Paying Off The Stimulus

There's a combination of sleet and snow going on in the neighborhood today so I'm on the couch, listening to Rush Limbaugh and watching a fishing show. Fishing for me is sort of like getting ready for baseball season. I need to get excited about it by checking out new lures and methods of catching those elusive lunkers. Baseball means I oil up the ol' glove in anticipation of just playing catch outside. There's just something good about the smell of a well oiled glove. Rush just related an interesting statistic. Did y'all know we are in for a trillion dollar stimulus? I thought so. And this won't alleviate trillion dollar deficits for years to come. Paying it off isn't going to bother me at all. I'll be pushing up daisies when payment is just beginning. The media is saying it'll be passed onto our children and grandchildren. Well, they're wrong. The payback stats are in and it doesn't look good for anyone in the forseeable future: 1 million seconds is equal to 11.57 days; 1 billion seconds equals 31.7 years and 1 trillion seconds figures out to 31,688 years, 269 days, 17 hours, 34 minutes and 25 seconds(leap years included). That's a long time and a trillion dollars is a lot of money.

Say What?

So far, in 2009, I'm noticing the same phrase being written over and over in media publications and spoken via the airwaves. It is being applied almost exclusively to politicians and financial supporters of politicians. It goes something like this: Spokesmen for _______ ________ deny any wrongdoing and promise they will fight the charges.

Dems are Racists?

I've gotta start getting out of bed earlier. One of my many faults is that I read and/or watch TV until 1 in the morning then crawl out of the sack around 8:30 am that day. Retirement has it's privileges but I miss out on too many things with extended sack time. I figured the screw up Dems would have to do something about Blago appointed Roland Burris and all reports tell us today is the day. This entire scenario is fabulous. We all understand that by not seating Burris there are now zero black senators in that august body. Harry Reid and his cohorts were beginning to look like Lester Maddox or Bull Conner from my teen years. Reid gave the appearance of being anti-black when he wouldn't seat Burris yesterday. I'm waiting for someone to bring up the fact that Reid is a Mormon and re-visit the anti-black history of Mormons. It isn't that many years ago that the Elders of the LDS considered blacks to be descendants of the devil and denied them admission to their priesthood. As long as it's a Democrat we'll have to wait a long, long time for this disclosure. Were it, say, Mormon, Mitt Romney, the media would already have him fried. Anyway, it was fun watching reporters follow Burris around DC yesterday. He was like a hobo without a home, going from pillar to post looking for someone, anyone, to offer him a place to stay and some bread to eat. Can it be possible that the party of tolerance and openness is now the party of segregation? Rest assured, this situation will change before the day is over. Who wants to be a Forrest Gump statement; "Stupid is as stupid does."
Once again, Laura Ingraham has it right. She asks, how can we trust these clowns to handle a trillion dollars in "stimulus giveaways" when they can't seat someone duly appointed?

S.N.A.G.'s

Lying in bed last night I picked up a book written by Bernie Goldberg, Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right. If you're not familiar with Goldberg he is a former newsman who for many years was employed by CBS. He first gained fame by writing a very successful book titled, Bias. It was so popular it most likely got him fired from CBS. If not fired, then surely blacklisted. The book detailed how the media favors the Democrats and does everything possible to put Republicans and conservatives in a bad light. Getting back to my bedtime reading, Goldberg recalled listening to Rush Limbaugh and a caller, Bill, came on the radio and said he's had it with SNAG's. Rush was clueless so Bill explained that SNAG is an acronym for Sensitive New-Age Geeks. SNAG's are men who end sentences with an upward inflection. This is an indication of uncertainty and insecurity.
Now, I know some of you are going to call me a trouble maker for this but listen to the President-elect and tell me he isn't, for lack of a better word, a SNAG. It is something I noticed right after I heard about what a fantastic speaker he is supposed to be; mesmerizing, I believe, was the word. I repeat. I did not come up with the acronym. It was Bill and he was on Rush's show and it was a long time ago, even before "O" was considered a Messiah.

Obama War On Terror

It has been announced this afternoon that Obama has named Leon Panetta, for Clinton Chief of Staff to head up the Central Intelligence Agency(CIA). This begs the question: since Panetta has no experience in this area is it necessary to have someone who does? Dianne Feinstein (D), Senator from California seemed perplexed with the announcement. According to her no one informed her of the selection. She will lead the intelligence committee so one can imagine that she is po'd at the oversight.
Is it only me who thinks this appointment is just plain ridiculous. I'd like to think we could supply someone with knowledge of overseas affairs to head the agency to help keep our behinds safe. Then again, if you'll recall, there was absolutely no cooperation between the FBI and CIA during the Clinton years. It was administrative policy established by White House lawyer, Jamie Gorelick to build a "wall of silence"; no shared information between the agencies. Democrats! Ugh!

Minnesota

For you people who believe Minnesota is called "the land of 10,000 lakes" you are wrong. I live in Minnesota during the summer months and escape around November 1, give or take a few wind chill blasts. For us natives it's referred to as "the land of 10,000 taxes." It's also, during election time, called the "land of 10,000 recounts" or whatever it takes to get a Democrat in office. Unless you've been on the former planet of Pluto you now know that it appears Al Franken will be the next Senator from the State of Minnesota. This doesn't shock me. His opponent, Norm Coleman, won the original election by 200 plus votes; fairly incredible since over 3 million were cast. Coleman was declared the winner. Over the course of time Coleman has won a few other recounts but, all along, I knew he couldn't win. A couple of examples are: In northeast Minnesota, the iron ore region and heavily Democrat, recounts showed that Franken won more votes than were cast for Obama and, in Ramsey county, just yesterday, Big Al picked up another 177 votes. That's also 177 more than had been previously cast. The Secretary of State, a Democrat, decided to count them, anyway. In essence, Al won twice as many votes as there were. Not that matters but Ramsey county is the home of the Minnesota capitol, St. Paul.
I have a monstrous decision to make. Do I stay in Minnesota and live under communism or move back to Ohio and endure winters where the sun never shines? Either way I know things will work out. At one time Jesse Ventura was Minnesota's governor and he's a memory. Spring in Ohio arrives in March as opposed to June in the Gopher State. It is a decision I can handle.

Another One Bites The Dust

Now that New Mexico governor, Bill Richardson has (ahem!) 'withdrawn' his appointment as Sec. of Commerce due to alleged pay to play conflicts how long will it take for another Obamaite to be thrown under the bus? Radio babe, Laura Ingraham, ran a contest prior to Thanksgiving asking listeners to vote on the length of Hillary's tenure. I imagine you're thinking she'd wear herself out with the O by going against policy. No! Laura suggests it would be by Bill speaking out against The Man; offering his opinion on world affairs or getting his zipper caught in the wrong place. I'm thinking Laura's poll was three, six and 12 month max. I wrote down six. Middlin is a fairly safe place to be.
Lest you forget we haven't dealt with Rahm Emanuel yet. As I understand he was in Australia when the Blago thing started to get hairy. He'll be back in the news and pronto. Rhambo brings up another area of consideration. How did Obama get to be so popular so fast? He started his political career in 1996 on the South Side of Chicago. Ever been there? People, it is a place you would not take a summer walk. It's a scary place. The Chicago Democrat Machine does not have it's roots anywhere near Comisky Park and surely not close to any number of Johnson Great Society housing projects. Cabrini Green probably has more murders monthly than there are in Iraq and this isn't an exaggeration.
Check out http://www.friendsofblago.com/ to find out the real power brokers in Chicago. Anyway, within ten years this guy is on the political and world stage. Chicago just might be the number one politically corrupt city in the world; at the very least in the top three. In the short span of ten years a rookie does not rise to the top without the(corrupt)help of local politicians. And these pols come from the North Side where the rat population is half what it is south of the Sears Tower. What was it Tipp O'Neill, former Speaker of the House and Boston pol said? "All politics is local", and he's 100% correct. I want this guy, Obama, to do well. The livelihoods of my wife and family are in his hands but It could be a shaky ride. With Bill Richardson another one was thrown under the bus. These people are starting to add up. Payback can be hurtful so watch out "O".

Jake Tapper of ABC News, one of the few from the mainstream who has some balance, ran a report that Obama is going on TV to announce what sounds like a New, New Deal program called, American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan. It calls for the creation of 3 million new jobs. So far so good. Obama continues by saying that 80% of these jobs will be in the private sector. Alright! Oops!. I'm not a genius at math. If 80% is private that must mean that-----Oh my gosh, 20% are public jobs! Does this mean that 600,000 new public jobs will be paid by taxation? In unison now, everyone just say, YES!