Vacationing for the Good of the Country

Looking over column A

While President Obama is vacationing at Martha's Vineyard our Vice President is sort of vacationing in China. He's posing with Chinese officials, hanging out with Suma wrestlers, and having what looks like, a hellova lotta fun.

Hillary Clinton is minding the store, I guess, and that might be a good thing for the country because keeping Obama at bay and far away is good for the economy. In the meanwhile, Libya's Muammar Qadaffi is nowhere to be found and Syria's Assad still has a weak chin as he kills his own people in the streets. Obama sucks on a five dollar vanilla ice cream cone and continues to shoot basketball scores in his 9 holes of golf, and throws Biden IQ scores in his bowling.  

The good thing is that Obama plans to grace us with a solution to the nation's unemployment  .  .  .  in September.   I just love a surprise, but why is he waiting? What is the rationale? Does he really have a plan, or is he just stalling?

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Schizonomics

Is it's bad luck that got us into this economic mess? And when we rise from the muck and mire of a failed economy, 9.1% unemployment, an enemic growth rate of 0.9% and an outlook so bleak that it makes the Great Depression look like a small glitch, will Obama then attribute the turnaround to good luck?  Of course not. He can take credit but cannot accept blame. He can say Republicans only care more about being re-elected than they care about the country, while he campaigns on a Canadian-built bus after promising jobs and a plan to follow in September.


Obama, in his Keynesian economics, threw $1 trillion in make-believe stimulus at the problem and reaped not what he sowed, and blamed it on bad luck. It was Japan and the tsunami, the Arab Spring, floods, locusts, but it had nothing to do with his leadership, or lack thereof. His plan was to regulate, regulate, regulate, and somehow that would scare manufacturers into hiring more people--I call that schizonomics. It doesn't even make sense. 

President as role model

For a president who said that his goal was to bring the country together, he has demonized the right, and then denies doing it. He claims that some Americans, (and you know who you are), do not care about their country. These people in Congress, and he doesn't mean Democrats, care more about their re-election and serve their special interests and lobbyists, and place their Republican (there, I've said it if he wont) party ahead of country. In other words, Obama called them traitors without using the word--Perry called Bernanke a traitor straight away--and the media gave the president a free pass while attacking Perry. But that's what the leftist press does.


For Obama to call Republicans treasonous is not only disgusting, it's balderdash. If Republicans, Tea Party people alike, were only interested in their political careers, they would have never voted for the Medicare reform budget and risked losing their constituency. That's called political courage, something the Democrats need to learn.  With his three years as president, Obama has refused to propose even one entitlement reform, and he continues to lead from behind, where the air isn't as crisp and clear.


Let's hope that after his vacation at Martha's Vineyard he will have a plan to put people back to work, and help an economy that he helped to destroy. I suspect his plan will be more of the same--stimulate the economy by printing more money or borrowing it from China, raise taxes, bitch about corporate jet owners, and regulate big business out of the big business business. 


And of course, let's not forget whining.


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Rick Perry and Islam

In less than a year and a half, the American people are going to elect a president. If we are smart, and I believe we are, the person who will be called "President" will be a Republican. If we are cautious, and I believe we tend not to be, I believe we might elect a president who will harbor sympathies for people associate with terrorist organizations that threaten our country. I am concerned that we often tend to vote with our emotions, not our intellect. Rick Perry is a handsome, presidential-looking guy and has accomplished some excellent things for Texas, including the number one priority for the state, and now the country--jobs. Of course the Democrats want to take that away from him and credit the oil industry and Obama for that success, but that's just nonsense.

But what isn't nonsense is the fact that Perry has a substantial constituency of Muslims in his state, and constituencies can often lead to strange bedfellows. I am not accusing him of being sympathetic to Islamists (that is, orthodox Muslims who follow the premises of jihad, which calls for the victory over the infidels and the establishment of a world caliphate--you know, no big deal other than our than our total destruction); what I am suggesting however, is that we need to address questions to him about how he sees Islam. Will he view Islam as Hussein Obama does: "Islam is a religion of peace--we will never be at war with Islam," kind of glossing over the fact that we already are at war with Islamic terrorism, and the views held by orthodox Muslims in this regard.  We must also recall that GW Bush made a similar statement about Islam being a religion of peace, and he also had difficulty saying the word "nuclear." 

Daniel Greenfield, in his excellent article, explores this issue along with another possible presidential candidate, Chris Christy. It's an interesting, albeit scary read.
CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW 
Rick Perry and Islam

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Obama Plans for a Martha's Vineyard-style Pedicure

The market is still tanking, it's predicted that we have an excellent chance of going into recession soon (what is it called what we're in now, I wonder), congress is on vacation and Obama is having Hillary make his Syrian policy speech after returning from his Magic Misery Bus Tour and today prepares to vacation like a corporate jet dude in Martha's Vineyard. Sure Obama deserves a vacation but maybe he should earn one first. Obama is operating on Washington time, not real time. If he were operating on real time, he'd be telling congress to get their fat butts into DC and get cracking on fixing the economy. And can't you just burst with anticipation about his jobs plan that he plans to reveal in September? I suspect his staff is saying to themselves, "Holy s**t, we need to come up with a plan in a couple of weeks."

Bus courtesy of Canadian labour

Obama is out of touch with reality.  He has the audacity to vacate to a place millionaires go to via their yacht or Lamborghini, while telling us how he will not rest a minute until this problem with the economy is solved. It's a slap in the face and shows us how he actually doesn't give a fiddler's fig about what the people think. He could have chosen to go to Camp David, named after Dwight Eisenhower's grandson, but instead he chose Martha's Vineyard--a place we normal folk can only imagine. 

Finally, did you notice that his Canadian SWAT team bus did not have even one American flag on it? What excuse would he offer for that oversight? The same as the lapel pin?  I really would welcome your opinions on that.

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Dinky Dow

Jus' ordinary folk doin' stuff

The term 'dinky dow' is a Vietnamese term meaning 'crazy.' Marines were often called dinky dow by the Vietnamese who knew us, worked with us in "the bush", or fought against us as Viet Cong in the Vietnam War. Today, dinky dow could just as easily translate as a crazy economic mishandling of our national budget. A budget that has not been updated under the Obama administration and a budget that cries out for our leadership to assuage the spending that has made our economy the property of the Chinese. All we have to show for our elected leadership is a congress who vacated Washington because vacations were more pressing to them than our national stability, and a president who, if he were a Marine Lieutenant during the Vietnam War, would have been "fragged" by his men for abandoning them in battle. But to think of Obama as a Marine Lieutenant is taking one's imagination beyond the brink of possible to the realm of ridiculous. Obama is worse than a dove on war--he's an embarrassment to the defense of our nation. He refuses to identify Islam as a threat, bows to a Saudi Arabian king, and has friends with communist histories and violence against the state. 

The American public has had enough with empty words and empty promises. Obama had stated emphatically when he was elected that if he could not get our budget deficit in order, within the first two years in office, he would step down--another empty lie. He refuses to take any of the responsibility for the fiscal situation, the dinky dow spending, and the fact that when he submitted his budget, it received not one vote, Republican nor Democrat. Yet his ego still will not accept that his failure to lead, his disappearing act when congress first met, has shown him to be the most ineffective president we ever had--Jimmy Carter is now second.

Smokin' a spliff

Patriotic Americans, particularly those from the Tea Party, who have the courage to point out what is wrong with the way things are running, are being called "terrorists" by the talking heads on the left. In the meantime, nobody on the left has offered any solutions. They would have us continue to do what got us into this mess in the first place, which is to keep spending, print money when you run low, and keep those entitlement programs going.

As of this writing, Obama's approval ratings have gone below 40% a hopeful sign of changes to come in 2012. I believe the American public is wising up to Obama's failures and his socialist agenda. I finally have hope for change.
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Obama the Movie

Hasta la vista, baby--the immortal words of Arnold Schwarzennegger in Terminator Two, Judgment Day, may have been the catalyst that vaulted him into politics as governor of California. They may have even been the words that Maria Shriver said to him when he was outed as the father of his housekeeper's child. Who knows? What's important is that the media has incalculable power to influence the masses and people like Barack Hussein Obama know this.  Of course, anyone who can be influenced by a movie without really knowing the facts, is gullible or simply wants to be influenced.


A movie is being made about the heroic Navy SEALs operation that took down Osama bin Laden at his complex in Abbottabad, Pakistan. This movie is scheduled for release on October 12, 2012, just weeks before the presidential election in which the hero of the movie, Barack Hussein Obama, will be vying for re-election and will somehow be depicted as the mastermind of the mission. Anyone in the movie industry would tell you it's virtually impossible to predict the release of a movie so far in advance, so it's without question that this is a political propaganda movie for Obama, and it's shameful--a strong president would not have waited 16 hours before giving the "go ahead," as Obama did--they may have waited 16 seconds. He is indecisive, fearful of making obvious mistakes, and shows us that he lacks true leadership.  He leads from his behind.

But if you remember the photograph of the administration in the war room, when Obama, Clinton, Biden, and the military leaders of the operation were watching what enfolded, you might recall our mousey president sitting like a child after an adult told him to eat his peas.  Joe Biden, a man you will never run into at a Mensa meeting, looked more presidential than Obama, and Hillary looked like she was the person in charge.  Yet somehow I know that Obama is going to be depicted like JFK in the movie PT 109.  JFK, who had a new prostitute to quench his sexual thirst, almost every night, and whose drug habit would have put him in prison if he weren't the president. The real stories are never told. It's the men you don't hear about who are the real heroes 99% of the time. The men who do the actual fighting, who risk their lives, and who quietly accept their heroism because they believe defending America is more important than personal accolades.


And what about the "kill photos" of Osama bin Laden? We were not allowed to see these photos because this may have angered the Islamic world, and we never want to anger or offend these people because that would justify them killing you and your children and you wouldn't be allowed to say anything about it because you would be wrong since you asked for it by angering them in the first place. 

But if Obama doesn't want to show us the kill photos, why is he having a movie made about the kill? Wouldn't that really piss off a bunch of imams and their loyal terrorists? Wait . . . I just realized why he'd make the movie--he would do or say anything, break promises, sell out his friends, lie, cheat, and probably kill, just to get re-elected to a job that he has taken that has proven the merits of the Peter Principal.


The most frightening thing about this movie is that it just might work to get our worst president re-elected. People need heroes and Obama will play one in this movie--at least an actor playing Obama. I hope they can find someone who is both eloquent and stupid at the same time, having big ears to listen, but never does.

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London's Burning

A young gang member gets shot, his friends get angry at the cops who shot him, and young people all over London and the surrounding countryside go 'planet of the apes'. Vehicles and buildings are set on fire, people are attacked randomly, and 16,000 police are deployed--more cops than actually work in London--being brought in from other towns. PM Cameron tells the nation that the perps will feel the full force of the law.

Why is this happening? Is it really about the 29 year old man who was shot? Lefties say it's the fault of the banks, but as they say in England, that is balderdash. The left is trying to romanticize this criminal activity, saying that it's frustration over lack of jobs and funding for education. It somehow doesn't feel right to me that these kids are thinking more about their burning desire to go to school, than their burning desire to burn something. 

In Philadelphia there are "flashmobs" going into convenience stores and robbing them. Because these are angry young men, they think they are allowed to vent this way, but in reality,  it isn't venting, it's simply an excuse to get a new notebook, new smartphone, or whatever, and now there is a 9 pm curfew in Philly for kids under the age of 18 on Fridays and Saturdays. The Mayor has had enough and he wants parents to act like parents and take control of their kids.

In Ontario, Canada, of "flashrob" got together after coordinating a rendezvous at a local convenience store, and about fifty kids walked into the store and helped themselves to whatever they could grab. They used social networking to pull this off.


What's going on with our society? Is it the economy? Jobs? Social injustice? Or is it simply the fact that they can get away with it and get "stuff" without the hassle of having to pay for it?  I really welcome your opinion.

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Illegal Aliens--let's call 'em undocumented immigrants

Obama wants us to embrace “undocumented immigrants,” and believes they need our help.  Specifically, in his Dream Act, Obama believes that undocumented immigrants who want to attend an out of state college, should be able to pay tuition at a state resident rate.  Legal aliens, who pay taxes, have gone through the legal system and have taken the time and effort to obtain the necessary documents to satisfy the legal process for immigrants, are expected to pay full out of state tuition levels for their college education. 

This only seems unfair because it is unfair.  It makes no sense, except in the case where this would get Obama votes and an almost guarantee of being re-elected.

But how can an undocumented immigrant vote without being discovered and outed by the “system”?  Well, if the Democrats have their way, there will be no voting identification requirements to cast a vote, and I suspect that each household in question will receive a pamphlet from some liberal community organization, on how to go about beating the “system.” This liberal organization will be similar to those community organizations that our president is so familiar with—you know, like ACORN, and SEIU.

It’s always the evil “system” that has held back these people who have come to the land of hope, the land of dreams, and kept them from succeeding.  It is never the fact that they refuse to comply with what is expected of any alien in any country who looks to make a better life for him or herself, and go through the legal procedures to accomplish this goal. 

Calling an illegal alien an “undocumented immigrant” is like calling a drug dealer an unlicensed pharmacist.  It’s shameful and Obama, if he had a real conscience, would be ashamed.

Who are these illegal aliens? Thanks to my Twitter buddy, Tom O’Halloran, I have a list of some of the contributions that illegal aliens have made to our society:

Contributions of Illegal Aliens to our Society (hat tip Tom O'Halloran)

2006 (First Quarter) INS/FBI Statistical Report on Undocumented Immigrants

CRIME: Illegal aliens account for 95% of all warrants in Los Angeles. In Phoenix, AZ, 83% of murder warrants are issued to illegal aliens, while in Albuquerque, NM, 86% of the warrants are for this group.

California detention centers hold almost 30% of the inmates who are Mexican Nationals, here illegally. Over half of all gang members in Los Angeles are ILLEGAL ALIENS

40.1 % of all inmates in Arizona detention centers are Mexican Nationals here ILLEGALLY

29 % (630,000) Convicted ILLEGAL ALIENS felons fill our state and federal prisons at the cost of $1.5 Billion annually.

I could go on discussing the problems with crime, but you get the picture.

BIRTHS: 380,000 Plus “ANCHOR BABIES” were born in the U.S. in 2005 to ILLEGAL ALIEN PARENTS, automatically making 380,000 babies U.S. Citizens, while 97.2% of all costs incurred from those births were paid for by American taxpayers.  (But think of all the votes the Democrats can count on when illegal aliens can count on them to look the other way.)

66 % OF all births in California are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal whose births were paid by taxpayers

HOUSING: 300,000 plus illegal aliens in Los Angeles Country are living in garages and about 60% of all HUD properties are occupied by illegal aliens.

SCHOOLS: 34% plus of Arizona students in grades 1-12 are illegal aliens and 24% plus are non-English speaking

39% plus of California students in grades 1-12 are illegal aliens and 42% plus are non-English speaking

In Los Angeles County, 5.1 million people speak English – 3.9 million speak Spanish

SOCIAL SERVICES : 43% of all Food Stamps; 41% of all unemployment checks; 58% of all Welfare payments are issued are to illegal aliens. Less than 2 % of illegal aliens  are picking crops but 41 % are on welfare

POPULATION: Over 70% of the U.S. annual population growth (and over 90% of CA, FL, and NY) results from immigration—no wonder Obama wants to look the other way where the laws are concerned.

TAXES: 62 % of all “undocumented immigrants” in the U.S. are working for cash and not paying taxes, predominantly illegal aliens are working without a green card

The lifetime fiscal impact (taxes paid minus services used) for the average illegal alien is $55,000 cost to the American taxpayer in a 5-year span.  You personally pay $11,000 every year to illegal aliens.

JOBS (per Center for Immigration Studies – September 2006): Between 2000 and 2005, 4.1 million immigrant workers arrived in the U.S., accounting for 86% of the net increase in the total number of employed persons (16 & older), the highest share ever recorded in the U.S. Of the 4.1 million, between 1.4 and 2.7 million are estimated to be illegal aliens.  Also, between 2000 and 2005, the number of young (16 to 34) native-born men employed declined by 1.7 million – at the same time, the number of new male immigrant workers increased by 1.9 million. 

This is only a partial list—to detail all of the contributions illegal aliens make to our country would take too much space than a blog should take on one issue. But the one thing you should take from this is that illegal aliens are a problem, and they are given a special status that they don’t deserve.  They are given this status because liberals know they’ll get their illegal votes—it’s as simple as that.  Liberals might tell you how humane their intentions are, but make no mistake; their history of civil rights, both pre and post Civil War, is abominable. They were the original slaveholders, not the conservatives.

If you want to read more from Tom O’Halloran, you can go to: http://tomohalloran.com/

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