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Friday February 13, 2009

Hey Libs, happy with this?

Filed under: Nothing — don @ 11:50 pm

An 1,100 page bill was brought out last night and today it was passed in Congress. You do realize nobody who voted for this bill read it, right? Does that bother you in the least? You also know that no Republican Representative voted for this bill, right? They didn’t vote for it because they don’t know what’s in it. They do know there is a ton of earmarks and pork in spite of our glorious President telling us otherwise. But they don’t know what is in it that’s going to save the country. And it had to be passed in less than 24 hours in spite of being told by our glorious President that they and we would have 48 hours to read it before they voted.

I hope you’re happy with what you voted in. We are stuck with it for a while. At least admit our new President lied to us. You can’t argue that.

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Friday February 6, 2009

Crazy Democrats!

Filed under: Politics — don @ 9:03 pm

Let me see if I’ve got this correct. The spendulus bill is going to be roughly 1 Trillion dollars or more after you ad in the interest. Obama says it’s going to create 3 to 4 million jobs. Most economists think that’s a bit optimistic and that it will probably only create 1 to 2 million.

Let’s give Obama the benefit of the doubt and say it’s 4 million. If I do just a little math here’s what I come up with.

1,000,000,000,000 divided by 4,000,000 equals 250,000. That means each new job created has cost the country $250,000. If the 1 million new jobs number is correct then it will cost $1,000,000 or 1 million dollars per job.

I don’t know about you but I’ve never made anywhere close to $250,000 in a year.

Yeah ok, so the jobs are supposed to last but doesn’t that seem like an awful lot of money to spend when we don’t even know if it’s going to work?

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Wednesday February 4, 2009

Nancy, Nancy, Nancy

Filed under: Politics — don @ 8:03 pm

Direct quote from Nancy Pelosi, the illustrious Speaker of the House

“Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs”

When did we get the extra 200 million Americans and when did all the babies start working?

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Sunday February 1, 2009

Is it something in the water?

Filed under: Politics — don @ 3:10 pm

Another Democrat Obama appointee who didn’t pay his taxes? Now Tom Daschle, Obama’s pick for health and human services secretary didn’t pay his taxes like the rest of us. He owed $140,000 in back taxes. That’s more than most of us make in a year and he owed it in taxes.

Tim Geitner, Obama’s pick for Treasury Secretary was confirmed despite his problems paying taxes.

Of course you have to go to Fox News to see much about these stories. Mainstream Media doesn’t like to talk about the Emperor and his clothes.

Imagine the uproar if it was a Republican and his choices.

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Saturday January 31, 2009

How’s that Mr. Pres?

Filed under: Politics — don @ 3:32 pm

Obama said this a few days ago about businesses.

“There will be time for them to make profits, and there will be time for them to get bonuses — now is not that time.”

Excuse me? So Obama doesn’t think now is the time for business to make a profit? Why would you run a business if not to make a profit? Does anyone else think Intel shouldn’t try to make a profit? Does anyone else think Microsoft shouldn’t try to make a profit? How about Boeing? How about the company you work for?

This should give those of you who love Socialism a tingly feeling in your leg. Obama is moving us towards being France.

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Thursday January 29, 2009

Blagojevich 0 – People of IL 59

Filed under: Politics — don @ 4:19 pm

The wacky Gov of IL, also known as a buddy of our President, today was voted out of office by the senate in IL. This is about the 4th or 5th IL official that has ended up in disgrace recently. It’s not all Dems either, one of them was a Republican.

What this shows is people who try to take advantage of the power bestowed upon them by the electorate will usually end up regretting it. That said, I’m not sure Blago understands just what he did.

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Tuesday January 20, 2009

Enjoy the honeymoon

Filed under: Politics — don @ 6:39 pm

It may not last as long as you hope.

I hope Obama is successful in his presidency. I find most Conservatives feel similar to me. We hope he does well but we also understand the left’s euphoria is likely to end at sometime not too distant. Obama is not Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, and MLK all in one person like the left seems to think. I saw so many people grinning today as if all their troubles are behind them now that Obamessiah is in the house.

Guess what. He’s not going to be able to do any more than any other President. The troubles he faces are not going to go away just because Obamessiah is in office. He’s also going to have to realize he can’t just “Change” everything put in place in one fell swoop like Moveon.org would like. He will have to do things slowly or he’ll find himself in big trouble.

I wish him well and won’t do what the left did to Bush unless he ends up deserving it. I don’t expect that, but I also don’t expect the miracles like the left does.

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Sunday January 18, 2009

Out on a Limb

Filed under: Cool Stuff,Life — don @ 1:05 pm

Ok, I’m gonna make a bold prediction about who’s going to win American Idol this year. I predict it will be Casey Carlson. This girl is not only drop dead gorgeous but she can sing too. I’ve got a link to her Fanclub Website over in the sidebar.