March 22nd, 2009 by TNM

My last post highlighted what I feel is nothing more than corrupt politicians and certain segments of the population fanning class warfare in America. It is my opinion that should this practice by the Obama Administration continue, if the class warfare is not soon tempered in America, that the only possible outcome will be bloodshed and violence.

As I watch politicians such as Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Dodd Frank, rush to the cameras and howl in anguish at the AIG Bonuses I have to ask, This is leadership by the Democrats and their cheerleaders in the press? Spare me, this is akin to a bunch of cows and a herd mentality if there ever was one.

To further illustrate this dangerous turn the country is taking, Over the weekend, the following article surfaced on Foxnews

Select quotes to this article are below and my response to these so called “activists” Cows

A busload of activists representing working- and middle-class families paid visits Saturday to the lavish homes of American International Group executives to protest the tens of millions of dollars in bonuses awarded by the struggling insurance company after it received a massive federal bailout.

That’s the opening salvo of the article, note the use here of emotion by the person penning this screed, “activists representing working – and middle-class families” “Lavish Homes”
The subtle use of this type of yellow journalism is obviously nothing more than attempt to evoke an emotional reaction from the reader.

That said, it’s to a thinking and reasoning person whom does not rely on emotions to analyze something of this nature a pretty obvious if not outright insulting ploy, an emotional gambit.
I have to throw up a flag here and ask, “Who waved the royal scepter and decreed this busload of “activists” cows are my representatives? When was the election for bovines held?”

Fact of the matter is; These people and I don’t know one another, they don’t share my voice, my outlook or know what I think. They no more represent me than a peasant in the most remote backwater region in the world would. But according to this article they represent millions of Americans. This is a staged event, it is propaganda, and incitement of peoples emotions. Nothing more.

One woman is quoted as saying:

“We think $165 million could be used in a more appropriate way to keep people in their homes, create more jobs and health care,” said Name Removed, a gardener.

That’s nice, how’s about you go back to your life and leave the productive people alone now toots? M-kay? Millions of Americans are not going to fall for your pie in the sky rhetoric and social engineering schemes.

The articles author then goes on to out an AIG employee, By name. I’ve removed that name from my post, I refuse to be part of this witch-hunt and If it was me, every News source running this tripe would be facing a lawsuit for millions. This is a abhorrent abuse of a persons privacy, of their constitutionally protected rights, but the press these days seems to simply mimic whatever the DNC tells them to, they’ve lost any and all objectivity and they wallow in Yellow Journalistic tactics based on provoking emotions and not reasoned debate.

She marveled at AIG executive (name withheld) colonial house, which has stunning views of a golf course and the Long Island Sound. The Fairfield house is “another part of the world” from her life in nearby Bridgeport, which flirted with bankruptcy in the 1990s and still struggles with foreclosures and unemployment.”

“Lord, I wonder what it’s like to live in a house that size,” she said.

Envy much you cow? Yes I called you a COW. Do you want to know WHY I called you a cow?

Because a cow is quite possibly one of the dumbest animals on earth. It exists in a complete mental vacuum and it is unthinking past the point of its next munch of hay. Content to chew on grass or it’s cud the entire day it bellows and moans at whim, it’s not really doing much to express itself, its displeasure at it’s surroundings, or it’s unhappy life, it simply lets out a moo here and there because, well that’s what cows do. And that’s what you are doing if you are riding around with the herd in some ridiculous bus mooing about the AIG employees CONTRACTUALLY obligated bonuses.

The worst of this is the woman’s invoking of the “Lord” Oh really? I suggest then Madame bellowing Cow, perhaps you take a look at the bible if you’re going to evoke the Lord. It’s pretty clear on that little subject:

You shall not covet your neighbour’s house; you shall not covet your neighbour’s wife, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbour.

Even a knuckle dragging ‘militant’ such as I can remember that little part of the bible and I haven’t set foot in a church in a decade, maybe longer. I’m agnostic.
Why is it so easy for me to remember that? It’s one of the 10 Commandments.

But lets move on now, shall we? We’ll leave our Cow in peace to chew her cud and bellow in her misery.

From the very same article, yet another “activist” moos:

Another protester, Name withheld, of Bloomfield, said she’s on the verge of foreclosure. She works as a housekeeper; her husband, a truck driver, can’t find work.

“I love my home,” she said. “I really want people to help us.”

A truck driver that can’t find work? Oh Really?
A simple Google search for “truck driving jobs” gave me these results:

Results 1 – 10 of about 56,600,000 for truck driving jobs. (0.48 seconds)

56 Million hits on a simple Google Search, so I narrowed that down to just a search of CT Truck Driving Jobs, and I got this result:

Results 1 – 10 of about 2,780,000 for CT truck driving jobs. (0.21 seconds)

Really want people to help you? Help your own damn self woman! Here’s a clue Claire the moo queen. Get off your tail, do what it takes, go turn tricks on a street corner for ll I care, but I’m not helping your sorry ass when instead of pounding the pavement looking for work, or even sitting at the PC and searching for “CT Trucking Jobs”..you’re out demonizing other Americans for their hard won success. Simply put go moo your envy someplace else. I ain’t buying.

Wading through this idiotic article and these people comical statements has done nothing but made my head ache thus far and I’m not even halfway there but lets press on.

Further on in the article the author once again throws out the AIG employees names.

Besides Name Removed home, protesters on Saturday also visited the Fairfield home of AIG executive Name Removed They were met both times by security guards. They left letters that acknowledged some executives, including Names removed, are giving up the money but that asked them to support higher taxes on families earning more than $500,000 a year.

Three times in one paragraph this author names AIG Employees. This is insane. Met by security guards? You mooing idiots are lucky it’s not me, if it were, you might find yourself looking down the barrel of a locked and loaded .45 with my finger on the trigger. No I am not kidding. AND of course there is the ever present “tax the rich” gambit as well.

Afterward, the group protested at the office of AIG’s financial products division in Wilton, where they waved signs and chanted, “Money for the needy, not for the greedy!”

Every see what happens when you throw a lit match in a pool of gasoline? You people are about to find out, because this sort of inflammatory nonsense and class warfare is going to explode in your faces, keep it up.

Not to be swayed by any sort of objectivity the author then circles back to emotional string pulling and puts this cud chewing bovine’s words in the article

Cow number three, of Hartford, said AIG executives should share their wealth with people like her sister, who is facing foreclosure.

“You ought to share it, and God will bless you for doing it,” she said.

God again? Please spare me people, you are really starting to irk me with this God Bull crap (or is that cow-crap?) See above, the bible is pretty clear on this, and your envious screed not withstanding, as we say in TN, “that dog don’t hunt”.

I have to throw my hands up at this point and say….Enough! I can’t even continue with this nonsense!!

America is on the brink of a civil war, there is going to bloodshed in the streets, and millions will perish just because some people, people like this so called reporter, and these “activists” Cows can’t grasp the simple concept that Communism is not going to work in America. It is not going to work because millions of us refuse to cow down and moo endlessly in anguish because our fellow citizens worked and made the grade.

I’m sure some would read this post and demonize me as callous or uncaring, claim I “dont understand”.
On the contrary, I understand perfectly, Despite an administration that gleefully engages in this class warfare, who seems to sanction this nonsense and seems hell bent on forcing this country to it’s knees, Some of us still understand the work it took to get to the level of these peoples career path.
I and millions of others understand the effort it takes to earn a Masters in Business from a top notch school, not a useless liberal arts degree, the risk that working in a job like these people do that entails where millions or billions of dollars can be made or lost on the wrong calls, and we also understand the yellow journalism that passes for the media, utter stupidity, and jealously now running amok in America.

March 20th, 2009 by TNM

The headlines are full of the A.I.G Bonus debacle.

I’m sure I may get some disagreement on this post from some, but it needs to be said.

This AIG thing is nothing but a bunch of lies and political theater. This is the worst of the worst I have ever seen from the US Government.

I’ve tried to be understanding with Obama and the Democrats, I don’t agree with their agendas but they are in power and I had hoped to see them work from the center a little more than they have. But they have gone too far now.

Now? I’m convinced. These people are the worst group of politicians to ever sully the American Political landscape, while that is mostly directed at People like Pelosi, Dodd, Rangle, Franks, Waters, etc, That also includes members from both side of the aisle.

Both sides GOP & DNC are literally tripping over their own feet to scramble to a microphone and TV Camera to voice their “outrage” over the fact that AIG is paying it’s execute their contractual obligated bonuses while receiving a government backed loan using taxpayers dollars.

Newsflash to D.C., you’re not fooling 25% of this country. We’re not as stupid as you seem to think we are.

People like Dodd, Franks, even Obama himself are in the news endlessly, seething with faux rage, stirring up the population into a frenzy. And it’s working like a charm 3 out 4 Americans are howling like monkeys with a baseball bat shoved up their asses in utter outrage.

Here’s the simple fact of the matter: You are being lied to Joe America, and you’re too damn emotional to parse the propaganda from the truth. Get a grip!!

These people are grandstanding, your emotions are being played, and all the while every single one one of these charlatans accepted tens of thousands of dollars some hundreds of thousands, in election campaign funds from A.I.G.

Jealously is a powerful emotion, it can lead a man to pick up a gun and shoot another over a lover, over money, over a car. And given a hard honest look, Main street America has been Jealous of Wall Street for years. It always has been, that’s just the way people are. My Boss calls it fighting over who gets the bigger piece of the chicken, and in this case it’s fitting.

But that Jealousy is now being fed propaganda, and it is turning into a seething hatred of the free market principles this country is founded on.
Obama and his cronies are playing you like a fiddle, stir the masses up, and when they cry out for “change” enact full on Socialism.

That’s the goal here.

THAT is the true ‘outrage’ of the AIG mess.

Obama alone took funds from AIG totaling around 100,000.00, second only to the other politician with his mug plastered everywhere right now screaming like a two bit whore in hell….Chris Dodd.

The Democrats Stripped a provision out of the TARP bill to prevent this very thing from happening. That’s the facts. Calling this Hypocrisy doesn’t even come close.

So to show how great they are and how much they care for the “average joe”..that’s you by the way, The house has now passed a bill to TAX those receiving bonus payments at a staggering 90%.

Charles Rangle yet another democrat who has been in trouble for tax evasion, was just caught on camera telling a U.S. Citizen to “mind your own goddamn business” when he was confronted about it, quipped that State and local taxes will confiscate the other 10%.

This is the true Outrage of the AIG situation:

The ‘audacity’ of these Democrats in playing people’s emotions against AIG is akin to a banana republic in some backwater country with out electricity. What are they going to do when some one refuses? Toss him in the clink? Shoot him? Lynch him on Wall Street?

What is this Somalia?

The caterwauling of these Democrats to rush through a bill literally stripping American citizens of compensation they were contractually obligated to receive is completely unconstitutional and smacks of utter communism. Even the Soviet Union and the Nazis weren’t this bad, they let those with connections keep some of their loot.

As far as I am concerned any signers of this legislation have now violated the oath of office they took when they were elected to support and defend the constitution, that includes Obama for ring leading this and they all, if they enact this ‘tax’ should face articles of impeachment for stealing form the American public.

Yet Joe America is cheering these mutts on like a gambling addict at the dog track. Wake up Joe, you’re being an emotional little school girl, not a thinking American.

The lying, the obstruction of the facts and the utter lack of honesty in this administration, and the legislative branch is sickening in the extreme.

I’m outraged alright…

Outraged that the US Government took it upon itself to trample the US Constitution by levying a tax on fellow Americans that is akin to slavery.

I’m outraged that Obama and his cohorts lie, cheat, swindle and rip off the American tax payer, and seemingly believe the entire populous of this country is simply too ignorant to understand their rhetoric for what it is; empty, vapid, and completely dishonest.

That’s the outrage, not the fact that some Finance whiz kid on Wall Street got a contractually obligated bonus that when compared to the spending spree Obama and his Democrats just went on (780 Billion for “economic recovery act”, 400 plus billion for the 09 Budget with over 9 THOUSAND Pork Barrel EAR MARKS, 40 Billion dollars alone to fund boondoggles like Pell Grants) is simply a single drop of water in the ocean.

It’s a time tested and very effective tactic they are playing…Divide and Conquer.

Are you “outraged” ? You should be, but you should be outraged for the right reasons, not for what these banana republic brain dead Democrats Communists tell you you should be outraged over.

March 16th, 2009 by TNM

H/T to the blog @ Cold Fury

I must be causing the political chatting classes a case of the hives these days.

Not that anyone other than my few regular readers even know this little place on the web exists. Or on second thought, maybe they do know about me, maybe a “fusion center” such as this one in Missouri has me on their “watch lists”.

Why?

The very title of this blog makes me a subversive. Or at least according to the MIAC ( Missouri Information Analysis Center, one of some 13 so called “Fusion” centers in operation across the country under the Department of Homeland Security).

Lt. John Hotz of the Missouri State Highway Patrol said the report was compiled by the Missouri Information Analysis Center based in Jefferson City and comes purely from publically (the typo here is from the article itself and not mine, ~ TNM) available, trend data on militias.
Hotz said MIAC, which opened in 2005, is a “fusion center” that combines resources from the federal Department of Homeland Security and other agencies. It was set up to collect local intelligence to better combat terrorism and other criminal activity, he said.

So, What makes a Militant a Militant according to the MIAC?

(Militia members are)

“most commonly associate with third-party political groups”

“support presidential candidates such as Ron Paul, former Constitutional Party candidate Chuck Baldwin and Bob Barr”

I am a member of the constitution party, so I guess I am a militant, according to the MIAC.

But it get’s worse.

Like history like I do? If you display a flag such as this one, you very well might be listed as a militant.

Or this one;

I’m buying two.Today.

Voted for Ron Paul? Got a bumper sticker on your car showing your support of him? You might be a “militant”. According to MIAC.

Think the country is in distress with an out of control government? And display the US Flag upside down on a blog, even at your home? Believe in what the constitution as outlined by the founding fathers says, rather than the twisted and mangled version the government and it’s members has co-opted for their own agendas? You’re possibly a militant according to “analysts” at MIAC.

Actually, I view this as a mixed bag, it’s abhorrent to know someone is compiling this sort of data and making broad stroke assumptions on the flimsiest of evidence, directed solely at American citizens.

On the other hand, the ground swelling of grassroots organizations, & the true patriots that refuse to back down to the over aggressive tactics of the Federal Government, must be hitting some nerves, why else would they even think to produce such nonsense directed at Americans who simply exercise their First Amendment rights?
What is this the Soviet Union II?

Here’s a little tidbit for any of the so called “Analysts” that might stumble on this site and think to put me on some misguided watch list: Read the ROE pages.

Once you do that, read the Constitution. Get the point?

And oh, by the way, in the spirit of the 1st Amendment you will now see the flags above prominently displayed in my sidebar. Right above my banner for the Constitutional party…Just out of spite.

Morons.

March 15th, 2009 by TNM

In the last week we’ve seen several especially divisive issues and statement’s crop up from this administration.

First off are reports that the administration is considering having veterans pay for their health-care. This includes wounded vets form Iraq and Afghanistan. The blog-o-sphere lit up like a Christmas tree on that one, and understandably so.

The Veterans affair committee has said it will be DOA if it should ever come on their watch, which is as it should be, this is utterly preposterous and not even worthy of being tossed out there as a proposal, yet the Obama administration did just that.

Are they stupid? Or just that clueless as to what the American people will tolerate? Either way this administration and it’s merry band of robbers is out of touch with America in the extreme if they think for one fractional second we’d let this happen to our vets.

It’s bad enough the VA is the mess that it is, now they want to make vets PAY for this substandard treatment?

Next is a report here that raises the specter of taxing health benefits as income.

This is your tax cuts at work….give with one hand and with the other…hit them when they ain’t looking.

Remember this, especially if you supported Obama, it may not ever make it past the “throw the idea out and see the reaction to it” phase, but it is telling that while the President was vying for the election he touted endlessly that 95% of Americans would get a tax cut and 52% of you gullible fools out there swallowed it hook.line & sinker.

What he didn’t tell you was the increases in taxes he was going to levy through hidden agendas such as these. Buyers remorse starting to be an issue ? Tough…you bought it you own it.
Speaking of fools, how’s that 13.00 dollars a week working out for you by the way? Living large now ain’t ya? Suckers!

What’s next? We should just send our entire pay check to 1600 Pennsylvania ave? No thanks, count me out. No, Really, I mean that.

And finally, this gem From one of Obama’s advisers ….”The economy is sound” (paraphrased)

It is? How’s so?

Let me get this right, with less than 100 days gone by Obama, you and your mouthpieces told us all the economy was a disaster, they needed to pass this gargantuan stimulus package which as I’ve pointed out previously really doesn’t target much more than liberal democrat feel good pet projects so it’s not going to work. Yet the market is still off some 30-40 % since November, and suddenly….*POOF* Now the Economy is sound.
Really?
Unemployment is pushing double digits, and went up again in Feb. American families lost some almost 20% of their net worth in the past months, just to mention a few ….but now …the Economy is sound.

Yeah right. The only thing I hate worse than a politician is a lying politician. Guess I hate all politicians then because they are all a bunch of lying weasels. Obama and his advisers as I watch more and more of them seems to be particularly well suited to that moniker ….weasels, the whole lying lot of them.

Hope and Change? Well this is certainly change alright, change in the guise of utterly destroying the fabric of this country, of demoralizing millions of people who work, who sacrifice, and who produce so that this Obama administration of clowns (no offense to the resident clown BoBo) can experiment with it’s socialistic agendas…

March 14th, 2009 by BoBo

H/T to TexasFred for this one:

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don’t propose a federal budget. The president does.

You and I don’t have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.

You and I don’t write the tax code, Congress does.

You and I don’t set fiscal policy, Congress does.

You and I don’t control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank..

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don’t care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash.

The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator’s responsibility to determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.

What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.

The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi. She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted — by present facts — of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can’t think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.

If the tax code is unfair, it’s because they want it unfair.

If the budget is in the red, it’s because they want it in the red .

If the Army & Marines are in IRAQ , it’s because they want them in IRAQ

If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it’s because they want it that way.

There are no insoluble government problems.

Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like “the economy,” “inflation,” or “politics” that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.

They, and they alone, have the power.

They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.

Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.

We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!

March 8th, 2009 by TNM

I browse various news site and forums and at times I’m absolutely aghast at some of the things I read from those hard core Obama Supporters.
You know the ones I’m talking about, they stalk blogs, or other forums and do nothing but chant about how great Obama is, and this whole economic mess is all Bushes fault…ad nausea

Are there people out there so blind with ideology that they can’t even tell the simple truth of a situation as it relates to the economy any more? Obviously there must be..

Here’s one such quote, I’m not naming the site it was on, save to say it’s a widely and well known one. Complete with typos…We’ll call him J. Doe

The Obama administration is explaining the problem, presenting solutions, and discussing the implementation plan. I hear a lot of pleading from repubs, limbaugh, mccanin, cantor, mcconell, jindal… wishing for all to fail. repubs, you are the ones pleading for all to fail so that you can take us back to the Stupidity of the reagan, bush 1, and bush 2 days. End of that Stupid Error. repubs, you will never have another president with your ridiculous back woods, return to the “ole” days philosophies. Stop the Sutpidity.

BDS much? The man is in Texas, his father left public service some almost 20 years ago, and Reagan almost a quarter of a century….GROW up !!

What’s the matter John? Your “Hope and Change” ain’t working out too well all of a sudden, so obviously you have to find something, ANYTHING, to attack other than the flawed thinking and rhetoric of this Democratic party led white house and legislative branch?

As if that’s not bad enough …the same person then blathers this gem of wisdom:

repubs, Stop the Stupidity. It will take more than 7 weeks to correct the BS that was allowed to happen over the past 8 years… 8 years of no significant job growth. that is right under bush the only jobs started were financial industry and real estate work that were based on cooked books and that now have evaporated. there was no investment in OUR country and there was wasted spending on a war and billions given back to the rich. Stop the Stupidity.

Stop the Stupidity? Pot Kettle Much there J. Doe?…..Are there Americans out there this incredibly blind and unwilling to look at things objectively, or do people do this just to flame resentment and anger?

I didn’t agree with all of Bushes policies, he was dead ass wrong about immigration and no child left behind, as well as not being able to check an out of control GOP led legislative branch but there is no doubt in my mind we were doing rather well for a majority of his two terms in office, despite 9-11 and an economy that was sputtering after the dot com crash.

A little fact check here for this John Doe, the brain dead Obama zombie….the DOW rose almost every year, peaking above 14,000 pts, where is it now? 6500…inflation was low, and unemployment was at near non-existent levels… Where is it now? 8.1 Percent and still rising.

No job growth? Where was this person? Smoking crack? If you couldn’t find a job during G.W. Bush’s time in the white house, you were a corpse. Spare me YOUR BS John it doesn’t fly no matter how many time you shout it..it is still BS.

They were paying people in some areas of the country working in McDonald’s 8 plus bucks an hour just to keep people on staff…but there were no jobs under Bush were there John, nope.

I don’t care much for Obama, it’s obvious I don’t, as I see him as part of the problem in D.C. just like Bush and his GOP was with their pork and spending, but when I see stupidity marching on display like those comments above, people willfully lying, it makes me want to throttle someone. Telling John to “Get a clue” doesn’t even come close, not really, because John’s just another whiny little punk, and John needs to grow the hell up.

Way I see it, John and every Obama fanclub zombie out there ….right now you got squat to say about it…the facts are what they are, revising recent history to try to paint your choice of president in some positive light is both disgusting and dishonest, and down right ignorant. Honeymoon’s over pal, your candidate best get his wheels on dry pavement and quick… because thus far he ain’t doing much but running this country right into a ditch, and the natives grow ever more tired of this administrations cock and bull regime.

The fact of the matter is that since he won the election he hasn’t done one-single-thing right to turn this country around. Will he in time? That remains to be seen, but so far this is one very hard left administration and all to willing Senate… and so far its all been one very big F-A-I-L.

Real Americans know the truth..do you John Doe? Mr. Obama Zombie extraordinaire….??