Fred's CORNER

Joe, from Columbine,shares his view

2012-01-27T17:38:00.000-08:00

Hi Fred.

I have written to you several times about the amazing similarities between America's untenable situation in 1776, and those we face today. Our president's actions and behaviors, dedicated to moving persistently toward himself ultimately having absolute and unfettered authority over our lives, are becoming frighteningly clear. Witness his recent recess appointments (when Obama conveniently ignored the fact that Congress was not in recess), his unprecedented appointment of his controversial un-vetted Czars, his stating publicly that he can't wait on Congress to get his way so he will take unilateral action, and on, and on.

So, he can now apparently make appointments to, and create new rules for, the most powerful positions in our Federal Government, choosing who he wants, whenever he wants, in utter disregard of the of constitutionality, legality or morality of his actions, ignoring any and all of the various separation of powers provisions, as established by our founding fathers. H-m-m-m, kind of like being King as in King George isn't it. Are we, because of our ennui and our not wanting to upset our current comfort levels, really willing to cede this power to him, and later, like many countries before us, find his power is so entrenched that it's impossible to reverse

The most recent evidence before us is Mark Pearce, the controversial recess appointed Chairman of the NLRB, who is attempting to adopt some repugnant and likely unconstitutional (Who Cares?) rules. Pearce has said that "Our goal is to create a set of rules that eliminate a lot of waste of time, energy and money for the taxpayers." The rules would require businesses to give lists of employee phone numbers and emails to union officials before any election to decide whether to unionize or not. Does that sound like he is thinking of taxpayers? NOT, this proposal would obviously add more power to unions which are desperately seeking to halt their declining membership. It is clear that the NLRB has lost all pretense of objectivity and is solidly in the back pocket of the union movement. It shouldn't be, but I am surprised that in light of our pressing need for greater job creation that the board would try to adopt even more new rules that businesses fiercely oppose.

We have witnessed a steady stream of concessions and give away's to unions at the expense of the rights of employers, employees and taxpayers. Most of these onerous actions present situations that are ripe for abuse by unions. I find it repugnant and outrageous for the federal government to mandate that companies furnish the personal contact information of employees to unions, in violation of their individual rights to privacy!

And, how does our CIC feel about this further usurpation of power by the Executive Branch, and the resulting erosion of the rights of citizens? Obama openly declares that he views it as an improvement necessary to create a level playing field and a necessary step to correct what he sees as the inequality of the classes (class warfare). But, it seems far too apparent that it is just another step to ingratiate himself to his union cronies, and repay them for their enormous political support and monetary contributions. And, just one more step in what appears to be an unfettered gradual march, like the frog in lukewarm to boiling water analogy, to becoming the modern King George.

Wake up America, before it is too late!

Columbine Joe

Yahtta..Yahtta..Yahtta..Kinda Sound Familiar------

2012-01-26T15:30:00.000-08:00

At least his speech writers didn't have to dream up any new Bullshit because we heart it all last year.

Our Socialist President should listen to one of his mentors.

2012-01-26T10:13:00.000-08:00

"We should never pretend to know what we don't know, we should not feel ashamed to ask and learn from people below, and we should listen carefully to the views of the cadres at the lowest levels. Be a pupil before you become a teacher; learn from the cadres at the lower levels before you issue orders."

— Mao Tse-tung

ANYONE BUT OBAMA. Join the ABO Club

2012-01-26T09:40:00.000-08:00

Milton Friedman with a lesson Barack never learned...(one of many)

2012-01-24T23:12:00.000-08:00

Milton's idea in this segment of his talk (over 30 years ago) is one that the liberal socialist left in the administration has never learned. And yet..it is so simple even a cave man can understand...Unless he is one of the dummies that got this yo-you into the Whitehouse to begin with.

While you are watching tonight-----------

2012-01-24T12:08:00.000-08:00

While you are listening to the Commander-in-Bullshit the other evening, keep in mind what we all know his job has become. And..that is to start trying to do what he did 4 years ago. Start the parade of BS flowing. Below is his political platform summed up in three quotes:

"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." -- Frederic Bastiat, French economist (1801-1850)

"In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other." -- Voltaire(1764)

"What one person receives without working for...another person must work for without receiving." Adrian Rogers--1931-2005

The Debt Generation

2012-01-24T10:03:00.000-08:00

Maybe the young and dumb are beginning to wake up.

Congress needs to hear from you, or this bill passes NOW!!!

2012-01-23T14:07:00.000-08:00

You MUST get on the bandwago to help dump this idiotic legislation. This would be one of the dumbest things we ever let our government get away with. When we have an administration that wants to control your healthcare, your energy used, the car you drive, the water you use flushing the toilet, your diet, and whether or not you have the right to work....just what the hell do you think they will do if they can control your right to communicate with biggest communication breakthrough that ever came down the pike. Get off your butt and write your Congressional representatives !!!

This is a biggie and we must respond !!! This is not one of those internet bullshit hoaxes that I batch at you about all the time. This is a real thing...and you don't even have to check out Snopes or Truth or Fiction because heard it from ME.

Just in case Barack Knows The Words, He Can Sing Along.

2012-01-22T17:46:00.000-08:00

I Had A Nightmare Last Night

2012-01-22T16:49:00.000-08:00

(This could just about offend everyone I know including my wife.)

In my nightmare I found myself nude in bed, and I was looking at a mirror on the ceiling, and I discovered that I am a Negro, and I'm circumcised!

Quickly I sat up, found my pants and looked in the pockets to find my driver's license photo and it was that same color, black. I felt myself being very depressed, downcast, sitting in a chair. But it's a wheelchair!

That means, of course, besides being black and Jewish, I'm also disabled! I said to myself, aloud, 'This is impossible! It's impossible that I should be black and Jewish and disabled!'

'It's the pure and holy truth', whispers someone from behind me. I turn around, and it's my boyfriend. Just what I needed! I am a homosexual, and on top of that, with a Mexican boyfriend.

Oh, my God ... Black, Jewish, disabled, gay with a Mexican boyfriend, drug addict, and HIV-positive! Desperate, I begin to shout, cry, pull my hair, and oh, nooooo ... I'm bald!

The telephone rings; it's my brother. He is saying, 'Since mom and dad died, the only thing you do is hang out, take drugs, and lay around all day doing nothing. Get a job, you worthless piece of crap ... any job!'

Mom? Dad? Nooooo ... Now I'm also an unemployed orphan! I try to explain to my brother how hard it is to find a job when you are black, Jewish, disabled, gay with a Mexican boyfriend, are a drug addict, HIV positive, bald, and an orphan, but he doesn't get it.

Frustrated, I hang up. It's then I realize I only have one hand! With tears in my eyes, I go to the window to look out. I see I live in a shanty-town full of cardboard and tin houses! There is trash everywhere..

Suddenly I feel a sharp pain near my pacemaker ... Pacemaker? Besides being black, Jewish, disabled, a fairy with a Mexican boyfriend, a drug addict, HIV positive, bald, orphaned, unemployed, an invalid with one hand, and having a bad heart, I live in a crappy neighborhood.

At that very moment my boyfriend approaches and says to me, 'Sweetie pie, my love, my little black heartthrob, have you decided what you are going to wear to Washington to see Obama?

Say it isn't so! I CAN handle being a black, disabled, one armed, drug-addicted, Jewish homosexual on a pacemaker who is HIV positive, bald, orphaned, unemployed, living in a slum, with a Mexican boyfriend, but please, Oh dear God, please don't tell me I'm a Democrat too !

THANK YOU

2012-01-20T10:37:00.000-08:00

Peck--Thanks for restructuring my "Corner". It looks a lot better now after your touch of class. The guy walking behind you noticed it also.

Costa Concordia disaster, foreseen by Churchill

2012-01-20T10:29:00.000-08:00

The current plight of the Costa Concordia recalls a comment made by Churchill. After his retirement he was cruising the Mediterranean on an Italian cruise liner. Some Italian journalists asked why an ex British Prime Minister should chose an Italian ship.“There are three things I like about being on an Italian cruise ship,” said Churchill.

“First their cuisine is unsurpassed." "Second their service is superb." "And then, in time of emergency, there is none of this nonsense about women and children first.”

Hard To Imagine....

2012-01-19T14:30:00.000-08:00

It is hard to imagine a President as stupid as this man. With jobs the biggest problem facing our nation, Obama, in order to kiss the ass of the tree hugging environmentalist faction puts on "hold" the keystone pipeline.. TWENTY THOUSAND IMMEDIATE JOBS DOWN THE SHITTER WITH ANOTHER 250,000 ANCILLARY JOBS DUMPED IN ALSO. So much for hope and change with this failed presidency.

From the Mail Bag Today:

· Laborers’ International Union of North America Called Obama’s Decision “Politics At Its Worst.” “‘The score is Job-Killers, two; American workers, zero. We are completely and totally disappointed. This is politics at its worst,’ LIUNA General President Terry O’Sullivan said. ‘Once again the President has sided with environmentalists instead of blue collar construction workers – even though environmental concerns were more than adequately addressed. Blue collar construction workers across the U.S. will not forget this.’” (Laborers’ International Union of North America , “Job-Killers, 2; American Workers, 0,” Press Release, 1/18/12)

Chicago Tribune: “Obama made a decision that will deny the U.S. a reliable source of oil. Note that Canada has never threatened to block the Strait of Hormuz. Obama made a decision that will cost the U.S. good jobs. He seems to think those jobs will still be there when he gets around to making a decision on the pipeline. But they may well be gone for good.” (Editorial, “Pipeline Politics: Misguided Obama Blocks Keystone Pipeline,” Chicago Tribune, 1/19/12)

The Washington Post: “But, clearly, constructing the pipeline would still result in job gains during a sluggish economic recovery.” (Editorial, “Obama’s Keystone Pipeline Rejection Is Hard To Accept,” The Washington Post, 1/18/12)

Who said Obama hasn't done anything?

2012-01-18T15:46:00.000-08:00

An impressive list of accomplishments!

· First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.

.· First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.

· First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States

· First President to violate the War Powers Act. .

· First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

· First President to defy a Federal Judge's court order to cease implementing the Health Care Reform Law.

· First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.

· First President to spend a trillion dollars on 'shovel-ready' jobs when there was no such thing as 'shovel-ready' jobs.

· First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.

· First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat. .

· First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions.

· First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.

· First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space.

· First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.

· First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.

· First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke-out on the reasons for their rate increases.

· First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory.

· First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).

· First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.

· First President to fire an inspector general of Amery-corps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.

· First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office. .

· First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half years in office, 90 to date.

· First President to hide his medical, educational and travel records.

· First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.

· First President to go on multiple global 'apology tours'.

· First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends; paid for by the taxpayer.

· First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.

· First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.

· First President to repeat the Holy Qur’an tells us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.

· First President to take a 17 day vacation.

So how is this hope and change working out for you?

A SIX MINUTE LESSON ON THE CONSTITUTION

2012-01-18T15:08:00.000-08:00

With Judge Andrew Napolitano

Life As We Know It Is will disappear...unless:

2012-01-18T14:03:00.000-08:00

.........we dump Obama and his cult of liberal cultists that want to manage every facet of our lives. You better believe it. Hope you can share with a Democrat.

Note to Jerry: You have to know a bunch of them in Chicago !!! Give 'em Hell.
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The OBAMA Saga. Sad, Sickening, But Not Surprising.

2012-01-17T13:42:00.000-08:00

As the days and weeks dribble by with world tensions, weather disasters, military saber rattling, and all the crazy shit that goes on in the Arab world, one could feel like an untalented boxer getting his ass kicked by a bigger, stronger, faster opponent. You just never can tell from where the next blow will come. One dependable truth you can plan on, just as sure as gravity, it that there is not a week that will go by without another "WTF" from our stumbling President.

In the beginning, right after he slithered into office, I started out slightly charitable. I was acutely aware the he was the most non-credentialed, inexperienced, untested, uninformed person ever to get elected in our 230 years of democratic experimenting. But, charitable as I was, I kept telling myself that if he was a constitutional law professor, even if it was Harvard and he was a Democrat, he might have taken at least a couple courses in Economics and maybe read Adam Smith or had a working knowledge of the Federalist papers. Apparently not !

Still with a somewhat open mind I merely watched and waited. It did not help that he crawled out of the sewer politics of Chicago/Illinois because Illinois was my home state and I had plenty of exposure to the drainage. ( I think the current count at the moment is 3 Illinois Governors are doing time in Joliet Prison)

Three years have gone by now and my worst dreams have materialized watching the miserable failing presidency as it spun down the tubes. There is an underlying thankfulness that Obama has performed as expected. The misguided socialist fool has horribly misjudged the people. You can fool them once but not twice...and that will be a blessing.

I consider it my assignment to demonstrate as many of his foolish f--kups as I can, if for no other reason than some folks probably missed a few of them. Once again, this week, even more of his sleazy political faux pas have surfaced.

I am quite sure you, dear reader, got an earful of the Solyndra scandal in which our president personally saw to it that a failing company that contributed mightily to his election efforts was able to become anointed with a half-BILLION of your tax dollars to build solar panels. The bankruptcy was in all the media. The mainstream media made sure that their puppy dog president had tons of air time to plead his case that you must except a failure here and there..and it was just part of business and worth the risk.

Well, it was not just ONE little slip. The beat goes on !!! There is now a list as long as your arm of more of the sleazy deals it will be fun to check out the political contributions that will be turned up. Check out full picture below.

Many remember the recent slew of scandals surrounding the Solyndra Eco-Cronyism happening under the eye of the Obama Administration. Most of us believe the Solyndra scandals alone speak volumes about what is really going on behind the scenes in America's top office of power.

Of course, the Obama Administration has always brushed the failure off as a single event that was not known or preventable. They claim there was no funny business or favoritism involved, and they try to convince Americans these types of "investments" in the green industry are sound and logical.

Well, as expected, the story is suddenly getting much, much worse for Obama. The house of cards is beginning to fall and the entire green energy scam is becoming clear.

BOMBSHELL CBS REPORT: 11 More Solyndras In Obama Energy Program, 5 Going Bankrupt\

Republican Vice-Presidential Candidate Found in Columbine, Colorado

2012-01-17T11:52:00.000-08:00

Our Columbine Correspondent, Joe Rhodes, has informed us that he has located the perfect candidate for the Republican Presidential nominee's running mate. What is great is that she really wants the job and has written in her resume the things she would like to accomplish. What a refreshing approach compared to the performance of Obama's current lackey.

" PUT ME IN CHARGE . . ."

Put me in charge of food stamps. I'd get rid of the welfare debit code them for only basics. No cash for Ding Dongs or Ho Ho's, just money for 50-pound bags of rice and beans,
blocks of cheese and all the powdered milk you can haul away. If you want steak and frozen pizza, then get a job.

Put me in charge of Medicaid. The first thing I'd do is to get welfare women
Norplant birth control implants or tubal legations. Then, we'll test all
recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine. If you want to reproduce or use drugs, alcohol, or smoke, then get a job.

Put me in charge of government housing. Ever live in a military barracks?

You will maintain our property in a clean and good state of repair.
Your home" will be subject to inspections anytime and possessions will be
inventoried. If you want a plasma TV or Xbox 360, Dish TV or cable, then get a job and your
own place.

In addition, you will either present a check stub from a job each week
or you will report to a "government" job. It may be cleaning the roadways
of trash, painting and repairing public housing, pounding nails for Habitat for Humanity orwhatever we find for you. We will sell your 22 inch rims and low profile tires and your blasting stereo and speakers and put that money toward the "common good.."

Before you write that I've violated someone's rights, realize that all of
the above is voluntary. If you want our money, accept our rules. Before you
say that this would be "demeaning" and ruin their "self esteem," consider
that it wasn't that long ago that taking someone else's money for doing
absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered self esteem.

If we are expected to pay for other people's mistakes we should at
least attempt to make them learn from their bad choices. The current system
rewards them for continuing to make bad choices.

AND While you are sucking at the public trough in any form, you no longer can VOTE! Yes,
that is correct. For you to vote would be a conflict of interest. You will
voluntarily remove yourself from voting while you are receiving a government
welfare check. If you want to vote, then get a job.

Rosie

Experience being in the court with the Sacketts

2012-01-13T19:28:00.000-08:00

Since January 9th the nation has had its eyes on Mike and Chantell Sackett as these two people took their caseto the Supreme Court of the United States. It was them against the full force and power of the the Environmental Protection Agency, and their powerful liberal backers, to confiscate their personal property, Their cause has captured the attention of all who own property. Their case is a fundamental appeal to the stop the advancement of rule by bureaucracy instead of elected representatives. We have been able to provide you with the actual oral arguments of their attorneys. It is long, detailed and important !!! Whenever will you have a chance to actually hear the Supreme Court Justices...question the action against the government.

The Sackets are friends and neighbors and appreciate support and interest in their stand against big brother government.

Click HERE.

The Sackett's Saga: EPA's Latest Power Grab

2012-01-13T13:56:00.000-08:00

This is one of the best coverages of the Sackett's and their Supreme Court case that will redefine the the power, role and position of bureaucracies and their interference into our private lives. That is, of course, the court has the courage to support the constitution and not the agenda of the statists, aka. liberal populist Democrats, aka Obama Cultists.

To keep up with this battle for the constitution you can click HERE

The fine print in Obama’s ‘Promises Kept’ ad

2012-01-13T10:02:00.000-08:00

One of the key issues in any president’s reelection campaign is whether he has kept his promises. So a web video released this week by the Obama campaign, in conjunction with the Iowa caucuses, can be seen as an example of the White House laying the groundwork for making the case that the president has kept his promises.

Watch the video as he brags about his promised performance and then watch the fair an balanced analysis with Fact Checker bu clicking on the link. You be the judge !

Pretty nauseating, I know....but now "The rest of the story" Follow the story and see if you would be willing to put this incompetent back in the cockpit of our nation. Click HERE, You do not have to watch the video again. Just don't click on it...unless you are addicted to bullshit.

While we are getting the site put together

2012-01-12T20:21:00.000-08:00

We have proven Mr. Mencken correct.

2012-01-12T16:27:00.000-08:00

CONGRATULATIONS AMERICA!

H.L. Mencken, Born 1880 – Died 1956, was a journalist, satirist & critic. He wrote an editorial while working for the Baltimore Evening Sun , which appeared in the July 26, 1920 edition.

"As democracy is perfected, the office of President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be occupied by a downright moron."

Take a look at the world in which Barak Obama wants us to live.

2012-01-11T11:13:00.000-08:00

If this is the first time you have landed on "Fred's Corner" it will not take you very long to discover that there is little here to make you enthusiastic about a second term for the incompetent charmer that slithered into the Whitehouse 3 years ago. Most of the things I focus upon are the obvious such as: a totally anti-business bias regarding the economy, populist welfare and spending avalanches that have crippled our citizenry for generations to come and a careless attention to the business in being president. The cavalier attitude for vacations, trips and golf are priority and the demise of our democracy is actually promoted.

The subject of this piece is not as obvious and Obama's stupid halt a few weeks ago of the Keystone XL pipeline. It is not as vivid as his stupid handling of the BP oil spilll disaster which cause the exit of oil rigs to the north sea and prevent us from continuing to have more local production. The laundry list of this failed president is virtually unending and not the subject of this posting.

The purpose of today's submission to display a perfect example of the type of world in which our current president would like us to live. That world is one of vastly diminished personal freedoms....and a world of vastly increased power of the government and all of its bureaucracies.

Governing by bureaus, agencies, boards, regulations is like a glacier flowing down a valley. They are barely visible on a day to day basis....but inch by inch they take every thing down in their path. The beginning of every tyranny began with new "rules" by which you must live. If you think this is an exaggeration, below is just 31 days of the Obama Administration. It is what occurred in the month of July, 2011...just 31 DAYS !!!

Maybe NONE of these rules jumped into your living room with a crash. However the cost of them did. YOU pay ALL costs of government because it does not earn any anything.

(MACT means Maximum Achievable Control Technology) and is a term that is pervasive in the Environmental Protection Agency.

Now, I want you to see a REAL example how a government agency can not only end up in your personal nightmares but in your every waking moment. This case is not an internet hoax and if you have had the TV on for the last few days you should have seen it. Mike and Chantelle Sackett are friends and neighbors and they have just returned to Priest Lake from doing battle with the Environmental Protection Agency on the floor of the Supreme Court. This is and exact example of government by unelected bureaus and agencies with no regard for personal liberty

or rights to judicial review.

FUN TIMES FOR THE CENTURY'S BIGGEST PHONY !!

2012-01-08T11:35:00.000-08:00

We Could Not Do Any Worse..

2012-01-07T14:45:00.000-08:00

Obama's Failed Presidency Invites Iranian Adventures

2012-01-07T09:59:00.000-08:00

......and The Beat Goes On--------

2012-01-06T10:08:00.000-08:00

There is one misstatement in the video dialogue. Both Socialists say there is no "quick fix" to our nation's economic problems. They are wrong. The quick fix will be astoundingly fast the moment the moving van pulls up in front of the Whitehouse and hauls off the wortherless piece of furnitue called
Barak Obama. That will be the surest and fastest way to end the tyrannical, twisted Pretender-in-Chief that is destroying the fundamental fiber of our country.

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Hitting The Nail Directly On The Head

2012-01-05T10:31:00.000-08:00

by Marybeth Hicks.

Call it an occupational hazard, but I can't look at the Occupy Wall Street protesters without thinking, who parented these people?"

As a culture columnist, I've commented on the social and political ramifications of the "movement" - now known as "OWS" - whose fairyland agenda can be summarized by one of their placards: "Everything for everybody."

Thanks to their pipe-dream platform, it's clear there are people with serious designs on "transformational" change in America who are using the protesters like bedsprings in a brothel.
Yet it's not my role as a commentator that prompts my parenting question, but rather the fact that I'm the mother of four teens and young adults. There are some crucial life lessons that the protesters' moms clearly have not passed along.

Here, then, are five things the OWS protesters' mothers should have taught their children but obviously didn't, so I will:

* Life isn't fair. The concept of justice - that everyone should be treated fairly - is a worthy and worthwhile moral imperative on which our nation was founded. But justice and economic equality are not the same. Or, as Mick Jagger said, "You can't always get what you want."

No matter how you try to "level the playing field," some people have better luck, skills, talents or connections that land them in better places. Some seem to have all the advantages in life but squander them, others play the modest hand they're dealt and make up the difference in hard work and perseverance, and some find jobs on Wall Street and eventually buy houses in the Hamptons. Is it fair? Stupid question.

* Nothing is "free." Protesting with signs that seek "free" college degrees and "free" health care make you look like idiots, because colleges and hospitals don't operate on rainbows and sunshine. There is no magic money machine to tap for your meandering educational careers and "slow paths" to adulthood, and the 53 percent of taxpaying Americans owe you neither a degree nor an annual physical.

While I'm pointing out this obvious fact, here are a few other things that are not free: overtime for police officers and municipal workers, trash hauling, repairs to fixtures and property, condoms, Band-Aids and the food that inexplicably appears on the tables in your makeshift protest kitchens. Real people with real dollars are underwriting your civic temper tantrum.

* Your word is your bond. When you demonstrate to eliminate student loan debt, you are advocating precisely the lack of integrity you decry in others. Loans are made based on solemn promises to repay them. No one forces you to borrow money; you are free to choose educational pursuits that don't require loans, or to seek technical or vocational training that allows you to support yourself and your ongoing educational goals. Also, for the record, being a college student is not a state of victimization. It's a privilege that billions of young people around the globe would die for - literally.

* A protest is not a party. On Saturday in New York, while making a mad dash from my cab to the door of my hotel to avoid you, I saw what isn't evident in the newsreel footage of your demonstrations: Most of you are doing this only for attention and fun. Serious people in a sober pursuit of social and political change don't dance jigs down Sixth Avenue like attendees of a Renaissance festival. You look foolish, you smell gross, you are clearly high and you don't seem to realize that all around you are people who deem you irrelevant.

* There are reasons you haven't found jobs. The truth? Your tattooed necks, gauged ears, facial piercings and dirty dreadlocks are off-putting. Nonconformity for the sake of nonconformity isn't a virtue. Occupy reality: Only 4 percent of college graduates are out of work. If you are among that 4 percent, find a mirror and face the problem. It's not them. It's you.

From The eMail Bag Today.. In response to "Parental Disgrace" video below

2012-01-05T10:23:00.000-08:00

"If my kid wrote that I would kick his butt. I'm so glad I home school my kids. This is proof how important elections are. Disband Carter's Department of Education NOW!"

Scott Gribble
Director/Cinematographer
SR302 Films
www.vimeo.com/scottgribble
Sent from my Droid

"I'm not surprised this is California no doubt and they are all wacky there. Best they go bankrupt and all have to work for a living. Can't get more entitlement minded than California. Washington is a close second."

Chuck

Downward Wisconsin

2012-01-04T22:29:00.000-08:00

This is a great advanced course in economics written by not only a bright scholar but an observer of what happens when we let the liberals get in charge of our country,. It is perfect testimony to the results of unionism, welfare virus, generational entitlement and an educational fortress soaked into the belief in big brother government.l Spend a couple mnutes with Tim's observations. fsc

"Moment of Clarity" by: Tim Nerenz, Ph.D.

We used to make things here in Wisconsin.

We made machine tools in Milwaukee, cars in Kenosha and ships in Sheboygan. We mined iron in the north and lead in the south. We made cheese, we made brats, we made beer, and we even made napkins to clean up what we spilled. And we made money.

The original war on poverty was a private, mercenary affair. Men like Harnischfeger, Allis, Chalmers, Kohler, Kearney, Trecker, Modine, Case, Mead, Falk, Allen, Bradley, Cutler, Hammer, Bucyrus, Harley, Davidson, Pabst, and Miller lifted millions up from subsistence living to middle class comfort. They did it - not “Fighting Bob” La Follette or any of the politicians who came along later to take the credit and rake a piece of the action through the steepest progressive scheme in the nation.

Those old geezers with the beards cured poverty by putting people to work. Generations of Wisconsinites learned trades and mastered them in the factories, breweries, mills, foundries, and shipyards those capitalists built with their hands. Thousands of small businesses supplied these industrial giants, and tens of thousands of proprietors and professionals provided all of the services that all those other families needed to live well. The wealth got spread around plenty.

The profits generated by our great industrialists funded charities, the arts, education, libraries, museums, parks, and community development associations. Taxes on their profits, property, and payrolls built our schools, roads, bridges, and the safety net that Wisconsin’s progressives are still taking credit for, as if the money came from their council meetings. The offering plates in churches of every denomination were filled with money left over from company paychecks that were made possible because a few bold young men risked it all and got rich. Don’t thank God for them; thank them that you learned about God.

Their wealth pales in comparison to the wealth they created for millions and millions of other Wisconsin families. Those with an appreciation for the immeasurable contributions of Wisconsin’s industrial icons of 1910 will find the list of Wisconsin’s top ten employers of 2010 appalling:

Wal-Mart, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Milwaukee Public Schools, U.S. Postal Service, Wisconsin Department of Corrections, Menards, Marshfield Clinic, Aurora Health Care, City of Milwaukee, and Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs.
This is what a century of progressivism will get you. Wisconsin is the birthplace of the progressive movement, the home of the Socialist Party, the first state to allow public sector unions, the cradle of environmental activism, a liberal fortress walled off against common sense for decades. Their motto, Forward Wisconsin, should be changed to Downward Wisconsin if truth in advertising applies to slogans.

There is no shortage of activists, advocates, and agitators in this State. If government were the answer to our problems, we would have no problems. The very same people – or people just like them – who picketed, struck, sued, taxed, and regulated our great companies out of this state are now complaining about the unemployment and poverty that they have brought upon themselves. They got rid of those old rich white guys and replaced them with…nothing.
Wisconsin ranks 47th in the rate of new business formation. We are one of the worst states for native college graduate exodus; our brightest and most ambitions graduates leave to seek their fortunes elsewhere. Why shouldn’t they? Our tax rates are among the worst in the nation and our business climate, perpetually in the bottom of the rankings, has only recently moved up thanks to a Governor who now faces a recall for his trouble.

In 1970, the new environmental movement joined unions and socialists in a coordinated effort to demonize industry. When I was in college, the ranting against “polluting profiteers” was like white noise – always there. They won, and here is the price of their victory: in 1970, manufacturers paid 18.2% of Wisconsin’s property taxes – the major source of school funding - and in 2010 those who remained paid 3.7%.
So who is it that caused the funding crisis in our schools and the skyrocketing tax rates on our homes? It is the same ignoramuses who are sitting on bridges, pooping on things, and passing around recall petitions. The unemployed 26-year old in the hemp hat looking for sympathy might look instead for some inspiration from Jerome I. Case, who started his agricultural equipment business at the age of 21, miraculously without an iPhone 4s.
Mr. Case got rich by asking people what they want and making it for them. He did not get rich by telling people what he wanted and waiting for them to do something about it. If you want to declare war on your own poverty, memorize that.

In the last decade alone we have lost 150,000 manufacturing jobs in this state – over 25%. And it’s not just jobs that have been lost; the companies that provided them are gone. Those jobs are not coming back, no matter how long we extend unemployment benefits pretending they are. The 450,000 people who still work in manufacturing in Wisconsin are damn good it at, but we are now outnumbered by people who work for government. A significant number of the latter are tasked with taxing, regulating, and generally harassing the former. While it is true that many manufacturers chased low-wage opportunities on their own, many more were driven out of the state by the increasing cost of doing business here.
It is a myth that unions improve wages. If you consider only the 1,000 jobs in a closed shop, you might think an average union wage is, say, $30/hr. But if you add in the zero wages of the 10,000 jobs lost in companies chased out by union harassment, the average of all 11,000 union workers is reduced to $2.72/hr. Do you know the average wage of union iron miners in this state? Zero. And the left is fighting hard to keep it that way in Northern Wisconsin - looking out for the working man, they call it.

It is also a myth that free trade causes job losses. Over the past three years, U.S. manufacturers sold $70 billion more goods to our Free Trade Agreement (FTA) partners than we bought from them. Conversely, we suffered a $1.3 trillion trade deficit with countries where no FTA’s exist. I doubt that kids are going to learn that in our government-union monopoly schools – it doesn’t fit the narrative.

No one wants to see another person suffer in poverty, and liberty is the best economic policy there is. The great industrialists of Wisconsin took less than a generation to lift millions up to a life of dignity, pride, prosperity and good will. When enterprise was free and government was limited, we all prospered.

Those great men of industry were not anointed at birth to be rich; they rose from nothing to great wealth through their own hard work and the value they added to their employees and their customers through choice, competition, and voluntary exchange. That is the only sure path to real prosperity; the debt economy is a temporary illusion.

Look again at the list of our famous industrialists and the list of our current employers. Who would you wish your child or grandchild to grow up to be? Who do you think will do more good on this earth – Jerome I Case and his tractors, or the Coordinator of Supplier Diversity at MPS.
If you chose MPS, then apply now – that job is open, and it pays up to $72,000 plus benefits and early retirement. Go in peace and save the world. Me, I'm going with the tractor guy.

Moment Of Clarity” is a weekly commentary by Libertarian writer and speaker Tim Nerenz, Ph.D. Visit Tim’s website www.timnerenz.com to find your moment.

A Parental Disgrace

2012-01-04T17:43:00.000-08:00

...and an example of what our wonderful academic world puts out on the street. I wonder if they know from where the overpaid salaries are coming from.

Thanks to our St. Joseph MI contributor, Bill J. for getting this to us.

Twelve Years Old--But Now it is REALLY Scary

2012-01-03T15:49:00.000-08:00

Perfect Example Of A Rookie At Work

2012-01-03T13:31:00.000-08:00

What did you expect from someone that had NEVER accomplished anything except a masterful skill in bullshitting.

Deja Vu

2012-01-03T13:12:00.000-08:00

I am really concerned about North Korea's appointment of the "dear leader", Kim Jung Ill's youngest son to be the new leader of North Korea -- a nuclear power!

After all, Kim Jung Un (pronounced Kim's young-un?) hadNO military experience whatsoever before daddy made him a four-star general in the military. This is a snot-nose twerp who has never accomplished anything in his life that would even come close to military leadership: he hasn't even so much as led a cub scout troop, let alone coached a sports team or commanded a military platoon.

So, setting that aside, next they make him the "beloved leader" of the country. Terrific!!!

Oh, crap! I'm sorry. I just remembered that we did the same thing here, We took a community organizer who has never worn a uniform and made him Commander-in-Chief; a guy who has never led anything more than an ACORN demonstration and made him the leader of this country.

Never mind.

Obama's Only Economic Success. Liquidity in your invesment portfolio.

2012-01-02T20:47:00.000-08:00

"Liquidity" is when you look at your retirement portfolio and piss your pants !!! Thanks Barack you dumbshit !!!

"And then we told 'em, "You can keep all the money you earn, after you share it with everyone that isn't earning any, and the dumbshits went for it."!!!

The Welfare Dude.... Oldie but Goodie and Welcome to 2012

2012-01-02T17:51:00.000-08:00

A guy walked into the local welfare office to pick up his check.

He marched straight up to the counter and said, "Hi. You know, I just HATE drawing welfare. I'd really rather have a job."

The social worker behind the counter said, "Your timing is excellent. We just got a job opening from a very wealthy old man who wants a Chauffeur and bodyguard for his beautiful daughter. You'll have to drive around in his new Mercedes-Benz CL, and he will supply all of your clothes. Because of the long hours, meals will be provided. You'll also be expected to escort the daughter on her overseas holiday trips.

And, this is rather awkward to say, but you will also have as part of your job assignment to satisfy her sexual urges as the daughter is in her mid-20's and has a rather strong sex drive."

The guy, just plain wide-eyed, said, "You're bullshittin' me!"

The social worker said, "Yeah, well .... You started it."

A Voice From the Past. So what's new ??

2012-01-01T23:01:00.000-08:00

POLITICAL INCORRECTNESS 2012

2011-12-30T15:59:00.000-08:00

Posted: Dec 29th 2011

by Burt Prelutsky

Apparently the Obama family holiday in the islands will run us taxpayers $4,113,038, and that’s not counting Sno-cones, leis, surf board rentals and assorted Hawaiian souvenirs. Still, it’s hard to begrudge the man his vacation. After all, for months now, it’s been one damn fund-raiser after another, broken up only by a daily round of golf and an hourly excoriation of Republican congressmen. A schedule like that can take it out of anyone.

I probably shouldn’t be making fun of Obama. After all, I have it on good authority -- the U.S. attorney general, no less -- that the only reason anyone would criticize either of them is because of their race. Frankly, I have to admit I hadn’t thought of it that way. I honestly thought that people criticized Eric Holder because, among other things, his Department of Justice had green-lighted Operation Fast and Furious, which resulted in the murder of an American border agent, and because he had refused to indict the Black Panthers for voter intimidation. I was also naïve enough to believe that most Americans were opposed to Obama because of ObamaCare, the trillion dollar stimulus and because he admitted that he wasn’t entitled to a second term if he failed to turn around the economy during his first term.

On the other hand, at the risk of being labeled a racist, I must confess that I personally don’t like Obama. For one thing, I can’t stomach his arrogance. During his “60 Minutes” interview with Steve Kroft, he bragged that in modern times no president, except for FDR, LBJ and Lincoln, had accomplished more than he during their first two years in office!

Quite a stretch to refer to Lincoln’s administration as modern times, but no more of a stretch than to boast about a record that includes ObamaCare, caving in to Russian demands by selling out Poland and Czechoslovakia, and a trillion dollar stimulus whose major achievement was to help lower America’s credit rating for the first time in history.

Compared to this egomaniac, even Donald Trump manages to look humble.

I also don’t like Obama’s attacking Republicans in the House and Senate, claiming they won’t compromise, when we all know that when he says compromise, what he really means is capitulation.

For instance, he told us that the moratorium on payroll taxes had to be extended or the typical middle class family would be hit with $1,000 more in 2012 taxes. But, for mysterious reasons, Chairman Obama only wanted it extended for two months. When the Republicans said a two-month moratorium would only result in pro-rated savings of $167, and suggested the bill should cover the entire year, thus saving the folks the other $833, Obama insisted they were being unreasonable.

In case you missed it, during a recent congressional hearing, Rep. Dan Lungren spent nearly five minutes trying to get Obama’s Assistant Defense Secretary for Homeland Defense, Paul Stockton, to simply acknowledge that we are at war with violent Islamic extremists. At the very least, he tried, but failed, to get Stockton to admit that violent Islamic extremists are at war with us. He couldn’t even get him to confirm that an official with the Defense Department said, shortly after Major Hasan massacred 14 people at Fort Hood, “Losing our program of diversity would be an even greater tragedy than what took place.”

But whether or not Stockton acknowledged it, that is how the wishy-washy boneheads in this administration and in this commander-in-chief’s military establishment deal with national security concerns. Even though Major Nidal Malik Hasan had “Soldier of Allah” on his business cards and Yemen-based terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki on speed dial, no one in the Army dared suggest the major belonged either in the brig or an insane asylum. I’m sure political correctness is also the reason that Bradley Manning, a mere private, but an acknowledged homosexual, got away with removing tons of top security documents from government files.

After all, if you’re a Muslim or gay, nobody can even dare challenge you, lest he see his own career go down in flames. Such is the tyranny of diversity, multiculturalism and political correctness, in America today.

Hell, a gay Muslim could probably stroll into the White House and toss a stink bomb into Lincoln’s bedroom without anyone’s daring to question his presence.

Finally, in North Korea, when Kim Jong-Il recently kicked the bucket, a great many of his countrymen took strong exception to his young son, Kim Jong-Un, taking his place. But even they were ultimately won over by the slogan “Anyone but Obama.”

Excuse the vulgarity !!!

2011-12-22T11:43:00.000-08:00

Sometimes down and dirty descriptions are about the only thing that describes a situation. I think this qualifies.

From my mailbag this morning from J.

"Fred ..
Three asshole buddies.

All guilty of defrauding the public, none who have any idea where the money went.

HISTORY AND PRESENT..FOR OLDTIMERS "THE DIAMONDS"

2009-01-25T11:06:00.000-08:00

WE HAVE SOME ELVIS MUSIC LOVERS

2009-01-12T10:10:00.000-08:00

I've had a few emails from fans of old music when I posted the "Do-Wop" site. Remember you can bookmark the web address to your Favorites for play anytime. And, as long as we are there I have attached another sight you may like. The Elvis Wurlitzer Jukebox. You get a big archive of his music and the sing- along lyrics too.

Click HERE for Elvis and other choices.

GREAT OLD MUSIC--44 CLASSICS

2008-12-19T08:54:00.000-08:00