And on the lighter side …

 

I’m still pumped after attending our Dallas Tea Party (with Bob’s My Uncle). Our attendance was estimated at about 7,000.

It was great to be amongst so many like-minded Americans. You got the feeling that we really can make a difference if we work at it together. We talked with some, (BMU’s sign was a big hit) and nowhere did we see any activity that could be construed as less than staunchly patriotic.

But then this morning, I came across a video on Hot Air that I couldn’t ignore.

Now, here’s the disclaimer: I don’t remember the last time I watched MSNBC, or the last time I watched Keith Olberman. Life is too short to waste any part of it being subjected to the liberal propaganda being passed off as “news” on MSNBC. And Olberman just plain “reeks.”

And yet this video demanded that I watch. Bad enough having to expose my sensibilities to K.O., but he was interviewing (gasp) Janeane Garofalo, the Bwitch (Bitchy Witch). It is appropriate to say that she is even more repulsive to me than Susan Sarandon or Jane Fonda. Based on the presumptive success of Al Franken, Garofalo will probably run for the Senate soon.

But I digress – we, all of us, who believe in the Tea Party movement need to understand how the left sees us, and this video will open your eyes. I knew that they believe that we’re all too ignurnt to understand that we should be giving thanks now that the U.S. will be saved by Obama and his democrat conspirators. But it’s even worse than that. Apparently, according to Ms. Garofalo, our brains are actually dysfunctioning, we are physically deficient rednecks who can’t possibly understand because our brains just don’t work right. And we’re all racist. And the Tea Parties were all organized and promoted by (gasp) Fox News (the Anti-Christ of networks). We’re all just mind-numbed lemmings following a memo from Fox News and those pesky Republicans.

I can’t go on with this. Last night’s dinner will come up.

[… please wait while I scan around the Internet … counting hands …]

Hmmmm, that was easy. Both of you can put your hands down now.

Not a scientific survey, you say? Balderdash! The only raised hands belonged to Barack D’ohbama and John Kerry and we know that they both had designs on taking the Ruler of the World position. Let’s face it, the UN is about as popular in the U.S. as the proverbial turd in a punchbowl.

It’s easy to see why. Does the term “feckless” mean anything to you? One can define feckless as meaning “without feck,” and if there is any organization that is totally devoid of feck, it is the United Nations.

But let’s be clear, feckless also means: ineffectual, worthless, irresponsible, incompetent, and weak. These are not adjectives of which someone should be proud, yet they define the UN beautifully. In fact, I’m surprised that “the United Nations” wasn’t definition “3.” Under feckless.

For example, the UN Security Council met for 3 hours Sunday (April 5) and couldn’t even agree on a “Please don’t do that again,” statement to North Korea. The UN already had sanctions in place that “bar” the North from ballistic missile activity. Sunday’s missile launch was in flagrant disregard of those UN sanctions.

When apprised of his faux pas, Kim responded, “Was I not supposed to do that”? “I didn’t know – what’s a sanction?”

Pesky Truth has learned that the Council is finally close to agreement on a new sanction that would require the 5’3” “Dear Leader” Kim Jong Il to reduce his “elevator” shoe lifts from 4 inches to 3 inches.

That’ll show him.

The UN’s Security Council is supposedly charged with maintaining peace and security among countries, a task that it has performed fecklessly for years.

The UN, in a sophomoric, rose-colored, unicorn-populated world could be a valid idea. But, in its current configuration, it is worse than benign, it is a black hole of U.S. largess. The U.S. is on the hook for 22% of the UN’s current operating budget, or $922,000,000.00 - more than any other country.

And let’s not forget that sneaky Senate bill (S.2433, introduced by then-Sen. D’ohbama hisself) that authorizes a UN assessment of 0.7 % of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) over 13 years, amounting to a tax on U.S. citizens of $845,000,000,000.00 – that’s BILLIONS - that would be used to socialize the entire world (after UN officials and their families and friends skim off a few billion for themselves).

Could it be that D’ohbama has outfoxed us? Could it be that his economic policies are aimed at dramatically reducing our Gross Domestic Product so that we won’t have to give so much to the UN? Damn, he’s smarter than I thought he was – what a noble goal – reduce the TRIBUTE to the UN by flushing our GDP down the crapper – wow – what an intellect [sarc].

The U.S. already pays more of the UN’s budget than 178 of the lowest paying member states combined. Yet, under the “one state, one vote” structure, Nauru, Lesotho, Eritrea, Comoros, Benin, or Andorra all have an equal vote in the General Assembly. Is that the kind of “fair play” that the left is always harping on?

Were it not for the Security Council, the U.S. would have no more power to influence the UN than any of those aforementioned “lesser” countries. But the Security Council is hardly a useful tool since China or Russia (even France) can veto anything if it goes against their interest.

In other words, one nation state (the U.S.) is paying more of the expenses of operation than any other country, furnishing the most “peacekeepers,” and providing the headquarters in “international territory” in New York City, and has literally NO power in the General Assembly and only 20% of the power in the Security Council – and even that is subject to veto.

So, even in the unlikely event that a Security Council Resolution is issued against a “rogue” nation, it will be ignored – think Iran and North Korea. And Iraq had ignored the UN until “Cowboy” Boosh went in and enforced the resolution(s). The UN is feckless.

And, I think that history will prove that Barack Hussein D’ohbama is every bit as feckless as the UN – they’re out of the same mold.

It is for this reason that I believe that if president D’ohbama is confronted with any sort of aggressive action which ordinarily might require a military response, he will always dump the problem into the ample lap of the United Nations. This would give him “cover” and he could then respond to any question regarding his actions that he did what was necessary to achieve peace and harmony.

This is exactly what makes him so dangerous. He apparently believes that you can negotiate with terrorists and rogue governments. On that point, he is correct. You can negotiate with them – you just can’t gain anything by doing so.

Iran (and North Korea) will negotiate D’ohbama right out of his pink, polka-dotted boxers. He will concede, they will appear to, all so he can claim success. But in the end, D’ohbama will get it in his end.

California’s Plan to Increase its Deficit

The first part of this story actually happened in August of 2008, but it so clearly represents the liberal left-coast mindset regarding illegal aliens, I just couldn’t help myself, I just had to bring it up again – it’s worth a reminder. And it’s still not a settled issue, there’s an update at the end, bringing it to its current status.

These are excerpts from Michelle Malkin’s blog on the subject.

(August, 2008) A San Francisco city commission has taken a defiant stand against Mayor Gavin Newsom’s directive on young immigrant felons by urging officials to permit the (ILLEGAL, FELONY) offenders to remain in the city and help pay for their housing, job placement services and immigration lawyers.

Newsom announced last month - in an attempt to quell a growing controversy involving San Francisco’s sanctuary city policy - that the city would no longer shield young illegal immigrant felony offenders from federal authorities for possible deportation.

Three weeks later, the city’s little-known, 15-member Immigrant Rights Commission approved a resolution that ran counter to the mayor’s directive, urging the city to let young (ILLEGAL) immigrant (FELONY) offenders stay in the city. The commission advises the Board of Supervisors and mayor about issues involving immigrants.

It called on San Francisco to pay nonprofit community groups (ACORN?) to screen juvenile offenders to determine whether they should be entitled to city-paid immigration attorneys who would help them seek asylum as victims of abandonment, trafficking or abuse.

It also urged the city to provide adequate resources for placing the youths in “culturally appropriate” community programs approved by the juvenile court system; a policy that federal prosecutors have said was akin to harboring illegal immigrants.

And it advised the city to develop and expand safe housing, jobs and other opportunities for unaccompanied immigrant youth “because these youth are extremely vulnerable to exploitation by adult criminals.”

So now, San Franciscoians will be expected to pay for safe housing, job placement and immigration attorneys for these poor, disadvantaged ILLEGAL FELONS?

Ooowee, I guess I’m glad I’m just an ignrunt Texas hick. Around here, we aren’t as enlightened as the intellectual elite out there in California. The “enlightened” state’s deficit has roared past $40,000,000,000 and is expected to top $42,000,000,000 soon. So, I guess it does make sense (to liberal Californian democrats) to spend more money they don’t have to coddle YOUNG ILLEGAL ALIENS WHO COMMIT FELONIES.

RIGHT.

“And whereas, San Francisco’s sanctuary policy should protect immigrants from being separated from their families and communities through deportation, while also protecting public safety by ensuring that persons who commit violent felonies cannot take advantage of the sanctuary policy, Therefore be it resolved that the San Francisco Democratic Party takes a recommitted position in support of our constitution and our city’s sanctuary position for immigrants, And be it further resolved that the San Francisco Democratic Party supports continuation of the sanctuary policy without extending the protection of that policy to persons who commit violent felonies.”

This “sanctuary” crap is just that … CRAP.

To tax already overburdened citizens to pay for ILLEGAL alien’s housing, medical care, job placement and legal aid to fight deportation, is just plain asinine.

What a sorry state (not state of affairs, just a sorry state).

California was created by God to be one of the most beautiful and climate-friendly areas on the planet. Ocean beaches and mountains just a short drive apart and climate varying from cool and foggy to warm and sunny. California has it all. Were it not for the politics and the cost of living, most folks that I know who’ve been there would like to live there. Myself included.

But California’s voters have elected liberal democrats who spend taxpayer money to help everyone “feel good” about everything, without concern for fiscal responsibility – after all, they’ll just go back to the taxpayers for more. There’s a never-ending supply, isn’t there?

Well friends and neighbors, the gravy train has left the station and it ain’t coming back. People are leaving the state in droves and they’re not the dregs of society – they’re the educated, upwardly mobile citizens who are tired of the mess that politicians have made of the state’s economy. They’re going where jobs are plentiful and taxes are low.

California lost a net of 144,000 people in the year ending in July, 2008 – more than any other state. While at the same time, California’s nearly 3 million illegal aliens cost taxpayers over $9,000,000,000 each year.

I guess us ignrunt Texas hicks just aren’t as smart as you enlightened intellectual elite liberals are – we somehow bumbled our way to an $11,000,000,000 SURPLUS – and we don’t even have an INCOME TAX. The remaining good people in California need to take their state back … or, leave it to taken over by Obama’s federal government, just like GM and the big banks.

I can’t wait to see how Obamafornia deals with the influx of new welfare recipients looking for a handout and millions of new illegals.

Apparently, us dumb, unenlightened, clods are just stuck on stoopid, right?

P.S. – almost forgot – to show how seriously California lawmakers take their responsibilities for the needs of their constituents, they passed a bill to ban pâté de foie gras statewide in 2012. Wow, that’s representative government at its finest!

Any leader MUST have top quality lieutenants. They advise from different perspectives and they can contribute a more detailed level of knowledge in specific areas. It’s one of the things you learn, either via formal education or by on-the-job training – a leader can’t do it alone, he/she has to choose the right people to be part of the team.

The ability to choose team members is proving to be one of the glaring weaknesses of Barack Obama. He’s a rookie, a novice, a newbie at it – he’s never been a real leader. And his choices for friends and associates make one wonder about his ability to judge character.

Other prerequisites for a good leader are consistency and honesty. Unfortunately for Barack Obama, being consistently dishonest doesn’t qualify.

The promises that he so eloquently made to American voters during his campaign are one-by-one, disappearing into the Obamosphere, never to be seen (or heard) again. He’s forgotten about those promises; his flock should also forget them as well, as he had no intention of keeping them.

And now, because of the electorate’s American Idol-style popularity vote, he’s been thrust into the most difficult job on the planet, a job for which he is woefully unqualified.

If the left – just for a moment – could open their eyes (don’t worry, nobody’s looking – and we won’t tell) and look objectively at what their Chosen One has done so far. It is not a pretty picture. It’s falling waaay short of the rhetoric of his campaign.

His actions and miscues have planted seeds – seeds of doubt, about Obama’s ability to lead.

Each seed is being fertilized by the over-application of manure, shoveled on by today’s Democrat party leaders, and watered by the tears of those who love the Constitution and hate seeing it raped and pillaged.

The seeds are growing.

And now, we’re seeing new sprouts.

For instance, let’s look at Obama’s choice for Budget Director, Peter Orszag. Mr. Orszag produced a particularly rosy projection in August of last year while working at the CBO (Congressional Budget Office): “CBO projects that outlays will first exceed revenues in 2019 and that the Social Security trust funds will be exhausted in 2049.”

And yet a PBS Nightly Business Report video clip forecasted on Friday 3/27/2009 that, based on the President’s own budget figures, stats from the Treasury’s own website and new data from the non-partisan CBO, revenues are down and benefit cost is up right now, putting Social Security in a position of drawing down of the surplus built up over many previous years. It is reported that February of 2009 is the first time in 25 years that benefits exceeded income and annual deficits are expected to continue for the foreseeable future.

And another example of Mr. Orszag’s qualifications to be budget director is his assessment of Fannie Mae’s future. In 2002, he said “GSE’s (Government Sponsored Enterprises) have an extremely small probability of default.” And he also said, “To be sure, it is difficult to analyze extremely low-probability events, such as the one embodied in the (GSA) stress test. Even if the analysis is off by an order of magnitude, however, the expected cost to the government is still very modest.”

His estimation of the cost of a possible failure of Fannie and Freddie was covered in this statement: “the implication is that the expected cost to the government of providing an explicit government guarantee on $1 trillion in GSE debt is just $2 million.”

And this guy is Obama’s new budget director?

Oh golly, look! There’s another sprout!

In the midst of an economic crisis, Obama names a Treasury Secretary who has had trouble paying his taxes on time.

In 2006, the Internal Revenue Service audited Tim Geithner for tax years 2003 and 2004, and he paid $16,732 for the back taxes, and interest for those years.

After Obama nominated him for treasury secretary, Geithner voluntarily amended his taxes for 2001 and 2002 as well, paying $25,970 for back taxes and interest for those years.

Whether his tax filings were wrong because of honest mistakes or a conscious attempt to cheat on his taxes doesn’t really matter. It does show that Geithner has a pattern of not dotting “i’s” and crossing “t’s,” a dangerous trait for someone in charge of the Treasury of the United States – the taxpayer’s money – our money.

And to support this new economic sprout, Obama has only filled two slots out of twenty-three at treasury (2 of 23). True, he has named a few more, but for various reasons, they didn’t make the cut. So, while we’re supposed to be in “crisis” mode relative to the economy, we have a skeleton crew at the helm (about 8% of the authorized manpower).

Sixty days into this “best-ever” administration, Obama has dropped the ball (again) by woefully under-staffing the Treasury Department while we’re struggling to stave off an economic meltdown.

These actions exhibit ineptitude at its highest level.

And yet another shoot sprouts up:

Remember Obama’s promise to “loosen the grip of lobbyists on Washington,” or his promise that “they won't find a job in my White House.”

Contrast those campaign promises to reality.

USA Today reported Obama's campaign fundraising team included 38 members of law firms that were paid $138 million in 2007 to lobby the federal government. Those lawyers, including 10 former federal lobbyists, have pledged to raise at least $3.5 million" for Obama's campaign, the report states. "Employees of their firms have given Obama's campaign $2.26 million."

But that was the campaign, you say.

Well, it continued right into his new administration. When it came to naming administration appointments, it wasn't long before he allowed at least two dozen exceptions and broke his promise two dozen times.

During the Presidential debates he said, “We need earmark reform. And when I'm president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely."

And then he said to a joint session of Congress (of the $767,000,000,000 “stimulus” bill), "Now, I'm proud that we passed a recovery plan free of earmarks."

He says, (on his own website) "Too often bills are rushed through Congress and to the president before the public has the opportunity to review them. As president, Obama will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days." What a crock.

And yet, his first bill was signed 2 days after passage, the 2^nd one, only 3 hours after Congress passed it.

And the coup de grace, Obama signed his 1,000-page $787,000,000,000 stimulus bill only one business day after it passed through Congress.

It was also pushed through Congress so quickly, not one member read it before voting.

I only wish that we, the people, could hear how we’re characterized behind closed doors. He really has to have a low estimation of our intelligence and common sense to flagrantly ignore his “promises” and consistently do just the opposite.

I’d be willing to personally contribute $10,000.00 (seriously) towards payment to someone wearing a wire (or somehow) recording a meeting between Obama, Pelosi, Rahm Emanuel, Harry Reid, etc. and recording an hour or two. I am firmly convinced that the release of that tape showing the low esteem with which we, the people, are held would rally the populace to dump the lot of them.

He must believe that he won’t be called to account, his popularity, and his powers of flim-flamery are just too great. And as long as he’s popular, the other dems will support him.

But, even now, growing numbers of his supporters are becoming disenchanted and are beginning to ask “WTF?”

As Rush would say, “For those of you in Rio Linda,” WMDs are Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Distasteful as it may be, consider real catastrophes for a moment: a nuclear bomb explosion or the release of some virulent strain of a biological agent. Or, consider Global Warming and assume that all that has been attributed to it comes to pass.

Any of those disasters pale in comparison to the effects of a “Carrington Event,” a space storm.

Following are excerpts taken from an article by Michael Brooks, appearing on March 23, 2009 in New Scientist on the web.

The Carrington Event was named after the British amateur astronomer Richard Carrington, who was the first to note its cause: "two patches of intensely bright and white light" emanating from a large group of sunspots.

The Carrington event happened in 1859, and comprised eight days of severe space weather. Though a solar outburst could conceivably be more powerful, "we haven't found an example of anything worse than a Carrington event", says James Green, head of NASA's planetary division and an expert on the Carrington Event. This is not some far-fetched science fiction event – it’s already happened again, in 1989.

The incursion of the plasma into our atmosphere causes rapid changes in the configuration of Earth's magnetic field which, in turn, induce currents in the long wires of the power grids. The grids were not built to handle this sort of direct current electricity. The greatest danger is at the step-up and step-down transformers used to convert power from its transport voltage to domestically useful voltage. The increased DC current creates strong magnetic fields that saturate a transformer's magnetic core. The result is runaway current in the transformer's copper wiring, which rapidly heats up and melts.

This is exactly what happened in the Canadian province of Quebec in March 1989, but things could get much, much worse than that.

Following is a possible scenario: It is midnight on September 22, 2012 and the skies above Manhattan are filled with a flickering curtain of colorful light. Few New Yorkers have seen the aurora this far south but their fascination is short-lived. Within a few seconds, electric bulbs dim and flicker, then become unusually bright for a fleeting moment. Then all the lights in the state go out. Within 90 seconds, the entire eastern half of the US is without power.

A year later and millions of Americans are dead and the nation's infrastructure lies in tatters. The World Bank declares America a developing nation. Europe, Scandinavia, China and Japan are also struggling to recover from the same fateful event - a violent storm, 150 million kilometers away on the surface of the sun.

It sounds ridiculous. Surely the sun couldn't create so profound a disaster on Earth. Yet an extraordinary report funded by NASA and issued by the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in January this year claims it could do just that.

There are two problems to face. The first is the modern electricity grid, which is designed to operate at ever higher voltages over ever larger areas. Though this provides a more efficient way to run the electricity networks, minimizing power losses and wastage through overproduction, it has made them much more vulnerable to space weather. The high-power grids act as particularly efficient antennas, channeling enormous direct currents into the power transformers.

The second problem is the grid's interdependence with the systems that support our lives: water and sewage treatment, supermarket delivery infrastructures, power station controls, financial markets and many others all rely on electricity. Put the two together, and it is clear that a repeat of the Carrington event could produce a catastrophe the likes of which the world has never seen.

According to the NAS report, a severe space weather event in the US could induce ground currents that would knock out 300 key transformers within about 90 seconds, cutting off the power for more than 130 million people.

From that moment, the clock is ticking for America.

First to go - immediately for some people - is drinkable water. Anyone living in a high-rise apartment, where water has to be pumped to reach them would be cut off straight away. For the rest, drinking water will still come through the taps for maybe half a day. With no electricity to pump water from reservoirs, there is no more after that.

There is simply no electrically powered transport: no trains, underground or over-ground. Our just-in-time culture for delivery networks may represent the pinnacle of efficiency, but it means that supermarket shelves would empty very quickly - delivery trucks could only keep running until their tanks ran out of fuel, and there is no electricity to pump any more from the underground tanks at filling stations.

Back-up generators would run at pivotal sites - but only until their fuel ran out. For hospitals, that would mean about 72 hours of running a bare-bones, essential care only, service. After that, no more modern healthcare.

The truly shocking finding is that this whole situation would not improve for months, maybe years: melted transformer hubs cannot be repaired, only replaced. "From the surveys I've done, you might have a few spare transformers around, but installing a new one takes a well-trained crew a week or more," says John Kappenman, a power industry analyst with the Metatech Corporation of Goleta, California, and an advisor to the NAS committee that produced the report. "A major electrical utility might have one suitably trained crew, maybe two." Within a month, then, the handful of spare transformers would be used up. The rest will have to be built to order, something that can take up to 12 months.

Even when some systems are capable of receiving power again, there is no guarantee there will be any to deliver. Almost all natural gas and fuel pipelines require electricity to operate. Coal-fired power stations usually keep reserves to last 30 days, but with no transport systems running to bring more fuel, there will be no electricity in the second month.

Nuclear power stations wouldn't fare much better. They are programmed to shut down in the event of serious grid problems and are not allowed to restart until the power grid is up and running.

With no power for heating, cooling or refrigeration systems, people could begin to die within days. There is immediate danger for those who rely on medication. Lose power to New Jersey, for instance, and you have lost a major centre of production of pharmaceuticals for the entire US. Perishable medications such as insulin will soon be in short supply. "In the US alone there are a million people with diabetes," Kappenman says. "Shut down production, distribution and storage (of insulin) and you put all those lives at risk in very short order."

Help is not coming any time soon either. If it is dark from the eastern seaboard to Chicago, some affected areas are hundreds, maybe thousands of miles away from anyone who might help. And those willing to help are likely to be ill-equipped to deal with the sheer scale of the disaster. "If a Carrington event happened now, it would be like a hurricane Katrina, but 10 times worse," says Paul Kintner, a plasma physicist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

In reality, it would be much worse than that. Hurricane Katrina's societal and economic impact has been measured at $81 billion to $125 billion. According to the NAS report, the impact of what it terms a "severe geomagnetic storm scenario" could be as high as $2 trillion. And that's just the first year after the storm. The NAS puts the recovery time at four to 10 years.

It is questionable whether the US would ever bounce back.

"I don't think the NAS report is scaremongering," says Mike Hapgood, who chairs the European Space Agency's space weather team. James Green agrees. "Scientists are conservative by nature and this group is really thoughtful," he says. "This is a fair and balanced report."

The good news is that, given enough warning, the utility companies can take precautions, such as adjusting voltages and loads, and restricting transfers of energy so that sudden spikes in current don't cause cascade failures. There is still more bad news, however. Our early warning system is becoming more unreliable by the day.

By far the most important indicator of incoming space weather is NASA's Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE). The probe, launched in 1997, has a solar orbit that keeps it directly between the sun and Earth. Its uninterrupted view of the sun means it gives us continuous reports on the direction and velocity of the solar wind and other streams of charged particles that flow past its sensors. ACE can provide between 15 and 45 minutes' warning of any incoming geomagnetic storms. The power companies need about 15 minutes to prepare their systems for a critical event, so that would seem passable.

However, observations of the sun and magnetometer readings during the Carrington Event shows that the coronal mass ejection was travelling so fast it took less than 15 minutes to get from where ACE is positioned to Earth. "It arrived faster than we can do anything," Hapgood says.

There is another problem. ACE is 11 years old, and operating well beyond its planned lifespan. The onboard detectors are not as sensitive as they used to be, and there is no telling when they will finally give up the ghost. Furthermore, its sensors become saturated in the event of a really powerful solar flare. "It was built to look at average conditions rather than extremes," Baker says.

The world will, most probably, yawn at the prospect of a devastating solar storm until it happens. Kintner says his students show a "deep indifference" when he lectures on the impact of space weather. But if policy-makers show a similar indifference in the face of the latest NAS report, it could cost tens of millions of lives, Kappenman reckons. "It could conceivably be the worst natural disaster possible, a really large storm could be a planetary disaster," he says.

The report outlines the worst case scenario for the US. The "perfect storm" is most likely on a spring or autumn night in a year of heightened solar activity - something like 2012. Around the equinoxes, the orientation of the Earth's field to the sun makes us particularly vulnerable to a plasma strike.

"We're in the equivalent of an idyllic summer's day. The sun is quiet and benign, the quietest it has been for 100 years," says Mike Hapgood, "but it could turn the other way."

The next solar maximum is expected in 2012.

Obama has billions in his 2010 budget for “global warming” related spending. By now, it should be evident that global warming is NOT a scientific fact as thousands of scientists now refute the forecasts of future devastation by Al Gore and his minions.

Not only that, but a solar storm is not the only way that EMPs (ElectroMechanical Pulses) are generated. Our military (and presumably others) have been working on a highly secret EMP bomb for some time. We already know of programs in Russia and the UK. Military systems have been undergoing retrofit to guard against EMPs, but since it has been impossible to recreate a high-level EMP blast, realistic testing has been limited to small-scale emissions.

So, in addition to natural phenomena, we also have the possibility of some enemy detonating a nuclear bomb with the intent of EMP emissions damaging our electric infrastructure and crippling the U.S.

Wouldn’t it make sense to transfer some of the billions that Obama is directing into bad science (global warming) and begin to make provisions to protect the country from either source of EMP?

Why has this doomsday scenario been completely ignored by the media? I’m not suggesting a conspiracy in this case, I’m suggesting that the media has its collective head in the sand instead of up its rear as is usually the case.

I understand that some of you are fed up with this issue and just want it to go away. It is my position that it is not yet settled. Obama has reputedly spent close to $1,000,000 to keep his records from public scrutiny – why?

Obama’s Eligibility for POTUS

I’m not going to give up on this issue. Many have thrown in the towel and just resigned themselves to that fact that OB is the president, thus the issue is closed.

It is far from closed. The thing that I have a hard time understanding is how his supporters, blinded by adoration, refuse to see that if he is not a natural born citizen, how that alone would create a constitutional crisis. What would be the effect on the legality of his actions. If he is not “legal,” how can his actions on behalf of the country be legal? The result could be extremely damaging to the U.S.

Suppose he signs treaties and agreements with other countries, are they required to adhere to those documents? How could they be held liable if the U.S. was represented by an illegal president? How about closing Guantanamo, sending more troops to Afghanistan, spending Trillions of taxpayer dollars, etc.. What if we find out tomorrow, a year from now or in 2011, that he is legally not a U.S. citizen?

I’ve seen no constitutional scholars volunteer their opinions on the effect of an “illegal” president – perhaps Barack Hussein Obama could offer his learned opinion?

The possibilities are disturbing and for that reason, if for no other, it is incumbent on us to verify that he does fit the Constitution’s requirements for the office of the President – that he is legal.

Following are reasons that I have real doubts that he is legal.

Exhibit 1. Chiyome Fukino, the director of the Hawaiian Department of Health, issued the statement, "I as Director of Health for the State of Hawaii, along with the Registrar of Vital Statistics who has statutory authority to oversee and maintain these type of vital records, have personally seen and verified that the Hawaii State Department of Health has Sen. Obama’s original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures."

Right … did you catch the glaring absence of the word “Hawaii” preceding the words “birth certificate”? The director just stated that Obama’s original birth certificate was on file – she didn’t say that it was a Hawaii birth certificate. Given our presidential history when it comes to parsing words (depends on the meaning of “is”, etc.), it is incumbent on us to be wary of the way that statements are worded.

Attorney Phillip Berg maintains that there is a valid birth certificate on file in Hawaii alright, but it is a Kenyan birth certificate – not a Hawaii birth certificate. Mr. Berg is one of those who are attempting to legally force Obama to product a valid birth certificate, showing him to have been born in the United States.

It has been asserted by Mr. Berg, that Obama was born in Mombasa in Kenya (said by some to be the Coast Provincial General Hospital) at 7:24 PM on August 4th 1961.

·         A Hawaii birth certificate is already on file AND the individual has had a sex change operation

·         A Hawaii birth certificate is already on file AND a parent-child relationship has NOT been shown to existfor the parent listed on the birth certificate (could there have been a “Frank” in the woodpile?)

·         A Hawaii birth certificate is already on file AND a court order or a certificate of marriage establishing the marriage of the natural parents to each other is presented

·         The first four paragraphs deal with the authenticity of the COLB. Personally, I think that it has been shown to have been altered, but forget that issue – it’s moot. It doesn’t matter whether the COLB is good as gold or a forgery – it’s still NOT a birth certificate.

o        No evidence that Obama’s mother traveled to Kenya during 1961. Since Kenya has also refused to make details surrounding Obama’s records available, this may or may not be true. Any record showing her travel to Kenya could lend credence to the Kenyan birth and would therefore be kept under wraps. For someone who is refusing to show his birth certificate, I don’t think we should expect the voluntary disclosure of any facts that could be detrimental to his position.

o        Despite the many statements attributed (via transcript) to Obama’s grandmother that she was present when he was born in Kenya, Snopes quotes Alex Koppelman writing in Salon (hardly an objective source) as saying that she was mis-translated and the “correction” is “consistently excised from transcripts of the conversation.” Everyone else’s transcripts are wrong, only Mr. Koppelman’s is correct?

·         The next section notes that Phillip Berg’s August, 2008 suit was dismissed by a federal court judge. True, but that decision was based on Mr. Berg’s standing to bring suit – not on the merits of his evidence.

Why won’t Obama allow access to his REAL, ORIGINAL, ON-FILE birth certificate and his college records?

A final note on this issue. If Obama does eventually produce a valid Hawaii birth certificate showing him to have been born in the state of Hawaii, I will gladly publish a single-issue post apologizing to Obama and his supporters in big, bold, capital letters. I will admit that I was wrong.

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Dr. Seymour Heine is Nancy’s Reconstructive Surgeon, he specializes in the repair of facial cracks, rutting, sunken trenches and general resurfacing. She now has him on retainer to be immediately available in the event of flaking, crusting, or catastrophic sagging of various facial components.

 

Fig. 1

WARNING: Do not allow the image (Fig. 1) to remain stationary on your PC screen for more than 20 seconds or risk stoppage of your system clock.

Writing in the Journal of Reconstructive Folly, Dr. Heine detailed the procedures that were necessary to bring Mrs. Pelosi’s face up to code. Renovation was so extensive that Dr. Heine was required to secure a building permit.

It was necessary to remove the existing epidermis and flabodermis to a depth of 7 mm (exceptionally deep), and then remove scale, mold, and dermal debris to provide a clean base surface. A tack coat of tar emulsion was applied to aid adhesion for new layer.

Compaction was necessary to smooth out ripples and bumps, followed by multiple layers of a polymer-modified bitumen material. A latex grout was troweled into surface deformations and hairline cracks to facilitate smoothness, durability, and skid resistance.

The following photo (Fig.2) was taken after the temporary scaffolding has been removed from the upper portion of her face. One can detect the sunken appearance of the eyes prior to the procedure to extrude the eyeball out to Mrs. Pelosi’s preferred Marty Feldman-like protrusion.

 

Fig. 2

 

Fig. 3

 

 

Fig. 4

Figure 5 is the “after” picture, taken after the completion of the final procedures and a complete detailing. Cosmetic engineers and facial reconstructionists have been known to work magic, and they certainly did with Mrs. Pelosi. One can hardly recognize Fig. 5 as the same woman as in Fig. 1. Dr. Heine is considered the Michelangelo of California Reconstructive Magicians. He has truly worked a miracle here.

 

Fig. 5

 

Everything went well until a minor (4.0) earthquake hit the San Francisco area and the tremors jiggled her lower lip off – but it’s ok, she has a bumper-to-bumper 12,000 mile warranty.

In our unending quest for the truth, our intrepid investigators have unearthed some little known facts about the Obama administration and the democrat congressional leadership. These little-known facts have been checked, re-checked, and double-dog checked and found to be the gospel truth, so help us Rush Limbaugh.

This is the first portion of our investigation, much more to come.

Obama’s early policies

Obama is now offering a Tax Recovery Stipend as a signing bonus to any democrat appointee to his administration. It is intended to cover any outstanding unpaid taxes, interest, and penalties. The payment should dramatically expand the pool of available talent now that being a tax scofflaw is no longer an impediment to public service.

The president has taken a firm stance on the gun issue. He stated yesterday that “I’m not against guns; I know that guns aren’t evil.” But it was later learned that that statement was incomplete – he had continued by saying that he was dead set against triggers. “Triggers are evil, dastardly things that cause injury and death to thousands of our citizens. I am therefore issuing an executive order banning triggers.”

Obama apologized for a misunderstanding regarding his use of the term “earmarks.” When he railed against earmarks, he was referring to the scratches sometimes left on body parts by earrings. Nine thousand of those would be bad, the other kind, not so bad.

Obama bristled at the characterization of his first two months as “wham bam, thank you ma’am” politics. Taxpayers are distraught, feeling that he took advantage of us. He sweet-talked us, he courted us, he said all the right things, and when he got what wanted, he ignored us. And he got what he was after without so much as a dinner and a movie (at least Gordon Brown got dinner and some movies and Obama hasn’t even screwed him ... yet).

Obama’s entire vocabulary when a teleprompter is unavailable

• Uh
• Uh, uh
• Uh, uh, uh
• Ah
• Ah, ah
• Ah, ah, ah
• Uh, ah, uh, ah, uh, ah … uhhhhhh ……… (smokes a cigarette)
• Hey man, don’t bogart that doobie
• Rama lama ding dong
• A priest, a minister, and a rabbi walk into a bar …
• Yes, Michelle
• I’m sorry, Michelle
• It’s my fault, Michelle
• Ooh, ouch, ummph, owww, please stop, owwww, that hurts! I give, I won’t do it again, Michelle

Reason that Joe Biden misspoke:

• He opened his mouth
• He was misquoted
• We misunderstood the misquote
• His misquote was taken out of context
• We misheard the context of the misquote
• We misunderstood what we thought he said when he reiterated his misstatement in a sub-context
• He isn’t fluent in the language (English)
• English is his second language, gibberish is his native tongue
• He was recovering from a dentist visit and his mouthal parts were not yet operational
• Joe had a recent tonqueotomy, it’s not yet fully healed
• He spoke before fully removing his foot
• Even after removing his foot, various shoe parts remained, preventing his proper enunciation
• Unaware that a microphone was still “live,” Biden was heard to complain “give me a bucking frake.” Bystanders were confused since no one knew what a frake was or why it was bucking
• What should we expect, he is Joe Biden

Reason for Nancy Pelosi’s haggard facial expressions lately:

• Her face needs re-spackling
• She quit using Aging Mare horse linament ‘cause it made her face break out
• The underlying plastic foundation got too hot and sagged
• Some grout is old and flaking out
• Both eyelids snapped shut when the Krazy Glue holding them open gave way
• A resulting trip to Eyelids Are Us was disappointing since her usual size (32A) was on backorder and she was fitted with 40DD lids instead
• During her most recent facial liposuction, she required emergency re-lipping when a malfunction by the liposuction machine caused it to run amok
• It’s impossible for her to smile since her mouthular nerves were hyper-extended in a freak Folsom Street Fair incident
• Two coats of Boudreaux's Butt Paste just aren’t enough
• You could shove her face in dough and make gorilla cookies

Bawney Fwank

• He twied to warn us about the Fannie/Freddie pwoblem, but the Wepublicans wefused to listen and wouldn’t weconsider
• It is weputed that he wote a bestseller, “Foot tapping your way to airport womance” under the psuedonym, Ben Dover
• Fwank’s aides deny that he was tweated in the emergency room of Saint Sodom Hospital for wemoval of a plastic banana and two plums from an unidentified orifice. Sources speculate that it was his wectum
• Representative Fwank was honored by the Pinspotters Club of Massachusetts as the only person to have accurately positioned a full rack of ten pins individually without using his hands
• Wecently, the Blue Oyster Bar retired his favorite stall in his honor

Stay tuned ... more to come

This one really hit home for me. I retired in July of 2007 after 27 years of running a successful business with my two partners. We experienced everything that this letter-writing boss relates about starting and growing a business; the long hours, doing without in the early years, the concerns about how we were going to pay the bills and cover the payroll.

Been there; done that.

We were apparently similar in size; we had 15 employees. Those employees bought cars and houses, sent their kids to college, and generally had a solid upper-middle-class lifestyle due to the economic viability of the business.

But now …. ?

We were bought out by a larger competitor (thank God) or I’d still be working – and worrying – about the future of the business. This guy has it right. At some tipping point, it is no longer worth the effort to continue. When even the boss(es) no longer work to grow the business, but instead work to pay increased government taxes, the return is no longer worth the investment.

And the goose that laid the golden egg dies.

Here’s the letter:

To All My Valued Employees,

There have been some rumblings around the office about the future of this company, and more specifically, your job. As you know, the economy has changed for the worse and presents many challenges. However, the good news  is this: The economy doesn't pose a threat to your job. What does threaten your job however, is the changing political landscape in this country.

However, let me tell you some little tidbits of fact which might help you decide what is in your best interests.

First, while it is easy to spew rhetoric that casts employers against employees, you have to understand that for every business owner  there is a Back Story. This back story is often neglected and overshadowed  by what you see and hear. Sure, you see me park my Mercedes outside. You've seen my big home at last years Christmas party. I'm sure; all these flashy icons of luxury conjure up some idealized thoughts about my life. However, what you don't see is the BACK STORY :

I started this company 28 years ago. At that time, I lived in a 300 square foot studio apartment for 3 years. My entire living apartment was converted into an office so I could put forth 100% effort into building a company, which by t he way, would eventually employ you. My diet consisted of Ramen Pride noodles because every dollar I spent went back into this company. I drove a rusty Toyota Corolla with a defective transmission. I didn't have time to date. Often times, I stayed home on weekends, while my friends went out drinking and partying.. In fact, I was married to my business -- hard work, discipline, and sacrifice. Meanwhile, my friends got jobs. They worked 40 hours a week and made a modest $50K a year and spent every dime they earned. They drove flashy  cars and lived in expensive homes and wore fancy designer clothes. Instead  of hitting the Nordstrom's for the latest hot fashion item, I was trolling  through the discount store extracting any clothing item that didn't look  like it was birthed in the 70's. My friends refinanced their mortgages and  lived a life of luxury. I, however, did not. I put my time, my money, and my  life into a business with a vision that eventually, someday, I too, will be  able to afford these luxuries my friends supposedly had.

So, while you physically arrive at the office at 9am, mentally check in at about noon, and then leave at 5pm, I don't. There is no "off" button for me. When you leave the office, you are done and you h ave a weekend all  to yourself. I unfortunately do not have the freedom. I eat, and breathe this company every minute of the day. There is no rest. There is no weekend.  There is no happy hour. Every day this business is attached to my hip like a  1 year old special-needs child. You, of course, only see the fruits of that garden -- the nice house, the Mercedes, the vacations... you never realize the Back Story and the sacrifices I've made.

Now, the economy is falling apart and I, the guy that made all the right decisions and saved his money, have to bailout all the people who didn't. The people that overspent their paychecks suddenly feel entitled to  the same luxuries that I earned and sacrificed a decade of my life for.

Yes, business ownership has is benefits but the price I've paid is  steep and not without wounds.  Unfortunately, the cost of running this business, and employing you,  is starting to eclipse the threshold of marginal benefit and let me tell you why: I am being taxed to death and the government thinks I don't pay enough. I have state taxes. Federal taxes. Property taxes. Sales and use taxes. Payroll taxes. Workers compensation taxes. Unemployment taxes.. Taxes on taxes.  I have to hire a tax man to manage all these taxes and then guess  what? I have to pay taxes for employing him. Government mandates and  regulations and all the accounting that goes with it, now occupy most of my  time. On Oct 15th, I wrote a check to the US Treasury for $288,000 for quarterly taxes. You know what my "stimulus" check was? Zero. Nada. Zilch.

The question I have is this: Who is stimulating the economy? Me, the guy who has provided 14 people good paying jobs and serves over 2,200,000  people per year with a flourishing business? Or, the single mother sitting  at home pregnant with her fourth child waiting for her next welfare check?  Obviously, government feels the latter is the economic stimulus of this country. The fact is, if I deducted (Read: Stole) 50% of your paycheck you'd quit and you wouldn't work here. I mean, why should you? That's nuts. Who  wants to get rewarded only 50% of their hard work? Well, I agree which is why your job is in jeopardy.

Here is what many of you don't understand ... to stimulate the economy you need to stimulate what runs the economy. Had suddenly government  mandated to me that I didn't need to pay taxes, guess what? Instead of depositing that $288,000 into the Washington black-hole, I would have spent it, hired more employees, and generated substantial economic growth. My employees would have enjoyed the wealth of that tax cut in the form of  promotions and better salaries. But you can forget it now.

When you have a comatose man on the verge of death, you don't defibrillate and shock his thumb thinking that will bring him back to life, do you? Or, do you defibrillate his heart? Business is at the heart of America and always has been. To restart it, you must stimulate it, not kill it. Suddenly, the power brokers in Washington believe the poor of America   are the essential drivers of the American economic engine. Nothing could be further from the truth and this is the type of change you can keep.

So where am I going with all this?  It's quite simple. If any new taxes are levied on me, or my company, my reaction will be swift and simple. I'll fire you and your coworkers. You can then plead with the government to pay for your mortgage, your SUV, and your child's future. Frankly, it isn't my problem any more. Then, I will close this company down, move to another country, and retire. You see, I'm done.  I'm done with a country that penalizes the productive and gives to the unproductive. My motivation to work and to provide jobs will be destroyed, and with it, will be my citizenship.

So, if you lose your job, it won't be at the hands of the economy; it will be at the hands of a political hurricane that swept through this country, steamrolled the constitution, and will have changed its landscape  forever. If that happens, you can find me sitting on a beach, retired, and with no employees to worry about....

Signed,
THE BOSS