The Best of Pelosi

Thanks to Hot Air for sharing, and Naked Emperor News for editing...




There really are more important things to pay attention to- like, how the current health reform bill will take away your current health care, how the Green Jobs Czar, Van Jones, is admittedly a Communist, and more. So much more, it's overwhelming.

I love people who are good with math

On Socialism

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, it's inherent value is the equal sharing of misery."

Winston Churchill


(thanks Kelly.)

Obama vs. Cheney

Obama: Protecting Our Security And Our Values

Cheney: The United States Has Not Lost It's Moral Bearings


I like what Rick Moran (American Thinker) had to say about both speeches, and especially his response to Obama's explanation for releasing only part of the memo's-

"I don't think I've ever seen such a narrow, self serving definition of government secrecy nor a lamer excuse for violating it. The same argument was made for opposing the Terrorist Surveillance Program; terrorists already know we listen to them so what's the big deal?"


And from Cheney's speech-

One person who by all accounts objected to the release of the interrogation memos was the Director of Central Intelligence. Leon Panetta. He was joined in that view by at least four of his predecessors. I assume they felt this way because they understand the importance of protecting intelligence sources, methods, and personnel. But now this once top-secret information is out for all to see- including the enemy- let me draw your attention to some points that are routinely overlooked.

It is a fact that only detainees of the highest intelligence value were ever subjected to enhanced interrogation. You've heard endlessly about water boarding. It happened to three terrorists. One of them was Khalid Sheikh Muhammed- the mastermind of 9/11, who has also boasted about beheading Daniel Pearl.

We had a lot of blind spots after the attacks on our country. We didn't know about al-Qaeda's plans, but KSM and a few others did know. And with many thousands of innocent lives potentially in the balance, we didn't think it made sense to let the terrorist answer questions in their own god time, if they answered them at all.

Maybe you've heard that when we captured KSM, he said he would talk as soon as he got to New York City and saw his lawyer. But like many critics of interrogations, he clearly misunderstood the business at hand. American personnel were not there to commence an elaborate legal proceeding, but to extract information from him before al-Qaeda could strike again and kill more of our people.


My opinion? It's one thing to say "I'm a different kind of President, and I'm doing things a different kind of way", but grotesquely arrogant, narrow, and foolish to challenge and critique an administration who reacted bravely in the face of shock and horror to the events of 9/11. The Bush Administration kept us safe- and if Obama wants to criticize how they handled things, then I have every confidence that if and when we are attacked again, he won't do much about it.


And much like Rick Moran said- "For Obama, his 'feel good' national security policy requires that it doesn't matter if the enemy gains an advantage, only that we adhere to his idea of 'American values'- which wouldn't mean very much to dead Americans who were killed due to his frightened naivete and stupidity. "

From Churchill

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

-Winston Churchill

Miss California vs. Perez Hilton

(Miss California, Carrie Prejean)

Obviously, Miss California is awesome for being true to her beliefs.

And obviously, Perez Hilton is an idiot.

“She lost not because she doesn’t believe in gay marriage. Miss California lost because she is a dumb [expletive].”

-Perez Hilton

Classic liberal crap. Where everyone is entitled to Freedom of Speech except for Conservatives.

Diagnosis: Obama

He's either bipolar or full of b.s.

Or both?

Obama's Weekly Radio/Video Address


This would be similar to me going out and maxing our highest line of credit, and then coming home to Aaron and saying; "We need to be more responsible with our money. Let's look at our budget and see what we can cut. . . and how about if we start buying our milk from Costco instead of Winder Dairy."

Catching Up- Tea Parties

We were out of town, so I missed my local tea party. Although I did look to see if there was one close by our vacation spot- and there wasn't.

Did any of you make it? Was it fun? If you didn't make it, are you sad you missed out?

And can you believe all of the left winged hypocrisy in their commentaries? Yes, the government should be very afraid of this extreme right winged movement because we are very, very dangerous church going, tax paying, capitalism loving, liberty promoting, hard working Americans who will eventually vote you out of office.

You can find more Alonzo on Grant's blog- I couldn't find his personal website.

The Latest From Romney

A Timid Advocate of Freedom
President Obama has failed his early foreign-policy tests.

By Mitt Romney

At last week’s Summit of the Americas, President Obama acquiesced to a 50-minute attack on America as terroristic, expansionist, and interventionist from Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega. His response to Ortega’s denunciation of our effort to free Cuba from Castro’s dictatorship was that he shouldn’t be blamed “for things that happened when I was three months old.” Blamed? Hundreds of men, including Americans, bravely fought and died for Cuba’s freedom, heeding the call from newly elected president John F. Kennedy. But last week, even as American soldiers sacrificed blood in Afghanistan and Iraq to defend liberty, President Obama shrank from defending liberty here in the Americas.

In his first press interview as president, he confessed to Arabic television that America had “dictated” to other nations. No, Mr. President, America has fought to free other nations from dictators. And in Strasbourg, the president further claimed that America has “showed arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive.” London’s Daily Telegraph observed that President Obama “went further than any United States president in history in criticizing his own country’s action while standing on foreign soil.” Of course, it was not just the Daily Telegraph that was listening: People around the world who yearn for freedom, who count on America’s resolve and support, heard him as well. He was heard in China, in Tibet, in Sudan, in Burma, and, yes, in Cuba.

The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to “tear down this wall,” a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire. It was the same confidence that had been ignited decades earlier when John F. Kennedy declared to a people surrounded by Communism that they were not alone. “We are all Berliners,” he said, because “freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s confident commitment, spoken as he led us into the war that would free millions in Europe, inspired not only Americans but freedom fighters around the globe: “The American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.” Such words of solidarity, of confidence, and of unwavering conviction that America is indeed “the last best hope on earth” are what freedom’s friends would have expected to hear from our president when our nation was slandered. Instead he offered silence, smiles, and a handshake.

Even more troubling than what he has or has not said is what he has not done. Kim Jong Il launched a long-range missile on the very day President Obama addressed the world about the peril of nuclear proliferation. As one of the world’s most oppressive and tyrannical regimes is on the brink of securing the “game changing” capability to reach American shores with a nuclear weapon, the president shrinks from action: no seizure of North Korean funds, no severance of banking access, no blockade.

Not to be outdone by Kim Jong Il, President Ahmadinejad announced that his nation has successfully mastered every step necessary to enrich uranium, violating the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty it has signed. So, like North Korea, Iran will have changed the world’s equation for peace and security: It will be capable of devastating Europe and America, and of annihilating Israel. And as with North Korea, the Obama administration chooses inaction — no new severe sanctions, no hint of military options. Ahmadinejad can act with confidence that the forceful options once on our proverbial table have been shelved.

Vice President Biden was right that the new president would be tested early in his administration. What the world learned was not good news for freedom and democracy. The leader of the free world has been a timid advocate of freedom at best. And bold action to blunt the advances of tyrants has been wholly lacking. We are still very early in the Obama years — the president will have ample opportunity to defend America and freedom, and to deter nuclear brinkmanship. I am hoping for change.

— Mitt Romney, formerly the governor of Massachusetts, was a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008.

(thanks Joe)

Impeccable Timing

Sunday, April 5th - North Korea launches missile carrying a satellite into space. The U.S. doesn't believe anything reached orbit and the launch was really a test of its long-range missile technology. (Busted.)


Monday, April 6th - Obama’s secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, announced plans to cut almost 15 percent of the Missile Defense Agency’s budget, according to the senators who signed the letter. Gates announced that he would halt increasing the number of interceptor missiles in Alaska. Gates may also suspend development of Boeing’s airborne laser program, which would outfit jetliners with anti-missile lasers.

Sounds like a good, strong, defensive decision. . . are you kidding me?!

(p.s. I like to link to the source of my info. . . and I seem to have lost it somewhere in all of my explorer windows. I'll keep looking for it, so you don't think I'm making this stuff up. And so that the appropriate reporter gets all the credit.)

In Which I Disagree

"One of the great strengths of the United States," the President said, "is ... we have a very large Christian population -- we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values."

No, not all Americans believe the same thing, and we are blessed to have the Freedom of Religion. However. . . the ideals and morals that our country was founded on included a basic belief and conviction in God. And thus, the following was created;


We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness



. . . one nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all.



In God We Trust


Just in case you forgot about all of that, Mr. Obama.

Dear President Obama,

What the crazy are you doing?

Miserably Entertaining

On Geithner: I keep hearing, "but he the most qualified for the position" and "there isn't anyone else that can do the job better than he can".

Seriously?

Just fire him already, and put him out of his misery.

Hot Air; Geithner Can't Count Either

Read it... laugh... and then cry your eyes out over the inadequacy leading our country into bankruptcy and hell.

http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=7200841

For Your Emotional Well Being

The Govenment has yet again found a way to help the American people. A new website to help you identify and manage the sad, depressed, and maybe even suicidal feelings you might have because of the current state of the economy.

http://www.samhsa.gov/economy/

I like what Dr. Helen had to say-

Apparently, this emotional kit is to help people deal with the stress of the financial crisis. Isn't this kind of like an abusive spouse providing you with tips on how to cope with his or her abuse? As Libertarian Harry Browne once said, "Government is good at one thing: It knows how to break your legs, hand you a crutch, and say, "See, if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk."

See also:
Glenn Beck; Government Puts US on Suicide Watch
Would You Like Some Cheese With That Whiiiiine?

Show Me The Money

some perspective...

New Era of Spend and Blame*

During his first 50 days in office, he (Obama) and his Democratic-controlled Congress spent $1 billion an hour.

Under Obama's proposed budget, the overall national debt doubles in five years and triples in 10.



Obama's Radicalism Is Killing The Dow*

Mr. Obama's $3.6 trillion budget blueprint, by his own admission, redefines the role of government in our economy and society. The budget more than doubles the national debt held by the public, adding more to the debt than all previous presidents -- from George Washington to George W. Bush -- combined.

It reduces defense spending to a level not sustained since the dangerous days before World War II, while increasing nondefense spending (relative to GDP) to the highest level in U.S. history. And it would raise taxes to historically high levels (again, relative to GDP). And all of this before addressing the impending explosion in Social Security and Medicare costs.




Getting Your Head Around 1 Trillion*

One Trillion has Twelve Zeroes after it, as thus: 1,000,000,000,000

Now,let us imagine how long One Trillion Seconds really is:
1 Hour= 3600 seconds
1 Day= 86,400 seconds
1 Year= 31,536,000 seconds

1,000,000,000,000 divided by 31,536,000 Seconds (in 1-year)= 31,709.79 Years

Let's carry this another step farther, and say that you owe a bill for $1,000,000,000,000.00. And, you have the stack of $100.00 bills to pay it, all you have to do is count it out. A fair figure I think for accurate counting would be one bill per second... So sit down to count out the money, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.

How long is it going to take you?...

Let's see now;$100.00 X 31,536,000 Seconds (1 Years worth of counting)= $3,153,600,000.00 (That's "just" 3 Billion+ as it only has 9 zeroes)

So, let's finish what we started;$3,153,600,000.00 goes into $1,000,000,000,000.00 317.0979 times. It would take you over 317 YEARS to count out the $100.00 bills to pay your $1 Trillion Dollar debt counting non-stop!


{*complete articles linked)

Sovereign States

Sovereign: Self-governing; independent (that was for my sister)

States Rebel Against Washington

•The Idaho House began considering Wednesday a law against introducing "vicious animals" into the state – a direct rebuttal of the federal wolf reintroduction program.

•Montana and Tennessee have introduced proposals to expand gun rights. Tennessee State Sen. Doug Jackson says his bill to ban proposed federal "microstamping" of ammunition could spark a movement. "The trampling on our rights to possess firearms is symbolic of a power grab by the federal government on a much larger scale," said Senator Jackson, by phone from Nashville.

•Oklahoma and Georgia are both considering limits on stem cell research in response to Mr. Obama's reversal of the federal stem cell ban. It's the flip side of the Bush era when several Northeastern states allowed such research despite the federal ban.

The status of "state sovereignty" resolutions are largely up in the air, with a few passed, some moving through committee, and some voted down. New Hampshire's resolution, the only one with a "nullification" of the Union clause, was voted down largely along partisan lines.

"If you set up the principle where the federal government can do everything, then, yes, eventually they will do everything. If not, where's the line they can't cross?" says Michael Boldin, president of the Tenth Amendment Center in Los Angeles. "That's the Constitution, I believe."

The courts mainly stood by as federal power expanded by great leaps in the 1930s and the 1960s. There's been another burst of federal expansion in the 2000s, including Mr. Bush's USA Patriot Act and Obama's proposed overhaul of banking regulations.

The fact is, "there's no longer any effective limitations on federal power," says Randy Barnett, a Georgetown law professor.

"Washington can be a bully, but there's evidence right now that there are people willing to resist our bully," said Pitts, by phone from the state capitol of Columbia. "But this is a wake-up call. And if Washington doesn't heed that wake-up call, revolution is on the horizon."

What Dick Has To Say

Obama's Just Not That Into You

Dick Morris


So why does Obama persist in his aggressive rhetoric? Why does he continue to treat Wall Street as something out of Dante’s Inferno? Because he’s just not that into you!

He doesn’t really care if the public-private partnerships work out. He sends Geithner out to announce the program because he doesn’t want to make it his own. When he announces a stimulus plan or a new spending bill, it’s Obama’s moment before the teleprompter. But the public-private partnerships he leaves to his Treasury secretary to announce.

The most rational explanation for Obama’s puzzling conduct — sabotaging his own program by way of his own rhetoric — is that he truly wants to be forced to nationalize the banks in pursuit of his ultimate goal of a socialist economy. Obama has to oppose nationalization today in order to achieve it tomorrow. He has to show the country and the world that he is doing all he can to help the private sector to sort things out with government help. He must ostentatiously invite the hated demons of Wall Street to join him in rescuing the banks in order, later, to say that he did his best to avoid having to take over the banks. Only then will nationalization be an acceptable alternative — when he has run out of other options.

Meanwhile, he makes sure the private sector won’t play ball by going after their bonuses, sending an implicit message to the other executives on Wall Street that reads: Stay away. Even when he takes over the banks, as he almost inevitably will, he is going to have to dress up the nationalization as a temporary measure forced on him by the economy and the previously unrealized depth of the problem.

He will cite the example of Sweden, where the government nationalized the banks only temporarily and returned them to private hands quickly. You can’t be for nationalization. But Obama hopes to accomplish it nonetheless.

If Obama can bring banks and the healthcare industry under government control, we will have de facto socialism. Is this Obama’s goal? It is obviously where he is headed.

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And people voted for him because. . . ?

Geithner- Go Away

So, I asked the husband-

"Is he just stupid, or really stupid?"


And "they" want to give him more power.



March 26 (Bloomberg) -- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner sent the dollar tumbling with comments about China’s ideas for overhauling the global monetary system, only to drive it back up by affirming that it should remain the world’s reserve currency.

Geithner was asked at a Council on Foreign Relations event in New York yesterday about People’s Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan’s call for a new international reserve currency. He said while he had not read Zhou’s proposal, he understood it as a plan “designed to increase the use of the IMF’s special drawing rights. And we’re actually quite open to that.”

The dollar slid as much as 1.3 percent against the euro within 10 minutes of news accounts of Geithner’s remarks. It recouped much of the loss about 15 minutes later, when Geithner then predicted no change in the U.S. currency’s role. The dollar was down 0.22 percent at $1.3553 per euro as of 12:13 p.m. in Tokyo.


Geithner Remarks on IMF Currency Roil Foreign-Exchange Market

Geithner 'open' to China proposal

Did You Know?

If your Congress-Man is Jim Matheson (he's mine), please join me in sending him an email telling him "I hate that you voted YES on this plan!"

Jason Chaffetz and Rob Bishop both voted against it.

Read on (from the Washington Examiner) about the new Americorps National Service Plan that was recently approved by Congress.


Expanded Americorps has an authoritarian feel

By Examiner Editorial- 3/26/09

With almost no public attention, both chambers of Congress in the past week advanced an alarming expansion of the Americorps national service plan, with the number of federally funded community service job increasing from 75,000 to 250,000 at a cost of $5.7 billion. Lurking behind the feel-good rhetoric spouted by the measure’s advocates is a bill that on closer inspection reveals multiple provisions that together create a strong odor of creepy authoritarianism. The House passed the measure overwhelmingly, while only 14 senators had the sense and courage to vote against it on a key procedural motion. Every legislator who either voted for this bill or didn’t vote at all has some serious explaining to do.

Last summer, then-candidate Barack Obama threw civil liberties to the wind when he proposed “a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded” as the regular military. The expanded Americorps is not quite so disturbing, but a number of provisions in the bill raise serious concerns.

To begin with, the legislation threatens the voluntary nature of Americorps by calling for consideration of “a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people.” It anticipates the possibility of requiring “all individuals in the United States” to perform such service – including elementary school students. The bill also summons up unsettling memories of World War II-era paramilitary groups by saying the new program should “combine the best practices of civilian service with the best aspects of military service,” while establishing “campuses” that serve as “operational headquarters,” complete with “superintendents” and “uniforms” for all participants. It allows for the elimination of all age restrictions in order to involve Americans at all stages of life. And it calls for creation of “a permanent cadre” in a “National Community Civilian Corps.”

But that’s not all. The bill also calls for “youth engagement zones” in which “service learning” is “a mandatory part of the curriculum in all of the secondary schools served by the local educational agency.” This updated form of voluntary community service is also to be “integrated into the science, technology, engineering and mathematics curricula” at all levels of schooling. Sounds like a government curriculum for government approved “service learning,” which is nothing less than indoctrination. Now, ask yourself if congressmen who voted for this monstrosity had a clue what they were voting for. If not, they’re guilty of dereliction of duty. If yes, the implications are truly frightening.


So... I guess I should be saving up for Private School? I hate this.

Donahue vs Freidman- Why Capitalism is Awesome

Thanks Heather... I probably saw this interview since my mom was a huge Donahue fan. When he would take a call during his show and say "is the caller there?", I always thought he was saying "is Lacalla there?" and that it was the same woman every time. Ha!

Enjoy- all of you hard working Americans with great ideas!

The Petulant Ninny

He's my friend- and has some good things to say. Sometimes, it's way over my head. And sometimes, it's funny. You can read him here.

But he had this to say in response to Jack Cafferty's article- I thought I would share. Consider this Conservative Girl's first guest- The Petulant Ninny. Enjoy.



I am not sure I can join the populist bandwagon.

The horse has left the barn and the little red hen takes the fall. Welcome to the new justice.

Dear A.I.G., I Quit

Geithner knows that large financial company execs bring down big $. They have for a long time. If we are outraged by AIG feeling that they needed to use large bonuses to entice people to clean up someone else's mess then another solution that addresses the root is to NOT have given them money (billions upon billions) in the first place.

This would have caused severe pain in the short run (months maybe a few years worth) but not the long slow death we are headed for.

What He Said-

I don't know much about J.D. Rockefeller, but I like what he had to say on a radio program in 1941.

"I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living. I believe that thrift is essential to well ordered living and that economy is a prime requisite of a sound financial structure, whether in government, business or personal affairs.

I believe that truth and justice are fundamental to an enduring social order. I believe in the sacredness of a promise, that a man's word should be as good as his bond; that character — not wealth or power or position — is of supreme worth."

J.D. Rockefeller Jr. 1874-1960

Congressman Jim Matheson

I never gave a second thought to Jim Matheson, until recently when I found out that he actually represents me. Wha? I thought my guy was Chaffetz who lives down the street and around the corner.

I thought he represented Salt Lake- which he does. But he also represents Alpine, Highland, and Lehi. Here's a list of counties and cities he represents-

Carbon County
Daggett County
Duchesne County
Emery County
Garfield County
Grand County
Iron County
Kane County
Piute County
Salt Lake County
San Juan County
Uintah County
Utah County
Wasatch County
Washington County
Wayne County

as well as;

Alta
Draper
Cottonwood Heights
Holladay
Midvale
Murray
Salt Lake City
Sandy
South Salt Lake
Alpine
Highland
Lehi

On his website when he addresses the budget he has this to say: The federal government should live within its means and balance the budget.

BUT- he voted for Obama's recent Stimulus Package.

He also claims Members of Congress take a solemn oath to support the Constitution of the United States. From our system of checks and balances to the right to a speedy trial, to the process for amending the Constitution, that document was intended by the Founding Fathers to “endure for ages to come.”

BUT- he voted to tax "executives" bonus' at a higher rate.

AND he voted yes on the National Volunteer Program Expansion.

I think it's time to find someone to run against him- and WIN- in 2010. Anyone? Anyone?

If you want to find out who represents you, and how they voted, click here.

America Losing Hope- And UN Wants to Ditch The Dollar?

Commentary: Time for another tea party?

Editor's note: Jack Cafferty is the author of a new book, "Now or Never: Getting Down to the Business of Saving Our American Dream." He provides commentary on CNN's "The Situation Room" daily from 4 to 7 p.m. ET. You can also visit Jack's Cafferty File blog.


NEW YORK (CNN) -- There is a chill wind blowing across this land of ours.
People are losing faith in their ability to realize the American dream. While AIG pays out $165 million in bonuses to people who arguably contributed to the need for the federal government to hand them $170 billion of our money, and while politicians lie about who crafted the language that allowed this kind of stuff to happen (Are you listening Chris Dodd?), the average American is seeing his future disintegrate in front of his eyes.

Here are some numbers that suggest we are losing hope:

A CNN-Opinion Research Corp. poll shows 39 percent of those surveyed say they're very confident they'll be able to keep up their quality of life. That's down from 45 percent a year ago.

Fifty percent of homeowners with a mortgage say they're very confident they can keep making their house payments. Again, that's down from 58 percent a year ago.
Also down are the percentages of Americans who are confident they can pay their other debts, things like credit cards and car loans.

When it comes to saving for long-term goals, it's even worse.
Only 24 percent of parents say they're very confident they'll be able to pay to send their children to college, and only 22 percent of those who are still working think they'll be able to save enough for retirement.

This used to be the country where each succeeding generation could look forward to a better quality of life than their parents enjoyed. In the meantime, as the federal government continues to print money that isn't worth the paper it's written on and as our national debt soars past $11 trillion, a United Nations panel is set to recommend that the world ditch the U.S. dollar as its reserve currency in favor of a shared basket of currencies.

One of the enduring strengths of the dollar has been that it has always been the currency of choice in times of crisis. But that's not the case anymore. Our ballooning deficits have driven down the value of the dollar so much that the Chinese government recently asked for guarantees from Washington that the Treasury bills they own are safe.

All of this isn't lost on the average American. Last week there were protests and demonstrations by taxpayers in cities all around the country who are beginning to object in increasing numbers to runaway government spending, taxes, bailouts and our growing national debt. These protests were called tea parties. Has a familiar ring to it, doesn't it?

Jack Cafferty for CNN

Romney on Larry King Live

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