A state that can be a little fickled voted 61.5% Obama and 37.1% McCain in the 2008 Presidential Election.  Did they know what they were voting for, I doubt it by the looks of yesterday's blood bath.  At the moment it is hard to think of a State as bad off as California, although Michigan might give them a run, talk about shooting your self in the foot, what were they thinking, I suppose they weren't.

They are saying now, you have to get creative to solve this problem that you created and expect us to solve, I applaud them, it isn't the peoples problem, let the Governor and the legislature make the tough choices, that is what they are being paid for.  Although, I guess the Governator doesn't take a salary and he still seems to be over paid.  Just another Rino like the ones we have here on the other coast in Maine. Here are the results of the special election.

— Proposition 1A would have been the most damaging to taxpayers, as it would extend tax hikes on sales, income, and vehicles for two years, to the tune of $16 billion. It was disguised as a spending cap, but that cap was weak. Voters sniffed out the tax hikes and overwhelmingly opposed them 66-34.

— Proposition 1B didn’t fare much better, as it was rejected by a 62.5 to 37.5 vote. This measure was Gov. Schwarzenegger’s bow to the all-powerful teachers unions. It would have thrown an addition $9.3 billion toward education. It hoped to draw that money from the rainy day fund 1A would have established (so much for a spending cap). Thankfully for taxpayers, both measures were defeated.

— Proposition 1C would have allowed the state to borrow against future lottery revenues, about $5 billion. You have to give state government credit for creativity — they’re tops when it comes to new and innovative budget gimmicks that ignore the reality that they consistently spend outside their means. Voters recognized that Prop 1C ignored this fundamental reality and rejected it 65-35.

— Proposition 1D would have shifted almost $2 billion from the California Children and Families Program into the general fund to close the budget gap. This is more budgetary maneuvering that would have left taxpayers on the hook when the program’s funding was inevitably restored. It lost 66-34.

— Proposition 1E failed by the same 66-34. Like Prop 1D, it would have diverted funds from elsewhere in the budget to shore up general-fund overspending (about $230 million annually from Proposition 63 — a tax on the rich).

— Proposition 1F was the only measure to pass. It imposed a weak limit on pay raises for legislators, theoretically disallowing them during budget deficit years. Regardless of its actual teeth, the results show true populist outrage in California: The measure passed by a resounding 74-26.

This may or may not be an indicator for the 2010 election, I sure hope that it is.  The Democrats are saying they will pick up another 10 seats in 2010, I will seriously think about selling my house for 1/2 of what it is worth and moving somewhere, not sure where, we need at least a filibuster Senate to slow them down if not a majority which would be hard to obtain but not impossible.  More of what we have seen will just bankrupt the country far sooner than anyone might imagine.

Frankly I can't tell.  The official California site has a bunch of pictures that make no sense to me,  not a lot in actual numbers.  I fear that this is just another man made political issue like Global Warming(which is now Global cooling because they couldn't get the globe to co-operate).  Here is what I do know, there is water, enough water for farmers to grow our food and most of the food for the country and some of the world comes from California, so this isn't a regional issue but a big issue for the entire country unless you grow all your own food.  I am wondering if this is just another way for California to get more and more Federal funds for their every increasingly bad government, this isn't such a bad theory when you think about it a while.  In the Central Valley the problem is there is water but they have turned off the pumps to protect a fish(that's right a fish).  Why does that not surprise me, we have modified our entire life style and it isn't nearly over for a few wild animals, I am sorry I just can't be convinced that as cute as some of these cuddly creatures are that they should take precedence over human life, especially when they can be easily moved or even coexist without a problem.

I think you will find this audio from the inside interesting, the premise is there is no dramatic drought but a political issue concerning these fish that are not even indigenous.  So far this fish has brought suffering to 10’s of thousands of people in the Central Valley and it will work its way into your grocery store by way of shortages, imported food and higher prices yet again.  Listen to this audio clip and let me know what you think, I am not saying it is the definitive statement but it sure brings to light issues that the elite don’t want you to know about.
download and listen here: A farmers view

I have written yet another program for teaching a little bit about our American History to our children and grand children.  This one covers the Bill or Rights.  Use it with your kids and grand kids or just give it to them, I made it public domain do with it as you please short of commercial use.

Download and install Download the zip file here, enjoy

As many of you know, I am working with Maine Patriots and one of the research team.  What this means is we need to determine what it is we need in our state and federal representatives.  This sounds easier than it really is for all kinds of reasons, a lot of smoke and mirrors as you can imagine.

This has me thinking hard on what are the most important issues of the day and how can state representatives first of all support those goals.  If we didn’t have such an upside down country we would be looking for our state representatives where most of these things belong, but what we have is a circumvented constitution so we need to work within the frame work that we have and stop gripping about it and start changing it.  

Like most people, I initially thought that the economy was the big issue but it has moved down to #4 for me and I am going to explain.  The long and the short of it is without security, money is useless.  So security both local and national has become #1.  As part of that illegal immigration becomes second.  And third is an issue that was never even on my radar until I gave it serious thought, that is gun control.  All of these tie together as one main issue really and that is security.  We are not a mean country no matter what M.O. says, want to know mean read about the French Revolution, where the slower the death the better it was liked by the people and hundreds of peoples heads were presented as a badge of courage on pikes held in the air.  Thankfully for the most part we live in a better age, but that is here, there are places in the world that human life means nothing and even here, a stupid fish in California is causing misery for 10’s or thousands of people and ultimately will lead to the US being dependent again on international sources for something we should do here, that is grow our own food, start a victory garden folks, with lots of canning.  BTW, when this is reported it is called a drought, there is no drought, they just refuse to turn on the pumps because it will hurt the fish, what a screwed up country we have become.  

I created a scenario in my head that scares me to death.  Let us say your business is doing pretty well and your just about to close a nice international to add to your wealth.  You need to fly to Paris to consummate the deal, you fear for your family while your gone because they have taken legal guns away and your security people have to make due with ancient methods of defence.  There are a few small local wars as there always are but nothing that involves the big nations of the world, but terrorist still get into our country through our open borders and other people that will do anything because they are starving.  The scene is, your economic situation is pretty good, but what good is it when you have to live in fear.  While your gone your house could be breached and your family killed and trucks loaded up with your valuables, who is going to stop them, they took most of the police off the street because they could no longer afford to pay them.  You can’t do what Warren Buffett, Soros and that bunch have done, which is to buy a small island that is safe and secure it with their own forces.  You don’t have that kind of money and you also need to be on top of your business at all times.  This has the makings of a frightening novel with truth on every page that just hasn’t happened yet.  

So there it is, over the last few months my whole outlook on what is important is slightly different, not in big ways but just a rearrangement.  The scary part is our government at the moment will not recognise any of these issues as big, just a bunch of lip service and take bibles away from soldiers in Afghanistan because they accuse them of trying to convert the locals the christianity and give lip service to sending more troops.  Let us stand for liberty and support representatives that stand for liberty.  I mean liberty in a very general way, without security there is no liberty, without property there is no liberty, our government doesn’t offer security and wants to take our property, these people need to go in the worst way. 

It has bothered me for some time.  Why do big capitalist support the left?  It just didn't make any sense to me.  Then I read Shadows of Power where something clicked for me.  Sure small time business loves the free market place but huge businesses despise it, these little guys are always a thorn in their side, Microsoft is always being sued by some small company because of un fair practice.  There was an interesting quote from one of IBM's high officials about microsoft, he said they still act like a struggling small company where they can get away with ruthless tactics.  So why do Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, The Rockerfellers support the left?  It is a simple concept but hard to get your brain around at first.  What is the biggest monopoly, of course it is the federal government, if they some how manage and they have been trying since the Woodrow Wilson Presidency to completely control the government, they will have the monopolies they seek.  I rattled that around in my head for while, although willing to accept it, but still in the back of my mind, was that the real reason?

Something happened this week that cemented the idea in my head as just about fact.  It starts with a comparison between two large companies that took bail out money.  One GM and the other GE capital.  GM was not a supporter of Obama(although as we know the UAW was) and the Democratic party,  GE on the other hand was a direct contributor in more than one way.  Not only did they give to the campaign but they also own the TV networks NBC, MSNBC and CNBC.  The later was probably more crucial to their present great situation as I will explain.

GE capital took $140 billion in bail out money, as far as I can tell GM took $13.8 billion it may be a little more than that it is hard to keep track, but in any event GE got around 10 times the amount that GM got.  Was GE asked to reorgainize, were they asked to give back bonuses ala AIG, was the CEO asked to step down because of mismanagement, no to all, gee I wonder why?

Now what is an absolute collusion,  GE with Intel as its partner is spending $6 billion of what I assume is our money in what they are calling health care innovation.  What is really is, a big data base that will allow them to ration services for the government health care system of which they will be sole supplier, sounds like a monopoly to me.  This is when it struck me, I think I have this figured out.  I am betting Microsoft will never loose another anti trust suit and in fact no big donator will ever be a looser again.  Look out for adds on GE owned media for how wonderful the work they are doing presumably in our behalf to improve health care.  Folks health care isn’t broken, not to say there are not problems here and there, but wait until the government screws it up, you haven’t seen anything yet.

Yet again gay marriage rears it ugly head in Maine.  This has been voted down by the voters already.  Then side stepped through the legislature almost as bad as the judicial ruling in California, I suspect that will be next if they ultimately loose this one.  As I have stated before I stand to loose my conservative merit badge because I don’t really care one way or the other who marries who.  But what I do care about is the legislature going against the will of the people.  Seems like they have all committed political suicide but the Govenor who it term limited.  A side note, if this was a national issue I would be dead against it, where it is being decided is where it belongs.

Now it is likely to go before the people yet again for a peoples veto, which I assume will take a larger vote than the original one, but there is a dynamic that the bill has working against it, people don’t like to have things jammed down their throat, which is why I think we will prevail starting in 2010.  55,087 signatures are needed to get it on the ballad by September, doesn’t seem like any hill for a climber.  I will be signing the petition and voting not only against this but against any state representative that voted for it.

A while back, I think late 60’s or early 70’s, gay pride was a big thing.  I think gay pride took a giant step backwards.  Mobility has always been the great equalizer in our society, there are states that have legally approved gay marriage such as Massachusettees  a short way down the interstate if some one wants to take advantage of their laws that were legally enacted not like California and maybe Maine(al though ours might be legal it sure is pretty low on the ethical ladder).  All of these things are reversible, not that they usually are, but nationally I think it has to be rolled back, there is no way it is sustainable.

Here is another scratch your head.  Pelosi has been caught in an out and out lie, she was briefed as she should have been on interrogation techniques even though she swears she wasn’t, they have her dead to rights.  She can still spin it to her believers I guess.  Here is where I get confused.  If I get called before congress to testify and I lie it is called perjury and punishable by law.  But anyone one in the Government from the most junior congressman to the President can lie all day long and they do and it is just business as usual.  A citizens initiative to require our representatives to tell the truth under penalty of perjury would be a helpful tool.  Now if it involved national security or other privacy issues, they can state, I can’t talk about the and then they haven’t lied, or they could take the fifth.  Just a thought, one that won’t go anywhere, but frankly I am getting so sick of all this deceit.  So far, I don’t think I can point to one thing Obama has said either before or after his election and taking office that has been true, lie after lie after lie.  The latest one is the $17 billion budget trimming, sure he is cutting military spending and a couple of other things, but it won’t come out of the budget it will be just reallocated to another area, you know one of those slush funds. What a political hack he is.   If you add the deficit from the 2010 budget, the Porkulus, Underthebus and the $7 trillion that the fed magically made appear to further bail out friends of the administration, we have added $10 trillion to the debt in less than 4 months, good job you jerks.  The one area I was willing to give him a little credit was Afghanistan and as it turns out that was another lie, so far only 4,000 not combat troops have been sent and in the mean time the Taliban is about 60 miles from taking control of Nuclear Pakistan and our President want to chat, maybe they can do face book.  If 4 months is any indication, this president could be worse than both Carter and Roosevelt, boy that is going some, but he is making both of them look like lily white conservatives.

I am getting a little carried away today, it has been a while since I last posted.  What an outrage the Chrysler bankruptcy is, have you ever heard of the government getting involved in a bankruptcy in such a way that they rearrange unsecured debt above secured debt?  There are so many things wrong with this picture.  Then when the legal bond holders that should get paid first try to get what is legally theirs, they are called greedy and leaned on by the white house like the mob.  They some how they pressured the bankruptcy judge to approve it, when it clearly goes against all business practice and is likely to just about kill companies looking for bond holders to advance their company.  Who is going to put their money in when the government will make them take $.29 on the dollar and give 55% of the company to the Union.  BTW, the UAW gave 99% of its political contributions to democrats except for one, Arlen Specter, this is a big surprise isn’t it.

I hope that most of this isn’t old news that your tired of hearing about, but I have been a little busy with somewhat important things.

Although it is hard not to do, it doesn't do much good to grip about the present, it is here and we did it to ourselves by not running the candidates that would have enhanced the country not destroy it.  So where do we go from here.  Of course we need to be more demanding of our candidates no more Rino's and that should be our bumper sticker "No more Rino's".  My oldest grandson who I see only rarely to my chagrin, I suspect voted Democratic.  How could he have done anything else, he lives in Massachusetts and has been indoctrinated for 12 years.  They did a very good job of getting out the young vote because they knew that their relationship with the NEA was going pay big benefits.  I was totally isolated from them and could do nothing, I thought.  But in fact I could have done much more and have started to do so.

Voting in the 2010 election I will have 2 grandkids and voting in the 2012 election I will have 4 grandkids.  4 out of millions in Mass isn't going to win the day for sure, but if I can get to them, then may be they will spread it around a little and ultimately it could do some good.  For me at least they won't be part of the problem, even though  unless moving to another state wouldn't be part of the solution.   

I had already been teaching them little bits of American History whenever I saw them, which is very little.  Then I came up with a plan.  I would write my own little history for them, with a splash of politics.  Explain to them why Socialism doesn't work, why big spending will never improve the economy, not the difference between a Democrat and Republican because that means nothing, but the difference between a liberal and a conservative.  I ordered copies of the booklet with the Constitution, Bill of Rights and Declaration sent to them and told them what I expected them to know from the documents.  My history I purposely kept lean because when I see them it will be only for a short time and I had to be very specific, it was 10 pages.  Barbara thinks it is way to much and even a college grad would have a hard time learning it in the time they have, I don't see it that way.  I told them they would be tested, gave them sample questions and told them a cash prize would be awarded to the one who got the most right with a bonus if they got all the Presidents(that we did on another trip).

This is America and you can accomplish great things with a little cash incentive.  They received my paper and my daughter called and said they have been reading them since they got them, we can only hope that continues, it is a lot of information.  One of them got all the Presidents and the others although a bit rusty got more than she did.  This is the program I wrote  to help them learn the Presidents, you are welcome to do whatever you wish with it, Presidents Program

I hope this gives you some incentive to work with your kids and your grand kids and in some cases great grand kids.  It is the country they will inherit and they know not what they do, it is our job to give them an alternative so someday it hits them, that old foggy was right.....

The latest Rasmussen poll that is done often for the first time in over a year has favored Republicans, 41% to 38%.  Republicans now lead Democrats in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot.  This is significant but the Republicans haven't gained much ground the change is do to loss of Democratic support, so a lot more has to be done, but keep up the good fight.  This is a fight that is winable.  I don't want to even get into the cramming of the National Health Care, hopefully it won't be too entrenched  by the time we are able to get it repealed.  Although there is immortality in these laws and so few have ever been reversed and that certainly is a problem.  For those of you and I include my self that want to see a big change in 2010, it is looking a lot better.

Charlie sent me a copy of a letter to the editor that didn't get published, that in itself make it pretty good.  Basically she talked about how people that landed on Ellis Island around 1900 wished deeply to assimilate and left allegiance to their old country behind and took up the torch of freedom offered them in the greatest country on earth.  Where as today even if an immigrant is legal, they expect the whole country to change to suit their old customs, just stay where you were if you like them so much, is my personal take.

I am a 3rd generation American, both my maternal and paternal grand parents arrived at Ellis Island in or around 1900.  Although my fathers side was a bit of a mystery to me and kept that way purposely apparently, I never met them.  I do know they settled in New York City and were part of the Financial System.  Although they came from Russia they apparently made their way into the primarily German immigrants pre 1900 Jewish controlled system.  In fact if you trace Jewish immigrants you would see that even the established German immigrants suffered because of the less trained and skilled personnel coming from Russia and Poland.  The neighbourhood that I grew up in was primarily Russian and Polish Jews.  Even though treated un kindly still assimilated and loved this country.  I can’t imagine that my paternal grand parents came here as Jewish Russian immigrants with any wealth, most likely just had enough to get them here.  They did very well in their new home, an inspiration and example of how anyone with hard work can succeed in this great country.  A quick example of how well they did, for my father’s 13th birthday and Bar Mitzvah sent him and a nanny to the Chicago Worlds Fair in 1933, the depression was already 4 years old and apparently they were still doing pretty well.

My Maternal grand parents I knew more of,  both by stories and by spending some time with them.  My grand mother spoke english very well but of course had an accent, but she also spoke many other languages as well, she was a very bright woman.  They settled in Revere(Named for the patriot Paul Revere)  Massachusetts and they never left Revere.  My grand father opened a shoe repair shop, something very much needed in the day when they didn’t just throw shoes away, they put heels and soles on them and wore them until impossible to do so.  I spend many hours hanging around his one man shop, he had a thriving business even in the 50’s which would have been when I spent time in the shop.  He always had 30 jobs waiting, he labored from the minute he arrived until he closed the doors at night.  Interrupted only when people wanted a shine and he had 3 or 4 shine booths, why I am not sure, there was only  him.  Although he did quite well, he was an ignorant man, he  had no formal education, but he did know how to work and put out his hand for money to pay for his labor.  In those day it was all cash.  He would stuff the money in his pocket, not even counting it or knowing what the days receipts would have been.  They never owned a car but it was a short walk to work.   They always lived in what was called a walk up, a rental that was typically on the 3rd floor, this must have been hard in their later years.   On the way home he would hit a couple of bars and more likely than not get into a fight,  I assume he won some and lost some.  He was usually pretty drunk by the time he arrived home and would be very hungry and expected dinner on the table as soon as he got home no matter what time it may be.  He would empty his pockets on the table which contained what was left of the days receipts.  My grand mother knew what to do with the money once  she got it and so it went for 60 years.  They had 9 children that lived to adulthood, each a contributor to society in their own way, not a bum among them.  Each of their stories are quite interesting as well.  

The point of these stories is that people came here with nothing, less than nothing and made lives for them self and their families.  They didn’t expect welfare or anyone to pay their bills or put food on their table or to provide health care, they took care of each other if need be but not as charity, each gave back in their own way when they could.  These were proud people, I remember going to Shirley Ave(main street Revere), men in suits if they were not working, shinned shoes, most clean shaven if they didn’t have a beard which was reserved more or less for the Rabbi, and a dapper hat.  We would go to a real Deli that had 20 or 30 tables, people meeting, talking about the issues of the day over a Corn Beef on Rye.  I miss those days, too bad we are going to leave behind a world that doesn’t recognise tradition and the lessons learned from history. 

The more I read about how Ford is handling and had the for sight to start the process about 3 years ago what is going on.  If GM and Chrysler knew what was coming they sure didn't act on it.

Unlike GM and Chrysler that have taken Federal Money and are still going bankrupt, Ford has set themselves up with good strategic planning and money management and wise handling of the Unions(More needs to be done) has positioned itself to be a player in the Future.   Ford’s biggest problem is where the other two are doing so badly and their suppliers overlap that it could affect their ability to get enough parts.  As of March 31 Ford had $21.3 Billion in cash as opposed to being broke even with Federal Money.   Much of this money they have from the sale of assets such as Aston Martin, Land Rover and Jaguar and reduced its stake in Mazda and looking to sell Volvo.  A good move allowing them to focus on their bread and butter products.  This didn’t come without a high cost of Union Workers(41% reduction in work force), which seems appropriate being a large part of the problem and many more concessions by the union are needed to make Ford really solvent.  Will the government allow this, it is doubtful, as we all know they have to pay back for the UAW’s help with no consideration to how this affects other workers and the country.  I don’t blame the workers, I think they would make concessions far sooner than the UAW fighting for its existence in an every changing world would.  The sad part is they are shooting themselves in the foot, no man or no union is an island, we are all in this together.  I would like to see everyone buy a Ford although they are not the only ones making great cars in North America there is also Toyota of America and Honda of  Ohio(Accord,RDX, CRV,TL and Gold Wind MotorCylce).  Toyota of America has less information on their website but at least the Camry is made in GA.  I believe but not 100% sure they are made with non Union works, which would explain why they have an edge in the cost of vehicle, not the quality of the cars, Fords are all as good.  I thought that BMW’s were made here under BMW of America, but they are just an import shell.  There may be othere companies making cars  here I need to do more research.  But also there are American brands made else where, such as the Lincoln Town Car made in Canada, I am not angry with Canada, so I guess that is ok and the Town Car although Stounchy is a good car and some cars made in Mexico, the worst cars come from Mexico, I know this to be true and it may be what has hurt GMs quality.  However think about this, the money made by Ford is more likely to stay in this country improving the economy.

There is no denying, this is the worst car market in many years and without some kind of real stimulus by way of corporate tax cuts it is going to get worse.  I am against all bail outs, I don’t think there is a company that is to large to fail.  I have posted those ideas before so I will spare you.  An interesting side note is, I don’t know of one bank in trouble in Maine, that is locally controlled banks.  Maybe we really should think about going back to smaller locally controlled banks without Government intervention, may be the next President would consider that, breaking up the banks much like they broke up AT&T,  this won’t happen  with the present one’s philosophy.  As far as the banks,  isn’t that what the FDIC was suppose to be about, just another gut less trust fund, another deception and part of the Tyranny that has become our government.

There is no fixing this until we get some adult supervision in Washington and there are many people working very hard to make that happen starting 2010 and on to 2012.  Be engaged, let people know the truth whether they believe it or not, whether they think your nuts or not, in the end they will know you were right and our government is so... sooo....sooo wrong.

The latest nail in our coffin is a disastrous National Health Care system that the Congress wants to get passed by Wednesday so Obama can pound his chest and say he is going to save the world.  While listening to Mark Levin yesterday, I listen to it the day after it is aired so it was Friday’s show.  Congressman Ryan from WI explained how they will do this without even as much as a discussion using a loop hole called reconciliation(if your interested let me know and I will send you his comments).  One blubbery nurse called and complained about an issue that everyone agreed was an insurance issue and had nothing to do with Health Care unto itself.  Then 10 or more Physicians and Nurses called to say that this will totally ruin the system.  They now take so many patience that Medicaid and Medicare only pay a fraction of the cost, they say the worst part is the paperwork and a lot of good people have already left the profession and they will leave in droves now.  Leaving us to import Doctors like a 3rd world country from countries that don’t have decent educational systems and people that don’t speak English,  I can see the cereal boxes now, not only Spanish but 5 other languages.  Rationed Health Care with buearacrats making decision that should be made by Physicians and ultimately a bankrupted system as in Britain and add to that  every other way this Administration is bankrupting the country it just might be a total collapse, buy gold, by the time we can stop him.

In the mean time what does Obama do, he blames Bush primarily and goes around the world apologizing for you and I, I think we should post in all the major newspapers of the world, Obama doesn’t speak for us, we have nothing to be sorry for.  This is one disgusting human being and yet there are many stupid people that worship the ground he walks on, I am having a hard time understanding why they can’t see.  My father use to say and I am sure it wasn’t original, “There are none so blind as those that will not see”.  Case in point.  I like a band that attracts a majority of liberals, for you older folks, Yes is the name of the band.  They still are sort of a band but a shadow of what they once were.  The lead singer has been sick and I wanted to find out how he was doing, I hadn't gone to the Yes Chat since before the election and one of the woman I would often discuss political matters with was there, I stayed a few minutes and found out what I wanted to find out.  As I was leaving just for the fun of it, I asked her, what do you think of our new President?  She replied, he has a lot of work to do cleanning up the mess that he inherited, I said Take Care, see you next time and left.  Indeed it was a mess, but a few simple things in my opinion would have gone a long way to fix it, not throwing the baby out with the bath water as Obama has done.  These said fixes I have gone on forever on other posts.  Not to mention that a majority of these problems were created by Carter, Clinton and Bushes Democratic Congress.

So what is really going on here.  I think they must be able to read so I don’t think that is it.   I think they can do 4th grade math so I don’t think that is it.  After serious consideration and I don’t say this lightly.  I think Obama is out to destroy the country that he and his lovely wife think is a mean country.  The proud student of Rev Wright, that people before the election didn’t take seriously, oh he was just there, yes there for 20 years.  It is ok for Obama to take 1/2 million advance for his book deal but he wants the rest of us poor, you see he doesn’t care because he will be a rich man, they can just go any place in the world they want, make their own community on an island it doesn’t matter to them, or maybe on second thought Red China would be good he likes the system there.  The rest of us who either love this country and want to fix it or just can’t got anywhere else are here until we die.

There are so many things going on it is hard to keep up, most of them bad.  If this Administration was so inclined to do great things rather than ruining the country wouldn’t that be nice.  Power corrupts, but not in every case there have been many Leaders in this country that saw their power for what it is,  entrusted to them by the people that elected them, and some never got it, the difference between a great leader and the average or even bad leader.

Two issues that are on my mind at this moment.  The obscene act of releasing those memos telling the enemy what no other president has ever done, how we conduct our interrogations.  Now it isn’t a matter of what we will or will not do but the fact is we will do nothing to protect the security of our Nation.  Beyond that they are planning on prosecuting Lawyers and maybe CIA operatives that did nothing but serve their country in an honourable way.  This is just disgusting.  I recently gave Obama a positive review for sending troops to Afghanistan, the problem is that,  just like everything that comes out of his mouth it was a lie, 20,000 combat troops are now 4,000 non combatins.  Mark Levin was on Hannity last night and just was livid over this and said he would defend these people for no charge and names a few others that have committed to helping him, names I did not know.  Not only did he say that but he gave a long list of people that he was going to call as witnesses, shooting a cannon across the bow of  the Obama Administration in no uncertain terms, I don’t think you want this guy angry at you.  Add Hannity comments and it is doubtful this will ever happen, Sean said he will raise as much money as it took to defend these patriots.  At the moment this is still America, keep up the good fight where every it finds you, stand up for what is right.  If anyone doesn’t think that they record all these talk radio shows daily they are fooling themselves, they have already either decided to ruin Mark Levin or take him at his word and back off or both.  But they must remember every cause does better with a Martyr.

The other matter is about the financial health of the country.  TARP money was given to some willing and thankful banks while others said we don’t need it.  The problem is they somehow and I don’t know how forced them to take the TARP money.  Now they have said, you know this isn’t going to cost as much as we thought, we are just going to take our pound of flesh in common stock, effectively nationalising every large bank in the country.  All under the smoke screen of, see we didn’t even need that whole $700 billion dollars, $350 of it they can’t even account for.  The dirty little secret is they are doing it under the table through the Federal Reserve which has promised $7 Trillion with a T to prop up these failed businesses.  So my old math, tells me  $7 Trillion + $837 Billion + $650 Billion plus God knows what else, is darn close to $10 Trillion or doubling the National debt in 100 days.  The debt route is actually the best case scenario, it is ugly because it passes on to our great grand children payments that they never voted for and neither did we.  The other scenario is just printing the money, which is what I think they will do, if you liked the depression you will love hyper inflation, the very worst thing that can happen to an economy.  Gawd do we need some adult supervision in Washington, every single one of these problems have better solutions than the routes taken, but it doesn’t help advance their agenda.  Hard to believe but they want the worst economy they can get, why, well that might be another post.

The other day someone mentioned to me there were some people hanging out and had signs that either said honk if you for Gay marriage or the other way around, I don't remember.  But it did make me think about it a little bit.  My wife although not particularly anti gay is really opposed to it, she sees it in a very traditional way and of course states all the ways they have rights without calling it marriage.  She is right, there are legal ways to ensure that someone and  their significant other no matter if married or not and even for non gays can have medical and power of attorney and a whole host of other rights.  I find it particularly funny that most straight people don’t hurry into marriage and some never marry and live together for years and yet there are people working hard for the right.  Frankly I am more offended by dead beat dads than two consenting adults of the same sex living together as long as I don’t have to see what they do in their private moments.

Every year or two this issue comes up in Maine, the last time it was rejected by the people but now they are considering it in the State House.  So I wondered what is marriage exactly, or at least the accepted definition.  It seems to be the legal and religious contract between a man and a woman, however if you take the very liberal Wikipedia definition it does include same sex unions as marriage.  Hmmmm....   So I guess it is a matter of opinion.  Basically I think of it as a way of supporting with a Mother and Father the raising of children and we all know that a two parent house is much better.  Although that isn’t the standard of the day, many times today the father isn’t even known, we use to call those young ladys something other than mothers when we were younger, but today it seems to be socially acceptable.  This situation most of the time leads to a Welfare family being created and after that it is generational, the child's education is how to swipe the Food Stamp plastic.  That is the best case scenario the worst case is they become a menace to society and land up a ward of the state in some correctional institution.  I am not for schools showing gay marriage as a life style, but then again, if our schools stopped being indoctrination mills and taught logic, philosophy, math, science,real history and the big one ENGLISH, would I be so concerned about it, not really.  Nothing is going to make a 15 year old be what they are not, sure it may give some kids courage to come out if you will, but I doubt it will convert anyone.

My next thought is where do I stand on this as a political issue.  Pretty far down on my priority list and it may not even exist there.  If a candidate in all other ways is a great candidate but supports Gay Marriage, they will get my vote and support, it is such a minor issue, I wonder what the big deal is.  I am going to go one step further, if the candidate is gay and there are gay conservatives and in all other ways they meet my real priorities, fiscal responsibility, strong national defense and strong enforceable immigration laws to name a few, they get my vote.  Which leads to another point, we as conservatives need to look at our priorities and drop off the earth the ones that are meaningless to our lives.

Mr. President if you could take a few minutes from your busy schedule and answer only two questions that many Americans want to know.  You stated you would halve the debt in 5 years and yet you and the Congress have are spending at record high levels.  I am a little older than you 63, so I didn’t take the new math but it seems to me impossible to have a balanced budget when the government budget is 30% of GDP.  There simply are not enough rich people to pay for this. An accepted but still too high percentage of GDP is 20%.  Given that growth in the economy will be small if not shrinking in 2010 where $3.7 the proposed budget,  at 20% would cap spending at $2.7 Trillion.  Once again one assumes that 20% figure is considered a high but not destructive tax structure.  However let me submit for your consideration at the current tax rate with no or small growth through 2010 an additional $1 trillion will be added to the already enormous National debt and I think that is the best case scenario.  Can you explain all of this in old math terms that an old man can understand.

Again this may just be my old math.  How are you Mr. President going to perform your constitutional duties(the one you swore to when you took the oath of office)  "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."  Very few duties are given to the President explicitly, but protecting our nation from domestic and foreign threats is sure one.  How can you do this Mr. President when you have slashed an already inadequate military budget by more than the 10% you have stated.   Where as you have wrapped  what were supplemental budgets to fund the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan into the standing military defense budget, this cuts the budget more like 20 or 25%.  At a time when hostile to the US countries in the world are testing long range missiles with the ability for nuclear warheads, you have limited funding for missile defense, how does this make our country safer Mr. President.  Most of America is asking this question and we do not understand how making our military weaker makes us stronger to deal with the dangerous world we live in.  Mr. President this isn’t the kind of change we wanted.

Mr. President, with all due respect, please don’t apologise for me, we have done nothing wrong, in fact we are the most generous country in the world and give not only our money to people in need  but our lives in the cause of freedom the world over.  Mr. President, you admire President Lincoln as we all do, we beg you to start showing your admiration by acting more like President Lincoln and less like Karl Marx.(I threw in that Marx dig, I obviously wouldn’t use it)

I thought you might find this as enjoyable and informative as I did.  It is an audio, just download and listen.
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As we all know by now, around a million people attended the many Tea Parties across the country.  Some were relatively small while others were quite huge.  The numbers are not in but Atlanta by far had the largest with nearly 25,000 people.  Even our little Tea Party in Augusta Maine drew between 4-6 hundred, it was a long event starting at 2:00 to 7:00 so there was a lot of coming and going and a lot of people worked and come when they could.  This is a good start.  The press was present at all of these events, some good coverage some horrid, I was happy with the coverage here in Maine.  

The problem is for the moment, we are amateurs and we are dealing with seasoned pros.  The national press covered Obama acting like Ronald Reagan on taxes before the Tea Party.  Of course we all know that everything that comes out of Obama’s mouth is a lie, but the problem is the press has a majority of the American voters thinking he is close to God.  So it is a little like calling Hitler a liar during the Nazi era in Germany.  But I think the seed has been sown.

In my opinion we find some good conservative candidates for 2010 with one theme, the economy which will still be horrid, nothing has been done to make it better.  People that believe in allowing business to breath and cutting corporate tax and capital gains.  At first this was just a normal economic downturn and nothing really needed to be done and it would already be turning around but when the Government gets involved in anything things are always worse.  There are other important conservative issues but until we get our foot back in the door, we will be totally shut out, let us take the issue that most people can understand and will vote accordingly.  If we let all these other issues get in the way and bicker as we have been doing for the last few years, we stand no chance of taking this country back, all your energy will be wasted in my opinion.  The liberals have vastly over stepped, let us take advantage of it.

Even for liberals that have half a brain(maybe some do) they have to realize that every place and every time socialism has been tried it has been a disaster.  Every place and every time free market enterprise has been tried it has been a success.  Every time lowering taxes has been tried to stimulate the economy it has been successful and conversely every time government spending has been tried it has been a disaster.  A liberal may not be able to understand Liberty but he can understand when he goes to the store and has to pay $10 for something that 2 years earlier sold for a $1, that he can understand.  Hyper inflation is a certainty because you can’t possibly tax people enough to pay for all this needless spending, meaning they will print the money and add that to the $7 trillion of un appropriated  funds  that the FED RES are using for bail outs very under the table, where do we think this is going to come from, they will print it of course. Add it up and it comes to about 1 1/2 times our GDP in printed money, if you don’t think that will lead to Hyper-inflation then you have to look a little closer.  

Now that we have made ourselves feel better, let us get down to the work that needs to be done.