For the last eight years we have been treated to a constant barrage of Bush-bashing. I'm glad that that is finally over, and I don't wish to respond to the Opposition in the same way....BUT, when a member of the Opposition is so blatantly stupid in public, I do feel it's incumbent on those of us who have not drunk the DemoCrapic Kool-Aid to point that stupidity out.

The latest data (July 200 indicates the entire population of the United States is just approaching 304 million. Those in the workforce represent less than half that number.... I know I was edumacated indoctrinated in a Publik Skool, but even I can see that Ms. Pelosi's statement has a little mathematical problem attached to it....500,000 workers a month Ms Pelosi?!? out of a workforce of approximately 140,000,000? If true, that means we would have an unemployment rate of over 20 percent in just four months...the worst year of the Great Depression we had an unemployment rate of just under 20%....I know we're have some economic troubles, but..

I just don't believe that we are headed that far that fast, and if we are, I have a question. Read below the fold if you are curious what the question is (rant alert), if not, just consider Ms. Pelosi's public statements and consider if you feel comfortable with her being third in the line of succession for the Presidency...

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I JUST LEARNED THAT OBAMA IS GOING TO IMPOSE A 40% TAX ON ASPIRIN!
THE REASON GIVEN WAS BECAUSE IT'S WHITE AND IT WORKS!

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Yeah, I know, it's a racist joke, but folks, humor works because at the base of the supposition there is some kernel of truth. Mr. Obama's proposals to date to try to repair our present economic slump have all been based on class envy and populist pandering to the economically disadvantaged (Hey Barry, you WON the election, there is no need to keep campaigning!).

These so called "bailouts" and "economic stimulus" packages are nothing more than pork payback to keep the sponsors fat and happy, at the expense of our country and our grandchildren's' economic health. In summation, "politics as usual". These are difficult times and such shortsightedness will result in ever increasing hardship and a severe lowering of the standard of living for every citizen now existing and even worse conditions for those as yet unborn.

It is our fault. We have installed a socialist in the highest office of the land and shouldn't be surprised that he wants to try the same old dis-proven socialist economic programs that have proven to be disastrous time after time in the past (see Russia, China, Cuba, etc,etc,etc).

There IS a way out of the morass we find ourselves in. It requires that we think outside of the box that has shaped our thinking about government financing since another socialistic President used WWI as a way to institute personal income taxes. We need to return to our roots. The FAIR TAX is the best solution, IMHO.

People forget that for the first half of our countries existence, the people at large DID NOT PAY TAXES ON THEIR INCOME. The federal budget at that time was equal to or smaller than some state budgets today....
It's unrealistic to dream that we will ever return to that small of a Federal budget, but we CAN and SHOULD reduce the present budget to a point where we no longer have trillion dollar deficits and require monetary dependence on foreign countries to service that debt. That's an open "dirty little secret" folks. Currently, China has control of most of our government debt...the pandering politicians in Congress have mortgaged our economic freedom to, arguably, our worst enemy...and the average person on the street doesn't realize that fact, or know the implications of that fact, due to the lowering of educational standards over the last thirty years.

Mr. Obama is the first culmination of a long-sighted Socialist agenda that has been festering in the American background since the 1930s. The Socialists have been patient and cautious to never reveal their true agenda over that period of time, and they have been highly successful; so successful that anyone that tries to raise an alarm is viewed by the masses as a conspiracy nut-job.

The Socialists are aware that their true agenda is unpalatable to the average free thinking American, so they use the principle of incremental application. First they gradually inculcate themselves into the academic structure. By becoming the teachers of the next generation, they install their values onto the next generation of leaders and their followers. They lower the standards in the interests of "fairness" so as to not damage the fragile egos of those that are unable or unwilling to exert the effort it takes to become truly educated; indeed, they pander to those egos, coddling them, raising them unwarrantedly, and maintaining them in a fragile state, as that type of ego is much easier to exert control over.
They tell little Johnny that "it's all right he didn't get the correct answer to that arithmetic problem, the important thing is he TRIED to solve it". They tell little Suzie that she shouldn't "settle" for being a good mother/homemaker/wife; she deserves to be able to "do it all" without questioning what sacrifices she must make in some other area of her life.
I'm NOT saying that she can't be anything she wants to be {except a father, and science is probably working on that too..},but she has to realize that there are choices that have to be made in that decision, and that being a mother and homemaker is THE ultimate career there can be. The decline of society started when society at large lost sight of that fact.

When women starting abdicating motherhood to the State, the Socialists made their greatest gain in the furtherance of their agenda.

Just what is the Socialist agenda anyway? It's difficult to fight against an enemy whose goals are unknown to you. Stripped of all it's politics and covers, Socialism is merely the exertion of control. Control by the socialist over everyone else around him. Every Socialist believes in his very heart that HE will be that ultimate controller. That is the reason that Michael Savage is correct when he states that "Liberalism(Socialism) is a mental illness"; every adherent believes that he is the ultimate arbitrator over others in his own mind, regardless of the openly observable fact that he is not (Savage is a nut-job, but, as they say, even a broken clock is correct at least twice a day).

I know I put a lot of different ideas in a not-so-coherent package in the diatribe above. Sometimes trying to express myself is frustrating; like the manic phase of a manic/depressive it can get confusing because there is so much to say and no control to put it into a coherent form....I need to get an editor... but I hope I did sow some small seeds in some one's mind.

Time to get off the soapbox, I need to clean a few items and load some magazines, I always find that calms a racing mind.

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Excellent analogy!

From a teacher in the Nashville area:

Who worries about "the cow" when it is all about the "Ice Cream?

The most eye-opening civics lesson I ever had was while teaching third grade this year.

The presidential election was heating up and some of the children showed an interest.

I decided we would have an election for a class president.

We would choose our nominees. They would make a campaign speech and the class would vote.

To simplify the process, candidates were nominated by other class members.

We discussed what kinds of characteristics these students should have.

We got many nominations and from those, Jamie and Olivia were picked to run for the top spot.

The class had done a great job in their selections.

Both candidates were good kids. I thought Jamie might have an advantage because he got lots of parental support. I had never seen Olivia's mother.

The day arrived when they were to make their speeches Jamie went first.

He had specific ideas about how to make our class a better place. He ended by promising to do his very best.

Everyone applauded. He sat down and Olivia came to the podium. Her speech was concise.

She said, "If you will vote for me, I will give you ice cream." She sat down.

The class went wild. "Yes! Yes! We want ice cream." She surely could say more. She did not have to.

A discussion followed. How did she plan to pay for the ice cream? She wasn't sure.

Would her parents buy it or would the class pay for it? She didn't know.

The class really didn't care. All they were thinking about was ice cream.

Jamie was forgotten.

Olivia won by a landslide.

Every time Barack Obama opened his mouth he offered ice cream and fifty-two percent of the people reacted like nine year olds. They want ice cream.

The other forty-eight percent of us know we're going to have to feed the cow and clean up the mess.

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Ben and Jerry's is coming out with an unbelievable new ice
cream in honor of the new president.

It is being churned in Washington DC and appropriately being
named:

'Baracky Road' ---- half chocolate and half vanilla,
surrounded by fruits and nuts.

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Veteran Pillsbury spokesman Pop N. Fresh died yesterday of a severe yeast infection. He was 71.

Known to friends as Brown-n-Serve, Fresh was an avid gardener and tennis player. Fresh was buried in one of the largest funeral ceremonies in recent years. Dozens of celebrities turned out including Mrs. Butterworth, the California Raisins, Hungry Jack, Aunt Jemima, Betty Crocker, the Hostess Twinkies, and Skippy. The graveside was piled high with flours as longtime friend Aunt Jemima delivered the eulogy, describing Fresh as a man who "never knew how much he was kneaded."

Fresh rose quickly in show business, but his later life was filled with many turnovers. He was not considered a very smart cookie, wasting much of his dough on half-baked schemes -- conned by those who buttered him up.

Still, even as a crusty old man, he was a roll model for millions. Fresh is survived by his second wife. They have two children and another bun in the oven. The funeral was held at 350 for about 20 minutes.

H/T to Just Jokes...

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I am NOT a big sports fan. I don't watch any sport, other than an occasional Colts game.(assuming all the cooking shows playing on the Food Channel are repeats). I will watch motorcycle Gran Prix racing, but it's rare they show a race on my cable system.

So here it is, Superbowl Sunday. The Significant Other is settling into her yearly ritual of gathering the comestibles and beverages around her prior to watching the contest of well-padded, overpaid, overpampered behemoths slug it out over possession of a defenceless ovoid of inflated pig skin.

I don't even know what teams are competing this year (did I mention that I'm not a sports fan?) I do know that it's being played in Tampa this year, so at least there won't be any chance of snow interfering with the plays (assuming Al Bore doesn't attend the game; snow seems to follow him everywhere he goes..talk about a 'cool' character!)

This year TLOML will be able to enjoy the game on our new 42" flatscreen TV; just maybe she'll finally ackowledge that bigger IS better in TV 's.
I don't mind that she takes control of the remote this one day of the year, even though it goes against all my male instincts...and watching the small screen in the bedroom makes me appreciate the flat screen all the more.

I think I'll retire to the bedroom and watch a DVD...or shovel the snow from the walkway before the postman slips on my walk and sues me.

Hold on, I just learned Teh One is rooting for the Steelers; GO Cardinals!

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Bifurcation?

Captainsql has a tongue in cheek proposal to smooth over the current polarization between the Left and those of us who are correct.

I must say that his last request is highly agreeable to me...., hell, I would wish it to occur regardless of all the rest of the proposal. I'm sure Mssr. Car-ter would be much more comfortable among his own kind, and it seems that Hamas or France both need some new blood in the upper echelons of power...

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