Don't let Obama's "everything's going to be fine" spin fool you. We haven't seen the worse of this yet.
Not to be a gloom and doomer, but a realistic look at what's really happening out here in 'flyover country' shows that job loss and foreclosures are not going down, but are still accelerating.
Here's a very eye-opening graphic view of the spread and magnitude of the job losses in America in the last couple of years. ( thanks to Slate Magazine)
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Friday, April 17, 2009
A Lesson in History
I received this in an email today. It's too funny to not post. Enjoy!
For those who slept through World History 101...... here is a condensed version.
Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter.
The two most important events in all of history were:
1. The invention of beer, and
2. The invention of the wheel.
The wheel was invented to get man to the beer, and the beer to the man.
These facts formed the foundation of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups:
1. Liberals
2. Conservatives.
Once beer was discovered, it required grain and that was the beginning of agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum can were invented yet, so while our early humans were sitting around waiting for them to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery. That's how villages were formed.
Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to BB Q at night while they were drinking beer. This was the beginning of what is known as the Conservative movement.
Other men who were weaker and less skilled at hunting learned to live off the conservatives by showing up for the nightly BBQ's and doing the sewing, fetching, and hair dressing. This was the beginning of the Liberal movement. Some of these liberal men eventually evolved into women. The rest became known as girlie-men. Some noteworthy liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, the invention of group therapy and group hugs, the evolution of the Hollywood actor, and the concept of Democratic voting to decide how to divide all the meat and beer that conservatives provided.
Over the years, Conservatives came to be symbolized by the largest, most powerful land animal on earth, the elephant. Liberals are symbolized by the jackass. Modern liberals like imported beer (with lime added), but most prefer white wine or imported bottled water. They eat raw fish but like their beef well done. Sushi, tofu, and French food are standard liberal fare. Another interesting evolutionary side note: most of liberal women have higher testosterone levels than their men. Most social workers, personal injury attorneys, journalists, dreamers in Hollywood and group therapists are liberals. Liberals invented the designated hitter rule because it wasn't fair to make the pitcher also bat.
Conservatives drink domestic beer. They eat red meat and still provide for their women. Conservatives are big-game hunters, rodeo cowboys, lumberjacks, construction workers, firemen, medical doctors, police officers, corporate executives, athletes, Marines, and generally anyone who works productively. Conservatives who own companies hire other conservatives who want to work for a living.
Liberals produce little or nothing. They like to govern the producers and decide what to do with the production. Liberals believe Europeans are more enlightened than Americans. That is why most of the liberals remained in Europe when conservatives were coming to America They crept in after the Wild West was tamed and created a business of trying to get more for nothing.
Here ends today's lesson in world history.......
It should be noted that a liberal may have a momentary urge to angrily respond to the above before forwarding it.
A conservative will simply laugh and be so convinced of the absolute truth of this history that it will be forwarded immediately to other true believers, and to more liberals...just to **** them off.
Have a great day
For those who slept through World History 101...... here is a condensed version.
Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter.
The two most important events in all of history were:
1. The invention of beer, and
2. The invention of the wheel.
The wheel was invented to get man to the beer, and the beer to the man.
These facts formed the foundation of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups:
1. Liberals
2. Conservatives.
Once beer was discovered, it required grain and that was the beginning of agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum can were invented yet, so while our early humans were sitting around waiting for them to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery. That's how villages were formed.
Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to BB Q at night while they were drinking beer. This was the beginning of what is known as the Conservative movement.
Other men who were weaker and less skilled at hunting learned to live off the conservatives by showing up for the nightly BBQ's and doing the sewing, fetching, and hair dressing. This was the beginning of the Liberal movement. Some of these liberal men eventually evolved into women. The rest became known as girlie-men. Some noteworthy liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, the invention of group therapy and group hugs, the evolution of the Hollywood actor, and the concept of Democratic voting to decide how to divide all the meat and beer that conservatives provided.
Over the years, Conservatives came to be symbolized by the largest, most powerful land animal on earth, the elephant. Liberals are symbolized by the jackass. Modern liberals like imported beer (with lime added), but most prefer white wine or imported bottled water. They eat raw fish but like their beef well done. Sushi, tofu, and French food are standard liberal fare. Another interesting evolutionary side note: most of liberal women have higher testosterone levels than their men. Most social workers, personal injury attorneys, journalists, dreamers in Hollywood and group therapists are liberals. Liberals invented the designated hitter rule because it wasn't fair to make the pitcher also bat.
Conservatives drink domestic beer. They eat red meat and still provide for their women. Conservatives are big-game hunters, rodeo cowboys, lumberjacks, construction workers, firemen, medical doctors, police officers, corporate executives, athletes, Marines, and generally anyone who works productively. Conservatives who own companies hire other conservatives who want to work for a living.
Liberals produce little or nothing. They like to govern the producers and decide what to do with the production. Liberals believe Europeans are more enlightened than Americans. That is why most of the liberals remained in Europe when conservatives were coming to America They crept in after the Wild West was tamed and created a business of trying to get more for nothing.
Here ends today's lesson in world history.......
It should be noted that a liberal may have a momentary urge to angrily respond to the above before forwarding it.
A conservative will simply laugh and be so convinced of the absolute truth of this history that it will be forwarded immediately to other true believers, and to more liberals...just to **** them off.
Have a great day
Thursday, April 16, 2009
How Socialism Really Works
An economics professor at Texas Tech said he had never failed a single student before but had once, failed an entire class. That class had insisted that socialism worked, no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.
The professor then said ok, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism. All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade.
After the first test the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. But, as the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too; so they studied little. The second test average was a D! No one was happy.When the 3rd test rolled around the average was an F. The scores never increased as bickering, blame, name calling resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.
All failed to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great; but when government takes all the reward away; no one will try or want to succeed.
Could not be any simpler than that...
The professor then said ok, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism. All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade.
After the first test the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. But, as the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too; so they studied little. The second test average was a D! No one was happy.When the 3rd test rolled around the average was an F. The scores never increased as bickering, blame, name calling resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.
All failed to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great; but when government takes all the reward away; no one will try or want to succeed.
Could not be any simpler than that...
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Gotta Love the Texans!
We finally have a Governor standing up and telling the Fed's they can take their crap and shove it. And it can only come from one state, The Republic of Texas! Here's a link to his speech on YouTube.
God loves them Texans. They have a history of not taking anything from anybody, and doing a pretty good job of giving back a whole lot more. They're a boisterous bunch, full of pride and patriotism. But theirs isn't limited just to America. They have a love of their state not seen any where else in the country. That old saying "Don't mess with Texas" isn't just a slogan. It's a heartfelt warning meant for anyone or any government, foreign or domestic that feels it can run over the largest state in the lower 48.
This is going to be worth watching over the next few months to see how the Fed's are going to react to Texas' stand. It'll be a bell weather for all the rest of the Red states.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Obama bows to a King!
Here's something the mainstream media isn't going to show. Our President bowing to another country's king!! That's the biggest blunder, break in protocal and violation of our country's founding principal that we bow to no one, that a president can make.
Where's the outrage? Why arent' they calling him on this? Questioning why he did it? Was it on purpose? Is he so stupid that he didn't know we never bow to another country? Where are his protocal advisors?
God, this is getting insufferable. One thing after another. What's going to happen next? I shudder to imagine!
Where's the outrage? Why arent' they calling him on this? Questioning why he did it? Was it on purpose? Is he so stupid that he didn't know we never bow to another country? Where are his protocal advisors?
God, this is getting insufferable. One thing after another. What's going to happen next? I shudder to imagine!
Friday, April 3, 2009
The Dirty Little Secret inside the G-20 Agreement
I'm surprised it hasn't garnered more coverage, given the all out efforts by the liberals and their friends in the media to incite wealth envy and hatred for the successful. But one of the most dangerous thing to come out of the G-20 communique was the agreement to "bring accountability and transparency to executive compensation at corporations around the world"Obama thinks a "shame function" may be in order as well.
Do you see what they are doing? Do you grasp the reality of this?
This is the start of the government telling corporations, and not just the ones receiving bailout money or assistance, but all corporations what they can and should pay executives!
Guys, this is socialism, this is not free enterprise, where the best take risks and are rewarded accordingly. This is where the ones that for whatever reason don't hit the big times prevent the ones that do from enjoying the spoils of their efforts! All in the b.s. wrap of "fairness".
We've got to stop this insanity and manipulation by the left and the media. Their play of the rich vs. the rest has gotten way past rhetoric and is now being stuffed down our throats.
But do you see the ones in political power, Pelosi, Reid, Obama and the rest foregoing any spoils? Has Pelosi stopped using the Air Force to fly her wherever she wants on the taxpayers dime. Of course not. They will continue to grow their privileged ways while dictating to the rest of us what is proper and how we need to sacrifice for the good of the rest.
This is unbelievable.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
The 90% Myth - Another 2nd Admendment Attack
Recently, if you've been watching the news at all, you've heard and seen stories about how 90% of the guns used by the drug cartel in Mexico comes from the United States. You've heard it from VP Biden, from news reporters, from Congress. The statistic has been used in the same way Gore dismisses any questions about Global Warming. The fact is a fact and is without questioning now. So quit asking!
But there's one problem - (a minor one of course to the Obama administration and their goal to take away guns)
It's a lie. It's not correct. It ain't the truth!
Fox News has a piece today which clears up the fog of spin-manship by Obama's boys.
Here are the facts - In 2007-2008, according to ATF Special Agent William Newell, Mexico submitted 11,000 guns to the ATF for tracing. Close to 6,000 were successfully traced -- and of those, 90 percent -- 5,114 to be exact, according to testimony in Congress by William Hoover -- were found to have come from the U.S.
But in those same two years, according to the Mexican government, 29,000 guns were recovered at crime scenes.
In other words, 68 percent of the guns that were recovered were never submitted for tracing. And when you weed out the roughly 6,000 guns that could not be traced from the remaining 32 percent, it means 83 percent of the guns found at crime scenes in Mexico could not be traced to the U.S.
So what's the real number? Try 17%
Far cry from the 90% that's been touted about. But of course, the liberals never have let a little thing like the truth stand in the way of their goals. Like the Mexico ambassador to the US, Auturo Sarukhan, who said Mexico seizes 2,000 guns a day from the United States -- 730,000 a year. That's a far cry from the official statistic from the Mexican attorney general's office, which says Mexico seized 29,000 weapons in all of 2007 and 2008.
If they're lying about this, what else are they willing to lie about?
But there's one problem - (a minor one of course to the Obama administration and their goal to take away guns)
It's a lie. It's not correct. It ain't the truth!
Fox News has a piece today which clears up the fog of spin-manship by Obama's boys.
Here are the facts - In 2007-2008, according to ATF Special Agent William Newell, Mexico submitted 11,000 guns to the ATF for tracing. Close to 6,000 were successfully traced -- and of those, 90 percent -- 5,114 to be exact, according to testimony in Congress by William Hoover -- were found to have come from the U.S.
But in those same two years, according to the Mexican government, 29,000 guns were recovered at crime scenes.
In other words, 68 percent of the guns that were recovered were never submitted for tracing. And when you weed out the roughly 6,000 guns that could not be traced from the remaining 32 percent, it means 83 percent of the guns found at crime scenes in Mexico could not be traced to the U.S.
So what's the real number? Try 17%
Far cry from the 90% that's been touted about. But of course, the liberals never have let a little thing like the truth stand in the way of their goals. Like the Mexico ambassador to the US, Auturo Sarukhan, who said Mexico seizes 2,000 guns a day from the United States -- 730,000 a year. That's a far cry from the official statistic from the Mexican attorney general's office, which says Mexico seized 29,000 weapons in all of 2007 and 2008.
If they're lying about this, what else are they willing to lie about?
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
G-20 - What's the world coming too?
It's not looking good for old fashioned capitalism and the beleaguered Dollar. Europe, while loving Obama and his appeasing attitudes toward Islamic terrorist nations ( oh, I'm sorry, I forgot that by command from the omnipotent one, we are no longer supposed to call them terrorists. They are people that cause man-made disasters!) the Euros are digging in, especially the Germans, and are not agreeing to Obama's and Britain's Gordon Brown idea that we need to spend and tax our way out of this mess. Hallelujah!
On the surface that's good news, but the wolves smell blood and Russia and China are looking to gang up and try to make a move to a global currency, one that is no longer backed by the Dollar but instead is backed by Gold. That would be a disaster for America. Without the gold to back our reckless spending the only choice would be to devalue the Dollar.
It may seem like a far-fetched idea, but we're in new territory here, with all of the past practices and paradigms being turned on their head. Be watchful of "Global this" or "Global that" coming out the announcements from the meetings. That could be the signal for the beginning of the end.
For those interested, here's the schedule for the meetings for the next few days
On the surface that's good news, but the wolves smell blood and Russia and China are looking to gang up and try to make a move to a global currency, one that is no longer backed by the Dollar but instead is backed by Gold. That would be a disaster for America. Without the gold to back our reckless spending the only choice would be to devalue the Dollar.
It may seem like a far-fetched idea, but we're in new territory here, with all of the past practices and paradigms being turned on their head. Be watchful of "Global this" or "Global that" coming out the announcements from the meetings. That could be the signal for the beginning of the end.
For those interested, here's the schedule for the meetings for the next few days
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