I'm glad they vetted this

The National news media seems hell bent on vetting "Joe the Plumber". Maybe when they can free up those resources, they can actually vet one of the presidential candidates ties to a socialist party in Chicago and that William Ayers ghost authored his first novel, I mean, auto biography.

From the American Thinker...

This afternoon ABC's Charlie Gibson reported on his hourly radio news report the results of his network diggin' dirt on Joe the Plumber.

Gibson reported that Joe has a "lien" for failing to "pay his property tax." The lead-in, stated by a co-reporter, was "Oh, by the way, Joe..."

Here's a guy who's just an average citizen, approached by a campaigning Obama, who expresses his opinion. It's his right as a citizen.

Problem is, what Joe said isn't consistent with the ABC party line. So Joe is now in the crosshairs, and they'll stay on Joe the Plumber in an effort to ruin his life and destroy his credibility.

This is just a taste of the "Thugocracy" that Michael Barone wrote about.

Criticize Obama and the old big media will work hard to ruin you. This is extremely dangerous for this democracy.

On the Ayers Obama collaboration click here

The Axis of Taxes

The Wall Street Journal on the incoming Axis if Obama wins and the senate gets a filibuster proof majority....

If the current polls hold, Barack Obama will win the White House on November 4 and Democrats will consolidate their Congressional majorities, probably with a filibuster-proof Senate or very close to it. Without the ability to filibuster, the Senate would become like the House, able to pass whatever the majority wants.

Though we doubt most Americans realize it, this would be one of the most profound political and ideological shifts in U.S. history. Liberals would dominate the entire government in a way they haven't since 1965, or 1933. In other words, the election would mark the restoration of the activist government that fell out of public favor in the 1970s. If the U.S. really is entering a period of unchecked left-wing ascendancy, Americans at least ought to understand what they will be getting, especially with the media cheering it all on.

The nearby table shows the major bills that passed the House this year or last before being stopped by the Senate minority. Keep in mind that the most important power of the filibuster is to shape legislation, not merely to block it. The threat of 41 committed Senators can cause the House to modify its desires even before legislation comes to a vote. Without that restraining power, all of the following have very good chances of becoming law in 2009 or 2010.

It's going to be a rough four years

The Hills they Die on #3 - Trial Lawyers

Due to time, I haven't been able to finish my "Hills They Die" on posts. But I'm getting back on today with Trial Lawyers....

We hear all the time about CEO's making 100 million plus but when is the last time you heard a top democratic official talk about excess compensation when it comes to trial lawyers.

Trial lawyers have managed to suck billions out of the American economy for years; often, using fraudulent tactics (see Milberg Weiss). But you won't hear a peep from the party that derives millions of dollars in campaign contributions.

In fact, we already know what a scumbag John Edwards is. It shouldn't be a surprise that he used his scumbag skills to procure his hundreds of millions of dollars in net worth and a 28,000 square foot house from essentially one big home run in a malpractice law suit.

Of course, democrats will argue these valuable, selfless servants keep the big corporate ogres from victimizing the people but when a company I own stock in is sued for a downturn in its stock price, who pays the legal fees for the plaintiff and my company? Me! The shareholder; it's like suing myself.

Are the trial lawyers looking out for the little guy when the plaintiffs get a settlement from an airline and are compensated in drink and meal vouchers while they get paid in cash? I don't think so.

So as sure as the sun will come up tomorrow, you can guarantee that the democratic party will do everything they can to protect these barnacles on the American economy.... or die trying. Because it's a hill they'll die on.

Previous posts

#7 Caribou
#6 Judicial Fiat
#5 The NEA
#4 The Welfare State

Joe Biden Can't Count

Joe Biden vs. Joe the Plumber

Biden should know, he's been self employed for how long?

Quote of the day

As heard on the Wall Street trading floor yesterday.

"This is worse than a divorce. I've lost half my net worth and I still have a wife."

Thanks to reader Bernie

Let's make corporations pay all the taxes

From the Tax Foundation Blog....

Throughout the debate, Sen. Obama repeatedly showed an unfortunate ignorance of one of the fundamental principles of taxation: all taxes are paid by people. On multiple occasions, Obama claimed that businesses or corporations "can afford" to pay higher taxes. But such a statement is just ridiculous. Companies have no "ability to pay" taxes. Does the corporation's building pay the tax? How about its fax machine or water cooler? No. People pay the taxes. Here is one such example of why Sen. Obama would get an F in public finance:

Then Exxon Mobil, which made $12 billion, record profits, over the last several quarters, they can afford to pay a little more so that ordinary families who are hurting out there -- they're trying to figure out how they're going to afford food, how they're going to save for their kids' college education, they need a break.

What Sen. Obama doesn't understand or doesn't want to tell the American public is that when Exxon Mobil writes that check to Uncle Sam, some PERSON is paying the price for that. In the short-run, that person could be a shareholder, a worker, or a consumer. But the fact that Exxon Mobil has a lower after-tax profit means that some PERSON is worse off. For example, Exxon Mobil would likely reduce its dividend payment, or its share price could fall, and that hurts every PERSON who was invested in Exxon Mobil at the time the tax was enacted.

More....

Joe the Plumber weighs in on debate

Ohio Plumber Says He Doesn't Want Obama's Socialism

I'm glad they vetted that

It's a sad state of affairs when one liberal news outlet is calling out another for being over the top.

From the LA Times...

Who is Todd Palin? What is his influence?" CNN's Rick Sanchez asked urgently Tuesday afternoon, just before a commercial break. "What is his tie to AIP, the Alaskan Independence Party?"

The anchorman's serious tone and dancing eyebrows -- not to mention a "The Palins and the Fringe" banner across the bottom of the screen -- suggested big surprises. Must-see TV! And all of it coming "right after the break."
So I holstered the remote for a couple of minutes and waited to see what CNN was up to.

The answer: no good.

Rather than deliver a single revelation, the 24-hour cable news channel coughed up a reheated, overwrought and misleading story that seemed designed to yoke Sarah Palin and her husband to the most extreme secessionists in Alaska.

Yes, Todd Palin once belonged to the Alaskan Independence Party. And his wife, the governor and now Republican vice presidential nominee, has been friendly with some of its members.

But neither CNN nor the other news organizations that have reported on the connection, including The Times, have shown that Sarah Palin embraced the call by some in the party to sever their beloved state from "the Lower 48."

It's nice to know that CNN feels that it's important for its viewers to know about the party affiliation of a vice presidential spouse 10 years ago, yet somehow doesn't have the time to do a story on the presidential candidate's ties to a socialist New Party.

I think that pretty much confirms the media's bias.

Help Wanted - community organizer

Doug Ross with an ACORN job application


Do you have access to a car or other vehicle?
Yes
No
Don't know/don't remember

If No, do you know how to hot-wire an ignition?
Yes
No

If Yes, how many homeless vagrants or illegal aliens can you transport?
0-1 Coupe
2-4 Sedan
5-7 Minivan
9-11 Conversion van
12-99 Schoolbus
100-199 Semi with empty trailer

Do you know any dead people?
No
Yes

If you had to make up names for some reason, which do you prefer to use?
Dead people
Disney characters
Members of the Dallas Cowboys/NFL team
Cast of Beverly Hills 90210
Cast of Star Trek
Superheroes like "Batman" or "Underdog"
Other cartoon characters like "Tin Tin" or "Jonny Quest"
Names of cheap beers, malt liquors and wines
Series of random letters like "Aasdfasdf Aasdfasfs"

Please check any relevant experience?
Intimidating bank employees
Slashing tires
Arson
Breaking and Entering
Armed Robbery
Pickpocketing
Mail fraud
Wire fraud
Real estate flipping, mortgage fraud
Rating subprime debt tranches "AAA"

How would you prefer to be paid?
Cash
Check
Cigs
Cigs (menthol)
Cheap beers
Cheap malt liquors
Cheap wine (specify red, white or gray)
Crack cocaine
Cans of mackerel

When can you start work?
Now
Tomorrow after 3pm

If tomorrow, do you need written directions to remember how to return here?
Yes
Maybe

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Lowry on Ayers

Rich Lowry on our favorite anti American zealot, William Ayers....

Not surprisingly, the Ayers attacks don't appear to have worked. You can argue it's because McCain wasn't comfortable enough with them, or if only he'd been more full-throated—and included Wright—it would have made a difference. I doubt it. Attacking Ayers had to be just a cog in a much larger case against Obama (we tried to outline it here). Now people like Dick Morris seem to think linking Acorn and Obama will make a huge difference. Acorn obviously deserves all the obloquy being heaped on it (see our editorial here), but I can't see many people voting on the issue. People are focused on the financial crisis, and unless/until McCain has a compelling, future-oriented message and program on the economy, nothing else is going to help him much. Check out this post from Ben Smith. A Republican consultant wrote him about a focus group where he aired an incredibly harsh anti-Obama spot that everyone in the room believed—but it still didn't matter. Here's a quote from one woman in the focus group: "Well, I don't know much about this terrorist group Barack used to be in with that Weather guy but I'm sick of paying for health insurance at work and that's why I'm supporting Barack."

Once again, I'll go back to this whole McCain approach to Obama. This election is a national referendum on Obama. There are just way too many cards in the democrats favor right now to say otherwise. If the public is comfortable with Obama, he will win. If not, he won't

The whole point for McCain is to show that Obama's unfit to be president. McCain's crew keeps attacking Obama by throwing shit against the wall and hoping some sticks. It won't work.

What McCain has to do (and it may be too late) is paint a portrait of Obama as an untrustworthy, anti-American, socialist by using each of these dots as the paint.

Wright dot
Ayers dot
Pfleger dot
Farakhan dot
Fannie Mae contributions dot
Chris Dodd and Barney Frank dot.
ACORN dot

etc etc etc etc etc etc


Wallah! now you have an entire portrait of our financial collapse in the lap of democrats and anti American radicals.

I've read that McCain doesn't want to use the Fannie Mae route because it will cast him as a racist.

HELLO!!!!! John, you became a racist the day you accepted a nomination to run against The Messiah.

Once again, McCain needs to decide A) Be a nice guy and be a loser B) Kick ass and be president. It's really that easy.

Who will she vote for? #1555

Meet Jessica Flores.

Why is Jessica in the news?

It might look embarrassing to carry a sandwich board apologizing for your actions in front of the city police station, but Jessica Flores said it is a good thing that happened to her.

She agreed to hold a sign apologizing for being drunk when she kicked, spit and cursed at officers in exchange for felony charges to be dropped against her.

Now come November, who will get her vote?

Barack Obama (aka The Messiah) ?
John McCain (aka Sarah Palin's running mate)?

New democratic butter

Thanks to reader Bernie

Having a bad day?

See more funny videos and TBT Videos at Today's Big Thing.

Probably not as bad as this one.

Just remember, a good story will always outlive a good time.

Thanks Reader Doug

Life in "Progress" City

I know the first thing I do when choosing a restaurant for the Gekko's to go to is make sure they have enough bouncers on staff.

OK, I'm kidding. See, out here in Redville, we don't need bouncers in restaurants, that's a creation exclusively for those "progressive" areas of town.

But, you know, we do lose something for entertainment in Redville. We don't get to witness bouncers being shot outside of the restaurant...

A patron shot two bouncers late Tuesday outside Vito’s restaurant, 7750 Reading Rd., Cincinnati police said.

The bouncers asked two customers to leave after some sort of dispute inside the foyer area about 10 p m., said Sgt. Calvin Johnson.

The patrons left the restaurant, but one of them retrieved a gun from a vehicle and fired at the bouncers. One was shot in the foot, and the other was grazed in the arm, Johnson said.

Yeah, call me a wimp, but the next time I take the lovely Mrs. Gekko out for Italian, I think we'll just go to Bravo's out here in Mason where we don't have to worry about gunned downed bouncers.

The good news is, with an Obama presidency and a democratic congress, the whole US can be as "progressive" as the inner city.

The United States of Marxism

It's a sad day indeed when we need to go to the Canadian press for clear and accurate reporting our US politics.

None the less, a nice analysis of a future Obama presidency....

Communism has never worked in any country in which it has been tried. In practice, Communism—the ultimate goal of liberalism—affords everything to and for the power elite and little to nothing for everyone else. It also does away with the concept of meritocracy—unless of course one is a member of the aforementioned power elite. However, more and more this is what Democrat presidential candidate and Senator Barack Obama seems to be proposing.

On Monday 13 October, Barack Obama was asked by an Ohio plumber: “Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn’t it?” Obama answered him with: “It’s not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve got a chance for success too. My attitude is that if the economy’s good for folks from the bottom up, it’s gonna be good for everybody. I think when you spread the wealth around [AKA wealth redistribution], it’s good for everybody.” We have to imagine that Karl Marx would be extremely proud.

We already have the set-up for a USA-Communist government in place. The Democrats—via their organizations Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and ACORN (to be fair to other Democrats ACORN is actually almost solely Obama’s group)—have pretty much brought the world’s financial institutions and its people to their knees and on their way to complete destruction. Similar to what Hugo Chavez has done to Venezuela, Democrats are first going for nationalization of financial institutions, which will be followed by Democrat’s takeover of other industries. Does anyone out there still remember California Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters’ threat to take over US oil companies?

Electing Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States of America will pretty much finish the Democrats’ job.

More....

Morris on our little ACORN

Dick Morris on the little ACORN sprouting that big Obama tree of corruption...

As Obama lengthens his lead, the Republicans are praying that the election becomes close enough for the Democrats to steal. But, meanwhile, ACORN, the radical community group, is becoming an embarrassment for Obama. It is not as if its shenanigans are likely to tip the result, with the Democrats so far ahead, but as they are raided by the FBI in state after state (11 so far) they are becoming identified as the electoral equivalent of Greenpeace — extremists who will stop at nothing to get their way.

What makes ACORN particularly embarrassing for Obama is that he used to be one of them. He served as general counsel for ACORN in Illinois, channeled millions to the organization from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (whose funds he distributed), and has lately spent $800,000 of his campaign money to subsidize the group's activities. For this emolument, ACORN has registered voters 15 times over, canvassed the graveyards for votes and prepared to commit electoral fraud on a massive scale.

With friends like this, Obama doesn't need enemies. As their radical activities make headlines every day, Obama's intimate involvement with these radicals becomes more and more of a political liability.

More....

Rep. Waters Speaks About Obama at ACORN

Hi, We're ACORN and we're gonna beat McCain down

Terry Tate - Office Linebacker

If Obama gets elected, I'm hiring this guy to increase productivity.

From a little ACORN a big Obama sprouts

It's bad enough that the Obama campaign is stealing votes through their surrogates; now they're actually stealing money....

A North Kansas City couple has been left scratching their heads after they became the victims of a political scam.

Steve and Rachel Larman say a strange credit card charge appeared on their statement this month -- a $2300 donation to Barack Obama's presidential campaign. The Larman's say they don't want this to be about their political affiliation, but they say they're not about to give the Obama campaign any help from their pocketbook.

They said they notified Chase, their credit card bank, to report the fraud.

"(They) said that they had seen-they were familiar with this," said Steve Larman. "It was fraud, they believe through telemarketing but they were going to be doing some more investigations."

The Larman's don't want their politics to enter into what is essentially just a fraudulent charge. But they say that the charge involves the Obama campaign adds insult to injury for the registered Republicans.

More....

Richard Cooey RIP

I'll never pretend to know everything, but I do know one thing for certain; Richard Cooey will kill no more.

Hopefully he received more mercy from his creator than he gave to his victims.

For you anti death penalty folks who would like to think Cooey was no threat to society. Tell that to the family of Robert Vallandingham who was killed by a pack of death row inmates during the Lucasville riots.

Obama and the Plumber - Spread the Wealth

The Professor of Socialism 101 explains it to a plumber.

Spoken by a man who never had to get a cash advance on his credit card to take care of the "people behind him".

From a little ACORN a big Obama sprouts

A piece in the WSJ on The Messiah's connection to ACORN... (HT Darke blog)

Acorn uses various affiliated groups to agitate for "a living wage," for "affordable housing," for "tax justice" and union and environmental goals, as well as against school choice and welfare reform. It was a major contributor to the subprime meltdown by pushing lenders to make home loans on easy terms, conducting "strikes" against banks so they'd lower credit standards.

But the organization's real genius is getting American taxpayers to foot the bill. According to a 2006 report from the Employment Policies Institute (EPI), Acorn has been on the federal take since 1977. For instance, Acorn's American Institute for Social Justice claimed $240,000 in tax money between fiscal years 2002 and 2003. Its American Environmental Justice Project received 100% of its revenue from government grants in the same years. EPI estimates the Acorn Housing Corporation alone received some $16 million in federal dollars from 1997-2007. Only recently, Democrats tried and failed to stuff an "affordable housing" provision into the $700 billion bank rescue package that would have let politicians give even more to Acorn.

All this money gives Acorn the ability to pursue its other great hobby: electing liberals. Acorn is spending $16 million this year to register new Democrats and is already boasting it has put 1.3 million new voters on the rolls. The big question is how many of these registrations are real.

Do you think we can get a presidential candidate with the balls to call this out?

One down about 60,000 to go...

From the NY Post

Investigators probing ACORN have learned that an Ohio man registered to vote several times and cast a bogus ballot with a fake address, officials said yesterday, as they revealed that nearly 4,000 registration applications supplied by the left-leaning activist group were suspect.

The vote of Darnell Nash, one of four people subpoenaed in a Cuyahoga County probe of ACORN's voter-registration activities, was canceled and his case was turned over to local prosecutors and law enforcement, Board of Elections officials said yesterday.

Nash had registered to vote repeatedly from an address that belonged to a legitimately registered voter, officials said during a hearing at which the subpoenaed voters were to testify.

When will they vet this?

I wonder when the NY Times will vet this.....

It looks like Jeremiah Wright was just the tip of the iceberg. Not only did Barack Obama savor Wright’s sermons, Obama gave legitimacy — and a whole lot of money — to education programs built around the same extremist anti-American ideology preached by Reverend Wright. And guess what? Bill Ayers is still palling around with the same bitterly anti-American Afrocentric ideologues that he and Obama were promoting a decade ago. All this is revealed by a bit of digging, combined with a careful study of documents from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, the education foundation Obama and Ayers jointly led in the late 1990s.

John McCain, take note. Obama’s tie to Wright is no longer a purely personal question (if it ever was one) about one man’s choice of his pastor. The fact that Obama funded extremist Afrocentrists who shared Wright’s anti-Americanism means that this is now a matter of public policy, and therefore an entirely legitimate issue in this campaign.

I guess the Times will get to it as soon as they expose Piper Palin for still wetting the bed.

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Obamamania - Catch it

How to make your city a dump

You start with sprinkling criminals into your police force......

Keovongsa Siharath was arrested in Henry County on charges he punched his stepfather.

Jeffrey Churchill was charged with assault in an altercation with a woman in a mall parking lot.

Calvin Thomas was taken into custody in DeKalb County on a concealed weapons charge.

All three are now officers with the Atlanta Police Department.

More than one-third of recent Atlanta Police Academy graduates have been arrested or cited for a crime, according to a review of their job applications. The arrests ranged from minor offenses such as shoplifting to violent charges including assault. More than one-third of the officers had been rejected by other law enforcement agencies, and more than half of the recruits admitted using marijuana.

“On its face, it’s troubling and disturbing,” said Vincent Fort, a state senator from Atlanta. “It would be very troubling that people might be hitting the streets to serve and protect and they have histories that have made them unqualified to serve on other departments.”

But Atlanta police say it’s not so simple. Officials have been trying without success for more than a decade to grow the department

to 2,000 officers, an effort hurt by this year’s budget crisis. With competition for recruits intense among law enforcement agencies, Atlanta has had to make concessions.

“We would like, in an ideal world, to see every applicant with a clean record, but obviously that’s not reality,” said Atlanta police Lt. Elder Dancy, who runs the department’s recruitment unit. “I don’t think you’ll find any departments who hire only applicants with squeaky-clean records.”

Three decades ago, a police officer with a criminal record was much less common than it is now, said Robert Friedmann, a criminal justice professor at Georgia State University. But times have changed and many agencies have had to relax their hiring policies, Friedmann said.

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ACORN's Dispicable Efforts Continue to Pollute Democracy

Guilt By Participation

Consequences for failure? why bother.

Somehow, the Seattle Public Schools must have been infiltrated with some common sense republicans.

Why?

For the first time in seven years, Seattle public high-school students who do poorly can receive a failing grade on their report cards.

Since 2000, not a single student has received an E, a mark more commonly known as an F. High schools instead handed out N's for "no credit," which didn't affect a student's grade-point average and took much of the sting out of failure.

But the E is back — effective immediately.

The reason, the district says, is a technical one. In a larger review of high schools, a district committee recently realized that the exclusive use of N's violated School Board policy.

The change, however, has been welcomed by many principals and teachers who believe that students should face more consequences for failure.

Don't worry kids, when you get to be an adult, you won't have to worry about consequences for your failures.

Unplanned pregnancy? We got you covered.

Fail to get an education? Got it.

Buy a house you can't afford? Got it.

Steal an election? here's more money.

Shoot someone in cold blood? You're covered.

Bengal jokes

It's a premature fall for Bengals jokes. For the past couple of years we've at least been able to wait until November to tell them.

The Ohio State Police are cracking down on speeders heading into Cincinnati.

For the first offense, they give you two Cincinnati Bengals tickets. If you get stopped a second time, they make you use them.

What do you call 47 millionaires around a TV watching the Super Bowl?

The Cincinnati Bengals

What do the Cincinnati Bengals and Billy Graham have in common?

They both can make 70,000 people stand up and yell 'Jesus Christ'.

How do you keep a Cincinnati Bengal out of your yard?

Put up goal post.

Where do you go in Cincinnati in case of a tornado?

To Paul Brown Stadium...they never get a touchdown there!

What do you call a Cincinnati Bengals player with a Super Bowl ring?

A thief.

What's the difference between the Cincinnati Bengals and a dollar bill?

You can still get four quarters out of a dollar bill.

How many Cincinnati Bengals does it take to win a Super Bowl?

Nobody knows and we may never find out!

What do the Bengals and a possums have in common?

Both play dead at home and get killed on the road

Barack Obama Sits Down With Charlie Gibson

2) Democrats refuse to drill to lessen our energy dependence, even if it means struggling workers pay more for a gallon of gas. Caribou are more important than people....

3) Nevermind that the end result of the Fannie Mae was a worldwide financial meltdown, democrats still think it's a good idea to push loans for people who cannot/will not pay them back.

This is the temperament of a party who have no problem instituting socialism when the results are so blatantly harming to our American way of life.

Yeah.... sign me up for that.

Insider trading?

Thought of the day...

The conventional wisdom has it that William "Cold Cash" Jefferson was stashing a hundred grand in his freezer because it was bribe money.

Maybe his buddy, Barney Frank, let him know Fannie Mae was on the verge of collapse and he was just trying to keep his 401k savings safe.

Obama and his Socialist Democrat friends

From Gateway Pundit

Obama and his New Party buddies...

I wonder when Newsweek will a reporter from that tasty story about Todd Palin publicly urinating on a hunting trip to cover this.

But what about the free health care?

At The Corner

This weekend, as the Cuban national soccer team was preparting to play the U.S. team in Washington, D.C., two of its members defected:

Sharing details in a telephone interview with The Washington Post last night, Alcantara said he was in the lobby, wearing a casual shirt, shorts and tennis shoes, when he saw the coaches wander into the gift shop. He rode the escalator down to street level and "started running like crazy and didn't look behind," he said through an interpreter who arranged the interview and requested anonymity for political reasons.

After sprinting for about eight blocks, Alcantara said he flagged down a taxi and, with the few words of English he knew, told the driver, "Go, go, go!"

Apparently the worker's paradise isn't all that it's cracked up to be:

Alcantara described poor treatment of soccer players: bad food that was rationed, terrible field conditions and a lack of equipment, cleats and uniforms. Because there are technically no professional athletes in Cuba, Alcantara said his occupation was officially maintenance worker at a sports complex, a job he never performed.

Before departing Cuba late last week, he did not tell his parents of his plans and never discussed it with his teammates because "no one on the team trusts anyone," he said. At least one member of Cuba's traveling delegation, he claimed, is a government spy.

After Thursday's training session in Washington, the team returned to the hotel and the players reported to their rooms. The telephones had been removed by Cuban officials, a standard practice to discourage players from communicating with outsiders on foreign trips.

I'll bet he's going to regret his his choice when he forks out for his first MRI.

Why we're angry

I guess it's big news that a number of people are booing McCain when he refuses to give The Messiah a verbal beat down.

Why are we so angry?

1) We see ACORN flat out openly attempting to steal an election and no one seems to care.

2) We see a main stream media so in the pockets of the Obama campaign he must be walking around with an eternal erection.

3) We see our 401k's and mutual funds drop 30-50% as a result of democratic corruption and nary a word on the evening news.

4) And our alleged standard bearer and presidential candidate, doesn't have the balls to point all this out and beat his opponent over the head with it.

You're damn straight I'm pissed. And it isn't going away soon.

Pot, Kettle, Black award

Hat Tip to reader Mark on one Jimma Carter......

Former President Jimmy Carter said on Friday the "atrocious economic policies" of the Bush administration had caused the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Carter told reporters on a stopover in Brussels that "profligate spending," massive borrowing and dramatic tax cuts since President George W. Bush took office in 2001 were behind the market turmoil and economic crisis.

"I think it's because of the atrocious economic policies of the Bush administration," said the 84-year-old Democrat, who served in the White House from 1977-1981 during a period of high inflation and energy crisis.

Whoever wins next month's U.S. presidential election would inherit economic problems that would force them to postpone implementing some of their proposed reforms, he said.

"The economic situation is an entrenched problem. It is going to take years to correct what has been done economically," Carter said, adding he hoped Democrat Barrack Obama would win and immediately improve Washington's image in the world.

It's kind of interesting that Jimma showed up on this article.

Friday, I had lunch with a client who's business went down the toilet in the late 1970's when the interest rate on his business property shot up to 28%. Thanks for the memories Jimma.

A long weekend

Sorry for the lack of posts. Things have finally slowed down from a busy weekend...

Friday

Gordon and his lovely bride went to the Black Keys at the Madison Theatre in Covington, KY.

I'm always amazed at the amount of sound bands with three instruments can kick out (Led Zeppelin, Rush, ZZ Top, etc.) but the Black Keys have two; a drum and a guitar.

Personally, the lovely Mrs. Gekko is a bigger fan of the indie rock scene. None the less, these guys are talented. But I think their music is largely limited with just the two guys in the band. You end up listening to what amounts to a series of guitar riffs and that gets old for me.

So click here for a you tube video and here for their website with tour schedule.

By the way, the show was interrupted by a fire alarm in the middle of the show. As the guitarist instructed "we don't want to be the next Great White...... so get out".

Saturday

After a late Friday night, Gordon got up for a workout and a 12:00 kick off for the UC - Rutgers game. Is there anything more draining than drinking beer in 85 degree heat on a hangover? The game sure didn't add any energy to the day.

Sunday

And of course Sunday, during commercials of the Bears game, I got to watch the Bengals stink it up against the Jets. Marvin's been offically Bengalized.

How can you tell that the economy is not all that bad? Next Sunday, there will be 60,000 plus idiots pay $70 plus for the right to be entertained by a pile of excrement. Ain't America great!!!!!

OBAMA CAUGHT SAYING ACORN AND FRIENDS WILL SHAPE HIS PRESIDENTIAL AGENDA

HT Connect the Dots