This'n'That; May Thirty-First #1; The End

May Is Was 'Military Appreciation' Month
    Our two-family house in Rochester, N.Y., normally flies two American flags; one on the first-floor porch, the other on the second-floor 'balcony.'  For the various military-based holidays--and the entire month of May--I fly two more flags as well.  One is the U.S. Air Force flag, the other is the U.S. Army flag.  
    I grew up in a pro-military although my dad was never able to serve in World War Two.  Besides having a heart murmur, Dad was considered 'mission-essential,' thus  ineligible for the draft or to enlist.  Dad worked in the dairy processing/ production industry all his life, eventually becoming the Lab Manager/bacteriologist for Grandview Dairies.  During the 'Greatest Generation' era, he was one of the few buttermakers in New York State; the only buttermaker in Steuben County (the Southern Tier), N.Y.
    In the very early 1950s--when one could still lie about his age--both my older brothers went into the service; one in the Army, one in the Navy; one was 17, one was almost 16!!  [We were a 'blended' family; my brothers (and a sister) were from 13 to 16 yeaars older than I]  My younger-older brother went into the Navy for 4 years; my older-older brother went into the Army and stayed to retire after 24 years.
    I went into the Air Force two days after my high school graduation in 1964.  After a 2-1/2 year break-in-service, I went on to serve through 1979 before the 'shit got too deep' and I got out, forgoing the 6-1/2 more years to a 20-year retirement.  Several years after that active duty, I went into the Army Reserve's 98th Division, New York State.  I only lasted a little more than 4 years, having to leave the services permanently with the contraction of Type Two Diabetes.
[Whew!!  That's kind of a ways from May being 'Military Appreciation' month!!]
I have always appreciated the military every day, not just when I can fly my two flags.  I've always been appreciated when folks find out that I've served, in both war and peace.  At sundown, this evening, my two military branch flags will come down until the next military-oriented holiday comes along.
Til Nex'Time....

This'n'That; May Thirtieth #1; No Golf Courses?!?

Missorians Would Bode Well To "Remember The Alamo!"
    Well, some say: 'better late, than never!'  "Clown Prince" owe-bama finally got in a photo op in Joplin, Mo.,.... only a week after their disaster; ....most probably because there were few desirable golf courses between the District of Corruption and Southwest Missouri!!
    Most Missourians are a hale and hardy lot; I know from whence I speak:  I lived there from 1979 to 1982.  They'll bury their dead; heal their injured; mourn as necessary; get on with the process of rebuilding their structures and their lives.  Though if history proves out, they shouldn't count on a timely response from FEMA or any direct federal monetary assistance.
    Everything 'Soros/Jarrett/owe-bama' is soley based on political allegience; on vote counts!  In the last presidential election, Missourians voted for McCain over owe-bama by the slimmest of margins, but favor McCain they did: 49.43% to 49.29%!  For that blunder, the SJo miscreants will make them pay, and pay dearly; hence my title: "....Remember The Alamo!"
    As evidenced in Texas, most SJo federal disaster assistance depends on the aforementioned vote counts.  "Clown Prince" owe-bama lost Texas in 2008 by nearly twelve percentage points-55.39% to 43.63%!!  Most assuredly, this is the primary reason for giving Mexico $3,000,000 in aid during their wildfires totalling 245,000 burnt acres, and 'stiffing' Texas.  By that formula, the State of Texas should have received 30,000,000++ dollars for their several wildfires which consumed over 2,500,000 acres, mostly prime grazing lands.  From the SJo Regime, they received: ZERO-POINT-CRAP!!
    This is where the Missourians' "hale and hardy-ness" will come into play; if necessary, they can and will rebuild 'on-their-own,' although without federal assistance-it may take a bit longer.
Til Nex'Time....

The Sunday 'Report;' 05/29/2011

What The National Pamphleteers Don't Report:
Even The Dogs....


"Clown Prince" owe-bama seems to be dealing with an ever increasingly disgruntled, "pooped" voter base!!

Obama's IPAB Board Will Control Medicare Decisions
Friday, 27 May 2011
By Betsy McCaughey
     A toxic political strategy is spreading across the land, one that involves Medicare. It threatens to bamboozle voters and allow the 2012 election to turn on a lie.  Democrats are making the obscenely false claim that they will "save Medicare as we've known it." On Wednesday, Democrats used this deceptive strategy to take the special election in the 26th congressional district in western New York. Sadly, this corrupt strategy is likey to be repeated. Voters need to know the facts.  The truth is, the Obama health law, passed by Democrats last year, already eviscerated Medicare — though seniors won't feel the effects for some time. And the reform plan Democrats are attacking — Rep. Paul Ryan's vision — would undo much of the damage to Medicare while charting a new course to ensure the program doesn't run out of money.   The Obama health law cut future funding for Medicare by $575 billion over the next decade and used $410 billion of that money to expand eligibility for Medicaid. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, only it’s robbing Grandma to benefit Medicaid recipients.   The nation needs to spend less on government programs, and entitlement reform is key. The best way to reform entitlements is not to start new ones. Don't miss the point here. The Obama health law is redistributing the wealth — taking money out of Medicare to create new entitlements and millions [....]
http://www.newsmax.com/McCaughey/ipab-barackobama-health-care/2011/05/27/id/398037

Texas’s Gov. Perry hasn’t ruled out 2012 presidential run
By Lynda Waddington
05.25.11
    Texas Gov. Rick Perry hasn’t ruled out the possibility that he will be a 2012 candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.  During a press conference Tuesday concerning a new anti-abortion measure, according to reporter Jay Root of The Texas Tribune, Perry again told reporters that he won’t get “distracted” by talk of a potential presidential campaign. Perry also wouldn’t directly answer reporters’ questions on if he has ruled out a run.
… It’s worth noting that Perry has in the past repeatedly said he would not, under any circumstances, run for president in 2012.   Of course, that was before Rush Limbaugh recently extolled Perry’s virtues for 20 minutes, and before Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said they wouldn’t get in the race.  The Perry camp is still telegraphing the notion that the default position is not to run, but it’s safe to say they have cracked the door open, at least a little bit, over the last week. Specific wording matters — a lot — in these speculative political matters.   Adding further fuel to the fire, Perry strategist Dave Carney (who is also aligned with the Newt Gingrich camp, described the national attention as “flattering,” adding that he was “sure [Perry's] thinking about it.”  Earlier this month, Perry made [....]
http://washingtonindependent.com/110026/texass-gov-perry-hasnt-ruled-out-2012-presidential-run

Why Bernanke will be forced to institute QE3
By Jeff Harding
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Dr. Frank Shostak, an Austrian theory economist who works for MF Global, and who writes for Mises.org on economics, came out with an article this week on what will happen when the Fed freezes its balance sheet in June, as they have said they will do.
I very much enjoy Shostak’s writing and have followed his ideas for years.
In this article he says:
“We suggest that once Fed policy makers freeze the balance sheet of the US central bank it will slow down the growth momentum of the Fed’s balance sheet. Consequently, this is going to exert downward pressure on the growth momentum of the money supply. Note that ultimately it is fluctuations in the growth momentum of the money supply that set in motion fluctuations in the pace of formations of bubble activities. As a result, various bubble activities that emerged on the back of the rising growth momentum of the money supply will come under pressure — an economic bust will be set into motion.
“Obviously it is possible to have a situation where commercial banks’ expansion of lending “out of thin air” counters the freezing of the Fed’s balance sheet. It remains to be seen whether this is going to be the case in the months ahead. For the time being, the Fed’s balance sheet continues to expand at a rapid pace. …
“Now, we suspect that the difficulty the Fed has had in meaningfully “reviving” the economy so far could indicate [....]
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-bernanke-will-be-forced-to-institute-qe3-2011-05-25?siteid=nwhwk

OBAMA ADMIN WANTS TO CUT TROOP PAY!
- Move America Forward Friday,
May 27, 2011
     In the latest and most outrageous move, the Obama administration wants to cut pay and/or benefits for our troops and their families, even those deployed overseas fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, in order to reign in budgetary spending.  It’s the classic game that the liberals play whenever they are in power – they are always quick to claim they support the troops, but the military is always first on the chopping block. Yesterday Secretary of Defense Robert Gates revealed that the Obama Administration was considering cutting military paychecks when [....]
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/36951#When:10:54:51Z

Gangster Government Puts Its Boot On Texas’ Neck
May 27, 2011
by Bob Livingston
    A letter from U.S. Attorney John E. Murphy threatening to halt all flights to and from the State of Texas has spurred a Texas legislator to pull his bill that would have prevented the Transportation Security Administration from carrying out its gropefest/pornshow activities in that State.  It’s just the latest in a series of strong-arm tactics employed by the current gangster government as it seeks to impose its will on its subjects.  Texas’ politicians sought to stand up for the rights of its citizens and criminalize any searches and seizures conducted without probable cause. The bill came on the heels of a litany of abuses by TSA agents at airports, where travelers — including children and infants — were subjected to humiliating and intrusive pat downs.  The U.S. Justice Department (now there’s an oxymoron) has taken to using threats to impose government will as a [....]
http://www.personalliberty.com/conservative-politics/government/gangster-government-puts-its-boot-on-texas-neck/?eiid&rmid=2011_05_27_PLA_P11799106&rrid=387432349
http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/

Amish Milk: The Latest Target of the Obama Regulatory State
April 30, 2011
Enterprise and Free Markets
Milk might do a body good, but if it’s unpasteurized milk sold by an Amish farmer across state lines, it’s a whole other story… or at least according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The Washington Times reports:
A yearlong sting operation, including aliases, a 5 a.m. surprise inspection and surreptitious purchases from an Amish farm in Pennsylvania, culminated in the federal government announcing this week that it has gone to court to stop Rainbow Acres Farm from selling its contraband to willing customers in the Washington area.
The product in question: unpasteurized milk.
It’s a battle that’s been going on behind the scenes for years, with natural foods advocates arguing that raw milk, as it’s also known, is healthier than the pasteurized product, while the Food and Drug Administration says raw milk [....]
http://blog.heritage.org/2011/04/30/amish-milk-the-latest-target-of-the-obama-regulatory-state/
http://www.heritage.org/Initiatives/Enterprise-and-Free-Markets
Until Next Sunday....

"Clown Prince" Weekly Blather; May 28th

A Patriotic Response To The "Clown Prince;" 05/28/2011

Saturday, May 28, 2011

barackingham Palace,
Washington,
District of Corruption
[I thought long-and-hard (with my usual 'laser-like' concentration) about having 'plug' biden do this week's edition of the blather.  We all know how frequently he 'steps on his tongue' while addressing the public!  Hopefully he's at least as adept at reading the teleprompter as I am.  'plug' had better stick to the script or we'll all be chastised by those really in charge:  George Soros and Valarie Jarrett!!]
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    Hello, everyone. I hope you’re having a safe and enjoyable Memorial Day Weekend. I’ve got some good news for us today. Not only is our economy overall growing, but one of the important sectors of our economy is on the rise again: the American automobile industry.   Just a few days ago, on Tuesday, Chrysler Corporation announced that they were repaying the taxpayers for the loans we gave them when we came into office.   And this announcement came six years ahead of schedule – and just two years after Chrysler Corporation emerged from bankruptcy. You know, and it’s a sign of what’s happening throughout the American automobile industry.  It’s not just Chrysler. Also this week, GM announced that its Detroit Hamtramck factory will run three shifts for the first time its 26-year history. You know, that’s 2,500 more good, paying jobs.   In the words of Don LaForest, of the UAW – and I want to quote him – he said, “It’s mind-boggling that we can go from near-extinction to full employment in two years.”  What you didn’t get to hear in my rendition of his quote is the tone of his voice: It was full of pride. Genuine pride. Because I can tell you he knows – as my dad used to say - that a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about dignity. It’s about respect.  And I heard the same pride, and the same feeling of dignity, when I called the Jefferson North Chrysler plant in Detroit the day Chrysler paid back its debt. I talked to a UAW worker – her name was Frances – a line worker, who said her dad had worked on that line before, and that she had been out of work for two-and-a-half years before she was hired a year ago back to the plant.  I got the same sense when I went to Bonneville and Son, a Chrysler dealership in Manchester, New Hampshire a couple days ago. 85 employees came out, stood out there in the lot with me. 85 people. All of whom knew and said, had Chrysler liquidated, had we not helped them, they wouldn’t have a job. 
[What I actually ment, as explained to 'plug' biden: This early repayment of Chrysler's debt to me seems reminiscent of those dam' republicRATs!  With the current financial deals with Chrysler, the federal government actually bought a large percentage of the ownership in the company.  In the Iococca Era, the government merely guaranteed private loans made by private financial institutions.  In this 'owe-bama bailout era,' we actually sent most of the funds to the UAW management and hoped they'd put at least part of the funds into restructuring the auto company.  In the Iococca Era, the funds went to the Chrysler management to be dispersed as they saw fit-very little went to the UAW, other than negotiated wage and benefits.  In the 1079 deal, the company had more control than the auto workers' union; totally unlike today where we have to reward the union for their support--monetary, voting 'suggestions,' voter fraud and 'enforcer thuggery!!'  In this 'owe-bama bailout era' the purchase of Chrysler was not much more than putting 'lipstick on a pig!'  It was for public consumption while privately, a vehicle for cash rewards to the auto union, the SEIU as well as the 'New Black Panthers.']
    When President Obama and I came into office, we faced an auto industry on the brink of extinction. Total collapse.  At the time, many people thought the President should just let GM and Chrysler go under. They didn’t think the automobile industry was essential to America’s future.  The President disagreed – and, in addition, he wasn’t willing to walk away from the thousands of hardworking UAW members who worked at GM and Chrysler – and in many cases, not only all their lives, but as second and third generation employees. And he certainly wasn’t going to abandon an industry that had meant so much to our economy, and so much to so many for so long.  So, he said if GM and Chrysler, and their management, and all their shareholders were willing to do the difficult work of making themselves more competitive, we would support giving them another chance.   And because of what we did, the auto industry is rising again. Manufacturing is coming back. And our economy is recovering and it’s gaining traction.  But the thing is this: even for a lot of people with jobs, their wages aren’t keeping pace with prices of everything from gas to groceries to health care and college tuition.
[What I actually ment, as explained to 'plug' biden:  Many of the public thought the 'auto company bailouts' were just that: to benefit the companies' business structures!  Ha!  Not so!  The new Soros/Jarrett/owe-bama (SJo) regime had to develop a method to reward and repay all--not just the auto--unions for their support: millions of dollars in illegal/quasi-legal campaign contributions; 'guiding' the memberships' voting; the use of their 'enforcers' in the on-going voter fraud at most polls.  With the complete lack of accountability, the PORKulus bailouts became the perfect vehicle for the many rewards owed by the SJo regime.  In a 'real-world' scenario, the auto companies should have been allowed to go into bankruptcy.  This would have forced each company to develop a working business model rather than continuing the "same-old; same-old," which had allowed each company become so top-heavy as to be unmanageable; a hot-bed of managerial cronyism!  Had this been allowed, the companies would have emerged as 'lean-mean-manufacturing-machines;' without the UAW's stranglehold on companies' management and purse-strings.]
    That’s why the President and I remain focused on, not just recovering from this recession. We’re focused on making sure that if you work hard, play by the rules, you’ll be able to get ahead, put your kids through college, retire with dignity and security.  Before I sign off, I just want to mention once again Memorial Day and remember what this holiday’s all about. You know – we still have thousands of troops deployed in harm’s way. In days past, on Memorial Day, we remembered heroes from former wars – but I think it’s absolutely essential that we all remember today that thousands of names have been added to those memorials in the wars that are still continuing.  Folks, all I ask you to do is, what my wife Jill and Michelle Obama ask, to reach out to those families who have someone deployed, in your community. Let them know you know. Let them know you know the sacrifice they’re making. Engage in – as my wife would say – a single act of kindness.  Maybe invite them to your barbecue this weekend. Mow their lawn. Offer to mow their lawn next week. Make it known that you appreciate their sacrifice and you’re willing to lend a hand.  As I said, that’s what Jill and Michelle Obama are doing through their Joining Forces initiative. And that’s what I hope all of us will do every day as long as we have a man or woman deployed in harm’s way. Thank you for listening and enjoy the holiday.
[What I actually ment, as explained to 'plug' biden:  That "play-by-the-rules" thingie..?!?  Have you heard a more agregious oxymoron?!?  When the purchase of my election was complete, Soros and Jarrett met 'at an undisclosed location' to form the framework for our their regime.  The first point of agreement was that 'playing by the rules' would only be considered when it assured our their position would be advanced, otherwise the phrase would remain just that: a phrase!  As for the military men and women serving today:  While I make an outward appearance of caring about them and their families-it's just a front, a means-to-an-end!  If I really cared, would I have (retiring) Defense Secretary Robert Gates doing the 'heavy lifting' in promoting pay-and-benefit cuts for the active-duty and retired military and their families (see tomorrow's "Sunday Report")?!?  Hopefully this will keep the SJo regime out of the 'line of fire!!'  Aw, come-ON, people!!  Look at it from the socio-fascist point of view:  The military should be nothing more than figureheads; a 'marching band' of sorts.  In the upcoming one-world government, most military structures--worldwide--will be disbanded anyway.  We They will only keep a very centralized, tightly controlled military unit for enforcement duties.  As for myself--the 'figurehead' president--things will be slightly different:  After my first, last and only term, I'll retire with a 100% pension at the grand old age of 51!  So, if I live to--say--90 years old, I will have been retired for 39 years.  During that time--if the United States still exists as we know it--I will have been given $15,600,000!!  Not too shabby for being just a figurehead, right?!?  And.... if I need more "walkin' around" money, I'll just have Billy Ayers write a coupla more books in my name!!  Ain't bein'  a socio-fascist, grand?!?]

This'n'That; May Twenty-Seventh #2; The Better Question~

Who Will The owe-bamacRATs Nominate?!?
    The on-going question has been 'who will the republicRATs nominate to oppose "Clown Prince" owe-bama?'  But in the real--outside the Beltway--world shouldn't the  question be: 'who will the owe-bamacRATs nominate to oppose the republicRAT beliefs and platform?!?'
    I contend that owe-bama and the rest of the owe-bamacRATs have absolutely nothing to put forth as reasons to return the Soros/Jarrett/owe-bama regime to barackingham Palace!  To put voice to their possible platform items, do we want:

• a continued recession?
• a continuing self-perceived 'monarch?'
• continued unemployment, double the 'Bush-43 Era' rate?
• a continued stagnating economy?
• continued economic strangulation through excessive borrowing?
• a continued inept foreign policy?
• a continued penalizing domestic energy policy?
• continued dependence on foreign oil?
• a continued 'shadow government?'
• a continued apologetic American monarchy?
• continued communist influence; previously through Van Jones, currently through George Soros, Valarie Jarrett, Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn?
• continued ignoring the wishes of the American-serf majority?
• a continued dramatically rising deficit spending?
• continued pay-offs to union thugs for their voter fraud 'support?'
• continued pay-offs to union hierarchy for forcing membership support?
• a continued porous southern border?
• continued ATFE fiascos, i.e., the 'gun-runner' scam which cost border patrol lives?
• continued federal lawsuits against those states who seek to enforce federal law?
• a continued federal health care system, complete with forced purchases, complete with death panels?
• continued ever-rising taxes?
• and on, and on, and on....

    Hell, with Herman Cain in the mix, owe-bama doesn't even own the historic 'negro president' issue!!  But he can continue with the moniker: barack-the-magic-negro, as assigned to him by David Ehrenstein a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, on March 19, 2007!  So which of the owe-bama policies will they choose as the lead?  Which of the owe-bama policies will they be able to put in a positive light?  If they keep the current "Tour d'Lies" campaigner, the only way they can compete is to villify the opposition contenders;  throw lot'sa crap at the wall-see how much sticks!!
Only those completely devoid of common sense fail to see "Clown Prince" owe-bama as completely beatable!!!
Til Nex'Time....  

This'n'That; May Twenty-Seventh #1; A 'Group-Grope?'

Don'cha Dare!
    Doesn't it look like "Clown Prince" owe-bama is restraining this sex-deviant Dominique Strauss-Kahn from fondling 'michelle-My-Belle?'
    Did both men(?) interrupt michelle while she was doing some 'light housekeeping' at barackingham Palace, given her attire and hair-do?'
Til Nex'Time....

This'n'That; May Twenty-Sixth #1; NY-26 Results Defined

The REAL NY-26 Results And Why!
    At the outset, let me position myself for anyone who wanders here to read my crap: 

• I'm a Rochester, NY, DINO;
• I'm NOT in the NY-26 district;
• I'm unrepresented by Dorothy "Geeze-Louise" McIntosh Rodham Slaughter;
• I'm an ardent Rush Limbaugh listener since 1989;
• I'm an ardent Laura Ingraham listener.

    Everyone--including Rush; including 'pinky' reid--who's blathering on about the results of the race and what it means, going forward, do not have the correct information on the campaign as it unfolded.  The campaign participants were: Jane Corwin, Kathy Hochul (pron: HO-kull),Jack Davis and Ian Murphy.
    At this point, politics really doesn't matter; we have a winner-Kathy Hochul.  The process is the main concern now.  Primary in that concern is the gutter politics employed by the Corwin campaign to provoke Mr Davis into doing something that could be used against him. 
    During his remarks at a Greece, N.Y., gathering to honor past and present military members and their families, Mr Davis was heckled by an observer.  The heckling involved Mr Davis--a Marine Corps veteran--being called 'a coward.'  This 'cowardice' apparently related to Mr Davis withdrawing from a scheduled debate involving he and the other contestants for the vacant NY-26 Congressional seat.  As Mr Davis was making his way through the parking lot, he was videoed by two individuals-the original heckler and a young lady (she, at a distance).  Although it initially appears on some videos that they succeeded in goading Mr Davis into retaliating against the heckler further review of the full video clearly shows that Mr Davis didn't hear/understand what the heckler said and approached him for clarification.  One can see Mr Davis raising his hands, moving one toward the heckler.  It then appears that the heckler 'shook' the camera to give the impression that Mr Davis actually struck him.  Had this actually been the case, we can be assured the 'slip-and-fall' ambulance chasers would've been all over this like 'white-on-rice!!'  Had this been the case why was the heckler (actually Ms Corwin's   State Assembly Chief-of-Staff, Mark Mallia) wisked off to an undisclosed location IN FLORIDA?!?  Had this been the case, why is the Crowin campaign refusing to release either OR BOTH videos?!?  New York's crooked politics; crooked politicians, never change!!
    As expected, practically as soon as Ms Hochul declared victory; as soon as Ms Corwin conceded defeat, the owe-bamacRAT fascists in the District of Corruption were 'hard-at-it,' claiming they were instrumental in the owe-bamacRAT victory.... HORSE-SHIT!!  There was no evidence or any indication that the barackingham Palace insiders were anywhere near this campaign, election or victory!!
SIDEBAR:  Ms Corwin clearly used political influence and family money to get her name on the ballot; to secure the county republicRAT party's support.  Had said party not been blinded by money; had not believed that any republicRAT would be 'a shoo-in' for the spot, they would have clearly seen that David Bellavia was the most electable choice they could make!
Mr Bellavia is a highly decorated (and Medal of Honor nominee) former Army Staff Sergeant; the author (with John R. Bruning) of "House to House: An Epic Memoir of War" and vice-chairman of Vets for Freedom.   County republicRATs:  Watch this guy if you want to win back the NY-26 seat!!
http://www.wgrz.com/news/article/121247/37/Volunteer-Who-Alleges-Davis-Hit-Him-Is-Corwins-Assembly-Chief-of-Staff
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wbfo/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1801929
http://lonelyconservative.com/2011/05/ny-26-media-it%e2%80%99s-jane-corwin%e2%80%99s-fault-jack-davis-assaulted-someone/comment-page-1/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York%27s_26th_congressional_district
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Corwin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Hochul
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Davis_(industrialist)
http://www.murphycanhascongress.com/2011/05/go-murphward-ny-26/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bellavia
http://bellaviaforny.com/
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_Bellavia
http://63.118.56.3/sws/vethallfame/bellavia.html
http://www.pritzkermilitarylibrary.org/Home/david-bellavia.aspx
http://www.vetsforfreedom.org/about/founders
http://www.amazon.com/House-David-Bellavia/dp/1416574719/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1297349770&sr=1-1
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=6331
http://www.warriorlegacyfoundation.org/?page=Directors
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/443zhpmy.asp
http://journal-register.com/features/x212295597/Staff-Sgt-Bellavia-continues-to-rack-up-honors
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=22518
Til Nex'Time....

This'n'That; May Twenty-Fifth #1; Cain-Yes or No?

Herman Cain In Good Company!
    Herman Cain has been routinely derided by the national pamphleteers for never having served in any elected capacity.  As one can determine by the roster below, not holding elective office can be a positive!!

• George Washington--prior to his unanimous election to the US presidency:  had never held public office prior to that election.  His demonstrated courage, bravery, demonstrated military bearing and leadership qualities made him the natural choice to lead the Contential Army going into the American Revolution.
• Zachery Taylor--primarily a rudimentarily educated career soldier:  also never held public office prior to his election to the presidency.  President Taylor died just 16 months into his term, of apparent gastroenteritis.
• Ulysses S. Grant--long-held as primary in the defeat of Confederate forces during the Civil War:  elected to two terms; his administrations were essentially corrupt; died a comparative pauper.
• William Howard Taft--a graduate of Yale College and Cincinnati Law School:  Held several appointed federal and state positions before and after his election to the presidency, but until said presidency-no elective offices.  Those appointments include:   Ohio Supreme Court, Solicitor-General of the United States, a judgeship in the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth District, Governor-General of the Philippines, Secretary of War (renamed Defense in 1947) and after his presidency, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
• Herbert Hoover--also never held elective office until his presidency:  He too, held several appointed positions-head of U.S. Food Administration, the Supreme Economic Council, head of the American Relief Administration and Secretary of Commerce.
• Dwight Eisenhower--again, a career military strategist:  architect of the 'D-Day' invasion of continental Europe, retired as General of the Army, president of Columbia University, returned to the Army as Supreme Commander-NATO, returned to the university presidency.

    No matter the public perception of Herman Cain--he's in exalted company!!  I personally hold that 'an outsider' is just what the country needs at this point in it's history.  We've had plenty of examples of how insiders' kerfuffles have essentially destroyed the country's standing on the world stage, the country's economy and the country's security-both internal and external.  While I continue assessing the republicRAT field as it develops, my money is currently on Herman Cain!
Til Nex'Time....

This'n'That; May Twenty-Fourth #2; Still MORE Pearls!

The Next 'Edition'
More pearls of Midwest Wisdom from the book of the same name by Patrick Caton:

• It is not the employer who pays wages--he only handles the money.  It is the product that pays wages. -Henry Ford
• Towering genius disdains a beaten path.  It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. -Abraham Lincoln
• Just remember, we're all in this alone. -Lily Tomlin
• I tell you, the past is a bucket of ashes. -Carl Sandberg
• "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." -Mark Twain
• The question, "Who ought to be boss?" is like asking, "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?"  Obviously, the man who can sing tenor. -Henry Ford
• It's such an act of optimism to get through the day and enjoy it and laugh and do all that without thinking about death.  What spirit human beings have! -Gilda Radner
• You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. -Lee Iococca
• Adventure is worthwhile in itself. -Amelia Earhart
• There is no expedient to which a man will go to avoid the real labor of thinking. -Thomas Alva Edison
• It is the nature of a man as he grows older.... to protest against change, particularly change for the better. -John Steinbeck
• Some people are more turned on by money than they are by love.  In one respect they are alike.  They're both wonderful as long as they last. -Abigail Van Buren
• America is much more than a geographical fact.  It is a political and moral fact--the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government and human equality. -Adlai Stevenson
• The truth is more important than the facts. -Frank Lloyd Wright
• Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. -Lily Tomlin
• Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.  Delicious Ambiguity. -Gilda Radner
• Talent alone won't make you a success.  Neither will being in the right place a tthe right time, unless you are ready.  The most important question is: "Are you ready?" -Johnny Carson
• If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. -Harry Truman
• Success doesn't come to you.... you go to it. -Marva Collins
• I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist. -Paul Harvey
• If you want a place in the sun, you have to put up with a few blisters. -Abigail Van Buren
• A  hungry man is not a free man. -Adlai Stevenson
• The trend is your friend. -Doug Grossman
• Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each hanging situation of experience its own full and unique meaning. -John Dewey
• Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. -Mark Twain
• Tomorrow is the most important thing in life.  Comes into us at midnight very clean.  It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands.  It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. -John Wayne
• Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.  Anyone who keeps learning stays young.  The greatest thing in life is to keep you mind young. -Henry Ford
• A doctor cay bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client ot plant vines. -Frank Lloyd Wright
• Put all your eggs in one basket--and watch that basket. -Mark Twain
• Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. -Abraham Lincoln
• Chicago is over-grown.  It is oafish.  It shows many of the characteristics of the upstart and the bounder.  But under its surface there is a genuine earnestness, a real interest in ideas, a sound curiosity about the prodigal and colorful life of the peo;le of the Republic. -H.L. Mencken
• Wisconsin is the soil of a great people.  She manifests the spirit of the conqueror, whose strength has subdued the forest, quickened the soil, harnessed the forces of Nature and multiplied production.  From her abundance she serves food to the world. -Fred L. Holmes
• Wisconsin's politics have traditionally been uproar politics--full of the yammer, the squawk, the accusing finger, the injured howl.  Every voter is an amateur detective, full of zeal to get out and nip a little political iniquity in the bud. -George Sessions Perry
• Basically, Ohio is nothing more nor less than a giant carpet of agriculture studded by great cities. -John Gunther
• One reason for knowing the history of Chicago is that the history of Chicago is the history of the Middle West.  And the history of the Middle West is, to a larger extent than the school textbooks have ever permitted us to discover, the history of the nation. -Floyd Dell
• I like the history of North Dakota, the state without a millionaire and with the fewest paupers; where rich and poor find a common meeting ground in the fight for improvements in the home state.... There is something of the broadness of its prairies in the mental makeup of its people.  A radical is not so radical nor a conservative so conservative in this rather free-and-easy non-eastern state. -Mart Connolly
• It is this determination to remain on the land, this never-ending struggle of human strength and will against natural forces, that characterizes the Nebraska temperment. -Federal Writers' Project, Nebraska: a Guide to the Cornhusker State
• Barns back East have weather vanes on them to show which way the wind is blowing, but out here there's no need.... farmers just look out the windown to see which way the barn is leaning.  Some farmers.... attach a logging chain to a stout pole.  They can tell the wind direction by which way the chain is blowing.  they don't worry about high wind until the chain starts whipping around the the links start snapping off.  Then they know it's likely the wind will come up before morning. -Charles Kuralt
• Sallus populi suprema lex esto.  [The welfare of the people shall be the supreme law.] -Missouri state motto
• Minnesotans are just different, that's all.  On the day of which I speak, with the wind-chill factor hovering at fifty-seven below, hundreds of them could be perceived throught the slits of my ski mask out ice fishing on this frozen lake.  It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmo real cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in the spring. -Charles Kuralt
• There is no obstruction but the sky. -Wright Morris 
• Raise less corn and more Hell. -Roger Butterfield
• All this country is still youthful.  Man has not labored long enough there to thoroughly humanize it, and often you continue to find a savor of the desert or wilderness.... The long broad slope between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River which includes North Dakota is destined to be in most ways an ideal farming section that for extent and fertility will be unrivaled the world-over. -Clifton Johnson
• I come from Indiana, the home of more first-rate second-class men than any State in the Union.  -Thomas R. Marshall
• Kansas, in sum, is one of our finest states and lives a sane, peaceful and prosperous life. -Pearl S. Buck
• The children of these priorities do not grow up expecting that all the bon-bons of this world are going to be fed then with a runcible spoon by pampering destiny.  Here you sweat by summer and shiver by winter and work and pay for everything you get, so that by the time you an adult you are sprirtually prepared for more hard work.  North Dakota life has been meant to make of you a tough fighter, a hard worker. -Carroll E. Simeox
• The Midwest is exactly what one would expect from a marriage between New England pruitanism and rich soil. -John Gunther
• First in Freedom, First in Wheat. -Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Offering a slogan for the Midwest:  Our Liberties We Prize and Our Rights We Will Maintain. -Iowa state motto
• The state seal shows a farmer, a waterfall, a forest, and an Indian riding into the sunset.  It should be changed to ice cubes rampant on a field of white, a grinning, barefoot Swede in a Grain Belt Beer T-Shirt riding a snowmobile and a shivering visitor whose stricken breath is freezing into ice crystals. -Charles Kuralt, on Minnesota
• The fields have turned, yellow and light brown; central Iowa gets most of its autumn from the fields.  Trees and brush trim the roadsides and fence rows vividly, but the great reaching planes of quiet colors are the fields. -Hamlin Garland
• Kansas is the child of Plymouth Rock. -William Allen White

Til Nex'Time.... 

This'n'That; May Twenty-Fourth #1; Say It Ain't So....!

Traitor To Run The FBI?!?
    A couple of months ago, an infamous name was being floated by the Soros/Jarrett/owe-bama regime to 'test the waters' of the public memory. 
The 'float' was the consideration of one with traitorous actions to be considered for Director, FBI.
The 'traitor' is Jamie Gorelick.   A bit of her infamous history:

• Ms Gorelick--along with another infamous fraud, Franklin Raines--so screwed up Fannie Mae as to create a fraudulant $10 BILLION accounting scandal.  She and Raines conspired to hide almost $10 BILLION in unrecorded losses!
• In a related scandal, Ms Gorelick was involved in falsifying financial transactions to insure Fannie Mae met 1998 earnings goals.  For this, the Fannie Mae hierarchy all received outlandish bonuses (Read: YOUR tax money); Ms Gorleick's was $779,265!  All that for a year's worth of "screwing up like 'Hogan's Goat'!!"
• An equally scandalous economic event involving Ms Gorelick was her absolutely ridiculous pay of $26,466,834.00 for 1998-2002; that's MILLIONS, folks!!

But..... the single most egregious act attributed to Jamie Gorelick is the 'wall' she had erected between the FBI and the CIA.  The wall came into being while she was in the "Slick-Willie" Clinton administration, for the sole purpose of preventing "Slick's" crooked deals with the Chinese from ever being investigated.  The wall was also instrumental in  preventing the FBI and the CIA from sharing information in the years, months and days preceding the 9-11 devastation!!  How pray-tell, do these vile transgressions--in any way--qualify Jamie Gorelick to be the next Director, FBI?!? 
Well.... given the Soros/Jarrett/owe-bama Regime, she most probably would fit in quite nicely!!
Til Nex'Time....

This'n'That; May Twenty-Third #1; Remember When....

More owe-bamaKare Waivers
    Remember when AARP touted owe-bamaKare as the next "second coming?!?"  This 'cram-down' legislation--that the Congress had to pass to find out what's in it--was going to solve all the healthcare 'ills' of the advancing retirees.  The AARP organization spent the run-up to the legislation's passage throwing its members 'under the bus!'  AARP saw owe-bamaKare as a vehicle to even greater profits for their insurance branches.
    Apparently, not so much!  AARP was granted a waiver exempting their supplementary insurance from owe-bamaKare perview; an obvious payoff for their support.  AARP was the single-largest organization supporting the travesty called owe-bamaKare!!  Now they can enhance their most recent year's profits of over $500,000,000, by continuing to sell the Medi-Gap insurance coverage to the same seniors they previously abandoned. Remember folks, there are alternatives to this--clearly, fascist--organization, namely: 
60 Plus Association (http://60plus.org/)
Let Freedom Ring (http://www.letfreedomringusa.com/)
Til Nex'Time....  

The Sunday 'Report;' 05/22/2011

What The National Pamphleteers Don't Report:

Making Government Accountable: The Innovators

By Brad Hall 05/11/11
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Sending my annual April 15 check to the federal government is painful.  There are so many ways to use my money that deliver value to me, my family and society. But I am not sure that a check to the IRS is one of them.  I often wonder whether the federal government is truly doing its best to maximize the return on those hard-earned dollars. The question is simple, "Is the government continually producing more value with less cost?"  Producing better results at a lower cost is at the top of every CEO's mind. This is the basic law of business survival. In practice, this means that even though companies increase in size and experience inflation, budgets [....]
http://www.thestreet.com/story/11113487/1/making-government-accountable-the-innovators.html?cm_ven=RSSFeed

Willie Nelson retracts Gary Johnson endorsement

By Matthew Reichbach
05.19.11
    After news of the endorsement exploded across the internet, Nelson told the Teapot Party blogger, “My position is it too early for me to endorse anyone. And I think every one should vote their own conscience.”  The move came, in part, because of Nelson’s 2008 endorsement of U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich. Nelson said that his endorsement is still Kucinich’s if the Ohio Democrat chooses to once again run for president.
Both candidates support the legalization of marijuana.  This came after Nelson had  [....]
http://newmexicoindependent.com/70171/willie-nelson-retracts-gary-johnson-endorsement

Nixa, Mo, Family Could Face Millions in Fines from USDA for selling Rabbits without a license

[Ok, Got this on a Tip From BBCW and this needs to go viral. You can read the full sordid tale any of several places Big Government, BBCW, & Left Coast Rebel, to name a few. ]
    Here are the salient facts of this total over reaction by the Federal Government, specifically the USDA APHIS unit.  This is mostly taken from Bob McCarty’s excellent story which originally ran on the 19th.
    John Dollarhite and his wife Judy of Nixa, Mo( Pop 12,124) , have been told by the USDA that, by Monday, they must pay a fine exceeding $90,000. If they don’t pay that fine, they could face additional fines of almost $4 million. Why? Because they sold more than $500 worth of bunnies — $4,600 worth to be exact — in a single calendar year.
The backstory:
    “About six years ago, the Dollarhites wanted to teach their young teenage son responsibility and the value of the dollar. So they rescued a pair of rabbits — one male and one female — and those rabbits did what rabbits do; they reproduced. Before long, things were literally hopping on the three-acre homestead 30 miles south of Springfield, and Dollarvalue Rabbitry was launched as more of a hobby than a business.   “We’d sell ‘em for 10 or 15 dollars a piece,” John said during a phone interview Tuesday afternoon, comparing the venture to a kid running a lemonade stand. In addition, they set up a web site and posted a “Rabbits for Sale” sign in their front yard. Most customers, however, came via word of mouth.
    In the early stages, some of the bunnies were raised and sold for their meat. Much further down the road, John said, they determined it more profitable to sell live bunnies at four weeks old than to feed bunnies for 12 weeks and then sell them as meat.  “We started becoming the go-to people” for rabbits in the Springfield area, John said. “If you wanted a rabbit, you’d go to Dollarvalue Rabbitry.” He added that the family even made the local television news just before Easter in 2008 for a report about the care and feeding of “Easter bunnies.”
    …During the summer of 2009, the Dollarhites bought the rabbitry from their son who had grown tired of managing it. They paid him what he asked for it, $200. Things kept growing, however, and the Dollarhite’s landed a pair of big accounts in 2009.  A well-known Branson theme park, Silver Dollar City, asked the Dollarhites to have them provide four-week-old bunnies per week to their petting zoo May through September. When the bunnies turned six weeks old, they were sold to park visitors. The Springfield location of a national pet store chain, Petland, purchased rabbits from the Dollarhites as well.
    …By the year’s end, the Dollarhites had moved approximately 440 rabbits and grossed about $4,600 for a profit of approximately $200 — enough, John said, to provide the family “pocket money” to do things such as eat out at Red Lobster once in a while. That was better than the loss they experienced in 2008.  Then some unexpected matters began demanding their attention.  It’s an understatement to describe the Dollarhites as being “beyond surprised” when, in the fall of 2009, a female inspector from the U.S. Department of Agriculture showed up at the front door of the family home, wanting to do a “spot inspection” of their rabbitry. She said she had [....]
http://keeperofoddknowledge.blogspot.com/2011/05/nixa-mo-family-could-face-millions-in.html

We Need To Go Back
May 16, 2011
Last Tuesday (May 10), President Obama signed a declaration of emergency, which authorized federal funds to be used in aid to victims of the storms and flooding which have crossed the state this spring. The Office of the Press Secretary sent the following release through the White House website:

The President today declared a major disaster exists in the State of Missouri and ordered Federal aid to supplement State and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe storms, tornadoes, and flooding beginning on April 19, 2011, and continuing.

The President's action makes Federal funding available to affected individuals in the counties of Butler, Mississippi, New Madrid, St. Louis, and Taney.  Assistance can include grants for temporary housing and home repairs, low-cost loans to cover uninsured property losses, and other programs to help individuals and business owners recover from the effects of the disaster...
    Both U.S. Senators, as well as the Governor from Missouri, requested the funds in a letter [....]
http://jacobdlawrence.blogspot.com/2011/05/we-need-to-go-back.html
 
A Tale of two Stories: SEIU Harassment, and Sued under RICO Statute

By Matt
March 22, 2011
    The SEIU is one of the unions most discussed by the right. From what we have seen, they seem to be a beat down prone group of thugs, and are very open in their intimidation tactics. Here is a rather interesting video… ['youtube' link below]
    So the goons show up and disrupt a business that has nothing to do with the hospital that the SEIU is striking against. The bank CEO is apparently on the hospital’s board, but there are negotiators that handle the union situation. So, it is clear that this is nothing more than an intimidation tactic. Look for them to show up at the man’s home.  Did you notice how they reacted when they were told that the police were called? They sounded like a bunch of petulant teens, if you ask me.  Now, that story is just a tiny slice of the next one. It seems that the SEIU has had a RICO suit filed against them by [....]
http://conservativehideout.com/wordpress/2011/03/22/a-tale-of-two-stories-seiu-harassment-and-sued-under-rico-statute/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK721SMGB_E&feature=player_embedded
 
The Mead List: World’s Top Ten Gaddafi Toads

Walter Russell Mead
March 3, 2011
    When Muammar Gaddafi, the ‘Commander of Islam‘, Africa’s King of Kings and the Great Loon of Libya addressed the United Nations General Assembly at unusual length in 2009, he asked about the hanging of Saddam Hussein. “How is the member of a government and president of a country sentenced to hang? Who were these people in masks that did this? Did they have the right to do it?” If things go on as they are in Libya, he may find out. In the meantime as the King of Kings and Loon of Loons does his hideous best to engulf his country in terror and blood for the sake of extending his despicable and destructive rule, it is worth reflecting on the degree to which the “international community” (to use the oxymoronic phrase with which vapid politicians and bureaucrats seek to disguise the carnivorous nature of international life) flattered, cajoled and enabled this psychopath.
    I do not blame the United States and Britain for making a deal to stop his nuclear program. I thank God we did that, and I thank God it worked. I do not blame either country for offering the delusional windbag a path back to normal relations; there is more rejoicing in Heaven over the sinner who repents than over the ninety-nine who never left the fold and it is not as if there were many other viable options to try.
    It pains me, but I am also willing to overlook the military sales various western powers (including the United States) made to the regime in order to get its help against terror. In the world in which we actually live, as opposed to the beautiful utopia which so many clueless idealists imagine we inhabit, you sometimes have to deal with Beelzebub to keep Satan in check. FDR and Winston Churchill helped Stalin [....]
http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2011/03/03/the-mead-list-worlds-top-ten-gaddafi-toads/

10 Things the TSA Won't Tell You

We give the gatekeepers a thorough pat down..
By MARISA TAYLOR
May 9, 2011
1. "We still have some room to grow."
    Since Sept. 11, 2001, the Transportation Security Administration has installed 48,000 federal security officers, primarily in airports. Their mission: To vet the nation's approximately 625 million air passengers and more than 9 billion trips on U.S. mass transit per year. Thwarted attacks since then have ushered in further measures that air passengers have tolerated for the sake of security, until last year's major rollout of full-body scans and enhanced pat downs. Critics say they're too invasive and wonder if they'll be used elsewhere. Indeed, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has said it might soon be time to expand the focus on aviation security to other forms of mass transit. In March the Electronic Privacy Information Center released documents describing a Department of Homeland Security pilot program for mobile full-body screening at [....]
http://www.smartmoney.com/spend/travel/10-things-the-tsa-wont-tell-you-1303941489416/?link=SM_mag_inside
Until Next Sunday....

"Clown Prince" Weekly Blather; May 21st

A Patriotic Response To The "Clown Prince;" 05/21/3011
Saturday, May 21, 2011

barackingham Palace
District of Corruption
    This week, I went to Memphis, Tennessee, where I spoke to the graduating class of Booker T. Washington High School. Graduations are always happy occasions. But this commencement was especially hopeful – because of just how much the kids at Booker T. Washington High School had overcome.   This is a school in the middle of a tough neighborhood in South Memphis. There’s a lot of crime. There’s a lot of poverty. And just a few years ago, only about half of the students at the school graduated. Just a handful went off to college each year.   But folks came together to change all that. Under the leadership of a dynamic principal and devoted teachers, they started special academies for ninth graders – because they found that that’s when a lot of kids were lost. They made it possible for students to take AP classes or vocational courses. Most importantly, they didn’t just change the curriculum; they created a culture that prizes hard work and discipline, and that shows every student that they matter.
[What I'm not telling you:  Given Memphis' crime statistics, the students' accomplishments are even more wonderous!  The City of Memphis, Tn., is one of the most crime-ridden cities in Tennessee; one of the more crime-ridden cities in America, on a per-capita basis.  This is where my choices to piss-away the nation's tax receipts run up against what should be done for the benefit of communities; for the benefit of the nation, as a whole.  My regime (Read: George Soros and Valarie Jarrett) has chosen 'education' and 'green technology,' manufacturing and education as the primary recipients of funds-wasting .....er.... 'investing,' without regard to benefit-for-dollar-spent!  
   The US Department of Education (DOE) administers a 69.9 BILLION-DOLLAR budget. most of the funds are spent to administer and fund federal programs involving education and to enforce federal education laws involving privacy and civil rights.  The DOE allegedly benefits 133,000 public and private schools.  Were the DOE disbanded, each of those schools--at current budget levels--would recieve $525,563.90 annually!!  While there are more needy, less affluent schools in the country, the funds could easily be 'equalized' at the state or county level, with each state/county maintaining minimal requirements and minimal administration.  Scholars have long held that the best education is administered at the lowest level; i.e., the community or the school district.   At best, the DOE is not much more than a 'prop-up' for teachers unions at every level!  Not to minimalize the  accomplishments of Booker T. Washington High School, but how much better could the results have been had the school had another half-million to spend to benefit the students?!?]
    Today, four out five students at the school earn a diploma. 70 percent continue their education, many the first in their families to go to college. So Booker T. Washington High School is no longer a story about what’s gone wrong in education. It’s a story about how we can set it right.   We need to encourage this kind of change all across America. We need to reward the reforms that are driven not by Washington, but by principals and teachers and parents. That’s how we’ll make progress in education – not from the top down, but from the bottom up. And that’s the guiding principle of the Race to the Top competition my administration started two years ago. 
[What I'm not telling you: Although I blather about "....reforms that are not driven by Washington...."  both the SJo regime and the DOE promote those very same 'Washington-based' rewards and reforms!!  If not, why do we still have a DOE:  To administer grants?!?  To enforce civil rights laws?!?  To formulate and fulminate education policy?!?   Each of these areas is better served at the lowest level possible!  The SJo Regime owes a great debt to educators, to unions in general; teachers' unions in particular, as well as the SEIU's "Purple People Beaters" and the "New Black Panther Party;" both well-armed and adept at voter fraud thuggery.  If the objective of the SJo Regime is to make progress "....not from the top down, but from the bottom up...," I'm forced--again--to ask:  Why do we still have the DOE?!?]
    The idea is simple: if states show that they’re serious about reform, we’ll show them the money. And it’s already making a difference throughout the country. In Tennessee, where I met those students, they’ve launched an innovative residency program so that new teachers can be mentored by veteran educators. In Oregon, Michigan and elsewhere, grants are supporting the work of teachers who are lengthening the school day, offering more specialized classes, and making the changes necessary to improve struggling schools.   Our challenge now is to allow all fifty states to benefit from the success of Race to the Top. We need to promote reform that gets results while encouraging communities to figure out what’s best for their kids. That why it’s so important that Congress replace No Child Left Behind this year – so schools have that flexibility. Reform just can’t wait.   And if anyone doubts this, they ought to head to Booker T. Washington High. They ought to meet the inspiring young people who overcame so much, and worked so hard, to earn their diplomas – in a school that believed in their promise and gave them the opportunity to succeed. We need to give every child in America that chance. That’s why education reform matters.
[What I'm not telling you:  The '....money we show them....' obviously will not include that which funds the DOE itself; nor the funds 'invested' in the lawsuits we initiate in the areas of privacy and civil rights; nor the funds that 'mysteriously'  end up benefitting the teachers and their unions; and on-and-on-and-on!  No federal program--educational, or otherwise--is not without fault including 'No Child Left Behind' or SJo's own 'Race To The Top!'  The primary reason to replace 'NCLB' with 'RTTT' is that the former is a Bush-43 Era program. The professed 'flexibility' does not come without hidden 'strings;' strings we will reveal as they are violated!  The one truism in this weekly blather opportunity is:  'education reform matters.'  That education reform can--and will probably--only matter if it's taken out of the heavy hands of the federal government!  Education reform is so important to me--to the SJo Regime--that I single-handedly denied the District of Corruption students continuation of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program; a program vilified by teachers' unions at every level; unions who--with Soros and Jarrett--are the reason you have a fascist president, today!!  Remember this truism:  "The fewer the cooks-the better the soup!!"]

This'n'That; May Twentieth #2; My Resolution

We MUST Prioritize Debt Going Forward!
    Not only must we prioritize the debt, we must codify (write into law) the order of prioritization.  This prioritization must be "to the benefit of the United States and it's citizens."  Rather than continuing to write foreign-aid checks to every third-world rathole, we must 'Pay America, First!'
    The Soros/Jarrett/owe-bama (SJo) regime gives foreign-aid to those whose philosophies are diametrically opposed to ours--at least to the American people's!  Take Pakistan for instance:  Their government is  having a hissy-fit over owe-bama killing Osama bin Laden!  Why?  He was almost the most despicable, the most vile individual on the planet.  In my mind, the 'Two Os' are tied-for-first!!
    These foreign-aid payments--through a circuitous route--go to pay our enemies to wage war against us!  Pakistan not only has routinely shielded al Qaeda and the Taliban, the country has provided materiel aid and refuge to these sub-human creatures!  With Pakistan being another of owe-bama's "third-world ratholes" where do you suppose their money comes from to provide this aid and comfort?
America, of course.... and quite by design!  Both Soros and Jarrett have a long standing hatred for America and it's prosperity.  One of the many ways to bring America 'to her knees' is to use her own money to fund opposition forces who also seek to destroy her!!
    While many conservatives and many members of the "Tea Party" movement paint owe-bama as a dupe of the 'far left;' all that he does, all that he says, all that he is; has been artfully designed and packaged by the joint team of George Soros and Valarie Jarrett!  Regardless of the levels of damage he and the SJo team does; this regime has to go, simply because the American Dream was never ment to be ruled by a team!!
These slimy bastards have to go!!
Til Nex'Time....

This'n'That; May Twentieth #1; Nobody Died!

(A better-in order-view at: http://www.justincase505.wordpress.com/)
Debt Limit Reached-Nobody Died!
    Amid 'dirtly little secrets,' the debt ceiling was reached last Monday and no one died-much to the chagrin of the owe-bamacRATs!  The forecast had been that if agreement to a new debt ceiling, the old folks wouldn't get their health care, their medications and other unaffordable entitlements.  "Turbo-Tax Tim" Geithner's obfuscation reveals one of the many Soros/Jarrett/owe-bama regime 'dirty little secrets;'  the obfuscation first:
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner formally notified Congress that the government would halt its investments in two federal pension plans so it won't exceed the borrowing limit.
That statement sounds serious, doesn't it?!?  It would be, if only it were true!!  Now, the 'dirty little secret:'
{*}This authority was confirmed way back in 1985 when then-Senator Bob Packwood asked the Government Accounting Office (GAO) this question:

The Treasury Department--hence, the Secretary of The Treasury--has the authority to prioritize it's debt obligations, i.e., interest on the debt, Medicare and Medicaid obligations, et al, to the benefit of the American taxpayer.

{*}

"Can the Treasury prioritize payments in such a situation (reaching the debt limit)?
The GAO's response: 
YOU HAVE REQUESTED OUR VIEWS ON WHETHER THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY HAS AUTHORITY TO DETERMINE THE ORDER IN WHICH OBLIGATIONS ARE TO BE PAID SHOULD THE CONGRESS FAIL TO RAISE THE STATUTORY LIMIT ON THE PUBLIC DEBT OR WHETHER TREASURY WOULD BE FORCED TO OPERATE ON A FIRST IN-FIRST-OUT BASIS. BECAUSE OF YOUR NEED FOR AN IMMEDIATE ANSWER, OUR CONCLUSIONS MUST, OF NECESSITY, BE TENTATIVE, BEING BASED ON THE LIMITED RESEARCH WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DO.

IT IS OUR CONCLUSION THAT THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY DOES HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO CHOOSE THE ORDER IN WHICH TO PAY OBLIGATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES.

ON A DAILY BASIS THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT RECEIVES A NORMAL FLOW OF REVENUES FROM TAXES AND OTHER SOURCES. AS THEY BECOME AVAILABLE IN THE OPERATING CASH BALANCE, TREASURY MAY USE THESE FUNDS TO PAY OBLIGATIONS OF THE GOVERNMENT AND TO REISSUE EXISTING DEBT AS IT MATURES. SEE GENERALLY H.R. REPT. NO. 31, 96TH CONG., 1ST SESS. 9-10 (1979).
WE ARE AWARE OF NO STATUTE OR ANY OTHER BASIS FOR CONCLUDING THAT TREASURY IS REQUIRED TO PAY OUTSTANDING OBLIGATIONS IN THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY ARE PRESENTED FOR PAYMENT UNLESS IT CHOOSES TO DO SO. TREASURY IS FREE TO LIQUIDATE OBLIGATIONS IN ANY ORDER IT FINDS WILL BEST SERVE THE INTERESTS OF THE UNITED STATES.

    In this kerfuffle, the onus to "do what's right" is laid directly at the feet of Soros, Jarrett and/or owe-bama and by extension-their representative at the Treasury: "Turbo-Tax Tim" Geithner!!  Instead of 'doing what's right,' the 'SJO' regime and the socio-fascist owe-bamacRATs continue to use fear tactics on America's aging population to achieve a wholly-unnecessary increase in the spending limit!!
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