Well I knew I wouldn't like ANY choice B.O. would make for the Supreme Court.    I knew it would happen, and it did.    Sotomayor is a choice only the worst liberal politicians would make.   Selecting a radical activist  is the results of the worst of gaming of politics.  

The first Hispanic woman nominated  for the highest court would be a poor choice for the supreme court. 

If we were the color blind society that liberals say we should be, why were they only talking about  liberal minority candidates?   Your race or sex should never be a qualifying consideration for a job.   The private sector would get sued into the stone ages if it did (not that it doesn't but the victims aren't victims in the liberal  world).   Do you think any conservative white males were considered.   Highly unlikely.   If anything, if they came up,  a joke was made,  and they moved on.  

This is a politically correct choice nothing else.  

It will lead to more discrimination,  that liberals claim they are ending by a choice like Sotomayor.   Judges aren't supposed to be activists but Sotomayor is.    They shouldn't set policy but even she says they do.  

Will she be seated.   Yes she will,  but conservatives shouldn't  just lay back and take it.     The Democrats did everything to try to end the nominations of Bush's choices.    Republicans  should expose her liberal record.    They should vote against her as well.  

Yet another bad choice by B.O.


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Some thoughts on this Obama at Notre Dame University thing.  I'm not Catholic, but a Protestant that knows quite a bit about  Catholicism.     This mess  may be more about how this university is run more then the circus that comes with B.O.    The current trustees seem to have endorsed Obama coming to the graduation.   Many are from Chicago and or at least run in the same circles as the Obama's (as in left wing elite world).

I would guess that all of these trustees aren't Catholic, or at least practicing Catholics. Its likely that choosing "outsiders" is the reason for the lack of Catholic identity at Notre Dame and other big Catholic universities nowadays. The idea of the powerful and elite running your school may seem like a good idea, but it leads to problems like this. They think little of Christian and Catholic ideas, and push hard at kicking them to the curb.   Their vision is one just like a secular university where Christian voices are minimized.

Notre Dame may be better off with less "well known" (maybe known to the Catholic community) trustees that are practicing Catholics,  then these well known people who aren't Catholic. If you aren't part of a community you aren't as likely to be committed to its core values.   Or in some cases down right hostile to them.

However its not likely anymore since the current trustees aren't going to vote themselves out.    I guess the religious  order that owns the school will have to retake control of it somehow,  likely using the court system to unseat the current trustees, so not a good choice either.   It may be to the point where it isn't possible to regain control anymore. 

 Like the universities now known as the  "ivy league schools",  when the churches that founded them lost control of them.  Most don't know that various Christian denominations once ran those now very anti-Christian like schools.

If someone wants a Catholic education today,  a large "Catholic" university may not be that place anymore.    It seems that you would have to go to a smaller or newer Catholic school to get that education today.  Notre Dame really isn't a "Catholic" school anymore just like a "Ivy League" education isn't a Protestant Christian one anymore.

It seems that  most universities creep left over time.   That's likely why most schools have that nasty left wing bent nowadays.    I guess part of that problem would be solved by not allowing these people to take over. 

A few years ago,  my brother graduated from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.   The school is owned and operated by the Christian Reformed Church and is a mostly Christian school.   His graduation speaker turned out to be President Bush.   The few left wing types at Calvin were horrified,  and tried to stop Bush from coming.    However  between Bush at Calvin vs.  Obama at Notre Dame is not the same like many would think.   Bush was compatible with the beliefs of the founders of Calvin unlike Obama who isn't compatible with the founders of Notre Dame. 

The idea of showing both sides of a issues of life is nonsense.   Notre Dame (or Calvin) has no responsibility to show the other side of an issue.     Its not likely that secular university would show the pro-life side of an issue so why should a school promote something that most of its founders would find incompatible with the core values of the school?   The other side promotes itself just fine,  it doesn't need the support of the Christian school to show its ideas.

Calvin has been slowly moving to the left as well over the last couple of decades, like the rest of the CRC demomination as a whole.  At one time you had to be a CRC member to work or be on the board at Calvin.   Its been opened up a little to other denominations (which in itself not a bad thing) but will there be the day when non-Christians are on the board and teaching (not that there aren't professors that lean left already) at Calvin?   If that happens will it follow the road of the ivy leagues and Notre Dame in losing its original identity?  Or are we doomed to continue to have to create new schools to replace the ones that lost the way?

Time will tell.


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Back in the dark days of World War Two, there was the saying.  "Loose lips sinks ships".  That saying was on posters even.  If you worked in the military or an industry producing war material,  you were told not to talk about it too much.    They didn't want  enemy agents  learning secrets  from listening  to casual talk. 

I guess VP Biden never heard of this saying, or doesn't get its meaning.  Because its true even today.  Biden really stepped in it this time.    He's well known for saying dumb things,  but giving away the location of the vice-presidential Bunker is truly stupid.   Yes, the "secret" location that former V.P. Cheney went to on 9/11.

The location they would have stuck him should something happen during the next four years.   Now taxpayers will be stuck building a new secret location for the VP,  not that Biden is going to be of any value during a problem.   This war is far from over.

Thats why the nation is far less safe then it was during Bush-Cheney.    There is no doubt in my mind that Biden will never be near as good as Cheney when it comes to national defense.  Biden is doing nothing to protect the nation from our enemies.  Just because liberals don't think there is a war on Islamic terror,  doesn't mean there isn't one.   They are fighting us daily, but  the current administration has returned to the Clinton era "its a law enforcement issue"  putting its head in the sand once again.    How anyone could think that after 9/11,  but here we are!

It will cost us!

Biden may have committed a crime by revealing the location.   He will never be charged of course,  but B.O.  needs to cork his big mouth.  NOW! 


History will see former V.P. Cheney in a much better light then today.    He will be seen as one of the best  V.P.  yet.   Biden will go down as the dimwitted clown he is.


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Calumet City,  Illinois is joining the ranks of cities that don't care about its crime rate.   Its already well known for its high crime rate,  it has dogged this city for decades.   Of course when the city fathers don't do much to stop crime and even join in on it,  the crime isn't going away on its own.  

It plans on prohibiting its own police department from helping enforce immigration laws.    Its joining the ranks of dumb and misguided cities that think it is doing the "right" thing by ignoring federal immigration laws.    It will add rules that would penalize  Calumet City Police from helping Immigration and Customs Enforcement.


Ugh,,,,,,aren't  local police are the first line of Immigration enforcement?   That puts the police department in a place it should never be put.   Not allowed to follow the law of the federal government due to a local ordinance. 

It will only attract the criminal element to Calumet City.    This always happens.   Nobody will notice this until some illegal commits some horrible crime.   

Now I usually favor local control,  but in this case they are doing the wrong thing.   This will bite them in the butt.  

It is illegal to order your police department to ignore laws.   Even ones you don't like.  



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Well,  we are on day two of get rid of the auto dealers.   Yesterday we saw which Chrysler dealers were dead ducks.  Today GM enters the bloodbath.  

Yeah,  plenty of these dealers got to go.   I have been saying in past posts that many have to go.   But I have been wondering what criteria they are using to pull the rug out from these dealers.  At least with the dealers that will no longer be selling Chrysler vehicles here in Northwest Indiana and the south suburbs of Chicago. 

At least one of the places closing is one of the two  shops of the local sleaze-bag dealer.    I figured since he was high volume he wouldn't be touched.    Of course he keeps one of his stores,  but he lost one.     So at least one bad place will be gone.    But most of the rest have me wondering.   Some are the big dealers around here,  or at least I thought they were. 

Of course the media makes it sound far worse then it is.  All these jobs will be lost,  oh my!     Many dealers sell other brands so they will remain as new car dealers.    They have already lost most of the jobs associated with selling and servicing Chrysler or GM vehicles.    Many other dealers will live on as used car dealers and auto services,  which by the way is far more profitable for most dealers then selling new vehicles!  

So the job losses will be less then they think.   Not discounting the people that will lose their jobs,  but most dealers will find a way to stay in the auto business.  Most love the business of selling and servicing cars. 

But Its the auto makers themselves are the ones that don't seem to want to stay in business.    Now that B.O.  is calling the shots,  the mismanagement will live on dooming the companies, I am really starting to think.   Inviting government to "solve" its problems won't do anything to save the American auto industry.

Liberals like B.O. really don' t like cars to begin with.  They think everyone will be so happy waiting around for and riding buses and trains. Never mind that less then 1% of us do so on a regular basis.    They don't like money,  or at least the profits part of it anyway.    So B.O.'s  "restructuring" of the American auto industry will probably not include how the industry will make money again.   Which sort of makes the rest sort of pointless.  They will order the auto industry to build small and "green"  cars of dubious quality.   (Note to B.O. and company,  American don't like little cars even when gas is expensive).   Which means continued  huge losses.   And nationalization of the leftovers of the business.  Think of all the lousy cars of the late 1970's and early 1980's because thats what the government will be building at huge expense. 

So what is the main problem of the auto industry?

Its money!

The government is that relative that has no idea about money and you just put him in charge of it! 

Until that issue is fixed,  the auto industry will be a money pit for the taxpayer.   Green cars WILL NOT SAVE THE AUTO INDUSTRY!  Government bailouts will not save the auto business.   Giving stock to the unions will not save the auto business.    Its time to act like real business people and run it like a business not a government agency.    Why are we letting morons run the economy?


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There has been tons of articles on why the Republican party lost the 2008 election.  Of course most of the ideas put forth are  dead wrong,  its laughable.    Unfortunately those ideas are frequently brought to you by the "mainstream" media,  so they get lots of play.    Republican party officials need to NOT listen to these voices anymore,  it has gotten them to the point they are at today.  

They say Republicans should be more like Democrats,  which is nonsense, since Republicans have been more like Democrats in recent years.   That can't work and  won't work and hasn't worked.   Democrats have been winning because they are the only other show in town,  not because they got popular or something.    They remain in the basement when it comes to voter approval too.  There just isn't anything else to vote for!

There is talk of the big tent (of ideas).   They talk of the Reagan years,  which many of us now remember more fondly these days.    How Reagan made the Republican party the big party tent.   There is truth to that,  he got many people who had never voted Republican before to vote for him and for lower level Republican candidates as well.   It had helped that Democrats were moving left at a scary rate those days turning many off to them.    The economy was bad due to their bad economic policies.   So more people in unions,  or blue collar work, or the middle class voted Republican.   Reagan was the perfect candidate for his time.   He got people who would have never voted for a  Republican to do so. 

In his column today Pat Buchanan (please note: I don't agree with Pat very often, so don't blow me off as yet another Buchanan fluky) he brought up some good points I would like to to discuss a little.    How that few minorities vote Republican nowadays.  George Bush did much better with these voters then John McCain, though McCain was often seen as the more "moderate" person.   How can that be?   If conventional thinking is correct,  more minorities should have voted for McCain then Bush.    But they didn't! 

Granted Bush didn't run against Obama (though you wouldn't know that at times during the election).    But Bush is still more conservative then McCain.   Many commentators  believe that Republicans lost because the Republicans moved right.    It hasn't,  there is no evidence of that, but may look like it has because the Democrats have shifted even more to the  left.   If anything the Republicans moved somewhat more left as well with the social programming and the large increasing in spending.    It may been have lost because now the Republicans have moved too far left.   Who really knows for sure.

Surveys show that the majority of American's see themselves as conservatives.   Many don't seem to vote conservative or at least Republican though.    So conservatives are far more then white people who live out in the country, who go to church and watch NASCAR.    There are minority conservatives out there maybe even a majority of these groups as well.

That's one of the ironies of Obama and the Democrat party in general.   If minorities were not so quick to just pull the lever for the Democrats. If more would look at where the candidates and the parties stood, they probably wouldn't have voted for Obama in the huge numbers that did.  Why does it look like they don't look at the issues?   The Democrats don't even seem to do anything to even keep them in the party anymore not that they ever did.

If prop 8 in California  does nothing else, it shows that most minorities are at least socially conservative.   And they would vote that way on an issue,  when they can, with no candidate or party seemly involved.   Minority voters voted yes for prop 8 in high numbers in fact a majority.  But they don't vote Republican.    Are social and societal problem not as much of a issue as economics?     I  highly doubt it.    Why isn't abortion a bigger issue in the black protestant church?   Abortion hurts the African American community far worse then the overall population.    A large part of the hispanic community is Roman Catholic so why don't they vote in bigger number for Republicans either?

So the question is, what needs to happen to remove the distaste of voting Republican?     Has the mainstream media convinced these communities that Republicans bad, Democrats good, even though if issues are compared, that they agree with the Republican position more.   The message is just not working at all.   How could it work to bring those conservatives to the Republican party and make it seem like home?    Voting for liberal Democrats hasn't gotten these communities anything but heartache.    But they keep voting for it.

People forget that with the African-Americans community,  they voted majority Republican from the Civil War until the 1930's.    They moved to the Democrats largely because of the economy of the Depression years.    I don't know how people overlooked that the Democrats were the party that was preventing blacks from even voting from the post Civil War years all the way to the 1960's.   But people don't want to learn from history do they?

I think that economic policy keeps minorities in the Democratic Party today.   The conservative message doesn't seem to get though on economics,  so many think they are economic liberals.    When they may not be, if they had all the facts.     The Republican policy is sound but the message gets lost in the nonsense.   The problem may be marketing not policy.    The Democrat sow fear in people when it comes to economics,  it works well on working class whites too.  

Back to Reagan again.   He proves that people can be brought to the Republican party.    However we need to get the party to the point where you don't have to have an one individual to shoulder the task of bringing those voters to the table.    The Republicans need marketing help,  sticking with conservative values to win big again.     Moving away from that hurts the GOP as well.    The party has scored its biggest successes with conservatives ideas in the 1980's and 90's.  It can do so again.

I truly believe in the big tent theory.   The Democrats don't have the big tent anymore,  they are more closed to good ideas then ever.    However I think that the largest group in the big tent will always be the conservatives so if you got that you are the winner.    However the Republican tent  has to be more welcoming to non-white conservatives.    They may like the Republican policy but don't know they are in the wrong party due to the misinformation,   the message is coming though to the country wrong.    Some of the message will never come though right due to the mainstream media,  but they can be overcome. 

Do I think that the Republicans really need the exalted "moderates".    Not really,  if the surveys show that the majority of  the country is already conservative are right.    They just need to be gathered into the same party, and they would always win, all the demography would be in their favor.   How would I do it.   I don't have the answer for that.  The Democrats have rejected conservatives ideas  for the most part.    Are the Republican stupid enough to do it too?


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RIP: Jack Kemp 1935-2009

Boy,  the planets and stars line up for Obama, don't they?    After a mere hundred and two days in office,  B.O.  is going to get to pick a supreme court justice already!    He has the best luck politically in the world it seems.   Too bad I don't believe in luck.  ACK!

So what happened with the tradition of retiring during a term of a president of the same party that nominated you?   Souter was nominated by President George H.W. Bush,  a Republican.   Last time I checked B.O. is  still a Democrat.   

Oh,  I forgot.     Souter is a liberal.   They don't have to follow rules and deafeningly  not tradition.    After fooling the first President Bush and the Republicans in congress then,  into thinking he was a conservative.  Souter  joined the court and became a far left liberal  justice almost right away.    So retiring last year during the final months of George W. Bush's term wasn't going to happen.   Souter knew more then anyone,  that Bush II would nominate someone his dad  should have in 1989.    That mistake of the hidden liberal wasn't going to happen again. 

As in a great supreme court justice the United States really needs badly.   The justice we will not be getting this time around either.     B.O. will chose someone even further left then Souter if he can.    Conservatives will hate any choice he makes.   B.O. will chose someone young, most likely a minority or a woman (not  that is bad for the first three)  but also someone so liberal it will drive conservatives nuts for decades! 

This won't be B.O.'s only Supreme Court pick either.  Steven's is 88 so it isn't likely that he will outlive the Obama years even if he is kept to one term.      I could see Stevens and Ginsburg retiring  quickly in  late 2011 or early  2012 if things go really badly for Obama and its clear he is going to be a one termer.

Obama will get at least two picks minimum.   He has a good chance at a third and even maybe a fourth.     Souter is now the first,  Stevens will finally retire or simply pass away, so he is a likely choice for the second.    Ginsburg's health is poor so she could be the third, though she wants to continue to serve into her eighties.    Both are very liberal so they would want to be replaced by Obama.     So those retirements are more likely during the next couple of years.  

Replacing Souter,  Stevens and Ginsburg would keep the current "division"  in the court.   Obama will get one for one liberal replacements for liberal justices.   Bush only got to pick two justices,  replacing one conservative (Rehnquist) with another (Roberts),  and replacing a flaky "moderate" (Sandra Day O'Connor) with a more conservative (Alito).    Just two choices by Obama cancel out the very small gain of the Bush years.   

It could be really bad for the future of the court.   If Obama gets the chance to add new younger liberal judges the stalemate will continue for decades.  It will counter the younger conservatives on the present court.    The rest of the court is younger so any more retirements are unlikely.   Kennedy will continue to be the court flake,   as the resident "moderate" seems to vote with the liberals in the worst cases.    It would continue to give the worst justice a lot of power he shouldn't have. 

(Sidenote rant on "Moderates":    My opinion of justices like O'Connor and Kennedy are quite low.   Called "moderates" by the press and academia their voting is very unpredictable.    Though they sure vote wrong at the worst times it seems.    So they may as well be liberals since there really isn't such a thing as a "moderate".   Both were supposed to be conservatives when they entered office and were not.  They were both bad choices by Reagan when better candidates were sunk by liberals.  Pity   End rant).   

The only wild card would be a early retirement of Kennedy.    That would end the stalemate but turn the court liberal again.   The four conservative justices could hold out for a Republican president if they can if they need to retire early.    They are all younger so I don't worry about that much.    But if Obama gets all his picks,   cases like Roe v Wade are going to get really old.   That's the worst of a liberal court.   Many other things would be bad as well like using foreign countries court rulings for decisions  and such.   I was hoping that President Bush would have a chance at replacing Stevens but that didn't happen.     That would have been nice replacing a full liberal with a great conservative.

I hope Republicans in Congress fight as much as Democrats did with Bush's choices of Alito and Roberts.    Republicans  rubber-stamped Stephen Breyer and Ruth Ginsburg  knowing they were liberal, during the Clinton years,  and the Democrats didn't return the favor during the Bush years.    The worst radical far left individuals must be blocked.    Like everything else so far, the Obama administration will want to rush someone though fast.   The best thing Republicans can do is slow him down and expose his worst choices.    He will make a bad choice no matter, but if he has to withdraw someone it will cost him politically.

Democrats and liberals don't make the mistake of a wrong choice (in their book) with justices.   Republicans have had some bad choices happen.   Lawyers are liberal for the most part so they have many more choices to begin with.  They won't end up with a accidental conservative.    Conservatives don't  lie to get into office like liberals would,  so that makes the accidental conservative even less likely. 

Hopefully this will be the only choice B.O. gets to make.   The future of the country depends on it.   Obama has stated his preferences for justices and they are the wrong things for America. 

The Supreme Court can bring great justice to America and it can also bring greater injustice to it as well.    The twentieth century had far more bad choices then good ones,  we can hope for a better twenty-first.     Right now it doesn't look very good. 



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Washington State Senator Patty Murray (D),  today told abortion supporters that protecting medical professionals that morally oppose Abortion is "short- sighted".  

Scary,  isn't it?  Frightening to be sure!

This is one of the untold stories today in America today.   The loss of conscience in the medical profession today.  

In Illinois,  impeached former Governor Blagojevich took away the right of conscience from every pharmacist in the state.   It forces all pro-life pharmacists in Illinois  to dispenses abortion aid,  including the day after pill.    No right of refusal, or even the referring to an another  pharmacist.   They must do it,  or lose their licenses and jobs.   Large pharmacies like Walgreens and CVS  have done nothing to protect their pharmacists or protest this morally repugnant law.

Just wait until we have "universal" government "health" care.    Just try to stop things like this then.   At that point it will be nearly impossible.   If we cannot stop this, it will be the future of "health" care. 

If I was a liberal,  I would say there was a "conspiracy" going on.    

The conspiracy against pro-life health care professionals.    Pro-life health care professionals are the last line defense against abortion,  euthanasia,  the denial  of care to the chronically ill,  the mentally and physical disabled, the undereducated and the old.   No secular  medical professional organization is opposing the lack of conscience.   None of these organizations promote right of conscience policies.    Those organizations have been taken by these liberal activists and in many cases have a pro-choice position to boot.   The AMA will do nothing to end discrimination against pro-life doctors,  they will side against their own members in every case and offer no support to them.  

If they can force every pro-life health care professional out of medicine,  the goals of these people will be far easier to do.   Coupled with "universal" government health care it will  quickly become the way of death for everyone.  We will be no better then the Nazis.  What will happen when there are no longer any pro-life Catholic hospitals? 

Don't believe me?   If things like Illinois' lack of right of conscience for pharmacists  become the way of providing medical care for everyone it will be to late.   That anti- life doctor will think nothing of telling you NO to your healthcare  if you are old,  disabled, or your "quality of life" seems a little too low to suit him.

Most people enter the medical field because they want to help people.   Government and anti-life activists  is making many of those people think twice, leave the field or never enter it to begin with.   There is no worse thing to take away the ability to do your job, that is what is happening to pro-life health care professional every day.   Image medicine as if it was just  another government job.    Not a good thing in any way.  It will make the best stay away from medicine.

Late in his presidency,  the Bush administration added a new rule giving the right of conscience back to medical professionals.  It was unfortunate  that it wasn't added much earlier in his presidency.  The Obama administration will likely reverse this rule shortly.   This seemingly small rule reversal could have far reaching consequences. 



from CNSNews.com
"In issuing the regulation in December, then-Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt said it was designed to prevent discrimination against medical professionals who had a moral or religious objection to certain practices, including performing abortion or prescribing medications that can cause an abortion, as reported by CNSNews.com. "



Under the guise of fixing healthcare and improving access to all ,  anti-life activists could ruin healthcare for everyone.   Pro-life people need to oppose government healthcare and the lack of conscience as much as we oppose abortion.   Nearly everyone will be one of these groups sometime in their lives.   Nearly everyone gets old,  is disabled at some point,  has a chronic health problem, or has a family member that is.   We cannot have an America without Pro-Life Health Care Professionals.

We must save medicine from those that wish to change it so totally we wouldn't recognize it.  We must stop the anti-life forces like Patty Murray and the Obama  administration from making these bad choices for everybody.   It will stop medical care from helping people to making them helpless.  

Medicine is under more pressure then almost any other time in American history.  We cannot give up on the best health care the world has ever seen.  




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I spent Sunday afternoon with my brothers, nephew, sister in law and her brother and a friend of his at the Cell.    A White Sox game that is, if you don't know that nickname for the Sox's home stadium.    If you look at the ticket,  it shows the taxes that you get to pay to go to the game.   9% city tax,  yes, NINE PERCENT.   Then another 3% county tax on top of that.    For a total of 12%,  TWELVE PERCENT!   Who knows what the state tax is,  it wasn't on the ticket.   

Twelve Percent on an already expensive Major League Baseball ticket.   No wonder I don't go very much.    No wonder the White Sox have had problems filling the park in the past (it doesn't seem to be a problem anymore, better teams help).   How the CUBS fill Wrigley Field still is a mystery to me, crummy teams,  dumpy park, no parking, should be a ghost-town.    But I am going off topic here.   

Chicago has become a very high tax zone.   It must be costing the area big opportunities.     They never consider the consequences of an anti-business attitude.    They have no clue,,,,,,,,,,,  and they think they can have the Olympics?


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The idiocy of the Obama Administration continues to baffle.   The costs of that harebrained  Air Force One Photo "OP"  are enormous.   The cost to business will never be known.    Hundreds left buildings in panic.    911 got hundreds of calls about it,  so it cost the city big bucks too.   That doesn't include the almost $400,000 spent by the air-force to fly the airplanes.  Read about it here.   Didn't anybody think before they did that?

Does anybody have a brain in the White House?   I guess they are working hard on reelection in 2012, he isn't going to do anything but campaign in his (hopefully) last year.

Its just so DUMB, DUMB, DUMB.    Image how the press would be going nuts had Bush made this many mistakes during his first 100 days!!!


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Some good news,  the Republican party has rid itself of a RINO today.   Senator Specter of Pennsylvania has formally become a Democrat today.    He has been voting like one for quite some time now so it isn't a surprise.  

This is good news for the people running against him in the primary, they can now save their strength for the general election.   One of them can now have the Republican nomination without going against a liberal in the primary, they can save it for the liberal in the general election.   Pennsylvania will now have a conservative choice for senator,  something it hasn't had for a very long time.   

On a sidenote, wouldn't it be funny if Specter loses the Democrat primary!!   It was looking like he would not win the Republican primary in 2010,  he barely beat Pat Toomey in the last one in 2004.   Thats the only reason why I think he did it now, there are no other good reasons at this point to do so.    Democrats are likely to be even more unpopular in 2010 then they are now.

We can now add that seat to the list of "got a good" chance of turning Republican in 2010.  Its much better now with Specter a Democrat.   Hopefully there will be a Senator Pat Toomey (R) of Penn. in 2012. 

Pennsylvania will be much better off with a retired Arlen Specter.   So will the country.    The Republican party didn't change,  Specter slipped to the left.     Another good reason for term limits,  the longer you serve the loonier most get. 

Don't let the door hit you on the way out,  Senator!


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Well Wednesday marks the first 100 days of the Obama Administration.    What a train wreck it been.   He has shown little leadership.   Since "action" is what the White House wants,  it means little that  actual things get done,  just looking busy seems to be the order of the day.   Maybe thats not so bad,  since I don't want anything they want to become reality. 

I knew from the beginning,  that I wouldn't like much from the Obama Administration.    In that way he hasn't disappointed.    I have not agreed with anything that he have done.  

The on the job training,  due to the lack of any worthwhile experience is showing up in bad ways.   Foreign  Policy has suffered greatly since Obama took office.   In spite of what the mainstream media preached,  world leaders respected Bush far more then they ever will with Obama.   He just doesn't get,  what he is supposed to be doing.    He just believes the left wing nonsense that America is a bully and evil.  So he gives away the store.   He is likely to leave a bigger mess then Carter left behind.     We are still paying for Carters mistakes,  Obama's mistakes could last decades as well.   

The past congresses spent far to much money.   Now they are posed to spend even increasing  huge amounts with Obama's blessing.    This unnecessary debt will be with us for a long time.   And what will we get for all that money.   Not much.    What a tremendous waste of our countries wealth,  that could be used in so many better ways.

The left wing social scene isn't any better since Obama came in.    TIred ideas will be pushed, that don't work and are not wanted by the majority of America.     Society has been pushed to the limit as it is,   the next years will be tough on people.  

The two wars against terror are taking a  back seat.   Obama sees it like the Clinton Administration,  as a law enforcement problem rather then a military one.     The only place that liberals ever want to cut the budget is going to cost us big.    This is the only place that more government money should be spent.    But it is the last place in the Obama's world.    The military will be much weaker when Obama leaves office. 

I was thinking that Obama would have learned from Clintons mistakes,  but he hasn't.    Even I thought that reality would push Obama closer to the center.   So far it hasn't.    This may end up costing the Democrat party more then they would ever think.   Liberal policies will never be popular in America, no matter how hard people try to push them. 

So is there a grade lower then a F or a zero?

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The headlines today are telling of the upcoming end of Pontiac.    It a long time thing coming,  they need to end Buick, Saturn, GMAC as well.   Of course thats just  a small part of today' s  story.   What is buried in the article in the Tribune is that the federal government and the auto union will hold most of the stock of GM. 

So that means the problems of GM aren't very likely to be solved in any meaningful way.    It will continue the kick the can down the road management that got GM to this point.

It doesn't look like GM has much of a future.   It will never make money again,  and will go out of business some day when the government cannot waste more money on it.  

So instead of doing the hard work of doing the right thing to save this company,  it will be nationalized.    So it is going to cost the taxpayers big money.  

We all know how well the government and unions run things.    Why anyone would think this is the solution to the problem of GM is nuts.    I think GM  is going down!    Maybe not today but within the next decade or so.

There is going to be unemployment of biblical proportions  if Obama runs the economy into the ground with all this socialist nonsense.     Its not just the end of Pontiac but the American auto industry and alot of other American business.


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Earth Day is a semi-holiday to some in the environmental "movement" nowadays.  Its one of the many pointless things that far-left  liberals have pushed on the general public in recent years.   Most don't realize that  and its history for various reasons.   Big business has bought on to it in the last couple of years,  which I find somewhat ironic.    Its a feel good thing created by hippy's and other leftover 60's radicals and terrorists.  

Since I don't advocate the destruction of the environment like most liberals think us conservatives do.   I can't call my self a environmentalist.    Because the modern environmental movement is so radical and nonsense-able now.   What you see is not what there is for the most part.    The "movement" is deeply anti-human and not particularly interested in the saving the environment.  Its so much into politics, and politics alone.

I guess I could call myself a conservationist.     Thats a term you don't see or hear about much anymore.  It was made famous by Republican president Teddy Roosevelt.  I think that environmentalists hate that the national park system was created by a Republican.  They have worked hard at taking this issue from Republicans.

Conservation is a far better way to promote the keeping of the planet.    Humans are part of the world,  environmentalists hate that humans must use the earth in any way.   Parts of the world should be saved,  but not to the determent of the people of the world.    Sane and common sense should be the guide,  not the wholesale nonsense that goes for the environment movement. 

The modern green movement will not save the planet.   They only make it worse.   Earth Day is used to mask the radical politics that they want.    They cannot have their way.    That why Earth Day is not worth celebrating. 



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