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Sunday, September 25, 2011

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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Sunday, October 24, 2010

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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