Cap and Trade - Take action

Please click on the link and take action to stop this tax increase. Stop our government from passing legislation in a hurry when there is no need to speed things through. This is a HUGE TAX INCREASE yet Pelosi and Obama and Waxman want to cram this through without a debate!!!!

http://capwiz.com/eagleforum/issues/alert/?alertid=13628131

Iranian Muslims ask - Where has Obama gone?

This from a Muslim blogsite written here by American Muslims. You can read the full article at (http://muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.com/). While Obama was releasing internet video speeches just a few short months ago to the Iranian Islamic Republic where he stressed that America is not at war with them and that he will support the people of Iran in their unyielding desire to live free from totalitarian regimes, where is his actions based on those words? It appears that the Iranians are beginning to learn what we Americans already know...Obama says one thing but does the exact opposite. He said on Tuesday that there is no difference between Mousavi and Ahmadinejad. Well, apparently the Iranian people disagree strongly with you Mr. President.

This from Jonah Goldberg at muslimsagainstsharia.blogs

pot.com:
"During the campaign you mocked those who belittled your rhetoric as "just words." Well, what you've offered so far is less than just words. You've put a fresh coat of whitewash on Iran's sham "democracy." On Monday, you proclaimed yourself "troubled" by the events in Iran, before hinting that you'd negotiate with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad no matter what an official investigation into his "landslide" victory found. (Would you trust Mafia internal audits, too?)"

Reportedly, you are biding your time, waiting to see what happens, as if it is a great mystery. Your campaign lived and breathed YouTube. Check it now, check it often. You and your team promised "soft power" and "smart power." How about moral power? Because by not clearly picking a side, it appears you have chosen the wrong side.

In the 1990s, liberals championed "nation building," and many conservatives chuckled at the naivete of it. Then came Iraq, and Republicans out of necessity embraced what liberals once believed out of conviction. The result? Liberals ran from their principles, found their inner Kissingers and championed a cold realism whose chill emanated from the corpse of their ideals.

Labor unions, such as the AFL-CIO, once battled tyranny abroad on the grounds that workers everywhere need democracy. Today, the president turns a blind eye to the independent labor movement in Iran, and the unions and Democrats spend their time trying to figure out how to eliminate the secret ballot in the American workplace.

So far, "hope and change" has meant spending trillions we do not have on expanded government we do not need. Meanwhile, the huddled masses of Iranians yearning to breathe free think hope and change means something more. But the new American colossus stands all but silent, her beacon dimmed, her luster tarnished.

Please, Mr. President, prove me wrong. Stop voting "present" on democracy.
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Will Obama ever do what he says he will do? Apparently the world is beginning to learn what we unfortunately witness every day. Whether it be taxes, GM, banks, health care, Gitmo, torture, Iraq, etc., he has done the exact opposite of what he said he would do during his campaign, his acceptance speech and daily to the media. Poor Iranians are going to be left like the Iraqi's in 1993 when Bush Sr. left them high and dry. They dissidents were crushed, their faimlies slaughtered and they lived in fear of the regime for the next 16 years. If this happens to Iran you can guarantee that this event will be their 'rally against America' and the Jihad recruiting tool that Al-Qaeda has so desperately been needing. Is this what Obama thinks is good for Americans? It's complicated I know, but I have not heard one person on Fox, CNN or even MSNBC say that we shouldn't help the Iranians out at this very crucial time. To stay silent is to give credibility to Ahmadinejad, the Supreme Leader and to the mullah's. Obama looks extremely weak right now as he is being rabbit punched by North Korea, Russia and now Iran. So much for peaceful wishes of talks with your enemies changing the global landscape. Let's hope and pray that this situation does not result in calamitous consequences for the Iranian people and ultimately the people of Israel, the Middle East, Europe and America. We are at the witching hour domestically and globally. So many people pinned their 'Hope' on man with absolutely no leadership to 'Change' the way the world sees America and the way America sees America. So far we are left with a different kind of hope because the only change we have seen is that America and the world now sees how Chicago politics can change the leadership landscape very quickly.

God bless everyone and I pray for the leadership of this country that we will stand up against tyranny and fight for freedom.

Costa Rica Rendition...

For those of you blessed enough to have been to Costa Rica, you know its a lovely country, with very nice people who are passionate about their futbol, their Imperial, their surf and Pura Vida. So, why on earth would NBC want to air a program titled, "I'm a celebrity...get me out of here" when is filmed in such a beautiful paradise. Having probably answered that question, you are now following with a "Why on earth are you watching such a pathetic reality TV show of old has been actors, models, comedians and Hill's stars, when you could be doing something so much more productive with your life?" This is a very fair question and I will respond in the following manner.

While my normal tv time recently has been centered around the NBA playoffs, Seinfeld reruns, Bachelorette (until my buddy was booted from the show after week 2), Fox News for fair and balanced news coverage and MSNBC for the leftist slant on all things anti-bush/conservative, I did find some time to witness "I'm a celebrity...get me out of here." Names like Lou Diamond Phillips (has he done anything since La Bamba), John Salley (last played in NBA in 2002 I think), Torrie Wilson (WWF has women wrestlers), Janice Dickenson (wasn't she just in rehab still), Sanje from American Idol fame, and some couple named Heidi and Spencer grace the program with their elegance and style (sense the sarcasm there). The point of the show is to put these people in teams and see who can't hack it. They then get eliminated.

Despite being in a controlled environment in Costa Rica one of the 'challenges' of the bottom 2 was to have to unlock yourself from 5 masterlocks with chains wrapped around you while you were in a 8 ft' high square tank. The catch was that you had to unlock the locks from a keychain that had a dozen or so keys on it and that's not all. The tank would slowly fill with water. But wait, while it filled with water things like frogs, insects and snakes were put through contraptions around the person's ankles. What I witnessed was poor Janice Dickenson struggling to get the keys to fit in the locks while a look of sheer terror remained permanently on her face the entire time she was in that tank. The gasps, screams and breathlessness that she experienced to her was torture. Despite her knowing that she would not drown, knowing that the snakes were not poisonous nor was there anything being placed in the tank that could do any long term physical harm she went nuts. To her this torture was hell.

Well, for all the stink that was in the press several weeks ago about enhanced interrogation techniques and how Bush is an evil person then you should have seen real torture to the human spirit in the episode I watched (it was torture for me to watch it let alone how Janice and Sanje must have felt). Placing someone who willingly goes into a tank to win a contest but experiences some not so comfortable things is not torture. Look, to me, putting a bra on someone's head and making them pose on all 4's with a dog collar and leash around one's neck isn't torture. Is it hurtful to your dignity, of course. But its better than watching Daniel Pearl have his head chopped off. Now that's torture...depending on your view of things, of course. I mention all of this because it brings me to the 'torture' memo's released by Obama that he still has gotten away with in the MSM for not releasing the full details like Cheney and others have requested him to do. As well as all the hoopla that the 'evil one,' George W. Bush, has had to hear from the far left lunes who claim human rights were violated in Gitmo and Abu Ghraib. Waterboarding may be torture but we waterboard many in our military, according to army training manuals and CIA intelligence statements. While waterboarding may or may not be torture what I can attest to is that if I knew that there was a man in this country or anywhere in the world that was to harm my neighbors family (innocent and with children) I would waterboard and torture the hell out of them. Why? Because human life is sacred to me and according to the God that Christians follow (radical Islam seems to follow a god who suggests killing all non-believers). If the person that has information that can save a human life doesn't value the life he is about to help take then why should I care about his mental anguish or his physical pain so long as I maintain the sanctity of his life's existence? God brings life to existence and it should be left to God to terminate that existence. Asking this person questions like, "So are you going to tell me what you know?" aren't going to get you answers. I apologize to those of you who think that you break a person by asking them questions. That's how you get confessions and evidence not information about attacks. Even Obama reserved the right, just like Bush did, to use enhanced interrogation techniques when he signed into law the banning of enhanced interrogation techniques (read the fine print, again what this man says in public and what he does are two totally different things) because he knows that if pouring a bucket of water over someone's face who is lying on their back at a 33 degree angle will save American lives then he must retain that right. Imagine the outrage American's would have had against Bush if in the months after 9/11 they had not waterboarded KSM who had information on an impending attack against Los Angeles. If an attack happened with thousands of more Americans dead in Bunker Hill and people said "the mastermind was in your custody and all you did was talk to him and just ask him questions about what he knows. Of course he is not going to just freely give up the information." It's simple, the ACLU and the moveon.org's and those of our elected government placed in their power seat due to organizations like these care about everyone's rights but yours 100% of the time. They always care for the little guy until it does not personally benefit them to do so.

When will America wake up and realize that those who want to take your life do not care about their own life or else they wouldn't be willing to sacrifice themselves to pilot planes into buildings, strap suicide bombs on expectant mothers and detonate roadside bombs that will also kill their own people.

While Janice Dickenson experienced what to her was torture, I caution anyone to watch the tape of Daniel Pearl being beheaded. Now come here to UCLA and ask his parents if what they and their son experienced was torture? As you are walking away from that conversation then ask yourself, "if that was my son who was beheaded would I torture some muslim or any extremist who had information that would save someone else's child from the same fate?" If you answer no, then I hope you rest peacefully knowing that you were just as bad as the terrorist who took the life as you were an accomplice to it. You can rest easy now.

All Hail the King has arrived!

These are images of B.H.O. being used in the Muslim world as Obama prepares to arrive there. Is it getting just a little bit scary that this man is 'worshiped' by at least the 65 million people in America who voted for him, millions in Europe, Central and South America as well as throughout the Middle East and Africa, and many believe that this man can do no wrong? As the world prepares for his speech to the muslim nation of Egypt he is being compared to the greatest Pharaoh, King Tutankhamon.

This is the same man who had the crucifix covered up at Georgetown University, a Catholic institution, when giving a speech there back in April. Granted he requested that ALL religious relics be covered so as to not appear to promote a single religion. Meanwhile, when he gave a previous speech as a Senator at Georgetown he did not make any such request. So what has happened in the past 2 years? It's not just the media who lay down for Obama but the most prestigious Catholic universities in the U.S. are now abandoning their ideals and beliefs in order to get close enough to touch Obama's cloak.

In Las Vegas, a teacher puts up a large image of Obama next to the American flag as the kids recite the Pledge of Allegiance (where is the ACLU on this). In Toledo, Ohio, in one K-12 school, kids are being made to either write letters to Obama or to write down 5 facts and opinions of Obama. Even in Toronto, Canada they have their own 'Obama Curriculum' where Obama themed music is played and children in that school have to complete 'Obama video worksheets' while learning about the presidents life (not policies or party) and his rise to presidency.

So where does the idol worship stop? Try to address this topic with one of your liberal friends who voted for and still supports Obama. To prepare you, the response will be smug with a little laughter and then it will be dismissed as no big deal. Keep in mind, these were the same people that hated the 'religious right' for their idolotary of Bush while he was president. These are also the same people who also compared Bush to Hitler. They also loved sending as much anti-Bush cartoons and stories around, that many of us who were Bush supporters actually laughed at because we can be self-depricating. Obama and many of his followers cannot laugh at themselves and they do not find the Obama cartoons (now showing up in inboxes around the world) remotely funny. To see how Obama does poke fun at himself one only has to listen to his correspondents dinner speech. His general comedic wit (and his speech writers who know him very well) is directed to others close to him, Biden, Emanuel, Axelrod to name a few. When he does make fun of himself one of his jibes was "Finally, I believe that my next hundred days will be so successful I will be able to complete them in 72 days. And on the 73rd day, I will rest." Surely this man thinks he is godlike.

So it shouldn't be ironic that his followers turn a blind eye to his arrogance and rhetoric. In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king! In this case, the one eyed man is Obama but he is in no way a king. But don't tell Barack Hussein Obama.

Fast track passing those bills, we will figure out how to pay later!

While Obama's popularity remains relatively high (plus 60% although the gap between approval and disapproval has narrowed from +56% at its peak to now +28%) the popularity of his policy agenda is losing steam fast. So what does Obama instruct Congress & Senate to do as fast as possible. Get a health care and climate bill on his desk before the summer break. Why? Because everyone old enough to vote or who is subject to paying federal income taxes understands that the economy is teetering with the onslaught of higher interest rates or hyperinflation just over the horizon. So, don't let the fact that, as Obama recently said that "America is already out of money" get in the way of spending more money on an unproven science (more scientist dissenters of manmade global warming now than supporters) and a tried and true failure across all other socialist economies who dole out free health care. But we are America, surely we won't fail at these experiments. Impossible!

Your taxes will certainly be increased to pay for this...but wait, in the recent health care bill currently moving forward the issue of how to pay for it is amazingly NOT IN THE BILL! I guess we will just figure it out as we go along. We can trust our government to do the right thing right? I mean look at how well they managed TARP and are so efficiently handling the Stimulus monies. Whew, we are in good hands, thank God. {Oh, sorry, I need to be more careful in thanking God aloud since home bible studies are now being shut down for worshiping the Savior as our president canceled and chose not to endorse the National Day of Prayer (in existence by every other president since Truman and made permanent by Reagan) but does go out of his way to proclaim June as "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month."}

I digress...Wow, our government officials really do think we are dumb doesn't it? Oh, I guess we are that stupid. We voted for these bums and we elected a non-leader with little to no experience of balancing anything but maybe a spinning basketball on his index finger to shepherd the greatest nation on the planet into tomorrow's destiny. How bright our future must be with the inmates running the asylum that so long as the tax rebates, tax credits and other free government handouts continue to flow most of us won't hold them accountable ?

Dismantling GM - overseen by 31 yr old Poly Sci grad!

A Romanian man, named Ion Mihai Pacepa, who was the so-called 'Car Czar' wrote a very eloquent article (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124381203054570397.html) in the Monday, June 1, edition of the WSJ about when he was commissioned by then dictator Ceausescu to run the car industry in Romania. His previous job? The head of the Romanian industrial espionage program. With no experience running a company, nor having never worked in the auto industry, his job was to build a car that was "Good enough for the idiots," Ceausescu decided. While 3 western companies (doesn't say whom) competed for the project of a 'model' car, it was French owned Renault who won the license. The first car assembled was "Too luxurious for the idiots," Ceausescu decreed and immediately had the radio, the right side mirror and backseat heating dropped (it gets darn cold in Romania in the winter). Other "unnecessary luxuries" were eliminated by bureaucrats and the worker's union that was running the factory. The final car, named Dacia, that hit the market was the 'stripped-down version of the stripped down version of the Renault 12.' Ceausescu approved that this car was "Perfect for the idiots." No Dacia car was ever sold in the U.S. and sales were abysmal in Romania. Undaunted, Ceausescu tasked Pacepa to build yet another car as he was determined to have Romanian cars on the roads in the country and abroad. The new car was named Oltcit and designed by Citroen. Ceausescu who didn't know how to drive a car let alone run an auto industry demanded that the components for the Oltcit be manufactured in the 166 plants throughout Romania. Let's just say, that it would prove an impossible task and the project lost billions of $$.

Other examples that Pacepa lays out was the Trabant. The East German govt designed this car and 'what rolled off the assembly line was a kind of horseless carriage that roared like a lawn mower and polluted the air worse than a whole city block of big Western cars.' Its production was stopped, labeled an embarrasment, and now the cars that are piled high in junkyards cannot be recycled because burning the 'plastic covered cardboard bodies would release poisonous dioxins.'

Let's not forget how unbelievably unreliable the Jaguar was when the British Govt produced the car. When Ford bought the nationalized British car maker in 1988he is quoted as saying, "Apart from some Russian factories in Gorky, Jaguars were the worst."

Ah, the successes of government run auto makers. Our fate, of course, will be dramatically different because Obama would never appoint someone to oversee the auto-industry that has no experience running an auto-manufacturer, right? Ah, think again fools!

Fast-forward to present day America, where a 31-year old who has not yet graduated from Yale Law School will now rewrite American capitalism and be tasked with dismantling General Motors (aka Government Motors). Here is his bio according to wikipedia: Brian Deese works at the National Economic Council and is special assistant to the president for economic policy. Previously, he served as a member of the Economic Policy Working Group for the Obama-Biden transition.^[1] He emerged as "one of the most influential voices" in the Obama Administration relative to the auto industry, and specifically the Chrysler and GM workouts.^[2] He has appeared in videos posted on change.gov by the transition team.^[3] Before joining the transition team, he was deputy economic policy director for the 2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign^[4] and, before that, for Gene Sperling in the 2008 Clinton campaign.^[2] He graduated from Middlebury College in 2000 with a degree in Political Science^[5] and is now on leave from Yale Law School.^[6] Previously, he was a senior policy analyst for economic policy at the Center for American Progress.^[7] Brian also worked as a research assistant at the Center for Global Development^[8], hired by founder Nancy Birdsall, according to The New York Times,^[2], where he co-authored the book Delivering on Debt Relief.

Keep in mind that Center for American Progress is one of the most far left organizations in the country, run by John Podesta. How does a person who graduated with a degree in Poly Sci, is on leave from Yale Law School, did not major or specialize in economics, and never run a company, let alone worked in the auto industry get the position of overseeing the collapse and 'rebuild' of the largest car manufacturer in the world? Politics maybe?

For the American taxpayer to get its money back, the smaller version of GM must achieve a market capitalization of $80 billion so that we get back our $50 billion. At GM's value peak in 2000, its market cap was $56 billion. So we must now take a smaller version of the original leading car manufacturer on the planet, and grow its market cap by more than 60% in order for you and I to get the return of our money. Does anyone really believe that this is going to happen? Can someone explain this to me?

This is mind blowing! If you can't see the politics involved here and that this project to be overseen by someone who has absolutely no idea what he is doing is doomed to fail, then I don't know how more obvious you need it to be. Funny that the 'negotiated' labor agreement with the UAW is set to be renegotiated in 2 years by an Obama administration running for re-election and will need to weigh keeping Big Labor happy versus the return of the taxpayer-shareholders money. Guess who will win that White House debate? Best of luck Detroit, your fate lies in the hands of a 31 year old graduate from Middlebury College, which the college to its credit has a very good reputation with its recognized strengths being Liberal and Environmental Studies along with Activism. Activism is synonymous with protest and dissent. Trust me, if GM fails AGAIN, there will be plenty of protest and dissent. And that is a task Deese should be very familiar with.

Stimulus and Highway Trust Fund

It was only 4 short months ago that the US Govt passed the $787 billion stimulus bill with the one of the primary focuses being on infrastructure building, repair and jobs. However, it was just announced today that the Highway Trust Fund is $8-$10 billion short on current in progress works according to CA Senator, Barbara Boxer who chairs the Environmental and Public Works Committee. What does she propose to make up the shortfall? You guessed it, raising the gasoline tax which will be a tax on ALL AMERICANS who use gasoline.

How can we be short $8 - $10 billion on infrastructure when the stimulus bill includes $47 billion for transportation projects, including $27 billion for highway and bridge construction and repairs? Imagine that, government officials wanting to raise taxes because they come up short on gas tax revenues (2 years in a row) to fund transportation projects yet just passed a bill to spend money on TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS. $47 billion is apparently not enough!

What are we missing here as US citizens? Maybe miscalculated oversight on the job, overallocation of funds, inefficiency of completion, etc. So this is what we continue to get when the government oversees the US economy. We are all doomed...