The folks at Political Math likens the growth of government debt to a road trip.
For most of the first 150 years the car idled along at 5mph Then in the depression and WWII FDR upped it to 40 mph. Truman backed down the debt at -20 mph Avg. was 3 mph till Reagan 50mph. GHWB 63 mph Clinton 18 MPH GWB 64 mph the fastest in history.
Obama's own 8 year plan shows that he plans to drive the debt car at 174 mph.
My brother said "Obama accelerates to 174, puts his feet up on the dash and complains at how fast the last guy was speeding ! " See the video here: http://hotair.com/archives/2009/07/27/video-the-national-debt-road-trip/
A CNN report: thousands of Avatar fans write in an internet fan forum that they are depressed, even suicidal when they find that real reality is not as fantastic as a fantasy CGI cartoon movie.
In related news, from the Night At The Museum forum: "Why can't dinosaur bones and wax figures come to life after sunset? I may end it all."
In related news, from the Princess and the Frog forum: "Why can't I live as a frog in a swamp with an alligator who plays the trumpet like Louis Armstrong? I could just die."
In related news, from the Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel forum: "Why don't the chipmunks in my neighborhood sing and dance, instead of biting, clawing, and peeing all over my hands when I try to put them in the clothes I made for them? I'm going to jump off a bridge."
Seriously, though, can I get a pair of Barcaloungers upholstered in Na'vi hide? Because if you can't live in a world with furniture covered in blue leather flecked with otherworldly bioluminesence, why would you want to live?
Police stop generous Ind. 5th-grader with $10,000 (AP) – 22 hours ago
SELMA, Ind. — Police say a fifth-grader handed out about $300 to others on the bus ride to his eastern Indiana school. Problem is, they say, the cash was among some $10,000 he took from his grandparents' safe.
Delaware County Sheriff George Sheridan says the boy was riding the bus to Selma Elementary School when he handed out the money on Friday, the last school day before Christmas vacation began.
Children who received the ones, fives and twenties told teachers and the principal, and the sheriff's department was called.
The boy misses the point of generosity. Is it a gift if it costs the giver nothing?
In a related story, the Senate votes this morning for a 'generous' health care take over that will cost them nothing, as they and their staff, and their families wont participate in it. It builds a framework for the sort of liberty stifling, European styled, soft fascism that will cost my children, and their children, the American Dream- Freedom to succeed or fail .
You will hear the Senate majority call this a "Christmas gift" to Americans, a newsie already called Senate passage,"A Christmas gift to the President". They have that Selma,IN 5th grader's understanding of gifts. They are reaching into the pockets of unborn generations to give this. It cost them nothing except an extension of the usual 3 day work week of the Senate.
Generosity? Look at the Christmas story for true generosity.
The God who made us, willingly gave of himself,
gave his Son.
We, the undeserving needy can turn to Him , and receive his gift:
Redemption, Salvation, New Life. Precious gifts that cost Him the lifeblood of His Son.
A psychologist, noting the upswing in counseling appointments around the holidays said something profound- "The opposite of depression isn’t ‘Yippee!’ The opposite of depression is gratitude."
It isn't often you can visit here and read something ahead of the curve (or even a recent post) and don't think it will happen again, but it happened September 14th. read " O "- The Mini Series. The only thing missing are styrofoam columns.
Kanye West tries to restore the MTV Female Video Award to its rightful owner, and he is met with a backlash that is obviously based in racism. People mag reports:
Stars watching the show and tweeting immediately posted their thoughts on the incident. "Kanye needs to learn how to wait his turn," Zac Hanson wrote. "I am sure he will get plenty of mic time to say something stupid later in the show."
Wait his TURN ! What do you mean by THAT? Kanye doesn't have to follow the MAN's clock , when he has something stupid to say, it IS Kanye's turn.
Country singer John Rich went even further with his tweet: “KanyeWest is a lowlife. He needs to have his @@@ kicked in the middle of the stage right now! What a piece of @@@@!!! Go TAYLOR SWIFT.”
See there, a 'Rich ' white man puts Kanye down and threatens to lynch him .
Pink, who was also nominated for best female video, tweeted: “Kanye west is the biggest piece of s– on earth. Quote me.” And Katy Perry followed suit: “F– U KANYE. IT'S LIKE U STEPPED 0N A KITTEN.”
Look girls, Kanye just thought it would be better to spread the award around to people who didn't win it, you know, like the President told that white plumber Joe that he wants to spread around Joe's stuff. If you are against THAT, you are an obvious racist.
Speaking of the President, Drudge reported an ABC reporter’s tweet quoting Obama as saying “Kanye is a jackass” . That's two Presidents in a row that 'hate black people' by Kanye's count.
...besides, class, decorum and propriety far beyond that of leftists, this is the reason that assassination chic hasn't caught on with the right in Obama's term like it did during George W. Bush's administration.
Pinheads. ----- Original Message ----- From: Nita Chaudhary, MoveOn.org Political Action To: TJ H Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 11:05 AM Subject: Bush's torture
Dear MoveOn member, On Thursday, President Obama released memos that describe, in horrific detail, the torture techniques authorized by the Bush administration. The memos make clear that top Bush officials didn't just condone torture— they encouraged it. So far there's been no accountability for the architects of Bush's torture program—the top officials who justified keeping detainees awake for 11 days straight, waterboarding them repeatedly, and forcing prisoners into coffin-like boxes with insects.1 We need real consequences for those responsible— it's the only way to keep this from happening again. Attorney General Holder can open an investigation into the torture program—but he most likely won't unless people everywhere speak up and demand it. Can you sign our petition to Attorney General Eric Holder asking him to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the torture program? If we can reach 200,000 signatures, we'll deliver the petition to Holder by the end of the week.
The petition says: "No one is above the law. It's time to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate and prosecute the architects of the Bush-era torture program." Calls for action, from the United Nations, the ACLU, Amnesty International,2 Senators Leahy and Feingold, and others, are gathering steam. The New York Times made the case for accountability in an editorial:3 "...[Obama] has an obligation to pursue what is clear evidence of a government policy sanctioning the torture and abuse of prisoners—in violation of international law and the Constitution. " This isn't about retribution or politics. It's about accountability. If hundreds of thousands of us speak up, we can make sure Holder hears this loud and clear.
Thanks for all you do. –Nita, Kat, Peter, Ilyse, and the rest of the team
P.S. You can see all the Bush administration memos here. Sources: 1. "Interrogation Memos Detail Harsh Tactics by the C.I.A.," The New York Times, April 17, 2009. http://www.moveon.org/r?r=51338&id=15952-10409880-o0_9Itx&t=5 2. "Opposition Grows To Obama's Decision Not To Prosecute CIA Agents," The Huffington Post, April 19, 2009. http://www.moveon.org/r?r=51336&id=15952-10409880-o0_9Itx&t=6 3. "A Torturers' Manifesto," The New York Times, April 19, 2009. http://www.moveon.org/r?r=51334&id=15952-10409880-o0_9Itx&t=7 Want to support our work? We're entirely funded by our 5 million members—no corporate contributions, no big checks from CEOs. And our tiny staff ensures that small contributions go a long way. Chip in here.PAID FOR BY MOVEON.ORG POLITICAL ACTION, http://pol.moveon.org/. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. This email was sent to TJ H on April 21, 2009. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
There are thousands of reasons to use agressive interrogation techniques against these killers, starting with the thousands killed in NYC on 9/11/01, and including the thousands of people saved in L.A. by the information gained by the LEGAL , judicious use of these tactics. There was no torture, compared to the hundreds who chose between burning to death in the World Trade Center, or escaping the flames for a few seconds to fall to their deaths. There was no torture, compared to the gleeful beheading of Daniel Pearl
Silly asses, those murderers would sooner slit your throats until your empty heads left your lifeless bodies than give you the praise you think you deserve for for taking up their cause against America.
It doesn't take very many years to go from being a proud Dad, to an idiot. What parent isn't an idiot to teenaged eyes?
Hopefully, the reverse process will take less time.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. - Mark Twain
I saw a poster at Jimmy John's Sandwich shop the other day. The words were ascribed to "a wealthy software developer"(Bill Gates).
Snopes.com says otherwise. But, the words are wise, regardless of their authorship and I hope my kids learn these rules faster than I did.
Rules Kids Won't Learn in School
Rule No. 1: Life is not fair. Get used to it.
Rule No. 2: The real world won't care as much about your self-esteem as much as your school does. It'll expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.
Rule No. 3: Sorry, you won't make $80,000 a year right out of high school. And you won't be a vice president or have a car phone either. You may even have to wear a uniform that doesn't have a Hollister label.
Rule No. 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait 'til you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure, so he tends to be a bit edgier. When you screw up, he's not going to ask you how you feel about it.
Rule No. 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping. They called it opportunity. They weren't embarrassed making minimum wage either. They would have been embarrassed to sit around talking about musicians all weekend.
Rule No. 6: It's not your parents' fault. If you screw up, you are responsible. This is the flip side of "It's my life," and "You're not the boss of me," and other eloquent proclamations of your generation. When you turn 18, it's on your dime. Don't whine about it, or you'll sound like a baby boomer.
Rule No. 7: Before you were born your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way paying your bills, cleaning up your room and listening to you tell them how idealistic you are. And by the way, before you save the rain forest from the blood-sucking parasites of your parents' generation, try delousing the closet in your bedroom.
Rule No. 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers. Life hasn't. In some schools, they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. Failing grades have been abolished and class valedictorians scrapped, lest anyone's feelings be hurt. Effort is as important as results. This, of course, bears no resemblance to anything in real life.
Rule No. 9: Life is not divided into semesters, and you don't get summers off. Not even Easter break. They expect you to show up every day. For eight hours. And you don't get a new life every 10 weeks. It just goes on and on.
Rule No. 10: Television is not real life. Your life is not a sitcom. Your problems will not all be solved in 30 minutes, minus time for commercials. In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop to go to jobs.
Rule No. 11: Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.
Rule No. 12: Smoking does not make you look cool. It makes you look moronic. Next time you're out cruising, watch an 11-year-old with a butt in his mouth. That's what you look like to anyone over 20. Ditto for "expressing yourself" with purple hair and/or pierced body parts.
Rule No. 13: You are not immortal. If you are under the impression that living fast, dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse is romantic, you obviously haven't seen one of your peers at room temperature lately.
Rule No. 14: Enjoy this while you can. Sure parents are a pain, school's a bother, and life can be depressing. But someday you'll realize how wonderful it was to be a kid. Maybe you should start now. You're welcome.
I will : 1st- Protect and defend the Constitution 2nd- Honor the office of President of the USA and 3rd- respect the man in office.
If President Obama does not do #1 & #2 it will make #3 more difficult, but I will oppose his ideas and not tumble into the Buck FusH, or BusHitler style of derangement the DU and KosKids have pumped up for 8 years.
1 I urge you, first of all, to pray for all people. Ask God to help them; intercede on their behalf, and give thanks for them. 2 Pray this way for kings and all who are in authority so that we can live peaceful and quiet lives marked by godliness and dignity. 3 This is good and pleases God our Savior, 4 who wants everyone to be saved and to understand the truth.
It was a Caesar, not an elected President that the Apostle was urging Timothy to pray for.
-The world's longest election season is over. -Congressman Steve King (IA-5th) wins-re election -40+ GOP Senators.( 42? If Al Franken gets in, I will not spend another dime in MN. ) -Sarah Palin, an articulate,bright,conservative voice is on the scene. -3 ballot measures to define marriage = one man + one woman, are passing. -Nebraska's measure to end racial preferences passed. -Michell Bachmann is winning her house seat. -Increased security.
"We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objective that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."
What was that organization that Adolf Hitler had? Sturmabteilung? You know, the “Brown Shirts.”
Or maybe he wants to go straight to the Schutzstaffel, the “SS.”
Are those of us on the right the only ones that ever read books? Or that watched the Nazi shows on the History Channel instead of their “Search for Bigfoot” or “Roswell Uncovered” shows? Or that can think for ourselves?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Well sure, there are downsides to having the streets clogged with a civilian national security force. Let’s look on the plus side- a civilian national security force equal to the bad, bad military would be able to nuke Yosemite and bring about world peace, ala the IMAO.US author's famous “Nuke the Moon” thesis. A civilian national security force is necessary to bring about peace, as Karl Marx famously said,”The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition of socialism.”
That term ‘civilian national security force’ is a bit wordy though. So let’s try this.Babelfish translates the English “civilian national security force”to the German “Nationale ZivilSicherheitskraft”
That is quite the tongue tangler for us, the (current) English speakers who could only say, “merci bocoup” when Europeans take over our country come to chat. So, I modestly propose we call the “civilian national security force” or “Nationale ZivilSicherheitskraft”by the first two letters of “NA tionale ZI vilSicherheitskraft”.
There!
That’s much more hopeful and changy sounding, isn’t it?
The media bias and cocky presumption is turning voters away from Obama. Americans like fair play and humility,OK- not all Americans, but the demographic groups that show up to vote do.
The IBD TIPP poll was the most accurate in 2004, and it shows a tightening race with huge McCain gains among voters in the $30,000 to $75,000 income range.
To paraphrase LBJ,
