The 2008 USA Presidential Election,

It's ObamaNation aftermath, and the events leading to Obama's defeat in 2012,

and

The 2009-11 Iranian Uprising

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"Read my lips. No new taxes" - then Vice President George H W Bush, 1988

“I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.” Barack Obama - Dover, NH -September 12, 2008

The president never “pledged” no new taxes; he simply “preferred”-White House Budget Director Peter Orszag

Obama 'agnostic' about tax hikes for more people-2010

Looking back at 2000, I am surprised that there were not "faithless electors" who would put principle before party to insure that the candidate with the most popular votes, Al Gore, would actually win the election. Although it seems logical that the person with the most votes should win, and for most offices does, for the most important elected position the winner is the person who gets the most votes in the Electoral College, an antiquated leftover from the 1700s.

I was sure in 2004. Sen. Kerry was going to defeat the incumbent, GWB. (Kerry was Swiftboated.)(I even bought a copy of the book Unfit For Command, planning to read it after Kerry's victory.)

I was sure going into 2008. The general election would be Hillary vs Rudy, with Ralph Nadar as a third candidate, perhaps with NYC Mayor Bloomberg as a fourth candidate; there was a group called Unity 08, which was said to be a Bloomberg nomination/election vehicle. I never thought a virtually unknown 1st term US Senator whose only previous government experiance was as an Illinois State Senator, would be able to defeat Hillary, whose office from 1993 to 2000 was in the White House, and had served a full term, and been re-elected, as a US Senator

So, given my track record.....here goes: McCain will win after Obama is RevWrighted. (Played continuously, "No, No, No, Not God bless America, GOD DAMN AMERICA! It's in the Bible, for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating its citizens as less than human!", with a reminder that Rev Wright was Obama's pastor for 20 years, peformed his marriage, and baptized his children.)(Comments about Obama's friends in the Weather Underground, and the Nation of Islam, plus Father Pfleger and Tony Rezko will hurt, too.) NOTE: I'm not the only one who called it wrong! John Ross, who is usually right, predicted a 1972 McGovern style rout of Obama after the Palin for VP nomination.
Note: I think Wright was right on in his comment that what was done to Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945(200,000 killed in the blasts) was much worse than what was done to New York City on 9/11. Howard Zinn: Hiroshima: Breaking the Silence
(Palin would later say on an interview with Bill O'Reilley that she suggested using the Wright sermon, but was turned down by McCain; I suspect that McCain has a strong Respect For A Fellow Senator attitude, something that Sen. Stuart_Smalley has no grasp of. Heck, Smalley may only be in the Senate because he got the felons voting illegally vote. Bill_Maher is a lot funnier than Stuart Smalley, and would be a much better Senator, too. Maher is an intellectual comedian, Smalley could never do the cerebral comedy that Maher does! To say that Maher and Smalley are similar is like saying that a Gold medal winning Olympic wrestler is similar to a WWE "wrestler".)

9-3-08: After watching Gov. Sarah Palin 's speech at the Republican convention, I seriously think I was watching the first female President! Not that I think McCain will die and Palin will take over. I just think McCain will retire after one term, and Palin will have impressed people so much that she will run in 2012 and easily defeat Hillary, who is not about to give up just yet. Palin is by far the most impressive politician I have ever heard. Her selection by McCain will win the election even without Rev Wright and former Weather Underground members Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers* dragging Obama down.
*According to Sean Hannity on 10-30-08: Ayers wrote a book called "Prairie Fire", which was dedicated to, amongst others, Sirhan Sirhan, the man said to be the killer of Robert F Kennedy.

10-2-08: The Palin-Biden VP debate may very well be remembered as the turning point of the 2008 election; Obama had been gaining in the polls after the economic mess and the failure of the original bailout plan in the House. Palin came across as at least equal to Biden with his decades in the Senate.

10-18-08(CMA): It began with the collapse of Bear Stearns, then the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, then the federal loan bailout to AIG. As the economy teetered, and the Secretary of the Treasury Hank_Paulson proposed a 700 billion+ bailout (TARP) of bad mortgage paper, people got scared. Suddenly Obama's "change" message sounded good, nevermind that Obama has exactly zero experiance in "fixing the economy", or in anything else related to being CEO of the USA. Sure, Obama is *smarter* than George W Bush, but there are a lot of people in Congress that can say that. Personally, I think that America will regret electing a first term Senator with no administrative experiance. (Was it Sen. Clinton or Sen. Biden who said, during the Democrat primaries, that the Presidency is not a place for on the job training?)
My own mild gripe with Obama is that after McCain challenged him about not wearing a US flag lapel pin, Obama's public appearences were very heavy on US flags. First rule of politics: do anything, say anything, promise anything to get elected.

Will the next two years after the election be known as The Grand Triumvirate (Pelosi, Reid, and Obama)? (Is the USA about to plunge into UK/Canada style socialism? Obama DOES have redeeming virtues; he is more honest than the last two Presidents, and he will restore the Bill of Rights to it's pre-GWB status!)(More honest than GWB, "Saddam has WMD", "The USA does not torture" and WJC, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman", but I really dont believe Obama's claim that he never knew what Rev Wright was preaching. Obama is a politician, and as such has to rewrite his past history when necessary to win elections.)

Of course, I'd rather have the Libertarian Party(not really a fringe group anymore; Rep. Ron Paul, a libertarian, raised a lot of money and got a lot of votes in the Republican primaries, even after Sen. McCain had the nomination clinched. Two of the main candidates for the LP nomination were a former Republican Congressman (Bob Barr), and a former Democratic US Senator(Mike Gravel):

Libertarianism Versus Coercive Collectivism

For more on what libertarians are for, see: Defining a New Political Spectrum or the Nolan Chart, and this discussion of Senate candidate Rand Paul's view of civil rights.
"It's better to vote for something you want, and not get it, than to vote for something you don't want, and get it."-heard in 1968 at a mock convention at Western Michigan University; the speaker was either with the Socialist Labor Party or the Socialist Worker's Party

Best line from the 2008 election, so far: "I'm not President Bush. If you wanted to run against President Bush, you should have run four years ago." -McCain to Obama 10-15-08.
CMA#2: According to John Ross's 10-24-08 column, Palin thinks the Earth is less than 6,000 years old; a religious view called Young Earth Creationism. (Archbishop Ussher thought the Universe was created in 4,004 BC, but later scholars using Ussher's method thought the correct date was 3944 BC.) Scratch what I said about Palin being the first female President.....too bad; Palin is a smart, successful, self made woman, the kind I like. She did not become successful by marrying a future President, like Hillary, or by being born to a future President, like GWB, or (you know, maybe) Caroline Kennedy.
If Palin runs for President in 2012, I will support her. She may be a religious oddball, but we are going to need her after four years of Obama. (I do not think she is the "convert everyone to my religion" type, more the "live and let live" type.)(the libertarian case for Palin)

Note: Best (and funniest) ad of the whole 2008 election: In Alaska, there was a convicted felon running for re-election to the US Senate. Someone ran an ad showing a picture of the man, with the caption "Ready To Serve", followed by prison doors closing over the man's picture. More than a week after the election, this race is still too close to call, but it seems certain that if the incumbent wins, he will be expelled from the Senate. (Republican Sen. Ted Stevens did lose after all the votes were counted.)(Stevens' conviction was vacated after the election, when the new Attorney General Eric Holder decided to drop the charges.)
Proving that the Democrat Party has its' problems, too, incumbent Congressman "Dollar Bill" Jefferson of New Orleans, the guy who had $90,000 (in marked bills) in his freezer, was also defeated. On 8-5-09, Jefferson was convicted by a jury on 11 of 16 counts.

http://www.obamacrimes.com (Seen here: "According to Barack H. Obama's Kenyan grandmother, Barack, Jr. was born in Mombosa, Kenya and she was present during his birth. ")This would make BHO, Jr constitutionally ineligible to be President. It says at this site that a lawsuit has been filed with the Supreme Court to prevent Vice President Cheney, as President of the Senate, from certifying Obama's victory in the Electoral College.
(Snopes.com: Is Barack Obama a natural-born citizen of the U.S.?). (TheUnited States Justice Foundation is still, July, 2009, trying to get a court hearing to get Obama declared legally ineligible to be President, see here. But in the highly unlikely event that Obama were to be removed, Biden would become President, and the President would still be just as leftwing. It has even been suggested, very quietly, that Gaffe Czar Joe Biden is to Obama what Spiro Agnew was to Nixon, someone nobody would want to become President.)
(It shouldn't even matter where someone was born! As long as a person is a real US citizen, that should be enough. (One of the Head Birthers, Phil Berg, says here that Obama is not a US citizen.)(I think the logic is that since little Barack was adopted by his mother's second husband, who was an Indonesian citizen, that little Barack became an Indonesian citizen and lost his US citizenship.) I'd guess the Founding Fathers put that "natural born citizen" line in the constitution so that some Brit couldn't sail over to the new country and run for President. The "Birthers" would accept a man as President if his Mexican or Canadian mother stepped over the border long enough to give birth in a US hospital Emergency Room, even if that man had spent most of his life in Mexico or Canada?)
Supposedly the "birthers" did get a court hearing on 9-8-09, it says so here. I haven't heard any news about Biden taking the oath of office yet!
(I don't get it. All Obama would have to do is call the Governor of Hawaii, Linda Lingle (until 12-6-10,Neil Abercrombie after that), and ask her as a favor to expedite the release of his birth certificate, instead of (reportedly) spending millions on lawyers to fight the birthers in court. It really doesn't make sense to spend over a million dollars just to avoid showing your birth certificate. I really don't care where Obama was born, but what could possibly be on his birth certificate that would be worth spending any money to keep private?)(Why the secrecy?)
Before I continue, to repeat: I don't care where Obama was born! It's just interesting. I got an email posted to the Yahoo Spiritual_Deism list (of all places) on 6-13-10 that contains info: People have searched Honolulu area hospitals and can find no record of a Barack Obama being born in one of them. Of course Obama doesn't remember where he was born; only the fictional Mr Spock on Star Trek remembered his own birth. This post also argued that hospitals in Hawaii DO issue a "long form" birth certificate, an example was found of a woman born the next day who does have her "long form" birth certificate, which comes from the hospital and identifies the attending physician.
(You would think, by now, that some hospital in Hawaii would have put up a "Birthplace of President Obama" sign, or that someone would step forward and say, "I was working at Hospital X in 1961, and I remember a white woman who had a black baby, and the kid was named Barack Obama!")
It says here, "Obama has said he was born in Kapi'olani Hospital in Honolulu". Maybe I am just lucky: my parents gave me the form that was filled out by the hospital I was born in! LOL! Here is a photostat of a "long form" birth certificate for someone born at that hospital one day after Obama was born.
Before I continue: to repeat: I don't care where Obama was born, nor do I want to see him removed from office until Jan 20, 2013! AZ and other states are considering state laws that would require candidates for President to prove eliginility to get on the ballot.

Equal time: This article argues that John McCain would have been ineligibe, also, as he was born in the Panama Canal Zone, which was never a part of the United States.
Interesting note: Here is S Res 511, from the previous (110th) Congress, that recognized McCain as a "natural born citizen". The argument is that to be a "natural born citizen", your parents have to be citizens. I doubt seriously that the men who wrote the Constitution back in the 1700s intended to confer citizenship just by the accident of birthplace. If this reasoning is correct, then Obama is not a "natural born citizen:", as his father was a citizen of Kenya. Once again: I don't want to see Obama removed from office until Jan 20, 2013. The USA survived the Presidencies of Franklin D Roosevelt(3+ terms), Richard Nixon(2 terms as VP, elected President twice but resigned 8-9-1974 because of the Watergate Scandal), and it will survive Obama(1 term), too
If this is correct, then Sen. Marco Rubio, who was born in the USA, can not be President, as his parents were not US citizens at the time of his birth .
Interesting note 2: Why are Obama's college records sealed? (I'll bet that most of us would not want everything we did in college revealed.)(If Obama took "Advanced Marxism" as an undergraduate, he could dismiss it as a youthful indiscretion, the way I dismiss my foolish marriage after my Sophomore year.)

Obama wanted to appoint:
NM Gov. Bill Richardson, Bill Clinton's Secretary of Energy, as Secretary of Commerce.
Obama has appointed:
Bill's Wife, as Secretary of State,
Bill.s Chief of Staff, as Director of Central Intelligence,
IT'S BILL'S THIRD TERM!

Obama has also appointed a man to be Treasury Secretary ( "TurboTax Tim" Geithner), who only pays his back taxes when he gets appointed. (People like Irwin Schiff, Cynthia Neun, and Kent Hovind*(a/k/a "Dr. Dino"; his wife was also convicted) who don't pay their taxes end up in federal prison after defying the IRS; Geithner gets a good job where the IRS is part of the department he is head of.) (Wesley Snipes had been sentenced to three years for "willful failure to file". paid $5,000,000 to the IRS, appealed, and will serve the three years).
Obama had also wanted to appoint Tom Daschle to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. Daschle also paid his back taxes when appointed, but later withdrew his name.
Obama's second choice for Secretary of HHS, Kathleen Sebelius also paid her back taxes when appointed.
Obama had also wanted to appoint Nancy Killefer, formerly a high Treasury Dept appointee when Bill Clinton was President, to the newly created position of Chief_Performance_Officer. Killefer also had tax problems and withdrew.
Obama To Pursue Non-cabinet Tax Cheats!
Obama has also appointed over 30 "Czars", who have great power, do not have to be confirmed by Congress, and are answerable only to Obama. I *think* the "Czars" are roughly equilivilent to "Asst to the President".
Gee, I wonder if Rod Blagojevich will get a job, too, now that the Illinois Senate has fired him from his previous job?

There is a TaxMasters ad that begins:
"Are you being audited?
Have you not filed tax returns in years?" Should the next line be:
"President Obama has a job for you!"

Post election analysis: Objectively, the most qualified person to be President was Rudy Guiliani, twice elected Mayor of New York City. Tied for least qualified: Hillary and Obama, neither of whom had ever run a city, or a state, or a large federal agency. Being in the US Senate for 30 years(Biden) or 22 years(McCain) would at least have given them some famaliarity with the US government, but only Palin had actual administrative experiance in running a government. Second most qualified: Mitt Romney, who has been a successful business executive and Governor.
Note: if you change a baby's diaper, you have "change". But soon enough, the new diaper is as dirty as the old one. (Don't kid yourselves. The only real change that Obama can personally deliver is to change the DNA of the person sitting at the desk in the Oval Office. That Obama will bring sunshine, lollipops, and rainbows to all is right up there with the myth that "Mussolini made the trains run on time".)

"There's nothing in the streets
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-by
And the parting on the left
Are now parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight"
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss" -The Who, "Won't get fooled again"

Obama has continued the same anti-terrorism, anti civil liberties, GWB policies he campaigned so strongly against. I agree with John Adams who said "Those who trade liberty for security have neither." (Yes, I belong to the ACLU, and am a hardcore civil libertarian.) The Guantanmo Bay Indefinate Detention Without Charge Or Trial Center remains open. If it was a crime for Germany to hold people in places like Dachau indefinitely without charge or trial, isn't it a crime for the US? And if it was a crime for GWB to do it, isn't it still a crime for Obama to do it? (This is an old American custom. After Pearl Harbor, President FDR had 110,000 Japanese Americans(two-thirds of whom were US citizens) interred in "War Relocation Camps" indefinately for the sole crime of having Japanese ancestry. In 1988, the USA finally apologized and gave the surviving detainees $20,000 each.)(I *think* there is something in the Constitution (Fifth Amendment)about not depriving a person of freedom without "due process of law", and I don't think that a decree from FDR is "due process".) Someone, I think in the ACLU, has suggested that indefinate detention without charge or trial is a form of torture, and torture by the US government is illegal, regardless of who the President is. Gitmo still holds dangerous terrorists like Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who admitted under torture that he was the brains behind 9/11, as well as the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, and personally beheaded Daniel Pearl. Had he not been caught, he would also have brought down the Sears Tower in Chicago and the Empire State Building, and would have killed former President Carter! Question: Are confessions made during torture even admissible in court?(That the prisoners at Gitmo are treated much better than the prisoners at Dachau were is irrelevent. Being deprived of a basic human right without anything remotely resembling due process is not all right, even if Gitmo was a five star Hilton Hotel.)(ACLU: "On Monday(8-24-09), Attorney General Eric Holder made the long-awaited announcement of the appointment of a special prosecutor to conduct a preliminary investigation into whether federal laws were violated during the interrogation of detainees in U.S. custody.")

9-21-09: Bill O'Reilley said on his show today that Obama is continuing the practice of "rendition", where prisoners are secretly transferred to another country. I didn't believe that Obama would continue this GWB practice, so I looked it up, and it's true! Obama OK With CIA Rendition

9-28-09: Oh, Great! Obama wants to continue various aspects of GWB's so called "Patriot Act". More of that "change we can believe in"!

Government claims right to assassinate US citizens abroad- Summary execution without trial. When you are the Great Leader, you can dispense with trivialities like filing charges, presenting evidence to a jury, giving the accused a chance to defend himself, and "due process". You can procede directly from accusation to punishment. Even Stalin had "show trials" to preserve the illusion of a judicial procedure. Hail the Führer!

Give me that old time fascism,
Give me that old time fascism,
Give me that old time fascism,
It's good enough for me!
It was good enough for Adolf,
It was good for Benito,
It was good for Francisco, OR I'm Barack Obama,
And it's good enough for me!

Here comes some new fashioned fascism: the cybersecurity act of 2009, which would allow the President to "suspend" the Internet.. Bush and Cheney would have loved this! So will the philosophical heirs of Dr. Goebbels and Reichführer-SS Himmler! (It's S.773, introduced on April Fools Day by Sen Jay Rockefeller(co-sponsered by Sen. Olympia Snowe.) (EFF page about the cybersecurity act, which apparently gives the Secretary of Commerce power to control the flow of information.)(This was reintroduced in the next Congress by Sen Joe Lieberman.)

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal gave the Republican response to Obama's first address to a joint session of Congress, and was panned by much of the media. So I looked him up. I had heard of him, and heard that he was Indian American, which I misheard as "American Indian" (ie. "Native American"). He has black hair and dark skin, but his parents were from India. Jindal was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, and apparently was accepted by both Harvard Medical School and Yale Law School, but went into politics instead. Jindal does not have Obama's "rock star" status or Obama's crowd pleasing oratory, but he has something much more important, BRAINS + experiance running a government. Yes, Obama is smart, but his political positions suck. Is it 2012 yet?

Obama has kept his promise to wind down the Iraq war. Unfortunately, he is transferring the war to Afghanistan, even though the real enemy is in Pakistan. This reminds me a lot of the quagmire of Vietnam.
(In 1968, Richard Nixon had a "secret plan" to get the US out of Vietnam, part of the plan was the "Vietnamization of the War"; fourty years later, Obama ran on a promise to end the war in Iraq; he then transferred troops from Iraq to Afghanistan, where they were to build up the Afghan military. In 1969, US troops were coming home in caskets from SE Asia; fourty years later, US troops are coming home in caskets from SW Asia. Hopefully there is a helipad at the US Embassy in Kabul, like there was in Saigon. This is "change we can believe in"?) I remember this slogan from the late 1960s:

SUPPORT OUR TROOPS! BRING THEM HOME NOW!

4-06-09: Obama does not want to refer to what happened to Armenians in Turkey in WW1 as "genocide", because that might offend the Turks. It was "genocide" when Obama was Candidate Obama. What's next? Don't refer to the Holocaust as genocide because that might offend the Germans?
Back in 2007, House Speaker Pelosi stopped a House resolution to call it "genocide".
Armenian_Genocide Denial
Non use of "genocide" during the Bush administration
"How could civilized human beings do this to other civilized human beings?"-attributed to Elsie Douglas after seeing the movie Nazi Concentration Camps at the (IMT, Major War Criminals)Nuremberg Trial, 1946.
(Obama did promise to call it "genocide" See First 100 Days: Obama's Promises Broken.)

4-24-09: Obama states publically that the Armenian Genocide did happen. (I have read about the Armenian Genocide, and it was especially barbaric, in some aspects more barbaric than the Holocaust; the raw body count of Armemians was 1.5 million, compared to 6 million Jews in the Holocaust.)

4-29-09: I have got what Bill O'Reilly called "Obama fatigue"! This guy has been on television constantly since he announced his candidacy back in 2007. (According to someone on Fox News on 8-14-09, in Obama's first 206 days in office, he has only NOT been on TV 8 days.) His "press conferences" are scripted; with known, friendly questioners, and no follow up questions. I don't even listen to an Obama speech anymore. An Obama speech is basically a no intellectual content infomercial (advertising), and my response to all TV advertising is the MUTE button.

"Borrowing and spending more is not the solution to too much borrowing and spending!"- Melissa, the owner of PlanetaryBillOfRights.org
Melissa has also supplied this ".Bullcrap-to-English Translation Guide to government doublespeak":
"Public Schools"=Government schools
"Redistributing the wealth"=Socialism
"Public Option"=Socialist Medicine
“Social Security”=Socialist Insecurity (AKA “The World's Greatest Ponzi Scheme”)
"Consumers Choice"=Socialist Medicine
"Social Justice"=Socialist "Justice"
You can re-brand bull crap but it's still bull crap

What Will the Future Bring Under Obama?
-by Ali Sina, an ex-Muslim.
More from Ali Sina:: Understanding Obama: The Making of a Führer-diagnoses Obama as a personality with "pathological narcissism", stemming from his abandonment by his father and then being sent away from his mother to be raised by his grandparents. Very, very interesting.

If you are on a ship that is sinking, and the owner replaces the Captain, who then replaces the department heads, you are still on the same crappy ship, and it is still sinking. But you got "change"! As the ship sinks, you can scream "Yes, we can!"

June, 2009: In an incredibly complex maneuver, the US government takes over General Motors. Existing GM stockholders are left holding worthless pieces of paper. The government actually only owns 60% of GM, the rest is owned by the Unions, some unsecured GM bondholders, and the Queen of Canada.
In another complex transaction, the former Chrysler Corporation emerged from bankruptcy only owned 10% by the government; majority owner is the UAW pension fund; 20% owner is Fiat, with a possibility for Fiat to become majority owner.

7-16-09: If you like waiting in line at the DMV, you will love waiting in line for ObamaCare. If you want something done better, just get the government to do it! Canadians with A. money and B. life threatening medical problems come to the USA for treatment now. Under ObamaCare, US and Canadian citizens will be equal......both can die waiting in line. Now that's "Change We Can Believe In". I got a t-shirt at Conservative Paradise(I am NOT a conservative, I'm certainly not a fan of an emotionalist infotainer like Glenn Beck, although I have enjoyed his exposures of the President's Czars, and his "Return of Reverend Wright" piece(Beck's show on Fox I considered to be the worst show on TV, has been replaced by The Five, which I consider to be the best show on TV!); I can appreciate intellectual conservatives like William F. Buckley, Jr. and Fred Barnes .) that says "1-20-13 Hope for Change". The way things are going, Change may come sooner. Bill and Hillary made a big push for HillaryCare in 1993, got nowhere even though they controlled Congress, and were routed in the 1994 Congressional elections. That was how Newt Gingrich got to be Speaker of the House, and eventually made possible the impeachment trial of Bill. In 1993, Bill actually said, in essence, that the passage of HillaryCare was essential to the health of the economy. It wasn't. I suspect that ObamaCare will die like HillaryCare did. To a member of Congress, who gets paid over $150,000 a year (It's really hard work! Fly to DC on Tuesday, sit in meetings Wednesday, fly home on Thursday), re-election is Job One; Healthcare reform, or party loyality are distant seconds.
7-21-09: "We must pass ObamaCare now!! Hurry HURRY HURRY HURRY*HURRY* HURRY DON'T READ THE BILL. Just pass it; you can think about it some other time. You will like the bill. Trust me."
"“Everything government touches turns to crap.”- Ringo Starr
It's probably not fair to call it ObamaCare. The 1,000+ (later 2,000+) page bill being considered in the House was not written by Obama's staff, but by Democrat House majority staff under Speaker Pelosi. (Obama reportedly does not want a repeat of the Clinton strategy, where the Clintons' staff wrote the bill.) One of the main bills being considered in the Senate was Ted Kennedy's bill, but the new main Senate bill was crafted by the Gang of Six, and announced by Sen. Max Baucus. Obama himself laid down broad outlines orally, but "the devil is in the details".
Big Brother-Care Looms Large, includes a link to a PDF(Adobe Reader) file with the text of the 1,000+ page House bill. I assume that all of our Representatives in Congress will spend their August vacations reading this, so they will know what they are voting on in September! Yeah, right, LOL! If bills actually get through both houses, the final bill out of a conference committee will probably only marginally resemble the original bill. Remember, if the final bill really sucks, the whole House is up for reelection in 11/10, just over a year away. Since the US President is not elected for life, even Obama must come before the voters in 2012.

And here it is!http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.3200:! The full text of H.R.3200 (The 1,000+ page House bill.)
And here it is #2 http://docs.house.gov/rules/health/111_ahcaa.pdf .! The full text of the revised House bill, now HR.3962 at 1,990 pages and dubbed PelosiCare.
And here it is #3 http://www.democrats.senate.gov/reform/patient-protection-affordable-care-act.pdf The full text of the Senate version- the Harry Reid version, 2,074 pages, H.R.3590
(Lest anyone think I am just anti-Obama, I personally agree with the Libertarian Party response to Obama's 9/9/09 address to a Joint Session of Congress, and see as the biggest logical hole in any plan to cover everyone: Where are all the extra doctors and other health care professionals going to come from? Wouldn't "rationed health care" be inevitable?)(Hey, I know! We could greatly expand the definition of "Doctor" to include "Alternative medicine" practitioners. It's "choice"! If you want to treat your cancer by flying to Lourdes or Fatima or La Salette or similar places and hoping for a miracle, the government chould buy your plane ticket.)(Other forms of Faith healing are available!)
In a rare Saturday night session on 11-7-09, the House passed HR.3962, 220 to 215 On Thursday and Friday, there was an Emergency House Call demonstration, organized by .Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.)!
In a rare Saturday night session on 11-21-09, the Senate voted 60-39 to bring the main Senate bill to the floor. .Michelle Malkin calls the vote"cash for cloture"
In an extremely rare move the Senate, on Saturday, 12-5-09, vows to meet weekends (and maybe even Christmas Eve and Christmas Day(!) until Obama's Christmas present to the USA is passed. Obama says that the passage of ObamaCare is necessary to economic recovery. The "post-partisan" atmospere Obama was bringing to DC disappears. The Senate will probably pass *something*, which will be combined with the House bill behind closed doors in a Conference Committee. "Openess" and "transparency" will disappear, too. Obama has brought "politics as usual" to DC.
On Tuesday, 12-15-09, there was a Senate Emergency Rally to try to stop ObamaCare. From the news reports, it looked like another Tea Party; lots of those yellow "Don't Tread On Me" flags.
At 1 AM in the morning 12-21-09, the Senate voted along party lines 60-40 to end debate. The Chicago Machine Politics prevail; goodies (some might say "bribes") are doled out to keep Democrat Senators in line, at least those from Louisiana and Nebraska. Getting the vote of the these Senators has been called the "Louisiana Purchase" and the "Cornhusker Kickback". The Senator from Nebraska said that, now, other Senators want goodies, too The Senator from Louisiana said, "I can't be bought."
At 7AM Christmas Eve morning the Senate, in another party line vote, approved the Senate version 60-39, with Republican Sen Jim Bunning not voting. (Bunning was one of my childhood heros when he was a successful pitcher for the Deroit Tigers MLB baseball team; is not running for re-election in 2010.)

Hey Congress, You vote Obamacare, We're gonna vote you outta there!-Ray Stevens (lyrics and video)

"The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.” — Margaret Thatcher

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy, its inherent value is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill

"A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker." -- H.L. Mencken
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." -- H.L. Mencken

7-22-09: Obama talks about the "spirit of self sacrifice" that moved the servicemen buried at Arlington National Cemetary. It was nonsense when referring to the (drafted) men who died in Vietnam, and it is still nonsense today, when joining the military can be a last resort job for the unemployed. I do *not* deny that the men who fought against the Axis powers in WW2 were "keeping the USA safe", but saving S Vietnam from N Vietnam, saving S Korea from N Korea (Korean_War). or saving Kuwait (First Gulf War) and the Iraqi people (Iraq_War or 2nd Gulf War) from Saddam, is not "keeping the USA safe". And seriously, is overthrowing the old (Taliban) Afghan government and protecting the new (corrupt, election-rigging) Afghan government from the Taliban "keeping the USA safe"? (On 8-9-09, the US Ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice(no relation to Condoleezza Rice), says "yes" on CNN. This country, which successfully resisted a superpower, the USSR, is essential to the security of the USA? Uh-huh, just like defeating the Viet Cong was in the 1960s! Oh well, Susan Rice was a child in the 1960s; she may change her mind as more and more US troops die due to her boss' continuing GWB's war.) Bring the troops home alive, and let's have no more troops come home in caskets. Three-Five-Zero-Zero(the meaning of 3-5-0-0)......Country Joe McDonald's I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag , written for Vietnam, but still painfully appropriate today. (List_of_anti-Vietnam War songs, still brings back bad memories.)(Pete Seeger's Last Train to Nuremberg. If you click on this, and, like me, don't know who General Koster was, he was implicated in a cover up of the My Lai Massacre.) The Association: Requiem for the masses (US politicians do seem to be exceptionally fond of getting the USA into wars in Asia, don't they?)

The liberal suicide march; speculates that the 2010 election will be a rerun of the 1994 election.

8-5-09: Has someone tried to mislead you about "Health Insurance Reform"? Let us know. Write to inform@gestapo.gov (In more primitive times, you could only turn bad guys in to the police. Now, you can report them to someone in the White House!)(Big Brother Barack is watching you!) Just in case someone reading this does not recognize sarcasm, the real email address for a Thought Police snitcher is flag@whitehouse.gov (The Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda has created a website to give the Truth about "Health Insurance Reform": healthreform.gov)(Definition: If you agree with ObamaCare, you are telling the truth; if you disagree, you are either an insurance company shill, a misanthropic spreader of lies, or even worse, you work for FOX cable news!)
9-16-09: (Or you could even be a RACIST! Jimmy Carter said so on 9-15 or 9-16. Before becoming President, Carter had been Governor of Georgia, and his Lt Gov and predecessor as Gov was segregationist Lester Maddox, so Carter had first hand experiance with racists.)(Bill Cosby agrees with Carter)(Rep. Charlie Rangel compares those who oppose ObamaCare to those who opposed civil rights in the South in the 1960s.)
On Monday, 8-17-09, it is reported the snitcher email address no longer works. On Tuesday, there is a new reality check section on the White House site, which does include a "contact us" link.

8-11-09: I'm starting to think that Obama really put his foot in his mouth. This whole "report fishy statements" is shockingly 1984ish. It's hard to believe that the media savvy White House staff could make such a boneheaded request. (Posters than mock flag@whitehouse.gov)

8-15-09: People who are old enough to have participated in the 1967Summer of Love, the 1968 Chicago Police Riot(I have never forgotten Sen.Abraham Ribicoff's reference to "Gestapo tactics in the streets of Chicago"), the 1969 Woodstock Art and Music Festival, or remember the 1970 Kent State Massacre, will remember Senator Joseph McCarthy and will remember the House Unamerican Activities Committee(HUAC)! Let's bring back HUAC and haul misinformation spreaders before Congress and ask them, "Are you now trying, or have you ever tried, to mislead people about Health Insurance Reform?"

8-17-09: Other ideas: use the software used to build the Great Firewall of China to block external misinformation, and adapt porn blocking software to protect children from misinformation.

8-20-09: Sliding Support for Afghanistan War Means Obama Must Polish His Pitch "We've got to make sure that we are really focused on finishing the job in Afghanistan, but it's going to take some time." -BHO. Sounds exactly like something LBJ would have said about Vietnam in the mid-1960s. It's really scary to remember that the US involvement in Vietnam was started by an idealistic young Democrat President, JFK, sending a few military advisers to prop up the corrupt S. Vietnam government, and ended with over 47,000 US dead (US battle deaths).

The hopeless unwinability of a war in Afghanistan (Just like Vietnam!)

15 Reasons Why We Can't Win in Afghanistan

"Thus Obama’s dilemma: Accept a longer, bloodier war with little hope of ultimate victory, a decision that could cost him his presidency. Or order a U.S. withdrawal and accept defeat, a decision that could cost him his presidency."-Pat Buchanan, Obama at the Rubicon.

Brief History Lesson: In late 1967, Vietnam commander Gen. Westmoreland told LBJ that the end of the Vietnam War was in sight. In Jan, 1968, the Tet offensive showed that the US was not going to win in Vietnam.
(Timeline of the whole dreary Vietnam disaster)

"And its five six seven
Open up the pearly gates
There ain't no time to wonder why
Whopee we're all gonna die!"
and
"You can be the first one on your block
To have your boy come home in a box"
-Country Joe McDonald

From the now-defunct Libertarian_Only Yahoo list:
"Well come on all you big strong men.
I hear the man needs your help again.
Got himself in a terrible jam,
Way down in Iraq and Afghanistan.
So put down your books and pick up a gun,
we're gonna' have a whole lotta fun. "

Get out of Afghanastan? (covers both sides)

get out of_afghanistan now

War, What is it good for? Absolutely nothing

9-1-09: Fox News, Why the Obama Administration Will Implode In Weeks. Interesting; I doubt that it will literally implode, but I do think that Obama is in over his head. Being really smart, really good in Law School, and really popular is not the same as being really competent. The ability to win elections does not equal the ability to govern. Actually, if GWB had been good at governing, BHO would probably not be in the White House today. Gees! One of the "Czars" (the "Green Jobs Czar") turned out to be one of "the government knew about 9/11 in advance." guys, who would deny actually believing that stuff. Gees #2! Obama has named a man to be "Regulatory Czar", Cass Sunstein, who thinks that animals should be able to sue in court. Gees#3! The so-called "Diversity Czar", Mark Lloyd has advocated a new form of affirmative action: white media executives should step down to make room for minorities. Gees#4! The safe school Czar praised NAMBLA figure-Harry Hay.Gees #5: Science Czar John Holdren wants involuntary abortion and sterilization to control population growth. I can see why Obama would not want to have these Czars confirmed by the Senate. The distinguished Senators might start to question the judgement of the man appointing these Czars.(Helpful hint: before naming Czars, have some staff member do a search on the name to see if anything *strange* pops up. There must be someone in the White House with Internet access that knows how to use Yahoo.) YIKES! The White House Communications Director Anita Dunn has Mao Tse-tung as one of her favorite political philosophers. Good old Chairman Mao is estimated as being responsible for the deaths of 30 to 58 million people. (Chairman Mao is estimated to be #2 in 20th century mass murderers, behind Stalin but ahead of Hitler.)Where does Obama find these people? Gees #6: Manufacturing Czar Ron Bloom is also a lover of Chairman Mao.
OMG! Chairman Mao is on the White House Christmas Tree!(Recognizing a mass murderer as a symol of Chinese culture is like having a picture of the Auschwitz 'Arbeit Macht Frei' sign as a symbol of German culture.)
"In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence." -The Peter Principle

9-14-09: LOL! There used to be a "Backwards Bush" site, counting down the exact time until GWB's term ended. Now, Sean Hannity, at his site, had a countdown clock, days, hours, minutes, and seconds until the 2012 election! (Time left until the 2012 Replace Obama election)(I'm no big Hannity fan. I thought his show was much better when it was "Hannity and Colmes". Colmes is smarter than Hannity, but unfortunately raw IQ does not automatically generate either common sense or valid philosophical views.

12-10-09: I heard today that the USA's credit rating is about to be lowered. It stands to reason; this country has been in borrow-and-spend mode for as long as I can remember. 8 years of GWB military spending followed by Obama's goodies-for-all promises has led to debt that can never be repaid, and the suckers, like China, that lend to the USA are going to get wise. See: USA Credit Rating Will Plummet
After the 2000 election, but before he left office, President Clinton predicted that the National Debt would be paid off before the end of 2009!! LOL! (In 2009, Turbo Tax Tim assured the Chinese that the USA was safe to lend to.)

Personal note: I have been following US national politics since the 1960 Richard Nixon vs John F Kennedy presidential election; I still have my flashy "Experiance Counts Vote Nixon-Lodge" button. 1960 was my first exposure to "Being handsome and articulate with a really pretty wife and two cute kids trumps actual experiance" (Nixon was Vice President from 1952 to 1960, JFK was a first term US Senator). I have never seen such a popular person alienate so many so quickly.(After less than a year in office there is a big impeach obama store, and an Impeach Obama Campaign, with Articles of Impeachment(I'm sure they know there are not the votes in the House to impeach, or the votes in the Senate to convict.) And it's not necause Obama is black. (Another personal note: I have always wondered if the authors of the lyrics in Colored Spadein the musical "Hair" thought they would live to see one of the things a black man can be called is "President of the United States".)The days of Jim Crow are dead and buried; the USA really is a post racial society. The differences between the "races" are mostly cultural, not genetic.
Please Note: I do not think Obama has done anything impeachable.....now, if he were to lie under oath like Clinton did, THAT would be impeachable. People who disagree with Obama should just concentrate on removing his Congressional support in 2010; without a compliant Congress, Obama's plans for the USA are just impotent talk. Those of us who live in Nevada will do our part and remove Harry Reid, Obama's point man in the US Senate.

Hope for the future:All the President's Czars; argues that if the Executive Branch is encrusted with/ immobilized by Czars and turf warfare, maybe Obama will be unable to implement "change"!

9-25-09: And now we have elementary school children singing "The Barack Obama Song"!( lyrics)(lyrics to both Obama Praise songs}Get them while they're young!
And #3! I Got a Crush .On Obama
"Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted." -- Vladimir Lenin

The Tea_Party_protests on 4/15(Tax Day), 7/4(Independence Day), and 9/12 in Washington, DC(the final stop on the Tea Party Express), show that the USA has not turned to the Left, it has just elected a popular leftist Democrat as a response to an unpopular Republican.(Michelle Malkin on the crowd size on 9/12....2 million?)(Tea Party Nation is sponsoring a One Year Notice Party on 11-7-09..Just one year until our "Representatives" in Congress get their pink slips!)(WorldNetDaily's SEND CONGRESS A PINK SLIP campaign!)
I liked one of the signs at the 9/12 Tea Party: "Madam Speaker Kiss Our Astroturf"
A new Rasmussen poll suggests that an organized "Tea Party" would get more support than the Republican Party! There will be a National Tea Party Conventionin Nashville from Feb 4 to Feb 6. Palin will be the keynote speaker.
Tea Party Nationis going to hold a National Tea Party Unity Convention in Las Vegas July 15-17 at the Palazzo Las Vegas. Laura Ingraham will be the keynote speaker. Warning! Las Vegas is in the desert SW USA; in July it can go over 100 degrees F during the day.. But everythingis air conditioned; just don't plan on spending a lot of time outdoors! (6-26-10: The Tea Party Unity Conventionis delayed until mid-October, partly to have it just before the November election, partly because of the summer heat, partly to avoid conflict with people's vacations!) (7-26-10: The Tea Party Unity Convention is now scheduled for October 14-16 at The Mirage in Las Vegas. The Mirage is on the other side of The Stripfrom the Palazzo. For those who have been to Vegas before, the Palazzo is near the Venetian, where the legendary Sands Hotel once stood. The Mirage is located across the street from the Venetion.)(A really good map of the Las Vegas strip)(SIGH!National Tea Party Unity Convention Canceled) Bummer!

10-4-09: The economy continues to falter. Unfortunately for Obama, the "It's all Bush's fault! Things were much worse than I realized when I took office" and "it would be much worse without my wonderful policies" excuses only work for awhile. Talk of a second stimulus bill is absurd when only about 40% of the first stimulus bill has been spent (40% according to former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan.) The first stimulus bill was rushed through in an "emergency measure to prevent catastrophe/crisis" atmosphere. Greenspan also thinks the jobless rate will go above 10%. What was that percentage that Obama said would not be exceeded if the stimulus passed? 8%? (Rate is 10.2% in early Nov 2009.)

11-03-09: Voters in Virginia and New Jersey reject Obama approved and campaigned-for candidates for Governor. Many Democrat House members in marginal districts start making plans for new employment after the 11/2010 election. Seeing her Speakership in jeopardy, Pelosi spins: "We did win a seat in Congress!" [in upstate New York, normally a safe Republican district, when the (very liberal) Republican withdrew and endorsed the Democrat]. "It was a Victory! We win!"

11-18-09: The recovery.gov site lists jobs created or saved in Congressional Districts that do not exist. Obama says this is a side issue. Mr President: Someone on your staff is grossly incompetent or incredibly stupid! If someone is going to make up data, at least it should be fake data in real places.

Not to worry! Rumors that the 22nd Amendment will be repealed so that Obama can run for re-election indefinately are just rumors: See snopes.com Bill to Repeal the 22nd Amendment The USA is not like.Venezuela, where a strongmancan rule by decree and get himself exempted from term limits by a vote of the people. Amending the US Constitution is an elaborate process, requiring a 2/3 vote in both House and Senate, and ratification by the state legislatures of 3/4 of the States.

Anyone who wants a better understanding of Community-Organizer-In-Chief Obama might want to read: Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals .

One really good thing that came out of the 2008 election: After seeing now Secretary of State Clinton melt down publically when asked what her husband thought, imagine a President Hillary Clinton responding to this from an important foreign Head of Government: "When your husband was President, he told us that......" Obama probably doesn't like everything about being President, but he doesn't "lose it" on camera.

Bill for First Dude 2012!..... Here is the scenerio: Obama listens to his Generals just like LBJ did.... US gets bogged down in land war in SW Asia ....More and more soldiers come home in body bags.... Obama's popularity nosedives like LBJ's did.... Hillary decides to be the Eugene McCarthy/Bobby Kennedy of 2012.... Hillary gets revenge on Bill by putting him in the First Lady's office in the East Wing.
Why this is plausible: Obama was born in August, 1961; was 2 years old when John F Kennedy was shot and LBJ became President, was 6+ years old, and living in Indonesia, when the January, 1968 Tet Offensive showed that the USA was not going to win in Vietnam, and has no personal knowledge of LBJ and the traumatic Vietnam disaster, so, having no military experiance whatever, he listens to the Generals, who assure him that victory is possible if the US just shovels enough bodies over to Afghanistan. At least Obama has reversed the GWB policy of returning dead soldiers very quietly. To be fair, I doubt seriously that a President Hillary Clinton would do in Afghanistan what LBJ did in Vietnam. My opinion: if JFK had not been shot in 1963, or if RFK had not been shot in 1968, the whole Vietnam disaster might have been halted before it claimed over 47,000 US dead.

11-25-09: I just watched the DVD "The Fall of the Republic: The Presidency of Barack H. Obama", which contains some goofy stuff (WTC #7, in particular), but posits that BHO will declate a State of Emergency because of global warming. I personally do not buy the whole Al Gore disaster idea: see Global Warming: Myths and Reality, Climategate, and The Great "Global Warming" Myth. In the 1998 X-Files Movie, the character Dr Kurtzweil explains at length the actual power of FEMA; which ties into this DVD: President declares State of Emergency, FEMA becomes the de facto government, invokes martial law, sets up detention camps, puts troops on the streets, etc. Think Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans. I don't doubt that Obama has some strange plans for the USA, but he's no more going to invoke martial law than GWB planned 9/11 and had the WTC imploded (9/11 Truther statement; yep, it was all a vast conspiracy to give GWB an excuse to invade Iraq. Uh-huh.)

12-01-09: Obama announces: 30,000 troops to be sent to Afghanistan, to join the 70,000 that are already there. Will normally antiwar Democrats become flaming war hawks now that it's THEIR President sending young people to die? Will my generation remember the last time a Democrat President sent young people to die in Asia? (Guys I went to High School with were killed in Vietnam.)Code Pink responds:"This is not the hope you voted for."
12-09-09: Obama heads to Europe to pick up his Nobel Peace Prize(!) Cindy Sheehan responds"How Dare They?".

(The last serious candidate who ran on a Peace platform that I believed was Robert Kennedy in 1968. Had he not been killed, I think he would have been nominated, defeated Nixon, and ended the war in Vietnam, which dragged on until a N Vietnam/Viet Cong offensive ended it in 1975. Both Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy, the other 1968 Peace candidate, were of that rare breed, "honest politicians who said what they meant and meant what they said"!)

This should have been Mr Hope-and-Change's campaign song!
"Let me tell you how it will be
There's one for you, nineteen for me
'Cause I'm the taxman
Yeah, I'm the tax-ma-an"
-George Harrison, Taxman, 1966

12-25-09(Christmas Day): The Underwear Bomber strikes at Detroit Metro Airport! Had his bomb actually worked, it would have killed hundreds. The Dept of Homeland Security, and it's Secretary Napolitano, do not have "their finest hour".

1-12-10: Earthquake disaster in Port-au-Prince, capital of Haiti. Haiti is what I would call a Fourth World country; undeveloped, impoverished, and likely to remain so. Tens (Hundreds?) of thousands killed, millions homeless. The US military acts for good: securing and returning to service the Port-au-Prince airport, the only way to deliver disaster relief where it is needed quickly. The lack of electricity had reduced the airport to daytime visual flights only.
Sending the hospital ships was a nice touch, too. It is nice to see the military doing something other than "Shock and Awe".

1-14-10: Meeting behind closed(no C-Span cameras) doors, Congressional Democrats agree to accept Labor Union demands that their "Cadillac" health care plans not be taxed (for now) to pay for ObamaCare. Soooo, when Obama said lobbyists and special interests would not be so influential, he just meant "bad" lobbyists and "bad" special interests, not union lobbyists and Big Labor interests?

1-17-10(Sunday): This week, there will be a special election in Massachusetts, the most Democratic state in the USA, to fill the Senate seat held by the late Ted Kennedy for 46 years, and by his brother John F Kennedy before him. The Republican candudate, MA State Sen. Scott Brown, is polling close to the Democrat, MA Atty General Martha Coakley. Brown has focused on opposition to ObamaCare. In an election that usually is as predictable as Nancy Pelosi's re-election in her San Francisco House district, that Brown has a real chance at winning says a lot about growing public uncertainty with Mr Hope-and-Change.
LOL! It says here that Obama's plan is to get the House to pass the Senate passed version of ObamaCare if Coakley loses.
Brit Hume, Fox News' non-partisan chief political analyst, argued on Monday afternoon that a Coakley victory would be a disaster for the Democrats: ObamaCare would then pass, and ObamaCare is so unpopular with the voters, it would insure a Republican victory in the 2010 Congressional elections.

1-19-10: In what rates as a political tsunami, Brown defeats Coakley for The Kennedy Seat (now the people's seat, as Brown said) in the Senate. It wasn't even close. Coakley conceded just over an hour after the polls closed. I was going to pronounce ObamaCare dead, and end this with "the rest is silence"(Hamlet's final words), but the Obamacrats may try some trick to pass a bill without a final Senate vote on a merged Conference Committee bill, by convincing the House to pass the Senate bill unchanged. There do seem to be a lot of House members who dislike parts of the Senate bill, but, "better something than nothing"?
Obama even said that George W Bush was to blame for Brown's win, saying that the same forces that swept him, Obama, into office also swept Brown into office.
I'm pretty sure I heard this twice in Brown's victory speech: "President Obama has done/wants to do X. We can do better." Crowd chants: "Yes, we can!"
The Anger That Brought Us Brown's Victory Is Not Going Away, and Is an Electoral Bloodbath Coming?: Speculates that the 2010 election will be even worse for Democrats than the 1994 election.

1-21-10 Pelosi states that there are not enough votes in the House to pass the Senate version of ObamaCare unchanged.

John Ross: A Short Proposal for Health Care Reform: A short, 4 point plan that would solve a lot of healhcare problems. Includes drastic tort reform, health insurance across state lines, and suggests deductibility of health insurance premiums from taxes owed! Utterly brilliant, IMO.

Charles Krauthammer: The Fall of Obama! (I admit, Krauthammer is one of my favorite political commentators.)

1-22-10: Obama says he will "keep fighting for you". Mr President, if you want to help, get your bloated government out of the way, so that those who can do things, cando things. And stop grabbing money from those who can, to give to those who won't.

1-25-10: The genesis of a sneaky plan to save ObamaCare, according to Dick Morris: Pelosi agrees to pass the Senate bill as-is; Obama signs it into law; Reid produces 52 Senate votes to reverse the parts of the Senate bill the House doesn't like using the "Reconciliation" procedure (aka the "nuclear option"): no debate, only needs 51 votes to pass (2-19-10: Dick Morris: This is still the Obamacrat plan, the "summit" with Republicans is just for show.)

1-26-10: In an incredibly cynical movie, Obama is going to propose a drop in the bucket; less than 1% spending cut in his State of the Union speech tomorrow. In other words: "It's not what is true that is important, it's what the voters think is true". Style before substance. Say anything, do anything, promise anything to win elections. None of that "change we can believe in" stuff, just more "politics as usual".

1-27-10: After the SOTU speech, Palin was asked to describe the speech in one word....."Lecture". Obama has two speaking styles: "Law Professor" mode for solemn things like the SOTU, and "tent revival" mode for campaign speeches. If Obama hadn't gone into politics, he would have done well as a "Rev Wright".
Libertarian Party response to Obama's SOTU speech

1-28-10: Health Bill 'On Life Support' After Obama Appeal-Wow! A couple of weeks ago, before the MA special election, I thought ObamaCare was a done deal. I remember how HillaryCare died quietly; but BHO is not going to accept defeat like Hillary did. I did hear today that Hillary wants only one term as Secretary of State; wonder what she is going to do in 2012? She said she doesn't want to be a Senator; could she be hoping that circumstances will give her another shot at POTUS?

2-2-10: Obama Seeks Money for Nuclear Weapons Work- Huh? What do we need to spend billions on Nukes for? The only country in the world that could be a threat to the USA is China. We need to borrow money from China to keep up with their nuclear program?
Today was the first primary elections of the 11/2010 Congressional election. In view of the Democrats' inability to hold Ted Kennedy's seat in the most Democratic state in the country, Republicans are thinking they might be able, in Nov, to pick up Obama's old seat in Illinois, and Biden's old seat in Delaware, in addition to Senate Majority Leader Reid's seat in Nevada.(8-7-10: Or maybe not: Reid was on his way out, and still may be, but the Republicans passed over two sure winners to nominate an oddball Tea Party woman who Reid, rather than saying how good he is, just says how oddball she is: Reid ads: "Hide from reality with Sharron Angle", plus ElectionProjection.com, which I trust, thinks only Biden's old seat is a likely turnover. (10-11-10: ElectionProjection.com., CNN, Fox News, and Rasmussen Reports all predict that goofy Sharron Angle will defeat Harry Reid, and all predict that goofy Christine "I'm not a witch" O'Donnell will fail to win Biden's old seat.)(A goofy candidate is one I just can't take seriously.)(Others I can't take seriously: Sen. Smalley and Glenn Beck.

2-6-10: Epic snowstorm shuts down DC. 2 and a half feet of snow in a city not used to it; Congress goes home, but Obama stays put, calling it snowmageddon. It was still a shut down DC on 2-10-10.

2-7-10(Super Bowl Sunday): Palin does not rule out running in 2012, says she would run if it was right for the country and right for her family

2-16-10: Obama Seeks Return to Campaign-Style Discipline. Poor Barack! After winning control of the Executive Branch and the entire Legislative Branch in 2008, why is anyone opposing him? Why didn't the voters in New Jersey, Virginia, and Massachusetts vote correctly? Why do those mean Republicans oppose the Messiah?

2-22-10: Apparently giving up on the ability of Pelosi and Reid to pass something, Obama releases his own modified plan, but Outlook No Brighter for Obama's Health Plan. Pure Speculation: Maybe Obama's political gurus thought there would be a public backlash over using the "Reconciliation" procedure to jam through an unpopular bill.

And here it is#4: ObamaCare, the "I'm getting desperate" version!

2-25-10:Obama Readies Backup Health Care Proposal. Today is the "Healthcare Summit". But if the Republicans don't roll over and accept ObamaCare 2.0, Plan B is in the works. Gotta pass something!
"If the gate is closed we will go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we will pole vault in. If that doesn't work, we will parachute in. But we are going to get health care reform passed." -Nancy Pelosi

The tackiest quote of the 2008 election cycle: "The election's over" - Obama to McCain at the Healthcare Summit. Remembering that McCain was a POW in N Vietnam when little Barack was in elementary school, that was a really petty, childish thing to say. Oh, I get it. Obama is a nicotene addict, and was stuck in the Blair House for seven hours with no access to his drug, which he only uses in the White House in private, so of course he got a little cranky!

3-3-10: Rumor has it that Obama wants to use the "House passes the Senate bill and uses Reconciliation in the Senate to pass fixes" idea, but that there are "Right to Life" Democrats in the House who will balk at the Senate bill because it does not have the Stupak Amendmentlanguage denying funding for abortions. As ObamaCare only passed the House by 5 votes, there is little room for error.

3-7-10: ACLU Likens Obama to Bush in Ad Slamming Possible Reversal on KSM Trial-Frankly, I would like to see KSM tried under the USA legal system; it would be very interesting to see the government prove that KSM did the things he is accused of doing "beyond a reasonable doubt"; confessions obtained under torture are not proof: they only prove that torture is so uncomfortable that people will say anything to make it stop.

"...we have to pass the [ Obamacare ] bill so that you can find out what's in it...” – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, speaking at the 2010 Legislative Conference for National Association of Counties, 3/9/10

3-10-10: Senate Health Care Bill Dead on Arrival, Pro-Life House Democrats Say- So, the right-to-life people have enough votes to kill the Senate bill in the House? If true, will Obama and Pelosi let it come to a humiliating defeat of Obama's #1 goal?

Coming on March 16th - The People's Surge against Obamacare 2.0, at the Cannon House Office Building

3-14-10(Sunday): Supposedly, this week the House will vote on the Senate passed version of ObamaCare, but the Majority Whip(Vote Counter), Rep. Clyburn, doesn't think the votes are there yet, but predicts passage.

3-15-10: A new trick, the Slaughter Strategy(named after Rep.Louise Slaughter, Chair of the House Rules Committee), would enable the House to pass the Senate version without actually voting on it! Even CNN is reporting that Clyburn/Pelosi do not have the votesto actually passthe Senate version.

3-17-10: Somebody, sorry, I don't remember who, stated that for a law to be constitutional, it must be passed in both Houses of Congress using identical language, and cited this Supreme Court decision: Clinton v City of New York, 1998. Reading the decision, I think this is the operative language: "The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 is a 500-page document that became “Public Law 105—33” after three procedural steps were taken: (1) a bill containing its exact text was approved by a majority of the Members of the House of Representatives; (2) the Senate approved precisely the same text; and (3) that text was signed into law by the President. The Constitution explicitly requires that each of those three steps be taken before a bill may “become a law.” I can see where ObamaCare passed using the Slaughter Strategy would not fulfill these three steps.

Tea Party Nation's Quote if the week, 3-19-10: “We’ve Moved From Passing Bills Without Reading Them to Passing Bills Without Voting On Them.”

And here it is#5! The House Rules Committee ObamaCare page! A must-see page for lawyers planning to challenge the bill if it passes.

Coming on Sarurday, 3-20-10, Take The Town Halls To DC.-Code Red rallyat noon in Upper Senate Park, another Nationwide Tea Party Coalitionevent.

3:20-10: House abandons Slaughter Strategy. Obamacrat leaders think they have done enough arm twisting and special deal making to pass the Senate bill in the House with a real vote (!)
3-21-10: Sure enough, the House approved the Senate version of ObamaCare, 219-212, with every Republican voting No. Before the vote, with the outcome certain, a Democrat commented, "Republicans hold Tea Parties. We are holding a Kool-Aid Party." Passage in the House was assured when Stupak got a worthless Executive Order from Obama saying no federal funds for abortions. It reminded me of Chamberlain waving his copy of the worthless Munich Agreement in 1938. [“Both sides in the abortion debate came to a rare agreement on Wednesday: The executive order on abortion signed by President Obama, they said, was basically meaningless. ‘A transparent political fig leaf,’ according to the National Right to Life Committee’s Douglas Johnson. ‘A symbolic gesture,’ said Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards.”] Later, the House passed the "fixes" to the Senate version 220-211, which goes to the Senate for action

3-24-10: Charles Krauthammer: Obamacare to Result in National Sales Tax on Americans- I'm afraid this is true: the government is already broke; it cannot support the huge expense of ObamaCare without a huge tax increase. Although it is tempting to "soak the rich", there aren't enough rich people to finance Obama's goofy plans.
(The Tea Party people are going ballistic over the "Stupak Sellout". Stupak represents Northern Michigan, which I am told has a lot of miners who are Democrats like Stupak.)
Note: On 4-19-10, White House Press Secretary Gibbs stated that a VAT was not being considered

Interesting:Federal Health Care Nullification Act, a bill that can be passed by state legislatures to exempt (they hope) their state from ObamaCare.(4 states have opted out of ObamaCare's abortion coverage.)

Universal health care is a beautiful idea, but so is getting a pony for your fifth birthday! That's what is so great about the ObamaNation.....you get ****FREE**** stuff, that *other people* pay for. Of course, if Daddy can't really afford a pony, and goes into bankruptcy, it's not the daughter's fault for asking for a pony, it's Daddy's fault for being so foolish as to spend money he doesn't have, or borrowing money he can't repay. ("It's a magic world, where rules do not apply. It's a brave new world, where any dream can fly" - from EFX, starring Michael Crawford, at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Anyone who ever saw EFX will recognize Obama as the EFX Master; he can sign a gigantic entitlement that will cost Trillions after saying that he will only sign a "deficit neutral" plan......it's magic! It's also called "wishful thinking".)(Someone put up a billboard with a portrait of GWB, and the caption,"Miss me yet?")
(LOL! I remember some woman shouting, after Obama's victory in 11/08, "Everybody gets a car!")
(LOL! I actually thought I heard that Obama said he would eliminate deficit spending by 2015! He didn't say that, of course; although politicians lie, they usually avoid telling obvious whoppers. Obama did say, in 5/09: U.S. Long-Term Debt Load ‘Unsustainable’. I think that means, in non-DC terms, "We can't go on borrowing and spending like this forever. Eventually we have to stop. We just won't be stopping while *I* am President!"
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"What's clear to me from just glancing at it is that if we don't restore some fiscal sanity around here as a nation, we are going to go broke. I know that's not a word people like to use, but it happens to be true. We face the most predictable, economic crisis in history. And if we stay on automatic pilot, the debt we are accumulating will be like a cancer. It will definitely destroy this country from within." - ERSKINE BOWLES ( Democrat ), DEBT COMMISSIONCO-CHAIR, appointed by President Obama. 6-30-2010

4-7-10: Obama Bans Islam, Jihad From National Security Strategy Document: He doesn't want to offend Islamic countries. All he would have to do is say, "Look, guys! My father was a Muslim, my mother's second husband (who adopted me)was a Muslim, I've been around Islamic people most of my life! But I'm a successful politician in the USA, so I have to be either Christian or Jewish! In your countries, to be a successful politician you have to be a Muslim! I've nothing against Islam, and neither does my government! Peace." (NO, I don't think Obama is a Muslim; sure, he was listed as a Muslim when he was a little boy living in Indonesia, but every little boy who had to join the Hitler Youth in the Third Reich is not a Nazi. Obama is a church going Christian, a "Christian by choice"(in the same sense that Bill Clinton is a Christian.....go through the motions, but ignore the doctrine; a CINO.)(Rev. Wright and "black liberation theology" are Christian, too.)

4-12-10: Coming April 15: Tax Day Tea Parties!

4-13-10: HOPE FOR THE FUTURE! I just saw, on Hannity's show, former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio, who is running for the Florida US Senate seat (Republican) nomination. Among his issues: repeal of ObamaCare! Rubio's parents were born in the Socialist Paradise of Cuba, so they saw first hand the marvels of Big Government. (Marco Rubio's bio.) Marco Rubio could easily become a "conservative rock star"! But he will have to beat current Florida Governor Crist, who has switched from Republican to Independent to avoid being defeated by Rubio in the Republican Senate primary.

4-21-10: Tomorrow Obama is going to address Wall Street. It's not hard to see this as a political ploy. With elections in November, Obama will try to set up a mindset of "Evil Republicans and their greedy Wall Street allies vs noble Obamacrats who are looking out for you". "We Obamacrats are on your side against the wealthy Republican fat cats".

When I was a kid in the 1950s, lots of people, especially Catholics, had a plastic "dashboard Jesus". Now, Glenn Beck is offering a "dashboard Obama"! Why settle for the original Messiah when you can get the new, improved, Messiah 2.0? The original Messiah only promised Eternal Life in Heaven, but the improved Messiah 2.0 promises Heaven on Earth! Proof that Obama is the Messiah: He raised HillaryCare from the dead. Doubt that Obama is the Messiah: He failed to save Ted Kennedy's seat, and the Governer's Offices of New Jersey and Virginia from those evil Republicans!

"We have allowed our constitutional republic to deteriorate into a virtually unchecked direct democracy. Today's political process is nothing more than a street fight between various groups seeking to vote themselves other people's money. ( and, I think, freedoms ) Individual voters tend to support the candidate that promises them the most federal loot in whatever form, rather than the candidate who will uphold the rule of law." --Rep. Ron Paul

"Who cares? I want other people's money! Obama money! Obama cash! Gimme the money!" -(Melissa wrote this quote, but was being sarcastic!)

It's time for Obama to get off his butt and do something he promised but which is not politically popular, especially not in a congressional election year: immigration reform! My (white) ancestors never asked permission from the ("Native American") people who were living here before 1492. I take this song seriously: The Immigrant. We European types can either give the country back to its' original inhabitants, or quit complaining that people today want to do what our ancestors did; find a better life! In 2007, the McCain-Kennedy attempt was filibustered to death in the Senate

5-1-10: Tonight at about 9:15 PM (after midnight in NYC), I had just finished watching a movie and turned to Fox News' coverage of the NYC Times Square car bomb scare. The Fox News on air person, who identified herself as Mary Ann Rafferty, was unquestionably the most competent newsperson I have ever seen, and I'm old enough to remember where I was when I heard that JFK had been shot. (High School 10th grade Algebra class in Beverly Hills, MI.)

5-7-10: Debt Crisis in Greece: Coming Soon to an ObamaNation near you? Riots in the streets when China finally cuts off the lending spigot, and the US entitlements have to be cut? China is not an ally or friend of the USA; they will stop lending if they think the USA is becoming insolvent. Let's just hope the Obamacrats lose their majorities in Congress and fiscal sanity somehow returns. (Not that the Republicans are less addicted to deficit spending; Republicans love to spend huge sums to overthrow foreign governments in Asia. Sigh.)

"You are witnessing the disintegration of the european socialist system.... By that I mean, high taxes, cradle-to-grave entitlements, government dominating the economy, high prices because of VAT - collapsing as we speak." - Stuart Varney, Senior Fox News Business Analyst, May 6th, 2010, after the stock market had the greatest single day point loss in history, on news of the greek rioting and three deaths in the streets.

Greece on the Brink: Blame It on John Edwards-fascinating look at the Edwards and Obama view of reality.

Greece: The Welfare State's Death Spiral

5-10-10: “Whether a given category of speech enjoys First Amendment protection depends upon a categorical balancing of the value of the speech against its societal costs.” -Elena Kagan, Obama's latest Supreme Court nominee (So where the 1st Amendment says "Congress shall make no law.....abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press", Kagan mentally adds "except where there is a societal cost I don't like." )(Since "societal costs" is subjective, "no law" does not really mean "no law". Bring back the Board of Censors! Suppress all speech that a Supreme Court dominated by Kagan clones finds to have "societal costs"! Reason #1 to re-elect Obama 2012: more Kagan clones to nullify that silly free speech stuff! The authors of the Bill of Rights forgot about "societal costs".)

5-18-10: Big 2010 Primary day. After changing political parties and being endorsed by Obama, Sen. Arlen Specter is defeated in the Democrat primary. Specter has been in DC since the 1960s, when he worked for the Warren Commission. Specter is credited with devising the "Single Bullet Theory", which was necessary to the "Lee Harvey Oswald as the Lone Assassin of JFK" official conclusion. Stubborn critics of the Warren Commission called it the "Magic Bullet Theory".

Was Rep. Joe Sestak offered a job by the Obama administration if he would not run against Specter? If it happened, it would be a federal crime, which Attorney General Holder seems unwilling to investigate/appoint a special prosecutor to investigate. This whole Sestak/job/"I was offered a job, and I answered that," Sestak said. "Anything that goes beyond that is for others to talk about." seems so Nixonian, so politics as usual, so Watergate Coverupish, so UnObamaish (Un Candidate Obama, anyway). Candidate Obama was all about "Change".

5-28-10: On the Friday afternoon before the Memorial Day 3-day weekend, the day to release something that won't be discussed seriously until (hopefully) everyone has forgotten about it, the White House Counsel, Robert Bauer releases the official explanation of the "Sestak job offer"; I don't buy it:
A. Would a sitting Congressman give up a good shot at the Senate in exchange for an unpaid advisory position?
B. Would Sestak have referred to an unpaid advisory position as a "job"?
C. Would former President Clinton have been called in to offer this unpaid advisory position?

Dick Morris: SESTAK SCANDAL GROWS...AND STILL STINKS

And the other shoe drops? Romanoff mum on possible Obama job offer, then Andrew Romanoff details contacts with White House over potential jobs. Romanoff offered a job if he won't run for the Senate from Colorado? Where are Woodward and Bernstein when we need them again? Remember All the President's Men?

Michelle Malkin:The long, hot Summer of Corruption, Blago, Sestak, and Romanoff; Chicago politics at work. More Summer of Corruption: Rep.Charlie Rangel and Rep.Maxine Waters:

HERE is the nasty (racial profiling) Arizona law that Obama, Holder, former AZ Gov. Janet Napolitano, and others knew was awful before they bothered to read it (a .pdf file).

Hypocrisy? The House Minority Party has a YouCut page, where you can vote on government programs to eliminate. If the House Minority Party wins in Nov 2010, and again in Nov 2012, they would just return to the good old "We can deficit spend just like you! But we will spend on the military; which petty Asian dictator shall we overthrow first?"

"It's an extraordinary privilege to wake up every day and know you have the opportunity to serve the American people and make life better" -Obama on Larry King Live 6-3-10 *Gag* That sounds exactly like something Hillary would say if she was President!

6-8-10 (the Super Tuesday of the 2010 election cycle): "Career politicians in Sacramento and Washington, D.C., be warned: You now face your worst nightmare -- two businesswomen from the real world who know how to create jobs, balance budgets and get things done," -former eBay CEO, and self made *b*illionaire Meg Whitman, winner of the Republican nomination for Governor of CA, who will face career politician "Governor Moonbeam" (Jerry Brown) in Nov. I find it difficult to believe that CA voters could prefer a political hack like Jerry Brown to a successful, accomplished Meg Whitman.(The other businesswoman is former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, the Republican nominee to oppose incumbent Sen Barbara Boxer (D-CA)

6-9-10: Today I heard a new word for the first time: Obamageddon (syn: Barackalypse), first in relation to foreign policy and an armed showdown between the USA and Iran("4,640.3% profits from OBAMAGEDDON Act now before the bombs drop" "Military Action in 60 days or less"....the military action being a US strike on Iran), then in relation to fiscal policy: Obamageddon Forecast for 2012; a "Greatest Depression" before the end of Obama's first term?
6-13-10: Wow! There is even a http://www.obamageddon.biz/ web site, selling Obamageddon T-shirts! Only $19.99! (Obamageddon is a reference to the battle of Armageddon, the final battle between Good and Evil, which takes place in the End Times in some variations of religions that follow the God of Abraham.

6-12-10: WWOD? North Korea says it can turn Seoul into 'sea of flame'! It seems quite likely that the Obama presidency will see the first post-WW2 use of the Atomic Bomb as a weapon, either between Iran/Israel or N Korea/S Korea, especially if the Supreme Leader of N Korea, Kim Jong-il, is as much of a Hitler personality clone as I fear. Will Obama be up to dealing with a nuclear confrontation in the Middle East or the Far East? President John Kennedy was able to avoid a nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, but the world has changed drastically since Obama was one year old. Frankly, I'm not confident that a Chicago politician/Community Organizer/Law Professor is quite up to dealing with fascists armed with "The Bomb". I (seriously) think the world would be a safer place if a pragmatic person like Mitt Romney or Rudy Giuliani was President of the world's only superpower now. Anyone with their finger remotely near a nuclear trigger should see the 1959 movie On the Beach, or it's 2000 remake. Both are powerful arguments against using mass murder as a military weapon.

OUTRAGE! HR-5175, the DISCLOSE ("Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light On Spending in Elections.")(nicknamed the "Free Speech Stranglehold Bill")bill, Obama's blatantly unconstitutional attempt to silence his critics before the 11-2-10 Congressional Election. If passed and enforced, this very web page COULD BE SUSPECT, as I criticize government officials. POWER CORRUPTS! I don't think there is any way this bill will survive a court challenge (On 7-26-10, the Senate voted 57-41 to NOT end debate on DISCLOSE.)

6-16-10: Heard today: The BP Oil Spill is to Obama what the Iranian Hostage Crisis was to Jimmy Carter.

6-16-10: Who would have thought? NY Times' Resident Liberal Maureen Dowd criticizes Obama on the BP oil spill!

6-20-10: Secretary of Defense Gates: U.S. Not Ready to Talk About Containing a Nuclear Iran. It says here that Iran is becoming a "military dictatorship". It is interesting that in both N Korea and Iran the most powerful person is called "Supreme Leader" (Ger. Oberführer)

6-22-10: Another Primary Day on the long road to the end of total Obamacrat control of the US government. Republican Nikki Haley is nominated in SC to succeed the "Love Gov" (Sanford, another in a long dreary list of Republicans whose idea of marital fidelity was inspired by the Kennedy family.)
Rumor has it that Obama is going to replace Afghanistan commander Gen McChrystaltomorrow. ("You can't criticize the Commander-In-Chief! I have a degree from Harvard Law School, and being elected President magically endows me with more military knowledge than you West Point grads!")

6-23-10: Sure enough, Obama "accepts McChrystal's resignation".
What ever happened to 'American' soil? Looks at the dreary situation on the US/Mexico border in Arizona, and Obama's inaction; no, I do not think this part of a secret plot to insure a Permanent Democrat Majority by letting the Mexicans flood the country.

6-24-10: Today I heard on Fox that Obama's "unfavorable" is higher than his "favorable" in a national poll for the first time. It will get even worse if he does this: Administration Weighs Bypassing Congress to Let Illegal Immigrants Stay! While I personally do not think this is philosophically a horrible idea, for the simple reason that my European ancestors came to America illegally and then killed or put on "reservations"(rural ghettos) the people living here, I suspect such a move would destroy Obama's popularity in the short run and would be reversed by Congress in the long run.
6-23-10:Lawmakers warn administration plan unilaterally grant blanket amnesty: IMHO, while not a *bad* thing to do, it would be a deep political SIW to Obama. While I may be ready for this, I'm afraid the rest of the country is not.

7-1-10: Turning to CNN to avoid a Fox News re-run, I heard Anderson Cooper say that the government has restricted access of reporters to those cleaning up after the BP oil spill in New Orleans and elsewhere!

7-3-10: "Add that to her glaring lack of scholarly writing despite her Ivy League background and her zero experience on the bench and we're left with.....well, a Chicago lawyer with little or no experience being primed for one of the highest offices in the land. Color us all deja vu." -email from Team Sarah, about Kagan and Obama.

7-7-10: Wonderful.. Obama's home state, Illinois is becoming insolvent, too.

Wikipedia entry on the (in)famous Obama/Joker poster

8-1-10: U.S. Has Iran Attack Plan, Mullen Says, and Mr Hope-and-Change, the UnBush, is going to approve this?

Drudge Retort: Will Hillary run in 2012?- very interesting comments section. I think she will consider it if the 2010 elections are a Democrat disaster, and Obama's poll numbers keep dropping. I wonder if James Carville's criticism of Obama during the BP Oil spill functioned as a test of how much a Clinton insider could criticize Obama without being branded a racist? If Hillary runs, Bill (who was once called "The first black President") would just hate being thought of as a racist for trying to deny renomination to the real first black President

8-3-10: Another Primary Tuesday: Missouri Votes to Block Obama's Health Insurance Mandate, overwhelmingly(three to one). It will probably only be a symbolic defeat for ObamaCare, as federal law trumps state law, but it is a slap at Obama.

ACLU: Establishing a New Normal, argues that Obama is continuing way too many GWB anti civil liberties policies. "Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss"-The Who, "Won't get Fooled again"

8-9-10: Coming soon: Tea Party at the Arizona/Mexico border, August 15! It gets really hot in the Arizona desert, so attendees will see first hand what illegal immigrants who cross the border there face.

8-15-10: I'm amused by the increasing use of the phrase "Obama Regime". It has a negative sound to it, so I looked up regime in the Wikitionary, and sure enough, it is used as a pejorative. Regime is usually associated with usavory dictatorial types: the "Saddam Hussein Regime"

Very interesting article about the consequences of an Isreali attack on Iran; speculates that Isreal will attack if an Iranian nuclear bomb "represents a threat like a Shoah." (Holocaust), and could touch off a regional war.

8-18-10: The absolute funniest thing so far: Today Steve Forbes remarked, after a story about Obama's criticism of company CEOs for hoarding cash, (paraphrased): The CEOs should buy Obama a plane ticket to some foreign country. If he stays there for two years, the economy will recover!
U.S. Considering Changing Cuba Policy? It's about time! With the demise of the USSR, it's silly to think of Cuba as an enemy ally.

8-20-10 Opinion:Obama Administration Thinks Road to Tehran Runs Through Jerusalem. Argues that if Shiite Persian Iran gets "the bomb", their Sunni Arab neighbors will get one, too, and it's only a matter of time before the most unstable area of the world is engulfed in nuclear war.
So Israel's getting tense.
Wants one in self defense.
"The Lord's our shepherd," says the psalm,
But just in case, we better get a bomb.
Tom Lehrer, Who's Next?

8-25-10: "When the house is on fire, you grab a hose, not a golf club!" -Mike Huckabee

8-31-10: Even as I type this, our Great Leader is going on TV to strut his accomplishments in Iraq, in essence making a 2012 re-election speech. Since I don't like watching advertising, I looked up "repeal Obamacare", and found Rep. King’s 100% Obamacare Repeal Bill Endorsed by Newt Gingrich

9-1-10: I was very surprised at the astounding turnout for Glenn Beck's 8-28 event in DC; a turnout in the hundreds of thousands. Although Beck said it was "non-political", he is a well known critic of Obama, and his fans are not Obama fans, plus he had Palin as a speaker. Whatever Beck's stated motives, it struck me as a big anti-Obama gathering. It's as if the USA has PTSD from the trauma of Obamacrat spending, soaring deficit, national debt that can never be repaid. If Obama was up for re-election in 2010, he would be a one termer. If he doesn't follow Bill Clinton's example of moving to the center after the 1994 disaster, he may still be a one termer.

9-3-10: Today on MS-NBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews, Matthews argued that Obama should replace Bush holdover Gates as Secretary of Defense with......Hillary! Cool! We already have a lawyer who knows nothing about running a country as President, why not another lawyer who knows nothing about the military as Defense Secretary?

9-5-10: It's not just Dick Morris who thinks the Obamacrats will lose both the House and the Senate in November: The guy who runs Election Projection thinks so, too. But EP thinks it will be close: today's projection has the Obamacrats down 2 seats in the Senate, but only in the minority by 1 seat in the House. Morris thinks it will be somewhat dimmer for the new minorities....wonder if Nancy Pelosi will lose her special flight priviledges when she loses the Speaker's gavel?

9-6-10 (Labor Day): "[A] wise and frugal government ... shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government." --Thomas Jefferson

9-7-10: It's the end of the Obama/Biden "Recovery Summer". John Stossel asks Where Are the New Jobs?

9-8-10: In what could be Hillary's first speech of the 2012 Primaries, Hillary criticizes Obama's deficits. You have to admit, Hillary's husband was the last President who actually had a balanced budget!

9-14-10: Last big Primary Tuesday before the Nov 2 election; Republicans nominate another Tea Party oddball(Christine O'Donnell) for Joe Biden's old Senate seat. In looking up the phrase "A Choice Not An Echo" from the 1964 election, I accidently found that a well known conservative magazine has designated the month of the election Recovery November!
LOL!! Whatever one might think of O'Donnell, her Obamacrat opponent has already been outed as both a Marxist AND founder of the Amherst College Republicans in his college years; see http://thebeardedmarxist.com/ !
Maybe this will be the year of the Republican Woman! I can remember when Margaret Chase Smith(R-Maine) was the first (and for awhile, only) woman in the US Senate.

9-21-10: I hear that Harry Reid is going to slip the DREAM Act into a defense appropriations bill. DREAM seems like a cynical way to recruit illegals into the military.
Ten Things You Need To Know About S.3827, The DREAM Act

The Republican Pledge to America(a .pdf file) A followup of Newt Gingrich's 1994 "Contract With America"

9-25-10: "Nancy Pelosi didn't drain the swamp, she built a hot tub!"-Cal Thomas

At this page there is a picture I wish I could copy and publish here! It's a photo of garbage cans with discarded Obama campaign signs! I heard Bernard Goldberg, author of A Slobbering Love Affair, say that the slobbering was over. It is still hard to believe that such a popular and intelligent politician has managed to screw up so badly

10-16-10: The Obamacrats are really getting dirty. They can't crow about their accomplishments, and don't dare to mention Obamacare, so they have to attack their opponents. In Las Vegas, Harry Reid's ads say that his opponent has "crazy ideas". A local Obamacrat Congresswoman says that her opponent has "crazy ideas". Implication: People with crazy ideas are.....crazy! And running up a gigantic Federal deficit is not crazy? "Note to candidates: this is a job interview and we are the boss. Would you dump a load of garbage into my office hoping to win the job? Then don’t do it in my home every night."-Tim Nerenz
Funny: Burt Prelutsky's The Two Year Itch

10-18-10: Wayne Root's Economic Catastrophe Unfolds: Why Every Bank in America is Bankrupt- predicts Great Depression II, and concludes: "V.E.T.O. - VOTE EVERYONE of THEM OUT!"

10-19-10: It’s Official: Obama Has Now Borrowed $3 Trillion-it took from 1776 to 1990 for Obama's predecessors to borrow 3 Trillion.....Obama did it in less than 2 years!

10-20-19: Heard a fun new concept today: In this comments after this page page about Alvin Green : "Our margin of victory this November MUST ALWAYS BE greater than their margin of fraud.". This is easy to grasp: In a state like New Jersey. or a city like Chicago, to win, a Republican has to get enough votes not just to have a majority, but enough additional votes to overcome fraud!

10-26-10: Election Projection Guarantee: Sharron Angle will defeat Harry Reid(!)

10-28-10:Wayne Root: Obama Goes from Messiah to Pariah-Oddsmaker in Vegas predicts big Obamacrat defeat on Nov 2 and waves good-bye to Harry Reid.

11-2-10: Not a Wave election, but a "Tidal Wave" election. Obamacrats lose the House; Pelosi will lose her job as Speaker. Obamacrats narrowly hold the Senate; Reid is re-elected, Sestak, Russ Feingold, and Blanche Lincoln are defeated. Republican Kirk wins Obama's old Senate seat, Marco Rubio elected to the US Senate from Florida.. The results in the House were even worse than in 1994, but speculation is that this will not be taken as a victory for Republican ideas, it's a rejection of Obama ideas. Furthur speculation: Obama will not make any Bill Clinton statement like "The era of big government is over." Obama is an ideologue, but was enough of a practical politician to know that he had to pass Obamacare™ in the first two years.

11-9-10: Yes, we can repeal Obamacare-predicts repeal in 2013, after the 2012 election.

11-11-10:The Deficit Commission Is a Big, Fat Dud; it's just for show: more Obama "politics as usual".

11-14-10: "To paraphrase an old saying, “when I owe you $1,000, I have a problem. When I owe you $14.3 trillion, you have a problem.”- Tea Party Nation

Hope for a post-ObamaNation USA: Draft NJ Gov Chris Christie 2012

11-16-10: Someone said today on Fox (I think it was Charles Krauthammer.) that "Dont Touch My Junk" could become a new "Don't Tread On Me". I have noticed that there are a bunch of "Impeach (Homeland Security Secretary Janet) Napolitano" pages up(DHS is ultimitely responsible for airport screenings). Not that she could be convicted in the Senate, but she could be impeached by the House.

11-18-10: In an Elena Kagan moment("1st Amendment only applies to speech that has no societal costs"), Sen. Jay Rockefeller(D-WV) wishes the FCC would shut down Fox News and MSNBC!

11-21-10: From Tea Party Nation: MUSLIM WOMEN ALLOWED TO SELF-PAT THEMSELVES AT AIRPORTS? More insanity from the TSA and the DHS!

11-24-10: "Nobody likes having the Fourth Amendment violated going through a security line, but the truth of the matter is, we´re going to have to do it."
Mo McGowan
Former Assistant Administrator, Transportation Security Administration
Fox News interview November 15

12-2-10: Charlie Rangel Censured by the House. Hypocrisy! Rep. Rangel didn't pay all of his taxes. Neither did "TurboTax Tim", the Secretary of the Treasury, or Kathleen Sebelius, the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

12-5-10: "I mean, the American people are not going to tolerate -- if we're still at 9 or 10 percent unemployment in 2012, this is a one-term president no matter how articulate he is."-Newt Gingrich on Fox News Sunday

12-9-10: Paranoia Strikes Deep: Glenn Beck's rant about WikiLeaks: The Revolution Is Now

12-18-10: DREAM Act killed for now; the cynical get-illegals-to-fight-our-wars-in-return-for-citizenship bill dies in the lame duck session.

12-19-10:"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" repealed. This is supposed to benefit the whole LGBT community. Will transgendered guys be able to join a Women's Army Corps (WAC), or at least wear WAC uniforms? Will military health insurance cover sex change operations? And will tranny officers insist on being called Ma'am?

12-29-10: Tea Party Nation: Reflections on 2010 a year in disgust

"He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people,
and eat out their substance."
-- Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence, 1776,
on the "repeated injuries and usurpations" of King George.

1-4-11: Courtesy of Tea Party Nation: To quote an old joke, what is the difference between the Democrats and the Republicans? With the Democrats you get more of the same and with Republicans you get less of the same.

1-5-11: Rep. Boehner becomes Speaker of the House; Rep. Pelosi gracefully yields the gavel and becomes Minority Leader. Total Obamacrat control of the Executive and Legislative Branchs ends. Speculation is that the new GOP Chairmen of House Committees will use subpoena power to investigate the Obama administration.

1-7-11:A current list of Obama's czars

1-8-11: Today, in Arizona, an apparent nut shot a US Congresswoman (Gabrielle Giffords) through the head, and fatally shot a US District Judge. The founder of Tea Party Nation described the shooter as a "liberal lunatic" and called this "the end of an era", specifically, the end of popular access to elected politicians. In the same way that the SS(blackshirts) was originally Hitler's SA(brownshirts) bodyguard(later the entire police, intelligence, and security apparatus of the Third Reich), I can see our government leaders concealing themselves behind a wall of SA goons. (In post-9/11 USA, just getting into the Capitol building practically requires a TSA body search.) Things like the pre-Obamacare town meetings will become a thing of the past. As of today, the only member of Congress with Secret Service protection is the Speaker of the House, because that person is third in line to become President. Although Rep. Giffords is still alive, few people could return to "normal" after taking a bullet in the brain.(Giffords beat the odds just by staying alive, but her recovery has been remarkable!

Advice to Obama; how to exploit the AZ shootings

Real Healthcare Reform is when the President (and Speaker Boehner) stop smoking and the obese Surgeon General loses weight! Mr President, Mr Speaker: If you won't quit for your own sakes, remember that second hand smoke is just as deadly as the poison you are breathing in.

1-12-11:Another story you probably heard nothing about -ACORN leader convicted of vote fraud in NV.

1-13-11: How Speaker Boehner and the Senate Republicans could repeal Obamacare, without an Obama veto!

1-19-11US House of Representatives votes to repeal Obamacare 245-189! And there is talk in NV of attempting to recall Harry Reid if he personally blocks a Senate vote.

1-25-11: Obama kicks off his reelection campaign with a 60 minute nationally televised infomercial. In his best "law professor" speaking mode, Obama says nothing about the entitlement crisis threatening to bankrupt America. Speculation abounds that both political parties do not want to be the ones to say that the Social Security Ponzi scheme is unsustainable. Obama unviels a new slogan: "Winning The Future". How appropriate! WTF! (This infomercial was not nearly as entertaining as previous infomercials with Pelosi popping up in the background to applaud. Boehner was not nearly as enthusiastic as Pelosi was.)

Sen Rand Paul's proposal to eliminate 500 billion in federal spending-a .pdf file.....half a trillion! Government spending is like cancer, it grows and grows, but the organism is not killed if you cut it out; quite the opposite!

2-1-11:US District Judge in Florida rules ObamaCare unconstitutional

2-2-11: US Senate votes 51(no)-47(yes) to not repeal Obamacare, with Lieberman(I-CT) and Warner(D-VA) not voting.

2-11-11: After popular demonstrations (18 days), the corrupt but US-friendly Mubarak regime falls in Eygpt. In the crowd I saw, on TV, someone wearing a Guy Fawkes mask, like the one worn by the character V in the movie V for Vendetta, a very pro-freedom, anti-fascist movie where a government falls. (Egyptian Revolution of 2011)

2-23-11: The bizarreGadhafi(or is it Gaddafi)(or Qaddafi)(or Khaddafy) regime teeters in Libya. Like during the Iranian demonstrations in 2009, Obama does not pay attention publically until the government starts to shoot people in the streets.

2-26-11: Obama states publically that Gadhafi "should go".

Although the Draft (Selective Slavery) ended in 1973, young men (age 18 to 25) still must register for the draft; failure to register can mean denial of a driver's license, fine, and jail time. If another unpopular war comes our way, and there are not enough volunteers.......under the old system, boys my age were drated to go to Vietnam to die for nothing.. After 1973, and under Obama today, you have to volunteer to die for nothing, plus now girls can volunteer to die for nothing, too!

3-8-11: Obama creates indefinite detention system for prisoners at Guantanamo Bay- At the Nuremberg Trial of Major War Criminals(IMT) after WW2, Göring called a similar scheme "protective custody", when holding threats to national security at Dachau indefinately. Apparently, just about any violation of human rights is justified if the magic word "security" is invoked

3-13-11: Following the lead of fellow Islamic governments in Iran and Libya, the government of Yemen opens fire on it's own citizens(Bahrain follows the next day.)(In April, Syria, too)

3-15-11: Bill O'Reilley wonders out loud if the 2012 election will be decided on "Leadership", because Obama has shown so little on the debt crisis; noting that the (previous) Democrat controlled Congress never approved a budget for the current fiscal year, and Obama never proposed one

3-18-11: "To err is human, but to really screw things up you need Obama."- Tea Party Nation's Judson Phillips, on the situation in Libya.

3-19-11: U.S. Launches Cruise Missiles Against Qaddafi's Air Defenses If Sen. McCain had won the 2008 election and done this; still-Sen Obama would be in the Senate howling, "See? It IS Bush's Third Term!"

'The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation."-then Sen. Obama in 2007, on then Pres GWB

3-19-11: From the Tea Party Nation list: Donald Trump wonders about Obama's birth. I like Donald Trump. He is a success at management, which this country needs, and he is a straight shooter. A businessman, not a professional politician.

3-24-11: The US invasion of Libya is not a war, it's a 'kinetic military action'!

"If he takes the country to war in [Iran] without a vote of Congress, which will not exist, then he should be impeached." - Joe Biden, November, 15 2007.

3-26-11: "Allowing Congress to be able to borrow more money is about as bright as giving an alcoholic a room full of booze and the keys to a high performance auto." -Tea Party Nation

"Operation Odyssey_Dawn"? Gees! When Republicans start wars, they dream up catchy names like "Desert Shield" and "Desert Storm".

3-27-11: Tea Party Nation declares Obama to be the Anti-Reagan. Maybe. My personal fantasy: Donald Trump's victory speech: "Mr President, You're Fired!" My dream tickets: Trump/Ann Coulter., Trump/Michelle Malkin, or Trump/Condi Rice

Coming up Sept 29 to Oct 2, 2011: The National Tea Party Straw Poll Convention, in Kansas City. "The purpose of the convention is to allow Tea Party members the vehicle to tell the GOP whom the Tea Party movement favors."

Wayne Allyn Root: Obama's agenda: Overwhelm the system

"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt limit." -then Senator Barack Obama, 2006

4-26-11 Fox Business News:House Energy and Commerce Committee investigates secret deals made in the runup to passage of Obamacare! The "most transparent administration" made secret deals?

4-27-11: In the morning, Obama appears in the White House Briefing Room to announce: He is releasing his "long form birth certificate". Donald Trump, who had been wondering out loud about it, claims responsibility for inducing the release. Of course, as Obama predicted, there are still those who are skeptical. Complaint #1: The certificate lists Obama's father's race as "African", not typical usage in the early 1960s. Complaint #2: He won't let anyone look at the actual paper certificate, so it can be tested to see if it is as old as he is

4-30-11: From Tea Party Nation: US Treasury debt is headed towards "junk" status; while some(S&P, Moody's, Fitch) still think the USA is a AAA/Aaa risk, others(Weiss) rate it C, just two steps above "Junk".

5-1-11/5-2-11: Osama bin Laden killed by the US military at a walled fortress in Abbottabad, near Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. Obama talks about "unity". Whenever I hear Obama talking about "unity", I hear a ghostly voice saying, "Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Führer", which is German for "One Nation, One People, One Leader".

5-5-11: First debate of the 2012 election cycle- 5 Republicans debate in Greenville, SC. Trump, Palin, Romney, and Huckabee are no-shows. Herman Cain, former Godfather's Pizza CEO, is acclaimed the winner at a Frank Luntz focus group

5-10-11: Ron Miller: R.I.P.–The Myth of the Racist Right

Coming Thursday, May 19, 2011, "Defeat Barack Obama Radiothon" from 6pmPT/9pmET to 9pmPT/12midnightET, sponsored by the Campaign To Defeat Obama, broadcast from Las Vegas on AM720, and on the web at http://www.KDWN.com

Best movie about BHO I have ever seen: I Want YOUR Money. Funniest quote from IWYM: "Pay as you go! No new deficit spending!" -Nancy Pelosi, after the 2006 Congressional Election

Last weekend both Huckabee and Trump withdrew formally from consideration for POTUS. Mitt_"Romneycare is not like Obamacare" is the "establishment" front runner. Michele Bachmann is the Tea Party favorite. Although deafeating Obama is Job One, the Republican field lacks a viable candidate

5-16-11, ACLU: House Gets Ready to Vote on New Worldwide War: ANY President could plunge the USA into war without a vote in Congress. It's HR 1540, Section 1034, which says , in part "Congress affirms that--(1) the United States is engaged in an armed conflict with al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and associated forces."

5-19-11: Obama announces bold new Change Israel Can Believe In policy, effectively ending support for the existence of the State of Israel; demanding the 1967 borders as the negotiation starting point.
Brief History: 1948 Arab-Israeli War
1956 Suez_Crisis; Israel invades Egypt's Sinai Peninsula
1967 Arab-Israeli War (Six-Day_War)
1973 Arab-Israeli War (Yom Kippur War)
Timeline_of_the_Israeli-Palestinian conflict 1897-2010

Very scary! The fate of women in Palestine; " If a woman brings shame to the family--through allegations of premarital or extramarital sex, by refusing an arranged marriage, or attempting to obtain a divorce--her male relatives are bound by duty and culture to murder her." And Obama wants to turn parts of civilized Israel over to these sociopaths? (Here is a news story about a German Muslim who shot his sister for dating a non Muslim German.)( (It's not just the Old World! In Ontario, Canada, a Muslim man is accused of killing 3 daughters; "they betrayed Islam")

5-24-11: Tea Party Nation compares the current crop of GOP candidates to oppose Obama in 2012 to Bob Dole, who lost to Bill Clinton in 1996 after the popular rejection of HillaryCare in the1994 Congressional elections.

5-25-11: Will Trump Run As An Independent?Very interesting speculation. When Lincoln won in 1860, he was one of four major candidates.

Very interesting: Saving the American Dream: The Heritage Plan to Fix the Debt, Cut Spending, and Restore Prosperity; balances the budget and fixes entitlements, but the Obamacrats will never implement this! Our best hope: a non-Obamacrat President in 2013, and a Congress with just enough Obamacrats to prevent another War Presidency.

Top 10 Outrageous (DNC Chair) Debbie Wasserman Schultz Quotes

6-6-11: Glenn Beck on the 2012 Republican presidential candidates: "Before this goes any further, all of these candidates should declare with ‘certitude’ they don’t have any pictures of themselves in their underwear." Also today, Rep. Weiner(D-NY) admitted that he did indeed send the picture of himself in his underwear via Twitter. LOL! This whole incident has been dubbed Weinergate. Calls for Weiner to resign are heard. Although sexual stupidity can be a career ender for Republicans like former Sen John Ensign(R-NV) and former Rep.Chris Lee(R-NY), Bill Clinton has done just fine since Monicagate. Tea Party Nation: "For a Republican, this would be a career ender. For a Democrat, this is just a resume enhancement".
James Carville: There Will Be Civil Unrest — Over Economy?
"You have the Republicans, who want to literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws and literally-and very transparently-block access to the polls to voters who are more likely to vote for Democratic candidates than Republican candidates" -Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz(D-FL), Chair of the Obamacrat National Committee. (Since dead people vote overwhelmingly Democratic, this is one of the voter groups those evil Republicans want to deny access to.)

6-13-11: 2nd Republican candidates' debate, in New Hampshire. Seven potential candidates show up. No Palin. Mitt Romney did very well, even when attacked for his Massachusetts health care plan, which was dubbed "ObamneyCare" by one of the others.

6-16-11: Rep. Weiner resigns from Congress. (Timeline of Weiner Sexting Scandal)

“when seconds count, help from the government is only months away.” -Tea Party Nation's Instant Survivalist Group, in an article about the looming Second Great Depression, or as some cynics have called it, the "Obama Depression".

6-17-11: First anniversery of the start of theObama/Biden "Recovery Summer" finds unemployment over 9% and Obama still in "It's all Bush's fault" mode.

"A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States." - John Holdren, President Obama's top science adviser.
Four more years of de-developing the USA? Which "developments" get killed first? The Internet? Modern medicine, including vaccines and birth control? The Interstate Highway System and the internal combustion engine? Telephones? Indoor plumbing? Indoor heating and cooling systems? Is it "Change" back to the 1700s? Or back to before the pristine beauty of North America was blighted by contact with Europeans? I know! Let's move the whole US government from DC to ANWR in Alaska, where our politicians would be unencumbered by civilization!

Interesting! Carl Person: When the U.S. Government Stops Enforcing Law, the NY State Attorney General Becomes the Nation's Chief Law Enforcer

6-22-11: Obama gives speech about withdrawl of troops from Afghanistan. Rep.Allen West(R-FL) calls it "another Mission Accomplished speech".

6-26-11: "If Obama is reelected in 2012, America, as we currently know it, will be a thing of the past."-Judson Phillips of Tea Party Nation, at the end of an article called, "Los Angeles, Mexico" about Obama's "Goodies for Illegals" policies..(Michelle Malkin: photo of a Los Angeles, CA sign where the CA is crossed out and replaced by Mexico)

6-15-11: "We will never be able to secure and police every town and village in Afghanistan. Nor will we be able to build Afghanistan from the ground up into a Western-style democracy." -Leter to Obama from 27 US Senators, almost all Obamacrats (2 Republicans, 1 Independent)

7-1-11: Fascinating! Proposal to create a new state of South California from CAs 13 Southern counties! Of course, this would require an Act of Congress to do, so don't hold your breath. The überliberals from San Francisco and Los Angeles who control CA politics will oppose this

7-2-11: Unscientific poll by Tea Part Nation: Who should be the Republican nominee in 2012? Bachmann 43% Perry 15.45% Palin 14.73% Cain 14% all others in single digits.

7-3-11: BOMBSHELL! The founder of Tea Party Nation, a former prosecutor, says that Obama's long form birth certificate is a forgery via Adobe Photoshop, that Obama is therefore guilty of a felony, and could be convicted in a jury trial. Very interesting: why, after all, did Obama spend huge sums of money on lawyers to avoid showing something he has (supposedly) had all along? As someone who voted for Nixon in 1968(but not in 1972!) and lived through the Watergate scandal, VP Spiro Agnew's resignation to avoid unrelated criminal charges, and Nixon's resignation to avoid impeachment, there isn't much I couldn't believe about high level corruption. (LONG (4 MB) pdf file report from a Photoshop expert)(Mathematical 'proof' Obama birth certificate a forgery)(On this page, Hey, Mr. Obama, where's the real birth certificate, is a copy of the long form birth certificate claimed to be BHOs.

Strictly my opinion: During the election camoaign to succed a two-term President, the incumbent and the opposing party nominee should appoint somone they both trust, a non partisan, non political person, as liason. Example: whenever BHO made a ridiculous promise that could not be kept for some national security reason, GWB could call in the liason and present the facts. That way, BHO would have known what he was getting into even before the election. The liason would be sworn to perpetual secrecy.

7-9-11: Unemployment rate inches up to 9.2%: Bad news for the unemployed, and bad news for the current administration, as no US President has been re-elected post WW2 when unemployment was higher than 7.2%. Does anyone still remember Obama's claim that unemployment would go no higher than 8% if the stimuluspassed?

7-11-11 Democrats Claim Support for 'Big Deal' After Criticizing It: No deal yet on the debt limit. Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips call John Boehner the worst Speaker in modern times, even worse than Pelosi, and calls for his replacement! Both the Obamacrats and the Loyal Opposition are terrified to touch entitlements. Obama and his people want tax increases; the Loyal Opposition wants a Balanced Budget Amendment and deep spending cuts now. Not much room for a Grand Compromise.

7-13-11: Seven Myths About the Looming Debt-Ceiling 'Disaster'; No, Grandma isn't going to starve when she doesn't get her Social Security check!

To repeat: "The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt limit." -then Senator Barack Obama, 2006
More from candidate Obama; remember him? "Hope and Change":
"The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion for the first 42 presidents - added $4 trillion by his lonesome, so that we now have over $9 trillion of debt that we are going to have to pay back - $30,000 for every man, woman and child. That's irresponsible. Its unpatriotic. - Barack Obama, July 3, 2008. (Note: In 2011, the national debt went over the $15 trillion mark.)

Why 'Cut, Cap, and Balance' Is the Best Way to Avoid a Fiscal Breakdown

Top 15 Shameful Obama Brain Farts, or in more respectful language: 'Top 15 Shameful Obama Epic Fails'

7-23-11: “Dealing with the White House is like dealing with a bowl of Jell-O” -Speaker of the House Boehner, after talks with Obama broke down regarding the debt limit.

National Government Spending Addiction Intervention Week, July 25 to Aug 1!

Very Interesting! 51 Bullet-Pointed Facts That Dispute Barack Obama’s Identity & Eligibility to be President of The USA! Lots of info here I'd never heard.

Coming up Saturday, Sept 17: PICKET ACROSS AMERICA.. The idea is to display a sign that says: CAN YOU HEAR US NOW." at 9 AM. I'm rarely even awake at 9 AM, but I have a mandatory party that day, so I ordered a "Can you hear us now" T-shirt to wear! I got mine at zazzle.com, but I'd bet that cafepress.com will be selling them, too.

7-31-11: "In the fairy tale political world of government budget planning, up is down and we can all live happily ever after by spending other people's money on whatever seems to be a good idea at the time." -Bruce Donnelly of Tea Party Nation, in "Dancing on the Debt Ceiling"

Regarding the expected downgrade of US debt- There is no way the USA is going to be able to pay off a 14 Trillion dollar debt; the government would need an excess of $14 Trillion revenue over expenses (no way). Isn't debt that cannot be repaid "junk debt"? Next stop, Greece? Is it 2012 yet?

"It stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there’s someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master"-.Ayn Rand Quotes

8-3-11: LOL! Tomorrow there is a Sweet Home Mumbassa Celebration for Obama's 50th birthday! (Does anyone think that Obama's Kenyan grandmother just made up that story about being present at his birth in Kenya so that he could not be POTUS someday?)
"Under this President, our country is the laughing stock of the world."- Donald Trump, 8-3-11, on Greta V's show on FOX. Trump also indicated that he would consider running for President if the Republicans nominate someone who can't win and the economy continues its' current performance. Echoing what Hillary said during the 2008 primaries, Trump said that Obama has now had two and a half years of on the job training, and had never run a business or a government, and is incompetent in his current job.

8-5-11: US Treasury debt downgraded by S & P from AAA to AA+

COMPLAINT: There is a recall election coming up in Wisconsin to attempt to recall Republican state Senators who supported Gov Scott Walker. Tea Party Express has countered the recall by unleashing a gigantic rolling avalanche of SPAM, with the message "Send money now!" I shudder to think what it will be like before the 2012 election! (Tea Party Express uses Paramount Communication Group , "Solutions to successfully drive your business into the future of eMarketing".) "eMarketing" means SPAM!
Results: 8-9-11: Republicans retain control of the Wisconsin Senate, winning 4 recall elections while losing 2.
But since the Republican margin in the Wisconsin Senate is only 17 to 16, and there are fears that a RINO might switch parties, there is a recall election of 2 Democrats, Tuesday, August 16; the Tea Party Express SPAM AVALANCHE continues. In compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act, they do include an "unsubscribe" link!
Results 8-16-11: Democrats hold their two seats; next up: an attempt tio recall Gov Walker himself.
8-29-11: I am so sick of Tea Party Express' "SEND MONEY NOW" SPAM I unsubscribed, "opted out", of their stoopid SPAM While Tea Party Nation occasionally asks for donations, it's not a daily blizzard! Note to Tea Party Express: Hiring a professional SPAM company do do your fund raising SUCKS!

8-11-11: 3rd Republican Presidential candidates debate in Iowa. Frankly, I thought that former Speaker of the House Newt_Gingrich, who has a PhD in Modern European History from Tulane University, and has taught at the University level, was the most impressive; the "sharpest knife in the drawer". He's no stereotypical Georgia politician. I can easily see Gingrich lecturing Obama in a debate.

Outrage: DNC memo on GOP Iowa-debate. In essence, any GOP candidate that could be nominated is a tool of the rich and of "Tea Party extremists" who want to cut off Grandma's Medicare and poor people's Medicaid (Ignore the fact that Obama(a very successful author of his autobiographies), Pelosi, and Reid(a very successful Las Vegas lawyer) are all millionaires.) Let me repeat that: Obama, Pelosi, and Reid are all millionaires. Gosh, I wonder why people are so cynical about professional politicians?

8-12-11: 11th Circut Court of Appeals finds the "individual mandate" part of Obamacare unconstitutional

Saturday, 8-13-11: Michele Bachmann wins Iowa straw poll(Ron Paul was 2nd, Pawlenty 3rd; Santorum 4th, Cain 5th); the same day, TX Gov. Rick Perry announced his candidacy and got (6th place) 718 votes as a write in candidate, more than Romney and Gingrich . “I’ll promise you this,: I’ll work every day to make Washington, D.C. as inconsequential in your life as I can."-Rick Perry, in his announcement speech!
"When you're spending other people's money, you spend a lot!" -John Stossel, in his documentary "The Money Hole".

8-17-11: "(This President) is grossly incompetent" -Donald Trump, appearing on Greta's show again. I like the idea of a Trump Presidency:
1. He can self finance, so he won't have to sell his soul to raise money.
2. He knows how to run an organization.
3. He won't take any crap just to make people like him or his country.
4. He would be taken seriously by the Iranians, the way Ronald Reagan was in 1980.

Obama leaves forMartha's Vineyard for a luxury vacation with his fellow wealthy Limousine Liberals......gotta mingle with his peers and practice his Sept. speech about saving the economy.....it's just so depressing to mingle with the "common people" and hear about unemployment and poverty!

My prediction 8-20-11: After watching 2+ years of fumbling on the job training, the Republicans know Obama is weak. They will nominate someone with proven executive experiance; either former MA Gov Romney or TX Gov Perry, not a legislator. Although there is support to draft Chris Christie, he wants more experiance as Gov of New Jersey. Palin will not run; she does not want to subject her family to the Chicago Attack Machine. If Trump runs as a 3rd party candidate, who knows?

8-21-11: The Qaddafi Regime falls in Libya. Rebels occupy Tripoli. Qaddafi does not stay and fight to his last breath. The National Transitional Council is recognized by over 50 countries (including the USA, the UK, and France), as being the legitimate government.

Obama Gaffe Library; it's like a contest between Obama and Gaffe Czar Biden. When someone mentions the "Corpseman" gaffe, Obama apologists always say, "He was editor of the Harvard Law Review". Big deal: George W Bush graduated from Harvard Business School.

“this administration is the greatest wet blanket to business, and progress and job creation in my lifetime . . . those of us who have business opportunities and the capital to do it are going to sit in fear of the President . . .” -Steve Wynn, (very) successful Las Vegas hotel/casino owner.

c.8-29-11: "(This President) doesn't have a clue" and "The Iranians have no respect for (This President)"- Donald Trump, appearing on Greta V's show yet again.

9-2-11: "There is a scary sort of deer-in-the-headlights look about Obama and Biden that is quite disturbing."- from Zero Jobs 101=> the Psychology of Alienating Employers, by Victor Davis Hanson. The difference between Barack Obama and Donald Trump is that Trump knows what to do! It's the difference betweeen an academic with theories about how the world should work, and a businessman who knows how the world does work.

Labor Day 2011, First anniversary of the end of "Recovery Summer", which is as real as my little sister's "Invisable Magic Friend".

9-7-11: Hard to believe: "if you're a local Texan and you want to help other Texans save their ranches, or their homes, or their businesses, you need permission from the federal bureaucracy first"! Story here.
Republican presidential candisates debate. Perry appears for the first time and does well. Herman Cain details his 999 Plan 9% National sales Tax, with personal and corporate taxes cut to 9% each.

9-8-11: "Unemployment is at 9 percent. Four years ago, in late 2007, unemployment was less than 5 percent. Then in 2008, President Bush mailed out millions of 300-dollar government stimulus checks. Later that year, he supported the massive TARP bailout. Unemployment rose. In 2009, President Obama said if we passed another big stimulus plan, unemployment would stay below 8 percent. Now it's at 9 percent. Government spending does not help the economy, it hurts the economy "- Libertarian Party response to Obama's re-election campaign speech before a joint session of Congress. In this speech Obama was not in "law professor" mode, but in "tent revival" mode
cato-at-liberty.org: Obama's Job Speech Full of Bad Ideas (Obama proposed Stimulus 2.0, relabeled as a "Jobs Bill", so that people would not think him crazy for trying a failed idea twice.)(Stimulus 2.0 would eventually fail in the Senate on a procedural vote to end debate and move to a vote, and was DOA in the House.)

9-12-11: Another Republican candidates debate: Sparks fly between Perry, Romney, and former Gov Huntsman, over who did the best job as a Governor regarding jobs.

9-14-11: Shock!Republican wins Rep Weiner's old seat!(in a district more Democratic than Pelosi's district in San Francisco!)

9-20-11: A 'fair share' of an anemic economy: "A "fair share" may be a winning talking point, but a "fair share" of an anemic economy is thin gruel."

9-21-11:Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips says !that Operation Fast and Furious is the "biggest scandal and cover up since Watergate"!

9-24-11: Herman Cain wins FL straw poll!(defeating frontrunners Romney and Perry and Bachmann.)

10-5-11: Herman Cain wins Tea Party Nation straw poll with 44% of the vote. Gingrich was 2nd with 22%, all others in single digits.
Downdize DC Quote of the Day: "It isn't illegal if the President does it." -- Richard M. Nixon

10-6-11:Lloyd Marcus, arguably one of the best known black Tea Partiers, says "While this is not a formal endorsement, I believe Herman Cain is a man of character worthy of occupying the Oval Office."

10-7-11: In another "late Friday afternoon; hope nobody is paying attention Document Dump", the White House releases the SOlyndra e-mails.

10-14-11: The man who criticized GWB military adventurism sends US troops to Uganda in central Africa, to fight the Lord's Resistance Army

10-18-11: Republican candidates debate in Las Vegas. Romney seemed well prepared and combative. For a woman who has had over 20 children (5 biological, the rest foster children), Michele Bachmann seems quite intelligent. If it were up to me, she would be the Republican nominee.

10-26-11: Certifigate? Sheriff Joe predicts Obama investigation to be a 'shock' Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio. is investigating the "eligibility question".....is the birth certificate a forgery?

We are the 53%- an answer to Obama's friends in the Occupy Wall Street movement. The 53% are those who pay taxes.

10-31-11 Another "green energy" company goes bankrupt after getting loan guarantees from the Obama administration-SOlyndra #2-WOW! Obama's people can flush money down the toilet faster than a compulsive gambler in Las Vegas!
The Cain Train is derailed, at least temporarily, by an unnamed source from Cain's past. Too bad; I think Cain had real potential to save the US from another 4 years of Obama flailing around getting on the job training while giving speeches.
One of Obama's buddies, former NJ Gov Jon Corzine(D), flushes his own company, MF Global, down the toilet. It is suspected that MF's management co-mingled investor and company funds

11-2-11: The Cain campaign counterattacks: Cain's chief of staff goes on Fox and accuses the Perry campaign of leaking the story and demands an apology. The Perry campaogn denies it.. On CNN, former Clinton insider James Carville says, "Of course, it was Perry".

11-3-11: Pelosi declares that had the first stimulus not passed, unemployment would be 15% now. Therefore, since the first try was a big success, pass 2.0 now! Everything would be perfect if not for those horrible, evil Republicans! (Its easy to see what Obama 2012 is going to say; that the economy may suck, but it would be much worse if you hadn't elected him. Campaign 2012, on both sides, will be a "You suck more than I do" affair.)
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." - Albert Einstein.

11-4-11(Friday): The government of Greece survives a confidence vote. If the Greek government had collapsed. it's not difficult to imagine the NYSE collapsing Monday morning. If the US used the UK system like Greece does, unpopular stuff like ObamaCare would not get through Congress. I woder if Boehner could get a simple resolution passed: "Resolved, that this House has no confidence in Mr Obama's government"? It would just be a symbolic gesture, of course.

"My next-door neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel ready jobs than this administration." -, former NM Gov. Gary Johnson, 9-23-11

11-15-11: Gloria Cain for First Lady? Mrs. Cain is a Class Act; she is standing by her man; says (on Greta V's show) the Herman she knows and has been married to for 43 years couldn't have done the things those women said he did.

11-18-11: Scary! "Some Democrats have already called for the suspension of the Constitution to allow Barack Obama to “do what he needs to do”. Jesse Jackson Jr. is but one of those calling for Obama to be granted dictatorial powers."-Bob Russell on the Tea Party Nation blog (Students of the history of 1930s Germany will remember the Enabling Act of 1933.)(Obamacrat NC Gov Perdue: recommendation that congressional elections be suspended)

11-20-11: If Obama is Jimmy Carter II, and the Super Committee is a flop, who is the next Ronald Reagan?

11-21-11: Sure enough, the Super Commitee was a (very predictable) flop!

11-24-11(Thanksgiving): Former White House Press Secretary Dana Perino names Obama "Turkey of the Year". Alan Caruba, on the Tea Party Nation blog, names Obama "America's Biggest Turkey"

11-26-11(Saturday): "Occupy Black Friday" was a dud. Shoppers outnumbered occupiers.

11-29-11: The Cain Train is derailed, probably for good, by new claims from Cain's past.
I heard that on FOX that Alveda King was supporting Cain.....Cain "is not a skirt chaser.".
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ACLU on S. 1867=> "The worldwide indefinite detention without charge or trial provision" in this bill brings the Gestapo(an acronym in German for "Secret State Police" ) to the USA! (on 12-1-11, the "We need a Gestapo in the USA" bill passed the Senate 93 to 7. (The 7 no votes: Coburn (R-OK) Harkin (D-IA) Lee (R-UT) Merkley (D-OR) Paul (R-KY) Sanders (I-VT) Wyden (D-OR)(Explaining to a 5-Year Old Why the Indefinite Detention Bill DOES Apply to U.S. Citizens on U.S. Soil)(Really, really scary! The House has passed the bill, too; as of 12-16-11 the ACLU is urging Obama to veto it; the whole bill is called "National Defense Authorization Act"(NDAA). ACLU: "According to reports, the President's advisors are recommending that he not veto this legislation despite earlier promises to do so.") My favorite Star Trek quote: "If we adopt the ways of the Nazis, we're as bad as the Nazis."-from the episode "Patterns of Force". (Someone made a graphic with Obama and the words "POLICE STATE we can believe in".) S 1867: Killing The Bill of Rights and Declaring War on Americans. This is the kind of legislation one might expect immediately post 9/11. If Obama signs this, I will stop thinking of him as a "socialist", and instead think of him as a "fascist"
What they should have done: Remove the indefinate detention stuff from the NDAA, made it a seperate bill with an appropriate title like "Third Reich Restoration Act", then target for defeat anyone voting for it!

12-4-11: Catchy slogan seen today in comments on the Tea Party Nation list: Newt-tralize Obumas screwups.

12-9-11: Opinion: Rick Perry, Barack Obama and the War On Christianity Very Interesting! Lest anyone get the wrong impression; the last time I went to church was for my mother's funeral in 2000. Religion just never "took" on me. I realize that religion offers comfort to some people, and as a hardcore civil libertarian, I support the right of all to worship some version of Deity, or not worship, as they see fit. The US government is prohibited by the First Amendment from establishing a State Religion, and should keep it's hands off religious affairs. If the parents of service members want to give Bibles to their children, no problem in a free country! If you want to affiliate with the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or the Church Of the Invisible Pink Unicorn, no problem in a free country! If Tim Tebow wants to pray in public, no problem in a free country!

12-13-11: Scary! Islamic governments push for speech curbs in the US, and Obama is talking to them! Talking to hard core Islamists about free speech is like talking to the Vatican about birth control.

12-14-11: Coming in 2 days....Anniversary of the original Tea_Party....December 16, 1773.

12-15-11: Final GOP debate before the Iowa caucases. Perry is doing much better. A Gingrich vs Obama debate could easily put an end to the "Obama is really smart" idea. Gingrich identified himself as "a historian, not a lawyer." Imagine....a President who knows facts instead of theories, and has years of experiance in the US government working with people he disagrees with!

12-18-11: News reaches the outside world that North Korean dictatorKim Jong-il has died. I was not alive in 1945, but I imagine my reaction to the deaths of Hitler and Mussolini then would be similar to the death of the "Dear Leader". North Korea is hopeless; it has the Atomic Bomb, but the people are starving. Capitalist South Korea is a big success; socialist North Korea is a failed country.

12-19-11: Heard a rumor on FOX News that Dr Condolezza Rice might run for VP. If there was a Gingrich/Rice ticket, we would have two high level intellects running against two professional politicians/lawyers. A Rice vs Biden VP debate would be as one sided as a Gingrich vs Obama debate!

12-21-11: The founder of Tea Party Nation declares that the Tea Party must not support Ron Paul. A few days ago, Glenn Beck, hailed by Melissa as a "prophet", declared that support for Dr. Paul was support for a 2nd Obama term. On the O'Reilly Factor 12-28-11, former Clinton political guru turned Republican Dick Morris said the same thing.

12-22-11: Heard a fun new expression: Paulbot: a mythical progam that scans blogs and responds harshly to any citicism of Dr. Ron Paul, who has a large enthusiastic following, raises a lot of money, and polls near the top for the upcoming Iowa caucuses. Although I would love to see a libertarian as President, Dr. Paul is the candidate the Chicago Attack Machine thinks it can win against.

12-26-11: Kim Jong-il's 20 something son to be new Leader of North Korea Gees! These crackpot dictators really think they can set up a sort of heriditary Leader system (The new Leader: Kim_Jong-un)? It's not the Middle Ages anymore!
Extension of my previous prediction about Campaign 2012: The Obamacrats will try to paint the Opposition as "extremists and/or racists". The general impression of extremism caused the defeat of Goldwater in 1964, and the defeat of McGovern in 1972. Since Obama cannot point to accomplishments, he will have to resort to "The Opposition sucks for a different reason, and to a greater degree, than I suck!" and "This time I really will close Gitmo, I really will propose comprehensive immigration reform, and I really will tackle the entitlement spending problem, really! As soon as I am sworn in for my second term, I will keep all the promises I made in 2008."

12-30-11: Obama is vacationing jn Hawaii and has neither signed nor vetoed the "Indefinate Detention of US Citizens on US Soil (without a hearing or even probable cause) Bill".(S.1867: The Power to Detain, Imprison, Torture and Kill American Citizens Anywhere)

1-1-12: Only 2 days until the start of the Replace Obama 2012 election cycle: The Iowa Caucuses!

1-2-12: Obama Signed the National Defense Authorization Act ; the Fifth Amendment: "No person shall.....be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law", gives way to "Fascism you can believe in"
The National Defense Authorization Act is the Greatest Threat to Civil Liberties Americans Face. ACLU-:"He signed it. We'll fight it."

1-3-11: After Midnight in NYC, the Iowa Caucuses are too close to call, with Romney and Santorum #1 and #2; Ron Paul will be #3. The Replace Obama 2012 election cycle begins!
In the wee hours, the Iowa Republican Chairman announces: Romney wins, getting 8(eight) more votes than Santorum. Bachmann suspends her campaign the next day(sigh).

Coming 2/27/12: 3rd anniversary of the Tea Party.....can you hear us now?

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." -- Thomas Jefferson
"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world." -- Thomas Jefferson

In another triumph for "Green technology", General Motors recalls the Chevy Volt. A thoughtful Tea Party woman who calls herself "The Stiletto" says "Chevy Volt: An electric Edsel"

1-10-12: Mitt Romney wins the New Hampshire primary with Ron Paul 2nd

From Downsize DC's 1-11-12 Downsizer Dispatch:
"Because your rights come from your humanity, they are also inherent to every other human being, REGARDLESS OF CITIZENSHIP, OR ANY OTHER FACTOR.
Thus, the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, which also includes rights of conscience and expression, due process, the ability to be secure from arbitrary searches and seizures, and even the right of self-defense, are ALL enjoyed by EVERYONE, citizens and NON-citizens alike."
(I agree.....logically, indefinate detention without charge is just as bad when done by Obama as when it was done by GWB before him or by Hermann Göring during the Third Reich. It would follow that picking people up in Afghanistan and locking them up in Gitmo for the duration of the War on Terror violates their human rights.)

Disturbing....the increasing OMG (Obama Must Go)and ABR(Anybody But Romney) sentiments will lead to a "Hold your nose and vote for Romney" attitude, with a big lack of enthusiasm. Melissa, citing "The Prophet" Glenn Beck (pbuh), says that a Romney Presidency would be as bad as another Obama term. Gees! An actual capitalist would be as bad as the socialist/fascist Obama? "This fall, if Romney is in fact the nominee, I will go into the voting booth with a nose clamp, a large bottle of Mylanta, and probably a barf bag and vote for Romney. "-Judson Phillips, 4-13-12

1-13-12(Friday the 13th): Standard and Poor's downgraded the credit rating of nine Euro zone countries, including France, Austria, and Italy. When the NYSE opens Monday, will it be Oct 24, 1929 (Wall Street Crash) again?

1-14-12: Debt added by all Presidents up to and including George W Bush: $6.3 trillion.
Debt added by Obama in less than one term: $6.5 trillion.

1-16-12: Second to last GOP debate before the SC primary with the 5 "finalists": Romney, Santorum, and Gingrich all impressed. I like Gingrich's idea about tying unemployment benefits to job training. Although having fewer participants makes a better debate, I wish Bachmann and Cain were still in. Since it was MLK Day, the NYSE did not open.

1-17-12: Scary! The proposed SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) (How PIPA(Protect Intellectual Property Act) and SOPA Violate White House Principles Supporting Free Speech and Innovation) will be protested Wednesday, 1-18-12, by a blackout of sites like Wikipedia. The First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.... is at risk! This bill, like the NDAA that Obama signed, is more FASCISM YOU CAN BELIEVE IN! (NDAA: Open Season for the Police State) (ACLU also opposes SOPA)

1-19-12: Some of the supporters of the SOPA withdrew support.....Santorum is (finally) declared to be the real winner of the Iowa Caucuses....Perry suspends his campaign and endorses Gingrich. At the final GOP debate before the SC primary, Gingrich scores big and gets a standing ovation after angrily lecturing CNN questioner John King, whose 1st question was about Gingrich's second wife's statement that Gingrich wanted an open marriage. Gingrich thought there were more important things to discuss in a Presidential debate. I loved the statement by a woman on Fox that she doesn't look to DC for moral guidance!

1-20-12: One year from today, Obama leaves office!!

1-21-12: Gingrich wins SC primary with 40% to Romney's 28%. I am looking forward to the Gingrich vs Obama debate! Since Gingrich has a Ph.D., I'd call him Dr. Gingrich rather than Speaker Gingrich. Even a mental lightweight like Nancy Pelosi can become Speaker! It was suggested at least once that Gingrich owes his win to CNN and John King!

1-24-12: Obama delivers his "State of my re-election campaign" infomercial. Two things I noiced:
1 In sharp contrast to hyper-enthusiastic former Speaker Pelosi, current Speaker Boehner looked like he was getting a root canal!
2. Hillary Clinton looks much older than she did in the 2008 primaries.

Want to know how much the national debt is right now? See US National Debt Clock : Real Time Hint: the national debt is greater than the national GDP!

My personal least favorite hack politician, Rep. Debbie_Wasserman_Schultz(D-FL) starts it: "The Opposition is "Tea Party extremists!"

More from the "Birthers":
1. Back in 1961 people of color were called 'Negroes.' So how can the Obama’s 'birth certificate' state he is 'African-American' when the term wasn't even used at that time?
2. The birth certificate that the White House released lists Obama's birth as August 4, 1961. It also lists Barack Hussein Obama as his father. No big deal, right? At the time of Obama's birth, it also shows that his father is aged 25 years old, and that Obama's father was born in " Kenya, East Africa ". This wouldn't seem like anything of concern, except for the fact that Kenya did not even exist until 1963, two whole years after Obama's birth, and 27 years after his father's birth. How could Obama's father have been born in a country that did not yet exist? Up and until Kenya was formed in 1963, it was known as the " British East Africa Protectorate".
3. On the birth certificate released by the White House, the listed place of birth is "Kapi'olani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital ". This cannot be, because the hospital(s) in question in 1961 were called "KauiKeolani Children's Hospital" and "Kapi'olani Maternity Home", respectively. The name did not change to Kapi'olani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital until 1978, when these two hospitals merged. How can this particular name of the hospital be on a birth certificate dated 1961 if this name had not yet been applied to it until 1978? (copied and pasted from a comment on the Tea Party Nation blog 1-27-12.....I couldn't care less about where Obama was born! But it is interesting.)

1-27-12: Another Obama backed green company (SOlyndra #3) goes bankrupt

1-27-12: A woman who calls herself "Jane Galt" asks "Should the United States and Israel attack Iran preemptively?" on the Tea Party Nation blog. Yes, a nuclear Iran is an existential threat to Isreal; the whole "Return of the12th Imam(The Mahdi)" idea requires the destruction of the Jewish State. But Iran is not an imminent threat to the USA. After WW2, the Allies sentenced to death the leaders of the German army and air force for "waging an agressive war". Of course, Iran is hostile to the USA; the brand of Islam that controls Iran requires it. But, IMHO, Obama will never authorize a preemptive strike against Iran, or even a surgical strike to kill the Iranian military Commander-in-Chief, the Supreme Leader (Ayatollah Khamenei). In a theocracy like Iran, the head cleric has the real power, not President Ahmadinejad. Ahmadinejad is head of government and gets to make speeches at the U.N., but actual offensive use of the Bomb would have to be authorized by Khamenei.

1-29-12: From Tea Party Nation (paraphrased): Cain endorses Gingrich. A vote for Santorum is a vote for Romney, which is a vote for an Obama second term.
Another "Fast and Furious"? Operation White Gun

More from "Jane Galt":
Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc’-ra-cy) -a system of government where the
least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing,
and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves
or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the
confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.

1-30-12: Here's a real shock: Sixteen Concerned Scientists: No Need to Panic About Global Warming - WSJ.com

1-31-12: Romney wins FL Primary and becomes the early favorite to Replace Obama 2012.

2-1-12: The founder of Tea Party Nation declares a Romney nomination to be "slow motion suicide" for the Republican Party; the conservative/libertarian base will stay home while Obama's base goes to vote, and suggests that former NM Gov Gary Johnson, running as the Libertarian Party candidate, might be more in tune with the Tea Party than Romney.

Worthwhile reading if you have the time: Shariah-The Threat to America.pdf

2-3-12(Friday before the Super Bowl): Another late Friday SOlyndra document dump

2-4-12: Romney wins Nevada Caucuses.

Nationwide NDAA 2012 Congressional Protest; for people who oppose indefinate detention without charge or trial.

2-7-12: Rick Santorumwins 3 out of 3: Colorado Caucuses, Minnesota Caucuses, and Missouri Primary. Of course, that means Romney loses 3 out of 3. Santorum has served two terms in the US House and two terms in the US Senate, but like Obama is a lawyer who has never actually run a large organization.

2-9-12: Obama blunders big on Obamacare implementation; telling Roman Catholic organizations which provide health insurance that they must cover birth control, and Plan B(the "morning after pill"). He can't change his mind without offending his feminist base, but may cover his ass by granting waivers to some Catholic organization employers. Somebody actually told Catholic priests ministering to service members not to read a letter from an Archbishop at Mass about this!.

2-10-12: Obama caves: Instead of forcing Catholic organization emloyers to provide insurance covering free birth control and Plan B, he is going to coerce their insurance providers to provide free birth control and Plan B. Next up: free abortion on demand as healthcare? (Who knows what other little gems are in Obamacare? When Pelosi said, "You've got to pass the bill to find out what's in it", she knew that hardly anybody would actually read the bill before voting on it.)

2-14-12: "Obama is continuing his trashing of our Constitution. The president has no authority to force private industry to provide anything, nor can he force citizens to purchase anything. Obama's presidency is straight out of the Twilight Zone; an unprecedented outrageous overreach of power and assault on individual freedom." -"Lloyd Marcus, Proud Unhyphenated American", on the Tea Party Nation blog. Remember..."It isn't illegal if the President does it." -- Richard M. Nixon

2-15-12: Another bonehead Obama idea:Increase the cost of a new car $2,000-$3,000 with mile per gallon requirements(over the life of the car, the owner will save that much in cost of gas bought!)(Of course, if you're poor, you can always buy a used old gas guzzler.)

2-17-12: Judson Phillips: "So when can we start calling this the Great Obama Depression?"

2-22-12: Increasing chatter about the possibility of a GOP convention where no candidate has enough delagates to win nomination on the 1st ballot. Dismissed as unlikely by political experts, it sure would be fun to see what the delagates would do on the 2nd ballot! Donald Trump?

What follows is not an original idea of mine: the gist of it appeared in a John Ross column, this one!
Solve the Iran wants a nuke problem. Tell the Iran government that if they don't stop their nuke program, we or Israel will carpet bomb all government/military buildings and nuke installations with pig's blood. It wouldn't hurt anybody, but their horror of contact with pork will paralyze them. (It wouldn't hurt to let it be known that all the bullets our troops use have been dipped in pig's blood, too.)

Gitmo II Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan; anither place for the Obama Regime to hold people indefinately without charge or trial.

Detention - Recent Court Cases, Issues and Articles: Is the Obama Regime Bush's third term? Next: Enemy Expatriation Act; would alow the government to strip you of your US citzenship without finding you guilty of treason, necessary because the NDAA might not apply to US citizens

2-27-12: Interesting: Mitt Romney Doesn't Live Here Anymore; shows the vacant lot in Detroit where the Romney home once stood, and the abandoned building that Mitt's father George Romney once ran American Motors from.

2-29-12: Mitt avoids the embarassment of losing the state he was born in and his father was Governor of by, we think, winning the MI Primary. (However, rumor has it that Romney and Santorum each won 15 delegates, as delegates in MI are awarded by Congressional District.) Mitt also wins the AZ Primary

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time." - -- Abraham Lincoln
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
-The Who. "Won't Get Fooled Again"

3-1-12: "I am the only candidate in this race offering real spending cuts: $1 trillion in the first year of my presidency, a balanced budget by year three, and the elimination of five cabinet agencies."-Dr. Ron Paul
Are you enjoying George W Bush's third term? Re-elect Obama; give GWB a fourth term, keep Gitmo open, and get more fascist crap like the NDAA indefinate military detention act!

3-2-12: Maricopa County, AZ Sheriff Joe Arpaio's investigation into the birth certificate: he thinks the birth certificate is a forgery, and is moving forward with a criminal investigation into a conspiracy. Could everything Obama has done be undone if he was never eligible to be President?

3-4-12: Both Houses of the Virginia legislature have passed HB 1160, which prohibits the state of Virginia from assisting the federal government in detaining US citizens indefinately without charge or trial

3-5-12: "Newt Gingrich 360" calls for a boycott of FOX News! FOX is being too nice to Mitt, and not nice to Newt!

3-6-12: "Jane Galt" alerts us about H. R. 347 Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011, which would make it a felony to protest at any place or event attended by someone with Secret Service protection! Sounds like something Nixon would have used against antiwar protesters in the late 1960s.
SUPER TUESDAY: Both Newt and Mitt win their home states; Santorum wins states, too, but Ohio is still too close to call after Midnight in NYC. (Updated Super Tuesday results)Romney defeats Santorum in OH, 38% to 37%

3-6-12: Bummer! My personal favorite Obamacrat, anti-war Rep. Dennis Kucinich, loses to another incumbent Obamacrat in the party primary after redistricting put them in the same district.

Was an autopsy done on the lateAndrew Breitbart? Supposedly, Breitbart was going to release videos from Obama's college days. Given that Obama ordered theSummary execution of US citizen Anwar_al-Awlaki, it's not paranoia to think that Breitbart's death might not have been 100% natural. Chicago politicians have used lethal force before.....1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. (Andrew Breitbart: Coroner wants to 'cover all the bases') It's pretty unusual for a 43 year old man to go for a walk and drop dead. (autopsy: he died from heart failure)

3-9-12: Iran could destroy the Jewish State in "less than 9 minutes" - posted on the Alef website by Iranian analyst Alireza Forghani and appearing on FARS news agency

3-13-12: Santorum wins in both Alabama and Mississippi, states that Gingrich had expected to win. Way out in the Pacific Ocean, Romney pulls out wins in Hawaii and Guam.

3-15-12: Here’s what VP Biden said, “I made it clear to the President,” a furious Biden declared, “that if he takes this nation to war without Congressional approval, I will make it my business to impeach him. That is a fact.” (By "war", I assume Biden means war with Iran.)(It DOES sound like something then-Sen. Biden might have said to GWB before the invasion of Iraq!)
More about the NDAA: NDAA: Open Season for the Police State

3-16-12: WOW! Before he was killed, Osama bin Laden wanted to kill President Obama and General Petraeus.
Executive Order -- National Defense Resources Preparedness(XO from The Leader.)

3-20-12: Romney wins the Illinois Primary and becomes the probable Republican nominee.

"First they came for the Jews -and I did not speak out - because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the communists and I did not speak out - because I was not a communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me - and by then there was no one left to speak out for me." The German anti-Nazi activist, Pastor Martin Niemöller

3-24-12: Santorum wins Louisiana Primary and disputes the "Romney is inevitable" idea; it's hard to criticize Obama's lack of administrative experiance in 2008 when Santorum has the same experiance: NONE.

3-26-12: Judson Phillips, on the Tea Party Nation blog, says that Romneycare a/k/a Obamneycare, passed in MA thanks to the support of extremely liberal Sen Ted Kennedy

3-28-12 (Wednesday): Today concludes three days of oral argument before the Supreme Court about ObamaCare

An attempt will be made to exempt Rhode Island from the NDAA/Third Reich Restoration Act section!

4-2-12: Another Obama backed "green company" files bankruptcy: How many SOlyndra companies is the Obama Regime going to flush down the toilet?

4-3-12: Romney goes 3 for 3, winning in Wisconsin, Maryland, and DC.

4-4-12: Is it fair to call Obama "the food stamp president"? It says here that there were 32 million Americans on food stamps when Obama took office, compared to 46 million now, and it says that Obama thinks the program is under enrolled!

4-9-12: Who would have thought? "Porn stars against Santorum"!

4-10-12: Santorum withdraws, making a virtual certainty that the Nov. election will be Obama vs Romney.
Rep. Ryan: Discipline Now or We're Europe Later.

4-12-12: "Democratic strategist" Hilary Rosen attacks Ann Romney; the Tea Party Nation blog wonders if Rosen could get a job as a North Korean rocket scientist. (Following N Korea's third failure to launch an ICBM.)

4-16-12: GOVERNMENT GONE WILD? First came the $800,000+ GSA Las Vegas party, then the Secret Sevice "hookergate". I loved watching Jeff Neely, the GSA big shot , taking the Fifth before a House committee. If the Obamacrats still controlled the whole Legislative Branch, would the whole GSA Extravaganza have been covered up? (I deny that hookergate is a big scandal. Anyone visiting Las Vegas can drive north just over the county line and visit a legal prostitute in a brothel. I'm told you can even take a taxi to a brothel, and the driver will wait for you!)

4-19-12: OK, so when Obama was a little boy living in Indonesia, he ate dog. Big deal: I'm sure there are vegetarians who think eating a hamburger is just as repulsive. (Obama recorded this in one of his autobiographies. I'd bet that Obama's autobiographies are books that are bought to show that the buyer is a loyal Obamacrat, not to read.)

John Stossel responds to Obama's 2008 slogan "Yes, we can": No, they can't

4-24-12: "The next administration, assuming Obama’s defeat, must abandon the deal and abandon Afghanistan. Alexander the Great did. Genghis Khan did. The British Empire did. And the Soviet Union collapsed shortly after it did." -Alan Caruba, on the Tea Party Nation blog
Romney wins 5 out of 5 primaries. I doubt that it is even mathetically possible for Dr. Gingrich or Dr. Paul to win the nomination now. Good old hack politician and DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz hits the "Romney-Ryan budget." Coming up? A Romney lookalike pushing granny off a cliff?
I was impressed with Romney's victory speech tonight. There is hope for the USA! Michele Bachmann said it best: "We've got to make Barack Obama a ONE TERM PRESIDENT!"

4-28-12 The Third Reich in China? Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng reportly left his house arrest at night and is in the US Embassy in Beijing. If Obama and/or Secretary of State Clinton authorized this, good for them! Followup: China activists lifted by blind lawyer's escape

5-1-12: Obama speech: We're getting out of Afghanistan in 2014. Does anyone seriously believe that the US trained Afghan police/army idea will work better than the "Vietnamization of the war" in Vietnam? Once the US withdraws, the Taliban will return and take over.. Anyone who thinks there is a "war on women" in the USA should read On the Situation of Afghan Women.

5-4-12: "Hype and Blame"-Republican suggestion for Obama slogan to replace "Hope and Change"
Strictly a rumor: Heard today that a Romney/ Condolezza Rice ticket is a real possibility. Dr Rice (Ph.D. in Political Science), was Provost at Stanford, GWB's National Security Advisor and later Secretary of State. Although I am not at all enthusiastic about Romney, I could be about Romney/Rice.

5-5-12: After hearing about Obama's Julia propaganda piece, my first thought was "This is the way to Greece."
Former NM Gov. Gary Johnson was nominated today for President at the Libertarian Party convention in Las Vegas. "It's better to vote for something you want, and not get it, than to vote for something you don't want, and get it"-heard in 1968. speaker unknown. I don't want Obama, and "flip flop Romney" is not exciting. Who knows where he stands on the issues? Is he a Massachusetts liberal or the moderate he tried to be during the primaries? There were/are people who did not want John F. Kennedy in 1960, or Santorum in 2012, because of their Roman Catholic religion. Willard Mitt Romney's Mormonism is a LOT weirder than Roman Catholicism. Yep, the Prophet Joseph Smith got some golden plates from an angel, and translated the writing on them into the Book of Mormon. Yeah, sure!

5-6-12: Paul wins majority of delegates at Maine GOP convention: like in 2008, Dr. Paul will not concede defeat until the convention.

5-7-12: Read in a comment on the Tea Party Nation blog to a post called "Pull them OUT NOW!" (of Afghanistan): Obama wants a "civilian security force equal in equipment and training to the army" . It was an unsourced comment, so I'm not saying that Obama really said that. But if he did, it sure sounds like the Sturmabteilung (SA), the NSDAP "brownshirt" goons that Hitler had to supress after he took over the government. More "Fascism you can believe in"? I'm not going to worry unless Obama starts wearing a military uniform like Mussolini and Hitler did.
A wonderful program for pathological gamblers who lose all their money gambling but still need a phone to call 911; the Obama Phone!

5-8-12(Tuesday): Today is the first big primary election day of the 2012 Congressional elections. The founder of Tea Party Nation predicts defeat for RINOs. I hope we don't get more goofy unelectable candidates like we got in 2010 in Nevada and Delaware! (Sure enough, six term US Sen. Richard Lugar, an alledged RINO, was defeated in the primary.)

Comment after Obama "evolved", not flip-floped: Why should only straight pople be allowed to marry and ruin their lives by having howling, screeching baybees? Let's spread the misery around! (Supposedly, Obama was originally for gay marriage, then he was against it when he ran for the US Senate, now he is for it again.)

5-14-12: Remember when Bill Clinton was called "the first black President"? Now, Newsweek is calling Obama "the first gay president"!

5-16-12: "There are only a few things that have no known limits. The universe, human stupidity and now Barack Obama’s ego." -Judson Phillips, in a blog post about BHO inserting himself into other President's bios on the White House web site.
"The last time the Republicans were in charge, unemployment was at 4.6%, 90% of college graduates found jobs, gas was at $2 a gallon and we had 52 straight months of economic growth. Yes, I was better of six years ago than I am today."-Judson Phillips

Best analysis I have seen of the 2008 economic/banking crisis, which I think is why we got Mr Hope-and-Change that November.

5-17-12: The Smith-Amash amendment to the NDAA/Third Reich Restoration Act would forbid the indefinite detention of US citizens without charge or trial.
Heard on Hannity: The author of the book The Amateur(the title referes to Obama), Ed Klein interviewed Rev Wright and was told that Wright was offered money ($150,000) to keep quiet during the 2008 election. Gees. The Democrat nominee for VP in 2004, John Edwards could go to prison for paying off his mistress in 2008! If Kerry/Edwards had won in 2004, Edwards would probably still be VP now, Obama would still be in the Senate, and Edwards would be in line for the 2012 Presidential nomination! Plus all the men that have been killed in Afghanistan since 2004 would still be alive. Kerry would never have continued GWB's silly war in Afghanistan.

5-19-12: Followup on the April escape of the Chinese dissident from House arrest: Blind Chinese activist headed to US, closing nearly month long US-China diplomatic tussle; Good work by the Obama administration!

Could this be Obama's real birth certificate?

Interesting: What Is Obama’s Legal Name? (Does it matter?) Is it "Barry Soetoro"?

5-21-12: A five point "Tea Party Agenda" from Tea Party Nation:
1. Passing a Federal Government Realignment and Closure Commission bill.
2.No budget/No Pay. It is very simple. If Congress cannot pass a budget, they should not be paid.
3.Commit to pass a massive drill here, drill now plan.
4.Repeal the current income tax system and replace it with 9-9-9
5.Require that every bill Congress considers be a stand-alone bill.
(Of course, I have just copied the first line from each agenda item; the details can be read at A Tea Party Agenda)

5-23-12:Romney promises to bring unemployment down to 6%. He's running against a guy who said if we passed his stimulas plan, unemployment would not go over 8%. Politicians!

Should Trump Run Committee, Inc..(I say YES, as a Republican!)

Save America 2012 | DONALD TRUMP for president

Newt Gingrich 2012(21st Century Contract With America)

Newt Gingrich 360(Newt Gingrich Supporters and Volunteers)

Rick Santorum for President

The Men Behind The Dueling Draft Donald Trump Websites

Michele Bachmann for President

Ron Paul 2012(Paul, known as "Dr. No", is an M.D.; an Obstetrician)

Top Ten Reasons to Support Herman Cain for President

Defeat Obama 2012

Draft Chris Christie 2012

Draft Rep. Allen West 2012(West is a retired Army Lt. Col.)

Rick Perry for President

Rep. Paul Ryan for President?

Former NM Gov. Gary Johnson 2012 (Libertarian Party)

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*Kent Hovind, an advocate of Young Earth creationism, has a PhD in Christian Education from .Patriot University. His doctoral dissertation, or what seems to be it, is online here(a .pdf file). I have heard that his dissertation has not been publically released, so I don't say that this is it.(A Review of Kent Hovind's Thesis by Karen Bartelt, Ph.D.) ( Hovind is currently serving a 10 year prison sentence, and is scheduled to be released 8-11-15)(Hovinds Legal Battles at the Free Hovind site). His wife got only one year, and has been released. Their son is now running the family business, parts of which are closed and/or have been seized by the government. The main Hovind office (Creation Science Evangelism) has relocated "just down the street". The "Creation Museum" part of Hovind's ministry, from pictures I have seen, was not as impressive or as costly as Ken Ham's Creation Museumin Kentucky.
(In the Wikipedia entry for Kent Hovind, it says that Hovind has said that the US government was behind both 9/11 and the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995!)(Here are the Hovind quotes: Government knew about Pearl Harbor in advance, too!)(More of Dr. Hovind's Quacky Quotes)
Note: On some of the Hovind quotes it says the original reference is no longer avaliable. Where the original reference is http://home1.gte.net/dmadh/hovind6.htm, it can be found here at the Internet Archive: http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20020129005634/http://home1.gte.net/dmadh/hovind6.htm.

.The June, 2009 - ?,2011 Iran Uprising

Times and dates below are all Far West USA(Pacific Time Zone); same as Los Angeles, San Francisco, and the rest of California.(According to the world clock, when it is just after midnight in LA, it is just before noon in Tehran, which is 11.5 hours ahead of LA.)

6-20-09: The demonstrations in Tehran, Iran: When I heard about the Basij, I thought, "it's a reincarnation of the Sturmabteilung (SA)". The SA was uniformed NSDAP(Nazi Party) quasi-military "Brownshirts" goons who brawled with opponents prior to Hitler's appointment as Chancellor in 1933. The (plainclothes) Basij militia, along with the (uniformed) "security forces" and "riot police" provide muscle to enforce the policies of the Supreme Leader (Ayatollah Khamenei)(not to be confused with the previous Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khomeini). In Iran, the Supreme Leader has the real power, and is commander-in-chief of the military; the President of Iran does not have the authority that the President of the United States does. Hitler's title of Führer tranlates into "Leader" in English. ("Der Führer"="The Leader") Dealing with Iran will be a big test of Obama's abilty to be President. (The Basij has been blamed for the shooting death of Neda, whose fate was captured on video(links to the video of Neda's death; not for the squeamish), posted online, and broadcast on television by CNN, preceded by a "parental warning"; CNN has also broadcast a video of the former Crown Prince (Reza Pahlavi), the son of the former Shah, breaking down emotionally on camera when mentioning Neda.)(During the Vietnam War, a man named Nick Ut got a Pulitzer prize for his photo of Kim Phuc; if the person who took the Neda video can be identified, that person deserves a Pulitzer, too.)

6-22-09AM: Obama does not want to publically support the demonstraters in Tehran. Instead, he holds another of those ridiculous photo op signing ceremonies. You hold the most important office in the world, people are dying in the streets of Tehran, and you are already running for reelection? What would Ronald Reagen do if he were President now? He didn't hesitate to openly oppose a nuclear armed Soviet Union, which was a far greater threat to the USA than some fascist thugs in Iran.
I looked it up; in my dictionary, Webster's, it is "Teheran", the capital of Iran, but in common usage it is "Tehran".

6-22-09PM: In Iran, there is a body called the Assembly of Experts, which according to CNN, has the authority to appoint and remove the Supreme Leader. In Italy, there was a body called the Fascist Grand Council, which could remove, and did remove, "Il Duce" ("The Leader" in English) Mussolini (as leader of the Fascist Party, the Chief of State, the King, then removed him as Prime Minister) in 1943. With Mussolini out, the entire Fascist structure collapsed. Maybe, just maybe........... (Whether the primary opposition leader, former Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi, who was also approved by the Guardian Council to run for President of Iran, would be radically different is unknown; it would be hard to be worse. Fox News reports that Mousavi has changed his views a lot since the election, which he thinks was rigged.)

6-23-09: Obama finally speaks out. He is not ready to do a "Mr Gorbachov, tear down this wall." yet, but it will come that if there are more Neda moments, or a Tiananmen Square. Obama's heart is with the dissidents; Candidate Obama would have condemned the Iranian government as soon as he realized the Iranian presidential election of 2009 was fixed. (pollster.com analyses of fraud in Iran) Obama's desire to negotiate with the Iranian leadership is as naive as pre-WW2 Britrish Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's negotiation with Hitler, and Chamberlain's belief that the Munich Agreement meant "peace in our time".
The technical savvy of the dissidents is remarkable. Taking videos with a cellphone is one thing....knowing how to upload them to YouTube after a violent incident is another.

6-24-09AM: It strongly suggests in 2009 Iranian election protests that the removal of the Supreme Leader is a real possibility. The Assembly of Experts is Muslim clerics, not wild eyed secular people who want to overthow the Islamic Republic.

6-24-09PM: The freedom loving Iranian government cracks down. Details very sketchy, as most foreign press has been expelled, and government goons are seizing cellphones. (Mousavi's Twitter page; a lot of the news about him, like "If I am arrested, call a general strike", and "I am ready for martyrdom" is from this page.) Mousavi has not been seen in days.
Iranians are Persians; Persian men are said to be very respectful of women; perhaps the very public fate of Neda will move the Assembly of Experts to take action.

6-25-09: Michael Jackson dies in Los Angeles; news coverage of events in Iran grinds to a halt. Sorry, Iranians, but in the USA, the death of a pop megastar is apparently more newsworthy than the Iranian Uprising.

6-27-09: In between stories about Michael Jackson's life, death, children, estate, et cetera, et cetera, Fox News reports that the Security Police have crushed (open) dissent in Iran.

Note: The chairman of the Assembly of Experts is former President, Ayatollah Rafsanjani, who is said to be a Mousavi supporter; Rafsanjani said, about post-election Iran: "I don't think that any wakened consciousness would be satisfied with the resulting situation."
(It says here that Supreme Leader Khamenei has cancer and was told in 2006 that he would not live much longer, and it says that Rafsanjani would be a prime candidate to be the next Supreme Leader.)

7-5-09: CNN: Iranian clerics dispute election results

7-9-09 AM: 10 years after the 1999 street protests, and 2 weeks after the crushing of open dissent, Iranians return to the streets in Tehran.
TIME.com, Detailed description of the 7-9-09 demonstration

7-17-09: Fox News, Mousavi attends Friday Prayers, where Rafsanjani speaks against government policies

7-17-09: CNN, Rafsanjani calls for release of Iran's post election prisoners, paints an even more defiant view of his talk at Friday Prayers.

7-20-09: CNN, The Association of Combatant Clergy, which includes another Mousavi supporter, former President Khatami, calls for a national referendum.

7-25-09 AM: A worldwide "Global Day of Action" is today in these cities. This will give non-Iranians a chance to demonstrate publically. Luckily, in the USA and other non-theocratic countries, a person can do this without fear of being arrested or shot. (This group, along with Where Is My Vote-NY, plans another demonstration Sept 23 and 24 in NYC when the man the Supreme Leader designated "President of Iran" will be there for a UN General Assembly meeting.)

7-25-09 PM: CNN, Global protests staged over post-election crackdown in Iran.

7-28-09: Fox News: Iran Releases 140 Prisoners, Closes Prison. At last! Here Mousavi says that abuses now are worse than under the Shah.

7-29-09: TIME.com, Tehran Braces for Another Day of Street Battles. July 30 will be 40 days since the death of Neda. It was a succession of 40 day memorial demonstrations that brought down the Shah in 1979.

7-30-09: More demonstrations in Tehran, including at Neda's grave. The 40 day period is an aspect of Shia Islam; 40 days is the period of mourning.
" "Was the regime of the shah able to resist the wave of dissatisfaction by using terror, oppression, censorship, torture, forced confessions and lying propaganda?" a top cleric Ayatollah Ali Hossein Montazeri said in a statement on Wednesday" -seen in this Fox News story about the 7-30 demonstrations.

7-31-09: TIME.com, A Brief Euphoria in Tehran: 'We Can Win This' A detailed account of the 7-30 demostrations.

8-1-09: CNN, Trials of Iran election protesters under way Supreme Leader Khamenei did pardon literally thousands of prisoners, however.

8-3-09: Fox News, Wife: Iran Reform Politician's Televised Confessions Were Forced Former VP Mohammad Abtahi "admits" to plotting to forment unrest.

8-4-09: Human Rights Watch: Iran: Show Trial Exposes Arbitrary Detention

8-17-09: Fox News, Iran Chief Judge Hints at Trials for Prison Abuse

8-22-09: CNN, Iran confronts rape, torture allegations Rape of women and men in prison?Mehdi Karrubi, one of the 1979 revolutionaries, who still looks up to the late Supreme Leader Khomeini, writes to Rafsanjani about decidedly Un-Islamic actions. (Karrubi thought that the 2005 Presidential election, when Ahmadinejad was first elected, was fixed.)

8-31-09: CNN, Iran prisoner beaten to death, coroner says "More than 100 Iranians arrested in the crackdown are going through mass trials this month. Top military officials have called for faster prosecutions and demanded "swift retribution" for post-election detainees, Iranian media have reported." The phrase "swift retribution" sounds like in the Iranian "justice" system, an arrested person is presumed guilty until proven guilty in a show trial.

12-07-09: Fox News, Students protest at Tehran University "largest protest in months".

CNN: IRAN 101

BBC: Who's who in Iran

FOX News - Iran content center

CNN Iran content

Remember Neda, a Wiki site.

http://nedairan.com/(A total of 12 pages about Neda, the demonstrations, even the photo ID of a man said to be the shooter, lots of pictures, videos, poems, and articles; literally hours worth of stuff.)(Seeing the original Neda video on CNN in June was a shocker to me. Although I had seen the dead body of a woman I was living with and who died in her sleep, I had never literally watched someone collapse and die bleeding. I will never forget it.)

Human Rights in Iran, includes a very long list of people executed/killed by the Islamic Republic of Iran, and notes that after the overthrow of the Shah, judges who were law school graduates were replaced with seminary graduates.

The Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Iran, in English, but there are links to German and Farsi translations; anyone who thinks that women are not second class citizens in Iran should see this.

Advancing Freedom in Iran, shows the hopelessness of Change in Iran.

Where Is My Vote flickr page, has over 1,000 images collected worldwide.

MSNBC: Lives of women in Iran, says that under Iranian law a woman is only worth half* a man, but notes that in Saudi Arabia (and other Arab countries), it is even worse, as women are not even allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia. I did notice that Neda was wearing trousers (blue jeans?) and western style clothing. Might they have shot her for that? In Sudan, a woman can get 40 lashes for wearing trousers.
*that is even less than in the original US constutution(Article 1, Section 2), where slaves (black people, mostly) were worth three fifths of a free person (white people, mostly) for determining representation in the House of Representatives.

FOX News: Iranian Government Says Neda Soltan's Murder Was 'Staged'. Staged? The protesters or some nasty Western agents killed Neda to destabilize the freedom loving Iranian government? Yeah, Sure! Is telling lies not a sin in Islam? Is it also true that after hand counting over 38 million paper ballots in two hours, the incumbent President (Ahmadinejad) can be declared winner by a landslide? (38 million ballots counted by hand in 120 minutes is about 316,667 counted every minute.)

FOX News: Iran Official Blames Foreign Countries for Protester Deaths! Yes, it was those nasty Western countries, especially the UK, that in some unexplained way caused the deaths of 20 protesters, according to Iran's Foreign Minister.The Iranian ambassador to Mexico says the CIA shot Neda.

There is a long (98 tweets) Twitter stream called IsNedaVideoFake that began June 21. I doubt it, unless maybe some monarchists and former SAVAK agents wanted to unify the opposition in order to topple the clerics. But wait, since the clerical establishment approved all the candidates for President, and since one can never predict the exact outcome of regime change, it seems kind of risky to fake something that happened on a public street in front of witnesses. Maybe it was those nasty Western agents in another effort to destabilize the freedom loving Iranian government!

Back in the good old days, when an oppressive government shot it's own citizens, all they had to do was supress the press and nobody would ever know. The song Watching TV is about the effect of TV and the Internet. Shoot a Neda, and "the whole world is watching". The fascists are reduced to impotent "We didn't shoot her! It was some guy from England" nonsense. During the Third Reich, the government was able (secretly) to kill millions of people in extermination camps. That will never happen again.* That "old time fascism" is dead.
Why Twitter could subvert government censorship in Iran when other Web 2.0 services could not
*At least not with conventional means. A rouge country armed with an Atomic bomb could kill millions of people publically; people who say "Israel should be wiped off the map."and "Zionists Are the True Manifestation of Satan"(Text of Ahmadinejad speech regarding Palestine), need to be taken seriously, especially from someone like Ahmadinejad, who believes that the return of the 12th Imam (and the end of the world) is imminent. The 12th Imam is the Mahdi. As part of this, Jesus is supposed to return after the 12th Imam. If this happens, people like Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins are going to be extremely disappointed. They expect to be raptured into Heaven when Jesus returns.
On 11-25-09, Ahmadinejad said that the USA was (somehow) blocking the return of the Mahdi.

9-18-09: Does Iran have "the bomb" now?, and what will Israel do about it? I strongly suspect that Israeli Intelligence knows, and will tell Obama, just like they knew Saddam had no WMD, and *probably* told GWB. Think about it: Israel is full of people whose relatives were killed by another hater of Jews, and the most public face in Iran says it didn't even happen. Preemptive first strike time? "On no account shall we permit an enemy to develop weapons of mass destruction (WMD) against the people of Israel." -The Begin doctrine

9-20-09: Remember MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction) during the Cold War between the USA and the USSR? It says here that MAD is Israel's policy if attacked by Iran. (Unfortunately, the Iranian leadership would probably welcome this....it would make them martyrs and ensure their immediate admission into Paradise.) One (maybe) positive note: the actual Commander-In-Chief in Iran is the Supreme Leader, not President Ahmidinejad. There is a website United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI). A "new large scale war will end with the destruction of human culture and civilization. Nothing can prevent unconfined engineering and science from completing the work of destroying human beings which it has begun in so dreadful a way in this war.” -Albert Speer, former German Minister of Armaments and War Production, at the Nuremberg Trial(IMT) of Major War Criminals in 1946.

11-4,5-09: CNN, Iranians clash with police on hostage crisis anniversary 30 years after Iranian revolutionaries seized the US Embassy in Tehran, dissidents return to the streets.

12-25 to 12-27-09: Fox News: The death of Iran's most senior dissident cleric, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri sparks violent street protests, not just in Tehran but in other cities.
In the violence Mousavi's nephew was killed, and the government seized the corpse(!)

12-29-09: Iran's Theocracy Will Fall

1-21-10: Fox News: Iranian Cleric Calls forExecution of More Opposition Activists: Says that hard liners want to execute Mousavi, Khatami, and former Speaker Karroubi.

2-11-10, Fox News: On the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, Ahmadinejad declares Iran a “nuclear state” ; the Security Police are out in force to insure no dissident demonstrations. Wonderful. A theocratic fascist state with "the bomb".
First we got the bomb and that was good
'Cause we love peace and motherhood
Then Russia got the bomb, but thats okay
'Cause the balance of power's maintained that way
Who's next?
-Tom Lehrer, Who's Next?

2-27-10, Fox News, Opposition Leader: Dictatorial 'Cult' Rules Iran Mousavi, in essence, calls the Supreme Leader a dictator. Remember, in Iran, the Supreme Leader is The Boss; think of him as an absolute monarch appointed by a (popularly elected from candidates approved by the Guardian Council) committee when the previous monarch dies. The President of Iran, though "elected" by the people(in a Chicago style election), is like a Prime Minister under an absolute monarch.

4-20-10:Iranian Missile May Be Able to Hit U.S. by 2015- Re-elect Obama 2012! Only a Neville Chamberlain toughguy can save the US from the "Kill Infidels!" mentality.

A Warning about messing with holy Islamic sites in Jeruselem (Jews are "infidels", too.)

2-14-11: Fox News Iran Clamps Down on Opposition Leaders; could what happened in Egypt happen in Iran? Mousavi is said to be under house arrest and unable to join in street protests.

2-14-11: CNN Report: Iran blocks reformist sites, detains opposition figures

4-24-11: Fox News Iran on Edge as Syria Fights for Survival; Syria is Iran's friendliest Arab neighbor

Above image stated to be public domain at, and copied from www.peacesymbol.org

Orig written 6-24-08, rev 5-24-12(Congressional elections(correctly nicknamed by Tea Party Nation "The Obama Referendum") were 11-2-10(Liberation Day! (The end of the Obama-Reid-Pelosi Triumvirate; Rep. Pelosi will be demoted to Minority Leader, Sen. Reid will not have a filibuster proof majority.) Lame Duck Congressional sessions are generally ineffective after a popular rebuke.(Face it! One-party rule is almost always a bad idea; "checks and balances" work better when the Executive Branch does not also control the entire Legislative Branch. If Obama had been able to appoint more Kagan clones and therefore got control of the Supreme Court and the Judicial Branch, forget "checks and balances". Obamacrat control of the entire government would be a disaster for the USA in the sense that the Enabling Act was a disaster for Germany.)