I always hated when teachers graded on a curve.    There was always someone who would mess it up.    Always more trouble then it was worth. 

However when you are president of the U.S.  there aren't any other students in the room.    Of course as someone learning on the job like our current president,  there are going to be some mistakes.  

There has been a truckload of them!

Of course some are the result of Obama's  use of the same old tired liberal policies that have failed to work for almost a hundred years now.   They aren't ever going to work because they cannot work.   A little reality check would be in order.

Is there a grade lower then an F?   


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There is so much to write about this train wreck that is our Democrat majority controlled government. 

The chosen one has time for this global warming conference nonsense and his noble prize acceptance speech,  but not for the 20th anniversary of the end of communism in Eastern Europe.   Huh,,,,,,,,
 
All he needed to do was take a pass on both the global warming nonsense (Oh,  by the way its 6 degrees here as I write this) and return to sender the noble ha, ha "peace" prize.    He must have a lot of free time to waste time on stinkers like this. 

Then we find that the books were being cooked on global warming.   Big surprise,,,,,,NOT!    Guess what,  we "deniers" are right.   Its total nonsense.   Global warming is as fake as the body parts of a supermodel.  

Meanwhile Congress is working hard at ruining the other 50 percent of medicine not controlled by the federal government.   Since the feds already spend half of the healthcare dollars in the U.S. and it has worked out so well so far,,,,,,,,,,,,,

If anything government should be removed from healthcare due to massive failure,  not allowed to take the other working half of it.

Meanwhile the Recession goes on with no end in sight!


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The saying is "if one doesn't know their history they are bound to repeat it".     Harry Reid doesn't seem to know basic history.   

Not only is he dead wrong,  its really, really  offensive.   

I rarely call anything offensive when mouthed by a uninformed politician, but he should know this little  bit of American history. 

Reid Compares Opponents of Health Care Reform to Supporters of Slavery.

He believes that Republicans would be on the wrong side of history by opposing the Democrats junker of a bill to "reform" healthcare.     He is wrong on that point to begin with,  but the example he uses is wrong in every way. 

For it is the DEMOCRATS that are on the wrong side of history when it comes to slavery in the U.S. 

For it is DEMOCRATS that opposed ending slavery. 

For it is DEMOCRATS that opposed civil rights for more then a CENTURY after the civil war ended.  

For it is the DEMOCRATS the invented  JIM CROW LAWS.  

For it is DEMOCRAT elected officials (like Bull Conner) in the south that opposed ending the Jim Crow laws in the 1960's.

Up to the 1960's NO Democrat was for any civil rights for any one who wasn't white. 

So who is on the right side of history?

Not the Democrats.   Not then and not now!



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The Obama administration is just full of wrongheaded decisions.    After wasting 13 billion,  the federal government is pulling the plug on the nuclear waste site in Nevada.    The government has been charging ratepayers since 1982 to take the waste from nuclear power plants,  none of which has it even taken.   

So now the nuclear industry has nowhere to go with this waste.   They stopped planning because the  government had taken  the job.  That  was a bad idea to start with,  but  now the government isn't going to give back the money it took or take the waste. 

Of course this is part of the plan that liberals have on nuclear energy.    They have hated nuclear energy for decades.  Today's biggest reason is  probably because its the only "clean and green" energy that could actually replace coal and oil.   Unlike other green energy sources favored by liberals like wind and solar that have no chance of ever becoming more then niche sources.  

By making it impossible to rid the waste they hope that will finally put the last nail in nuclear power in the U.S. 

Exporting it will be impossible due to security reasons.    And finding another site will also be impossible. 

Democrats new slogan should be :  Making problems last forever, so we can get reelected!



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I never thought that anyone would compare Obama to,,,,,,,,Nixon!   

Here we are though.    Many liberals to this day think that Nixon had a enemies list.    I doubt Nixon ever had or kept such a list,  but he was not unwilling to share his distaste of his critics.    Which many of them seemed to really hate.     Of course they were accusing him of all sorts of things he had nothing to do with,  which is more annoying in my book.     I couldn't have blamed Nixon if had a enemies list,   he had to put up with as much  nonsense as  President Bush  did.

Liberals went nuts when they believed that many thought they were not patriotic in the Bush years.   I don't know where they got that insane idea from but they did, I don't know of anyone from the Bush White House saying they weren't .    Now that Obama is in office and conservatives are the protesters,,,,   now protesting is unpatriotic.    Huh!!    I thought protesting was a sacred duty of Americans. 

Oh, wait!    For liberal protesters that is.   My mistake.   

Don't you love double standards!    But lets forget about that grassroots protesters for a second.    More recently the Obama White House has attacked Fox for being Republican.   I also don't remember the Bush White House attacking CBS, NBC, ABC, NPR, PBS,  CNN and the rest  for being Democrat. 

Now its the Chamber of Commerce.    This organization hasn't yet been hijacked by liberal activists (unlike so many other organizations that no longer do what its members want or need, like the AMA)  so it is actually  is doing what its members actually would want.     Since most of Obama's policies are very anti-business,  so they  have to oppose them.   Should be easy to understand.   Anyone running a small business has to oppose Obama's policies or they won't have a business for long if this junk becomes law. 

So they go on the enemies list for actually doing their job.    Liberals have gotten used to having major organizations throwing their own members under the bus to support liberal causes so it must be a shock when this groups tells him his plan sucks. 

Chamber Benefiting From White House Criticism, Group's President Says.   

Hopefully that will keep them from bailing on their own members because of some bad press from the "fair and balanced mainstream media".     The chamber must continue  to oppose anti-business policies of the federal government.    Just because the media is anti-business doesn't mean that most Americans are too.     Most of us are employed by small business.    Millions will lose their jobs if these job killing policies come to be.  



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Watch out!  Here come the RINO's again!    Senator Snowe of Maine,  will be the only Republican to vote for the train wreck otherwise known as "healthcare reform".   Health Care Reform Bill Clears Final Senate Panel, Tough Negotiations Loom.   

Last time I looked,  there was a R behind your name Senator.   That means you vote NO!  

Time to send yet another RINO packing.  Hey voters in Maine, paying attention!   Don't make us pay because you are sending this joker to Washington.     This is a problem the Democrats never have.  

We sure need a real conservative party.  



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I had the news on,  since I wasn't sleeping.   And this story came on!  Obama wins Noble Peace Prize

WHAT THE __blankly blank_???????


They have really gone off the deep end now!

I know they gave to Jimmy Carter,,,,,,,,, but he had to wait 25 years for it!!!


God help us from all those that worship Barry as the savior.   


He is just another sleazy, corrupt, machine Chicago Democrat.     That's all he is.

Are they giving Daley,  Jackson,  and the rest the Noble too?

 

Is it 2012 yet?!

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I knew for a while that Chicago would likely lose the 2016 Olympics bid to Rio.   Today they finally did.    The Olympics games have never been in South America.     I think that was the biggest thing Rio had over Chicago,  since the Olympics have been in the U.S. many times already.   The pickers of the location are of the same type as Obama (liberal and elite) and his ilk, so a choice like Rio is a pretty sure thing and so politically correct.    Though the "star" power of Obama and his wife over those folks did make it more likely Chicago had a chance of changing that.  But it wasn't enough.    The first round cut was a surprise though.  

When they started talking about Chicago biding for the Olympics,  I thought,  that could be cool.   But as time went on,  I cooled to the idea of it.   At the end I opposed it more then anything.

It was a top down type of planning.    Never good.    Recent polls showed that at the end more Chicagoans opposed having the Olympics here then those that did.    The boosters were accused of being heavy handed in how the bid went and how the city would hold the games if it was won.   

Like how Chicago taxpayers would be on the hook for cost overruns and losses.    You know that would happen.   Every city loses money on the games.   Montreal held the games in 1976 and only paid off its losses in 2006!    Thirty years is a long time to be paying for something that does even last two weeks!     When Mayor Daley agreed to "cover" the costs I knew the opposition had powerful charge to not hold the games in Chicago.    The U.S. federal government does not cover cost overruns for Olympic games,  unlike most if not all other governments of the world.   That should never change but it does hurt bids from the U.S.  (the feds also don't pay for athletes,  private money is used for our teams).  This is the biggest reason Chicago lost.     They lost the support of the majority of resident of the Chicago area. 

The handing of the former Michael Reese Hospital site was a complete disaster too.   The city wanted the site for the Olympic village so no effort was made to save the hospital.     Now that will stand vacant for many years.     Maybe now some of the buildings that would have been bulldozed for no good reason will now be saved for reuse someday.    It could be a good place for a college or university campus or even a hospital again. 

The south side Washington Park "temporary" stadium was a stupid idea from the the beginning.  It showed how bad the Solder Field renovation was to anything other then football.  No one noticed that few residents near the park wanted the Games in their park.   Even though the city would finally put some money into that long neglected  park.    At least some work got done there to show to visitors,  but I doubt we will be hearing much about any other improvements there soon.

We can go on about the corruption that would have resulted from the money flying around.   Or the spotlight on some of the most corrupt politicians the U.S. has to offer.  Or the huge costs increases  that would hurt only the lower and middle classes.   It would have been really bad.   Even worse considering the  serious recession we are in,  with no light at the end of that tunnel.  

Of course its not just Chicago when it comes to some of the bad things about the Olympics.  Even Salt Lake City couldn't keep the corruption down and out of the news!   The idea of the Olympics is even noble and is something we should be doing.    However the games are in need of some reform.    I don't see it happening anytime soon. 

Such as:

Site selection:    When nations like Communist China,   the Soviet Union and  Nazis Germany are picked to be sites for the Olympics we have a problem.    I get the "we aren't here to judge governments"  thing,  but it is still wrong headed to pick places like that.    Host sites should be limited to free nations.  

Second part of site selection:  Poor nations will never host the games.   Never!   Of course some will argue with me that Rio isn't a wealthy place,  but it is far from being the poorest place as well.    Why don't poor nations host?   They cannot afford the huge costs that come with it.   Building a stadium no one will use after the game is something that shouldn't be done even if you can "afford" it.   Most of the venues built for the Athens games in 2004 are unused and rotting away today.    They will be paying for them for a long time.     The costs should be lowered so more places can host.    The Olympics have never been to South America until Rio,  and Africa has never hosted and has little chance of hosting anytime soon.

Economic benefits:   Every city seems to over reach when it comes to glorifying the economic benefits that should come with hosting.   Every booster hammers away on this every time.     Only problem,  it isn't true.      There are some benefits like good publicity and the short term gains that come.    But economic growth isn't one of them.   I am so tired of hearing this every time.    Why can't they let that one go!    The games have to be seen on their own merits,  not some pie in the sky thing that NEVER happens!   Its the day after and on that worries me,  and they don't plan for that.     What happens is that prices increase until the games and crash after it's all over.

Government funding of games and teams:   The U.S. stands alone by not funding teams with tax dollars.   All other nations pay for their teams with tax payers money.   Its become standard for the host nation to cover the losses that occur.    That is something the U.S. government hasn't done and I hope never does.     Reform cannot happen without the removal of money from taxpayers.     Taxpayers should not be funding the games,  I can't think of a good reason why anyone would want that.    Wouldn't you think more teams could come if private money would replace public around the world?  

Would I have liked having the games in Chicago?   Yeah,  I would have liked it.   It would have been fun.    Maybe some day Chicago can host the games.   Hopefully in the future when Chicago could be in a better position to be host.    It isn't today.     Today's leadership cannot even do what it is charged with doing.   Having the games coming would have made that far worse for the resident of Chicago and all of us that live around it.      We need new leaders before Chicago can have the Olympic games.   At least  Chicago taxpayers are off the hook for this one!


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John Stossel is moving up in the media world.   Leaving the failing ABC News Department for FOX Business News.    Read about it here.   He is a breath of fresh air which is far too rare in the "mainstream" media.   Though not a conservative,   he is a rare reporter who isn't afraid to tell folks when something is full of bull even when it is someones sacred cow. 


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Without fail,  the U.N.  shows how useless it is.   Health Emergency? Dial 911, Not U.N. Medical Services.   In spite of a 38 million dollar budget,  one still must call 911 if you need help at the UN head office in NYC.    The doctor in charge has no license in New York state.    So where is that 38 million going.   No one seems to know.  






Another bad idea,  also from the U.N.   Report: U.N. Panel Calls for End to Dollar's Reserve Role.    They call for MORE governmental intervention in the economies of the world.    If this near depression shows us,  we need far LESS government interference in the economy.    Of course sending fewer or none of OUR dollars to the U.N. is never  discussed.     They don't even know what to do with the money we don't want to send them,  they have the balls to give advice!

 

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One of the things that have been really bugging about the Obama White House is all the czars.    I hate to have to say it yet again,  but had Bush done the same thing (he did have a few)  with  the large amount of czars,  the Democrats would have been beside themselves with outrage.    The reality is that Bush really needed the czars far more then Obama,  since getting conservatives past the Senate is like pulling teeth,  hard and painful. 

However since its Barry,  its OK!    Never mind that B.O. would have no trouble with getting his picks for the cabinet though Congress he resorts to czars with no oversight from Congress.    Doesn't he trust his own Democrat majority in Congress?   I guess not,  maybe he knows it likely he has only two years of a Democrat one?    Most of these "jobs" should (and would be, by any other president) be done by cabinet level officials.  Not that very many of these "jobs" really need to be done (green jobs czar, diversity czar,  give me a break!)

Maybe it shows how little management experience he has,  or how much he is dumping "work"  on others.    This White House is showing cracks,  its great at campaigning  but pretty lousy at running itself in office.   I guess that why things like health care are being run like campaigns.  

Well,  he pulled the plug on one of the czars late Friday when nobody would notice or care.   Van Jones the "green" czar was forced out.    He had so pretty radical ideas,  something the Obama White House has a large supply of. 

The sad thing is,  he isn't the worst the Obama czars has to offer.   There is another that is far worse in my book.   He hasn't got much attention  either,  even from the conservative side.    I don't know why more aren't going after him,  there was a piece on Fox but it seems to have died.  

His name is John Holdren,  the "science" czar.   This guy is a pure wacko.   I don't even know where to start with this guy.

Here is the whole story from Zombietime,  its a long piece.   Zombie is a blogger who is one of the best investigative reporters out there today.    It shows that its pure nonsense that only the "mainstream" media can do great investigative reporting,  not that they do it anymore.   There is also a great piece from before the election where he came very close to linking Obama to the Weather Underground.    Had others been doing this,  the link probably would have been found and there wouldn't be a Prez Obama!   My guess that's what the L.A. Times is still hiding from the public.   No proof on that theory. 

This is the place that Fox News found the story (on Holdren) that hasn't gone anywhere.     But back to Zombie,  here's the main website.   He started with a mostly photography based site,   with shots from anti-bush rallies etc.    He has done more writing,  the very detailed reporting you don't see much anymore.    Check it out.  


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Since Obama's brand of healthcare "reform"  isn't too popular with anyone voting age,  they are going after the kiddies.     So in all the chaos of the first day of school, many students will have to watch a speech from the chosen one.      How creepy is that?   As a person interested in history it gives me the creeps.   

Image the outrage that would have resulted had President Bush decided to do so!

But since its Obama,  many schools will require the kids to watch.    Many parents have decided to keep their children home that day.

Using people's kids against their own parents  is a common tactic by totalitarian countries.    Having to defend your beliefs vs. the ones pushed by liberals in OUR public schools shouldn't be.   

Parents rights will be severely eroded during the Obama years,  with a judge ordering a home-schooled child into public school a few days ago.   Government has no right to co-op parents will.   There is no partnership between government and parents when it comes to children,  Obama has no right to push his agenda during the school day.  There is so much to be done the  first day of school,  having to watch Obama,  was an inconsiderate thing for him to have done as well.

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A study shows that the federal workforce will likely increase by a third under Obama.   Its probably true.    Many baby-boomers are reaching retirement leaving even more "openings".

Unfortunately increasing federal employment is a mistake.   Not just because the economy is so bad now,  it's never a good thing for the country to have high levels of government employees. 

They have to be paid.   Taxpayers are the ones doing the paying.   Many still think that  government work still has lower pay then the private sector, but that's no longer true.   Many government jobs now pay better or have better benefits, plus its nearly impossible to get fired. 

If anything,  federal employment should decrease by a third. 

It should be more then, that but a third is a start.   Retiring people shouldn't be replaced and expansions need to be stopped.    However Washington D.C. has other ideas with plans with hiring of nearly 270,000.    Our government is more deaf then ever. 



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Here's a link to a funny presidential "Report Card".  Extra funny when you consider all the "learning on the job"  jokes about our very inexperienced  president.





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If you read my last post,  I wrote about term limits.   Here is a list of long serving U.S. Senators.

Lets start with those in office more the twenty years.

1.    Robert Byrd (D-WV:                    January 3, 1959
2     Daniel Inouye (D-HI)                   January 3, 1963    
3     Patrick Leahy (D-VT)                  January 3, 1975    
4     Richard Lugar (R-IN)                   January 3, 1977      
5     Orrin Hatch (R-UT)                      January 3,  1977
6     Max Baucus (D-MT)                    December 15, 1978        
7     Thad Cochran (R-MS)                  December 27, 1978    
8     Carl Levin (D-MI)                         January 3, 1979    
9     Christopher Dodd (D-CT)             January 3, 1981    
10     Chuck Grassley (R-IA)                January 3, 1981
11     Arlen Specter (D-PA)                  January 3, 1981       
12     Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)               January 3, 1983    
13     John Kerry (D-MA)                    January 2, 1985    
14     Tom Harkin (D-IA)                 January 3, 1985        
15     Mitch McConnell (R-KY)            January 3, 1985
16     Jay Rockefeller (D-WV)               January 15, 1985    
17     Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)               January 3, 1987    
18     Richard Shelby (R-AL)               January 3, 1987
19     John McCain (R-AZ)                  January 3, 1987
20     Harry Reid (D-NV)                        January 3, 1987
21     Kit Bond (R-MO)                        January 3, 1987
22     Kent Conrad (D-ND)                 January 3, 1987
23     Herb Kohl (D-WI)                        January 3, 1989    
24     Joe Lieberman (D-CT)         January 3, 1989
25     Daniel Akaka (D-HI)                  May 16, 1990

So 25 present Senators have been in office more then twenty years.   One from the 1950's,  One from the 1960's (down from 2),  six from the 1970's,  16 from the 1980's.  

The following have been in office at least ten years.

26     Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)       November 10, 1992    
27     Byron Dorgan (D-ND)          December 15, 1992    
28     Barbara Boxer (D-CA)         January 3, 1993    
29     Judd Gregg (R-NH)               January 3, 1993
30     Russ Feingold (D-WI)          January 3, 1993
31     Patty Murray (D-WA)         January 3, 1993
32     Bob Bennett (R-UT)             January 3, 1993
33     Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX)         June 14, 1993        
34     Jim Inhofe (R-OK)     November 17, 1994
35     Olympia Snowe (R-ME)     January 3, 1995    
36     Jon Kyl (R-AZ)           January 3, 1995
37     Ron Wyden (D-OR)     February 6, 1996    
38     Sam Brownback (R-KS)     November 7, 1996
39     Pat Roberts (R-KS)     January 3, 1997    
40     Richard Durbin (D-IL)     January 3, 1997    
41     Tim Johnson (D-SD)     January 3, 1997    
42     Jack Reed (D-RI)     January 3, 1997    
43     Mary Landrieu (D-LA)     January 3, 1997    
44     Jeff Sessions (R-AL)     January 3, 1997    
45     Susan Collins (R-ME)     January 3, 1997    
46     Mike Enzi (R-WY)       January 3, 1997    
47     Chuck Schumer (D-NY)     January 3, 1999    
48     Jim Bunning (R-KY)          January 3, 1999
49     Mike Crapo (R-ID)        January 3, 1999
50     Blanche Lincoln (D-AR)     January 3, 1999
51     George Voinovich (R-OH)    January 3, 1999   
52     Evan Bayh (D-IN)         January 3, 1999

If you use my ten year rule 52 senators would have to go home  right now (actually more would have to go).    A full 50 percent has been in office more then a decade.   And that doesn't count years some served in the House.   Most of these folks aren't going anywhere anytime soon.   We could have 52 new faces in the Senate if we rid it of those that were in office already in the last century. 



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