Right Out Of "Atlas shrugged!"

The "Community Reinvestment Act of 1977," passed by a Democrat-controlled Congress and signed into law by a Democrat president (Jimmy Carter) and "strengthened" and heavily enforced by another Democrat President (Bill Clinton), protected by Chris Dodd and Barney Frank (both of whom profited handsomely from it), could have been part of Ayn Rand's masterwork, "Atlas Shrugged." It was just such a law and the pressure to loan money to "deadbeats" that caused "Midas Mulligan," her well-named banker, to zero out his accounts, convert his money into gold, and close his banks rather than make such loans, while financing John Galt's hideaway "Galt's Gulch," where the "producers" of society who join his "strike" could go to live until the predicted collapse of the socialist economy when they could return and rebuild on a better financial basis. I think we're near that point today. Unfortunately, there's no "Galt's Gulch" that I know of. "Atlas Shrugged" should be "required reading" for all economists, politicians, and bureaucrats. (Investor's Business Daily)

Panic Over Obama

Hugh Hewitt says, "The panic that has hit the stock market for the last few weeks, and many economists I've spoken with on the radio program agree it is a panic, have a built-in sell-off as the realization of an Obama administration looms. Hyper partisans on the left are trying to shout down any cause and effect between the market's drop and the election of Barack Obama, but the numbers don't lie. Let's hope that people begin to realize that the wealth of this country is largely intact, and life can and must go on." The Democrats will never admit it, but the markets are down in ANTICIPATION of an Obama presidency. They didn't start in a downward direction even before the "panic" the Democrats created set in, until it became evident that our next president would be a radical socialist with a near-filibuster-proof Congress and could do pretty much anything he wanted.(Hugh Hewitt)

"Consumer Confidence"

What has that got to do with anything? The simple answer is, EVERYTHING! It is LACK of "consumer confidence" that CAUSES recessions and depressions. As I've said before, it's all in your mind. If consumers THINK that "cash is tight" and then hold onto THEIR cash, a recession, or in some cases, a DEPRESSION ensues. All it takes to "solve the problem" is to convince the consumer there IS no problem. Unfortunately, the Democrats (liberals/socialists) know that a good economy doesn't help them gain or retain power, or move us one inch closer to socialism, the philosophy that requires the THEFT from those able to EARN, to give that stolen to those who DON'T earn, but who have a vote. We've had a long-lasting good economy since Ronald Reagan lowered taxes and thus ENDED the recession the Democrats left him, while DOUBLING the "tax take" by giving INCENTIVE to those whose investments BUILD the economy. The most recent Democrat administration, (Clinton's) is STILL taking credit for it while doing everything it could to destroy it. They finally made it, working "behind the scenes" in a REPUBLICAN administration, and CREATED the "financial disaster" we're in now. It amazes me that the American voter is content to allow those who CREATED the "financial disaster" to supposedly END it; the very same people who were in that Clinton administration are even now being appointed to important positions in the Obama administration). Remember, these are the people who have been working diligently to CREATE a recession so they could use it to win the election. It worked. They will not "solve" the problem. They will only make it SEEM like they have, while "picking your pocket" anew with higher taxes they SAY are necessary to pay for the BILLIONS of dollars they have been "throwing at" various groups. It frustrates me to watch this happen while most Americans "ignore politics," and thus allow it. (Yahoo News/AP)

"No Respect for Markets?"

Yes, there isn't much respect for (free) markets right now, but that has been CREATED by liberals, just as the current economic crisis was, for the purpose of electing Obama president. But that isn't the market's fault. It's the GOVERNMENT'S fault. Democrats say it's because of "eight years of Bush's bad policies," but they can't point to a single policy that would cause the problem. They work very hard to convince us that capitalism doesn't work, and is somehow bad, in preparation for their planned move toward socialism, which they're trying just as hard to convince us is good. (Café Hayek)

Using Less Oil

"Chevron has unveiled a revolutionary new way of finding oil. It doesn't involve satellite telemetry or seismic imaging or some other high-tech means of exploration. It involves advertising. Chevron has a new ad campaign to get its customers to use not more oil, but less. In Chevron's words, 'Energy Saved Is Energy Found.' The new ads feature people promising to carpool, to use fluorescent bulbs, even to 'take my golf clubs out of the trunk.' We've heard these energy-saving tips countless times (except perhaps the one about the golf clubs). What's new is the spectacle of a major corporation urging people to cut back on its core product, as part of "one of the most important efforts of our time - using less." The Denver water company tried that, and it was successful. Water use dropped significantly--then they raised their rates "because water use is down." It happened in reverse with the Denver Bus system. They advertised widely to get more and more people to "leave their cars at home" and ride the bus. Never mind it took them twice as long to get anywhere and cost them more. People did it, and increased bus usage significantly. So the bus company raised their rates because they had to buy more buses and put more buses on routes. They apparently couldn't figure out that more money paid in fares at the old rates could accomplish all that. And these are the people RUNNING things! Sheesh! (IBD Editorials)

Politics of Personal Destruction

Democrats whine about it when someone tells the truth about them, calling it "the politics of personal destruction," hoping we'll forget that they are MASTERS of it. "Recently, Democrats called for unity and an end to the politics of personal destruction against our new, shared President-elect Obama. So let us hope that New York publishers will now refrain from publishing any more foul novels like Nicholson Baker's 'Checkpoint,' whose characters debate the wisdom of assassinating George W. Bush. Let us also hope that when Barack Obama is nearing the end of his term, filmmaker Oliver Stone does not offer the electorate a damning mythic film called 'H.' that emphasizes the wild college days of President Barack H. Obama when, decades ago, as he freely admits, he used both hard drugs and marijuana." If they REALLY hate "the politics of personal destruction," you'd think they would stop using it. (IBD)

All You've Been Taught is WRONG!

Teenagers are too young to really know what is going on in the world, and for the most part, what they've been taught in school is WRONG. Liberals (socialists) have been in control of the education system for far too many years and consistently "condition" our children to believe THEIR version of things--which uniformly favors collectivism (socialism) as a lifestyle. This is not a "conspiracy." It is a PHILOSOPHY that has been taught in our schools for a long time. It's understandable that today's teenagers believe socialism is a "good thing," that it is being used successfully in Europe, and that it should be brought here. It is NOT, and SHOULD not. Everywhere socialism has been tried it has either failed, or is only lasting by being "propped up" by other socialist countries newer and still solvent (who will not be for long) or even by US. Communism in Russia is just the biggest socialist nation to fail. Many others have failed, or are in the process of failing. Their economies are failing, one by one. In this hemisphere, Cuba, for instance, is still around, only by being "propped up" by Russia, and now by Hugo Chavez' in Venezuela, who still has money because he "nationalized" (stole) the oil companies Americans built for him. But their infrastructure is crumbling, Castro is dying, and the only new cars there (if any) belong to high-ranking politicians still in his favor.

Teenagers have not been ALIVE long enough to know what's going on. I know I didn't when I was a teenager, but soon learned the truth after I got away from the influence of those socialist conditioning mills we call schools. I was a Democrat in those days, and soon became a "Goldwater Democrat" in 1964. The guy who later came up with that TV ad showing a little girl picking a flower while a nuclear bomb exploded in the background, saying, "If you vote for Goldwater, we'll be stuck in Viet Nam for years" was right. I voted for Goldwater, and we WERE "stuck in Viet Nam" for years. Only it was because Goldwater DIDN'T win. I was disgusted with the apathy I saw in those days, and consciously :opted out" of politics for many years. That was my biggest life mistake, which I corrected just before Clinton's first term. I found out that even if I didn't "pay attention to politics," politics WOULD pay attention to ME. (Just common sense)

It's Hitting News Anchors

And they don't know why. Dusty Saunders, who writes about the media, says Denver 9News Anchor Bob Kendrick is being "let go" because he's being paid too much. Actually, he's being fired because he, and others in the news biz think it "should not be about ratings," completely forgetting that "ratings" is what PAYS their excessively high salaries. They THINK it's because of the "economy." But that's a convenient "straw man" to mask what it REALLY is: viewers who are tired of all the liberal drivel spouted from news rooms. Saunders says Kendrick was fired "80% because of money," which is 100% wrong. He was fired because ALL liberal media sources are suffering a significant loss of business as people get tired of their liberal bias and turn them off. This has been happening since long before the "economic crunch" they're blaming. Media these days just do NOT "check their sources" to see if what they're reporting is the truth. Now Kendrick is "livid" about Saunder's article saying he made $400,000 a year, saying Saunders "made up" the figure "out of whole cloth." He should know about that. Maybe if the news biz got back in the truth biz, they'd do better. (Rocky Mountain News)

Drabble HAs it Right

One of the things I don't like about living in a Republic (although I wouldn't want it like in a dictatorship) is the "endless elections," and it's getting worse. This last presidential election came close on the heels of the 2006 congressional election, with several local elections in between. There was not a SINGLE DAY in between where we did not have to suffer lying political ads and political signs all over. At one point, I saw an Obama sign across the street from my home and McCain sign next door. I'm not sure how that affected relations between neighbors, but I'm sure it did My own nephew voted for Obama and I'm trying to help him see his error (if he will read what I send). Drabble's Nov. 4 cartoon shows it "like it is." (Drabble)

Bailing Out the Auto Unions

The government is debating on how to "bail out" the auto-making business. When they do, it will not be the automakers they're bailing out. It will be the United Auto Workers Union, who have worked diligently to "price them out of the market with such things as FLOOR SWEEPERS being paid $24 per hour! I was a skilled worker for 45 years and I never made anything near that much. What makes the union think a floor sweeper is worth $24 an hour? Other jobs pay more, with top workers making up to $75 an hour! NOBODY is worth $75 an hour to turn a screw every five minutes or more. Obama talks of "bankrupting" the coal business while saying automakers are "just too big" to fail. Never mind how many energy forms rely on the coal industry to GENERATE their energy! Liberals have talked about the "stupid things" Bush has done (without being able to point out a SINGLE stupid THING" he has done that is not stupid anywhere but in their own feeble imaginations) while doing REAL "stupid things" even before being sworn in! (IBD Editorials)

Osama is Dead!

And good riddance! The Democrats won't admit it, and neither will the terrorists. The man they CALL their "number 2 man" is, in reality, their number ONE man. And the Democrats have bought it. So they still waste time and money hunting for Osama in the mountains of Pakistan. Don't look for the Democrats to get any smarter soon. They're either incompetent or just stupid. They're now using the excuse of "poor health" for Obama not appearing in any videos, forgetting that with video cameras becoming so small and battery-operated, they can be used ANYWHERE. They could go into one of his CAVES and make a video if he is alive. But he isn't. We made him a "crispy critter" many years ago when we bombed one of his caves in Afghanistan with him in it. (One News Now)

Guns in Church?

Two people are dead as a result of a man coming into the St. Thomas Syrian Orthodox Knanaya Church. In New Jersey, where guns are not allowed, and killing his estranged wife and a parishioner. In Colorado Springs, a man came in and started killing people in a church protected by a part-time security guard who was also a parishioner, who shot him, stopping his rampage. In a Scientology Church, a man came in with a sword and tried to kill some people, but was shot to death by a security guard. Anti-gun freaks say there should not be guns in church. But how many people have been killed in churches by people who don't obey rules, nor laws? I think concealed guns should be allowed EVERYWHERE, so people can defend themselves against such people. The "anti-gun freaks" say that will make America a "wild-west" society where people "settle scores" with guns at the slightest provocation. What a LOAD! Back when everybody DID carry a gun, gunfights were rare, and it was a "polite society." Today, when people carrying guns are rare, we have more shootings per square inch than ever before because people who want to shoot someone don't care about how many laws they break while the people they want to shoot, do. What makes politicians think a CRIMINAL, who does not OBEY laws, will obey one that says he can't be armed, I don't know. Only honest people do, and we don't have to worry about them. (Associated Press)

Panic About Obama

Hugh Hewitt says, "The panic that has hit the stock market for the last few weeks, and many economists I've spoken with on the radio program agree it is a panic, have a built-in sell-off as the realization of an Obama administration looms. Hyper partisans on the left are trying to shout down any cause and effect between the market's drop and the election of Barack Obama, but the numbers don't lie. Let's hope that people begin to realize that the wealth of this country is largely intact, and life can and must go on." The Democrats will never admit it, but the markets are down in ANTICIPATION of an Obama presidency. They didn't start in a downward direction even before the "panic" the Democrats created set in, until it became evident that our next president would be a radical socialist with a near-filibuster-proof Congress and could do pretty much anything he wanted.(Hugh Hewitt)

"Filibuater" Will Now Be Bad

Prediction: the filibuster, which Democrats hated with a passion when the Republicans used it, but who used it with abandon when THEY were out of power, will "redefine" it as a "bad thing." At least, until they become the minority party again. "For much of the Bush administration, out-of-power Democratic senators defended it as a hallowed tradition of American politics. But as the ruling majority, they will soon probably redefine the filibuster as a sort of nihilism practiced by bitter Republicans to obstruct the Obama agenda." Of course, when in power, Republicans themselves once deplored the filibuster as fossilized obstructionism (politicians tend to do that)." They will redefine many more things as they attempt to "cement" their hold on power for more than four years. If more and more people "wake up" to their scams and schemes, they may not LAST more than four years, this time. Unless they're successful in bringing back the "Fairness Doctrine" and shutting people like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity up--which is their primary goal. (Investor's Business Daily)

"Pornography" in Media?

"FOX News asked Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) if liberals in Congress will try to implement the so-called Fairness Doctrine--a measure specifically designed to shut down Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and conservative talk radio. Schumer replied indignantly: 'Do you think we should allow people to put pornography on the air? Absolutely not. Particularly on television or radio.' (How STUPID is that?) " Looks like Schumer "let the cat out of the bag" on their scam. Surely he's not so stupid as to think an opposing opinion is "pornography," (apparently he is) but he (and other liberals) hope gullible bureaucrats at the FCC are. Hannity, Limbaugh, and the others ARE "fairness" because most other outlets hew to the liberal line. Liberals think there are only TWO sides to ANY issue: theirs, and people who disagree with them, for ANY reason. That Schumer could "get indignant" about this offends me. It is those people they want to "shut up." If they can, there will be NO "fairness" in media. That's the way they want it. To me, THAT'S "pornography in media." Limbaugh has said, "Liberals out of power are FUNNY. In power, they're DANGEROUS." Is there anything righter than that? (CFIF)

What the HELL is Wrong With Bush?

"Former [Border Control -RT] agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean are 20 months into their sentences for shooting drug dealer Osvaldo Aldrete Davila, who tried to elude the two agents after driving a van near Fabens, Texas, that was found to hold 743 pounds of marijuana. He tried to flee back to Mexico and was shot in the buttocks by the agents who had reason to believe he was armed. Last week the two agents had their resentencing hearing before U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cordone. The hearing was prompted by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals' throwing out a minor obstruction of justice count. Ramos and Compean were resentenced to virtually their original 11- and 12-year sentences, the bulk of which is a mandatory sentence of 10 years for the use of a firearm in the commission of a crime." The "crime" of doing their jobs, keeping such as Davila from smuggling in drugs. Does the fact that Davila has been caught TWICE since then doing the same thing mean anything to you? One of those times it was quashed, but apparently they couldn't cover it up a second time. These men were wrongfully imprisoned by a Bush close friend and it seems as if the entire justice system is against them. Every time they come up for a review, it is made worse. What's wrong with us? Why doesn't Bush pardon them? I've lost a lot of faith in Bush's judgment since he won't. (IBD Editorials)

HILLARY in the Cabinet?

Sun Tzu, a military strategist, once said, "Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer." But I'm sure he didn't mean to put someone bent on undermining you in such a powerful post as Secretary of State where she will be privy to the highest level of secrets and can use that position to undermine you so she can defeat you in the next election. And don't think she cares about being SecState when it comes time to run against you in the next election, using what she learned in that position for almost four years. What we're going to have in the next four years is the "third Clinton administration," with most of the well-known "Clintonistas" in all the most powerful posts in the government. Change? Yeah, we'll get "change," all right. Change from the slow progression toward socialism we got under the two Bush administrations, back to the more speedy progression we got under the Clinton and Carter presidencies. (Quotes)

What is This "Change" Bit?

Obama promised us "change." But so far, all of the people he's mentioned as appointees to his staff are "the old guard," most of whom "served" in the Clinton and other past Democrat administrations. This is "change?" I don't think so. I think it's going to be "business as usual," where Democrats (in Congress) make laws (and Democrat presidents sign them) that make it legal to steal as much of our earnings as possible, to give to the leeches of society who are dependable Democrat voters. (Yahoo News/AP)

Liberals and Recession

The liberals (Democrats) have been trying mightily to create a recession for a long time by constantly talking about it, telling us there is one coming, over and over again, until people come to believe it, thereby CREATING one. Now they've got one, just in time for THEM to put a stop to it, simply by stopping talking about it. Recessions are a "self-perpetuating prophecy," CREATED by people being afraid one coming, and not spending as much money as normal. When that happens, a recession cannot be far behind. To get rid of it, they just stop promoting it. (Yahoo News/AP)

This is Not "Change"

Every appointment I've heard about for the new "Obama Team" is either a former administration official in a Democrat (socialist) administration (most recently Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter) or a well-known Democrat liberal. Janet Nepolitano is both. She is the sitting Democrat governor of Arizona who was one of the first governors to come out for Obama, and who has consistently either vetoed measures to help us fight illegal immigration or signed legislation to hinder it. She has also consistently vetoed legislation to stop, or slow down the killing of innocent infants. She was an attorney for Anita Hill when she tried to destroy now Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas at his confirmation hearings. In 1993, Clinton appointed her as United States Attorney for the District of Arizona. She'll be "out of a job" soon, because of term limits. There was talk of her taking over John McCain's seat if he got elected (so she wins, either way), but that won't happen now unless McCain decides to retire, which is not likely. Will she be the next Homeland Security Secretary? Probably. Is this "change?" Not at all. It's a member of the "old guard" moving up the ladder. (Wikipedia)