I pondered the spin being used to make this economy appear to be turning around.  Obviously it would be a good thing, yet I return to the thesis and ask that without Obama, can you imagine how CRAZY good it would be?

Since the lefties cannot get over GWB, lets take a look at his record according to the numbers as seen on TV.. umm wait no, TV is ignoring these numbers.  OK, as seen with the government’s own statistics.

The estimate in 2001 for all occupations  including government, legislators bus drivers yada yada: 127,980,410 persons in the workforce.  Not too bad. Clinton along with a reasonably conservative Republican  legislature left GW with a pretty fair economy, and GW even with an attack on US soil and effective shutdown of our economy for a few days in late 2001, carried that employment figure even higher.  I won’t even make the obvious association and timetable for disaster headed up by speakeasy Pelosi and herr Reid. Suffice it to say GWB did his job to the end, and only as a parting shot acted like a corrupt Democrat.

In 2008 the jobs figure had grown to 135,185,230 employed 2008 in the workforce. Even a solar powered desktop calculator can figure what the differences are between those two numbers.  Seriously, break out your solar powered calculator.   If you don’t have one, use fish sticks.

And keep them out.

you will need them to calculate again.  In 2010 for all occupations,  127,097,160 were employed.Whirr Click! Yum!

Oh snap.

Now in all fairness the Obama administration needs to get credit for the 1.2 million jobs it says have been created, (in the last year?) so when the 2011 estimates come out we can all celebrate.  Although that MUST include a million or so added in different agencies of government, and of course the 103 Czar positions.

Maybe a couple more in the Dept of Labor counting section would be good, so we can get on top of this now to deliver those accolades.

Right I thought not.

It occurred to me today that often, blogs will use a “word cloud” to represent the relative frequency and activity of subjects, names, etc.  the larger and more pronounced the word appears, the more likely that you will see it referenced in the blog.  Usually by clicking on those key words,it will give you a list of stories related.

Perhaps it might be a useful exercise by examining the campaign finance of politicos, and placing a ‘cloud’ of benefactors, and financially inclined groups around the President’s photo to relate the high frequency of support he has received from said groups.  It should be noted, this president is quite loyal to his benefactors, and follow up policies to the bail out we all knew was wrong have been implemented to make sure their perceived paybacks were not discovered to be the frauds they are.

Occupiers, please pay attention.

August 29th, 2011, Fairfax, VA— Gibson Guitar was raided by the U.S. Department of Justice recently for an alleged violation of environmental laws including the Lacey Act. Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today called on Tennessee Senators Bob Corker and Lamar Alexander to investigate whether the Department is selectively targeting companies for criminal investigations that do business in right-to-work states:

“Tennessee Senators Bob Corker and Lamar Alexander should immediately demand a full explanation from the Obama Administration for their apparent targeting of Gibson Guitar — which makes all of their guitars in the U.S. Based upon facts available, the only thing that distinguishes Gibson’s import of wood and that of its competitors is that Gibson is located in Tennessee, a right-to-work state, and its main competitors are located in non-right-to-work California and Pennsylvania.

“In the wake of Obama’s National Labor Relations Board’s attempt to prevent Boeing from expanding into right-to-work South Carolina, it is reasonable to question whether the Justice Department raid of Gibson is a gross abuse of power to appease their politically important Big Labor allies. It is up to Senators Corker and Alexander to get to the truth, no matter how ugly it might be.”

Hugo Chaves should be so proud of this president.

This particular instance of fear prompted by those who don’t wish to have their 401ks, and retirement savings wiped out by who knows what?

If I had more than a modest amount in the market personally, I would be more concerned personally.  However, if you consider that the businesses which are on the open exchange were hardly different on Friday than they were at the closing bell Monday, it would seem there is probably an over reaction.

One that mirrors such unhinged lunacy by the likes of Michael Moore.

Why must we suffer these fools?

The downgrade decision by S & P prompting calls by the fat filmmaker for the president to tweet out:

“Pres Obama, show some guts & arrest the CEO of Standard & Poors. These criminals brought down the economy in 2008& now they will do it again”

Of course Michael should remember, this is not YET that transformed state of his Marxist ideals.  To arrest someone for telling it like it is, would hardly constitute anything recognizable in this country.

Even if the S & P head was mistaken (in my view NOT) it is not an arrestable offense.

Perhaps the fat bastard has spent too much time with Fidel in Cuba.

And once upon a time trading with THAT country had more dire consequences.

Sadly, there are a few in Traverse City who make us see this walking Turducken once a year when we have the “film festival,” a marvelous time when b movies and union propaganda films are interspersed with two or three decades old box office hits, which aren’t even produced on DVD any longer.

In 2011 it was Congress making a bad deal with an even more miserable president, you corpulent clod.

And in 2008 it congress was equally deficient, but it was frosted with a speaker of the house holding this country hostage to higher gas prices for her own personal gain.

Some guts?  Given the presidency suffered a downgrade in 2008, perhaps Obama should show some humility and step down, taking his entire cabinet of communists and Mao lovers with him.

Fro those of you who support the conventional stupidity supported by certain news editors and pundits, the “racist” canard ought to be tossed outright, as this very case has been brought by Alan Keyes, a conservative presidential candidate who is also [insert drum roll here] Black.

I imagine Dr. Keyes would be interested to know he also fears a black man being in the white house.

Having placed this up, I should note that I have no wild imagining that these challenges will go anywhere. However, I am certainly happy to help transparency along by providing a forum for the discussion and exposure of what the traditional media is IGNORING.

A question that begs to be asked is: “How can this NOT be news?”

This country began seeing the self limiting danger beginning in 2006 with the Pelosi led congress, and the scientifically deficient CO2 limitations that spawned from it.  In fact to the point that the speaker herself was able to use those limits to enrich herself as I have pointed out before.

Yesterday Michigan Rep. Tim Walberg spoke on the U.S. House floor about the need to limit our dependence on foreign energy and encourage energy production here at home. Later that morning, President Obama spoke on the subject at Georgetown University.  On his remarks in the video, Walberg notes:

“My remarks today on the House floor offer a drastically different path than the President’s. While the President is giving speeches and standing in the way of energy production, I am committed to achieving solutions that will decrease our dependence on foreign energy by allowing us to develop our energy resources here at home. I believe the President should take action and encourage more American energy production, instead of giving just another university speech,”

The Video lasts only 1-3/4 minutes and is worth noting.

Congressman Walberg is a co-sponsor of several energy policy bills including HR 909, A Road Map to America’s Energy Future, and HR 49, the American Energy Independence and Price Reduction Act.

I have had a little trouble understanding an expansive world mission initiated by one who used the harshest words toward previous administrations and the defensive/offensive postures we have undertaken already.  The title of hypocrite immediately comes to mind. however, the leader of Libya is enough of a murdering jerk, that it almost makes the hypocrisy understandable, and perhaps acceptable.

That is, if you let emotion drive the debate.

Rand Paul in his response to the president, makes a reasonable and logical argument that challenges the premise of our involvement in this current affair, and wonders openly whom it might be that we are supporting.

I will concede one point made during the president’s speech. The crash of our F-15 in Libya did not result in the pilot becoming the victim of local rage over American imperialism, but rather demonstrated the locals concern for the pilot’s welfare. It is something worth considering.

Where was the severability clause?

It never had one.  the slightest unconstitutional character of the health care law passed by the last congress had no severability guarantee to permit it to continue sans any part of the Stephen King styled tome.  If any one part found itself in contempt of our constitutional rule, then the bill is null and void.  They left out the safeguard for the legislation.  They left out the way that it could stand after the expected ‘constitutional rule’ crowd finds a way to block just a little part.

Wow..  THAT was a screw up..  wasn’t it?

My instincts tell me no.  Somehow, I think that is part of ‘the plan.’

Perhaps for a number of reasons we should be wary of the ‘set up’ this bill might be.  First thoughts give credence to the potential uprising of the poor and disenfranchised, when the Republicans ‘take away’ their health care perks in the expected US Supreme Court action.    How hard will it be to remove those entitlements by the Supremes is open to debate, but the inability to strike it down as a whole package is perhaps one possible goal.

Consider that by placing the benefits up front and ‘in effect’ before any of the projected costs (mandates) kick in, it provides a new entitlement to hold on to.  The ‘empathy’ of a Sotomeyer, or Ginsburg, or Kagan on the court would certainly give in to such tragic potential outcome like the removal of a person’s scheduled procedure because perhaps he or she did not really qualify for it under pre-existing clauses of years before. To strike it down would be to re-impose the rules that defy the promise of ‘social justice.’

Indeed, we cannot take one’s life away, by refusing them promised care, right?  “Void” may well not be palatable.

It won’t happen [if they have a sense of decency].  Or at least that is what the last congress and this administration was counting on.  If severability was added, then the choice parts of the legislation ‘deemed necessary’ for the plan to even have a chance to work, would be already be stripped through constitutional review, rendering it OUTRIGHT, the failure it truly is.  The coincidence of that congress to not insert severability, was likely planned and intended to be an all or nothing bluff.

An ‘all in’ proposition, so to speak.

However, even as all or nothing, we are still in trouble. Nothing is now much worse than what we have lost already.

The mandate not becoming effective yet provides another difficult situation we may not be able to avoid.  Assume the current implementation of the law is wreaking havoc on insurers and health care facilities driving their costs up.  Locally the hospitals are changing the way they do business, and to the extent insurers can get away with it, they are raising rates to cover for the cost between now and 2014.  In 2014, the insurers were expecting to recoup costs brought about by this legislation.  The hospitals will find a problem collecting from an even larger segment of the population that has no coverage.

The insurance companies are BROKE in 2014 with NO MANDATE to back them up.

Without the mandate as a part of the ‘package’ the entire risk management portion of insurance is shot dead.  They will have shot their wad between 2011 and 2014 on the benefits the Obama administration has ‘redistributed’ to the masses already.  At the point where fewer insurance companies are available to cover the nation, and fewer doctors are available to provide the most basic care we once took for granted, the government in an echoing rendition of “I’m here to help you”, will step up and raise the ante with a public option.

It matters little that they have no hand to play.   No one will be left in the game.

The only thing left?  The plan all along for this president, his administration, and willing sycophants in the bleeding heart socialist media, theONE solution Obama wanted all along, and said eventually we will get:

The public option.

MSNBC – On Tucson and politics, Palin plays by own rules

Philly Enquirer – Palin stirs anew on rhetoric

The Atlantic – Sarah Palin Accuses Press of ‘Blood Libel’

Did you happen to see that video?  If not, then take the few minutes to do so.  In the aftermath of a violent act by what appears to be a schizophrenic maniac, the coarsening of our national debate is hardly done by the former Alaskan governor.

Then, find the video of our president Barack Obama speaking at the memorial service yesterday.  The speech itself not terribly bad, with some expected undertones.  Indeed he referred to ‘rhetoric’ as a cause for this assault on the congressman and citizens, and leading up to it, he also argued in ways that suggested the rhetoric from the ‘right’ might be cause for such things.

His willing sycophants in the MSM as usual have been capitulating nicely.  Even when the shooters motives are not completely known, it has been made quite clear he shares no love for the right, and has no conservative underpinnings.  Yet such non sequiturs are merely parlayed into supportive headlines as seen below.

MSNBC – Obama urges country to heal after Arizona shooting

Philly Enquirer – President calls for unity and debate “in a way that heals, not … that wounds.”

The Atlantic – Obama’s Speech: A Memorial That Will Live in Memory

A couple of questions to be asked: Why would the defense of one’s reputation be thought of as accusatory, or stirring of new rhetoric?  And why would one who perpetuated the original accusations that Palin and conservative pundits faced be given not only a pass, but a glorified and testicularly challenged attaboy?

Just curious.

The billionaire is throwing her money around again, this time to help Jon Stewart’s restoring insanity rally. The studio audience was hoping to get a “NEW TOASTER!!” ..but instead she announced she was buying tickets for all in the audience to go to the rally. Shortly after the show half of the audience threw themselves on to the subway tracks in an apoplectic fit. others just drank themselves to sleep on the corner of Michigan avenue.

Smooooooooooooth....

Now.. about that hangover..