From the Patriot Post

Pretty damming of the entire secularist religion -- yes, religion.

I. Thou shalt have no God in America, except for me. For we are no longer a Christian nation and, after all, I am the chosen One. (And like God, I do not have a birth certificate.) SOURCE

II. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, unless it is my face carved on Mt. Rushmore.SOURCE

III. Thou shalt not utter my middle name in vain (or in public). Only I can say Barack Hussein Obama. SOURCE

IV. Remember tax day, April 15th, to keep it holy. SOURCE

V. Honour thy father and thy mother until they are too old and sick to care for. They will cost our public-funded health-care system too much money. SOURCE

VI. Thou shalt not kill, unless you have an unwanted, unborn baby. For it would be an abomination to punish your daughter with a baby. SOURCE

VII. Thou shalt not commit adultery if you are conservative or a Republican. Liberals and Democrats are hereby forgiven for all of their infidelity and immorality, but the careers of conservatives will be forever destroyed. SOURCE

VIII. Thou shalt not steal, until you've been elected to public office. Only then is it acceptable to take money from hard-working, successful citizens and give it to those who do not work, illegal immigrants, or those who do not have the motivation to better their own lives. SOURCE

IX. Thou shalt not discriminate against thy neighbor unless they are conservative, Caucasian, or Christian. SOURCE

X. Thou shalt not covet because it is simply unnecessary. I will place such a heavy tax burden on those that have achieved the American Dream that, by the end of my term as President, nobody will have any wealth or material goods left for you to covet. SOURCE

We The People

Large Pink Bureaucrat Cornered in Lie

Milkulski, that large pink bureaucrat, wants to spend you tax dollars to fund abortions.
She is really squirming up there.

Of course abortion is the only way for Democrats to keep the black population down.
Poverty and genocide.
Neat trick Dems.

Now for something completely different

Was thinking about what might be going on behind closed doors in congress at any given time.

Atheism is a parasite on Religion

Atheism cannot survive on it's own. It needs something to ridicule and mock for it to give itself credibility. If Atheism ever overthrows religion, then some other belief system will rush in to take its place. Tarot cards, tea leaves, or sheep guts, the void left by a positive, legitimate, and uplifting system of law and beliefs will be filled by the destructive, amoral, and degrading.

The further we stray from the ability to think clearly, the more easily venal politicians can lead the people into captivity and away from God.

Education, real education, cannot exclude the Scriptures or mention of He who gave them.

Who has been thinking lately about how far from rational thinking our politics have gone. Socialization of everything and a dismissal of God.

Our new gods are junk science and litigiousness.

...[T]he prevalence of indiscipline and disease in a community leads... to the opening of law courts and surgeries in large numbers, and law and medicine begin to give themselves airs, especially when they are taken with great seriousness even by free men...

...[W]hen not only the lower classes as manual workers, but also those who have some pretensions to a liberal education, need skilled doctors and lawyers, that is a pretty conclusive proof that the education in a state is disgracefully bad. -- The Republic, Book III, By Plato; Desmond Lee, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee. p.102

This is a great example of just how easily poorly educated people embrace their own enslavement.

ACORN Sure knows alot about nothing

Revolting

Democrats: Party of the Little Guy

And other lies.

This is just another reason why Democrats who claim to be for the little guy are so used to lying that they ignore the monsters they support.

Neal A. Maxwell - "The great physician, Dr. Henry G. Armitage, Jr., states, 'Not without comment shall it come to pass that a state (so fretful for the preservation of the praying mantis but holding an unborn baby to be of no account) can send a spark of immortality swinging out into limbo and conspire with citizen and physician to turn a fragile, living object of simple innocence and complex wonder into a pathetic pulp and consign it by rude and peremptory passage to the furnace or sewer — unknown, unwanted [and] undefended.' He further questions how a woman as 'the fertile adornment of our race can be deluded into the notion that she is a mere poetress of unwanted luggage or be by blandishment seduced into believing that she has dominion over life not her own.' He says, 'An abortion is never commonplace, for the world holds no heartbreak like the death of innocence.'"

Nancy Pelosi's 757: You Foot the over $6mil. Annual Bill

    The Jet is a USAF Boeing 757.

          

*And they STILL want to talk about Sarah's clothing??

Republicans! Are you out there?

*MADAME PELOSI*

Madame Pelosi wasn't happy with the small private jet that comes with the Speaker's job...no, Madame Pelosi was aggravated that this little jet had to stop to refuel, so she ordered a Big Fat 200 seat jet that could get her back to California  without stopping!

Many, many legislators walked by and grinned with glee as Joe informed everyone what Nancy's Big Fat Jet costs us, the hard working American Taxpayers, for the thousands of gallons of fuel every week.

Since she only works 3 days a week, this gas guzzling jet gets fueled and she flies home to California , cost to the taxpayers of about $60,000  one way!

As Joe put it, 'Unfortunately we have to pay to bring her back on Monday Night.' Cost to us is another $60,000.  Folks, that is

$480,000 per month and that is an annual cost to the taxpayers of $5,760,000.  No wonder she complains about the cost of this war...it might cramp her style and she is styling, on my back and yours.

I think of the military families in this country doing without and this woman, who heads up the most do-nothing Congress in the history of this country, keeps fueling that jet while doing nothing.

Madame Pelosi wants you and me to conserve our carbon footprint. She wants us to buy smaller cars and Obama wants us to get a bicycle pump and pump up our tires.

These people are nuts.

If you think this is outrageous, forward it to all those on your email list!

Keep in mind the figures above do NOT  include cost of plane or crew, just fuel!

One wonders what her total package cost us? And she wants to tax OUR Ira's & 401K's.....

YOU WILL NEVER SEE THIS IN ANY NEWSPAPERS IN THE COUNTRY! THEY HAVE NO GUTS - THEY WOULD RATHER SEE PEOPLE STARVING THAN REPORT ON THE MONSTER THAT IS NANCY PELOSI!

Bloated GW Messiah Typifies Liberal Hypocracy

Wes Pruden pinpoints in his must read article, The hot one from the Democrats

"When this far-reaching legislation was debated in the House Energy Committee, the Republicans offered amendments to suspend the legislation if the price of gasoline exceeds $5 a gallon, if the price of electricity rises more than 10 percent over 2009, and if the unemployment rate, now hovering close to 9 percent, exceeds 15 percent. The Democrats, who know very well the devastation this "biggest tax increase in history" is likely to wreak on American families, nevertheless defeated all three amendments."

This idiotic solution to a nonexistent problem will send the poorest of US citizens spiraling deeper into poverty.

Party of the little guy... peh!

Cap n Trade to hit Obama voters the hardest

The Economic Impact of the Waxman-Markey Cap-and-Trade Bill
by Ben Lieberman
Testimony
Testimony before the
Senate Republican Conference

June 22, 2009

It is clear that cap-and-trade is very expensive and amounts to nothing more than an energy tax in disguise. After all, when you sweep aside all the complexities of how cap and trade operates–and make no mistake, this is the most convoluted attempt at economic central planning this nation has ever attempted–the bottom line is that cap and trade works by raising the cost of energy high enough so that individuals and businesses are forced to use less of it. Inflicting economic pain is what this is all about. That is how the ever-tightening emissions targets will be met.
(snip)
Beyond the cost impact on individuals and households, Waxman-Markey also affects employment, and especially employment in the manufacturing sector. We estimate job losses averaging 1,145,000 at any given time from 2012-2035. And note that those are net job losses, after the much-hyped green jobs are taken into account. Some of the lost jobs will be destroyed entirely, while others will be outsourced to nations like China and India that have repeatedly stated that they’ll never hamper their own economic growth with energy-cost boosting global warming measures like Waxman-Markey.
(snip)
Overall, Waxman-Markey reduces gross domestic product by an average of $393 billion annually between 2012 and 2035, and cumulatively by $9.4 trillion. In other words, the nation will be $9.4 trillion poorer with Waxman-Markey than without it.
(snip)
It should also be noted that the costs are not distributed evenly. Low-income households spend a disproportionate share of their incomes on energy, and thus would be hit harder than average by Waxman-Markey.

In conclusion, it’s not surprising that support for Waxman-Markey is heaviest in those parts of the country, the urban centers in the West Coast and Northeast, that are least harmed by it. Even there, the economic damage would be bad enough, but the citizens in the rest of the country and their representatives should really be asking many tough questions about the economic impact of cap and trade. Thank you.

“Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States,”
George W. Bush

Apologizing for America Bus Stops Here

Although, for some of the treatment we've been getting lately, maybe that's the perfect place for an apology.


Of course with libs, it would be like those old Bugs Bunny cartoons where the adult messages are lost on the children.

Bouncing Baby

Finally, something that babysitters, nanny's, and day-care-warehouses; not to mention those itinerant boyfriends, can use with ease on that special little tot you just don't have time for.



Possible versions being tested for the Public School Systems.

Obamobile

In a special news conference yesterday, Government  Motors announced its new concept car...  (for all of you who have not heard:  General Motors and Chrysler are known as Government Motors)   The new GM  proudly introduces the 2010 Obama...

                   
   
This car runs on hot air and broken promises.

It has three wheels that speed the vehicle through tight left turns.

It comes complete with two Teleprompters programmed to help the occupants talk their way out of any violations.

The transparent canopy reveals the plastic smiles still on the faces of all the "happy" Democrat owners.

Only available in UN Blue. Other cut 'n' run colors available as policy continues.

Truman G. Madsen

Truman G. Madsen passes away at 82, from cancer.

One of the great scholars of the LDS church, theology, and the life of Joseph Smith.

http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=576&sid=6637088

ABC Shilling for Gun Control

The mendacity of ABC is already well known.
Their 20/20 piece on guns takes them to a lower level yet.
In John Lott's examination of ABC's shameful hit piece on our 2nd Ammendment rights he compares it to their onetime low of faking the exploding gas tanks.
Once again, they are willing to make outrageous statements like, "If you are wondering where are all the studies about the effectiveness of gunes used by ordinary Americans for self-defense, well keep searching, we could not find one reliable study and the ones we found were contradictory."
Mr. Lott cites 26.
The word obdurate can apply to these who will always remain indestructibly ignorant of the truth.
One thing I found interesting was that the Columbine shooting spree coincided with the day that the "state legislature had scheduled final passage of the concealed handgun law."
He also dispels the myth about gunshows being a haven for illegal gun purchases.
All in all, I find ABC despicable in their abandonment of even rudimentary journalistic ethics.

What is Obama thinking?

Ramirez Nails Our Useful Idiots

Prop 8 Upheld: All Win

Prop 8 upheld in the California Supreme Court by a 6-1 vote.
From 160 (PDF version)

Although this initiative process was thereby instituted as a remedy for government corruption, and to free legislation from the influence of powerful special interests and the Legislature's own self-serving inertia, there is no indication that this process was intended to prevent courts from performing their traditional constitutional function of protecting persecuted minorities from the majority will. There is a fundamental difference between preventing politically powerful minorities from unduly influencing legislative and judicial decisions on the one hand, and preventing courts from protecting the rights of disfavored minorities unable to obtain equal rights through the usual majoritarian processes on the other.

This is a victory for the people who are tired of being bullied by small, obnoxious, special interest groups. Forget the homosexual ideology, the same law-bending practices are evident in topics like illegal aliens, late term abortion, and hate crimes.
Most Americans just want a society that all play by the same rules. That lock up criminals that don't. That reward and promote good decision making.

Blaming Bush

It's a poor president who blames his predecessor, and criticizes his successor (hopefully in 3 1/2 years). Clinton did it. Obama is off to a roaring start.

If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?
 
If George W. Bush had given Tony Blair a set of inexpensive and useless (to Tony Blair's UK video formatting) DVDs, when Tony Blair had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?
 
If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have approved?
 
If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have approved?
 
If George W. Bush had visited  Austria and made reference to the non-existent "Austrian language," would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?
 
If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current on their income taxes, would you have approved?
 
If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?
 
If George W. Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved?
 
If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?
 
So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? 

Can't think of anything? Don't worry. He's done all this in 10 weeks -- so you'll have three years and nine-and-a-half months to come up with an answer.

Biden Reveals Location of Secret VP Bunker

Once again, Biden demonstrates why people call him "The Policy".
This may be a good thing however.







Secret shelter no longer a secret

Even the press is having a difficult time covering for this bozo.

Hey, they vote too!

Dead People Get Stimulus
Checks

Published : Thursday, 14 May 2009, 5:28 PM EDT

MYFOXNY.COM - This week, thousands of people are getting stimulus checks in the mail. The problem is that a lot of them are dead. A Long Island woman was shocked when she checked the mail and received a letter from the U.S. Treasury -- but it wasn't for her.

When asked about giving the government that money back, she wasn't happy about that either: "They're just pissing it away".

Gun Ownership in Montana

Becoming Illegal

(Actual letter from an Iowa resident and sent to his senator)

The Honorable Tom Harkin
731 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington , DC 20510

Dear Senator Harkin,

As a native Iowan and excellent customer of the Internal Revenue Service, I am writing to ask for your assistance. I have contacted the Department of Homeland Security in an effort to determine the process for becoming an illegal alien and they referred me to you.

My primary reason for wishing to change my status from U.S. Citizen to illegal alien stems from the bill which was recently passed by the Senate and for which you voted. If my understanding of this bill's provisions is accurate, as an illegal alien who has been in the United States for five years, all I need to do to become a citizen is to pay a $2,000 fine and income taxes for three of the last five years. I know a good deal when I see one and I am anxious to get the process started before everyone figures it out.

Simply put, those of us who have been here legally have had to pay taxes every year so I'm excited about the prospect of avoiding two years of taxes in return for paying a $2,000 fine. Is there any way that I can apply to be illegal retroactively? This would yield an excellent result for me and my family because we paid heavy taxes in 2004 and 2005.

Additionally, as an illegal alien I could begin using the local emergency room as my primary health care provider. Once I have stopped paying premiums for medical insurance, my accountant figures I could save almost $10,000 a year.

Another benefit in gaining illegal status would be that my daughter would receive preferential treatment relative to her law school applications, as well as 'in-state' tuition rates for many colleges throughout the United States for my son.

Lastly, I understand that illegal status would relieve me of the burden of renewing my driver's license and making those burdensome car insurance premiums. This is very important to me given that I still have college age children driving my car.

If you would provide me with an outline of the process to become illegal (retroactively if possible) and copies of the necessary forms, I would be most appreciative. Thank you for your assistance.

Your Loyal Constituent, ( hoping to reach 'illegal alien' status rather than just a bonafide citizen of the USA )

Donald Ruppert Burlington , IA

Get your Forms (NOW)!! Call your Internal Revenue Service at 1-800-289-1040.

Guns & Cars

Skeet shooting cars... With an anti-tank round.

Specter and magical thinking

Specter first thinks he'll be re-elected as a Democrat. Second, he thinks that Democrats will keep *hic* their promises.

Specter plays down loss of committee seniority

Specter shows amazing confidence that his backstabbing he handed the Democrats won't be repaid, explains how his betrayal of fellow RHINO's was well planned as Sen. Reid (whose well earned Rush-nickname is Dingy):

"my seniority will be maintained under the arrangement I worked out with" Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., before switching.

Before switching... Did you get that in writing? Why don't you call some of his fiends [sic] in Vegas and find out why you might consider that.

"I think everyone should just kind of relax and understand he's a Democrat," Reid said. "We're doing our best to try to make him happy as a Democrat. I think he is."

Obama Promises 63B to World Health

In another bewildering move to prop up brutal dictatorships under the guise of health care spending.

Remember all the Bush era criticisms of food, vaccines, and money, just 'disappearing' into the hands of drug lords, war lords, and dictators?

Of course keeping their subjects barely alive and collecting all sorts of other foreign aid helps.

My question is how is this really going to help the world's poor, when the Socialists of the world are trying to reduce the population of the world by about 92.6%
Now: 6,778,052,068
Desired: 500,000,000

Just trying to figure this all out.

Star Trek reviews disappointing

Great review. If you plan on seeing Star Trek, first see this.



Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As 'Fun, Watchable'

Terrorist Preparedness Bill

Okay, what's this all about?
Any ideas?
Body bags, [classified]. Biological weapons...

Rep. John Haller Introduces A Bill ---

Congress will now vote for approval of HR8791, the "Homeland Terrorism Preparedness Bill." Said bill requests emergency response funding, up to and including -- ah... I'm sorry this section is classified -- ah, dollars to prepare for a national level terrorist attack and or attacks from ... [CLASSIFIED]. Funding for first responder personnel and vehicles would be doubled if said attack leads to more than eighty percent of national population being effected by [CLASSIFIED]. This funding shall convenes in conjunction with the first attack on [CLASSIFIED], or the first large scale outbreak of [CLASSIFIED], dependent upon which comes first...

...Should event occur in urban areas... Jesus... -long pause- ah... that's classified... far surpassing our darkest nightmares. Should casualties exceed [CLASSIFIED] body disposal actions shall be halted and associated resources shall be reallocated through [CLASSIFIED] underground [CLASSIFIED] protected birthing centers. -ah- New Bill of Rights shall drafted and approved by [CLASSIFIED].


For more information regarding this shocking bill, go to: http://tinyurl.com/2zwxk9
p.s. John Murtha is from Penn dist 12...

An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.

Those  who hammer their guns into plows will plow for  those who do not.'    ~ Thomas Jefferson

How went the hometeaching?

Progressive Thought, or Lack Thereof

Lenin’s dictum, “A revolution without firing squads is meaningless”

What good fortune for those in power that people do not think.” - Adolf Hitler

Just read an article published by Wired about the Georgia Guidestones. This thing represents classic Liberal/Progressive pap. They make no sense whatsoever and contradict each other. The article describes it as "Satanic", yet you hear AlGore and his ilk uttering the same thing regularly. Here they are, with my comments:

Genocide:

MAINTAIN HUMANITY UNDER 500,000,000
IN PERPETUAL BALANCE WITH NATURE

Nazi Style Eugenics:

GUIDE REPRODUCTION WISELY —
IMPROVING FITNESS AND DIVERSITY

Esperanto:

UNITE HUMANITY WITH A LIVING
NEW LANGUAGE

Thought Police:

RULE PASSION — FAITH — TRADITION
AND ALL THINGS
WITH TEMPERED REASON

New World Fascism:

PROTECT PEOPLE AND NATIONS
WITH FAIR LAWS AND JUST COURTS

UN World Courts:

LET ALL NATIONS RULE INTERNALLY
RESOLVING EXTERNAL DISPUTES
IN A WORLD COURT

World Bureaucracy:

AVOID PETTY LAWS AND USELESS
OFFICIALS

Social Control:

BALANCE PERSONAL RIGHTS WITH
SOCIAL DUTIES.

Paganism Through Lust:

PRIZE TRUTH — BEAUTY — LOVE —
SEEKING HARMONY WITH THE
INFINITE

Euthanasia:

BE NOT A CANCER ON THE EARTH —
LEAVE ROOM FOR NATURE —
LEAVE ROOM FOR NATURE

This reads like the Communist Manifesto, lots of empty platitudes. What's worse are the volumes of human destruction and tragedy that read between the lines.

Utter fools, "Useless Idiots", and worse, these people advocate an elitist way of thinking that have never worked. Progressives need take their own advice and"be not a cancer on the earth".

Tea Party Terrorists

These are the dangers to society according to CNN and Napatano...

Specter Who?

Yawn...

AirForceOne Buzzes NY: Bulidings Evacuated

Looking for yet another photo-op, the POTUS, Jimmy O'bama buzzes New York, The Statue of Liberty, and the Hudson River.

Along with a couple of F15's and a gaggle of slavering photographers on the ground the low flying plane caused many office buildings to be evacuated.

Wonder why...

If this was GWB we'd be outraged. Where are all the Ober-dobermans now?

WSJ seems to be the only ones bothering. For now.

Now is the time for this song

Bush was demonized as an evil money grubbing liar.
Now that the tables are turned we see for real.

LIAR Pelosi = Oxymoron

Blatant lying. Pelosi knew, approved, and asked if it was enough!
Countless lives were saved over the next several years because of the information gathered.
We were not sawing people's heads off. We were not throwing them in plastic shredders while wives and children screamed in horror. We did not employ professional tortures and rapists.
This is truly disgusting what the democrats are doing to this country.



“We were briefed, and we certainly understood what C.I.A. was doing,” Mr. Goss said in an interview. “Not only was there no objection, there was actually concern about whether the agency was doing enough.” NYT

Homeland InSecurity

Told you not to worry...
Of course, Utah is nowhere to be seen, but Texas is up front:

It's about time...

WAKE UP CALL: TEXAS GOV. BACK RESOLUTION AFFIRMING SOVEREIGNTY
Tue Apr 14 2009 08:44:54 ET

AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry joined state Rep. Brandon Creighton and sponsors of House Concurrent Resolution (HCR) 50 in support of states' rights under the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

"I believe that our 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," Gov. Perry said. "That is why I am here today to express my unwavering support for efforts all across our country to reaffirm the states' rights affirmed by the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. I believe that returning to the letter and spirit of the U.S. Constitution and its essential 10th Amendment will free our state from undue regulations, and ultimately strengthen our Union."

Perry continued: "Millions of Texans are tired of Washington, DC trying to come down here to tell us how to run Texas."

[VIDEO]

A number of recent federal proposals are not within the scope of the federal government's constitutionally designated powers and impede the states' right to govern themselves. HCR 50 affirms that Texas claims sovereignty under the 10th Amendment over all powers not otherwise granted to the federal government.

It also designates that all compulsory federal legislation that requires states to comply under threat of civil or criminal penalties, or that requires states to pass legislation or lose federal funding, be prohibited or repealed.


 81R5789 MMS-F
 By: Creighton
 H.C.R. No. 50 CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States reads as follows: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people"; and

WHEREAS, The Tenth Amendment defines the total scope of federal power as being that specifically granted by the Constitution of the United States and no more; and

WHEREAS, The scope of power defined by the Tenth Amendment means that the federal government was created by the states specifically to be an agent of the states; and

WHEREAS, Today, in 2009, the states are demonstrably treated as agents of the federal government; and

WHEREAS, Many federal laws are directly in violation of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; and

WHEREAS, The Tenth Amendment assures that we, the people of the United States of America and each sovereign state in the Union of States, now have, and have always had, rights the federal government may not usurp; and

WHEREAS, Section 4, Article IV, of the Constitution says, "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government," and the Ninth Amendment states that "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people"; and

WHEREAS, The United States Supreme Court has ruled in New York v. United States, 112 S. Ct. 2408 (1992), that congress may not simply commandeer the legislative and regulatory processes of the states; and

WHEREAS, A number of proposals from previous administrations and some now pending from the present administration and from congress may further violate the Constitution of the United States; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, That the 81st Legislature of the State of Texas hereby claim sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States; and, be it further

RESOLVED, That this serve as notice and demand to the federal government, as our agent, to cease and desist, effective immediately, mandates that are beyond the scope of these constitutionally delegated powers; and, be it further

RESOLVED, That all compulsory federal legislation that directs states to comply under threat of civil or criminal penalties or sanctions or that requires states to pass legislation or lose federal funding be prohibited or repealed; and, be it further

RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate of the United States Congress, and to all the members of the Texas delegation to the congress with the request that this resolution be officially entered in the Congressional Record as a memorial to the Congress of the United States of America.

Bicycle Built for Two Thousand

Pirates Hijack 3 More Ships in One Day

In less than 24 hours after seven pirates (voluntary coast guards) were given an express introduction to Allah, three more ships have been hijacked. Click.

Something that has always mystified me was the admission by these large corporations was that they would rather pay ransoms than the higher insurance rates by having an armed crew.

What the hell?

Corporations would rather send their hired crews to the bottom of the sea than allow them to defend themselves?!?

Maybe all they need to do is put a couple hundred gallons of acid (hydrochloric, sulfuric...) into their fire hoses. To be this afraid of a bunch of barefoot villagers tooling around in a wooden barge powered by two 50 year old outboard motors is insane.

The Veteran

Death to you, and you, and oh... you too!

WaPo:The Free World Bars Free Speech

So, the Muslim community is for free speech as long as they agree with it. Of course, the trouble all started at the UN. Un-United Nations since most are totalitarian thugocracys.

"the Western world has listened aghast to stories out of Iran, Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern nations of citizens being imprisoned or executed for questioning or offending Islam. Even the most seemingly minor infractions elicit draconian punishments."

"The U.N. resolution... is backed by countries such as Saudi Arabia, one of the most repressive nations when it comes to the free exercise of religion. Blasphemers there are frequently executed."

"Even countries that the United States has helped liberate have joined the assault on free speech, rejecting the core values of our First Amendment."

Sound like tolerant Liberal thinkers to me...

What Ward Would You Attend?

Find your niche in specialty wards

Robert Kirby, Tribune columnist - Salt Lake Tribune

Most Sunday mornings, you'll find me on a pew in the Rosecrest 1st Ward chapel. It's where I'm supposed to go to church. Lucky for me, it's also where I want to go. Technically, Mormons don't have a choice. For church, we're bound by the geography of the ward boundary. We worship where we live. The only time Mormons can switch wards without also contacting a Realtor is when we attend specialty wards. For example, I went to a Spanish-speaking ward in West Jordan for a while.

Specialty wards allow members with specific common needs to worship together and support each other in their exclusive part of the Lord's vineyard. There are (or have been) lots of LDS specialty wards, including singles wards, college wards, deaf wards, ethnic wards. There are even seasonal "snowbird wards" in places where Mormon RV owners congregate.

I talked it over with my friend (despite a restraining order) Ken Wallentine. We think the specialty-ward idea needs to be improved on in our ever-changing and increasingly divided culture.

For example, there needs to be a late ward, a ward Mormons who are perpetually late for church could attend and not feel bad about dragging their herd in 15 minutes late. The only problem with a late ward would be showing up late for a meeting that was supposed to start late in the first place. Eventually, you would end up with a ward that ran out of time before it started... "Welcome to the Tardy 3rd Ward, brothers and sisters. We will close now by singing hymn No. 145."

Given the high birthrate among Mormons, I thought about the need for maternity wards. Except that we already have those. They're called married student wards.

A Star Trek ward might do well. The bishop would preside from "the bridge" instead of the stand. High-council Sunday would be referred to as a "Klingon Sunday."

Harley riders congregate to the exclusion of just about everyone else. Why not an LDS biker ward? White shirts and neckties go well with black leather...

Ken really wants to attend a concealed-weapons ward. He says church would be a lot more interesting if real personal risks were involved in disagreeing with a lesson.

There could be a texting ward for teenagers. Bear your testimony with your thumb. In 25 years, they'll all belong to carpal-tunnel wards.

At the less-active ward, maybe there'll be a meeting and maybe there won't.

Testimony meeting in an anger-management ward might be interesting. Nobody's going to sleep through, "HEY! I KNOW THE CHURCH IS TRUE, STUPID!"

A big hit would be the Multi Level Marketing ward, also known as a "Gadianton robber ward." With all the financial scamming that goes on in this culture, it would be nice to have them all in one place for a three-hour block weekly.

I think a Democrat ward is a good idea, although in Utah the best we could probably hope for is a Democrat branch...

Good Friday Thoughts

In all the world, who has created prosperity and alongside it charity.
Old Phil Donahue clip interviewing Milton Freedman.

Why is it that conservatives are accused of being greedy, when they create the environment for everyone to live better lives.

It's not greed; it's control. We don't want it and they do.

New Depressant Hits Market

Couple of R words, so cover your ears.
I could not stop laughing, or jumping up and down exuberantly.
dang...

FDA Approves Depressant Drug For The Annoyingly Cheerful

Steam Car: a vision of the future

Yes, now every good Obamunist may have a truly renewable fuel: water and hot air.

"We reached nearly 60mph on the first test before I applied the parachute..."

No way! 60? That's not just fast, that's Jimmy Crack Carter fast!



Weighing three tons, the sleek British Steam Car is made from a mixture of lightweight carbon-fibre composite and aluminium wrapped around a steel space frame chassis. It is fitted with 12 boilers containing nearly two miles of tubing. Demineralised water is pumped into the boilers at up to 50 litres a minute and the burners produce three megawatts of heat. Steam is superheated to 400 degrees Celsius which is injected into the turbine at more than twice the speed of sound, according to a team spokesman.

Now, on the serious side. For a bunch of guys who are trying to break a 100+ year record: go for it.
What with all the government control of our automakers, and Queen Pelosi making schizophrenic declarations about 'green' this and 'green' that, it won't come as a surprise to see someone from the alabaster palace making note of this.

Swiss Spaghetti Harvest 1957

Missed this a few days ago. I never realized that a warming climate meant more productive spaghetti harvests for the Swiss. In your face Algore.

More on Black Car Ban

At first, we all thought this was an April Fool's joke. Coming from the halls of academia, nowadays, it is difficult to sift through all the absurd just to find something ridiculous.

However, Daniel Sperling has created a considerable uproar with his proposal to ban black cars in California. Why? Because they absorb more heat and use more air conditioning to keep cool. That uses more gas and using gas is bad.

What will be interesting is how this is implemented since many people will insist on purchasing 'cars of color'. Like the KNOX device, and other California after market albatrosses, the coating will have to be applied after production and probably somewhere in California. This will create problems with the already draconian Coatings Rules In California, where not so much as a fart goes unregulated.

Since California is so heavily populated in some areas, and the freeway system was intentionally made inadequate, (didn't know that? Ask Jerry), so as to curtail vast expansion into the surrounding environments, there are a lot of cars sitting on one place. In fact, you have millions of cars idling on freeways that are falling apart (and that's another issue).

Bottom line: Painting a car 'muddy brown' so that it will use less air conditioning in the middle of rush hour can only come from the mind of someone who thinks that more and more regulations will set the people free.

California has the worst credit rating in the union. Businesses are so over regulated and over taxed that people are fleeing in droves.

What Sperling needs to realize is that every week some doomsayer comes along with another book that feeds institutional cynicism, creates panic, and costs tons of money.

Thanks for nothing, Dan. And the guy who appointed you, Arnold

Sheesh.

California to ban BLACK CARS

Just when you thought that the stupidity spotlight might spend a minute in Washington DC, it swings right back to the land of fruits and nuts.

The California Air Resources Board, CARB, has proposed a mandate of 20% solar reflectivity by 2016.

Link to Autoblog and the presentation by CARB

When entering CA will they take away your fruit and paint your car white as well?

This defies imagination; in a state that is bankrupt, still raising taxes, and awash with non-taxpaying 'undocumented residents', is this really a good use of time?

Oldie but a goodie

This clip is about a year old. The Amnesty Bill was not passed, thank god. However, thanks to the recent elections full of hope and change *read: taxes & socialism, this bill will again come to the floor in another form.
Just as the 'Hate Crimes' bill (as opposed to 'Love Crimes'--those are okay), and the 'Fairness' bill, these are centered around THOUGHT CRIMES. If you THINK there is something wrong with any of those boneheaded ideas you will be treated as a criminal.
In many communities, like Berkley and Santa Monica, just noticing that Rome is burning will get you targeted, with your name and address on activists google maps to boot! (That's jack-boot)
Please remember that if you think this stuff is wrong and downright evil, you are among the vast majority of Americans.
You work, have families, and usually go to church (or at least contribute to related causes). Most of these people don't like being called conservative, or neo-con, or republican, any more than they would like being called stingy, mean, or intolerant. These are names crafted to shut you up. Stop being cowed by the minority nutters who are all mouth and no mind.

Movie of Individual Atoms in Action

Okay, this is cool. The color photo is actually a 3D model of the movie below. Movie of an arrangement of atoms.

From Nanotechnology: Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), working with TEAM 0.5, the world's most powerful transmission electron microscope, have made a movie that shows in real-time carbon atoms repositioning themselves around the edge of a hole that was punched into a graphene sheet. Viewers can observe how chemical bonds break and form as the suddenly volatile atoms are driven to find a stable configuration. This is the first ever live recording of the dynamics of carbon atoms in graphene.

Odious Thing

Lord Obama, this station will be fully functioning by April 16th...

Yucking it up the 'The Teleprompter'

Laugh it up.
Obama was so glib about numerous crisis that Kroft eventually asked Prompter, "are you punch drunk?"
No, he's just a narcissistic elitist who isn't concerned about it.
AND REMEMBER, THE AIG DEBACLE WAS CHRIS DODD'S FAULT. Dodd intentionally wrote in bonus stipulations and when the people found out, he started screaming like a little girl. (see below)
Dodd is also one of the top five corrupt meddlers in congress who caused the housing market failure that led to AIG's collapse in the first place.
But back to the Prompter in Chief...


His apparent lack of concern with vital market forces has led even his own water carriers of the MSM to back off and wonder out loud, "What the hell is he thinking?"
Nothing about you or this country seems certain.

Bumper stickers

The Earmark Shopping Channel

Earmarks are getting a bad rap. Embrace the hypocrisy and enjoy the song and dance. After all, you're paying for it!

Did I do that?

Equal Opportunity Dummocrats

In a time where so much is being made about our first black president, Ann Coulter made the following observation in her column of 2/25/2009:
"But as long as the nation is obsessed with historic milestones, is no one going to remark on what a great country it is where a mentally retarded woman can become speaker of the house?"

Smarter by Half

I've always felt that true wisdom is separate from gathered intelligence in that a moral compass allows and individual to sort out truth from delusion. Case in point is this article, which also paraphrases Krauthammer's assessment of the same: Obama is an intellectual incompetent because he lacks a basic moral grasp on important subjects.

From JWR, 3/17/09

The reason we have too few solutions to the problems that confront people — in their personal lives as well as in the political realm — is almost entirely due to a lack of common sense, psychological impediments to clear thinking, a perverse value system, to a lack of self-control, or all four. It is almost never due to a lack of brainpower. On the contrary, the smartest and the best educated frequently make things worse.

What's the Difference Between Jesus and Obama?

Jesus knew how to build a cabinet...

Top Pain Scientist Fabricated Data in Studies, Hospital Says

From the WSJ:

"A prominent Massachusetts anesthesiologist allegedly fabricated 21 medical studies that claimed to show benefits from painkillers like Vioxx and Celebrex, according to the hospital where he worked."

For me this amounts to Captain Renault exclaiming: "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!" Having seen what goes on inside some publishing institutions, and how common conflicts of interest are swept under the carpet, the crime is in getting caught.

If patients were to find out just how ineffective and dangerous many of the pills they are taking can be, they would be outraged; along with all the Captain Renault's of the medical community running around in their private airplanes, homes in the Catskills, and speed boats at Nantucket, that were had by "consulting". Or in the firing or replacing of editors and writers who ask the question, "how involved was Dr. So-n-so with the actual studies?"

This is a billion dollar business and as Steven Pressfield said on p.26 of his book, The War of Art:

"Our boss used to tell us: Invent a disease. Come up with the disease, he said, and we can sell the cure."

Eventually, the evidence, and ultimately the lawsuits, reach a point where a scapegoat is needed for public sacrifice. Usually, it's the guy who was on the inside:

"Dr. Reuben had been a paid speaker on behalf of Pfizer's medicines, and it paid for some of his research. "It is very disappointing to learn about Dr. Scott Reuben's alleged actions," Pfizer said in a statement. "When we decided to support Dr. Reuben's research, he worked for a credible academic medical center and appeared to be a reputable investigator." "

And, just as reasonably we aren't aware that we are breathing...

"Wyeth said it isn't aware of any financial relationship between the company and Dr. Reuben."

Unaware and proud of it.

"The retracted studies aren't expected to affect the drugs' regulatory status because Dr. Reuben's studies weren't part of the packages that manufacturers submitted to the FDA or European authorities."

Prestige has it's price but it also admits the sacrificial Plausible Denyability Clause that is in the small print when dancing on the wrong side of the line. If his studies we so unimportant, then why the kerfuffle to begin with? It's like saying the Federalist Papers had no influence on the Constitution because they weren't 'included' in the final package. Excuse me, but these were preliminary studies. Groundwork studies are almost always conducted at hospitals where the research is eventually constructed and conducted.

Burn him at the stake. But not for being accused of falsifying data that led to the sales of whole lines of pharms worth tens of millions. He deserves to be punished for being caught.

Living the Life

The Proposal

When a company falls on difficult times, one of the things that seems
to happen is they reduce their staff and workers.  The remaining
workers need to find ways to continue to do a good job or risk that
their job would be eliminated as well.  Wall street, and the media
normally congratulate the CEO for making this type of "tough
decision", and his board of directors gives him a big bonus..

Our government should not be immune from similar risks.

Therefore: Reduce the House of Representatives from the current 435
members to 218 members and Senate members from 100 to 50 (one per
State). Also reduce remaining staff by 25%.

Accomplish this over the next 8 years. (two steps / two elections) and
of course this would require some redistricting.

Some Yearly Monetary Gains Include:

$44,108,400 for elimination of base pay for congress. (267 members X
$165,200 pay / member / yr.)

$97,175,000 for elimination of the above people's staff. (estimate
$1.3 Million in staff per each member of the House, and $3 Million in
staff per each member of the Senate every year)

$240,294 for the reduction in remaining staff by 25%.

$7,500,000,000 reduction in pork barrel ear-marks each year. (those
members whose jobs are gone. Current estimates for total government
pork earmarks are at $15 Billion / yr)

The remaining representatives would need to work smarter and would
need to improve efficiencies.  It might even be in their best
interests to work together for the good of our country?

We may also expect that smaller committees might lead to a more
efficient resolution of issues as well.  It might even be easier to
keep track of what your representative is doing.

Congress has more tools available to do their jobs than it had back in
1911 when the current number of representatives was established.
(telephone, computers, cell phones to name a few)

Note:
Congress did not hesitate to head home when it was a holiday, when the
nation needed a real fix to the economic problems.  Also, we had 3
senators that have not been doing their jobs for the past 18+ months
(on the campaign trail) and still they all have been accepting full
pay.  These facts alone support a reduction in senators & congress.

Summary of opportunity:

$ 44,108,400 reduction of congress members.

$282,100, 000 for elimination of the reduced house member staff.

$150,000,000 for elimination of reduced senate member staff.

$59,675,000 for 25% reduction of staff for remaining house members.

$37,500,000 for 25% reduction of staff for remaining senate members.

$7,500,000,000 reduction in pork added to bills by the reduction of
congress members..

$8,073,383,400 per year, estimated total savings. (that's 8-BILLION
just to start!)

Big business does these types of cuts all the time.

If Congresspersons were required to serve 20, 25 or 30 years (like
everyone else) in order to collect retirement benefits there is no
telling how much we would save. Now they get full retirement after
serving only ONE term.

Men's Brain / Women's Brain: Mark Gungor

A Letter From a Granddad

Guess you heard that 68% of the youth vote went to Obama. My granddaughter called this morning to tell me she was one of them. I replied with this e-mail:


Dear Susan,
The election of Obama comes down to this. Your grandmother and I, your mother, and other productive, wage-earning tax payers will have their taxes increased and that means less income left over. Less income means we will have to cut back on basic purchases, gifts and handouts.

That includes firing the Hispanic lady who cleans our house twice a month. She just lost her job. We can't afford her anymore.

What is the economic effect of Obama's election on you personally? Over the years, your grandmother and I have given you thousands of dollars in food, housing, cash, clothing, gifts, etc. By your vote, you have chosen another family over ours for help. So in the future, if you need assistance with your rent, money for gas, tires for your car, someone to bring you lunch, etc. ... call  202-456-1111 . That's the telephone number for the Office of the President of the  United States . I'm sure Mr. Obama will be happy to send a check from his personal or business accounts, as we have, or leave cash in an envelope taped to his front door for you, as we have.

It's like this. Those who vote for the President of the  United States  should consider what the impact of an election will be on the nation as a whole and not just be concerned with what they can get for themselves (welfare, stimulus checks, etc.). What Obama voters don't seem to realize is that the government's money comes from taxes collected from tax paying families. Raising taxes on productive people means they will have less money to spend on their families.

Congratulations on your choice. For future reference, you might attempt to add up all you've received from us, your mom, Mike's parents and others and compare it to what you expect to get over the next four years from Mr. Obama.

To congratulate Mr. Obama and to make sure you're on the list for handouts, write to:

The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington ,  DC   20500

Love you Susan,
but call the number listed above when you need help.

Granddad

Here We Go...