This'n'That; August 7th[MoreDumber;OOIDA;BeerParty]

Just When You Thought They Couldn't Get Any Dumber!

[As a former truck driver and lifetime member of OOIDA {Owner Operator, Independent Drivers Association}, I routinely receive email alerts from their offices. This alert is especially important; these actions must not go forth!! I've seen Mexican national truck drivers.... they are dangerous and must be stopped from legally driving outside the cross-border trade zones. EVERYONE, truck driver or not, should contact all those on the list below and request that they resist any foreign pressure and NOT APPROVE opening U.S. roads to Mexican domiciled trucks and drivers!! There are many horror stories involving those Mexican drivers that ignored the law and "came north" anyway!! They have very little driving ability; very little regard for human life; very little if any, knowledge of the english language; very, very poor personnel and equipment safety records; the Mexican government has not met one of the basic tenents of NAFTA-verifiable equipment and personnel safety records and data]

~ URGENT ~

Fluffy obama and officials in his Administration need to hear from you TODAY! This Sunday (August 9) Fluffy will be travelling to the city of Guadalajara in Mexico to meet with Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on matters related to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

A Mexican official told Reuters news service last night that Calderon plans to pressure Der Fluffmeister to move forward with opening U.S. roads to Mexico-domiciled trucking companies and truck drivers. Recent statements by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk and other officials indicate that the Administration is already on the verge of giving in to pressure from Mexico and the multi-national corporations behind the push for Mexican trucks in the U.S. Fluffy and officials in his Administration need to hear from you, your family members and your fellow truckers as none of the safety or security issues have been resolved on either side of the border!Call, write, fax to the offices below TODAY and TOMORROW!

Office of the U.S. Trade Representative:

• USTR's Intergovernmental Affairs & Public Liaison office:
• (202) 395-6120 FAX: (202) 395-3692
• Office of the United States Trade Representative
• 600 17th Street NWWashington, DC 20208
• obama:
• http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
• Comments: (202) 456-1111 FAX: (202) 456-2461
• The White House
• 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
• Washington, DC 20500
• U.S. Department of Transportation:
• Phone: (202) 366-4000
• Secretary Ray LaHood
• Office of the Secretary of Transportation
• 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
• Washington, DC 20590
• Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
• 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
• Suite W60-300
• Washington, DC 20590
• Congress:
• To call your 2 Senators and your Representative in the House,
• call the U.S. Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121,
• provide the operator with your home zip code.
• The operator will connect you with the offices of your elected representatives.
• To write and/or fax to your Senators:
• http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
• To write and/or fax to your U.S. Representative:
• https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml

*You are also welcome to call OOIDA at (800) 444-5791. Association staff will be happy to help put you in touch with your elected officials in Washington.

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Please call, write, fax to the offices TODAY and TOMORROW!

Compare: Ruler Of The People vs President Of The People

[I was referred to this article from The American Thinker, while researching on Rush's website. I must note though, that when President George Bush is compared with Fluffy obama... there really IS NO COMPARISON!! Mr Bush is the most compassionate president of the twentieth century; Fluffy is the most arrogant dumb-ass ever elected to the presidency!!]

obama's revealing body language (updated and expanded))

• Thomas Lifson
• This picture truly is worth at least a thousand words. I am stunned that the official White House Blog published this picture and that it is in the public domain.
• The body language is most revealing. Sergeant Crowley, the sole class act in this trio,
• helps the handicapped Professor Gates down the stairs,
• while Fluffy obama, heedless of the infirmities of his friend and fellow victim of self-defined racial profiling, strides ahead on his own.
• So who is compassionate?
• And who is so self-involved and arrogant that he is oblivious?
• In my own dealings with the wealthy and powerful,
• I have always found that the way to quickly capture the moral essence of a person is to watch how they treat those who are less powerful.
• Do they understand that the others are also human beings with feelings?
• Especially when they think nobody is looking.
• Update from Thomas Lifson:
• I think this photo constitutes another major obama blunder. As some AT commentators point out, this picture becomes a metaphor for obamaCare.
• The elderly are left in the back,
• with only the kindness of the Crowleys of the world,
• the stand up guys, to depend on.
• The government has other priorities.
• One of the major subtexts of the health care debate involves the public's fear of indifferent, powerful bureaucrats ruling their lives.
• It is one thing to wait in line at the DMV to find out which other line you should wait in,
• in order to begin the process of waiting for multiple bureaucrats to go through the motions of processing your request.
• I have spent entire afternoons going through this process. But when we get to health care, waiting often means enduring pain and dysfunction longer than necessary,
• sometimes a worsening of the condition, and sometimes death. That's why I think this image will have genuine resonance.
• It captures something that older Americans in particular can relate to.
• The president presses ahead with a program that will tell them to take painkillers instead of getting that artificial hip. At every stage of the entire Gates affair,
• obama has provided a revealing tell.
• The "acted stupidly" blunder revealed that he automatically blames the police and thinks they really are stupid to begin with.
• It didn't trigger a single alarm bell in his mind as he figured out what to say. Then, the non-apology apology revealed an arrogant man who cannot do what honest people do: admit it when they make a mistake.
• Now at stage three, the beer photo op looked OK.
• It didn't turn into a disaster. But then in a small moment that nobody in the White House had the brains to understand, obama goes and send a body language message like this. I think he is going to get deeper and deeper into trouble.
• He is no longer repeating the familiar scripts dreamed up for the campaign.
• He was a master performer. But when he goes improv, as a president must do, he lets his true character show.
• This helps widen the level of doubt that Obama is the same guy a majority voted for.
• Those doubts can only grow.
• Andrew McCarthy has assembled an overwhelming case that obama has lied about who he is.
• I predict that more and more Americans will become open to the argument that they have been had by a sophisticated and ruthless effort to foist a phony on America.
• Update from Clarice Feldman:
• A nice comparison of the character of the two most recent presidents.
• President George Bush with Senator Robert Byrd

• Update:
• We know the picture is really getting to the left.
• They avoid any actual facts or logic, instead retreating into insults.
• Soros-financed Media Matters calls me a "fringe blogger." Andrew Sullivan calls this blog "inane,"providing no analysis or examples,
• just a one word insult.
• Quite a bit of email from those complaining about my interpretation.
• One example, with my response here.
• Eric Etheridge of the New York Times takes note of this blog entry,
• and provides no snark, while reprinting the picture and my early commentary.

Til Nex'Time....

This'n'That; August 6th[Bullshit;Rat;FluffyCare]

More democRAT Bullshit!

[For several years, the democRATs in the congress and later, the democRAT majority in congress, have continually forced both Fannie and Freddie to invest in questionable assets; effectively destroying their asset base and profit potential. Now obama and ACORN are gonna "fix it??" Yea....RIGHT!! When they both have "healthy balance sheets" the democRATs can RE-destroy their potential!!]

The White House is considering a plan that would strip hundreds of billions of dollars in troubled assets from Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE). The assets would be placed in a government-backed 'bad bank,' leaving Fannie and Freddie with healthy balance sheets while the 'bad bank' would try to collect as much of the outstanding loan balances as possible. A White House spokesman said "it should come as no surprise that the administration is thinking through [government-sponsored enterprises] reform," but no final decisions have been made.

Fluffy Wants You To "Rat On Your Neighbor!"

If government-run health care is all that and a bag of chips, then those in congress who vote for it should have no problem having it as their insurance. Go here to sign a petition by Congressmen John Fleming asking that they do just that: http://fleming.house.gov/index.html

Why Read The "obamaCare" Bill??

[I found this while searching for the actual text of the obamaCare; FluffyCare; ACORN-Care, what'ta Hell ever the final title will be!! QUITE REVEALING!! To see the entire bill- http://edlabor.house.gov/documents/111/pdf/publications/AAHCA-Bill ] Why read the health care bill ? July 29, 12:42 PMLouisville City Hall ExaminerThomas McAdam The 1000-page health care legislation pending in congress will dramatically affect every man, woman, and child in this country; and yet, no one seems to be willing to read the damn thing. In a recent examiner.com article, we posited a rhetorical question: “What sort of sycophantic political hack would vote for a major piece of legislation without reading it first?” Sadly, the answer to this question seems to include most of the mainstream media and the entire Democrat party. Previously, we reported that Louisville’s congressman, John Yarmuth (D., 3rd Dist., Ky.), admitted to voting in favor of legislation he hadn’t read. And we quoted President Obama as confessing that he was “not familiar” with the pending health care legislation. Is it too much to suggest that leaders who vote on bills they haven’t read and don’t understand betray the people’s trust? And now, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee advises us that reading the most important bill pending in congress is pretty much a waste of time. During his speech at a National Press Club luncheon, representative John Conyers (D., Mich.) questioned the point of lawmakers reading the health care bill. “I love these members, they get up and say, ‘Read the bill,’” said Conyers. “What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?” Well, a lot of folks are taking the time to actually read this important piece of legislation. Alan Caruba, who writes for a number of web magazines, and blogs at Warning Signs, is one. In a piece titled “Page after Page of Reasons to Hate Obamacare,” he lists some scary provisions gleaned from America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009:

• Page 22: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure! • Page 29: Admission: your health care will be rationed! • Page 30: A government committee will decide what treatments and benefits you get (and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process) • Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free healthcare services. • Page 95: The Government will pay ACORN and Americorps to sign up individuals for Government-run Health Care plan. • Page 102: Those eligible for Medicaid will be automatically enrolled: you have no choice in the matter. • Page 167: Any individual who doesn’t have acceptable healthcare (according to the government) will be taxed 2.5% of income. • Page 203: "The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax." Yes, it really says that. • Page 335: Government mandates establishment of outcome-based measures: i.e., rationing. • Page 425: More bureaucracy: Advance Care Planning Consult: Senior Citizens, assisted suicide, euthanasia? • Page 425: Government provides approved list of end-of-life resources, guiding you in death. • Page 427: Government mandates program that orders end-of-life treatment; government dictates how your life ends. • Page 430: Government will decide what level of treatments you may have at end-of-life.

Thus far, the proposed legislation makes no mention of Soylent Green, but congress still has some tinkering to do before the final product is ready for President Obama’s signature; after which, he might even read it.

Til Nex'Time....

This'n'That; July 30th[Louise;Fluffy/Ponzi;SafewayRemedy;PorkScams;InsuranceReform]

How's That "Hope'n'Change" Workin' For Ya?

Here we go again.....Geeze Louise needs some press, any press, even negative press!!! To satisfy that need, she's grasping at straws to get some notoriety. So now, we're gonna help the western New York dairy farmers who, for ALL OF HER 24 "House of Representatives" years, have been "sucking hind tit!!" Now she's gonna "represent her constituents" and form another layer of government to syphon off MORE MONEY!! Where the Hell was she when corporate farms were buying up tillable acreage by the hundreds of acres?? where was she when grain prices went outta sight, making animal feed cost prohibitive??

".....my colleagues and I are committed to serving as their voice in Congress...."

Do you suppose she's saying that to ALL her constituents?? I doubt it!! Go to her official website [ www.louise.house.gov ] and check the ongoing results of her survey concerning a highspeed rail connecting Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany......

• Against the Highspeed rail: 432 [74.7%]
• For the Highspeed rail: 127 [22.1%]
• Might support Highspeed rail: 19 [3.3%]

For those who don't know, Geeze Louise has been pushing a highspeed rail linking the above cities, all of whom have local economies in the toilet! She pushes this knowing full well that "after the fad wears off" the only users will be politicians travelling from home to their "play-pens" in Albany and back...... Who else can afford to ride it??? The "three men in a backroom" have taken all our economic resources, we have nothing left after paying New York's multi-multi-layered usurious taxes!!! Previous to this highspeed rail fantasy, we had "the fast ferry-" a $13million boat that was to run between Rochester and Toronto, Canada. This tub lost money every second of it's existence!!! Does Louise believe that just because she coerced a RepublicRAT [Chris Lee] to join her Mafia-that makes it economically feasible??

**From the KoolAid Media:

Responding to cries of woe from dairy farmers, who are having to sell their milk for less than it costs to produce, two local members of Congress announced the formation of a new bipartisan congressional caucus on dairy farming. “Milk prices have plummeted this year, and New York’s nearly 6,000 dairy farmers are facing tremendous hardship as a result,” said Rep. Louise Slaughter D-Fairport. “The formation of the Congressional Dairy Farmers Caucus should assure farmers across New York that my colleagues and I are committed to serving as their voice in Congress, and re-evaluating the effectiveness of the policies that ensure their livelihood.”Rep. Chris Lee, R-Clarence, is one of three vice chairmen of the caucus.

Fluffy obama's "Ponzi Scheme" You're Not Supposed To Hear About!

Fluffy obama [slowly evolving to "o-dum-a"] had one of his Ponzi schemes hidden in the $787 Billion Porkulus bill... and you weren't supposed to find out about it!! oduma is "lower than whale shit!!" .... to prey upon those who can least afford it-those Americans who are already retired and those who are approaching retirement. When one closes in on retirement, they tend to gradually move their investments into interest bearing instruments-away from stocks and other fluctuating vehicles. What Fluffy didn't want you to find out about is "ZIRP"-Zero Interest Rate Policy. This is an unpublished facet of the bank bailout legislation. The ZIRP is a zero-sum game-the banks win, the savers lose!! Many financially prudent savers are forced by FED induced policy of zero rates, into riskier and riskier asset classes and longer maturities in search of yields?? How's that Hope'n'Change workin' for ya'??? For those trying to survive without the gubmint dole, it's quickly becoming "Hopeless Change!!!"

Possible Relief From Fluffy's "Ponzi Scheme!" Safeway operates the nation's third-largest retail grocery chain with about 1,740 stores in the United States and Canada. Its primary markets include the western United States, western Canada, Texas, and the mid-Atlantic region. -Company profile from Morningstar Safeway [NYSE:SWY] July 28, 2009 $18.70; 52-week range: $17.19 (Nov. 21, 2008) - $28.95 (Aug. 15, 2008); Dividend = $0.10 quarterly = 2.14% current yield. Despite uncertain economic times people continue to eat. In fact, with decreased restaurant traffic, groceries for home-based meals seem to getting a boost. On balance full-year 2009 results are likely to drop from 2008’s $2.21 /share to about $1.80 this year. Zacks sees $2.23 next year while Value Line looks for $2.10 in 2010. That makes Safeway’s multiples just 10.3x and about 8.9x the 2009 – 2010 estimates. That is well below historical levels. Here are the per share numbers from continuing operations as reported by Value Line:

• Year ......Sales ..... C/F ..... EPS ...... Div. ....... B/V ...... Avg. P/E
• 2004 .....80.02 .... 3.25 .... 1.25 ......Nil ......... 9.62 ........ 17.0x
• 2005 .....85.48 .... 3.48 .... 1.40 ......0.15 ..... 10.95 ........ 15.8x
• 2006 ......91.31 .... 4.01 ..... 1.73 ..... 0.22 ..... 12.88 ........ 15.7x
• 2007 ......96.08 ... 4.45 ..... 1.99 ..... 0.27 ..... 15.23 ........ 17.2x
• 2008 ....102.83 ... 4.91 ..... 2.21 ..... 0.32 ..... 15.82 ........ 12.4x

Dividends were initiated in 2005 and have been raised in each year since. The quarterly distribution was increased to $0.10 in the most recent quarter. Today’s 2.14% yield is better than the rates on most bank CDs and short- term treasuries. Value Line notes Safeway’s financial strength as 'B++’ and assigns it an ‘above average’ safety rating. They also note that SWY has a 95th percentile ‘stock price stability’ ranking (with 100th being best) and a 0.7 Beta. Morningstar gives Safeway their highest 5-Star rating and sees ‘fair value’ as $30 /share. This steady, somewhat conservative company appears undervalued based on all historical metrics such as P/BV, P/CF and P/E. The shares trade near multi-year lows going all the way back to 1996. Peak prices from $24.20 - $38.30 were touched in each calendar year from 2003 right through 2009. SWY shares actually hit $61 - $62 highs in 1998-1999-2000 and 2001 when the supermarket group was ‘hot’.

Porkulus Scams: How's That "Hope'n'Change Workin' For Ya' Today?

• A Piece of the Stimulus Pie
• by Bill Bonner-London, England

An article in today's International Herald Tribune tells the story of one area in Tennessee that has gotten stimulus money. "The cash that salvaged a county," says the headline. Perry County, southwest of Nashville, must be one of those places you don't want to stop when you're driving across the country.

• With 25% unemployment and no significant industry, it sounds dreadful - at least from an economic point of view. It might be a nice place to live - if you don't have to work for a living.
• So the county honchos figured the county needed a little stimulus. They managed to lay their hands on cash being passed out by the feds. It doesn't seem to bother anyone that the money belongs to someone else. Nor does the fact that it is now being frittered away in a bunch of make-work projects that nobody wanted to pay for even when they had some money.
• Stimulus-assisted businesses of Perry County now have an unfair advantage over their honest competitors in other parts of the state. The Armstrong Pie Company, for example, used taxpayers' money to expand: "New workers [hired with stimulus money] have helped the company triple its pie production and expand its reach through central Tennessee."
• A quick question: what happened to the pie companies that lost market share to Armstrong?
• And another: how is the economy any better off by stimulating one pie company to make more pies at the expense of other pie companies?
• And a final one: even if total pie consumption goes up - a larger pie! - where's the benefit?
• The whole thing is a scam! The government will just keep on using taxpayers' money to pay for the stimulus -
• What are you going to see in return?
• Most likely...a whole lot of nothing.

"The credit crisis is over," declared Ian Mathias. "No seriously, it is!" Banking lending rates reached a historic low today. At a wimpy 0.48%, three-month Libor is at its lowest rate since at least 1986, when the British Bankers' Association started keeping track.

The London Interbank Offered Rate (or LIBOR) is a daily reference rate based on the interest rates at which banks borrow unsecured funds from other banks in the London wholesale money market (or interbank market). It is roughly comparable to the U.S. Federal funds rate.

• Compared with its post-Lehman Brothers peak of 4.8%, banks can now lend to each other at practically no cost. Credit, it would seem, is extremely liquid.
• Remember the Libor/OIS spread? It's the complicated ratio of inter- bank lending rates to overnight index swaps that Alan Greenspan famously called a 'barometer of fears of bank insolvency.'
• It peaked at 3.6% basis points in October.
• Greenspan said credit would be in a 'normal' state when the spread hit 0.25%.
• This morning, it shrank to 0.29%.
• That reminds us of a key theme of last week's AF Investment Symposium: Inter-bank credit is flowing, but that's no longer the problem.
• It was once about what banks didn't have - credit. Now it's all about what they've got - bad assets.

Talk about scams... Elliot Spitzer is back in the news. Speaking to MSNBC, the disgraced crime-fighter described the Fed as a "Ponzi scheme":"You look at the governing structure of the New York Federal Reserve."

• it was run by the very banks that got the money.
• This is a Ponzi scheme, an inside job. It is outrageous!!
• It's time for Congress to say enough of this. And to give them more power now is crazy.
• The Fed needs to be examined carefully.
• "Poor Spitzer resigned as governor of New York in March 2008. At the time, he had been warning about sub-prime mortgage loans.
• Some think the feds found a way to silence him - by revealing that he had a bad habit...$1,000-an-hour hookers.
• Investigative reporters maintain that federal enforcement officials had the option of leaving Spitzer out of the news. Instead, the Bush Administration Justice Department decided to out Spitzer.

The former NY Attorney General and Governor had this to say about regulatory reform:

• "Regulatory agencies already had the power to do everything they needed to do," he said. "They just affirmatively chose not to do it.
• "Stimulus is a scam - on both sides of the Atlantic.In Europe the banks have a good hustle going - almost as good as in the United States.
• They borrow money from the European central bank and then lend it back to the government. The ECB loans money at low rates to the banks - hoping to encourage consumer and business lending. In June, for example, the banks borrowed 442 billion euros at a fixed interest rate of 1%.
• Lending to business and households is at its lowest level since record-keeping began - and slowing down, says James Saft in the International Herald Tribune.
• In May, Europe's money supply grew at a 3.5% annual rate, he notes. But lending to the private sector in June slowed to 1.5% from 1.8% a month earlier. Loans to nonfinancial corporations actually fell in May, while lending to households grew at less than 1%.
• If they didn't lend the money out...what did they do with it? Well, they did lend it - back to the people they borrowed it from. In June the banks bought $75 billion worth of government bonds and lent nearly $30 billion directly to European governments.
• Of course, the banks are doing well.
• They earn money without taking the risk of lending to the real economy.
• But what good does it do?
• None.

More Whinning On obamaCare

To be perfectly clear at the outset: obamaCare has nothing to do with healthcare!!

It's all about obama's hatred of America and all it stands for; all it's citizens have!! It's all about obama's need to control more and more of the national economy!! It's all about obama's need to "redistribute the nation's wealth 'to it's rightful owners'" It's all about obama's need to financially protect his campaign donors.

Now we find out that GoldmanSachs has a Cadillac of a healthcare plan that costs over $40,000, just less than the average American family makes in a year. This plan is truly amazing —

• no co-pays
• no deductibles
• no cost for prescriptions
• Don't worry about pre-existing conditions
• and of course, all free
• it is not taxed, all deductible

Here are the facts on small businesses:

1. Firms with fewer than 20 employees account for 18 percent of private-sector jobs but almost 25 percent of net employment growth in the past 15 years; 2. However, small businesses pay nearly 20 percent more for the same health insurance policy than larger firms because of broker fees, administrative costs and adverse selection; 3. While 99 percent of firms with over 200 employees offer health insurance only 49 percent of firms with three to nine employees do. 4. What's needed here IS NOT healthcare reform!!

America has the best healthcare system on the planet!!

How many of your relatives, friends or neighbors have left the United States for better healthcare abroad??

What's needed here IS health INSURANCE reform!!

• The administration should model an insurance plan after that of Safeway, Inc.!!
• The administration should model an insurance plan after the highly successful auto insurance format.

Start with a base monthly rate that reflects the worst in Americans' lifestyles

• Subtract discounts for weight reduction to the recommended levels.
• Subtract discounts for verifyable regular exercise.
• Subtract discounts for gym membership and verifiable use.
• Subtract discounts for an active work environment.
• Subtract discounts for each of several annual/semi-annual tests and exams.
• ....and other lifestyle changes to enhance wellness.

Til Nex'Time....

This'n'That; July 29th[FluffyPolls;PalinFuture;Contenders]

KoolAid Media Won't Tell You.. Fluffy's Poll Results Sunday, July 26, 2009 3:07 PM A new Rasmussen Reports poll shows that Fluffy obama's rating in Rasmussen's Presidential Approval Index has hit negative double digits for the first time. The survey found that 29 percent of voters strongly approve of obama's job performance, while 40 percent strongly disapprove. Rasmussen calculates its Presidential Approval Index by subtracting the "strongly disapprove" figure from the "strongly approve" figure. As a result, obama's overall score is a minus-11. That's the first time his rating has reached negative double digits. Other results of the poll:

• 49 percent somewhat approve of Obama's performance.
• 50 percent disapprove of Obama's performance.
• 76 percent see Obama as liberal.
• 48 percent see Obama as very liberal.
• 54 percent primarily blame former President George W. Bush for America's economic woes.
• 25 percent say the U.S. economy has been aided by the economic stimulus package.
• 53 percent oppose the Democratic healthcare reform package.
• 37 percent say deficit reduction should be Obama's top priority.
• 20 percent say healthcare should be Obama's top priority.

What Should Sarah Do Now?

Since Sarah Palin departed the governorship of Alaska last Sunday, the question is whether she will go on to become a viable presidential candidate in 2012. More to the point might be: "Can she bring the RepublicRAT Party back to a viable organization? Leaving the governor's job may brand her as a quitter; branding of any sort will certainly be a disservice to "Sarah the lady." Ms Palin has amassed a large following during and after the most recent presidential campaign. A loyal following!! .....NOT the "KoolAid Drinkers" and the "KoolAid Media" who supported Fluffy obama and aided and abetted ACORN-COI in buying the American presidency and installing a rank amateur; a political neophyte into the office. The "KoolAid-ers" seem to be slowly seeing through all the fluff, the lies and the half-truths; and are a logical demographic to attract to the conservative policies.

Hopefully sooner rather than later, the KoolAid-ers will see the error of their ways; see through all the obama-ACORN-COI lies and half-truths. Most of the ACORN supporters will throw their votes, voices behind the candidate or party that will give them the most wealth stolen from those with the initiative to work and strive for success. All "The New Deal, The New Frontier, The Great Society," Carter's lackadaisical adminstration and "Slick-Willie's" scatter-shot governance have done little more than put millions of Americans of all races, into economic slavery. They've developed a "peon" class who are impossible to understand!! They follow and vote for anyone who'll provide more of the federal largess than the next guy. They fail to understand that this builds generation after generation of economic slaves-who have no hope of ever leaving that class; their will to work and to succeed have been stolen from them!!

Were I to be on Ms Palin's "A-list," I might give her the following advice:

• Fill the next year with speaking engagements to replace personal monies depleted by defending yourself against the frivilous "ethics" complaints; participating in fundraisers and campaign appearances for those of your political philosophies.
• Break up these events in a 50-50 ratio between personal appearances and campaign/fundraising appearances.
• You surely had an effective staff in your successful campaign for Alaska's governorship-keep them intact, but insist that, if they're on the team to get up to speed on the various campaign issues necessary for a successful run to unseat Fluffy obama.
• You need to have advisors on every possible campaign topic so you're not duplicating the recent "Campaign of Fluff." If ACORN-COI's recent campaign proved nothing else... it's slowly proving that the "KoolAid Drinkers" will only "swallow the fluff" for so long, until they begin to see through the deceitful methodology used AGAINST them.
• You must decide early-on which, if any, public office you aspire to; the U.S. Senate, an ambassadorship, the presidency, which one? You've already proven that your message is one that Americans want AND NEED to hear; that someone who's conservative, can aspire to higher office and not have the perfect "Brady Bunch" family.
• Not only must you make many public appearances to keep your message at the fore; you must use all forms of media to your best advantage-with those who are very adept at their uses.

The Republican "Field" For '12

• 1) Mitt Romney- Former Governor of Massachusetts and business leader. Romney is the current front runner. He has an experienced organization in place and a personal fortune he's willing to spend on a campaign. Given the economy and the way the current administration is screwing it up-Mr Romney's business background has more and more appeal.
• 2) Newt Gingrich- Former Speaker of the House and Georgia congressman. Gingrich is a former Speaker of the House and the brains behind the "Contract with America" in 1994. He was the chief engineer of the Republican congressional takeover during the Clinton Administration. The party is in dire need of fresh ideas and Newt is full of 'em!!
• 3) Sarah Palin- former Alaska Governor and 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee. Palin is the most famous and arguably the most popular Republican in the country. A national book tour, speeches, interviews, the lone conservative voice just might give her a leg up on getting the nomination.
• 4) Tim Pawlenty- Governor of Minnesota and former state legislator. While largely unknown nationwide, Pawlenty is a rising star within the Republican Party and was on the short list to be the vice presidential nominee in 2008. Low name recognition and media presence will hurt his chances, but his experience and low visibility may help him define himself before his opponents can.
• 5) Mike Huckabee- former Governor of Arkansas and current Fox News show host. Huckabee shocked pundits with his surprise victory in Iowa in 2008 and winning the second highest amount of delegates. His job on the nation’s most watch news channel helps his name ID among voters.
• 6) Bobby Jindal- Governor of Louisiana and former congressman Jindal is the definition of a rising star. Not only is he a strong conservative, but also he is an Indian-American. His age may be a factor-he is only in his thirties.
• 7) Charlie Crist- Governor of Florida and former state attorney general Crist is a popular executive in the largest swing state. He is running for the U.S. Senate in 2010. He might be a better choice as a vice-presidential candidate. . If Crist loses the Senate race, he is toast.
• 8) Rudy Giuliani- former New York City Mayor and U.S. Attorney Giuliani is one of the most recognizable men in the country following his leadership during 9/11. He has a lot going against him, from being a moderate to business dealings to his private life. Rudy is eyeing a 2010 run for New York Governor. A win would put him in a good position to run for president.
• 9) Haley Barbour- Governor of Mississippi and former RNC Chairman Barbour is one of the brightest governors in the country and has pluses following his tremendous display of leadership after Hurricane Katrina. His experience as RNC chair may allow him to maneuver himself effectively to win the nomination.
• 10) Ron Paul- Texas Congressman and doctor Paul is the hero of the Libertarian movement in the United States. He demonstrated a great talent at raising money, but did not win any 2008 primaries. He is likely to win the nomination of the Libertarian Party.

Right now it's anyone's guess, given the wide field. As ACORN-COI continues to decimate the economy and completely foul America's foreign policy, the RepublicRATs stand a very good chance of pushing obama back into the field of the "unexperienced" where he'd be with his own kind.

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This'n'That; July 27th[FluffyRacist;FluffyScofflaw;obamacare;GovPerry]

Fluffy obama: The Street Thug

Cop Tells obama: I Didn't Vote for You and Won't Apologize Thursday, July 23, 2009 8:44 PM; By: Newsmax Staff The police officer at the center of a national racial firestorm triggered by Der Fluffmeister, told an interviewer Thursday that he had nothing to apologize for in the arrest of a black Harvard scholar, and that the president he didn’t vote for should have considered his words more carefully.

• “The apology won’t come from me,” Sgt. James Crowley told Carl Stevens of WBZ News Radio in Boston. "I’ve done nothing wrong."
• A well-regarded officer who is an expert on racial profiling, Crowley responded to a call at the Cambridge home of Henry Louis Gates Jr. last week to investigate a report of a burglary.
• Confronting Gates and another man who appeared to have forced open the door of the home, Crowley asked Gates to show him identification.
• The professor, a close friend of Harvard alumnus Barack Obama, was charged with disorderly conduct.
• The charge was dropped.
• Tuesday, and Gates has since demanded an apology from Crowley.

In a four-minute interview outside his home, Crowley revealed that:

• Gates escalated the situation by yelling and refusing to calm down, calling Crowley a racist, and referring to his mother.
• He was the police officer who tried to save the life of former Boston Celtics player Reggie Lewis, a black man, who collapsed and died during an off-season workout at Brandeis University.
• Crowley said he still is very shaken because of that event.
• Crowley said he didn’t vote for Obama but supports the president 110 percent.
• He also suggested that the president was siding with his friend Gates, and he probably would have done the same in a similar situation.
• Though he said he would do everything exactly the same way again, Crowley did express regret at the media attention and pressure the event has brought on his friends and family.
• “I acted appropriately. Mr. Gates was given plenty of opportunity to stop what he was doing,” Crowley said. “He didn’t. He acted very irrational, and he controlled the outcome of that event.”
• “There was a lot of yelling. There was references to my mother,” Crowley said. “Something you wouldn’t expect from anybody who should be grateful you’re there investigating the report of a crime in progress, let alone a Harvard University professor.”
• The reporter then referred to the death of Lewis, explaining that he worked the scene that night when Crowley tried to save the player’s life.
• “I was a police officer at Brandeis University at the time and I was responding to a medical call and had the unfortunate experience of trying to revive somebody who was probably already gone,” Crowley said. “It was very tough emotionally dealing with that as well.”

The reporter than asked him to respond to those who allege that he is a racist.

• “It almost doesn’t warrant a comment.
• My friends, my family my colleagues — those people whose opinions mean the most to me — they know who I am, they know what I am and what I am not.
• It’s an unfortunate thing that the professor and other people even mentioned that.”
• Asked what he thought of the president’s comments, Crowley immediately replied, “I didn’t vote for him,” and then smiled.
• “When he said the Cambridge police acted stupidly, he was talking about you,” the interviewer said. “What was your reaction to that?
• “My only reaction, somebody had told me what he said. I didn’t hear the press conference but I did listen afterwards and I support the president of the United States 110 percent.
• I think he’s way off base wading into a local issue without knowing all the facts as he himself stated before making that comment so again, I don’t know what to say about that. I guess a friend of mine would support my position too.”

Asked whether he is able to do his job, Crowley responded:

• “Sure. I absolutely will. This will not distract me from doing what it is I do.
• And if a similar call came in tomorrow, I wouldn’t shy away from responding and I’d do what I have to do.”
• Asked whether he should have done anything differently, Crowley responded bluntly: “No.”

Fluffy Really Presidential Quality? 'Scofflaw' obama Grudge Against Cambridge Police? Thursday, July 23, 2009 8:34 PM One reason Fluffy obama may have been so critical of the Cambridge Police Department is that he might have a grudge against the law enforcement agency. obama, who attended Harvard Law School from 1988 to 1991, lived in Cambridge and apparently didn't like the fact he was frequently hit with parking tickets.

• In all, Obama received 17 tickets for parking violations, and he did not pay 15 of them until a local newspaper exposed him as a scofflaw.
• According to a 2007 Associated Press story, Obama was a parking ticket deadbeat for more than a decade — and felt the need to pay the 15 outstanding parking tickets only as his presidential campaign began in earnest in 2007.

Here is the Associated Press story detailing Obama's negligence:

• Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama got more than an education when he attended Harvard Law School in the late 1980s. He also got a healthy stack of parking tickets, most of which he never paid.
• The Illinois senator shelled out $375 in January — two weeks before he officially launched his presidential campaign — to finally pay for 15 outstanding parking tickets and their associated late fees.
• The story was first reported Wednesday by The Somerville News.
• Obama received 17 parking tickets in Cambridge between 1988 and 1991, mostly for parking in a bus stop, parking without a resident permit and failing to pay the meter, records from the Cambridge Traffic, Parking and Transportation office show.
• He incurred $140 in fines and $260 in late fees in Cambridge in all, but he paid $25 for two of the tickets in February 1990.
• Jen Psaki, a spokeswoman for the obama Campaign of Fluff, dismissed the tickets as not relevant. "He didn't owe that much and what he did owe, he paid," Psaki said on Wednesday.
• "Many people have parking tickets and late fees. All the parking tickets and late fees were paid in full."

House obamacare Talks Break Down In Anger By Jared Allen, Mike Soraghan and Lauren Burke Posted: 07/24/09 03:27 PM [ET] House healthcare negotiations dissolved in acrimony on Friday, with Blue Dog Democrats saying they were “lied” to by their Democratic leaders. In advance of a subsequent press conference called by House leadership, Blue Dog liaison Rep. Dennis Cardoza (D-Calif.) said the healthcare bill should be staying in committee. "I expect the committee process to proceed," Cardoza said. The seven Blue Dogs on the Energy and Commerce Committee stormed out of a Friday meeting with their committee chairman, Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), saying Waxman had been negotiating in bad faith over a number of provisions Blue Dogs demanded be changed in the stalled healthcare bill. “I’ve been lied to,” Blue Dog Coalition Co-Chairman Charlie Melancon (D-La.) said on Friday. “We have not had legitimate negotiations. “Mr. Waxman has decided to sever discussions with the Blue Dogs who are trying to make this bill work for America,” Melancon said. Although those Blue Dogs were supposed to be headed back into another meeting of the Energy and Commerce Democrats, their anger was visible. If the two sides cannot reach an agreement, the only hope for passage of the bill in the House will be to go straight to the floor, an option leaders shied away from endorsing but said was an option. But the Blue Dogs issued dire warnings to leaders contemplating that approach. "Waxman simply does not have votes in committee and process should not be bypassed to bring the bill straight to floor,” Rep. Mike Ross (D-Ark.), the lead Blue Dog negotiator, said on Friday. “We are trying to save this bill and trying to save this party.”Melancon said there would be 40-45 “solid no” votes from the 52-strong Blue Dogs, among other problems throughout the caucus. And Melancon said there are more Democrats who will vote against the bill. “If they try to bring it to the floor, I think they’ll find out they have more problems than the Blue Dogs.”

Perry: Show obama "Where Bear Shit In Buckwheat?"

Perry raises possibility of states' rights showdown with White House over obamacare By DAVE MONTGOMERY dmontgomery@star-telegram.com AUSTIN — Gov. Rick Perry, raising the specter of a showdown with the obama administration, suggested Thursday [07/23] that he would consider invoking states’ rights protections under the 10th Amendment to resist the president’s healthcare plan, which he said would be "disastrous" for Texas. Interviewed by conservative talk show host Mark Davis of Dallas’ WBAP/820 AM, Perry said his first hope is that Congress will defeat the plan, which both Perry and Davis described as "obamacare." But should it pass, Perry predicted that Texas and a "number" of states might resist the federal health mandate. "I think you’ll hear states and governors standing up and saying 'no’ to this type of encroachment on the states with their healthcare," Perry said. "So my hope is that we never have to have that stand-up. But I’m certainly willing and ready for the fight if this administration continues to try to force their very expansive government philosophy down our collective throats." Perry, the state’s longest-serving governor, has made defiance of Washington a hallmark of his state administration as well as his emerging re-election campaign against U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in the 2010 Republican primary. Earlier this year, Perry refused $555 million in federal unemployment stimulus money, saying it would subject Texas to long-term costs after the federal dollars ended. Interviewed after returning from a trip to Iraq and Afghanistan, Perry spoke out against Fluffy obama's obamacare package less than 24 hours after the president used a prime-time news conference Wednesday night to try to sell the massive legislative package to Congress and the public. 'Not the solution’ "It really is a state issue, and if there was ever an argument for the 10th Amendment and for letting the states find a solution to their problems, this may be at the top of the class," Perry said. "A government-run obamacare system is financially unstable. It’s not the solution." Perry heartily backed an unsuccessful resolution in this year’s legislative session that would have affirmed the belief that Texas has sovereignty under the 10th Amendment over all powers not otherwise granted to the federal government. In expressing "unwavering support" for the 10th Amendment resolution by state Rep. Brandon Creighton, R-Conroe, Perry said "federal government has become oppressive in its size, its intrusion into the lives of our citizens and its interference with the affairs of our state." Returning to the "letter and spirit" of the 10th Amendment, he said in April, "will free our state from undue regulations and ultimately strengthen our union." Perry, in his on-air interview Thursday with Davis, did not specify how he might use the 10th Amendment in opposing the Obama health plan. His spokeswoman, Allison Castle, said that the governor’s first goal is to defeat the plan in Congress and that any discussion of options beyond that would be "hypothetical." "I don’t think it’s surprising that the governor is taking a stand against it," said Anne Dunkelberg, associate director of the Center for Public Policy Priorities, an Austin-based research organization that supports the House version of obama’s plan. "Unfortunately, the national dialogue on health reform has been extraordinarily partisan and polarized." The White House Media Affairs Office, asked to comment on Perry’s statements, did not have an immediate response. In his remarks to the nation Wednesday, obama restated his midsummer deadline for passage of the bill in Congress, saying it is urgently needed to help families "that are being clobbered by healthcare costs." High stakes in Texas Texas has a higher percentage of uninsured people than any other state, with 1 in 4 Texans lacking health coverage. Dunkelberg, whose organization supports policies to help low- and modest-income Texans, said the House version would create a "predictable and comprehensive benefits package" for thousands of struggling middle-income Texans. Former Rep. Arlene Wohlgemuth of Burleson, a senior fellow for healthcare at the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation, echoed Perry’s assertion that the obama plan is the wrong approach and could have disastrous financial consequences for Texas. Under the Senate version of the bill, she said, an expansion of the joint federal-state Medicaid program for the poor could cost Texas $4 billion a year. "There are good solutions" to the country’s healthcare problems, Wohlgemuth said. "This isn’t it."

Perry said the plan is another example of the Obama administration’s "massive takeover of the private-sector economy." "I hope our leaders will look for solutions that don’t dig our country further into debt," he said. Perry called on Texans in the House and Senate to oppose the plan. "I can’t imagine that anyone from Texas who cares about this state would vote for obamacare. I don’t care whether you’re Democrat or Republican," he said. Of those Texans who might consider supporting the plan, he said: "This may sound a little bit harsh, but they might ought to consider representing some other state because they’re sure not representing Texas."

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