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Lying Bastards

While not a surprise, you can just feel the dishonesty when you hear the weasels shilling for Obama's "Tax Cut":

"...the "tax cut" referred to amounts to an average $8-a-week reduction in Social Security taxes deducted from paychecks (and does not relieve those workers from the tax liability at year's end). And, for those who pay no income tax, it is in the form of checks called "rebates." If you don't pay taxes there is nothing to rebate. What they amount to are transfers from Americans who pay taxes to those who don't, a.k.a. welfare."  Obama's Tea-Leaf Readers

So, if I'm saving $450 bucks in withholding, I guess you could imply I might gain about $30 in interest during the year I hold that money before I have to give it to the bastards anyway.  That's IF you pay taxes.  If you don't actually pay any tax, you just get free money from those who do.  

So, essentially he saved me one tank of gas for the car.  Or less, if cap and trade passes.

Big whoop.

Lying bastards@!

Obama's Wonderful Sense of Irony

Ya gotta love this guy.  Here's today's choice quote:

"A high-speed rail corridor through the industrial Midwest – linking Toledo, Detroit, Chicago and more – is one of the potential recipients of billions of dollars in funding in federal grants announced Thursday morning by President Barack Obama"  

Story here at the FREEP.

He dismantles the car companies and uses our scarce tax dollars to build a high speed train that will NEVER break even as a business, so we can travel to Chicago to go shopping!  

And we are supposed to feel good about this?

Tea Party in Lansing / April 15

I went to the Tax Day Tea Party in Lansing on April 15.  It was a beautiful day, and a nice time at the party.  The crowd numbered about 4,000 by my estimate, and was super nice and well behaved.  I met folks from all over the state, saw Joe the Plumber, and basically commiserated about our excessive government with like minded folks who are also upset at the direction our country has taken.

There is coverage all over the internet, but this excerpt from Hot Air summarizes my feelings on the matter pretty well:  York: Look for Tea Party meaning in the small towns

"Just as the raiders protested tax policies imposed on them from a distant and mostly unresponsive British government, the American people have finally tired of power moving away from localities and states and to a federal government much more interested in pork patronage than in the actual priorities of each community.

That impulse does not belong solely to the Democratic Party. Republicans have fed at the pork trough, which creates more federal power over the money of the American people and less control over the governance by the citizenry. The founders never envisioned having the entire nation run by 535 people in the District of Columbia, with the states subservient to the mandates of Congress and the President. They imagined a nation that mostly governed itself, with a federal government that had the authority to enforce the Constitution and to defend itself."

Translation:  it's a lot easier to prevent Mayor DeSana from spending $1.5 million on a useless marina than it is to keep Momma Kilpatrick from giving $1.5 million to those thugs from ACORN.

I'm sure there will be more Tea Parties.  And I think this kind of grass roots activism will make a difference in 2010.  

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Carbon Taxes and Wyandotte

One pillar of Obama's plan is energy, more specifically alternative energy.  One key element of his plan is to make traditional forms of energy, like coal, really expensive so folks will use other sources.  

Carbon Taxes To Hit Big Coal Electric States Hardest

While Wyandotte is putting up some windmills, they will only account for 5% or so of our total energy needs.  And because of cap-and-trade, the cost of the other 95% of our energy will go up up up.

Just sayin'.

Dumping on Obama

It's getting boring, dumping on our new President.  He makes it soooo easy.  He's a bumblng fool of a socialist, all stoked up wtih his Saul Alinsky methodology and supported by the drive-by media.  He's Jimmy Carter all over again, with the sickly smile and a Kenyan half brother as the family buffoon.  

At some point, his reign will end and our country can get back to normal.  But we have to wait until 2010 to boot the useless Democratic Congress from our midst.  

My Easter Greeting to the Pirates

My plans to kick some Somali Pirate Ass:  

1)  Get 6 Navy Seals.  Launch them from a covert op submarine about 100 feet beneath the life boat where those pirates are holding our guy hostage.  Have them swim upward and explode out of the water.  2 Seals grab the hostage and pull him off the boat.  The others take one pirate each and kill him.  

2)  After the hostage is secured, we pick up the lifeboat (still containing the dead pirates) with a Seahawk Helicopter, take it to the pirate base, and drop it through the roof.  

3)  One minute later about 20 GPS-guided bombs level this pirate base, all other pirate bases and all their ships, having been previously identified and targeted by satellite, aircraft reconnaissance and UAVs. 

4)  Hillary Clinton goes on TV, and in her best snarky tone says that they better not do that again.

5)  Joe Biden goes to a news conference and praises the people of Iowa for a great grain harvest last fall.

Yeah, it's a fantasy.  At least numbers 1-3.  For all I know, 4 and 5 have already happened.

Oh, and Happy Easter.  

EVENING UPDATE:  Didnt' exactly happen as I foresaw, but close.  And 3 of the Pirates are now fish food.  

CNN: Hostage captain rescued; Navy snipers kill 3 pirates

By the way, I wonder if they were Muslim Pirates....

Our Contemptable President

Obama is heading for Jimmah Carter territory with his most recent antics in Europe.  Can't say it better than Ace of Spades:  President Obama's Attack on the U.S.

"The President's new comments aren't the mere embarrassments we've all come to expect from him over the past three months. Yes, he's a bumbling buffoon when it comes to representing America. It's not really something to get angry over. Rather, we'll just have to suffer until he and his wife learn on the job how to comport themselves with a little dignity.

On the other hand, this latest speech was planned and plotted, a neon-lighted "Fuck You" directed right at us while he campaigns for European Suck-up of the Year. And that is something to get angry over, the quisling fucker. The Powerline Guys use words like "contemptible", "reprehensible", "slanderous." All true, but it doesn't go far enough. 

This guy is going to stand up Over There and badmouth Americans and President Bush? He's a coward with an inferiority complex, a desperate desire to win the approval of his perceived European betters. What an ass."

Yes, he's an ass.  A very dangerous ass. 

Cryin' Towels and Really Small Violins

As a public service, I offer a cryin' towel and a free play of the "really small violin" to those Democrats and Liberals who are now upset, and with some reason.  I've been upset since W turned the Republican party into a group of wild spenders.  I can empathize with your irritation, having seen you witness:

- the end of the no tax increase promise with today's increase on cigarettes

- no more fiscal sanity with the return of larger deficits than even the evil Republicans were able to create

- the abandonment of Michigan and all those union jobs after being promised you would be taken care of

- the war is still going on, and we're sending more troops to Afghanistan

- since the Mayor sold us out, Carolyn Kilpatrick won't cross the Rouge River to explain anything

- witnessing the hipocracy of those tax cheats being exposed when nominated for cabinet posts

- finally realizing that we can't spend our way out of this mess, we have to grow our way out

And that's probably the worst...having to admit that Reagan was right.  

Wah Wah Wah.