Rainy Solar Decathlon; Obama Urges Blacks; Presidential Golfer; Church or Jail ?

25 September 2011


A Very Presidential Golfer ?
Andrews AFB, MD

Hey, in case you missed it... President Obama got to go golfing again yesterday !

I'm sure he and his golfing buddy... former-Presidential golfer Bill Clinton... were deep in discussion between shots on the numerous ways he can say he will "create and save" millions more American jobs and get us out of this recession !!!

Yeah, right !

If the previous 23 times this year, nor the previous 81 times out golfing since he became Prez, haven't inspired Obama with dozens of successful solutions...

I just don't see how his next 82 times out golfing will help us either !!!

Do you ???

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Solar Decathlon At The National Mall
Washington, D.C.

Well, let's see... it's pouring down rain for this collegiate "solar decathlon" sponsored by the Department of Energy... so there is not much generation going on (except maybe a whole lot of hot air being produced by students touting big promises of the near-future" lifetime of "possibly" FREE ENERGY... for a huge initial outlay, of course).

It was very expensive too, for the many colleges to build and send their model "houses" and student teams to D.C. for this "solar decathlon"...

BUT... never fear... "big daddy" (Dept. of Energy) with the deep taxpayer pockets has most graciously given each college that attended a "free" grant of $100,000 of our tax monies... just for stopping by.

I can't wait to see what earth-changing discoveries come out of this 1, 2, 3 or whatever-million dollar "decathlon" project !

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Rallyin' The Congressional Black Caucus
Washington, D.C.

President Obama was in his element yesterday when he was rallyin' more of his "troops"... his staunchest supporters... at the Congressional Black Caucus in D.C.

He got them all fired up with his rhetoric...
especially when it turned from his usual Harvard loftiness...

to some sort of half-southern, half-from da neighborhood, and half-good ol' boy talk...

where President Obama urged his followers to "stop cryin' ", "stop grumblin' " and "stop complainin' "... and go "put on your marching shoes" to follow him into battle for jobs and opportunity.

He even threw in a few well placed "y'alls" just for good measure.

He will need their undying support come election time... so he needs to re-convince them that he is REALLY just like one-of-them (all the regular, little folks of anytown America).

It's not working yet... but it still might !

Maybe a few more "good ol' boy" speeches will do the trick... eh ?

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Jail Cell or Church Pew... Their Choice !
Bay Minette, Alabama

Now, they're thinking !

It used to be "Do you want to join the Army... or do you want to go to Jail ?"

Now a southern Alabama judge is giving misdemeanor offenders in his district a clear choice, too:

"Do you want to go to Church... or do you want to go to Jail ?"

A clever twist on sentencing that allows the offender to have his/her charges dropped completely if he/she chooses the church option for 52 Sundays in a row !

Locally 56 churches have gained "parishioners" and it is actually changing the perspectives and lives of many of those enforced attendees.

"BRAVO", I say...
another American judge with values, guts, and some initiative for the good of all !!!

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Stock Market Tumbles; Cruise Ship Vanishings; Gop Debate; & Space Junk

23 September 2011


The Sky Is Falling Today
Upper Atmosphere

Today is the day to keep your heads down and your eyes wide open !

Some hefty pieces of Made In The USA space junk just might be coming "home".

To screwily twist and paraphrase a famous Shakespearean line:

"We shot some space junk in the air... where It lands, we know not where !"

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Vanishing Cruise Ship Passengers
United Kingdom

Now this is weird... at least 165 people have vanished from luxury cruise ships worldwide... during the cruises... since 1995 !

Granted, that is only about 11 people per year... but, HEY... that's 11 people every year!!!

The report gives no answers... only speculations about falling overboard accidents, or maybe suicidal acts, or maybe even foul play as bad as pushing someone overboard.

They just don't know... still BIG unsolved mysteries !

I've been on several cruises over the years... (my favorite was the 2-week Disney Mediterranean trip)... and I can tell ya...

from now on, I'm carrying a life jacket with me at all times wherever I go on a cruise!

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U.S. Stocks Tumble... Again !
Wall Street, NYC, USA

Here we go again !

The stock markets are getting slapped around again... in the U.S. and worldwide !

Can't us poor, regular slobs... who are small time investors in stocks... EVER catch a break ???

Down another 391 points yesterday !!!

Most countries around the world revolve around what happens in the U.S. economy... and it ain't pretty at all !

President Obama needs to get on the ball... (NO... NOT the golf ball)... and get some workable job-creating programs going in America.

He needs to stop playing golf...
stop playing at being President...
and quit pushing his job-killing "agendas" !

Get us some American jobs, Mr. President !!!

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GOP Debate In Florida
Orlando

Well, verbal punches were thrown all night.

With Governor Perry and former Governor Romney taking most of the air time...

all the candidates were slugging it out and trying to throw verbal mud on each other in "sound bite" chunks.

I don't care what they say or said or are gonna say...

they just need to get somebody solid who will soundly DEFEAT OBAMA and his wayward, haphazard policies in 2012 !!!

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Mayor as Big Brother; Reno Airshow Tragedy

17 September 2011:


Shape Up or Pay More Says Mayor
Chicago, IL

Big Brother is closing in on Chicago !

Mayor Rahm Emanuel is launching a mini-version of Obamacare right there in Chi-town... where people are forced to either participate in a "wellness" program which can and will cost them more money for health coverage.

Their other option if they don't choose to participate? Quit their City job and go find work elsewhere!

The Mayor's way... or the highway!

Get used to it America... the real Obamacare is as bad or worse... and headed our way next year.

Grab your ankles and say... Owwww !

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Reno Airshow Tragedy
Reno, NV

Our prayers continue for the friends and families of the deceased and severely injured airshow spectators.

Such tragedy can and does happen in the blink of an eye... especially when it happens so close to and above the crowds.

It is thrilling to see the aircraft do stunts and dangerous maneuvers right near you, but something must be done to move the planes back a bit more to hopefully avoid such sad crashes.

NASA & Chicken Little; Hillary Clinton; and US Post Office

16 September 2011:


NASA Debris To Fall To Earth Soon:
Washington, DC

Maybe we need to drive around in one of the old Army tanks like the one shown above for the next couple of weeks!

To quote a famous little bird:

Chicken Little said, "The sky is falling! The sky is falling!"

Sorta true... a school bus-sized hunk of extinct space satellite will fall to Earth on or about 23 SEP 2011... while breaking into about 26 firy chunks of metal.

NASA reassures us that the odds of some debris hitting a person on the ground are about 3,200-to-1... about the same as some little lotto drawing wins... and nobody ever wins those, right ?

So, keep your heads down and your eyes open... and go check out that Army tank just in case.

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Hillary Gets A Favorable Polling:
NYC, NY

Uh-Oh... last week's Bloomberg Poll shows Hillary Clinton, the current Secretary of State for Obama, received a nearly 65% favorable rating in general.

This is up quite a bit from last year's poll rating of about 50% favorable rating.

With President Obama's approval ratings at about 45% (and declining), he better watch his Democratic back.

You never know when the DNC just might want to work a history-making "trade-in"...
trade in the first Black President and pick up the first Woman President !

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U.S. Postal Service Has Troubles:
Washington, DC

With stamped mail volume and sales down by nearly 36% in the past 5 years, the US Postal Service is facing default.

They are at or near their borrowing ceiling limit... and they have a giant bill payment due in a few weeks... that they can't make the payment on.

The USPS is facing the closure of hundreds of facilities, the reduction in days of delivery, and the slashing of up to 35,000 postal employees.

Of course, the Unions and the Democrats are screaming for Federal "Bailout" money... while Republicans are telling the USPS to trim down and cut costs to make their payment obligations.

I say... the USPS (and all government agencies) need to start running their offices like we have to run our home budgets... with our spending (outflow) being less than our income (inflow)!

Then, maybe... we might look at a temporary, small scale bailout... but not till cuts take place.

Solyndra Goes Under With Taxpayer Money; Jobless Claims and Inflation Continue Rising; and NFL Wants Fan Pat-downs

15 September 2011


Solyndra Goes Under After Taxpayer Money Loaned !
Washington D.C.

Now the White House gets more egg on its face!

The much-touted solar panel company, Solyndra, backed by big bucks from President Obama's crammed-through Stimulus Package, is biting the economic dust.

Even with subsidies and loans totalling $ 535 Million Dollars... of taxpayer hard-earned money... the company declared that they now realize their product just can't quite compete against Chinese and world competiton !

Gee... what an epiphany!

Why didn't some mental genius in the company do a little research in their market... like maybe BEFORE they snatched and made off with the $ 535,000,000 ?!?

And there are several more so-called "green" companies that received millions and millions of dollars of taxpayer money last year that are now, or soon will be, filing for bankruptcy !

As Desi Arnez on I Love Lucy would have said (paraphrased of course):
Some folks in this White House "have some 'splaining to do !"

Go get 'em, Congressional investigators !

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Jobless Claims and Inflation Continue Rising
Nationwide

As President Obama tries to pressure Congress into giving him EVEN MORE BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars, the jobless claims around the country continue to rise at an unexpectedly steady pace.

With more layoffs and continued unemployment over 9%... now along comes inflationary rises in our cost of everyday goods and services... just what unemployed families need right now.

The President thinks he can spend - spend - spend his way out of this jobless-recession we are having... what a JOKE !

It didn't work the last time,,, so why should it work on an even smaller scale this time ?

This is just crazy, hopeless economics theory "gone wild"... that continues to astound and it still DOES NOT WORK !

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NFL Wants Fan Pat-downs

Now the NFL really will be "pulling your leg"!

To prevent terrorist acts or even just fisticuffs in the stadium stands...

the NFL plans to begin near-full-body pat downs of their fans...

to ensure no weapons or inappropriate items are smuggled into the stands.

What are we coming to here in this country ?
Remember, Bin Laden wins every time you disrupt your daily routine !!!

Be vigilent.. but NOT paranoid !

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President Obama Going To Mumbai; Clinton Speaks At Detroit Rally; Google CEO and Street View

24 October 2010

President and Mrs. Obama Plan Trip To Mumbai:
Mumbai, India

This is mind-boggling!

With our jobless rate sky high and our deficit at record highs...
The Presidential "First Couple" are planning to jet over and spend a few days visiting several cultural sites in Mumbai, India.

Now, maybe there are some actual good reasons for making a trip to India at this time... but at such an exorbitant cost to us taxpayers???

We are, of course, not given any specifics about the trip and lodging while there, BUT...
the general info provided, says the President, Michele, and their entire security and traveling entourage will occupy (or at least buy out) the entire 5-star, 570-room Taj Mahal Hotel for a couple nights!

Not only that, but all restaurants, banquet rooms, and conference rooms are bought out, too!

AND... 200+ rooms in a couple other nearby luxury hotels are also rented for this traveling fiasco for several more nights around the Presidential visit time frame!

Now, I'm no travel agent OR math genius OR even an accountant, but... when you start adding all these expenses up... WOW!!!

If you multiply the 570 Taj Mahal Hotel rooms times a cost of $500/night (and I'll bet these 5-star rooms are probably more in the $1,000/night range)... that equals roughly $285,000/night or $570,000 for a 2-night stay!

Then we can throw in another ballpark guess of $200,000+ for the 100-200 other hotel rooms for the security and government aides for the week...

And don't forget all the restaurants and special rooms that were fully booked for the few days, at an estimate of another $100,000+ or more!

And this MILLION DOLLARS is just for their lodging for a few nights!!!

This doesn't include all the travel costs to fly half way around the globe...
all their meals paid for at government per diem rates...
the dozens of vehicles rented for ground transportation, and so on, and so on, and so on...

All on the U.S. taxpayers "dime"!

This visit has got to be pretty darn important:
like heading off the Apocalypse...
or keeping WWIII from starting...
or receiving the final cure for Cancer from some doctor in Mumbai !!!

All I can say is, Wow, it must be nice to be a President or First Lady...
or at least a travel buddy of those two!
Bon Voyage !

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Bill Clinton Speaks At H.S. In Detroit:
Detroit, MI

If the bloom hasn't fallen off the flower yet... then it is at least dying on the vine!

There was a lackluster turnout at a Democratic rally in a high school gymnasium in Detroit this past weekend.

The key speaker to energize the crowd was none other than the former President and "big slugger" himself... Bill Clinton !

To illustrate the lack of enthusiasm for the Michigan Democrats, only about 500 supporters came to the rally!

Bill Clinton used to "pack them in" everywhere he went... maybe those days are finally over.

Or... maybe all the Dem supporters are just waiting until they get their chance to see the "other Clinton" come speak... when she does her next run for President in 2012!

Big Bill can only hope the glory days will come back to him then!

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Street View Comments From Google CEO:
Google HQ

Google CEO, Eric Schmidt doesn't quite know how to "win friends and influence people" yet!

When asked about the privacy concerns associated with Google Street View projects around the world (especially Britain lately)...

he smarted off to an interviewer by saying that people should just move from their houses if they don't like Google putting pix of their houses on the Google program!

Google just recently apologized for "accidentally" picking up emails and computer passwords from homes in Britain... this was done with strong antennas as passing Street View vehicles gathered pictures for their programs.

It sounds pretty much like "Big Brother" is getting close!

Maybe Google needs to back off a while... and show some regard for individual privacy concerns... especially when their worries turn out to be substantiated!!!

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Restrictive Troop Rules of Engagement; Recruiters Must accept Gay Applicants; and Republicans Want "Witch" Pelosi Out

19 October 2010

U.S. Troops And Restrictive Rules Of Engagement; Plus Taliban Talks:
Kandahar, Afghanistan


Don't handcuff our Troops!

Don't give them dangerous, thankless missions and then put barriers up that will only endanger their lives and throttle their conduct of the war!

They must be allowed to aggressively protect and defend themselves, and the Afghanistan citizens, while still performing enemy-elimination missions wherever possible.

Give them their mission "marching orders"... then get out of the way and let them "march"!

Give them the leeway to use only the force necessary to accomplish their missions... but, at least give them the ability to judge the situation and then apply the reaction force needed.

Also, don't sell this war down the river with backroom talks with the Taliban enemy!

This murderous, cutthroat enemy... the Taliban... will only talk if it is to their great advantage.

They cannot be trusted and would rather cut the throats of our troops as to sit down and discuss peace in Afghanistan.

Any agreements made with the Taliban, will be broken as soon as, if not before, our forces ever leave the country.

Don't cut deals with murderers!

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Military Recruiters Must Accept Gay Applicants:
Pentagon Release

John Wayne is probably rolling over in his grave tonight!

Openly announcing to all in the military that you are a practicing homosexual... will open so many "cans of worms" for physical violence, mental cruelty, and litigation cases, it won't be funny.

This will be a very dark day, and a very confusing day, for our current soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines.

An openly gay lifestyle and mindset will only raise tensions and complicate things in the combat foxhole.

Put the openness "back in the closet" and stop worrying about who is screwing who and in which ways.

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Republicans Target "Witch" Pelosi In This Election:
United States

Republicans want her out as Chairperson of the House of Representatives!

They are pushing an intense "Fire Pelosi" campaign... which means voters need to vote Republican on November 2 and win many House seats that are up for re-election... this will essentially knock Nancy Pelosi out of her powerful Speaker of the House position.

Republicans will remind all voters that Pelosi was instrumental in strong-arming and shady backroom deals that helped ram many unpopular, unwanted bills through the House (and cram them down our throats): the failed stimulus spending bill, the Obamacare bill, a climate change bill, and a Wall Street reform bill.

And how will she pay for it all? Tax and spend, baby! Tax and spend!

To Republicans... I say good luck.
To Nancy Pelosi... I say good riddance!

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