No tax inreases for those under $250 k?

As long as you don't use utilities, buy food, clothing, automobiles, TV's, stereos, smoke, drink beer or soda, gamble, etc......

You're good.

Are liberals stupid or mentally ill?

A couple of months ago, I was having beers at my local watering hole when I asked a friend the following question.

"Are liberals just stupid or is it all about power for them?"

Because you really don't have to do a lot of research to figure out that all things liberals run are train wrecks.

For instance, the WSJ has a great piece comparing various aspects of life in New Jersey, New York and California against the rest of the US. They break down the information by government health care, unions, taxing the rich etc. The information is down right ugly. Here is one such example.......

Government spending as economic stimulus. State-local spending per capita is $12,505 in New York (second highest after Alaska), $10,136 per person in California (fourth) and $9,574 in New Jersey (seventh).

Has all this public sector "investment" translated into jobs? Not quite. California had the nation's third highest jobless rate in May (11.5%). New Jersey and New York had below average unemployment rates in May compared to the national average of 9.4%, but one reason is that so many discouraged workers have left those states. From 1998-2007, which included two booms on Wall Street, New York and New Jersey ranked 36th and 31st in job creation. From 2000 to 2007, the New Jersey Business & Industry Association calculates that nine out of 10 new Garden State jobs were in the government.

So let me ask the wiz kids at Plunderbong, Progress Ohio, The Daily Kos, The Huffington Post, etc.

Are you liberals because you are a dumb ass or because you are mentally ill?

Compare the parties

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Life in "Progress" City

From the "progressive" city of Cincinnati, who hasn't had a republican mayor since a mile high ice sheet covered the city.............

Two key witnesses in a Hamilton County murder trial refused to testify Friday.

Jonathan Williams, 18, refused for a second day to testify and was sent back to jail to serve a six-month sentence for contempt of court.

Derrick Johnson, 18, who was arrested Thursday, also refused to testify Friday.

He will be given one more chance to change his mind later today.

Williams told police last year that he saw a gun in Ravea Garnett’s waistband just before shots were fired into a crowd in the West End, killing an innocent bystander.

Garnett faces five charges, including murder and attempted murder.

Now let's chart the future chain of events for this neighborhood......

1) These guys won't testify which will result in a murderer being set free. Now let me ask you, is Mr. Garnett going to honor the people in Redville with his residency? No. He'll be back in one of those crime ridden, "progressive" neighborhoods where he'll be able to victimize the residents again.

2) Mr. Garnett will victimize his neighborhood again.

3) A bunch of rhymin' reverends will march on the streets demanding that the police need to do more to get criminals like Garnett off the streets when the very residents of these neighborhoods won't do their job to keep these scum bags off the streets.

In defense of these clowns who won't testify, they know the deal. Even if they testify and this guy ends up in the can, he won't be there long. And when he gets out who do you think he's going after?

But ask yourself. Is it the big bad conservatives heaping these derelicts on an oppressed neighborhood? Or could it be the policies of "progressives" who believe in light sentences for the criminal scumbag who will go right back to being criminals when they get out.

I have a friend who is really high up the city police force chain of command. In a moment of candor, he will tell you that the city of Cincinnati police force spends over half of their time dealing with criminals who should already be behind bars. When these dolts continue their life of crime with impunity, what does that say to the community?

As I've said hundreds of times, I'm not a conservative for me. I'm a conservative for the least of us. And when Mr. Garnett heads back out into society and kills or rapes someone, you can thank a liberal.

What's so "progressive" about urban blight?

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Deep Thoughts

Deep Thoughts by Gordon Gekko

Apparently, the inflation rate for medical care is 9-10% annually. As a result, liberals want to take it over. Yet public education costs and government spending exceed 10-12% and nary a word.

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We were at war

How can you tell when liberals don't get it?

Read this piece.........

In September 2005, I was sitting in a window seat on a commercial flight from Madrid to Philadelphia. It was mid-afternoon on a Tuesday. The plane was above the clouds in the sunshine, halfway across the Atlantic.

I was returning from a long trip in Europe. It was typically frenetic--six countries in five days, visit after visit with politicians and businessmen, diplomats and soldiers. I was tired, but marveling at what a great job I had. It's like being the chief legal officer of a medium size country. Any conceivable legal issue conjured up by the Department's more than ten thousand military and civilian lawyers could end up in my lap. I remember my head buzzing with those possibilities as I began to doze.

And then it hit me with a jolt. I knew this flight. It was the same flight that we had tracked four years earlier on September 11, 2001.

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Thanks to reader Tim for the tip.

Make your travel plans now

Looking to get to that tropical paradise but you don't have the cash to make that flight to Bermuda or the Caribbean?

Here's an idea. Go out and try and kill some innocent US citizens and the Obamunists will take care of all the travel arrangements.........

Bermuda and Palau may not be the only beautiful tropical islands to host illegal Islamist combatants being released from US custody at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station. If a Hawaii County Councilman and a Kauai County activist get their way, some would get a new home—and complete freedom--on two of Hawaii’s most beautiful islands.

Thanks to reader Jeremy for the tip

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Life in "Progress" City

From the "progressive" city of Detroit, who hasn't had a republican run the city since Hitler was an aspiring artist.....

City Council member Monica Conyers, the wife of powerful Democratic congressman John Conyers, pleaded guilty Friday to accepting cash bribes in exchange for supporting a sludge contract with a Houston company.

Conyers, a fiery 44-year-old first-term council member, admitted in federal court to a single count of conspiracy to commit bribery, responding quietly to questions from Judge Avern Cohn.

She faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine when she's sentenced.

A coincidence that Conyers stopped his investigation of ACORN right at the exact same time his wife made her plea deal?

The real question though is this; when dear Monica gets out of the slam will she be reelected?

Thanks to reader Becky for the tip.

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Sure why not

Ahmadinejad Demands Apology From Obama


Hey, he's apologized for everyone else for everything else, how about apologizing for something he's done for a change........

A libertarian dilemma

As a libertarian, I have no problem with casinos in the state of Ohio. As far as I'm concerned anyone who wants to waste their money on gambling; go for it. After all, I waste more than enough money on beer.

However, each and every casino initiative we get in this state is nothing more than a real estate cartel masked in a gambling statute.

And here we have another one coming down the pike; making it number 6 or 7........

Supporters of an initiative to bring casino gambling to Ohio want to take their case to the voters.

Petitions will be filed Friday asking that the Ohio Jobs and Growth Plan be placed on the November ballot.

The plan is a proposal for an amendment to the Ohio constitution that would allow casinos in Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Toledo.

They argue that casino gambling has the potential to bring up to 20,000 jobs to the state, as well as more than half a billion dollars in tax revenue.

Now here's my beef with these deals.

Why can't Lorain, Canton, Akron, Youngstown, Marietta, my home town of Lancaster, Springfield, Dayton, Athens, Portsmouth, etc. have a casino?

Why is it OK for these other cities to suck revenue from outlying communities for benefit of the four "chosen" cities? Why can't Nelsonville Ohio have a shot at building a casino if it deems that they could use the jobs.

And how about the states race tracks where authorized gamblig activity is already zoned and taking place? Why can't Beulah Park, Scioto Downs, River Down, Thistledown et al have gambling in their establishments?

Instead, what we get is a half ass attempt to line the pockets of some rich guys who own the land these casinos are allowed to inhabit. Of course, no one in the rest of the states want to support these bills because they get no benefit out of them.

When will anyone in the state legislature take the initiative and write this law the way it should? After all, isn't that their job?

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Did he get his health care?

From yesterday's Enquirer.........

Two Cincinnati men were arrested in a hotel room early today and charged with the shooting Monday of a 22-year-old man at a Lockland business.

A fugitive task force and Lockland police took Fonta Whipple, 26, and Jashawn Clark, 25, into custody about 12:30 a.m. at the Holiday Inn, 600 W. 3rd St., Covington police said. The men were located in a room with two other people.

Whipple was charged with felonious assault and is accused of being the gunman who pumped 10-15 bullets into Derryan Holland of Lincoln Heights just before 2 p.m. Monday at Bad Boyz Car Wash and Detailing on North Wayne Avenue, Lockland police said.

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The victim suffered life-threatening injuries and remained at University Hospital Wednesday.

So here's my question.

When the Emergency Squad took Mr. Holland to University Hospital did the hospital ask him for his insurance card before they pulled the 10 - 15 bullets from his body?

Is it actually possible he's sitting in a hospital room with no coverage?

How is that possible?

Ha ha Ha Ha ha

This was so funny I spit my diet Dew all over my keyboard when I read this headline.

Congress Must Pay for What It Spends

Democrats won't be the party of deficits.

Read the hilarity here

Is it real or is it The Onion?

Congressman Offers Preemptive Apology For Extramarital Affair

Morons, idiots and liars aka Democrats

Remember a few weeks ago when Barney Frank dressed down a questioner who challenged his role in the housing debacle?

Well, how is it that no one in the mainstream media has the balls to challenge this.....

Back when the housing mania was taking off, Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank famously said he wanted Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to "roll the dice" in the name of affordable housing. That didn't turn out so well, but Mr. Frank has since only accumulated more power. And now he is returning to the scene of the calamity -- with your money. He and New York Representative Anthony Weiner have sent a letter to the heads of Fannie and Freddie exhorting them to lower lending standards for condo buyers.

You read that right. After two years of telling us how lax lending standards drove up the market and led to loans that should never have been made, Mr. Frank wants Fannie and Freddie to take more risk in condo developments with high percentages of unsold units, high delinquency rates or high concentrations of ownership within the development.

Fannie and Freddie have restricted loans to condo buyers in these situations because they represent a red flag that the developments -- many of which were planned and built at the height of the housing bubble -- may face financial trouble down the road. But never mind all that. Messrs. Frank and Weiner think, in all their wisdom and years of experience underwriting mortgages, that the new rules "may be too onerous."

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Socialism 101.... ask California

From reader Bernie

Congressman Tim Bishop Encounters Angry Citizens at Townhall Meeting

Deep Thoughts

Deep Thoughts by Gordon Gekko

Another politician admits to spooning with a skank. Here's my question. I can barely manage the one relationship I have with the lovely Mrs. Gekko. Where do these guys find the time, money, and energy to juggle multiple relationships? Maybe I should give these guys some of my yard work......

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The National Debt Road Trip

HT Porkopolis

Deep Thoughts

Deep Thoughts by Gordon Gekko

Obama says that under his plan you'll be able to keep your doctor. But, under his plan, will your doctor want to keep you?

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The science is settled

The American Thinker has a piece abut the perils of implementing a public policy based on bad science.

Here's a time line they've put together on "the science" of global warming....

Read the piece here......