weeks before this year’s Presidential Inauguration, H.J.Res.5 calls to amend the Constitution by removing the limit on the number of terms a President can serve. It would effectively repeal the 22nd Amendment, approved by Congress in 1947 and ratified by the States in 1951. Although providing ample room for contention, the bill has aroused next to no news coverage. Instead, other Internet voices can be heard linking the resolution to the current president. A virtual email that is being sent around with the subject, “America wanted change! Boy is it coming!”, fully equipped with references to Communism and Fascism.

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This'n'That; June 25th[Vacation]

Vacation....

I had intended to mention it last Friday before we left on Saturday morning. As usual, I wanted to leave at 5AM, but due to my carelessness, I had not gotten everything ready and in the car Friday night.

Suffice it to say, Day #1 started at 5:30 AM from the Rochester, NY area enroute to Knoxville, Tn. My intent was to see what was available for affordable housing. We are intending to move out of the state of NY before Guvner "Double-Dealin' " Dave Paterson can tax us completely penniless!!

On a previous trip we had re-discovered a really affordable restaurant in New Kingstown, Pa. I had discovered it while an over-the-road truck driver but had never stopped for a meal. "The Middlesex Diner" is a terrific place to eat; affordable, neat, clean and truely friendly wait-staff. We both had a breakfast meal of eggs, corned beef hash, rye toast and a drink-for less than a ten dollar bill TOTAL!!

In my "engineering," I had planned that we would stop for the night in Winchester, Va. Wrong; we would have wasted nearly two hours driving time, so we pressed on to Staunton, Va., where we found a Red Roof Inn-take my advise, NEVER STOP THERE!! The east-Indian working the desk whom-we nicknamed Mockmood-not only could not understand us, we couldn't understand him. "The Young Miss Lovely" did the negotiations; we were putting all expenses on her debit card; and was assured that we would have a smoking room. As we carried our luggage in I was smoking my pipe; I normally don't smoke indoors or in any vehicles. As we settled in I noticed there were no ashtrays, essential in a smoking room-along with a sign that smoking in a non-smoking room would encur a $100 unexpected charge to the offenders' credit card!! When queried, Mockmood said that he asked "Lovely" four times and each time she said no to a smoking room-a boldfaced lie on his part. We got that ironed out by being moved into a smoking room. I certainly hope for his sake, the Little Prick doesn't try assessing the $100 charge on us!! Mockmood has definitely turned us off to Red Roof Inns in general and his in particular, the one at I-81, exit 222, 42 Sangers Lane, Staunton, Va., 24401.

Day #2 started with us checking out of Mockmood's Inn and having breakfast at the local Shoney's Restaurant. Many times, we "restaurant hop" from Shoney's-to-Shoney's. They have to have the best breakfast buffet on the planet!! Out on Interstate Eighty-One, motoring southwardlybound, we passed some cars and trucks-some other cars and trucks passed us. At one point, we found ourselves in the right lane, with a Penske rental truck to our left-keeping pace with us. Apparently, the driver got sick of riding in the left lane and decided he wanted that patch of the planet we were occupying, cuz he started easing to the right, giving us no place to be!! We ended up driving on the shoulder at about 75mph, to get out of this Kamikaze driver's way.

As I said, our destination was the Knoxville, Tennessee area so I had elected to stop for the day at Morristown, Tn., and we selected the Super 8 motel, completely at random. What a stroke of luck!! The lady that tended to our needs was just the greatest, nicest person....named Barbara. We-Miss Lovely and I, Barbara and her "gentleman friend" hit it off immediately. She was great to joke with, has a great knowledge of the area and she and "Miss Lovely" are both originally from the upstate New York area. The room we had [for two days], as motel rooms go, was very nice; modern, working appliances, not threadbare in the least!! I would highly recommend these accomodations to anyone in the Morristown area [I-81, exit 8, 5400 South Davey Crockett Parkway, Morristown, Tn., 37813].

Day #3 presented us with a beautiful mid-south day.... bright sun, moderate morning heat. One of the side-trips "Miss Lovely" wanted to take was to see the Biltmore Estate, Asheville, N.C., so off we went eastward on I-40 to Asheville. Anyone who's been on this stretch of I-40 knows that east of the Tennessee state line the road drops down into the gorge formed by the collision of a bunch of rocks with a bunch of water, and up the other side, into northwest North Carolina. We'll talk more about the estate later, but Gawd!! Whadda Sight!! By mid-afternoon we were done sightseeing and were on our way back. We stopped at the rest area at the top of the gorge on the NC side. When we got into the rest area, we couldn't get out. Seems there were a bunch of motorcyclists [5-6] eastbound; one of 'em had a wreck; the injured one was brought to the rest area to be "mercy-flighted" out-our way out was blocked by the helicopter waiting for the person to be stabilized and loaded onto the craft. We couldn't find out how bad he was injured, but to be flown to the hospital, one has to be pretty banged up!! We returned to Miz Barbara's Super8 for an unprecedented second night's stay.

We awoke on Day #4 to find yet another beautiful day!! Today we're going to visit Sevierville, Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg. Neither of us are the "amusement park" types but thought some sightseeing and shopping might be in order. So we checked out, said our "good-byes" to Miz Barbara and hit the road. As we approached Sevierville the traffic steadily grew until it was bumper-to-bumper going into the city. We fought it through Sevierville and into Pidgeon Forge with the traffic increasing and the speed decreasing. No stops sofar!! And on into Gatlinburg with no change in the traffic. I had visited this area 15-18 years ago and I should not have revisited!! The entire area has experienced explosive growth-BUT-in a "willy-nilly" fashion, with no organization. There were crap shops just stuck in anywhere there was enough surface space!! For us, none of the aforementioned cities were worthy of a stop; we just kept driving on into the National Forest and continued up to Knoxville. Miss Lovely had never been to the area so she had no idea how it used to be; I was sadly disappointed!! We continued north on I-81 and finally stopped at a Days Inn in Wytheville, Va [exit #62] and later had supper at the local Shoney's.

Day #5 started with us eating breakfast at the same Shoney's where we supped the evening before. I'm a diabetic so I check my blood-glucose levels several times each day. After my second check of the morning I apparently had misplaced the lancet [that finger-pricker thingie] somewhere in the car. We conducted one of those "down on yer knees" searches under the car seats and everywhere we could think of-to no avail!! We just continued driving and when both felt hungry, we each had McDonald's salads..... pretty much a safe bet when I don't know my blood-glucose values. We drove straight through from Wytheville, Va., to Rochester, NY, arriving home about 8:30PM, yesterday [Wednesday]...... and never did find the lancet!!!

Til Nex'Time....

This'n'That; June 18th[SafewayInsuranceReform]

Will ACORN Listen?

[When any entity looks to improve both the value, benefit and coverage of Americans' healthcare insurance-they need only look to Safeway, the multi-state food store chain. Here is an edited version of what Steven Burd, CEO of Safeway, Inc and founder of The Coalition to Advance Healthcare Reform, said in explaining the methodology and results of research and implementation of an improved health insurance system. Reform measures such as those undertaken at Safeway would be of the most benefit to the American taxpayer--IF "control" weren't the ultimate goal of ACORN and the rest of the Muslim worldwide community.]

At Safeway we believe that well-designed health-care reform, utilizing market-based solutions, can ultimately reduce our nation's health-care bill by 40%. The key to achieving these savings is health-care plans that reward healthy behavior. As a self-insured employer, Safeway designed just such a plan in 2005 and has made continuous improvements each year. The results have been remarkable. During this four-year period, we have kept our per capita health-care costs flat (that includes both the employee and the employer portion), while most American companies' costs have increased 38% over the same four years. Safeway's plan capitalizes on two key insights gained in 2005. The first is that 70% of all health-care costs are the direct result of behavior. The second insight, which is well understood by the providers of health care, is that 74% of all costs are confined to four chronic conditions (cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity). Furthermore, 80% of cardiovascular disease and diabetes is preventable, 60% of cancers are preventable, and more than 90% of obesity is preventable. As much as we would like to take credit for being a health-care innovator, Safeway has done nothing more than borrow from the well-tested automobile insurance model. For decades, driving behavior has been correlated with accident risk and has therefore translated into premium differences among drivers. Stated somewhat differently, the auto-insurance industry has long recognized the role of personal responsibility. As a result, bad behaviors (like speeding, tickets for failure to follow the rules of the road, and frequency of accidents) are considered when establishing insurance premiums. Bad driver premiums are not subsidized by the good driver premiums. As with most employers, Safeway's employees pay a portion of their own health care through premiums, co-pays and deductibles. The big difference between Safeway and most employers is that we have pronounced differences in premiums that reflect each covered member's behaviors. Our plan utilizes a provision in the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act that permits employers to differentiate premiums based on behaviors. Currently we are focused on tobacco usage, healthy weight, blood pressure and cholesterol levels. Safeway's Healthy Measures program is completely voluntary and currently covers 74% of the insured nonunion work force. Employees are tested for the four measures cited above and receive premium discounts off a "base level" premium for each test they pass. Data is collected by outside parties and not shared with company management. If they pass all four tests, annual premiums are reduced $780 for individuals and $1,560 for families. Should they fail any or all tests, they can be tested again in 12 months. If they pass or have made appropriate progress on something like obesity, the company provides a refund equal to the premium differences established at the beginning of the plan year. At Safeway, we are building a culture of health and fitness. The numbers speak for themselves. Our obesity and smoking rates are roughly 70% of the national average and our health-care costs for four years have been held constant. When surveyed, 78% of our employees rated our plan good, very good or excellent. In addition, 76% asked for more financial incentives to reward healthy behaviors. We have heard from dozens of employees who lost weight, lowered their blood-pressure and cholesterol levels, and are enjoying better health because of this program. Many discovered for the first time that they have high blood pressure, and others have been told by their doctor that they have added years to their life. Today, we are constrained by current laws from increasing these incentives. We reward plan members $312 per year for not using tobacco, yet the annual cost of insuring a tobacco user is $1,400. Reform legislation needs to raise the federal legal limits so that incentives can better match the true incremental benefit of not engaging in these unhealthy behaviors. If these limits are appropriately increased, I am confident Safeway's per capita health-care costs will decline for at least another five years as our work force becomes healthier. The Healthy Measures program currently applies only to our nonunion work force. While we have numerous health and wellness provisions in our union contracts, we are working with union leaders like Joe Hansen of the United Food and Commercial Workers to incorporate healthy measures provisions in our union work force as well. While comprehensive health-care reform needs to address a number of other key issues, we believe that personal responsibility and financial incentives are the path to a healthier America.

By our calculation, if the nation had adopted our approach in 2005, the nation's direct health-care bill would be $550 billion less than it is today.

This is almost four times the $150 billion that most experts estimate to be the cost of covering today's 47 million uninsured. The implication is that we can achieve health-care reform with universal coverage and declining per capita health-care costs. There is a very real possibility that we will see positive transformational health-care reform in the near future. I am encouraged by the effort I see on Capitol Hill, particularly the bipartisan effort in the Senate. While some tough issues remain, if we continue to work in a bipartisan manner I believe we will resolve these issues successfully and find agreement on meaningful reform [Here, I question Mister Burd's political allegences--This smacks of being a "KoolAid" drinker!!].

Til Nex'Time....

This'n'That June 16th[Palin-Letterman;LilBastard;durbin-crook;HealthIns]

Why Fear Palin?

Why are all the know-nothing KoolAid drinkers crucifying Sarah Palin and her family?

Ya know, I remember when David Letterman was actually funny.... with his own material!!

Letterman seems truely aligned with Fluffy obama this time-They both have an ego as-big-as-all-outdoors; they both are very,very, angry men with great chips on their shoulders; They are Hellbent on destroying both the country and ANYONE who might introduce and support policies to save and rejuvenate it!!

Now he's apologizing for his rude, ruthless comments about the Palin daughter.....but, only after a "do-nothing" NY state assemblyman called for his firing!!

The KoolAid drinkers and the KoolAid media will go to any length to discredit Governor Palin and her philosophies. They're truely afraid of her!!

Who among the democRATs can announce a public appearance one day, and draw 20,000 the next day? The only possibility is the ACORN representative, Fluffy obama. Governor Palin is the polar-opposite of Fluffy and his cohorts; having brought legal charges against some in her own party while Fluffy fires an Inspector General who admonishes one of his party; has promoted private enterprise and personal self-reliance in Alaska while Fluffy promotes increasing governmental control over more and more facets of American life. "Lil' Bastard" Update

The Lil Bastard [Tyquan Rivera] had a routine evidential court hearing on the 10th of June. The hearing was to determine if interviews of local residents can be used at trial to place the Lil Bastard at the scene at the time in question.

Rivera is the same Lil Bastard who allegedly shot RPD Officer Anthony DiPonsio in the back of the head on February 3rd.

During this hearing, State Supreme Court Justice Joseph D. Valentino heard evidence from neighbors, police officers and an individual who sold the Lil Bastard a long gun the seller thought was a BB-gun.

The Lil Bastard's trial begins August First. Judge Valentino will decide by July First if the identification testimony will be allowed at trial.

ACORN Error?

ACORN really "screwed-the-pooch" on this one!! The organization, in rewarding the crooked KoolAid drinkers, missed a likely candidate for one of the cabinet posts Fluffy obama could have announced. On September 18th, former Treasury Secretary Paulson urged Congress to put forth legislation to aid troubled banks. Senator Dick Durbin, democRAT, Ill [well, DUH!!], used that inside information to save-if not increase-his investments. On September 15th, the S&P500 Index plunged 4.7% on the news of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy and the Fluffy-engineered Bank of America takeover of Merrill Lynch. The index continued to drop, by the end of October was down 22.6%!! The Senate's second-in-command sold more than $115,000 on September 19th and invested the bulk of the proceeds in Berkshire-Hathaway, class B stock. democRAT durbin should be considered a formidable crook when cabinet substitutions become necessary as the economy and the government continues to collapse.

ACORN Afraid?

They must be or they wouldn't have sent their mouthpiece to speak to the American Medical Association in Chicago. The ACORN record in running this administration is dismal at best; they can't handle yet another failure!! Fluffy and his teleprompter spewed forth such niavete and untruths as to be laughable. He baited the doctors with the suggestions of curbing malpractice suits and cancelling a proposed 21% decrease in Medicare payments. The decrease will go through and the malpractice awards will be ignored. The "healthcare crisis," and we need to call it a crisis to sway the public to fall into line behind ACORN's reform and control desires, ignores the basic statistics from the latest national census.

• More than 84 percent (250.4 million) of U.S. residents were privately insured or enrolled in a government health program, such as Medicare, Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Programs (S-CHIP).

• Up to 14 million uninsured adults and children qualified for government programs in 2004 but had not enrolled, according to the BlueCross BlueShield Association.

• Nearly 18 million of the uninsured live in households with annual incomes above $50,000 and could likely afford health insurance.

According to the Census Bureau, the proportion of people without health insurance was slightly lower in 2006 (15.8 percent) than a decade earlier (16.2 percent in 1997). During the past 10 years the number of people with health coverage rose nearly 25 million, while the number without health coverage only increased about 3.5 million.About 12.6 million foreign-born residents lack health coverage -accounting for 27 percent of the uninsured. In 2006, 83.6 percent of naturalized citizens had coverage – close to the rate of native-born residents (87.8 percent). In contrast, 45 percent of foreign-born noncitizen residents were uninsured. These 10 million uninsured immigrants were more than 20 percent of the total number of uninsured U.S. residents. Income may be a factor – but not the only one.

A partial explanation for this disparity is that many immigrants come from cultures without a strong history of paying premiums for private health insurance. In addition, immigrants do not qualify for public coverage until they have been legal residents for more than five years.

About 19 million 18-to-34-year olds are uninsured. Most of them are healthy and know they can pay incidental expenses out of pocket. Using hard-earned dollars to pay for health care they don’t expect to need is a low priority for them.

As for the "crisis," if one looks at the government's own statistics-there isn't one! ACORN needs federal control over the healthcare and health insurance sectors to exert far more control over American daily life that ever before-thus furthering their socialist and statist agendas.

Til Nex'Time....

This'n'That; June 11th[Fluffy-Czars;Fluffy-GM;Suggestion;NYSenate]

Czarist Russia Or Czarist Amerika? These modern-day czars report directly to ACORN's mouthpiece-Fluffy obama and have the power to shape national policy on their subject area. Unlike Cabinet secretaries, they do not have to be approved by Congress.

Today the shame is being rich and with their assinine economic policies, ACORN seems determined to bestow the “honor” of poverty on as many as possible. Forget the horrendous tax-and-spend policies that gradually impoverish us all. ACORN’s new target is a direct one – the evil, greedy CEO. To do so, they will appoint Kenneth Feinberg as the new “Pay Czar.” The New York Times portrayed it as a new offensive against CEOs earning more than ACORN likes, saying the administration is taking action as “part of a broad set of regulations on executive compensation expected to be announced by ACORN as early as this week.” By most counts, this is at least ACORN’s 21st similar “czar,” more than Tevye would have been familiar with from the Russian Romanovs had he lived all 300 years of the dynasty.

The Romanovs ruled Russia from 1613 with the ascension of Michael I through the abdication of Czar Nicholas II in 1917. During that time, they produced 18 czars. While it is harder to exactly count the number of ACORN czars, with yesterday's appointment it seems fair to say it is now certainly in excess of 18.

So in the ACORN Administration, we have czar-mania!! Their mouthpiece, Fluffy obama just keeps on "drinkin' the KoolAid."

A Czar, is someone who is appointed by the president, and is only answerable to the president, which bypasses the Judicial and the Legislative parts of our government. Leaving only the Executive Branch in the loop. The way the American government was formed, was with a balance of power between the three branches of government. With the Czar, Fluffy, and other presidents before him, have found a way, to bypass that balance of power. It now, no longer exists. See the problem?

Let's see if we can track and list all the ACORN Administration's czars:

[1] Border Czar: Alan Bersin

[2] Energy and Global Warming Czar: Carol Browner

[3] Urban Czar: Adolfo Carrion, Jr.

[4] InfoTech Czar: Vivek Kundra

[5] Faith-Based Czar: Josua DuBois

[6] Health Reform Czar: Nancy-Ann DeParle

[7] TARP Czar: Herb Allison

[8] Stimulus Accountability Czar: Earl Devaney

[9] Non-Proliferation Czar: Gary Samore

[10] Terrorism Czar: John Brennan

[11] Regulatory Czar: Cass Sunstein

[12] Drug Czar: Gil Kerlikowske

[13] Guantanamo Closure Czar: Daniel Fried

[14] Pay Czar: Kenneth Feinberg

[15] Auto Czar: Steve Rattner

[16] AfPac Czar: Richard Holbrook

[17] MidEast Peace Czar: George Mitchell

[18] Persian Gulf and SW Asia Czar: Dennis Ross

[19] Sudan Czar: J. Scott Gration

[20] Climate Czar: Todd Stern

[21] Intelligence Czar: Dennis Blair

[22] Economic Czar: Paul Volker

[23] Science Czar: John Holdren

Personally, I think from a purely process standpoint all this czarism is a risky business that ends up producing bureaucratic bottlenecks, tensions and inefficiency when not managed extremely carefully. For now we will give them the benefit of the doubt that they will manage it well. Though please, please ACORN, stop now that you are ahead, now that you are officially the most prolific czarist dynasty in history.

As CEO, Fluffy Sucks!!

Remember when Fluffy was sworn in as "The Anointed One??" Remember what he actually swore to do??

Let's review....The presidential oath of office:

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

Affirm: Maintain to be true; To support or uphold the validity of;

The mere act of mouthing the words of the oath, Fluffy agrees that the U.S. Constitution is a true and valid document.

....will faithfully execute...... DOES NOT MEAN that he will "execute" the American economy thru his tried-and-failed socialist policies. The phrase means that he will "create[as in jobs, opportunities, etc]" in accordance with a prescribed design.

....preserve, protect and defend the Constitution.... means that he's sworn to support the entire document, including its' amendments; NOT selectively-but in it's entirety!

The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Not only does the 4th Amendment preclude unreasonable searches and seizures, it also ensures that the citizen is ..... secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects,....

Even given the dialectal differences between the constitutional authors' era and its current readers, interpreters-there can be no misunderstanding of the meanings put forth by the founding fathers.

The only way to logically and with common sense, read this amendment is to see that the framers wanted the federal government as far away as possible from the citizenry's day-to-day life, be it work or leasure. That being said-fast forward to early this week....

Fluffy obama, as the de facto CEO of Gubmint Motors, is certainly cut out for all his previous jobs...... This guy couldn't spell "profit" let alone have an idea what it takes to turn a profit!! How do he and ACORN justify terminating the franchises of profitable GM and Chrysler dealers; keeping less profitable or loser dealerships? How does one sell more of their product with less outlets?

As an illustration of how out-of-touch both Fluffy and ACORN are, this happened to a GM franchisee in the TwinCities area of Minnesota:

The franchisee-a family company-had been GM dealers for over ninety-one years; most recently with Chevrolet and Cadillac. In the past, they had the monikers of Oldsmobile and Buick as well as Chevy and Cadillac. Initially the dealership was Dodge, but the founder immediately changed to [then] General Motors. For the past thrity-one years, they've been in the same location, in a new building, selling Chevrolets and Cadillacs.

Since the early 1980s, this dealership HAS NOT HAD an unprofitable month!! During 2008 their sales were at 103% of the annual goal!!

Earlier this week, the franchisee received a registered letter via FedEx: The first line of the letter stated that "we are not renewing your Chevrolet or your Cadillac franchise." Included in the verbage was a gag-order; the dealer was not to reveal TO ANYONE of their renewal denial. The dealer was also informed that any inventory-parts, specialized equipment or cars, would not be repurchased by the company.

Now picture this.... Here's a valued, PROFITABLE "employee" not only being "fired" but being stuck with [maybe] $500k in parts; $500k in equipment and tools; $3-5Mln in rolling inventory....... WITH NO MARKET FOR THEM!! Fluffy, through his Mouthpiece at GM-Fritz Henderson-has said that he won't buy back the inventory....but...... Fluffy will allow the inventory to be sold to other GM franchises as a significant discount!!

In the end.... if nothing changes..... this hard-working family and it's business, employing between 85 and 100 people, will be left with a 13 acre paved parking lot and a reasonably new building adjacent to the interstate, which is practically worthless.

W-O-W!! That's Change I Can Believe In.... !! How 'bout you?!?!?

Like this dealer, the change in our pockets is all we can believe in after these confiscatory, preditory, fascist government practices we're being beaten into submission with.

A Suggestion....

obama must pull his head out of his ass!!

ACORN must pull it's collective heads out of it's collective asses!!

Keep going the way you're going-There won't be anything left to destroy!!

From the start of this presidency I tried to look at everything with an unjaundiced eye. That's no longer possible!!

mr obama: As bad as "Slick-Willie" was as a president; You wouldn't make a decent-sized pimple on "Slick's" fuzzy white ass!!!

The NY Senate Power Struggle

A couple of democRAT senators decided to vote with the republicans in determining the senatorial leadership. Whattsa' big deal??

The KoolAid Media is saying that the public voted at the last election to have the senate ruled by democRATs-NOT SO!! The KoolAid drinkers have again gone off half-cocked, without consideration of fact or law. The voters only determine who their senator is; it's up to the children in the senate to determine the leadership.

The primary upside to all this is: While the children are pissing-and-moaning amongst themselves, theres no wasteful spending being done!!!!

Til Nex'Time....

This'n'That; June 9th[C&Tscam;NYSenate]

Cap-And-Trade Scam

Cap-and-trade definition: Emissions trading (or emission trading) is an administrative approach used to control pollution by providing economic incentives for achieving reductions in the emissions of pollutants. It is sometimes called cap and trade. A coal power plant in Germany. Due to emissions trading, coal may become less competitive as a fuel. A central authority (usually a government or international body) sets a limit or cap on the amount of a pollutant that can be emitted. Companies or other groups are issued emission permits and are required to hold an equivalent number of allowances (or credits) which represent the right to emit a specific amount. The total amount of allowances and credits cannot exceed the cap, limiting total emissions to that level. Companies that need to increase their emission allowance must buy credits from those who pollute less. The transfer of allowances is referred to as a trade. In effect, the buyer is paying a charge for polluting, while the seller is being rewarded for having reduced emissions by more than was needed. Thus, in theory, those that can easily reduce emissions most cheaply will do so, achieving the pollution reduction at the lowest possible cost to society.

[This is just another 'legalized' scam promoted by various governments around the world, for their [and other insiders'] benefit. This, on it's face will not work!! To work, the Cap and Trade scam MUST include ALL governmental entities on the planet-from the smallest and weakest collection of mud huts to the largest and most powerful countries-which DOES NOT have one-hundred percent participation. This is just another in a long line of government scams to continue to entice the populice into a "cradle-to-grave" mentality. This is nothing more than an "ACORN re-invention" of FDR's "alphabet programs!!" The primary unintended [but foreseen] consequence will be a greater trashing of the American economy than the Roosevelt Era. Just who stands to gain the most..... none other than Algore; revealed during a session with US Rep Marsha Blackburn, from his home state of Tennessee.]

Rep. Blackburn committed the ultimate faux pas in congress by asking a politician, in this case former Vice President Al Gore, about his financial ties to a “cause” he is working on; global warming. The congressional committee Blackburn sits on, the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is working on the “cap and trade” legislation that Gore strongly supports. Though she is a republican, and Gore seems to imply that her not-to-subtle hostility toward him may come from that, other democrats have also voiced their concerns about the direction Gore wants the legislation to move in. “I am not satisfied that this bill has adequate protections for our workers and our industries” former Energy Committee Chairman John Dingell (D-Mich.) told Gore. Dingell and other Democrats from Rust Belt states fear that forcing companies to buy carbon emissions could push trade-sensitive, fossil-fuel intensive industries such as steel and paper overseas.“ It should be noted that basically this “cap and trade” policy would effectively be a tax on production in the states, and that the “venture capitalist” company that Blackburn exposes Gore’s financial ties too is a joint U.S./China firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB).

It should also be noted that Gore is heavily involved in several companies, all of which are venture capital companies looking to cash in on the “cap and trade” legislation in the works right now. Gore states that he donates all the “money” he makes right now to his not-for-profit organization the Alliance for Climate Protection (ACP), but he doesn’t say a word about whether or not he is also being reimbursed with stock options from those affiliated companies. Nor does he offer any information about whether or not he is a paid Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Alliance for Climate Protection. As we all know, board members are usually well compensated for their time. Also sitting on the board with him at ACP is Theodore Roosevelt IV the Managing Director at Lehman Brothers, and Lieutenant General Brent Scowcroft who is President of the Scowcroft Group (International Business Advisory group) and former National Security Advisor to President George H.W. Bush. Generation Investment Management is another of Gore’s little projects, when he is not sitting on the boards of Google or Apple. His senior partner in GIM is none other than David Blood of Goldman Sachs. “Prior to co-founding Generation, David Blood served as the co-CEO and CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management (”GSAM”) from 1999 to 2003. His responsibilities included all aspects of the global business including portfolio management, sales and client service, risk management and infrastructure.”

One partner of Algore's is from Lehman Brothers and another is from Goldman Sachs then a third has ties to the Bush family? And Algore himself is sitting atop two different investment capital firms that stand to make a killing off the implementation of the “cap and trade” system?

You smell an Insider-Government scam here?!?!?!

Common Sense To New York?

[Hopefully....!! This might mark the temporary end to the "three men in the backroom" method of passing legislation and pushing adgendas in New York politics. While the "coup" only applies to the state Senate, it's a step away from one-party control of the state. With this modicum of sense arriving in the hallowed halls of Albany, can a "national common sense" be far behind? New York State has long been a stronghold of socialism in the country. With this apparent fall from that mindset, can ACORN's {and-by extension-Fluffy obama's} political future be in jeopardy?]

In a remarkable turn Monday, two Senate Democrats voted with Republicans to apparently strip Democrats of the majority they won just five months ago. The action by Sens. Pedro Espada, D-Bronx, and Hiram Monserrate, D-Queens, gave the GOP the Senate majority with just two weeks left in the legislative session. Republicans voted hurriedly to install Espada as Senate president and named Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos, R-Nassau County, as majority leader, a post he held last year. Democrats took a 32-30 seat majority after last November's elections, the first time they held the majority since 1965. After months of uncertainty, Sen. Malcolm Smith, D-Queens, was named majority leader in January. The flip puts in turmoil a number of legislative issues, including whether the Senate would vote to approve same-sex marriages in New York, whether farm worker rights would be strengthened and whether NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg would retain control of schools in the city. "We've had five months of chaos in this chamber," Espada, who last fall threatened to not support Smith for majority leader, said after the vote. "My colleagues had the faith to give me this responsibility." A spokesman for Smith termed the action by the Republicans and renegade Democrats "an illegal and unlawful attempt to gain control of the Senate and reverse the will of the people who voted for a Democratic majority." Rochester-area billionaire Tom Golisano said Monday that the reform agenda pushed by his "Responsible New York" committee suffered under Senate Democrats. Golisano, who recently announced plans to change his residency to Florida because of New York's high taxes, said the push to flip the Senate had been under way for about two months. "We said we would support legislators who are motivated to reform and who will continue to do the right things for the state," Golisano said.

Til Nex'Time....

This'n'That; June 3rd[Fluffy/Chin;

Recession? What Recession?

[Here's a blog I read frequently and it's usually a hoot!! This time, the teleprompter speaks of the recession not affecting the ACORN representatives in the White House!! A half-million-dollar show date?? Then visiting a homeless shelter to give away cell phones?? No recession in DC, right?? Fluffy and "The Chin" are as out of touch with the real world as the state-run media accused President George H.W. Bush {41} of being! {Bold type below=My emphasis}]

Tuesday, June 2, 2009 [from the blog www.baracksteleprompter.blogspot.com This blog is a heluva hoot, I usually check in every day or so!!] Our Stimulus Plan is Working Earlier today[06/03], Lady M [Michelle "The Chin" obama] went to a homeless shelter to kill the story about her and Big O going to New York for a date that cost the American taxpayers about $500,000, when federal, state and local law enforcement costs are added to the Lear jet, cars, staff, advance, my personal travel and bar tab, etc. Here you see her [photo above] after we've handed free cell phones to all the homeless people who came to see her. And no, taxpayers aren't going to be paying for the homeless peoples' wireless bills. That's what the federal government is for. [BUT, TOTUS: Who funds the federal government?!?!]

US Economy Not Bad Enough....

Responding to state-run media reports that House Democratic negotiators have agreed to include a new $100 billion line of credit to the IMF — a top priority of president Fluffy obama [ACORN] — the top Republican in the House said Tuesday he would oppose the bill.

The actual U.S. costs for the IMF contribution are far less — $5 billion is the Congressional Budget Office estimate — since the U.S. government is given interest-bearing assets in return. Still, U.S. debt would have to be issued to provide the money at a time when government borrowing has exploded. obama promised the IMF money at April's G-20 summit to help developing countries deal with the troubled global economy. About $8 billion for an earlier commitment for the IMF will be included.

Fluffy's "Planetary Apology Tour, Part DUH!!"

[Remember that on April 2nd, Fluffy bowed to the Saudi king? {Miss Manners : Americans do not bow to foreign monarchs because that act signified the monarch's power over his subjects} The ACORN handlers phoo-phoo'd it, saying that Fluff' was bending over to compensate for the King's vertical challenges. Seems in the last several months, that same king has grown 6 or 7 inches!! Didn't seem to be a height disparity to me.... My guesss is that ACORN didn't appreciate all the negative publicity so they instructed their mouthpiece not to bow!!]

Remember, Fluffy is the same guy who said that America "isn't a christian country."

Now ACORN, through this idiot, is saying that America is one of the largest muslim countries on the planet!! The United States has approximately 1.8mln muslims which is but 6 tenths of one percent of the total US population. Some countries' muslim population for comparison: Indonesia-204mln; Pakistan-164mln; India-154mln; Afganistan-33.6mln; Saudi Arabia-28.6mln; Turkey-76.6mln; Iran-65.1mln.

ACORN, and by association-Fluffy, are clearly FULLASHIT!!!!

What's ACORN's reasoning for this?

Working alongside Fluffy's immense ego, ACORN is making Der Fluffmeister the titular head of the muslim world, much like Rush Limbaugh-until his "resignation-" was annointed by the staterun media as the titular head of the republican party.

Just another step in ACORN's desire for a one-world government!!

Til Nex'Time....

This'n'That; June 2nd[ChevySong;Deese;GMSurvival]

ACORN As Song Writers

As Dinah Shore sang "The Chevy Song...."

See the USA in your Chevrolet

America is asking you to call

Drive your Chevrolet through the USA

America's the greatest land of all

On a highway, or a road along the levy

Performance is sweeter, nothing can beat her

Life is completer in a Chevy

So make a date today to see the USA

And see it in your Chevrolet Traveling East, Travelling West

Wherever you go Chevy service is best

Southward or North, near place or far

There's a Chevrolet dealer for your Chevrolet car So make a date today to see the USA

And see it in your Chevrolet.

As Fluffy obama Sings "The Chevy Song...."

See the USA-the "obama way,"

America is asking you to crawl.

Driving socialists through the USA,

America was the greatest land of all.

I give it away-to increase the tax levy

Before I changed 'er, nothing could beat 'er

But, don't call me "the heavy!!"

So make a date today to see the USA

And see all it's vast array. Traveling East, Travelling West

Wherever you go, it's your final quest.

Southward or North, near place or far

We're lookin' more an' more like Myanmar.

So make a date today to see the USA

Before I can make it all go away.

More Auto "Fluff!"

[On Monday, Fluffy obama spoke of the General Motors bankruptcy, giving the clear impression that the Bush administration, had long ago begun loaning the automaker money. Fluffy has been against this policy. I tell'ya...... ACORN has gotta get it's story straight before they send their mouthpiece out to blow smoke up our collective asses!! Which da'ya think it is..... ACORN getting the story confused; or Fluffy is just an out-and-out liar?? Thattsa tough one!! It's one thing to nationalize American industries; quite another to blame it on a predecessor!] "Good morning, everybody. Just over two months ago, I spoke with you in this same spot about the challenges facing our auto industry, and I laid out what needed to be done to save two of America’s most storied automakers — General Motors and Chrysler. These companies were facing a crisis decades in the making, and having relied on loans from the previous administration, were asking for more."

[Now, a bit of research reveals that Dub'ya did not loan the auto companies money; Fluffy and ACORN got caught lying once again!! Where's the state-run media on this?? ....a wasted question....]

obama Asks Bush to Back Rescue of Automakers By Lori Montgomery and Michael D. Shear Tuesday, November 11, 2008 President-elect Fluffy obama yesterday urged President Bush to support immediate aid for struggling automakers and back a new stimulus package, even as congressional Democrats began drafting legislation to give the Detroit automakers quick access to $25 billion by adding them to the Treasury Department’s $700 billion economic rescue program.

.....Yesterday, in an urgent bipartisan appeal, all 15 House members and both senators from Michigan sent a letter asking the Bush administration to include the auto industry in the Treasury program on its own initiative or to work with Congress to modify the program.....

.....So far, [BUSH] administration officials have resisted calls to include the Detroit automakers in the Treasury’s bailout program, which was conceived to stabilize banks and other financial institutions reeling from the global credit crisis.....

.....Administration officials have pointed instead to $25 billion in low-interest loans recently approved by Congress as a source of quick help for the car companies.....

.....Democrats want the Bush administration to approve an additional $25 billion in loans from the Treasury program, bringing total federal assistance to the car companies to $50 billion. In a letter sent yesterday to Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr., Levin and other Michigan lawmakers urged Paulson "in the strongest possible terms to use your authority under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (EESA) or other statutes to immediately address a significant and systemic threat to the U.S. economy and provide emergency assistance to the domestic automobile industry....."

Experience Has No Value

Well, ACORN-through it's mouthpiece-Fluffy obama, has hired another example of extreme inexperience.....Mr Brian Deese. Mr Deese may very well be an amiable,affable young man.... but..... What Has He Done? From what little I can gather, he's nothing more than another political operative with no practical work experience. Anything I could find only illustrated yet another hireling with no real-world experience. As with most other Fluffsters, Mr Deese has never drawn a paycheck that wasn't funded by either governmental or national campaign monies. Hell, he hadn't even run a "weenie-wagon" for profit!! Did he ever have a paper route as a kid? Probably not, given his upbringing by upper middle-rich parents.

So far, Mr Deese's resume looks kinda like this:

1. Grew up in the Boston suburb of Belmont and graduated from Middlebury College [Vt] with a political science degree [Duh!!!!].

2. Research Assistant at the Center for Global Development.

3. Senior policy analyst [economics] at the Center for American Progress.

4. Entered and later withdrew from Yale Law School.

5. Assistant to Gene Sperling during the Hillary Rob'em Clinton presidential campaign.

6. After ACORN knocked "Rob'em" out of the race, Deese signed on to be another "Fluffster."

7. During the "Campaign of Fluff," he rose to the position of deputy economic policy director.

8. After ACORN completed the purchase of the presidency [it only took $650Mln!!], Mr Deese became a member of the Economic Policy Working Group for the obama-biden transition.

9. Currently, Mr Deese is the special assistant to Der Fluffmeister for economic policy at the National Economic Council.

Can you see how this economist is going to refashion America's auto industry? I can't, but I will make a serious suggestion to him: Watch Ford Motor Company, get all their daily reports: sales, production, P&L, operating budget, cash flow, labor man-hours, etc. At the end of the week, formulate a plan based on those figures; Start each Monday mimicing their actions of the previous week. See Brian, Ford was the only auto maker with the foresight-given the worsening economic conditions of 2008-to arrange future financing, thus staying out of ACORN's clutches!!

Gubmint Motors To Survive?

Survive...?? Define "survive!" Yea, they'll probably continue to turn out vehicles, but... will they be vehicles the public will buy?? ACORN and Fluffy both agree on at least one thing..... and they drank Algore's "KoolAid!!" Gubmint Motors will be turning out death-trap, econo-boxes that-after the first year's crash statistics-will be it's own demise!!

Let's have a look at the stock price's recent history:

1. 01/03/2000-$74.625

2. 10/01/2002-$40.640

3. 10/12/2007-$42.640

4. 02/04/2008-$27.570

5. 04/30/2008-$23.200

6. 06/16/2008-$16.230

7. 09/12/2008-$13.010

8. 11/28/2008-$5.240

9. 12/30/2008-$3.800

10. 02/25/2009-$2.550

11. 04/13/2009-$1.710

12. 05/31/2009-$0.750

Effective the opening of business [06/02/2009], the New York Stock Exchange suspended trading in [old] Gubmint Motors [GM] stock. The only Gubmint Motors stock I could find was "1.5% PRF se [ticker:GRM]," the last trade was 05/28/2009 at $2.67, on four times the normal volume!!

[I wonder if the "KoolAid drinkers" who owned GM rode it all the way to the bottom, believing that ACORN would resurrect it, or did they sell it as a capital loss for taxes??]

Guess what I found?!?! The new ticker symbol and stastics for Gubmint Motors!! GMGMQ [opened today at $0.60] is the new one!! Man-o-Man-oMan!!! ACORN is takin' us on a "heluva ride," BUT......I gotta basement to clean...or at least....straighten up and put some tools away!!!!

Til Nex'Time....

This'n'That; June 1st[Golisano;Maurer;Berk]

Golisano Has His "Say"

[Tom Golisano, Founder and Chairman of Paychex, Inc., wrote an essay for Sunday's {Rochester} Democrat and Chronicle. In it, he explains why he "officially moved" to Florida and what he feels is wrong with the State of New York {which is A LOT!}! ]

I love New York. But how much should it cost to call New York home? Decades of out-of-control budgets, spending increases and relentless borrowing have made New York simply too expensive. I recently spent 90 minutes doing a couple of simple things — registering to vote, changing my driver's license, filling out a domicile certificate and signing a homestead certificate — in Florida. Combined with spending a 184 days a year outside New York, these simple procedures will save me over $5 million in New York taxes annually. By moving to Florida, I can spend that money on worthy causes. Or invest that money in fighting to change Albany. One thing is certain, that money will not continue to fund Albany's bloated bureaucracy, corrupt politicians or regular handouts to the special interests. How did we get here in the first place? It all starts with spending, spending and more spending. New York's budget was $72.7 billion in 1999. Ten years later it has ballooned to $131.8 billion. That growth is astounding and it continues to get worse. New York spends twice the national average on Medicaid. In the last decade, the Medicaid budget has grown by 50 percent ($30 billion in 1999 and $45 billion in 2009). New York spends the most, per pupil, in America on education. Costs went up about 60 percent in the last decade ($12.7 billion in 1999 and $20.7 billion in 2009). Health care and education are worth investing in but we're spending more and getting less. Rochester City Schools graduated 45 percent of high school students in 2007. Faced with escalating costs and diminishing returns, Albany and their allies (the health care and teachers unions) had only one answer: increase taxes. It's not just the state. It's the range and breadth of many layers of governments and special taxing districts. In New York, the average state and local tax burden is the highest in the country. Like Albany, when faced with a difficult problem, these municipalities have one answer: increase taxes. Upstate New York has been particularly hard hit. Add unreasonable real estate taxes to the uncontrolled state spending and you have whole communities decimated. The assessment process is unfair, unworkable and unreasonable, and the result is that 15 of the 20 highest taxed counties in America are right here in upstate New York. While homeowners in other areas build equity, we just pay more taxes. This problem did not begin with the current recession. New York faced a $6 billion shortfall before the economic downturn. However, faced with economic turmoil, Albany looked to the unions and special interests who answered with one voice: raise taxes. By leaving I will personally save $13,800 every single day. That's a pretty strong incentive. Like I said, I love New York, but I'm not going to pay any more for the waste, corruption and inefficiency that is New York State government.

Doctor Maurer Needed Again

[Dr Paul Maurer, the same neurosurgeon who operated on injured RPD Officer Anthony DiPonzio, was called upon to "repair" one of his own. Below are two articles explaining the situation as it unfolded.]

{Saturday, 05/30/2009:} The CEO of the University of Rochester Medical Center suffered a serious back injury in a bicycling accident today in Yates County. Dr. Bradford C. Berk, who also is senior vice president for health sciences at UR, was being treated at Strong Memorial Hospital, where he was in guarded condition tonight. Yates County sheriff’s officials said Berk, 58, of Canandaigua, was westbound on North Vine Valley Road in the town of Middlesex when he lost control on a sharp curve and was ejected over the bike’s handlebars. Berk was transported by Middlesex Ambulance to a landing zone in Vine Valley, from where he was transported by Mercy Flight helicopter to Strong. A statement from the medical center tonight said that Berk suffered "a severe injury to his cervical spine and spinal cord this afternoon as a result of a bicycle accident. He has been airlifted to Strong Memorial Hospital where the full extent of the injury is being evaluated." The statement went on to say that "there was no brain injury nor was the spinal cord severed. There was, however, severe swelling of the cervical spinal cord which has resulted in significant loss of function in his limbs. He will undergo cervical spine surgery this evening by neurosurgeon, Dr. Paul Maurer, to repair and stabilize a fracture of the cervical spine. " The full prognosis of the injury will not be known for several weeks or longer.

{Sunday, 05/31/2009:}

Strong Memorial Hospital officials provided an update on the condition of Dr. Bradford C. Berk, chief executive officer of the University of Rochester Medical Center. Berk, 58, broke his back in a fall from a bicycle on Saturday in Middlesex, Yates County, not far from his home in Canandaigua, Ontario County. Neurosurgeon Dr. Paul Maurer said this afternoon during a news conference that Berk underwent a 3½ - hour operation last night that was “expeditious and unremarkable in all regards.” Berk remained in guarded condition at Strong Memorial Hospital today. Maurer stressed that recovery from a spinal cord injury is a lengthy process, but said “there is no question he has some preserved spinal cord function. "There has been some improvement this morning in spinal cord function,” Maurer said. Dr Maurer is the surgeon who worked on city Police Officer Anthony DiPonzio after he was shot in the head.

Til Nex'Time....