<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523</id><updated>2012-02-09T14:43:28.300-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Middle American Party</title><subtitle type='html'>I will use this blog to do three things. One, provide a voice of opposition to the liberal controlled government. Two, to track their progress on promises they made to get elected (to see if they ever deliver.) Three, to vent, educate, and to work through my own frustration.

Please read the ground rules if you wish to respond to this blog.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>63</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-4556169585392773508</id><published>2010-02-04T11:13:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-04T11:18:09.053-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Education The Entire U.S needs</title><content type='html'>I am not going to tell you, just watch:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Video #1: &lt;a href="http://www.wimp.com/thegovernment"&gt;http://www.wimp.com/thegovernment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Video #2: &lt;a href="http://www.wimp.com/realtrue/"&gt;http://www.wimp.com/realtrue/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;The U.S. is filled with morons.  Don't be one of them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-4556169585392773508?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/4556169585392773508/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=4556169585392773508&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/4556169585392773508'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/4556169585392773508'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2010/02/education-entire-us-needs.html' title='Education The Entire U.S needs'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-2823197741466088665</id><published>2009-11-17T14:42:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2009-11-17T15:12:29.616-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Sign of the End</title><content type='html'>Listen closely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are financial experts that are not on the government's payroll talking about a day when all this spending our brilliant Marxist government is spending is going to come back and bite us right on our butts. It is going to be bad, really bad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is why:  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We don't produce anything in the U.S.A anymore.  Take a look around you.  Your T.V., your toaster, your car, your phone, anything, most of it, I will bet 75% of it is made outside the U.S.  Tell, me what do you produce at work?  Me?  I make money when people move money, but I don't make anything, I don't produce something out of raw materials.  Almost no one does in the U.S. Almost all the people in the U.S. work in middle man industries reliant on others producing and still others buying.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, what we have is rampant unemployment.  Because people are not buying from each other. I bet a shinny nickle that you bought less this year than last.  This means your neighbor made less this year than last, buys less from you, and so on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So where does this lead us?  For most of you, you're out there thinking, "soon it will get back to normal and the recession will be over."  You're wrong. There is no going back to normal.  Something is happening and you better get prepared.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is the signs and there is more than one economist out there screaming his head off trying to get people to listen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your going to wake up one morning and the Dollar, the Pound, and many other currencies are going to be down 10-25%.  You won't know it, because they don't report this kind of thing. For a few days, nothing will change, but then after a few days, there will be a meeting with world leaders who will hold a summit on a new world currency and within days the dollar will crash,  What happens next is weeks if not months of chaos, confusion and economic devastation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When this happens, you will have a small window.  If you are watching the dollar, you'll see it drop, there will then be a loll when nothing happens.  If you were smart, you would go out and buy a ton of durable goods and food stuffs. By the time the government lest you know, it will be too late. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is the best place to watch the dollar: http://www.fxstreet.com/rates-charts/usdollar-index/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And for those of you who think this could never happen, ask yourself two simple question:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How long could you spend like this government and not go completely bankrupt?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why would this liberal Marxist government want to stop it from happening?  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If it happens, they get what they always wanted, a New World Order, one currency, and the complete death of democracy and capitalism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Still think it's a stretch?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-2823197741466088665?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/2823197741466088665/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=2823197741466088665&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/2823197741466088665'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/2823197741466088665'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2009/11/sign-of-end.html' title='The Sign of the End'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-4767054976459072674</id><published>2009-11-16T13:39:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2009-11-16T14:19:30.382-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Our Bowing Idiot</title><content type='html'>While I spent the weekend snorkeling in Cabo San Lucas, Obamassiah AGAIN does something that tells you how he feels about this country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He bowed to the Emperor of Japan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not a big deal you say?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You are a moron, I say.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is the leader of the free world bowing to the Emperor of a foreign country.  If that is not a big deal, what is? How many times is he going to have to &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;show &lt;/span&gt;you what he believes in before you stop listening to what he is telling you he believes in? It is just another in a long line of ACTIONS that speak louder than words.  His actions tell us that he is ready and willing to bow to others as he wants the U.S. to bow to others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then the White House denied that he bowed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ARE YOU SERIOUS? How many times is this administration going to get caught on tape or in a photograph before they realize that that EVERYONE HAS A CAMERA IN THEIR CELLPHONE?  How are these idiots running our country?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He didn't mean anything by it, you say.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, my foolish feeble minded Obamacrack junkie, I say.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are only two scenarios here. One, he knew exactly what he was doing.  OR two, he and his staff are so incompetent, so inept, so "can't find their asses with both hands" stupid that no one told him of the hailstorm Clinton caused in 1994 by only slightly bowing to the Emperor. Better yet, they are so inanely brainless and dimwitted that they could not remember that they were raked across the coals less than a year ago when Obamassiah bowed to the Saudi Prince and caught all hell from it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So Obamacrack heads, which one do you want?  A leader who willingly bows to another government knowing full well that the action speaks volumes about his true intentions for this country, OR a leader and administration who is too incredibly stupid to know that bowing is the wrong protocol. (Don't give me the 'his staff didn't know' crap either.  What is he paying these people for?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Either one is fine with me.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-4767054976459072674?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/4767054976459072674/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=4767054976459072674&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/4767054976459072674'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/4767054976459072674'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2009/11/our-bowing-idiot.html' title='Our Bowing Idiot'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-5486188670668629083</id><published>2009-11-10T14:45:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2009-11-10T15:30:15.373-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Liberal Media End Game</title><content type='html'>For months now, I have been trying to figure out what the liberal media's end game is.  It is the media for crying out loud!  They make their money when they can spin corruption and fear.  They sell more papers and get more viewers by doing a tell all.  Obamessiah should be making them rich! (come on now, did you see the one where the Russian diplomats wouldn't even shake his hand?! CLASSIC) With all the blunders and gaffs this blowhard has been in, the media should be crucifying the liberal in cheif and making a killing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But they are not, and they are failing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Network news used to charge $280,000 for a 25 second commercial.  Now they are reporting that they can only get $130,000.  Newspapers have lost 30-60% of their readers in the last two years, Top magazines are printing less than half as much as they did a year ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why would they let the biggest liar, the easiest mark, the village idiot, and the corrupt Chicago politics bastard child get a free pass?  What is their end game?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then it dawned on me. . .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;State controlled media.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They all want him to succeed.  When he succeeds, freedom dies, capitalism dies, free markets die, and the government will control the media. This is their end game.  They want a piece of the pie when he makes his move to control the media.  They want to be left standing, even if he controls them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Short sited liberal Morons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If only they had a model to test to see if it worked. Like a cable news channel that caters only to liberal thought.  A joint venture between really rich ivory tower types and liberal news people.  One where they could spew out all the liberal propaganda they wanted and see who was listening.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apparently no one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During the news cycle of the Fort Hood shootings in November 2009 more people were watching Animal Planet then CNN or MSNBC.  Ouch!  More people were interested in the dead Crocodile Hunter than what the talking heads at CNN or MSNBC had to say.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And you think your chances are better with state run media?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Morons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Three times as many people watched FOX news. Oh and remember, we all own guns, cling to our religions, and get our information from Glen. Oh and if it hadn't occurred to you, we will be the only ones left who have gold to buy anything with. Hey liberal media brainiacs, you bet on the wrong horse. Half of the country is against you.  Of the remaining half, more of them would rather watch a rerun of a dead guy than listen to you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sucking up to Obamessiah doesn't sound so good now does it?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-5486188670668629083?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/5486188670668629083/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=5486188670668629083&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/5486188670668629083'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/5486188670668629083'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2009/11/liberal-end-game.html' title='The Liberal Media End Game'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-6361877480943031689</id><published>2009-11-04T15:43:00.005-07:00</published><updated>2009-11-04T16:01:46.871-07:00</updated><title type='text'>V The Anti Obama/ liberal  Series</title><content type='html'>For anyone who missed it here is the plot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Visitors appear out of nowhere.  Before people know the truth they suck every small minded, freebie wanting, city dwelling, person into their cult by promising anything they want.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They gave them free health care. But it is not what it seems.  The underlying truth is that universal health care is nothing more than a ploy to exploit the people. (Oh and to make sure the food chain is disease free.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They tried to silence their critics, control the media, and eliminate anyone who opposes their plan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They convince the youth that their parents are bad and know nothing about what the world is facing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, they are not what they seem.  They have been planning this for years.  Infiltrating the highest levels of government, military, organizations and sports teams.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The visitors don't care about the people of earth, they want to have power over them, make them do what they say, oh and eat them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Glen Beck makes an appearance too, right before a little ball of death tries to kill him for starting the revolution.  Glen lives and becomes a galvanizing force that will destroy the V's.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wow.  Sounds like the last year and a half.  (But, Obamessiah is not as good looking as Inara Serra, I mean Morena Baccarin.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can't wait to see how it ends. Oh right.  I know how it ends.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-6361877480943031689?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/6361877480943031689/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=6361877480943031689&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/6361877480943031689'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/6361877480943031689'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2009/11/v-anti-obama-liberal-series.html' title='V The Anti Obama/ liberal  Series'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-8166187254985014555</id><published>2009-11-04T15:18:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2009-11-04T15:43:27.636-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Obamacrack, I just like saying it</title><content type='html'>So, now with things changing I thought I would come out of obscurity and start posting a little here and there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let me start by letting you in on three little known secrets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.  Americans are the stupidest educated people on the face of the planet.  Half of the country went from being a massive lie detector able to tell with 100% certainty that George W. was lying, to slobbering, nodding, chill up their pants ninnies, that cannot detect a lie when it is being read from a teleprompter by their never truthful snake charmer.  Stupid people.  When are you going to learn that governments lie.  That is what they do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2.  Saving jobs is not an economic principle.  You either loose jobs or create them.  You don't save them.  Think of it this way.  If you have a town where everyone is employed in two factories. if the government closes down one factory eliminating half the towns jobs, they don't get to claim they saved the other half.  Morons.  And you believed them?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3.  Glen Beck is Zeus.  Listen to anyone who is anti Beck.  Do they debate the issues?  Nope.  Do the open a debate about policy, people, ideas?  Not a chance.  They bash him as a person.  That is all they can do.  He is dead on.  He is two weeks ahead of the liberal media. He single handedly started the revolution.  Hey progressive dorks, keep underestimating him. Keep thinking he's a right winged nut.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Isn't that what England thought of the wacked out freedom freaks in the new colonies? They were just a bunch of reject farmers. What could possibly happen?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course Obamassiah and his media lackeys say that the tea parties and astro turf nuts are nothing to worry about. They have to be telling the truth right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did you already forget the first secret I told you? Morons.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-8166187254985014555?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/8166187254985014555/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=8166187254985014555&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/8166187254985014555'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/8166187254985014555'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2009/11/obamacrack-junkies-rock-on.html' title='Obamacrack, I just like saying it'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-1070154325328535465</id><published>2009-09-16T11:13:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-16T11:39:16.240-07:00</updated><title type='text'>What Happened?</title><content type='html'>I haven't written in a long long time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It isn't because I had nothing to say.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is because my frequent use of the word Obamacrack and other drug terms caused my internet filter to block my own blog.  It then was blocked for hate (because of my tone towards government and particularly Liberals, and then for racism because in one of my pieces I told you that I must be a racist because i disagree with Obama.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Commies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is amazing is what I told you would happen is happening.  go back and read my entries and you'll see.  What I told you was going to happen is happening.  Useless government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the best part is those stupid, astro turfing, paid, mob mentality, ignorant, Fox News Junkies and overall wonderful people are starting to take back the government.  It isn't the Republicans, it is regular people who now realize that the silent majority cannot be silent anymore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Revolution baby! Bring it on!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-1070154325328535465?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/1070154325328535465/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=1070154325328535465&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/1070154325328535465'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/1070154325328535465'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2009/09/what-happened.html' title='What Happened?'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-6404165305026436357</id><published>2009-04-29T14:56:00.006-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-11T11:37:54.516-07:00</updated><title type='text'>100 Days on Obamacrack</title><content type='html'>Lets have a status report shall we? (This is a much toned down piece than the original one I wrote. The other had too many swear words in it to leave here. My Net Nanny was blocking it so I couldn't even read it.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here were the ten things he promised and how I feel he is doing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. End the war in Iraq.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nope. He got into he oval office and got a real briefing on what is going on and decided to keep the troops where they were. Oh, and just in case that war didn't go well, he spent the first three weeks of his administration doing everything he can to make &lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt;US&lt;/span&gt;weaker and a prime target for the next attack. So he can have his own war.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. Make the U.S. energy independent.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No drilling, no clean coal, no nuclear reactors. Nope we are still as hooked to the middle east oil. I sure hope that they get the windmills up and running because &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Obama's&lt;/span&gt; energy plan BLOWS! (or sucks depending on which way the windmill is turned.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. Create Jobs.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yep, he created hundreds of shovel ready jobs. Too bad his fiscal policy ruined any traction we once had and millions of real people who had real jobs (you know good paying non-shovel using jobs) are out of work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4. Bring unity to the U.S. Listen to the other side of the isle.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Five words: Most divisive President in history. He only stretched his hand across the isle to slap a seventy-year-old war &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;veteran&lt;/span&gt; and to steal all the cash he had in his wallet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5. Repair our economy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yep. it sure "Feels" like our economy is coming around. Too bad we financed what little success this Blowhole gave us with every last dime of our children's future. I look at my not quite &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;teenage&lt;/span&gt; daughter and shed a tear. She doesn't even have a chance. He has already spent her future to get what he wanted right now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6. Bring down the cost of health care/ universal health care&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Being uninsured. I hoped that this might get somewhere. But, nope. All we get is a "down payment." Kind of like layaway. You pay as you go, then you get to keep it, only to find out you don't want it anyway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;7. Tax cuts for the middle class under $250,000.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nope, with cap and trade and letting Bush's tax cuts expire, every person in the U.S. (except those who don't pay taxes) are going to be paying more. Just think, he didn't raise taxes at all, and still was able to lie to your face as he slipped his hand into your pocket. Dirty Pervert!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;8. Improve foreign relations.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, if you think that being apologetic and conciliatory to terrorists, bowing to foreign oil cartels, and not understanding U.S History good foreign relations, yep he's 100%.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;9. Keep America safe.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not in a million years. He quietly selling us off, pimping us out, and destroying the U.S.'s ability to strike back. You'd be a fool if you didn't recognize the yellow bastard. One of the first things he did was appease the Muslim extremists. Yeah good luck with that one. I hope they cut off his outstretched hand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10. Solve the entitlement programs of Social Security and Medicare.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What people don;' understand is that this is a time bomb. It is the exact same issue GM is dealing with. GM is about to go bust under his omnipotent leadership. So is medicare and SS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So where does this leave us? While the main stream media is having their &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Obamaffair&lt;/span&gt;, the rest of us are going to have to figure out if we have enough ammo yet to take back our country, and at what point we say enough is enough?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nope the first 100 days on &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;ObamaCrack&lt;/span&gt; was enough for me. I'd like to be sober please.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-6404165305026436357?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/6404165305026436357/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=6404165305026436357&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/6404165305026436357'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/6404165305026436357'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2009/04/100-days-on-obamacrack.html' title='100 Days on Obamacrack'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-4061257556421902270</id><published>2009-04-16T14:35:00.005-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-30T13:46:54.439-07:00</updated><title type='text'>And Everyone Said Bush was an IDIOT</title><content type='html'>So you're still some one who thinks that George Bush was too stupid to run the country and that Mr. Obama with all his education, and fancy soliloquy is much better equipped to lead the free world?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You are obviously on &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Obamacrack&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama hasn't got a clue and you are too stupid to recognize it because you are blinded by all the flash bulbs going off with this paparazzi farce of a president to see that he is the biggest joke in history. I didn't much like Bush, but at least everyone knew of his short comings INCLUDING HIM. Obama in all his hubris can't find his political butt with both hands and the media, all of his loyal subjects and people too stupid to know the difference between a statesman and a snake oil salesman keep giving him a pass.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So ask yourself:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics,would you have approved? &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;(He would have been vilified by the liberal media. Don't think for one second they would have let him off the hook as saying it was a poor attempt at humor.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If George W. Bush had given Tony Blair a set of inexpensive and useless (to Tony Blair's UK video formatting) DVDs, when Tony Blair had given him thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved? &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;(This is a slap in the face and proves that he hasn't got a clue. A DVD? Are you kidding me? Might as well have been porn.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;iPod&lt;/span&gt; containing videos of his speeches, would you have approved? &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;(What a narcissist! What kind of people are whispering in this idiots ear? 'Yeah Bro, I bet the Queen would love to sit with her feet up and just listen to your silky, smooth voice.' '&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Heh&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;heh&lt;/span&gt;, dude, you said silky.')&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have approved? &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;(If another liberal media &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;bafoon&lt;/span&gt; tells me that he didn't bow, I am gonna puke. It is one thing to lie about landing in in a war zone when there are no cameras. It is another to lie when it is on film for everyone to see. Why would you lie about it? How stupid is this guy? Let's examine exhibit A shall wee. . .)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent "Austrian language," would you have brushed it off as a minor slip? &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;(Hey Liberal media! Isn't this the exact issue you had with &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;Phalin&lt;/span&gt;? Turns out your horse doesn't know anything more than she did, and had less experience to boot.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current on their income taxes, would you have approved? &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;(This is the biggest hypocrisy and the smoking gun of this president. Ever wonder why liberals want to spend YOUR money, but they can't seem to pay &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;THIER&lt;/span&gt; OWN Taxes? If Socialism, or whatever they are trying to pass it off as this week, works so well, why are they not paying in all their income? Or why are they not paying their taxes AT ALL? Obama is a puppet, a troll, and a fool, but he sure knows who should be running our government, people with none of their money in it.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved? &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;(This one chaps my hide. If I were the CEO of that company I would have introduce Obama to my middle finger, more than once. Notice that he used public frenzy to make rash decisions? This man has no concept of standing firm, standing for what is right, or having morals. He just does whatever he thinks will get him more power. Narcissistic hubris, pure and simple.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If George W. Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved? &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;(Well, Bush did actually and he did it the same way Obama is doing it just not on the scale Obama is. But that is not the point! The point is that Obama is lying to you when he says that he has intentions or any other notion to cut taxes. Here's why. He can lower taxes and then take on more debt over a longer period that is exactly the same thing. it is like you paying your car off with a home equity line of credit. You owe more now, but the payments are smaller, but you have to pay for a longer period of time!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10years, would you have approved? &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;(No one would, but you and the liberal media are giving him a pass! He doesn't care about you, or the U.S. Want to know how I know? Stop and think, don't let the media, or your hate for &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;GW&lt;/span&gt; cloud your vision, don't let his smooth tongue slip you into an &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;obamacrack&lt;/span&gt; coma, stop and listen to what he says. He told you he wouldn't pass a bill unless you had time to read it. He passed the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;spendulis&lt;/span&gt; before even congress could read it. He said he was going to make politics more transparent, yet he is signing bills without media scrutiny, and without your input. He said he wasn't going to put lobbyists in government positions, but he did that too. For someone who cries "change is coming" he has done nothing to change it at all. He is the worst kind of liar. He does it to your face and you don't care.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;(Nothing. I am not impressed with a man who had every opportunity in his first 100 days to make good on the promises that he bought the election with. He has done everything in his power to show his followers that they were sheep following a wolf back into a boxed canyon, and yet his sheep are still crying out his name in praise as he thrashes them to pieces.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stupid Sheep.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-4061257556421902270?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/4061257556421902270/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=4061257556421902270&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/4061257556421902270'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/4061257556421902270'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2009/04/and-everyone-said-bush-was-idiot.html' title='And Everyone Said Bush was an IDIOT'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-4926310398794023999</id><published>2009-04-09T15:46:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-09T16:32:00.087-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Why there is a Right and Left, Blue and Red, Right and Wrong in America</title><content type='html'>We are fast approaching a time in the U.S. where we are polarized into three groups. I affectionately will call them, The Obamacrack Heads, the Rush Junkies, and the Rest of Us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Obamacrak Heads want you tho think that the world was screwed up by George Bush, and that Obama is here to save the day and correct all the wrongs with his powerful mouth. They want you to believe that you cannot take care of yourself, and that the government is here to save the day. They believe that religion and family values are outdated, and that freedom means what the government wants you to believe it is. They believe that a murderer on death row's life is precious, but an unborn baby is just a choice. They want to save the planet even if that means not saving the human race. They want energy independence, but are not willing to drill anywhere in the U.S. which leaves us a slave to Mid-East oil. They believe that the U.S. should apologize, unilaterally disarm, and present ourselves to the world for trial and give into the U.N. to be ruled by the New World Order. (Too harsh? I was trying to go for the full impact. Oh, I got it? Good, thanks.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the other hand. . .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rush junkies want you to believe that Obama represents the end of all things sacred and good in the U.S. They want the government to sleek back into he shadows so that unscrupulous big business can screw the people again. They believe that there should be a gun in every home and a Bible on every night stand. They believe that the government should butt out and let us live our lives. They believe the government should get out of the way of the constitution. They believe that a baby is precious, but we should be building electric benches to send all the murderers and terrorist to. They believe America should be strong so everyone else should just get out of the way and let us dominate. They want to drill all over the U.S. for oil, get rid of the Mid-East dependency, and become self efficient. They want to pollute the world to make a buck. They want judges to quit legislating from the bench, and for Congress to quit spending everyone elses money. (did I go far enough? I am not sure I captured a Liberals angst.... Oh well. I tried.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then there is the rest of us. We are somewhere in the middle, going to work, spending money, not really paying attention to what happens in Washington DC 'caus it really doesn't matter. I mean, if it really mattered, my income would stop, my credit cards wouldn't work, and the grocery store wouldn't be full waiting for me to buy stuff. Oh yeah, if it really mattered, Lexus wouldn't be selling $80k cars and people wouldn't be buying flat screen T.V.'s, right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am mean how bad could it get? I still have a job right? I still have money? Why do I need to listen to what is going on with our government? So they spend a lot, nothing is new. Yeah and there seems to be a war brewing, but hey, that doesn't effect where I am buying fast food today. Right? Come on, if things were really going bad, the news would tells us right? They would have our best interest at heart. I mean, come on, isn't all of this going to wash away in a couple of years? You know when the stock market rebounds and we all make our money back?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When the masses in the middle stop listening, do you know who gets louder? The people on the far left and right. You want to know why? Because the more you don't listen, the more there is to lose. I guess in their eyes, the more their is to gain. Control of your future is at stake, right now. The decisions you are not making right now, standing up for what you believe in and voicing your opinions, and making demands of your leaders will effect us the rest of our lives. The fact that most people are staying quiet is the most disconcerting aspect of everything that is happening right now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you think the Romans thought they would be superior forever? What about the Persians? The Khans? the English? Do you think they knew that their empire and era of prosperity was about to end? Or were they more worried about what's for dinner, or what they can buy with the change they had in their pocket?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I guess the middle masses were about as aware as the Rest of Us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you know what is sad? China knows.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hey middle masses! You know any Chinese?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Better start learning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-4926310398794023999?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/4926310398794023999/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=4926310398794023999&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/4926310398794023999'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/4926310398794023999'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2009/04/why-there-is-right-and-left-blue-and.html' title='Why there is a Right and Left, Blue and Red, Right and Wrong in America'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-1602501883003522794</id><published>2009-04-08T09:20:00.005-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-08T09:36:36.772-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Walking Away From Facebook</title><content type='html'>Today I made a decision. I am walking away from &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Facebook&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. No seriously. No more &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Facebook&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the same reason I don't carry my cell phone around with me anymore. Not for two years now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My business allows me to meet with a lot of people. I once had lunch with a very successful business man, when my cell phone rang. At the time, I had made it clear to all my clients that they could call me anytime and I would pick up the phone. So I did. I excused myself politely and took the call. When I came back, I was taught one of the most &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;important&lt;/span&gt; lessons I &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;have&lt;/span&gt; ever had.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;apologized&lt;/span&gt; to the business owner, after all, it wasn't a business meeting, we were just having lunch and talking about his business. He accepted, then told me &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;something&lt;/span&gt; I will never forget.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Life was &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;simpler&lt;/span&gt; when people could only reach us on our terms." He said. "Just because people can reach you, doesn't mean that they should. The day is fast &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;coming&lt;/span&gt; when we will not know when enough is enough, and society's eagerness to communicate will &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;corrode&lt;/span&gt; our ability to communicate. We will all be trying to say so much, that what everyone says will mean nothing."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since that day, I told clients to call me at my business, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;during&lt;/span&gt; business hours and I would be happy to talk with them. I told friends to call me at home at appropriate times, and kept &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;my cell&lt;/span&gt; phone for emergencies and for my family.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am much happier. Work stays at work, and I am not tied to my phone like an &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;addict&lt;/span&gt; tied to his &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;meth&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Facebook&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; was becoming the same thing. Just because people can access information about each other &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"&gt;doesn't&lt;/span&gt; mean they should.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But more importantly for me, It is one less thing I have to worry about &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"&gt;during&lt;/span&gt; the day.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-1602501883003522794?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/1602501883003522794/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=1602501883003522794&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/1602501883003522794'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/1602501883003522794'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2009/04/walking-away-from-facebook.html' title='Walking Away From Facebook'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-7488981853771692192</id><published>2009-04-03T10:23:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-03T10:28:00.480-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Despair, Apathy, Bliss, Warning</title><content type='html'>Sorry I haven’t blogged for a while.   I had to stop watching the news.  Every time I turned it on I felt more and more despair and had a hard time seeing from all the blood that was spurting out of my eyes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I put my head down at work and started to focus on saving my business, earning “Screw You, Obama” money and making sure I would last through this crisis.  By doing so, I actually became apathetic.  I couldn’t change the fact that political novice Obama and Queen Pelosi were setting a foundation that we will never recover from, so I changed my business and got my own house in order (gardens, food storage, guns and ammo, etc.( no I am not kidding)).  I didn’t have time to worry about what I cannot change until the next election.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What I found was bliss.  My garden is producing food on an almost daily basis now.  I am comfortable knowing that if all hell breaks loose I have enough to at least survive.  Watching food grow is incredibly hypnotic and calming.  Planting something and seeing it break through the dirt and become greed, or flower, or turn into something you can eat is amazingly blissful.  It is quite reminder that God is in control and we only need to align ourselves with his will.&lt;br /&gt;Which brings me to my next phase of warning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I only write this blog for myself and usually the only ones who ever read where my friends and family.  So this is for them as well as anyone who reads. . .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1.        This is not a normal recession.&lt;/strong&gt;  Do not believe anyone who tells you that this will be over soon and we will get back to normal.  There is no normal.  There are new factors involved now that have never been involved before.  There will be a new economy, one we have never seen before, and it will not be kind to us as it stabilizes. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a.        Banks are still not lending to businesses at the level that is necessary to function.  Many, many small businesses are at the brink of failure.  Small businesses employ 40-50% of the U.S. population.  IF they fail, larger and larger businesses will fail too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;b.      Commercial real estate is beginning to falter and foreclose just as the housing did a yar ago.  The same signs are there and it will have the same if not a larger effect then what has happened so far.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;c.       We do not produce much anymore.  Almost 63% of our GDP is based on the “exchange” of products and services not in production.  This means that it is like dominos.  One business fails and that will affect ten others that will affect ten others.  Look at people you know, think about what they do for a living.  Do they make something or do they service, exchange, or support those who do?  All those jobs are in jeopardy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2.       Your government is not your government.  They no longer represent you.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a.       Whether you like Obama or not, one thing is very clear.  He has no intention of keeping any of his promises.  Line for line, all the promises he made in speeches and on the campaign, have fallen away.  He has kept none of them.  Since taking office he has paid back every favor, every donor, and every special interest group that put him in office, at incredible disregard to you, its citizens and the country in whole.  He had plenty of opportunity to do what he promised, but never did.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;b.      The Congress and the Senate are no longer listening to their constituents.  They do not care.  There has never been a time where so many people are out do what is best for them, not the country.  It is appalling to see our system abused in this way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;c.       You can’t do anything right now.  Until there is an election all you can do is wait.  Our only hope is that enough people in the middle will see that they need to oust congress and senate to get new people with more level heads into the mix.  Our only hope is to replace as many people as we can with new ones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3.       Debt is crippling the country.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a.       In less than 12 months we have pledge to spend 4.6 years of tax revenue (when the economy is good).  This is like saying that you make $100k and you have $100k in debt, so to solve the problem you take on $460k in new debt to solve the old debt.  But here is the kicker, in a recession your salary is going to be cut 40%.  How are you going to repay the new debt with less when you couldn’t repay the old one?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;b.      Your government wants you to think that they are the only ones who can save you.  They will promise everything and produce nothing but make new promises to cover that up.  How do they do it?  By putting you in debt.  You pay taxed now, not because the government uses the money to make your life better, but to finance promises that can never be kept, and new promises to hide that fact.  Once it begins it will never end. Governments are like freight trains; once they get rolling nothing short of derailment will stop it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;c.       Your children will have less opportunity, not more.  All you need to do is look to the past and you will see that all empires die and new ones will begin.  China will be the next super power.  They are the only ones that are funding our debt, and your children will pay for it deeply.  The U.S. will shrink back into socialistic oblivion and will feed off the scraps from China just as Europe did from us the last 100 years.  Look to China for opportunities, maybe have your children learn Chinese.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4.       It will be a tough transition.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a.       The dollar is exactly like the stock of a company.  It is the stock of the U.S.  Right now it is being held up in the exact same way that Enron held up their stock.  The government has four sets of books, barrowing huge amounts of money from outside and from each of the books.  It will fail, just like Enron.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;b.      Think it can’t happen?  Why?  DO you think the U.S is so important that the rest of the world will not let it fail?  That is like saying that other companies will support Enron so it won’t fail.  Watch closely to what is happening with Russia and China, they are pushing for  things that erode the U.S’s economy and guess who is slapping them on the back and agreeing to it.  Your president.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;c.       Hillary Clinton has already used land rights to secure loans from China.  What does that mean?  It means when we can’t pay, they get land in the U.S.  What land?  Well, that is the question isn’t it?  China may just want the northern half Alaska.  And believe me, they won’t have a problem sucking ALL the oil out of the ground.  All you green idiots will be shot on sight when you try to protest it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;d.      The Dollar will fail.  There will be a time when nothing is available because of hyper inflation.  People don’t want to sell a load of potatoes for $500 when that $500 might be only worth $50 the very next day.  You will need your own storage, and your own bartering chips to survive the 3-6 months until it is stabilized.  Gee, three to six months, where have I heard this before?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;e.      When we come out, we will not know what to do, and most people will have to restructure their lives to survive.  We will all have to get back to basics.  You will not be making $100K a year selling anything.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Could I be wrong.  I pray I am.  I am not taking any chances though.  I would rather be prepared for it and have it not happen then be right and not be prepared.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For those who have ears let them hear.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-7488981853771692192?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/7488981853771692192/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=7488981853771692192&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/7488981853771692192'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/7488981853771692192'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2009/04/despair-apathy-bliss-warning.html' title='Despair, Apathy, Bliss, Warning'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-8425528958077528986</id><published>2009-02-17T08:16:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2009-02-17T08:25:45.079-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Messiah's comming.</title><content type='html'>Obama will arrive at my airport in Phoenix today and speak in a high school in my city on Wednesday. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can't get close enough to protest.  There is no "sanctioned area"  for protesters.  I guess he hasn't ticked off enough people yet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It makes me sad, so here is what I would have put on my signs and held them high.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"You Lied.  You brought no hope or change to Washington."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"You lied.  Your government is not transparent."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"You &amp;amp; Congress just robbed the American people."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have to admit, I feel helpless.  There are so many things wrong with what is going on right now, and most people don't care.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can't figure out how to make a difference. If the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;silent&lt;/span&gt; majority stays silent, the loudest of the minority takes over. If we don't put up a fight, we will always lose.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-8425528958077528986?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/8425528958077528986/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=8425528958077528986&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/8425528958077528986'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/8425528958077528986'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2009/02/messiahs-comming.html' title='The Messiah&apos;s comming.'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-1126037563132574705</id><published>2009-02-13T07:51:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-02-13T07:53:51.317-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Why I Voted Democrat This Last Election</title><content type='html'>Got this from a friend.  &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Obviously&lt;/span&gt; he didn't vote that way, but I thought it summed up a few things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He wrote:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I voted Democrat because I love the fact that I can now marry whatever I want. I've decided to marry my dog (as soon as she is 18; I'm not a pedophile).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I voted Democrat because I believe oil companies' profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene but the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 15% isn't. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I voted Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I voted Democrat because freedom of speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I voted Democrat because when we pull out of Iraq I trust that the bad guys will stop what they're doing because they now think we're good people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I voted Democrat because I'm way too irresponsible to own a gun, and I know that my local police are all I need to protect me from murderers and thieves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I voted Democrat because I believe that people who can't tell us if it will rain on Friday can tell us that the polar ice caps will melt away in ten years if I don't start driving a &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Prius&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I voted Democrat because I'm not concerned about the slaughter of millions of babies so long as we keep all death row inmates alive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I voted Democrat because I believe that business should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest away to the government for redistribution as THEY see fit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I voted Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite The Constitution every few days to suit some fringe kooks who would never get their agendas past the voters.  Face it; this is the legacy of "multiculturalism." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I voted Democrat because I like that idea that a tax cheat could become the tax chief.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I voted Democrat because my head is so firmly planted up my A-- that it is unlikely that I'll ever have another point of view.  (Party loyalty is very powerful--and it excuses me from learning the truth.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-1126037563132574705?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/1126037563132574705/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=1126037563132574705&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/1126037563132574705'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/1126037563132574705'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2009/02/why-i-voted-democrat-this-last-election.html' title='Why I Voted Democrat This Last Election'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-9175419373540546941</id><published>2009-02-12T10:44:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2009-02-12T11:46:15.752-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Excuse me while I blow a fuse</title><content type='html'>What happened to the guy who stumped across America talking about change and hope?  What happened to the guy that promised that he would reach across the isle and work with the opposition?  What happened to the guy who promised in his inaugural speech to be open and honest with his government? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What happened to that guy?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'll tell you what happened.  HE LIED! THEY ALWAYS LIE!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All you sanctimonious Obamacrack addicts would be in an uproar if this was a Republican.  But since he's a fellow liberal all of this is just hunky dory when he lies to your face, and forgets every promise that he made during campaigning.  He could sell your soul and all you can think about is "that audacity of hope." If you voted for this Bozo you were taken in the biggest scam in history.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Want proof?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Name one thing he has done that he promised to do? ONE.  Not five, ONE!  He isn't even trying to do most of the things you voted him to do. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"He's working on the economy."  You say.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Really?  Let's take a look shall we?  He could have worked for a bill that was ONLY stimulus and NONE of the PORK and it would have sailed through congress and the senate and be working for you weeks ago.  HE DID NOT DO SO!  He could have rained in Queen Pelosi and Prince William to get a bill that would actually help the U.S. HE DID NOT DO SO.  He isn't working for you.  He has no intentions of working for you.  IF HE HAD HE WOULD DO IT ON HIS FIRST ITEMS OF BUSINESS!  Why make a poor first impression?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If he really cared about you, about his promises, about the country, he would have made an extra concerted effort to be what he said he was in the first month.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;He did not.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What does that tell you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It has nothing to do with the Republicans.  This is how your president is acting.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-9175419373540546941?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/9175419373540546941/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=9175419373540546941&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/9175419373540546941'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/9175419373540546941'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2009/02/excuse-me-while-i-blow-fuse.html' title='Excuse me while I blow a fuse'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-1985037931612662976</id><published>2009-02-11T08:18:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2009-02-11T08:24:11.448-07:00</updated><title type='text'>What Rights?</title><content type='html'>This article chaps my hide. Someone please explain to me why a judge would even &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;allow&lt;/span&gt; this case to go to court.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Illegal aliens do not have rights to &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;trespass&lt;/span&gt; on private property.  They do not have rights to damage, litter, poop, or walk on a U.S. citizens land without permission.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Welcome to liberal hell.  Where people with no rights are given them by a government to stupid to understand that rights are earned not rewarded.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the Washington Times&lt;br /&gt;16 illegals sue Arizona rancher&lt;br /&gt;Claim violation of rights as they crossed his land&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="bylinelink" href="http://washingtontimes.com/staff/jerry-seper/"&gt;Jerry &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Seper&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a class="contactlink" href="http://washingtontimes.com/staff/jerry-seper/contact"&gt;Contact&lt;/a&gt;)Monday, February 9, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An Arizona man who has waged a 10-year campaign to stop a flood of illegal immigrants from crossing his property is being sued by 16 Mexican nationals who accuse him of conspiring to violate their civil rights when he stopped them at gunpoint on his ranch on the U.S.-Mexico border.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="Roger Barnett" href="http://washingtontimes.com/themes/?Theme=Roger+Barnett"&gt;Roger Barnett&lt;/a&gt;, 64, began rounding up illegal immigrants in 1998 and turning them over to the U.S. Border Patrol, he said, after they destroyed his property, killed his calves and broke into his home.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His Cross Rail Ranch near Douglas, Ariz., is known by federal and county law enforcement authorities as "the avenue of choice" for immigrants seeking to enter the United States illegally.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trial continues Monday in the federal lawsuit, which seeks $32 million in actual and punitive damages for civil rights violations, the infliction of emotional distress and other crimes. Also named are Mr. Barnett's wife, Barbara, his brother, Donald, and Larry &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Dever&lt;/span&gt;, sheriff in Cochise County, Ariz., where the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Barnetts&lt;/span&gt; live. The civil trial is expected to continue until Friday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The lawsuit is based on a March 7, 2004, incident in a dry wash on the 22,000-acre ranch, when he approached a group of illegal immigrants while carrying a gun and accompanied by a large dog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Attorneys for the immigrants - five women and 11 men who were trying to cross illegally into the United States - have accused Mr. Barnett of holding the group captive at gunpoint, threatening to turn his dog loose on them and saying he would shoot anyone who tried to escape.&lt;br /&gt;The immigrants are represented at trial by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;MALDEF&lt;/span&gt;), which also charged that Sheriff &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Dever&lt;/span&gt; did nothing to prevent Mr. Barnett from holding their clients at "gunpoint, yelling obscenities at them and kicking one of the women."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the lawsuit, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;MALDEF&lt;/span&gt; said Mr. Barnett approached the group as the immigrants moved through his property, and that he was carrying a pistol and threatening them in English and Spanish. At one point, it said, Mr. Barnett's dog barked at several of the women and he yelled at them in Spanish, "My dog is hungry and he's hungry for buttocks."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The lawsuit said he then called his wife and two Border Patrol agents arrived at the site. It also said Mr. Barnett acknowledged that he had turned over 12,000 illegal immigrants to the Border Patrol since 1998.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In March, U.S. District Judge John Roll rejected a motion by Mr. Barnett to have the charges dropped, ruling there was sufficient evidence to allow the matter to be presented to a jury. Mr. Barnett's attorney, David Hardy, had argued that illegal immigrants did not have the same rights as U.S. citizens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Barnett told The Washington Times in a 2002 interview that he began rounding up illegal immigrants after they started to vandalize his property, northeast of Douglas along Arizona Highway 80. He said the immigrants tore up water pumps, killed calves, destroyed fences and gates, stole trucks and broke into his home.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some of his cattle died from ingesting the plastic bottles left behind by the immigrants, he said, adding that he installed a faucet on an 8,000-gallon water tank so the immigrants would stop damaging the tank to get water.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Barnett said some of the ranch´s established immigrant trails were littered with trash 10 inches deep, including human waste, used toilet paper, soiled diapers, cigarette packs, clothes, backpacks, empty 1-gallon water bottles, chewing-gum wrappers and aluminum foil - which supposedly is used to pack the drugs the immigrant smugglers give their "clients" to keep them running.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He said he carried a pistol during his searches for the immigrants and had a rifle in his truck "for protection" against immigrant and drug smugglers, who often are armed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ASSOCIATED PRESS DEFENDANT: Roger Barnett said he had turned over 12,000 illegal immigrants to the Border Patrol since 1998.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A former Cochise County sheriff´s deputy who later was successful in the towing and propane business, Mr. Barnett spent $30,000 on electronic sensors, which he has hidden along established trails on his ranch. He searches the ranch for illegal immigrants in a pickup truck, dressed in a green shirt and camouflage hat, with his handgun and rifle, high-powered binoculars and a &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;walkie&lt;/span&gt;-talkie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His sprawling ranch became an illegal-immigration highway when the Border Patrol diverted its attention to several border towns in an effort to take control of the established ports of entry. That effort moved the illegal immigrants to the remote areas of the border, including the Cross Rail Ranch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"This is my land. I´m the victim here," Mr. Barnett said. "When someone´s home and loved ones are in jeopardy and the government seemingly can´t do anything about it, I feel justified in taking matters into my own hands. And I always watch my back."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-1985037931612662976?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/1985037931612662976/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=1985037931612662976&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/1985037931612662976'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/1985037931612662976'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2009/02/what-rights.html' title='What Rights?'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-8746098076371790382</id><published>2009-02-10T08:41:00.005-07:00</published><updated>2009-02-10T09:18:56.905-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Let's do some math shall we?</title><content type='html'>Although there is great debate on the actual amount of money that our government has tried to pump into our system with the old bills, the new one's and the emergency spending, the popular figure is over $9 trillion dollars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What would that buy?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama says it will save or create 4 million jobs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If he is correct, each of those 4 million jobs cost us $2,250,000 each. Where do I go to get one of those jobs?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It would also pay for 78% of all the mortgages in America, including every one of the "sub prime" mortgages that caused this whole mess.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now I ask you, what could you do to help the economy if you no longer had to pay a mortgage payment every month?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If we had this type of money, socked away somewhere in the government's coffers, why wouldn't they pay off all our mortgages?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Answer: The government is no longer here for your benefit. They exist for their own.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because this money is 'fiat currency' (not backed by gold), not 'specie currency' (backed by gold), your government (both Bush and Obama) have just begun printing money with reckless abandon. We don't have $9 trillion. They just made it up, born from thin air, hoping you didn't notice while you tell the surveyor that Obama get high marks for the job he's doing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are a country of elected morons, that we allow to ruin our future, re-elect them to continue to do nothing but pad their own pockets and the pockets of their friends.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is time to revolt. What would our forefathers have done? Did they sit back and allow the English government to tax and spend for them?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-8746098076371790382?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/8746098076371790382/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=8746098076371790382&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/8746098076371790382'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/8746098076371790382'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2009/02/lets-do-some-math-shall-we.html' title='Let&apos;s do some math shall we?'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-8628464295492788230</id><published>2009-02-09T12:02:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2009-02-09T12:39:13.510-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Those who have ears let them hear</title><content type='html'>I spent a lot of time this past week, as some of you did too, studying Mathew Chapter 13. It struck me that there are a lot of similarities from that time a couple thousand years ago and our time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this chapter Jesus Christ taught the people in parables. Why did he teach them in parables? His reasons were two fold.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First, parables are a unique way of telling everyone a story that has multiple meanings. To some, it meant a nice little story. To others it had deep meaning that they needed to ponder. But to those who knew, it meant specific things in specific ways, that had specific results.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Second, it was a way to convey information out in the open, even though it might not be for everyone who can hear.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thus the saying, "Let those who have ears hear."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Right now we are in the midst of an economic crisis which the prevailing government has chosen to use to grab power, change the course of our country, disrupt Conservative beliefs and morals, and implement their own. It is nothing less than a pivotal point in our country's development.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They are buying votes with special interest spending.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Right now the president is going on a whirlwind tour to get people to accept his Spedulis Plan. He wants people to pressure congress, no scratch that, Republicans to vote for the bill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Problem: He doesn't need the votes. If the democrats wanted to pass the bill there is nothing the Republicans can do about it. They just need to vote and be done with it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But they won't. Not without Republican finger prints on it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"Let those with ears hear, and those with eyes see."&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why don't the Democrats vote for it pass it and get on with it if it is so important?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why will they not risk their own political capital by passing it themselves?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why are they so concerned about Republican support?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"Let those with ears hear, and those with eyes see."&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why don't the democrats scale down the bill, cross over and add some of the Republican ideas to get more support?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why are democrats hell bent on leaving in spending that has no place in a stimulus bill, that if they took it out, it would have more support?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why is the president traveling and rallying support for a bill written in congress that the White House only had a small amount of input on?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"Let those with ears hear, and those with eyes see."&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-8628464295492788230?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/8628464295492788230/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=8628464295492788230&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/8628464295492788230'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/8628464295492788230'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2009/02/those-who-have-ears-let-them-hear.html' title='Those who have ears let them hear'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-4881851491542241937</id><published>2009-02-08T08:01:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2009-02-08T08:22:37.859-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Wake Up Call</title><content type='html'>As I watch the news, which I rarely do anymore, I see people gushing at this new political wonder.  Pick any station ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC they all have a serious, unabashed, flaunting crush on the liberals and Obama.  They swoon when he talks, they're hearts go all a flutter when he meets with them, and their news casts do everything they can to give him the best possible light, while trying to do all they can (without even a morsel of regret) to destroy anyone who has a conservative voice or opinion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So here's some common sense:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You're a moron if you think Obama is going to spend his way out of this recession.  Go read about FDR and how his spending didn't stop the depression only WWII did that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You're a moron if you think that the world is going to be safer with liberals in charge.  Muslim extremists don't want to sit around a campfire and sing, give you a hug, or exchange phone numbers. They want to kill you, me and everyone else.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You're a moron if you think that Obama's energy policy is going to help you in any way.  He does not want to drill anywhere.  He does not want nuclear power.  He does not want coal.  He does not want to process shell. All he wants to do is tax the oil companies and harness wind and solar.  You are simply a moron if you think that is going to help our country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You're a moron if you think that "sharing wealth" helps you.  Obama and his liberal lackeys can spread the wealth around all they want, but it won't ever do two things.  One, it will not create jobs.  Two, it will not help people climb out of the dole. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You're a moron if you think Global Warming is science rather than political.  For years people who did not believe all the rhetoric about G.W.  were made fun of.  Now it is my turn to laugh.  You are a moron if you believe that it is more about science than it is about politics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You're a moron if you think that the government will create jobs. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You're a moron if you think that congress is there to help you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You're a moron if you think that actors or actresses in Hollywood should be listened to just because they have a stage to say  something.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You're a moron if you listen to the news without thinking, What a bunch of morons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How did you get to be a moron?  Go back and watch more news until you figure it out.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-4881851491542241937?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/4881851491542241937/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=4881851491542241937&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/4881851491542241937'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/4881851491542241937'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2009/02/wake-up-call.html' title='Wake Up Call'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-7448556594646530524</id><published>2009-02-05T14:50:00.005-07:00</published><updated>2009-02-05T15:22:05.587-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Go Big for the Environment: Refridgerator Lust</title><content type='html'>O.K. this is the dumbest thing I have ever read in my entire life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People are unplugging their refrigerators for good, to lessen their carbon footprint.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, breathe, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, wipe tears, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, breathe, ha ha ha ha ha ha whoops, sorry, I wet myself a little.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No seriously, it's a badge of honor that they can get ride of their refrigerator. See for yourself,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/garden/05fridge.html?_r=2&amp;amp;pagewanted=all"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/garden/05fridge.html?_r=2&amp;amp;pagewanted=all&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My favorite part of the article is :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;em&gt;PEOPLE who do best without a refrigerator often have certain built-in lifestyle advantages — they live alone and don’t have to cook large meals for a family, say, or they live on a farm or within walking distance of a grocery store."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So these people, these enlightened ones, who are the shinning light of liberalism and enviromentalnuttyism, live where? Big cities, liberal bastions on either coast?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I once heard a comedian say that if the power went out in NYC that within a week, half the population will cannibalize the other half.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Without fridges, it will happen a lot sooner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is stupid because these are the same people who go out to eat at restaurants, WHO USE POWER. They want to shop at grocery stores, THAT USE POWER. They ride public transportation, THAT USE POWER. And they live in cities, THAT USE POWER! What good is giving away your fridge to lesson the "carbon footprint" if everything else you do in your life also takes power?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Idiots. Power monks. Carbon Nazi's. The article actually says we have refrigerator lust. Morons. I got a better way for you to lesson your carbon footprint that won't be so annoying. Move to the woods, take off all your cloths, and live like the animals you think you evolved from. I bet monkey's carbon footprint is ZERO!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, and by the way, the reason that they live alone is not because they don't have a refrigerator, it is because they don't believe in showering either. "Water is precious, why waste it on our bodies."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-7448556594646530524?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/7448556594646530524/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=7448556594646530524&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/7448556594646530524'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/7448556594646530524'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2009/02/go-big-for-environment.html' title='Go Big for the Environment: Refridgerator Lust'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-125874746959893243</id><published>2009-02-05T14:21:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-02-05T14:46:11.558-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Why do they need so much money?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span&gt;As I read through this "stimulus" bill I keep thinking to myself, why do they need all this money? Then today I read this quote:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The great French economist Frédéric Bastiat called politics “the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I want to put something in focus for you.  I was a "Community Organizer" in a differnt life.  Except I ran a grant to work with gang kids in the early 1990's. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;My budget was more money then Obama's.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;I employed more people than Obama did.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;I got paid 1/10th of what he got paid.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;When I was at budgeting meetings, I was told that whatever I did, I needed to expand my budget.  I needed to figure out how to use anything, any crisis, any event, I could to get more money from the state, the feds, and from private donnors.  That was the name of the game.  "Expand while you can."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This governement is using your fears for power grab.  But, I still can't figure out what the end game is.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Can someone please tell me what liberals gain if they win the country, but kill the economy?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-125874746959893243?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/125874746959893243/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=125874746959893243&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/125874746959893243'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/125874746959893243'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2009/02/great-french-economist-frederic-bastiat.html' title='Why do they need so much money?'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-5604288814088982848</id><published>2009-02-04T15:54:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2009-02-04T15:58:30.399-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Queen Pelosi Speaks</title><content type='html'>Want to see what type of idiots are running  your congress?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8hMJVXt09E"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8hMJVXt09E&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And people thought &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;GW&lt;/span&gt; was an idiot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Queen &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Pelosi&lt;/span&gt; is a moron.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I bet you didn't know that you lost your job twice yesterday, twice today, and twice every day her spending package isn't &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;approved&lt;/span&gt;.  This means you have lost your job a total of thirty-two (32) times since Obama took office.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Moron.  I can't &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;believe&lt;/span&gt; this is who people chose to lead them.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-5604288814088982848?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/5604288814088982848/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=5604288814088982848&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/5604288814088982848'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/5604288814088982848'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2009/02/queen-pelosi-speaks.html' title='Queen Pelosi Speaks'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-8291847744867713505</id><published>2009-02-04T08:09:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2009-02-04T08:43:39.424-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Democracy 101:  For those who missed it the first time.</title><content type='html'>You don't live in a democracy. You don't vote on anything but &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;who&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; represents you. Then they go to Washington and they vote in your behalf. They are supposed to be honest, trustworthy, and good. They are supposed to weigh the issues, study it out in &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;their&lt;/span&gt; minds, and make the best decisions possible. They are supposed to represent the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;people&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They do not, and are not those people. This congress is the most &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;corrupt&lt;/span&gt; congress in the history of your country. they &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;neither&lt;/span&gt; care about you, nor do they care about how you feel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Want proof?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rep. Jim Cooper, a conservative Democrat from Tennessee, told a &lt;strong&gt;liberal radio network on Monday&lt;/strong&gt; that the Obama White House encouraged him to defy House Speaker Nancy &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Pelosi&lt;/span&gt; on the $819 billion economic stimulus bill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Well, I probably shouldn't tell you this, but I actually got some quiet encouragement from the Obama folks for what I'm doing," said Cooper, one of only 11 Democrats to vote &lt;strong&gt;against&lt;/strong&gt; the economic stimulus plan that passed the House last week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"They know it's a messy bill and they wanted a clean bill," he said. "Now, I got in terrible trouble with our &lt;strong&gt;leadership&lt;/strong&gt; because &lt;strong&gt;they don't care what's in the bill&lt;/strong&gt;, they just want it to pass and they want it to be unanimous."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cooper, whose startling admission came on &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;Liberadio&lt;/span&gt;, was one of about 55 House Democrats to sign a letter criticizing &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Pelosi&lt;/span&gt; for suspending debate and committee rules on the fiscal package.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"They don't mind the partisan fighting cause that's what they are used to. In fact, they're really good at it -- and they're a little bit worried about what a post-partisan future might look like," Cooper said during the radio interview. "If members &lt;strong&gt;actually had to read the bills and figure out whether they are any good or not&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;em&gt;We're just told how to vote&lt;/em&gt;. We're treated like mushrooms most of the time."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Still think this &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;government&lt;/span&gt; is representing you well? Think that they are doing a good job?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you do, you're a moron.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I guess I don't have enough money for them to represent me.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-8291847744867713505?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/8291847744867713505/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=8291847744867713505&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/8291847744867713505'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/8291847744867713505'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2009/02/democracy-101-for-those-who-missed-it.html' title='Democracy 101:  For those who missed it the first time.'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-5911367368588105106</id><published>2009-02-03T15:30:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2009-02-03T15:39:38.479-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Short, But Not So Sweet</title><content type='html'>I was contemplating the state of our Union when it occurred to me. . .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bush stuck by his guns, believed in his morals, did not falter in the face of opposition and was hated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Clinton swayed like a leaf in the wind, used polls to make policy decisions, crumbled when opposed and was loved by liberals everywhere.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama says one thing and does another, talks more about nothing of substance than any president in history, thinks it nothing in saying whatever is necessary to substantiate his position, and is considered a Messiah.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are one screwed up country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am scared at how stupid we have become.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-5911367368588105106?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/5911367368588105106/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=5911367368588105106&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/5911367368588105106'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/5911367368588105106'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2009/02/short-but-not-so-sweet.html' title='Short, But Not So Sweet'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-6798612995569701502</id><published>2009-02-02T12:42:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2009-02-02T12:49:36.560-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Nice Tax Plan</title><content type='html'>Now that the Dems have taken over I think we should stop doing what they say and just do what they do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Charlie Rangel, Timothy Geithner, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and most recently Tom Daschle have all NOT paid taxes.  That's right all the Dems leadership thinks that it is O.K. for everyone else to pay taxes, as long as they don't have to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can they honestly say they didn't know?  What idiot believes them?  Oh, that's right, Obamacrak addicts that are still filled with hope and excitement from his amazing performance so far.  Great job reeling in congress there buddy.  You're way ahead of my schedule for ruining this country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember when the Republicans had all thier little issues.  People lost their jobs, the media went nuts and the public attacked.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gosh it's quite. (chirp, chirp)  Where is the media now?  Where is the public outcry?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I guess that's what I get for having morals, and a job, and paying my taxes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'll just grab my ankles. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's another marble.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-6798612995569701502?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/6798612995569701502/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=6798612995569701502&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/6798612995569701502'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/6798612995569701502'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2009/02/nice-tax-plan.html' title='Nice Tax Plan'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-2660546834022415552</id><published>2009-01-30T08:18:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2009-01-30T08:44:48.845-07:00</updated><title type='text'>All Governments Lie: Liberals just do it better</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Democrats would have you believe that Bush's Lie about the Iraq &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;WMD&lt;/span&gt; was the world &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;biggest&lt;/span&gt;, but they are wrong. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Their&lt;/span&gt; own lie about global warming is the biggest, and has been &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;going&lt;/span&gt; on since the 1950's.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is how governments get brain dead citizens to go along with &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;their&lt;/span&gt; agendas. They lie. Then they lie to cover up the lie. Just like a three year old. The problem is there are no adults to call them on the carpet. Most people don't care, don't have time to care, and don't know enough to care. They have been taught to ignore &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;government&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Taught&lt;/span&gt; by the government to not notice.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So here's when people will care. 10 years from now when the U.S. is nothing more than a "has been," and China and Russia are making all the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;financial&lt;/span&gt; decisions and reaping the rewards. You see, China couldn't give a rat's &amp;amp;$% about global warming. Just like we didn't in the early 20&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;th&lt;/span&gt; century. They are going to use all &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;their&lt;/span&gt; natural &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;resources&lt;/span&gt; and not look back, just like we did. So will Russia. They will grow while we shrink with excess taxes and regulation. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;How do I know this? READ HISTORY PEOPLE! We know that China is in the same position we were in in the 1940's after World War II. They are about to explode economically. They have more resources, more people, more savings (Capital), and LESS REGULATION! While your new government is worrying about carbon footprint, China is going to pass us and become the world's super power.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let me put it another way. We don't make anything anymore. 3 out of 4 jobs in the U.S. exist ONLY because others have the money for excess stuff. Cell phones, Big screen T.V.'s, Luxury cars, bigger houses, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;processed&lt;/span&gt; food. But when we fail as an economy, all of those things go away, so do the jobs. Why would it go away? Oh, I don;t know, maybe because we are &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;borrowing&lt;/span&gt; $4 billion dollars a day to just keep afloat? Our government is spending out of control. Look at the indications, they are spending without abandon, without &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;oversight&lt;/span&gt;, and without a plan. WHY? because they don't know how to stop what is going on! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We don't recover from this. Either we crash economically, or we regulate ourselves into oblivion. The government is telling you with flashy &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"&gt;speeches&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"&gt;that&lt;/span&gt; everything is going to be O.K.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Remember the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"&gt;title&lt;/span&gt; of this piece: All &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"&gt;governments&lt;/span&gt; lie. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"&gt;Believe&lt;/span&gt; them if you want.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Call me a fear monger if you want. The signs of the times don't lie. Neither does history. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here's proof the the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19"&gt;Global&lt;/span&gt; warming Lie.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Amazing Story Behind the Global Warming Scam&lt;br /&gt;By John Coleman&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant and enact laws that tax we citizens for our carbon footprints. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Only two details stand in the way, the faltering economic times and a dramatic turn toward a colder climate. The last two bitter winters have led &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20"&gt;the&lt;/span&gt; public to be skeptical that any runaway global warning. There is now awareness that there may be reason to question whether CO2 is a pollutant and a significant greenhouse gas.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How did we ever get to this point where bad science is driving big government? And how will we ever stop it? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The story begins with an Oceanographer named Roger &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21"&gt;Revelle&lt;/span&gt;. He served with the Navy in World War II. After the war he became the Director of the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22"&gt;Scripps&lt;/span&gt; Oceanographic Institute in La &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23"&gt;Jolla&lt;/span&gt; in San Diego, California. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24"&gt;Revelle&lt;/span&gt; saw the opportunity to obtain major funding from the Navy for doing measurements and research on the ocean around the Pacific Atolls where the US military was conducting atomic bomb tests. He greatly expanded the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25"&gt;Institute's&lt;/span&gt; areas of interest and among others hired Hans &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26"&gt;Suess&lt;/span&gt;, a noted Chemist from the University of Chicago, who was very interested in the traces of carbon in the environment from the burning of fossil fuels. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27"&gt;Revelle&lt;/span&gt; tagged on to &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28"&gt;Suess&lt;/span&gt; studies and co-authored a paper with him in 1957. The paper raises the possibility that the carbon dioxide might be creating a greenhouse effect and causing atmospheric warming. It seems to be a plea for funding for more studies. Funding, frankly, is where &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29"&gt;Revelle's&lt;/span&gt; mind was most of the time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30"&gt;Revelle&lt;/span&gt; hired a &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31"&gt;Geochemist&lt;/span&gt; named David Keeling to devise a way to measure the atmospheric content of Carbon dioxide. In 1960 Keeling published his first paper showing the increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and linking the increase to the burning of fossil fuels. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These two research papers became the bedrock of the science of global warming, even though they offered no proof that carbon dioxide was in fact a greenhouse gas. In addition they failed to explain how this trace gas, only a tiny fraction of the atmosphere, could have any significant impact on temperatures. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now let me take you back to the1950s when this was going on. Our cities were entrapped in a pall of pollution from the crude internal combustion engines that powered cars and trucks back then and from the uncontrolled emissions from power plants and factories. Cars and factories and power plants were filling the air with all sorts of pollutants. There was a valid and serious concern about the health consequences of this pollution and a strong environmental movement was developing to demand action. Government accepted this challenge and new environmental standards were set. Scientists and engineers came to the rescue. New reformulated fuels were developed for cars, as were new high tech, computer controlled engines and catalytic converters. By the mid seventies cars were no longer big time polluters, emitting only some carbon dioxide and water vapor from their tail pipes. Likewise, new fuel processing and smoke stack scrubbers were added to industrial and power plants and their emissions were greatly reduced, as well.&lt;br /&gt;But an environmental movement had been established and its funding and very existence depended on having a continuing crisis issue. So the research papers from &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32"&gt;Scripps&lt;/span&gt; came at just the right moment. And, with them came the birth of an issue; man-made global warming from the carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33"&gt;Revelle&lt;/span&gt; and Keeling used this new &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_34"&gt;alarmism&lt;/span&gt; to keep their funding growing. Other researchers with environmental motivations and a hunger for funding saw this developing and climbed aboard as well. The research grants began to flow and alarming hypothesis began to show up everywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Keeling curve showed a steady rise in CO2 in atmosphere during the period since oil and coal were discovered and used by man. As of today, carbon dioxide has increased from 215 to 385 parts per million. But, despite the increases, it is still only a trace gas in the atmosphere. While the increase is real, the percentage of the atmosphere that is CO2 remains tiny, about 41 hundredths of one percent. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Several hypothesis emerged in the 70s and 80s about how this tiny atmospheric component of CO2 might cause a significant warming. But they remained unproven. Years have passed and the scientists kept reaching out for evidence of the warming and proof of their theories. And, the money and environmental claims kept on building up. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back in the 1960s, this global warming research came to the attention of a Canadian born United Nation's bureaucrat named Maurice Strong. He was looking for issues he could use to fulfill his dream of one-world government. Strong organized a World Earth Day event in Stockholm, Sweden in 1970. From this he developed a committee of scientists, environmentalists and political operatives from the UN to continue a series of meeting. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Strong developed the concept that the UN could demand payments from the advanced nations for the climatic damage from their burning of fossil fuels to benefit the underdeveloped nations, a sort of CO2 tax that would be the funding for his one-world government. But, he needed more scientific evidence to support his primary thesis. So Strong championed the establishment of the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This was not a pure climate study scientific organization, as we have been led to believe. It was an organization of one-world government UN bureaucrats, environmental activists and environmentalist scientists who craved the UN funding so they could produce the science they needed to stop the burning of fossil fuels. Over the last 25 years they have been very effective. Hundreds of scientific papers, four major international meetings and reams of news stories about climatic Armageddon later, the UN &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_35"&gt;IPCC&lt;/span&gt; has made its points to the satisfaction of most and even shared a Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the same time, that Maurice Strong was busy at the UN, things were getting a bit out of hand for the man who is now called the grandfather of global warming, Roger &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_36"&gt;Revelle&lt;/span&gt;. He had been very politically active in the late 1950's as he worked to have the University of California locate a San Diego campus adjacent to &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_37"&gt;Scripps&lt;/span&gt; Institute in La &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_38"&gt;Jolla&lt;/span&gt;. He won that major war, but lost an all important battle afterward when he was passed over in the selection of the first Chancellor of the new campus. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He left &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_39"&gt;Scripps&lt;/span&gt; finally in 1963 and moved to Harvard University to establish a Center for Population Studies. It was there that &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_40"&gt;Revelle&lt;/span&gt; inspired one of his students to become a major global warming activist. This student would say later, "It felt like such a privilege to be able to hear about the readouts from some of those measurements in a group of no more than a dozen undergraduates. Here was this teacher presenting something not years old but fresh out of the lab, with profound implications for our future!" The student described him as "a wonderful, visionary professor" who was "one of the first people in the academic community to sound the alarm on global warming," That student was Al Gore. He thought of Dr. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_41"&gt;Revelle&lt;/span&gt; as his mentor and referred to him frequently, relaying his experiences as a student in his book Earth in the Balance, published in 1992.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So there it is, Roger &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_42"&gt;Revelle&lt;/span&gt; was indeed the grandfather of global warming. His work had laid the foundation for the UN &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_43"&gt;IPCC&lt;/span&gt;, provided the anti-fossil fuel ammunition to the environmental movement and sent Al Gore on his road to his books, his move, his Nobel Peace Prize and a hundred million dollars from the carbon credits business.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What happened next is amazing. The global warming frenzy was becoming the cause celeb of the media. After all the media is mostly liberal, loves Al Gore, loves to warn us of impending disasters and tell us "the sky is falling, the sky is falling". The politicians and the environmentalist loved it, too.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the tide was turning with Roger &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_44"&gt;Revelle&lt;/span&gt;. He was forced out at Harvard at 65 and returned to California and a semi retirement position at UCSD. There he had time to rethink Carbon Dioxide and the greenhouse effect. The man who had inspired Al Gore and given the UN the basic research it needed to launch its Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was having second thoughts. In 1988 he wrote two cautionary letters to members of Congress. He wrote, "My own personal belief is that we should wait another 10 or 20 years to really be convinced that the greenhouse effect is going to be important for human beings, in both positive and negative ways." He added, "…we should be careful not to arouse too much alarm until the rate and amount of warming becomes clearer."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And in 1991 &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_45"&gt;Revelle&lt;/span&gt; teamed up with Chauncey Starr, founding director of the Electric Power Research Institute and Fred Singer, the first director of the U.S. Weather Satellite Service, to write an article for Cosmos magazine. They urged more research and begged scientists and governments not to move too fast to curb greenhouse CO2 emissions because the true impact of carbon dioxide was not at all certain and curbing the use of fossil fuels could have a huge negative impact on the economy and jobs and our standard of living. I have discussed this collaboration with Dr. Singer. He assures me that &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_46"&gt;Revelle&lt;/span&gt; was considerably more certain than he was at the time that carbon dioxide was not a problem. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did Roger &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_47"&gt;Revelle&lt;/span&gt; attend the Summer enclave at the Bohemian Grove in Northern California in the Summer of 1990 while working on that article? Did he deliver a lakeside speech there to the assembled movers and shakers from Washington and Wall Street in which he apologized for sending the UN &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_48"&gt;IPCC&lt;/span&gt; and Al Gore onto this wild goose chase about global warming? Did he say that the key scientific conjecture of his lifetime had turned out wrong? The answer to those questions is, "I think so, but I do not know it for certain". I have not managed to get it confirmed as of this moment. It's a little like &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_49"&gt;Las&lt;/span&gt; Vegas; what is said at the Bohemian Grove stays at the Bohemian Grove. There are no transcripts or recordings and people who attend are encouraged not to talk. Yet, the topic is so important, that some people have shared with me on an informal basis.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Roger &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_50"&gt;Revelle&lt;/span&gt; died of a heart attack three months after the Cosmos story was printed. Oh, how I wish he were still alive today. He might be able to stop this scientific silliness and end the global warming scam.Al Gore has dismissed Roger &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_51"&gt;Revelle's&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_52"&gt;Mea&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_53"&gt;culpa&lt;/span&gt; as the actions of senile old man. And, the next year, while running for Vice President, he said the science behind global warming is settled and there will be no more debate, From 1992 until today, he and his cohorts have refused to debate global warming and when they are asked about we skeptics, they insult us and call us names.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So today we have the acceptance of carbon dioxide as the culprit of global warming. It is concluded that when we burn fossil fuels we are leaving a dastardly carbon footprint which we must pay Al Gore or the environmentalists to offset. Our governments on all levels are considering taxing the use of fossil fuels. The Federal Environmental Protection Agency is on the verge of naming CO2 as a pollutant and strictly regulating its use to protect our climate. The new President and the US congress are on board. Many state governments are moving on the same course. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are already suffering from this CO2 silliness in many ways. Our energy policy has been strictly hobbled by no drilling and no new refineries for decades. We pay for the shortage this has created every time we buy gas. On top of that the whole thing about corn based ethanol costs us millions of tax dollars in subsidies. That also has driven up food prices. And, all of this is a long way from over. And, I am totally convinced there is no scientific basis for any of it.&lt;br /&gt;Global Warming. It is the hoax. It is bad science. It is a high jacking of public policy. It is no joke. It is the greatest scam in history.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;John Coleman&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1-28-2009 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-2660546834022415552?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/2660546834022415552/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=2660546834022415552&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/2660546834022415552'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/2660546834022415552'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2009/01/all-governments-lie-dems-just-do-it.html' title='All Governments Lie: Liberals just do it better'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-1654094919653660513</id><published>2009-01-29T14:44:00.008-07:00</published><updated>2009-01-29T15:51:39.430-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Excuse me for a moment while I blow a fuse. . .</title><content type='html'>Good thing all you people voted your conscience and voted for change. Good thing that when our economy is in trouble we have good leaders that are willing to put their careers on the line and do whats right. Good thing that they don't lie and then go behind our backs and do something else. Good thing we voted the right people in right when it mattered most. Good thing that they could focus on doing just one thing without attaching so much pork that it makes me proud.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, crap, none of that's true!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you voted for B.O and all his Liberal morons in congress, I hope your as excited as I am about this new stimulus bill that has absolutely no stimulus in it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's put their thinking to the test shall we? You and your family are $100k in debt. So naturally, in order to get out of that debt, you go on a $100k spending spree, right? Yeah, because that makes sense!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your government just screwed you in a way that no one ever, not in history, ever screwed their people before. And your still smiling and yelling "yes we can!" This great new government you voted in cares about you &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;sooooooo&lt;/span&gt; much, it hurts to watch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They took all that pent up anger they created by getting you to hate Bush, and put it into the all encompassing spending spree because they knew you wouldn't get it. Your still grinning from his inauguration speech and trying to dry your eyes. You're just so happy that he was elected that you aren't paying attention to the worst policy move in history. Way to go America in proving, that we are the most powerful group of brain dead organisms on the planet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember the Dixie Chicks? Ahead of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;their&lt;/span&gt; time in hating Bush? I hate &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Pelosi&lt;/span&gt;, Reed and Obama. So before everyone jumps on my bandwagon a year from now when inflation is 10%, unemployment is 33% and the government is in shambles, just remember that I said it here first.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the 250,000 people who lost their jobs this week. I hope you can find work in one of the following areas &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;that&lt;/span&gt; your government has given your money to. And for the other 500,000 people who will be out of work next month, I hope you find hope in spending your way out of debt. I'm sure your mortgage holder won't mind &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;waiting&lt;/span&gt; until we see if your spending spree works to solve your problem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Liberal morons. I hope you choke on all that hope.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the Family Research Council:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Speaker &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;Pelosi&lt;/span&gt;’s Payoffs and Pork Bill&lt;br /&gt;H.R. 1, “The American Recovery &amp;amp; Reinvestment Act of 2009”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Congressional Budget Office (&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;CBO&lt;/span&gt;) recently found that the cost of the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;Pelosi&lt;/span&gt;-Reid stimulus package now exceeds $1.1 trillion. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;CBO&lt;/span&gt; also estimated that only 7 percent of infrastructure money would make its way into the economy by the end of the year and only 38 percent would be spent by the end of the 2010 fiscal year. Senator Jeff Session’s (R-Ala.) office estimates the actual number going to tangible road and bridge construction is just a little more than 3 percent. Where is this money going to? A not exhaustive look at the 1,588 page legislation, H.R. 1, “The American Recovery &amp;amp; Reinvestment Act of 2009” shows the bill is more payoffs and pork then stimulus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many thanks to the website &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;readthestimulus&lt;/span&gt;.org and its participating organizations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;$20 million "for the removal of small- to medium-sized fish passage barriers." (Pg. 45 of Senate Appropriations Committee report: "20,000,000 for the removal of small- to medium-sized fish passage barriers)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;$400 million for STD prevention (Pg. 60 of Senate Appropriations Committee report: "CDC estimates that a proximately 19 million new STD infections occur annually in the United States ...The Committee has included $400,000,000 for testing and prevention of these conditions.")&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;$25 million to rehabilitate off-&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;roading&lt;/span&gt; (ATV) trails (Pg. 45 of Senate Appropriations Committee report: "$25,000,000 is for recreation maintenance, especially for rehabilitation of off-road vehicle routes, and $20,000,000 is for trail maintenance and restoration")&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;$34 million to remodel the Department of Commerce HQ (Pg. 15 of Senate Appropriations Committee report: $34,000,000 for the Department of Commerce renovation and modernization")&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;$70 million to "Support Supercomputing Activities" for climate research (&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;Pgs&lt;/span&gt;. 14-15 of Senate Appropriations Committee Report: $70,000,000 is directed to specifically support supercomputing activities, especially as they relate to climate research)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;$150 million for honey bee insurance (Pg. 102 of Senate Appropriations Committee report: "The Secretary shall use up to $ 50,000,000 per year, and $150,000,000 in the case of 2009, from the Trust Fund to provide emergency relief to eligible producers of livestock, honey bees, and farm-raised fish to aid in the reduction of losses due to disease, adverse weather, or other conditions, such as blizzards and wildfires, as determined by the Secretary")&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PAYOFFS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To the “Green” Lobby&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;$600 Million To Buy New Cars For Government Workers (Page 89) These cars would be “green” friendly cars – however very few gas pumps have the right gas to run these cars. The Federal government already spends $3.5 billion a year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;$10M for bike and walking trails (Page 65)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;$200M for plug-in car stations (Page 31)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;$400 million for NASA scientists to conduct climate change research (Page 22)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;$800 million to clean up Superfund sites (Page 122)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;$600 million for grants for diesel emission reduction (Page 119)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;$650 million for “alternative energy technologies, energy efficiency enhancements and deferred&lt;br /&gt;maintenance at Federal facilities” (Page 119)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;$1.5 billion for construction of “Green Schools” (Page 176)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To the Unions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;$1 billion to the controversial COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES COPS Hiring program “$150 billion in new federal spending, a vast two-year investment that would more than double the Department of Education’s current budget. The proposed emergency expenditures on nearly every realm of education, including school renovation, special education, Head Start and grants to needy college students” Sam Dillon, “Stimulus Plan Would Provide flood of Aid to Education,” New York Times. January 27, 2009.&lt;br /&gt;NOTE: Private and religious schools are excluded. &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/education/28educ.html?_r=1"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/education/28educ.html?_r=1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To the Abortion Industry&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Representative Henry &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;Waxman&lt;/span&gt; (D-Calif.) inserted in the original bill billions of dollars for family&lt;br /&gt;planning groups, including the abortion giant, Planned Parenthood. Pressure and public exposure from Congressional Republicans forced the Democrats to remove such funding from this bill. However the bill still provides billions in reforming the health care system and working towards nationalized health care – with little to no debate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;$2.7B in NIH grants which would be targeted to among other things embryonic stem cell experimentation. (Page 56)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other Special Interests&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;$3 Billion for Prevention &amp;amp; Wellness Programs, Including $335 million for STD Education and&lt;br /&gt;Prevention -- Recent government expenditures in this area include a transgender beauty pageant in San Francisco that advertised available HIV testing and an event called “Got Love? – Flirt/Date/Score” that taught participants how “to flirt with greater finesse.” $83 billion for the earned income credit for people who don't pay income tax. &lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123310466514522309.html"&gt;http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123310466514522309.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;$246 million for Hollywood&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/congressdaily/cda_20090127_9337.php"&gt;http://www.nationaljournal.com/congressdaily/cda_20090127_9337.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;$50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts (Page 122)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;$75 million for smoking cessation (Page 148). This contradicts the latest version of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;SCHIP&lt;/span&gt; that is funded largely by new taxes on cigarettes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;$4.19 billion open to ACORN. The &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"&gt;Pelosi&lt;/span&gt;-Reid bill makes groups like ACORN eligible for a $4.19 billion pot of money for “neighborhood stabilization activities.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MISCELLANEOUS PORK&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Some of the biggest winners in the package are federal agencies:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;$54 billion will go to federal programs that the Office of Management and Budget or the Government Accountability Office have already criticized as "ineffective" or unable to pass basic financial audits. &lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123310466514522309.html"&gt;http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123310466514522309.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;$462 Million for Equipment, Construction, and Renovation of Facilities at the Centers for Disease&lt;br /&gt;Control (CDC) (Page 137)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;$150 Million for Repairs to Smithsonian Institution Facilities (Page 128)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;$44 million to the Agricultural Research Service (Page 135)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;$227 million for oversight of the pork barrel spending in the stimulus (Page 11)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;$1 Billion for The Follow-Up To The 2010 Census (Page 49)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Discretion is given to governors and Mayors for how to spend a large chunk of the money. The U.S. Conference of Mayors recently sent Congress a $96.6 billion wish list of "shovel-ready" projects which now could be funded by the stimulus. These projects include: “$1 million for annual sewer rehabilitation in Casper, WY; $6.1 million for corporate hangars, parking lots, and a business apron at the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"&gt;Fayetteville&lt;/span&gt;, AR airport; 28 projects with the term "stadium" in them; and 117 projects mentioning landscaping and/or beautification efforts. The taxpayers should be most teed off at the 20 golf courses included&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-1654094919653660513?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/1654094919653660513/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=1654094919653660513&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/1654094919653660513'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/1654094919653660513'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2009/01/so-this-is-what-they-ment-by-change.html' title='Excuse me for a moment while I blow a fuse. . .'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-6623825084469979731</id><published>2009-01-29T08:34:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2009-01-29T15:15:33.391-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Stupid Stimulus:  You get what you vote for</title><content type='html'>Once again for all you addicts hopped up on Obamacrack, if you think this government is here to save you, man, you couldn't be more wrong.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This government cares so much about you that they are going to spend &lt;strong&gt;12%&lt;/strong&gt; of the $825 billion to help you in this economy. &lt;strong&gt;Wow, that's love&lt;/strong&gt;. (I've never seen a more compassionate government) But first, they are going to fund everything on their agenda regardless of how it helps the economy. (Like I have said time and time again, government can't create jobs! Rich people who own businesses do, you morons)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wake up! Our government is corrupt, abusive, out of control and lacks the simple ability to use common sense. Anyone who voted for B.O. or anyone who voted for this bill should be ashamed. They lied to your face, and you still believed. They kicked your needs to the curb the first chance they got and you still want to talk about hope. They have disregarded your voice, and went ahead with whatever they wanted without any consequences because your too stupid to know you got bent over! Get used to grabbing your ankles America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Congratulations. Your "audacity to hope," just got you 12%, when we need 112% from our government. There's some change you can believe in. (Get it? 12 cents of every dollar is change.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, by the way, Republicans unanimously along with 11 democrats voted against the bill. It's about time they started opposing this madness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the WSJ:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A 40-Year Wish List&lt;br /&gt;You won't believe what's in that stimulus bill.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Never let a serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is it's an opportunity to do things you couldn't do before."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So said White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel in November, and Democrats in Congress are certainly taking his advice to heart. The 647-page, $825 billion House legislation is being sold as an economic "stimulus," but now that Democrats have finally released the details we understand Rahm's point much better. This is a political wonder that manages to spend money on just about every pent-up Democratic proposal of the last 40 years. AP&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We've looked it over, and even we can't quite believe it. There's $1 billion for Amtrak, the federal railroad that hasn't turned a profit in 40 years; $2 billion for child-care subsidies; $50 million for that great engine of job creation, the National Endowment for the Arts; $400 million for global-warming research and another $2.4 billion for carbon-capture demonstration projects. There's even $650 million on top of the billions already doled out to pay for digital TV conversion coupons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In selling the plan, President Obama has said this bill will make "dramatic investments to revive our flagging economy." Well, you be the judge. Some $30 billion, or less than 5% of the spending in the bill, is for fixing bridges or other highway projects. There's another $40 billion for broadband and electric grid development, airports and clean water projects that are arguably worthwhile priorities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Add the roughly $20 billion for business tax cuts, and by our estimate only $90 billion out of $825 billion, or about 12 cents of every $1, is for something that can plausibly be considered a growth stimulus. And even many of these projects aren't likely to help the economy immediately. As Peter Orszag, the President's new budget director, told Congress a year ago, "even those [public works] that are 'on the shelf' generally cannot be undertaken quickly enough to provide timely stimulus to the economy."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most of the rest of this project spending will go to such things as renewable energy funding ($8 billion) or mass transit ($6 billion) that have a low or negative return on investment. Most urban transit systems are so badly managed that their fares cover less than half of their costs. However, the people who operate these systems belong to public-employee unions that are campaign contributors to . . . guess which party?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's another lu-lu: Congress wants to spend $600 million more for the federal government to buy new cars. Uncle Sam already spends $3 billion a year on its fleet of 600,000 vehicles. Congress also wants to spend $7 billion for modernizing federal buildings and facilities. The Smithsonian is targeted to receive $150 million; we love the Smithsonian, too, but this is a job creator?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another "stimulus" secret is that some $252 billion is for income-transfer payments -- that is, not investments that arguably help everyone, but cash or benefits to individuals for doing nothing at all. There's $81 billion for Medicaid, $36 billion for expanded unemployment benefits, $20 billion for food stamps, and $83 billion for the earned income credit for people who don't pay income tax. While some of that may be justified to help poorer Americans ride out the recession, they aren't job creators.As for the promise of accountability, some $54 billion will go to federal programs that the Office of Management and Budget or the Government Accountability Office have already criticized as "ineffective" or unable to pass basic financial audits. These include the Economic Development Administration, the Small Business Administration, the 10 federal job training programs, and many more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, and don't forget education, which would get $66 billion more. That's more than the entire Education Department spent a mere 10 years ago and is on top of the doubling under President Bush. Some $6 billion of this will subsidize university building projects. If you think the intention here is to help kids learn, the House declares on page 257 that "No recipient . . . shall use such funds to provide financial assistance to students to attend private elementary or secondary schools." Horrors: Some money might go to nonunion teachers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The larger fiscal issue here is whether this spending bonanza will become part of the annual "budget baseline" that Congress uses as the new floor when calculating how much to increase spending the following year, and into the future. Democrats insist that it will not. But it's hard -- no, impossible -- to believe that Congress will cut spending next year on any of these programs from their new, higher levels. The likelihood is that this allegedly emergency spending will become a permanent addition to federal outlays -- increasing pressure for tax increases in the bargain. Any Blue Dog Democrat who votes for this ought to turn in his "deficit hawk" credentials.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is supposed to be a new era of bipartisanship, but this bill was written based on the wish list of every living -- or dead -- Democratic interest group. As Speaker Nancy Pelosi put it, "We won the election. We wrote the bill." So they did. Republicans should let them take all of the credit.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-6623825084469979731?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/6623825084469979731/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=6623825084469979731&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/6623825084469979731'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/6623825084469979731'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2009/01/once-again-for-all-you-addicts-hopped.html' title='Stupid Stimulus:  You get what you vote for'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-3127740256257904602</id><published>2009-01-28T11:30:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2009-01-28T11:38:40.810-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Why our government can't get anything done.</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Headline: &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Chuck &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Grassley&lt;/span&gt; the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee Launches Inquiry Into Reports Alleging Fed Computers Used to View Porn.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two things that this explains.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First: This is the reason why nothing is getting done.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Second: It explains why although our country can split an atom, they won't use its vast power, endless resources, and &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;undimmed&lt;/span&gt; intellect to restrict &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Internet&lt;/span&gt; pornography, calling it freedom of speech. (Cause they are all &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;addicted&lt;/span&gt; and don't want it restricted.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Federal government, give me another marble.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-3127740256257904602?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/3127740256257904602/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=3127740256257904602&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/3127740256257904602'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/3127740256257904602'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2009/01/why-our-government-cant-get-anything.html' title='Why our government can&apos;t get anything done.'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-2755010755046687142</id><published>2009-01-27T10:01:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2009-01-27T10:21:15.275-07:00</updated><title type='text'>It took less than 6 days</title><content type='html'>Remember when the Liberals spent all of their time whining and complaining that President Bush lied and that was unacceptable to the American people?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It took Obama less than six days to lie to everyone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What was his lie? Let's go back to his inauguration speech, shall we? That great eloquence of this historical man, the liberal &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;messiah's&lt;/span&gt; message of hope and change. It wasn't that long ago, but for you A.D.D Liberals let's review. . .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He said, “Those of us who manage the public dollars will be held accountable. . . to spend wisely and do our business &lt;strong&gt;in the light of day&lt;/strong&gt;”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His point that he was going to conduct business in the light of day, right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then why did he give millions of dollars to fund overseas abortions behind closed doors? Why were the press not allowed to know before he did it? Why did he release a statement only after pushed?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because they all lie. That is standard operating procedure in Washington.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just thought I would point out to all you idiots that voted for Obama "change," He's no better than the man you used to hate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'd would now like a marble from all of you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On a different note, I talked with a friend who pointed out that we've gone from a president who couldn't find two coherent words to put together, to a man who's only substance is that he can put a whole slew of coherent words together.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He also said that it was the perfect storm that led to this "historic election." The U.S. would have elected a "a &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Spanish&lt;/span&gt; speaking, midget, transvestite, with one arm and a lisp, as long as it wasn't a republican or someone that even looked a little like Bush."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;That's&lt;/span&gt; kinda racist.  Well, I'll let you tell him.  He's a 6 foot 6, 375 pound, black guy who is proud of Obama in a &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;fashion&lt;/span&gt;, but is conservative too the core.)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-2755010755046687142?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/2755010755046687142/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=2755010755046687142&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/2755010755046687142'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/2755010755046687142'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2009/01/it-took-less-than-6-days.html' title='It took less than 6 days'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-8901925021665660300</id><published>2009-01-26T14:24:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2009-01-26T15:09:10.881-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Why our republic failed.</title><content type='html'>I’ve been thinking about this for a long time, a long time, but I have been unable to write it because I lacked the truly cynical POV needed to do it.  After this last weekend I think I found it so here goes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O.K., O.K. first a joke&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What do you call a liberal who believes it is better to save a death row inmate than an unborn child?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O.K. That’s not funny. . .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How about, what do you call a liberal who bows down to the God of Darwin, but won’t even speculate on God’s. . .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O.K. that’s not funny either.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let’s see, how about what is the difference between a liberal and a dead kitten. . .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just can’t do this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s not funny.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I turned off the news about a week ago.  I didn’t watch the Today show, the nightly news, or even HLN.  I just stopped.  I needed a break and so did my business.  I needed to just stop.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And something happened.  I started living the day to day things that I have to do to stay alive.  And none of them involved the government.  I planted a garden, went to church, played with my kids, ate home cooked meals, wished I had played Carcassonne over the weekend, but none of it, not one thing was attached to my being a citizen of the U.S.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then it hit me.  I knew it before, but it hit me in another way I never noticed.  I do not live in a democracy. Neither do you. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you lived in a democracy, you would play an active role in government every day. You would take part in government decisions every day.  It is not an opinion it is a fact.  And our founding fathers knew it.  They didn’t set up a democracy; they set up a Federalist Republic.  They set up a government where we elected officials to go to the federal or state governments and do the work in our behalf.  We choose them to go and represent us. They set us a system where we are supposed to be paying attention to our elected representatives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God help us, what have we done?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you know what congress did yesterday?  Me neither.  Do you know what they have done over the past three years? Nope, not a clue.  Did they represent you, how about me? No idea.  Do you know where to go to find out what they are voting on next week? Butkis, nada, does c-span have a schedule? I am not even sure I know how to get in touch with my representatives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don’t live in a democracy.  I didn’t vote on anything yet this year.  Instead I planted a garden, played with my kids, read the entire Twilight series, worked, looked at Facebook, created a new website and slept. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I haven’t checked to see if my representatives are representing me. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So my new goal now is to find out. My new goal is to become part of the republic and make sure my voice is heard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Right after I check my garden.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-8901925021665660300?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/8901925021665660300/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=8901925021665660300&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/8901925021665660300'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/8901925021665660300'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2009/01/why-our-republic-failed.html' title='Why our republic failed.'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-3718619359163346233</id><published>2009-01-23T09:03:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-01-23T09:03:00.468-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Whole World in His Hands?</title><content type='html'>The whole world loves Obama right? Maybe we should listen to those who have been down the road befreo we start walking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Daily Mail (UK) wrote this editorial about Obama on 1/6/2009. (confirmation, Google "London Daily Mail Obama's Victory")&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama's Victory--A British view&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A victory for the hysterical Oprah Winfrey, the mad racist preacher Jeremiah Wright, the US mainstream media who abandoned any sense of objectivity long ago, Europeans who despise America largely because they depend on her, comics who claim to be dangerous and fearless but would not dare attack genuinely powerful special interest groups. A victory for Obama-worshippers everywhere. A victory for the cult of the cult. A man who has done little with his life but has written about his achievements as if he had found the cure for cancer in between winning a marathon and building a nuclear reactor with his teeth. Victory for style over substance, hyperbole over history, rabble-raising over reality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A victory for Hollywood , the most dysfunctional community in the world. Victory for Streisand, Spielberg, Soros, Moore, and Sarandon. Victory for those who prefer welfare to will and interference to independence. For those who settle for group think and herd mentality rather than those who fight for individual initiative and the right to be out of step with meager political fashion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Victory for a man who is no friend of freedom. He and his people have already stated that media has to be controlled so as to be balanced, without realizing the extraordinary irony within that statement. Like most liberal zealots, the Obama worshippers constantly speak of Fox and Limbaugh, when the vast bulk of television stations and newspapers are drastically liberal and anti-conservative. Senior Democrat Chuck Schumer said that just as pornography should be censored, so should talk radio. In other words, one of the few free and open means of popular expression may well be cornered and beaten by bullies who even in triumph cannot tolerate any criticism and opposition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A victory for those who believe the state is better qualified to raise children than the family, for those who prefer teachers' unions to teaching and for those who are naively convinced that if the West is sufficiently weak towards its enemies, war and terror will dissolve as quickly as the tears on the face of a leftist celebrity. A victory for social democracy even after most of Europe has come to the painful conclusion that social democracy leads to mediocrity, failure, unemployment, inflation, higher taxes and economic stagnation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A victory for intrusive lawyers, banal sentimentalists, social extremists and urban snobs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Congratulations America!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yep, we are so proud for this historic president, I can't stand it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-3718619359163346233?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/3718619359163346233/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=3718619359163346233&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/3718619359163346233'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/3718619359163346233'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2009/01/whole-world-in-his-hands.html' title='The Whole World in His Hands?'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-4350405704937778283</id><published>2009-01-21T14:41:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2009-01-21T14:47:51.659-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Inauguration Revelations</title><content type='html'>(For those of you who still think this has something to do with racism I refer you to my December 16&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;th&lt;/span&gt; blog.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I watched the Liberal Messiah Tuesday at the Inauguration I was a little sickened by the idol worship the participants, attendees, and the media has for someone who, to be honest with you, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;hasn&lt;/span&gt;’t earned it. I was simply amazed at the crying and erratic posturing of a lot of the people. It scared me a little.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the revelations that came out of the inauguration were many, and scary, to those of us who were not overcome by the sheer presence of the Liberal Messiah.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First, from Diane &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Feinstein&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“Future generations will mark this morning as the turning point for real and necessary change in our nation. . .”&lt;/strong&gt; This is entirely based upon which line you draw in the sand. If you are a liberal, this day marked the moment that power shifted. If you are not, it is the moment that we lost ourselves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then the Liberal Messiah spoke:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“&lt;strong&gt;On this day we come to proclaim an end of petty grievances, the false promises and worn out dogmas that for far too long have strangled our politics . . . the time has come to set aside childish things. . .”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That is rich! For those of us who sat through the petty liberal fascists attacks on everything we believe in for the last two years! Everything and I mean everything was on the table. Liberals attacked every worthwhile, conservative idea with reckless abandon. They played dirtier than ANY republican in history, and NOW they want to proclaim an end? Nice. All I can say to that is %$#&amp;amp;^%% you stupid *&amp;amp;&amp;amp;^%$%^! You declared war, fought dirty and won, and now you want to put it all behind you? Good luck.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then my favorite moment of the Liberal Messiah’s indoctrination speech:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The question is not if the government is too big or too small, but if it is working. . . Where the answer is “no” those programs will end.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Really? Good let’s start with CONGRESS! What exactly have they done for the PEOPLE in the last four years? How about Welfare? Every state in the union last year has study that said that no one, not one state had a program that worked with the federal system. How about the U.S. Political campaign system and how the money works. How about Fannie May and Freddie Mac? How about the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;freggin&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;NEA&lt;/span&gt;, that has never worked. How about the Liberal fascist program called the National Association of Science? How about Social Security? Not one of these programs will change under his &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;worshipfulness&lt;/span&gt;’ regime. Not one of these will be put on the chopping block and none of these systems will end. He’s not unequivocally ready to make government work, he’s just posturing to do away with those portions he &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;doesn&lt;/span&gt;’t agree with. There &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;isn&lt;/span&gt;’t one government program that I can claim that works at all. So maybe it’s time to do away with the whole thing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another brilliant, eloquent prose that means something completely different from the Liberal Messiah:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He said, after talking about the founding fathers with such &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;slickery&lt;/span&gt;: “&lt;strong&gt;We will remake America”&lt;/strong&gt; not restore American. Notice that this &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;isn&lt;/span&gt;’t about putting us back, it is reforming us. Nice, I bet no one crying at the sight of him, noticed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then he said:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“Those of us who manage the public dollars will be held accountable. . . to spend wisely and do our business in the light of day”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well dammit, someone better get on the phone and tell &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;Pelosi&lt;/span&gt; and Reed because they are working to put government back behind closed doors and repeal all that the 1994 congress put in place to strip the democrats of their back room deals, their smoke screen leadership, and their morally challenged government style.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then the grand daddy of them all. The one that made me so mad that I wanted to chuck something at the T.V. The Liberal &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;ObamaCrack&lt;/span&gt; Addicts drink this up and don’t even know what it means:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“Success of our economy is based on the reach of prosperity.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Really? So our prosperity is defined by the number of people who are prosperous with us? Kind of like when everyone makes the same wage, or get the same benefits, or share in all the risk equally? How about we redistribute all the wealth so that the reach of prosperity is “far reaching?” Let’s start with Oprah. How about she chooses 100 people, I don’t care who they are, and redistribute all her wealth equally among them and see if she feels the reach of prosperity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stupid people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The laws of economics say that risk is rewarded, but few are willing to take the risk. That is why and how things get done. People are willing to only take the risk when they feel they will receive a reward that is large enough to overcome the risk. By definition, the reach of prosperity has no bearing on economics. Individuals get rich, get over it, they took the risk. When individuals get rich they do it by hiring other people, and providing jobs for others. Think about if there were no rewards for the risk of oil, we would still be sitting around our hearths playing the fiddle and wondering how the crops are going to fair this year. If there were no rewards for the risk of industrialization, you &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;wouldn&lt;/span&gt;’t be reading this, there would be no computers, no cars, no A/C, no &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;Wii&lt;/span&gt;, no &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"&gt;Las&lt;/span&gt; Vegas, no jobs and no future. If there was no rewards for the risk in food production, you would still be eating hard tack and whatever you could forage for. Do you honestly think that any of this would happen if your reward was the same as everyone else’s? Even if you did all the work, took all the risks, and expended all your time, but the reward was the same as someone who did nothing?! Do you really think that a future energy source is going to be found, created, manufactures, sold and managed by the government? Oh, that’s right because there is so many new inventions and progress coming out of Italy, France, Russia and China. Wake up! If I am going to be punished and taxed for taking the risk and being successful, I may rethink my business plan and hover right around mediocrity so I don’t get penalized. Oh, and by the way, the jobs I would have created won’t be there to fund the jobs that fund your job. So good luck in the future as we redistribute less and less, and the government taxes us all more and more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This shows me he &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"&gt;doesn&lt;/span&gt;’t have a clue about economics, he has a clue about socialism though.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For all you &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"&gt;Obamacrack&lt;/span&gt; addicts I say this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For all the hope you feel right now, I feel the same measure of despair.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"&gt;inauguration&lt;/span&gt; showed me that as citizens, we have lost all &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"&gt;semblance&lt;/span&gt; of what the founding fathers wanted us t0 become.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-4350405704937778283?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/4350405704937778283/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=4350405704937778283&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/4350405704937778283'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/4350405704937778283'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2009/01/inauguration-revelations.html' title='Inauguration Revelations'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-5791694555167801675</id><published>2009-01-20T17:17:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2009-01-20T17:19:59.220-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sorry, I'm in Mourning</title><content type='html'>I thought I would comment on the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;inauguration&lt;/span&gt; today, but I can't. Tune in &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;tomorrow&lt;/span&gt; for my reaction. I am in mourning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just kidding, I didn't have time.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-5791694555167801675?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/5791694555167801675/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=5791694555167801675&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/5791694555167801675'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/5791694555167801675'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2009/01/sorry-im-in-mourning.html' title='Sorry, I&apos;m in Mourning'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-1775431026868492899</id><published>2009-01-15T14:36:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2009-01-15T15:08:45.881-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Ascent of Money</title><content type='html'>I had been working on a rather lengthy blog about how this economic crisis happened, and school all you liberals, who blamed Bush on why it happened, but it turns out, someone already did it, and it came from a rather unlikely source.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PBS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, I am not a real fan of PBS. Yes, I occasionally watch several shows on this “public” station, but on the whole, I think that a governmentally subsidized “not for profit” entity that allows merchandising that makes millions for the producers, but not enough to pay for the show (think about it, Sesame Street makes millions selling merchandise, but needs millions of dollars from the government to put the show on PBS). Having gotten that off my chest. . . .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The show was called “The Ascent of Money” and I think that every American over the age of ten should have to watch it. I think Congress should have to watch it weekly, if not daily and I think that you should watch it now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ascentofmoney/video/watch-full-program-the-ascent-of-money/24/"&gt;http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ascentofmoney/video/watch-full-program-the-ascent-of-money/24/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, I know it takes two hours. SO WHAT? You can’t take two hours to learn what you should have to be classified as an adult? I promise that if more people watch this they will make better decisions, have less debt, and work to get our country back from spendthrift liberals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, I know that at one point the narrator says that George Bush says that he wanted 5.5 million more minority home owners, but it was individual members of congress who pushed Fannie &amp;amp; Freddie to loan to people who couldn’t qualify. Go back and read what Bush said, the whole statement, he was talking about people increasing their standard of living and being able to afford a mortgage. It was members of congress guided by groups like ACORN that pushed to give loans to people without jobs, people who couldn’t afford the payments, and people who would ultimately default on their loans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pay close attention to the last hour, and think about what this new government of ours is doing and what it is promising to do. It should scare the &amp;amp;^%$# out of you.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-1775431026868492899?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/1775431026868492899/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=1775431026868492899&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/1775431026868492899'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/1775431026868492899'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2009/01/ascent-of-money.html' title='The Ascent of Money'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-2263819637172820019</id><published>2009-01-13T16:12:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-01-13T16:15:58.440-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Fellow Americans</title><content type='html'>As an American, I am endlessly tired of the asylum in the Washington DC Beltway screwing up our country.  Whether Democrat or Republican, Conservative or Liberal, our elected officials are so drunk with power, so void of consciousness and so devout in their narcissism, that it is clear to everyone but themselves that they have brought us to the edge of implosion on the scale of the Roman, Greek, Egyptian and British Empires.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our Government was built on the fact that if it no longer worked, if it got too big, or unjust, or just plain too silly, we should rise up take back control and overthrow the government.  I fear we are reaching this stage much too fast.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, I have not given up hope.  I have but one life to give to my country, so I thought I might as well ask what I can do for my country.  For this reason I am forming an exploratory committee to explore my options of running for President of the United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So here is my foreign/ domestic policy platform:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) "The US will apologize to the world for our "interference" in their affairs, past &amp;amp; present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those "good 'ole' boys", we will never "interfere" again.&lt;br /&gt;2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany , South Korea , the Middle East , and the Philippines . They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one allowed sneaking through holes in the fence.&lt;br /&gt;3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave. We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of whom or where they are. They're illegal!!! France will welcome them.&lt;br /&gt;4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.&lt;br /&gt;5) No foreign "students" over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don't attend classes, they get a "D" and it's back home baby.&lt;br /&gt;6) The US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while&lt;br /&gt;7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go someplace else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.)&lt;br /&gt;8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not "interfere." They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if anything.&lt;br /&gt;9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island someplace. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.&lt;br /&gt;10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us "Ugly Americans" any longer. The Language we speak is ENGLISH.. learn it...or LEAVE.&lt;br /&gt;11) "The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses." She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling, 'you want a piece of me?'&lt;br /&gt;A special thanks to Robin Williams for outlining my Foreign / domestic policy so perfectly. I will strongly consider him for Secretary of State or Vice President.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;View of Abortion: (cause they say you can't get elected without a position, like that’s the guiding star we should all choose for electing our government) I believe in a woman’s right to choose, because it is the law.  I believe that if a woman is raped, or her health is in danger that she should have a choice.  I also believe that only the Supreme Court interprets that law. However, I believe in something more basic.  I believe that for most women, the right to choose took place BEFORE she got pregnant, in a bedroom, the back seat of a car, at prom, when she was drunk at a bar, or just because she didn’t want to say no.  I believe that is when she made the choice and was free to do so.  I believe that abortion absolves a woman of her first choice and should be applied universally.  If abortion is the law, and freedom to choose the outcome of our decisions is upheld, then that must be applied universally to all who “make a choice” but are unwilling to live with the result. Therefore, it should be illegal for children who smoke to get lung cancer, because they should have the right to choose.  Golfers, who slice the ball into the water, should not incur a penalty stroke for the hazard, nor the penalty of a drop, because they should have the right choose. Obese people should not have to endure the health problems of being overweight due to over eating.  They should also have the right to choose what they want to eat, without consequences.  In short, under this reasoning, anyone who does not like the outcome should be allowed to choose if they are willing to accept or reject that outcome.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;View of Personal responsibility:&lt;br /&gt;Hand in hand on my stance of abortion is my position on personal responsibility. I believe that everyone should be held responsible for everything.  All of us, responsible for everything.  It is all our fault.  Except in the cases of men who get women to the state in the above paragraph, they too should have the right to choose the outcome of their actions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;View of Tort Reform:&lt;br /&gt;If we are all responsible for everything, then there is no reason for tort laws in our country.  This will rid the U.S. of more than half of all lawyers in the US, freeing up the courts to decide important things like religion in our schools.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Employment Policy:&lt;br /&gt;After we release half the lawyers and secure our boarders, the lawyers will step in and take the jobs left over by migrant workers.  It is about time that they earned an honest living.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;View of Religion in our Schools:&lt;br /&gt;I believe that there should be no religion in our schools, none.  No religious works, no faith, no prayer and absolutely no Mel Gibson’s Passions, or Passions of any sort.  This therefore, would include Al Gore’s passion for fighting global warming, Nancy Pelosi’s passion for bringing down George Bush, George Bush’s passion for beating terrorists and CNN’s or FOX's passion for news. Neither will Bobby’s passions for Suzy be allowed either!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My Energy Policy:&lt;br /&gt;Drill in Alaska.  Find out how much is there and how long it will last.  Divide that number by three.  That is the time we absolutely, positively, without exception must have alternative fuels in place or we dissolve our government.  If the people in the capital can’t create energy by then, they shouldn’t be in power. (did you get the word play there?  Energy, power?  O.K.  here's a marble.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My Education Policy:&lt;br /&gt;There should be a voluntary 25% contribution from all professional athletes, successful movie stars, music  stars, corporate CEO’s, real estate moguls or anyone who make more than 10 times the national median income.  The 25% contribution is not negotiable, and without loopholes.   They should want to give back to their schools and communities. This money will go directly into a fund and divided by all teachers equally. They can live off 75% of what they are making, the rest of us do it everyday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All schools should be privatized.  We’ve now done it that way for 50 years without success, let’s try it the other way for 50 years and then compare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My drug Policy:&lt;br /&gt;Take North Dakota, (no one is living in most of it anyway,) and build a big electric fence around the perimeter and post guards every hundred yards with orders to shoot anyone trying to escape.  On a user's or dealer's third offence, transfer them to North Dakota Treatment Facility.  If they really want help, they will flee to the Canadian boarder for health care. The walk alone should dry them out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Legalization of Marijuana:&lt;br /&gt;No. I’m not stupid.  All you pot heads can’t remember when to vote anyway.  Want some cookies?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Boarder Policy:&lt;br /&gt;Read statement given by Secretary of State Robin Williams, nothing goes in and nothing comes out. Unless we know about it and can track it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Foreign trade Policy:&lt;br /&gt;Trade equally.  Period.  If lets say China has a surplus of $100 million, they could buy 3,500 Chevy’s.   If Japan has a $500 million dollar surplus, they could buy 5 billion shares of Enron.  You get the picture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gun Control:&lt;br /&gt;Criminals should not have guns.  Therefore we should trade food stamps, rent assistance, housing subsidies and child care for guns and ammunition.  Set up the operations right in the pawn shops or check cashing stores in those neighborhoods, they are not hard to find. No I am not implying that all criminals are poor, but let’s be serious here, more crime is committed in neighborhoods with higher concentrations of check cashing and pawns shops than in others.  It will just make it easier. &lt;br /&gt;    "NO, a knife will only get you three days of food.  Go over to your hommies crib, get his AK47 and bring it to me, then we'll talk about a months worth."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Political Correctness Policy:&lt;br /&gt;People tell me daily that I have to be tolerant of others who beliefs are not mine.  They say I have to accept sexual orientations, different religions, and people’s actions I don’t agree with.  They say that there can be no lines drawn, no demarcation of any kind between right and wrong, even if there are state laws against it. All must be accepted.  How stupid is that?  Under those terms bestiality, child pornography and human sacrifice are all O.K. Oh, wait, you say there is a line? You believe that it is before those things? What makes you so smart as to know where to draw that line for me.  Thanks, but I will draw that line where I see fit and so should every father and mother in this country.  I will choose when to call a duck a duck.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Immigration Policy:&lt;br /&gt;At the boarder, each person entering the US will have a GPS monitor implanted.  We will then know EXACTLY where they are at all times.  What human rights violations?  They still have a choice, but if they want to be in the U.S. they got to get implanted. That’s how we know where all the movie stars are, simply follow the implants!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Farm Policy:&lt;br /&gt;Grow food, lots of food, all kinds of food.  After we close our boarders we are going to need it.  Because we need it, we will get better at it and use the ground more wisely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Term limit policy:&lt;br /&gt;Member of congress can only serve for four terms, Senators for two, Presidents for one.  We’ve seen what long term politicians can do to our country.  Completely new blood with every new generation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Line Item Policy&lt;br /&gt;I will line item veto every single add on to every single bill that crosses my desk.  If you want some money to build a geese museum in your state, go ask everyone in your state for a dollar!  I will not tolerate pork barrel spending in any shape or form.  If you want something be strait up about it and ask your constituents for the money. If they don’t have it you probably don’t need it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Media Policy&lt;br /&gt;I pledge to shut down every 24 hour news outlet in the country. It won’t matter; they are making half this stuff up anyway!  You try filling 24 hours of news programming without sensationalism, 4 hours of talking heads, entertainment gossip, and catering to your base with half truths and unsubstantiated information.  It’s hard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Channels should be limited to 4 hours a day.  That’s it, and then we can all bet back to work instead of watching the news.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Health Care policy:&lt;br /&gt;Honestly, I haven’t got a clue.  It is so screwed up now; it is like trying to chuck a frog to the moon. As soon as I am elected I will have the cast of Grey's Anatomy and ER look into it.  I will also include Fifty Cent and a couple of other rappers on the committee just to keep them honest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vacation Policy:&lt;br /&gt;I want a royal Caribbean cruise ship parked in the Potomac.  That way I can stay close, but be far, far away.  Oh, everyone else gets three weeks minimum.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stupidity Policy:&lt;br /&gt;I heard a comedian say once, you get five marbles.  Each time you say something stupid, you have to give someone a marble.  When you are out of marbles, you can’t say anything else the rest of the day. No.  Shhh.  No, not another word.  You have already used all your marbles today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You may not agree with everything in my policies, but ask yourself, do you like it more than any of the people running now?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-2263819637172820019?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/2263819637172820019/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=2263819637172820019&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/2263819637172820019'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/2263819637172820019'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2009/01/fellow-americans.html' title='Fellow Americans'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-6706986522978731528</id><published>2008-12-31T11:39:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-31T12:38:07.043-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Evolutions Problem &amp; the Fascist Liberal NAS</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Science is the pursuit of truth, right? (Snicker, giggle, laugh out loud)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not when it comes to the people who are forming what your children learn in school.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To prove my point, let’s reflect on a gathering of National Academy of Science members discussing science education of our children. During that meeting they allowed a survey to be conducted by the science journal Nature of 517 members of the NAS, of which half replied, revealed that 7% believed in a “personal god,” 20.8% expressed “doubt or agnosticism,” and 72.2% expressed “personal disbelief.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The survey showed that 72.2% of them did not believe in God, or better put believed in the religion of atheism. So be it. Let them worship how and what they may. BUT, later in the discussion about the survey some of the members couldn’t believe that the other 25% were delusional enough to still believe in a God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In fact, a prominent member named Larry Kraus asked “How come this number [the 15% who believe in God] isn’t zero?” His question combined with the other statements simply meant, “How could the other 25% be stupid enough to still believe in GOD?” Like he had the right to question them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Which brings me to my first point where one of these same members penned how they feel about your children, what they believe and what they plan on doing about it. Steven Law wrote:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;. . . the only way children can be taught that creationism is true and supported by the available evidence is by instilling in them such twisted conceptions of logic and evidential support that they are likely to remain gullible idiots for the rest of their lives. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;As I say, teaching that creationism is respectable science means teaching children to think in ways that are, literally, close to lunacy.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Still want these guys deciding what your children learn in school?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So lets give evolution a little test shall we? One that you can ask all your evolution friends and liberal school enthusiast who believe that evolution is the only show in town.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Imagine a meeting of several evolutionists where they were answering questions from the public, when a man rose in the back row.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Excuse me. I have a question,” came the slight man with a small voice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Yes, you may address the panel.” Said the all knowing mediator of the group.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“In a TIME Magazine article dated October, 2006 points out that 3 billion is the number of base pairs in the human genome, and that only 1.23% of which, are different in the chimp genome.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Yes, I am aware of the article.” The moderator said smugly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Please sir,” he asked meekly, “what is 3 billion multiplied by 1.23%?”&lt;br /&gt;The moderator used his vast brain capacity to quickly solve this simple problem and said, “36.9 million.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“So when we say that we are only 1.23% different than chimps were are really saying that we are 36.9 million different base pairs away from a chimp, correct?” He said standing a little taller.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Purely mathematically speaking, yes, I guess you are correct.” He said trying hard to understand where this question was going.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“According to the theory. . .” He began to ask, but was cut off by the moderator.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Fact! Evaluation is fact! Do not presume to be able to assert that it is nothing else.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“According to your facts then,” He was slightly taller and more bold, “evolution says that only the beneficial copying errors, or changes in base pairs are kept correct?”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Of course.” He exclaimed painfully, “This is rudimentary evolution science. Everyone knows that.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“So, in order to get the beneficial changes, how many other changes had to be discarded?” He asked, now in a clear voice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“I cannot venture a guess, probably a hundred times that many.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Can anyone on your esteemed panel tell me when the last known base pair change in our human genome took place?” He was now bold in his tone, and aware of his opponent’s discomfort.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The moderator looked around at the other members of the panel. They too were conversing with their hands over the microphones, trying to supply an answer with a united front. After much discussion, the moderator delivered their answer. . .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“We believe” He said a little hesitantly, “that a base pair change must have taken place within the last three to five thousand years.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Thank you.” He was now walking up the isle, at full height, and in his new found boldness. “Isn’t it widely believed that the human genome evolved from our chimp ancestors about 5.5 million years ago?”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Correct.” The panel was not only stumped, but scared of this man now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Allow my meager, delusional brain to do the math for you. You say that we have not had a base pair change for at least three thousand years. Now, correct me if I am wrong, evolution says that we continue to evolve, there is no reason for it to stop. Humans are not perfect, in fact, we could use evolution right now to solve many problems we can’t with science. Which means that we have to trust the time frame of evolution as it continues to work on us humans as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Mathematics is a pure science, correct?” He didn’t wait for a reply. “So lets do the math together. You say it takes at least three thousand years to make a change in our base pairs. You also say that in order to get the 36.9 million beneficial pairs we would need to go through a hundred times that many. The math on that is 39.9 million times 100 or 36,900,000,000 (36.9 billion). Now let’s multiply that by the time it takes to change one base pair shall we? That math is 3 thousand times 36.9 billion for a total of 110,700,000,000,000 (110.7 trillion years).”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The small man was now a lion standing in front of the room.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“By my calculations, we won’t evolve from chimps for another 100 trillion years.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“You are wrong!” The panel said. “Evolution is fact!”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The man simply smiled and said as he walked out of the room, “Mathematics is fact. Evolution is YOUR theory. They are mutually exclusive. Math does not lie. One is true the other is not. I will let you decide.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So go ahead and decide.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-6706986522978731528?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/6706986522978731528/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=6706986522978731528&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/6706986522978731528'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/6706986522978731528'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2008/12/evolutions-problem-fascist-liberal-nas.html' title='Evolutions Problem &amp; the Fascist Liberal NAS'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-2146381080119555008</id><published>2008-12-22T13:50:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-22T14:03:26.918-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Proud That I Stand For Something</title><content type='html'>WARNING: THIS POST IS NOT LIBERAL FRIENDLY.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the last few weeks I have seen people who stand for something take a beating in the media, by liberals and by people who are simply OUT OF THEIR MINDS!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am sick and tired of people taking potshots at people of faith, people who believe in family values, and people who do not buy into the liberal crap, empty promise, everything goes, values.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I warn you, this is NOT going to be politically correct. It is NOT going to be nice and it is NOT going to make you feel like giving someone a hug.&lt;strong&gt; I am pissed and it is about time you stupid liberal fascists sit down, shut up and take some notes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have learned one thing from the Gay community over the years and I am about to employ if just as they do. SAY IT LOUD AND SAY IT PROUD! I am tired of people with beliefs being drowned out by hypocritical, narcissistic, socialists, so here it is, LOUD AND PROUD!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am PROUD that I am a man of faith. I believe in God, in His Son Jesus Christ and in the Holy Ghost. I am religious by CHOICE not by some fracture of mind, or mental instability, I have read more than most of you anti-God liberals both for and against religion. I CHOOSE to believe. I CHOOSE to apply religious restraint on my passions and seek to repent and become a better person.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am PROUD that I believe in the sanctity of the family AND marriage. I believe a family is a man and a woman who are legally and lawfully married. Men should stand up and take responsibility for their actions and BE a father. Mothers and Fathers should be parents first and then other stuff second. I am sick and tired of liberals pointing fingers at people who believe that families are important. Take a look at where liberals fester in mass and you will find more broken homes, more single parents, more delinquency, and more poverty and sorrow. IT IS NOT A COINCEDENCE! Liberalism breeds dysfunction. Tolerance breeds degenerate behavior. The family is the only thing that is important and EVERYTHING should be done to protect it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am PROUD that I believe that a unborn baby should have the right to live. Freedom of choice is the dumbest, most ludicrous argument ever created. People who harp on this and say that it should be their right to choose can’t possibly be serious. Look at the argument. You want the right to choose a different natural consequence from an early choice you CHOSE to make. Where else does this logic even make sense? Now, I believe that if a woman is raped, or her health is in danger that she should have a choice. I also believe that only the Supreme Court interprets that law. However, I believe in something more basic. I believe that for most women, the right to choose took place BEFORE she got pregnant, in a bedroom, the back seat of a car, at prom, when she was drunk at a bar, or just because she didn’t want to say no, or even if she just wanted to say yes. I believe that is when she made the choice and was free to do so. I believe that if abortion absolves a woman of her first choice that it should be applied universally. If abortion is the law, and freedom to choose a different natural outcome is upheld, then that must be applied universally to all who “make a choice” but are unwilling to live with the result. Therefore, it should be illegal for children who smoke to get lung cancer, because they should have the right to choose. Golfers, who slice the ball into the water, should not incur a penalty stroke for the hazard, nor the penalty of a drop, because they should have the right choose. Obese people should not have to endure the health problems of being overweight due to over eating. They should also have the right to choose what they want to eat, without consequences. In short, under this reasoning, anyone who does not like the natural outcome should be allowed to choose if they are willing to accept or reject that outcome. Stupid liberal logic. How dumb are you? “I demand the right to choose!” Good, use it BEFORE you ask for another choice that changes the natural outcome.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am PROUD to reject the religion of evolution. I did not evolve from primordial slime, or a monkey. I am NOT merely an animal, wondering the earth without purpose or reason. The science DOES NOT support evolution. There is absolutely no proof that a species evolves from one thing into another. The only proof you can supply is the adaptation of a species. I suspect that evolution has less to do with science than it does about your political agenda. The more we learn, the more we see that we were not a mistake, a chance one in a million freak accident. I am a child of God. I am made in his image. I have a purpose and it is more than breeding, feeding and acting on my impulses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am PROUD that I reject the political aspirations of Global Warming. Notice that I did not say I reject Global Warming. I reject using it as a weapon to shut down businesses, or human projects, or drilling for oil. And I won’t EVER agree to use it unilaterally. While we handcuff our economy, shackle growth, and prohibit resource accumulation, China and Russia couldn’t care less and will pollute the world at ten times the levels we do. It is an asinine proposal to strap ourselves and weaken our economy over global warming. We could not be more stupid! When we have no more resources, jobs and no economy, people will turn on you and your environmental terrorists and trample you all on their way to drill all over the U.S. Your celebrity endorsements will dry up because people won’t care what they have to say, and all the money that people donate to you and your lackeys will dry up. The only reason you exist, is because oil, and other natural resources that were ripped from the earth made a population that was rich, stupid, lazy and Godless who needed a project to give money to fill that empty hole in their souls. If you want religion out of the schools, take your religion of global warming with you too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am PROUD that I believe in the Constitution and in separation of power. However I am also PROUD to believe that our government is corrupt, crooked and turning quickly against everything the Constitution stands for. I believe that both Congress and the Courts have raped the American people. I believe that the courts are full of unscrupulous, crooked judges who like and want to legislate from the bench. I believe that both houses of congress are corrupt and devoid of morals, common sense, and soul. I am PROUD to believe that it is my right and my duty for a second revolution, sooner than later.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am PROUD I am not a socialist. The New World Order, a combination of monetary systems, a loosening of boarders and a promise of government entitlements will end the U.S., end our freedom, and end our way of life. Liberals say that they want equality for all! It is all bull #$%&amp;amp;! They want to dominate. Look at the evidence. Liberals create dependence, poverty, class wars, unions, disparity and helplessness so they can be the ruling class. Again, look to where liberals are the dominate thinkers and voters. Let’s look at New Orleans. For several decades the liberals, who were in power, created program after program to help the poor. They “invested” millions and millions of dollars in programs, entitlements, and help. They created a dependent society suckling at the liberal tit of socialism. They had been condition to “need” government assistance, and could not act for themselves. Then something happened. Katrina hit. Where were the democratic, liberal fascists? What real help did they provide? NONE! But they did what they do best, they blamed everyone else. “Where was Bush and FEMA?” Where was your own responsibility? YOU LIVE IN A BOWL THAT IS LOWER THEN SEA LEVEL! But, still, your local liberal government didn’t use its resources to evacuate people with their school buses. The local liberal government didn’t do anything to secure a safe shelter, and the local liberal government didn’t raise their hands to help until after they got done blaming the federal government for not rushing in. Those who were suckled at the tit of socialism looked for another handout, and when it wasn’t there they looted the stores, stole big screen T.V.’s and shot each other. Now I can hear you yelling “racist,” but before you get a bloody nose, let’s look at a conservative response to a much bigger natural disaster shall we? Because I don’t think it has anything to do with race. It has everything to do with what you believe! In 2007, the Mississippi river flooded its banks. There were more than four times the number of homes and businesses destroyed in that flood than in Katrina. More than triple the number of people were homeless, more damage was done to property and possessions. What was their response? I am glad you asked. You see they were brought up under a different belief system, they believed in self responsibility. They believed in self reliance. They believed it wasn’t the governments job to save them. They had food set aside. They had shelters set up. They had churches who actually had a plan to help it’s members. They had communities that worked together. Guess how many people died there? 2. Guess how many stores were looted? 0. Guess how many volunteers showed up to help? Thousands. Guess how many people were raped in the shelters? 0 Guess how many people complained that Bush was the reason for their demise? None. What was the difference? One sucked socialism down like a drunk. The other believed as I do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, by the way, our local newspaper ran a story about a man who left New Orleans after Katrina and came to a western U.S. city. He was a chef and got a job at a local restaurant. When asked if he was ever going to go back to New Orleans he said, “Never. I never knew what existed outside of New Orleans. I can see now how corrupt, and terrible that place was. People there are always looking for a handout because the government controls their lives. I like being in control of my own life!” I am Proud to believe the same and that Socialism is not only stupid, but dangerous.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am PROUD of my white heritage. People who want me to bow down to “the white man’s disease” of self loathing can kiss my lily white butt! I am Swiss, my ancestors came to the U.S. in the late 1800’s I have nothing to be ashamed of. My family worked hard and gained a life without the help of the government. People all over want me to cower back and not be proud of my own heritage. I can't even think about organizing a white group for any reason, because I would then be a racist. I am sickened by the duplicity of minority groups and their separatist agendas. Imagine if we created an NAAWP?! We would be racists, but groups can get together and bash white people all they want and it is called “Culture.” Imagine if we created a cable network called white entertainment television (WET), had our own awards, and talked smack about people of color? IF IT IS RACIST WHEN WHITE PEOPLE DO IT IS ALSO RACIST IF PEOPLE OF COLOR DO IT!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am PROUD own a business.&lt;br /&gt;I am PROUD I have kids who have been taught right from wrong.&lt;br /&gt;I am PROUD I drive a foreign car.&lt;br /&gt;I am PROUD I am proud I own a gun.&lt;br /&gt;I am PROUD I will not shut up.&lt;br /&gt;I am PROUD I will not give in.&lt;br /&gt;I am PROUD I am who I am, with all my faults.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So the next time you think about belittling people who believe in something other than you because you think you now have the right after the election.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Think again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We will get louder. And we are proud!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We’re here, we are not queer (or liberal), so get used to it&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-2146381080119555008?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/2146381080119555008/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=2146381080119555008&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/2146381080119555008'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/2146381080119555008'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2008/12/proud-that-i-stand-for-something.html' title='Proud That I Stand For Something'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-805933224520632436</id><published>2008-12-20T09:06:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-20T09:10:23.005-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Let it snow</title><content type='html'>Today there is record snow in 12 northern states, the Bering sea has frozen early in the season, Antarctica is enjoying the heaviest ice pack in 20 years, and it snowed in New Orleans and Las Vegas this week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where's Al Gore Now?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So much for global warming.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once again we prove that we are pawns to the media, politicians and ex presidents that are trying to sell a book. We are the dumbest people in history.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-805933224520632436?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/805933224520632436/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=805933224520632436&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/805933224520632436'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/805933224520632436'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2008/12/let-it-snow.html' title='Let it snow'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-460070115740625418</id><published>2008-12-18T16:50:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-18T16:53:23.655-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Congress' Ponzi Scheme</title><content type='html'>Let’s have an exercise in common sense, shall we?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your government is talking about a $7.7 trillion economic stimulus package to save our economic system.  We have 300 million people in the U.S. That is just about $25,000 for every man, woman, and child.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is also about the average people pay in taxes each year. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So in essence, they are going to give away what we all paid last year in taxes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But what happened to all the money they spent last year on all the big government services, all the entitlement programs and all the wages of all those federal employees?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Add in the fact that our government’s income is shrinking due to people NOT spending money.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So how are they going to pay for a $7.7 trillion stimulus plan?  With your 2008 taxes.  They will take all that money they bring in to stimulate the economy.  Then the next year they will pay 2009 bills with future tax earnings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sound familiar?  It should.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A guy named Madoff just got caught doing the same thing in a $50 billion dollar Ponzi scheme.  He would get an investor and promise him interest, and then find another investor to cover the costs of paying interest to the first investor, and then find another investor to pay for the interest of the first two investors and so on and so on. He would pocket money as he went making millions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Congress is doing the same thing.   The outcome?  Same as the Madoff Ponzi, almost everyone loses.  Except, congress won’t convict itself.  They made their millions, got re-elected, and screwed millions out of their life savings.  We all lose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The scheme that congress is cooking right now, will destroy our monetary system, cause a DEEP recession, if not a depression in early 2009.  Get ready.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-460070115740625418?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/460070115740625418/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=460070115740625418&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/460070115740625418'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/460070115740625418'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2008/12/congress-ponzi-scheme.html' title='Congress&apos; Ponzi Scheme'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-7064736441289153266</id><published>2008-12-16T15:14:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-16T15:17:51.619-07:00</updated><title type='text'>I Don’t Care What Color Obama is</title><content type='html'>Someone commented on the blog that I was a racist and that I hated Obama because he is black.  I won’t post the comment because he also used a few choice four letter words and disparaged my mother. (No one disparages my mother!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Am I a racist? Let’s see shall we?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First Test:  Have any of my blogs been about the color of his skin?  No.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Second Test:  Does his skin color have anything to do with his socialistic policies and desires? No.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Third Test:  Did you vote for him because he was black?  I don’t know did you? Maybe you are the racist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fourth Test:  Does his skin color have anything to do with how he will lead the country?  Most say yes. Even those on his side of the isle have said over and over again that his life experiences, including his skin color, will have an effect on his decisions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, am I a racist because I don’t like his policies?  Am I a racist because I don’t like his politics? Am I a racist because I don’t want a socialist president?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I must be, because it couldn’t possibly be because I am smart enough to know the difference between a socialist and a conservative.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I must be, because it couldn’t possibly be that I have a disagreement with his basic fundamental philosophy of what our country should be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I must be, because it couldn’t possibly be that I have read enough about history to see when someone isn’t what they represent themselves to be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I must be, because I couldn’t possibly have a legitimate argument that socialism is the bane of all government and eventually will lead to the downfall of the U.S.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I must be, because it couldn’t possibly be that he cares more about his own career than doing what is right and good.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I must be, because the only possible reason not to bow down at the pulpit of Obama, not worship the man, the myth, the legend, is that I am a white bigot who can’t think for himself and uses the color of someone’s skin to base all decisions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ergo, I am a racist.  Nice liberal logic.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-7064736441289153266?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/7064736441289153266/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=7064736441289153266&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/7064736441289153266'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/7064736441289153266'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2008/12/i-dont-care-what-color-obama-is.html' title='I Don’t Care What Color Obama is'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-1026039151275088613</id><published>2008-12-15T12:53:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-15T12:56:15.005-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Make Your Voice Heard</title><content type='html'>I just about stopped writing this blog.  It was mostly for me to vent my anger, frustration and to prime my writing skills to do other projects.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I thought no one was reading.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IF you want me to continue do two things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.  Let me know.  Create comments and add your voice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2.  Tell others.  That is the only way this thing grows.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-1026039151275088613?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/1026039151275088613/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=1026039151275088613&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/1026039151275088613'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/1026039151275088613'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2008/12/make-your-voice-heard.html' title='Make Your Voice Heard'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-1592140886087216084</id><published>2008-12-15T12:34:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-15T12:47:43.265-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Disneyland, Obamaland, and Toleranceland</title><content type='html'>I spent the last five days in the happiest place on earth. Obviously it was away from the news, the radio, and the computer.  But there were four things that I found that needed a discussion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Those Evil Oil Companies.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember eight months or so ago when the news and the liberals were all screaming that the evil oil companies were behind the price hikes?  Remember them calling for massive tax increases and an investigation into their business practices?  Remember that the liberal attack machine went on the offensive and used it for political gain?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where are they now that gas is $1.65 a gallon?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the gas companies are the ones who should be blamed for the rise in oil prices, shouldn’t they also get the credit for prices when they go down?  The news was vehemently against any truth of market conditions for the prices going up, BUT, last night on a news ticker was this:  “Market conditions cause gas prices to decrease.”  So let’s see if the news is working for you or for some other agenda?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The news wants you to believe that gas prices increase because evil oil companies have some magical way to increase the cost to make more money, but when the gas price go down it is only due to market conditions. Nice!  Totally incompressible, just the way they like it.  News people think that you’re an idiot, that you can be led like lambs, controlled because you can’t remember what they said a couple of days ago let alone several months ago.  This is the game they play with “slower” Americans.  If something goes wrong it is ALWAYS someone else’s fault. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Obama’s Eyes Were Opened&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have you noticed that Obama is doing a lot of back peddling?  Have you noticed that he is trying to get everyone to lower their expectations? Have you noticed that he is trying to distance himself from many of the things he said in the campaign?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Notice that it happened AFTER he began his full national security and economic briefings?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here’s what happened.  He found out all the things that Bush already knew.  He found out all the little things that they don’t tell us.  He found out all the rest of the information that the news media doesn’t have, or isn’t willing to tell us.  Now he is desperately trying to downplay his agenda, his plans, and his “change.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What should this tell you?  It should scare the %$^@#@# out of you. Here is a man who bought the election on promises, then found out the real story and is backing down.  I am no so worried about him backing down as I am about what he was told.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2009: First Quarter&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am not a doom and gloom guy, honest I am not.  I am a realist.  (Although my wife wanted me to buy a Grumpy shirt at Disneyland)  But I think we are at the precipice of economic history and no one is talking about it, because the news doesn’t want to make it happen, the government doesn’t want you to know, and most people are more worried about what will be in their stocking come Christmas rather than what will be in their bank account in February. It is the equivalent of the nation playing the childhood game of ‘closing your eyes and ears and the bad stuff will go away.’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It will not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(look, I am not some country bumpkin, my job, the one I get paid for, is to understand how money works and I am really good at it too.  Notice that I am not spouting mainstream media or right wing radio crap either.  Stop listening to people who have got ratings to sell, advertisers to please, or books to pitch, or a job to save.  They aren’t going to tell you unless it benefits them. Your family’s situation means nothing to them.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regional banks in Texas and Florida have now failed and the news barely reported it.  China is no longer buying U.S. debt, yet we are still going full bore on bailout plans with money we don’t have.  This leaves us with VERY limited options to gain access to all this money that they want to bailout the economy.  The one that they seem to want to employ is ‘the home printer method’ and just start printing more money.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Look, right now, our government is over extended.  They don’t have the money and other countries don’t have the money to lend us. Taxes are the largest income for any government, and when the economy is shrinking, so is that income. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our economy exists on two things.  First, we spend to keep each other employed.  If you don’t spend your neighbor loses his job.  Second, we have faith in our monetary system.  Someone, somewhere believes that our dollars are worth something.  As soon as that someone has a doubt, the system fails.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have slowed my spending, how about you?  I am trying to save money now, not spend it.  Any smart family would do the same.  First blow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;China is now buying gold, not dollars.  The middle east is not happy with “dollar production” from oil and might turn to the Euro to stabilize oil prices.  Other country’s no longer want U.S. Debt and are looking for alternatives.  Sure sounds like they are NOT believers.  Not to mention that Consumer Confidence is declining.  Second blow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are one catastrophe away from a complete collapse (it could be as small as a run on a single bank in West Virginia, or a misrepresented news story about shortages, or even a terror attack).  Don’t believe me? Go read history.  The Depression wasn’t caused by a single event.  It was caused by several small ones INCLUDING the government stepping in to “save” the people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I look to history to see how this is going to play out. Mexico, Korea, USSR, and others have all been through this.  What I am talking about is the collapse of a monetary system.  Over a short period usually three months (this has significant meaning to those who are listening) there is complete chaos, and things all but shut down, food is scarce, you can’t buy much of anything and there is a lot of instability.  Everyone is scared to sell something one day and have the money they received be worth less a day later. It stabilizes after a while, but everything now has changes.  A $3.00 loaf of bread not cost $5.60, but your income from your job doesn’t change.  You just have to cope.  Your income is still $50,000, but your expenses have doubled.&lt;br /&gt;I hope you have three plus month’s supply.  I hope you have friends who have too.  I wish you good luck.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Four things I have done and think you should do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.        Get a three+ months supply of food and create a friends group who have done it too so that you can trade for what you need.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2.       Get some cash out and put it in a safe place.  Get $5, $10, $20 bills, if you have to buy $20 worth of something and only have $100, you won’t get change. Think through the scenario, who’s going to have change? What is a $1 bill going to be worth? $1 bills could be the new penny.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3.       Think about your family’s safety.  When people get hungry and scared they can go one of two ways.  Katrina:  Where everyone loots, shoots, and society collapses.  Or, they can do what those in the Midwest did in the floods of 2007 (where three times as many peole lost thier homes than in Katrina), band together in groups, helped each other, and supported each other.  I don’t know about where you live, but I am not leaving my family’s safety to chance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4.       Pray, and share this with others.  Start talking about what you would actually do if this happens. Talk to your spouse, your kids, your friends, and your church.  Make plans, and if people ridicule you for wanting to make a plan, YOU NEED TO FIND OTHE FRIENDS OR PEOPLE, because the last people you want to be in a foxhole with are people who did not prepare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Time is short.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Freaks and the fascist Idea of tolerance&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you don’t accept people who are different than you, you are a bigot.  If you don’t agree with ‘lifestyle’ or my ‘choices’ you are intolerant.  If my minority and their actions and behaviors are not acclimated by society, then society is wrong and must be forced to accept me and my likeminded friends.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Duh, Okay. I'll just quit fighting for what I beleive so taht you can make stupid choices.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At Disneyland, we saw a bunch of Kandi-Kids (if you don’t know what they are Google Kandi Kids).  They were quiet and respectful, but when asked “why do you wear all that stuff?”  He replied, “Each one reminds me of a rave that I went to, the drugs we took, and the great time we had. All the bracelets and stuff are my vibe that I have in my body outward on my body. I want to show the world what happiness is.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Great Gizzards Ghost! I didn’t know you needed ten pounds of childish bracelets, colored chains and toddler’s backpacks to be happy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There have always been outsiders, fringe people, and minority groups of people who choose a lifestyle.  But recently we have seen them pushing their lifestyle onto mainstream and demanding rights.  They push their agendas through courts, like minded politicians and support groups (community organizers) and get upset when people WHO DO NOT think like they do push back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gays are now openly declaring war on religious groups who oppose their desires.  Next it will be the Kandi-Kids.  Soon they will want laws to be exempt from having to pay for the health problems that their lifestyle has caused. Then they will get upset and protest at churches because their rights are being denied when the law passes to reject their lifestyle acceptance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Oh, by the way, Kandi Kids say that even though the lifestyle originated by the ravers who sold the drugs, you know, cause they are easier to see in a crowed all decked out with glow sticks, bracelets, baby paraphernalia, and that the original Kandi-Kids got their name from selling “candy,” that &lt;strong&gt;they don’t do drugs&lt;/strong&gt;.  If you believe that, what exactly have you been smoking?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If we tolerate &lt;strong&gt;all &lt;/strong&gt;behavior, the ones who will not be tolerated are the ones with morals, beliefs, and common sense.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-1592140886087216084?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/1592140886087216084/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=1592140886087216084&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/1592140886087216084'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/1592140886087216084'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2008/12/disneyland-obamaland-and-toleranceland.html' title='Disneyland, Obamaland, and Toleranceland'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-6014309313115288471</id><published>2008-12-10T20:30:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T20:30:00.730-07:00</updated><title type='text'>My Day Without a Gay.</title><content type='html'>Today, all over the country Gay people are calling in sick.  They are not working to prove a point, or to punish the rest of us, I don’t know.  They feel that they are so important that if they are gone, we will crumble as a society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So what was the impact of a day without a gay?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nothing for 97% of America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sure, Hollywood shut down because no one was there to do makeup.  Some trendy restaurants in New York had longer table times because a third of the waiters never showed up.  The drag fest in New Orleans and San Francisco didn’t function properly, but no one cared because the audience is all gay anyway and they didn’t show up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, and the government ceased to be productive in anyway, nope sorry. That had nothing to do with a lack of gays.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-6014309313115288471?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/6014309313115288471/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=6014309313115288471&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/6014309313115288471'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/6014309313115288471'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2008/12/my-day-without-gay_857.html' title='My Day Without a Gay.'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-1524863223619116713</id><published>2008-12-10T08:11:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T08:22:59.500-07:00</updated><title type='text'>What Can I Say?</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;I haven’t written anything in a week.  Not from a lack of fodder.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Everywhere I turn there is another issue, another problem, another lie, and another Obamanation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I can’t keep up with them all.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Which one do I address?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.        The corrupt political system in Illinois that Obama says he has nothing to do with? (snicker, oh come on, really?)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2.       The Civilian National Security Force that is developing while we all worry about the financial crisis?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;3.       How about the fact that the media is allowing Obama to back pedal away from nearly half of his promises made that he used to “buy” this election?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;4.       Or what about the elitist, no experience, all theoretical appointments he is making to his Cabinet? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;5.       I should be writing about Liberal Fascism that has already begun to target religions.  This, by far is the most important, but no one is reading this blog anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The truth this, there is too much to write about. Our country is in shambles, and all most people care about is what they are getting for Christmas.  That is why we are in such trouble.  We have delegated our political responsibilities to our “representatives” so we can live our lives.  What we don’t understand is that those representatives have robbed us of our future.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-1524863223619116713?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/1524863223619116713/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=1524863223619116713&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/1524863223619116713'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/1524863223619116713'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2008/12/what-can-i-say.html' title='What Can I Say?'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-5675450109810415193</id><published>2008-12-03T16:04:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-03T16:09:48.318-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Dollars and Sense</title><content type='html'>The last few weeks have been amazing as I watch what they say on the news, then what they don’t say. It is hard for me to understand what is real and what is speculation, but it is time for me to work out some things and I thought there is not a better place to do it then here so this post is an exercise in trying to understand what is going on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The world economy is in trouble. No matter what the network and cable news programs are saying, and what program they are pitching, the world economy is unstable to say the least, and at most, on the brink of catastrophe. Trust your gut. You know it is true. Something is wrong, and no one either knows, or isn’t telling us because they don’t want us to know. Something is wrong, like never before.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is what I believe to be true.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;China owns more U.S. debt than anyone else, and they are not lending anymore. In fact, they have decided to invest more in gold going from 600 tons to over 4,000 to diversify away from currency (12-3-08). This means that they do not see a strong future in our currency. No one else in the world is in a position to invest in U.S. debt, yet, our government has pledged $7.7 billion for recovery. This doesn’t grow on trees, China is not going to lend it to us, and we can’t get that in tax revenue if we are in a recession. The dollar has gained ground on the Yuan (WSJ, 12-3-08), but how do you trust a currency that is controlled by a government? Devaluing their currency may be the only way to stabilize their investment in U.S. Dollars for the time being. A collapse in the dollar hurts China, but none-the-less, just like any investor pouring good money after bad isn’t palatable. The shift from dollars to gold is a shot across the bow. A signal most of us wouldn’t see or understand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The U.S. government deployed 20,000 troops WITHIN the U.S. (go to the Pentagon’s website). They are calling them ready response teams. Why now? Why at this point? This in and of itself is peculiar, but couple it with the current financial crisis and one has to ask, what are they preparing for? The terror threat level has not been increased, no one is talking about another attack from without, and it was done quietly without a lot of hoopla from either side of the isle, even though it’s in direct violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, a 130-year-old federal law restricting the military's role in domestic law enforcement. (Washington Post 12-1-08) Is this the second signal we should be listening to?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back to the dollar, which is not backed by anything. There is no gold standard. The dollar exists on one thing, consumer confidence. This means that collectively we have to give the dollar value by believing that it has value. This scares me to death, and has for the better part of my life. Think about it. The only place you can spend a dollar is with someone who believes it is worth a dollar. You can’t trade it in for gold, or silver, or anything else. Today consumer confidence is not at its lowest point, (&lt;a href="http://www.conference-board.org/economics/ConsumerConfidence.cfm"&gt;http://www.conference-board.org/economics/ConsumerConfidence.cfm&lt;/a&gt;) but how much would it take for us to collectively NOT believe that the dollar has value. Or more to the point, that China, Russia, or other holders don’t believe that the dollar has value.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The big three auto companies are in trouble, state and local governments are looking for handouts, big box stores, that survive on small margins and huge inventories are going under (Mervyns, Circuit City, Linens-N-Things,etc.) and there the tip of the iceberg. How many others will go under after a dismal Christmas? More to the point, how much have you, yourself or family cut back? Is it 10%, 25% or is it more? This is important to think about. If you cut your own spending by 20% (which is great for your family) what would that same amount do to the U.S. economy?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;20% from every family decreases the U.S. economy closer to twice that amount. Why? Simple economics. Not only do you not buy what you do not buy, but the person who isn’t getting your purchase isn’t making additional purchases because you money isn’t there. It is at least twice the amount now that I think about it. It is a domino effect.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;40% is catastrophic. It is a game changer. I am not talking about 40% loss in the stock market, that is already happening. I am talking about 40% loss in the economy as a whole. Scary.&lt;br /&gt;What is the worse case scenario?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;China sells off massive investments, simply trashes the dollar, or just decides not to lend us anymore money. The dollar loses value in the world market because no one believes it is worth anything. Now we have hyperinflation. Bread goes from $3 a loaf to $30 a loaf. Hyperinflation.&lt;br /&gt;Don’t think it can happen?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ever been to Mexico or Korea? Mexico’s money is in Pesos. Why isn’t a peso and a dollar worth the same? Korea is in Won. It takes nearly 1,000 won to equal a dollar. How did that happen? Hyperinflation. It may happen here too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I used to think that the worst case scenario would be a long, deep, wide spread recession.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not anymore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think the worst thing that could happen is a collapse of the dollar, hyperinflation, and a restructuring of world economics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Think about the movies. Think The Postman or Mad Max.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe that is why they have deployed 20,000 troops in the U.S.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Come to think of it, I don’t think 20,000 will be enough.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-5675450109810415193?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/5675450109810415193/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=5675450109810415193&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/5675450109810415193'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/5675450109810415193'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2008/12/road-ahead.html' title='Dollars and Sense'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-4446113107716829647</id><published>2008-12-01T15:44:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-01T15:50:21.846-07:00</updated><title type='text'>20,000 First Steps</title><content type='html'>Pentagon to deploy 20,000 troops for domestic emergencies&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WASHINGTON (&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;AFP&lt;/span&gt;) — The US Department of Defense plans to deploy 20,000 troops nationwide by 2011 to help state and local officials respond to terror or nuclear attacks and emergencies, The Washington Post said Monday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Citing Pentagon officials, the newspaper said the plan calls for three rapid-reaction forces.&lt;br /&gt;The first 4,700-strong unit, built around an active-duty combat brigade, is based at Fort Stewart, Georgia, and is already available for deployment, according to General Victor &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Renuart&lt;/span&gt;, commander of the US Northern Command, it said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two additional groups will later join nearly 80 smaller National Guard and reserve units made up of about 6,000 troops to support local and state authorities nationwide, The Post said.&lt;br /&gt;They will all would be trained to respond to domestic chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or high-yield explosive attacks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;newpaper&lt;/span&gt; said that &lt;strong&gt;civil liberties groups&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;libertarians&lt;/strong&gt; had expressed concern that the plan could undermine the Posse &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Comitatus&lt;/span&gt; Act, a 130-year-old law restricting the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;military's&lt;/span&gt; role in domestic law enforcement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'm right there too. We are one step away from a federalized police force, which should scare us all. Welcome to the new world.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;History is not on our side. Our incredibly short memory lets us collectively forget that centralized power will &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;destroy&lt;/span&gt; individual freedom. Start reading people, or there won't be anything to &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;fight&lt;/span&gt; for.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-4446113107716829647?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/4446113107716829647/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=4446113107716829647&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/4446113107716829647'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/4446113107716829647'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2008/12/pentagon-to-deploy-20000-troops-for.html' title='20,000 First Steps'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-6632286123959358241</id><published>2008-11-30T08:30:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-30T08:48:38.080-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Real Story</title><content type='html'>This is how I feel about news. This is actually the way I see news and all its flakiness. Talking heads, commentators, their fake analysis and the overload of 24 hour news cycles. This is what we get when we try to create enough news to last in a 24 hour news program&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/video/obama_win_causes_obsessive"&gt;http://www.theonion.com/content/video/obama_win_causes_obsessive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/video/obama_undertakes_presidential"&gt;http://www.theonion.com/content/video/obama_undertakes_presidential&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/video/in_the_know_should_the_government"&gt;http://www.theonion.com/content/video/in_the_know_should_the_government&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/video/portrayal_of_obama_as_elitist"&gt;http://www.theonion.com/content/video/portrayal_of_obama_as_elitist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/video/voting_machines_elect_one_of"&gt;http://www.theonion.com/content/video/voting_machines_elect_one_of&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/video/obama_runs_constructive_criticism"&gt;http://www.theonion.com/content/video/obama_runs_constructive_criticism&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/video/in_thanksgiving_tradition_bush"&gt;http://www.theonion.com/content/video/in_thanksgiving_tradition_bush&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hey, this is as good or better than anything you can watch on CNN.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-6632286123959358241?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/6632286123959358241/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=6632286123959358241&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/6632286123959358241'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/6632286123959358241'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2008/11/real-story.html' title='The Real Story'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-631466273873754363</id><published>2008-11-26T17:13:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-26T17:15:20.637-07:00</updated><title type='text'>You Go Rabbi</title><content type='html'>WE ALL ARE MORMONS....by Rabbi Shifren&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are living in an era of insanity! Witness the latest attempt to remake the nature of our country, founded and established on certain principles that have been the envy of the entire world. The latest assault on our country and its values comes in the form of vicious and criminal violence against the Mormon church in Westwood, California.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interesting how the selective self-righteous indignation on the part of the radical Gay activists is played out here: they bewail the blow to freedom and justice! But I thought we just had elections, where the majority of Californians expressed their views in a free and open manner. Are we not a nation of laws? Dare we relive the McCarthy era, where  Americans were harassed and threatened with the loss of their jobs for believing in a certain way? If the Gay radicals should have their way, untold numbers of Americans would live under the threat of the Gay-Lesbian "thought police," where individuals that reject the Gay lifestyle would be sought out and have sanctions brought against them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's bad enough for those working in the entertainment industry here in Los Angeles, where a fog of political correctness and a bending over backwards to accommodate, even promote Gay lifestyle is in full gear. Let none dare say that this type of activity is anathema to our country, our morality, and the  debauchery of our young people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let it be stated unequivocally: The radical Gay attack on the Mormons is the shot over the bow against the United States of America. There was a time when what a man did in his bedroom was sanctified between himself and God. Now we are being served an "in-your-face" smorgasbord of smut and licentiousness as being between people who only "want their civil rights."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hogwash! We are dealing with the equivalent of a moral takeover of the country that has as its bedrock a belief in God and His promise for humanity. They don't want civil rights! What they desire is quasi Gay/Lesbian hegemony, where a huge "bookburning," reminiscent of the Nazis, will purge any remnants of the "Christian, White, mainstream America" that has given ALL AMERICANS the most profound scope of freedom, liberty, and justice that Mankind has yet to experience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People have perhaps wondered: why the Mormons? Answer: they are a small, yet vocal Christian minority. They have been selected by the mobs as vulnerable, a group that might not have such massive support among America's Christians.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We who are friends of the Mormons, their patriotism, their family values, will not falter in our continued support of these dear Americans. Let us recall the Christian minister Niemoller, whose admonition during those dark years of Nazi Germany moved us to our core:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"When they came for the gypsies, I said nothing, because I wasn't a gypsy. When they came for the homosexuals, I said nothing, because I wasn't a homosexual. When they came for the Jews, I said nothing, because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I said nothing, because I wasn't a Catholic......then they came for me, and there was no one left to defend me."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My fellow Americans, in the coming battle for the heart and soul of America and everything we cherish, may this call to arms be the mantra of every concerned patriot:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"WE ALL ARE MORMONS!"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-631466273873754363?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/631466273873754363/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=631466273873754363&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/631466273873754363'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/631466273873754363'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2008/11/you-go-rabbi.html' title='You Go Rabbi'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-8127978244943618957</id><published>2008-11-25T10:37:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-25T11:25:43.186-07:00</updated><title type='text'>You Think Your Government is There to Help You?</title><content type='html'>When I ask people, what is your government supposed to do? They all say, “The government is there to help me.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the fundamental problem with government. What is their role? The Founding Fathers were explicit in their thoughts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. (The Constitution of the United States of America for those who didn’t know.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now let’s look at what happened yesterday, without a lot of hoopla, news coverage or fanfare.&lt;br /&gt;U.S. Pledges Top $7.7 Trillion to Ease Frozen Credit (Update2) From the Drudge Report. By Mark Pittman and Bob Ivry&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No you heard right, $7.7 Trillion was pledged in a congressional meeting Monday, November 24, 2008.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They wrote, “The money that’s been pledged is equivalent to $24,000 for every man, woman and child in the country. It’s &lt;a href="http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/89xx/doc8971/Letter.2.1.shtml" target="_blank" t_above="true" t_static="true" t_fontcolor="#000000" t_fontface="Verdana,sans-serif" t_bgcolor="#ddedd9" t_width="120" t_delay="50"&gt;nine times&lt;/a&gt; what the U.S. has spent so far on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to &lt;a href="http://www.cbo.gov/" target="_blank" t_above="true" t_static="true" t_fontcolor="#000000" t_fontface="Verdana,sans-serif" t_bgcolor="#ddedd9" t_width="120" t_delay="50"&gt;Congressional Budget Office&lt;/a&gt; figures. It could pay off more than half the country’s mortgages.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Still think the government is out to help you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By the government’s own numbers, only 18% of the mortgages are problematic. 18% are causing all the problems. (Or are they?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you see the duplicity? Not yet? Let me connect the dots.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The government is going to spend $7.7 trillion dollars to sure up the economy even though only 18% of the mortgages originally were the problem. With $7.7 trillion the government, who is supposed to help you, could pay off half the mortgages in the US, including all the ones that are causing problems. They could have ended the crisis day 1, by buying and refinancing all the bad mortgages themselves. Still think they are in it for you? Maybe the govnerment isn't thre to help you anymore. Maybe they aren't there for you at all. Maybe they are not even thinking of you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, what is actually going on?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe it is bigger than they are telling us? Maybe it is larger than they want you to know?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is just a thought. They aren’t telling you because they don’t want to believe it themselves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is another point of view. Do I believe it all, no, I don’t. But it isn’t the first time I have heard it either. I have read similar theories in Korean economic papers, European economic papers and, now from Russia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From The Drudge Report, 11/25/08&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RUSSIAN ANALYST PREDICTS DECLINE AND BREAKUP OF USA.&lt;br /&gt;Tue Nov 25 2008 09:04:22 ET&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A leading Russian political analyst has said the economic turmoil in the United States has confirmed his long-held view that the country is heading for collapse, and will divide into separate parts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Professor Igor Panarin said in an interview with the respected daily IZVESTIA published on Monday: "The dollar is not secured by anything. The country's foreign debt has grown like an avalanche, even though in the early 1980s there was no debt. By 1998, when I first made my prediction, it had exceeded $2 trillion. Now it is more than 11 trillion. This is a pyramid that can only collapse."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The paper said Panarin's dire predictions for the U.S. economy, initially made at an international conference in Australia 10 years ago at a time when the economy appeared strong, have been given more credence by this year's events.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When asked when the U.S. economy would collapse, Panarin said: "It is already collapsing. Due to the financial crisis, three of the largest and oldest five banks on Wall Street have already ceased to exist, and two are barely surviving. Their losses are the biggest in history. Now what we will see is a change in the regulatory system on a global financial scale: America will no longer be the world's financial regulator." When asked who would replace the U.S. in regulating world markets, he said: "Two countries could assume this role: China, with its vast reserves, and Russia, which could play the role of a regulator in Eurasia."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Asked why he expected the U.S. to break up into separate parts, he said: "A whole range of reasons. Firstly, the financial problems in the U.S. will get worse. Millions of citizens there have lost their savings. Prices and unemployment are on the rise. General Motors and Ford are on the verge of collapse, and this means that whole cities will be left without work. Governors are already insistently demanding money from the federal center. Dissatisfaction is growing, and at the moment it is only being held back by the elections and the hope that Obama can work miracles. But by spring, it will be clear that there are no miracles."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He also cited the "vulnerable political setup", "lack of unified national laws", and "divisions among the elite, which have become clear in these crisis conditions." He predicted that the U.S. will break up into six parts - the Pacific coast, with its growing Chinese population; the South, with its Hispanics; Texas, where independence movements are on the rise; the Atlantic coast, with its distinct and separate mentality; five of the poorer central states with their large Native American populations; and the northern states, where the influence from Canada is strong.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He even suggested that "we could claim Alaska - it was only granted on lease, after all." Panarin, 60, is a professor at the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and has authored several books on information warfare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We will see. I am not so sure our government is out to help us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Having three months of food and water on hand doesn’t sound so crazy now does it?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-8127978244943618957?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/8127978244943618957/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=8127978244943618957&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/8127978244943618957'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/8127978244943618957'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2008/11/you-think-your-government-is-there-to.html' title='You Think Your Government is There to Help You?'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-5103016482346037236</id><published>2008-11-20T13:24:00.015-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-21T08:24:04.918-07:00</updated><title type='text'>You've Been Warned: Obama is a Socialist or Worse</title><content type='html'>The modern American Populace is the dumbest in history. Oh, we know tons about Lindsey Lohan, Wii games, the BCS, how to email, how to cook a turkey and a bunch of other useless things, but when it comes to what is happening to us politically. We are downright ignorant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People ask me all the time, “what’s the big deal? My life hasn’t changed. I still eat at Burger King, drive my Cadillac, earn a living, and watch college football. Obama/Read/ Pelosi can’t do that much."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wanna bet?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We’ve been warned, over and over again and as far as I can tell, a little more than half the country was duped into believing that change was better. That change is what we needed. That morals, family, freedom, and religion are bad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So for all you people out there, here is a history lesson, taught by pretty smart historical people to help you get your head on straight.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First, let’s examine how Obama won the election&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#1. Get everyone to hate Bush, ride the wave, and fuel the fire:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.” Mein Kampf, volume 1, ch. 10—1925 Adolph Hitler (1889–1945) German Dictator.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#2. Create fires so that the government can put them out, perpetuating the need for larger and larger government.&lt;/strong&gt; (Yes this was true of Bush too.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of ‘Emergency’. It was a tactic of Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini.” Memoirs: The Great Depression, 1929-1941, p. 484—1951 Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) 31st President of the U.S.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#3. Lie. (If you don’t believe me that he lied, just wait, sooner or later all lies come to light.) Clinton, Bush, they all lie. So did Obama.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The great mass of people... will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.” Mein Kampf, volume 1, chapter. 3—1925 Adolph Hitler (1889–1945) German Dictator&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#4. “I will give tax relief to anyone under $250k.” “Cling to their guns and religion.” “look. . . The American people. . .”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behavior, show, condescension, popularity, and toleration of theirprejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel.” Proofs of a Conspiracy, p. 111—1795Adam Weishaupt (1748-1830) Founder of the Illuminati&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#5. Obama says “Youth, college students, your future lies with us!”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Your child belongs to us already... What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new Community.” Speech, November 6, 1933, in Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 249 Adolph Hitler (1889–1945) German Dictator.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But Obama is not a socialist! Really? Then why does everything he stands for, wants to accomplish, and wants to change come straight from socialist playbooks?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Obama says “Change We Can Believe in”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism, but under the name of ‘liberalism,’ they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program until one day America will be a Socialist nation without knowing it happened.” Norman M. Thomas, Campaign speech—1948&lt;br /&gt;Obama says “I vote Present”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“[We are] no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.” Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom: A Call for the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People—1913&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Obama says “We need to be more proactive in helping people.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, state, and nation. Like the octopus of real life, it operates under cover of a self-created screen.” John F. Hyland, New York Times—March 26, 1922&lt;br /&gt;Obama says “The Audacity of Hope in a new society”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“From the days of Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx... this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society... has been steadily growing.” Winston Churchill, Illustrated Sunday Herald, p. 5—February 8, 1920&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Obama says “No, I am not a socialist.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment; let it never appear in any place in its own name, but always concealed by another name, and another occupation.” Letter to Cato, quoted in “Proofs of a Conspiracy”, p. 112—1795 Adam Weishaupt (1748-1830) Founder of the Illuminati&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Liberals want separation between religion and state. Or is it something more sinister? The real battle of Proposition 8 and the other gay marriage bans.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“From Weishaupt through Babeuf, Marx, and Lenin, the revolutionists pushed the five abolitions, namely of monarchy and all other ordered government, of national patriotism, of property and inheritance, of &lt;strong&gt;all religion&lt;/strong&gt;, and of &lt;strong&gt;marriage and the family&lt;/strong&gt;.” Nesta H. Webster, World Revolution, the Plot Against Civilization— 1921&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Your church is next.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The Communists... openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions... Communism &lt;strong&gt;abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality&lt;/strong&gt;.” Karl Marx, Manifesto of the Communist Party—1848&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The great and good ends proposed by the Illuminati, as the ultimate objects of their union, are the &lt;strong&gt;overthrow of religion&lt;/strong&gt;, government, and human society civil and domestic.” “The Duty of Americans, At the Present Crisis” —July 4, 1798, (in Political Sermons of the American Founding Era: 1730-1805, 2nd Edition, volume 2, part 5; 1998) Timothy Dwight IV (1752-1817) President of Yale University.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“We do not believe in eternal morality, and we expose all the fables about morality.” Selected Works, Volume 9, p. 478 Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924) Dictator USSR&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“&lt;strong&gt;Global Warming is the new religion”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Cosmos is my God. Nature is my God... The future society will be a totally new civilization which will synthesize the experience of Socialism and Capitalism.” Interview on the Charlie Rose Show— October 23, 1996 Mikhail Gorbachev (b. 1931) Secretary General Communist Party.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About the upcoming Democratic Super Majority&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Lord John Dalberg, Acton Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton—April 5, 1887 (Acton, Essays on Freedom and Power, pp. 335–36)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Obama says “I want judges that understand the poor.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Today the path to total dictatorship in the United States can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by the Congress, the President, or the people. Outwardly, we have a Constitutional government. We have something within our government... representing another form of government... ...which believes our Constitution, is outmoded and is sure that it is the winning side... All the strange developments in foreign policy agreements may be traced to this group who are going to make us over to suit their pleasure.” Speech on the Senate floor—February 23, 1954" William E. Jenner (1908-1985) U.S. Senator, Indiana (R)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My response:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The people are the rightful masters of both congresses, and courts—not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert it.” Speech at Cincinnati, Ohio—September 17, 1859 (Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 3, p. 435) Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) 16th President of the U.S.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Obama says “I will disarm our nuclear arsenal. I will cut military funding.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“If the opposition disarms, all is well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it Ourselves.” The Political Report of the Central Committee— December 7, 1927 Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) Secretary General Communist Party&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Obama says “we need to work with the other economies of the world.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Marxism represents a further vital and creative stage in the maturing of man’s universal vision... The nation-state is gradually yielding its sovereignty... More intensive efforts to shape a new world monetary structure will have to be undertaken.” Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era—1970 Zbigniew Brzezinski (b. 1928) CFR Board of Directors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“They [capitalists] will furnish credits which will serve us for the support of the Communist Party in their countries.” Remembrances of Lenin, p. 147—1961 Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924) Dictator USSR&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Obama says “The media is not pro libral; it is simply telling us how it is.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“I myself was to experience how easily one is taken in by a lying and censored press and radio in a totalitarian state... a steady diet over the years of falsifications and distortions made a certainimpression on one’s mind and often misled it.” The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, pp. 247-248—1959 William L. Shirer (1904-1993) Journalist and Historian&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Whether it is television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books or the Internet, a fewgiant conglomerates are determining what we see, hear and read.” “Congress Can No Longer Ignore Corporate Control of the Media,” The Hill — June 12, 2002 Bernie Sanders (b. 1941) U.S. Representative, Vermont (I)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.” The Origins of Totalitarianism, chapter 3—1951 Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German Political Philosopher&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So feel better?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, I see you never finished the article. American Idol is on.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-5103016482346037236?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/5103016482346037236/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=5103016482346037236&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/5103016482346037236'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/5103016482346037236'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2008/11/youve-been-warned-stupid-people.html' title='You&apos;ve Been Warned: Obama is a Socialist or Worse'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-6848302294274329844</id><published>2008-11-19T15:48:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-19T15:55:53.612-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sorry Been Busy</title><content type='html'>I have not forgotten to write.  I just haven't had the time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am busy outsourcing my web development for my company to India. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No, I am not joking. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I put the project out to bid, most U.S. companies came back with bids 200-300% higher than bids from other parts of the world (and they didn't look as good).  There are two U.S. companies in the finals.  I really like one of them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What?  I am unAmerican? Are you kidding?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go and look at whatever it is you bought over this last week and I bet you you that it didn't come from the U.S.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am just like you.  I want good products at cheap prices.  With an Obama/Reed/Pilosi super majority looming, I will save money wherever I can.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You should too.  If I don't buy an American website, you might lose your job.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-6848302294274329844?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/6848302294274329844/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=6848302294274329844&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/6848302294274329844'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/6848302294274329844'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2008/11/sorry-been-busy.html' title='Sorry Been Busy'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-387422803559875823</id><published>2008-11-17T07:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-17T07:20:00.411-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Narcissistic Battle Ground</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;As I watch the news I see gay protesters angry at the outcome of an election, vocal about their disappointment that the majority stood up and voted against gay marriage.  I see a group of people filled with hate towards religion, and community organizers, business owners and private citizens, who used the correct way to right a wrong and stand up for what they believe.  I see groups of gay people who demand change, demand equality, demand justice, and demand that the majority bow to their minority point of view.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I just have one thing to say. Shuuuuut uuuup!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why should I be tolerant of your life style when you are clearly not tolerant of mine?  You believe that I should be tolerant of your choices, yet, in no way, shape, or form are you tolerant of the fact that I believe that what you are doing is immoral.  Who cares whether you were born with it or not, I do not have to be tolerant of immoral lifestyle choices that go against what I believe.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You are gay, I am religious.  You think that you have the right to have sex with whomever you want. I think that I have the right to believe in God, that he has a plan, that he made us a certain way to accomplish certain things.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;When did your rights become more important than mine?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why should I have to modify my beliefs to accommodate yours?  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You think that I am bigot and intolerant because I don’t accept your lifestyle.  But if we turn the question around, you are a bigot because you won’t accept mine.  You are just as intolerant as I am.  You are just like me.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But, you say, “If you don’t accept me, your religion is flawed.  You are a fraud and so is your God.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wrong.  Your argument is flawed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Homosexuality is a chosen behavior, an actual action that is chosen, not a defining characteristic. Yet, the majority of gay people develop an overwhelming narcissistic personality. Everything that they are, everything that they do, everything that they revolve their life around is outwardly gay.  In other words, they are defined first and foremost by their sexual orientation. This is not normal and in any other situation would be viewed as, well, an abnormal behavioral issue.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let’s look at it another way.  How many times do heterosexual people have to tell their family or friends, by word or deed, that they are heterosexuals?  Do heterosexuals have to confirm, in words or deeds, their sexual orientation to everyone?  Do heterosexuals have to run around demanding that others accept them? Do they go around promoting the fact that they are straight?  Are their straight parades?  Are there straight promotional functions? Are there colors to identify straightness?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;No, because they do not need to justify their behavior. They do not need to define themselves based their sexual orientation. They do not need to force others to accept them. My beliefs are apparent in my words and deeds, but I am not narcissistic in them. I do not spend my day trying to get others to define me solely on my religion and forcing them to accept me as is, or else.  People know me as a father, a business owner, an honest hardworking man, and a myriad of other things long before they know my religion. That is not abnormal.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If a person loved the color blue and warped their life around the color blue, painted their house blue, only wore blue cloths, and told everyone who would listen about the color blue.  If they held blue parades, and only went to blue bars, if they tried to pass laws for the color blue, or tried to get everyone to accept the color blue, how would they be viewed? Again, this type of narcissism is abnormal.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So while gays run around protesting, calling people who disagree with them bigots and intolerant the questions still begs a response. . . &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why do I have to bend my beliefs so that you can impose yours on me? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why do I have to accept your rights when you trample on my own?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why does my life have to change so that you can live your own?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why should I let you live your life, when you won’t let me live my own?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I do not care what you do in the privacy of your own bedroom.  I do not care what you do when your door is closed. I do not care that you chose to participate in an act that I find immoral, just as I don’t care what heterosexuals do in their own bedrooms behind closed doors.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But the second that you bring the fight out from that door and try to impose your rights over mine, I will fight back. The second you try to change how I believe, teach my kids, and stand up for my beliefs, I will fight you with all the religious organizations, friends, money and energy that I can muster. That is my right in this country, take it or leave it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your right to be gay does not trump my right to believe.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-387422803559875823?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/387422803559875823/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=387422803559875823&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/387422803559875823'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/387422803559875823'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2008/11/narcissistic-battle-ground.html' title='The Narcissistic Battle Ground'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-4938190851145066347</id><published>2008-11-14T11:05:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-14T15:46:09.366-07:00</updated><title type='text'>I WILL CLING!</title><content type='html'>I left the U.S. after the election. No really, I did. I went to Costa Rica for a little R&amp;amp;R on November 8th, just four days after our country took a serious step back. When I came back I was going to leave the blog alone until Monday and just post one of the articles I wrote prior to leaving.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I couldn’t leave two issues alone. The rest, including the marketing reaction, the giddy news media, the Obama picks, and the state of the nation can wait until next week or in the future.&lt;br /&gt;This item I couldn’t leave alone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For years conservatives have been told by the left to be more tolerant. That we should let people live their lives how they want, and that we should accept all people. They spew their enlightened state of progressive acceptance and shout loudly against anyone who is perceived to be intolerant of someone’s lifestyle, thought process, or choices, good or bad. They believe that we should accept everyone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, except people who voted for marriage between one man and one woman.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They same people who were for tolerance before the “historic” election had this to say after the marriage votes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Burn their f---ing churches to the ground, and then tax the charred timbers,"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Can someone in CA please go burn down the Mormon temples there, PLEASE. I mean seriously. DO IT."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Remember, I'm angry. And I'm strong from my years at the gym and really am ready to take my frustration out on someone or something."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Hope the gay waiters at their hotel p---ed in all the drinks they served these cretins,"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(All can be found at &lt;a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;amp;pageId=80220"&gt;http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;amp;pageId=80220&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wow, and these are the tolerance ones? There is always talk about how conservatives are the ones who are bigots, intolerant and fanatics. If the conservatives, or a church on their websites placed any one of these statements there would be a full blown investigation, hate speech laws would be invoked, and the national news media would be all over it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The silence from the ACLU is deafening. Aren’t they the ones who should be running to the defense of these churches? Oh, that’s right; they don’t really want to ensure everyone’s rights, just people who agree with them philosophically.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The silence from the media is deafening. Blurb coverage, to not disrupt Obamanation coverage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The vote was taken, YOU lost! Just as I lost in the general election. You want to tout the democratic process, but only if you win? You want the system to work only when it side with you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you ever thought there was a reason to doubt what liberals say, this is it. When they tell you that you should accept and move on, be tolerant of others lifestyles, and stand up for those who are different, remind them of how good of a job they did when the vote didn’t go their way on marriage. Remind them of when they stood up for Mormons and Catholics who have a different point of view. Remind them of how they did such a good job praising the democratic system that voted, and made a decision based on what the voters wanted. They got what they wanted in the general election and I didn’t like it. Am I threatening to burn down Obama’s house? No. Am I threatening to physically harm a liberal? No.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, a word of caution to those Gay Extremists who think that they could harm buildings, churches and people who were proponents of the one man, one woman marriage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We cling to our guns and religion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Push comes to shove, you will see an overwhelming force you did not know existed. My faith in my religion is stronger than your belief in your homosexuality. It is not a choice for me either.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-4938190851145066347?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/4938190851145066347/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=4938190851145066347&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/4938190851145066347'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/4938190851145066347'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-will-cling.html' title='I WILL CLING!'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-3289989474672299862</id><published>2008-11-14T08:25:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-14T08:58:18.155-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Tax Cuts Where You Pay More taxes</title><content type='html'>Remember, not so long ago that Obama promised that no one under $250k would get a tax increase? Remember the commercials telling the country that a nurse would get $1,500 back, but under John’s plan they would only get $150? &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Wasn&lt;/span&gt;’t that nice? Of course you all believed it right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, grasshopper. The road to bliss is paved with empty promises.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first months in office Congress and Obama are going to repeal the Bush tax cuts. Repeal, as in abolish, abate, halt, terminate, end and you will then go back to the old system where everyone across the board pays higher taxes. This part is fact. Even the nurse will pay more in taxes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“But, but, Obama said that if I made under $250k, that he would not raise my taxes, he promised!”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, grasshopper. The road to bliss is also paved in half truths.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;isn&lt;/span&gt;’t raising taxes. He’s repealing the Bush tax cuts. So even if you are paying more in taxes, he keeps his end of the deal. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Weren&lt;/span&gt;’t you paying attention on how he said what he said, or did you just stop listening after “hate Bush, I give you hope, change you can believe in.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then, if the climate is right and Congress is willing, he will move into his brilliant tax plan of redistribution of your wealth. Yes, even you nurse Kelly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You see, once Congress gets a hold of that extra cash, do you think that they are going to give it up? C’&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;mon&lt;/span&gt;, honestly? Have you not paid attention over the past two decades? He &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;doesn&lt;/span&gt;’t have to give you anything, he just has to keep his promise of not raising taxes and you’ll just go on with your lives, not knowing that the white lie he told was to get you to look past the repeal of Bush’s tax cuts, get him elected, and give him power. He raised your taxes and you weren't even aware of it. Once again you were used, and you didn't even know it. Brilliant!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Think I’m wrong? Wait and see. The next tax year after Bush’s cuts are repealed take a look at your 1040’s tax tables. I bet you a wooden nickel and a trip to Tortilla Flats that you pay more then you did in 2008. I bet McCain’s $150 tax cut looks better than the $1,200 more you’ll pay in taxes that year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then again, I hear paying more taxes is still patriotic. That’s why rich Democrats don’t use any loopholes when they visit with their accountants come tax season. They always give every dime, happily, don’t they. In your dreams.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-3289989474672299862?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/3289989474672299862/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=3289989474672299862&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/3289989474672299862'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/3289989474672299862'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2008/11/tax-cuts-where-you-pay-more-taxes.html' title='Tax Cuts Where You Pay More taxes'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-5484921980935676328</id><published>2008-11-13T08:00:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-13T08:00:07.592-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Transition to What?</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;I am writing this on Friday, November 7th. I am actually in Costa Rica today. However, I am pretty sure of what’s gone on in my absence.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Obama has put in place his transition team. He is choosing his White House Staff and cabinet members. He has tried to avoid the mistakes of Bill’s transition team and has worked hard to emulate Ronald’s. He has placed some people in positions and he is trying to coax others to climb aboard.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is not an overtly watched process, but who he places in these positions says an awful lot about his positions. Want an example?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Donald Rumsfeld. Was there any question on what Bush was thinking when he placed him in his position? C’mon really? No. The problem was America in general didn’t know how much of a ‘hawk’ he was. Why? Because, we don’t pay attention.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Who the president surrounds himself with is a key indicator of what is coming. But instead of paying attention, we are living our lives, going to work, seeing movies, and spending time with our families. This is the key reason we are not really a democracy. We don’t actively participate in politics, we vote people in to do that for us.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So who is Obama putting in? How far to the right are they? Do you know? How do you find out?&lt;br /&gt;Did he put a Republican in any of the positions? Did he offer any job to a moderate voice? Do you know? How do you find out?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;These people will advise him, because he can’t know it all. So we need to pay attention to his choices as well, or we will all end up with another batch of problems that will need to be solved. Oh, yeah there’s that socialism thing again.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-5484921980935676328?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/5484921980935676328/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=5484921980935676328&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/5484921980935676328'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/5484921980935676328'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2008/11/transition-to-what.html' title='Transition to What?'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-4496022604210948119</id><published>2008-11-12T08:00:00.007-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-12T08:00:02.032-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Energy: Why nothing is going to get done</title><content type='html'>While Obama and his surrogates are running around in transition, I want to impress on all of you one thing. The most important &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;immediate&lt;/span&gt; issue is energy, well, mainly gasoline.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why? Because our country runs on it right now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No matter what we do, no matter what we say, gas is a critical issue at the moment. Let’s take a look at the facts:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Our country runs on gasoline. You use it every day in your cars. The trucks that bring you all the food you eat uses it. Everything at some point is transferred using a gas powered engine. Every business in the U.S. relies in one way or another on gas. You could use less, but even the most &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;die hard&lt;/span&gt; liberal still uses gas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. The problems in the Middle East are all caused by our dependence on their oil. Years of dependency have either created or fueled the problem. Even now, if we could become independent of their oil, the damage has been done.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Without a substantial amount of oil from another source, we will never, EVER become energy independent. We cannot just jump from Gas to hydrogen or solar powered cars. Use common sense, even if they were available, are you going to junk your gas using car and purchase a new $25,000 hydrogen car? (you mean you’re not willing to sacrifice your personal budget to save the planet? How shocking!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. We have the gas, but we don’t have the will. Our government has the ability to drill safely in the ocean and in Alaska, and in Utah and in Colorado, but they tell us that it unsafe to the environment. But, the facts tell us something different. Besides a trumped up false claim off the coast of California, there has never been a drilling accident on U.S. soil. Every problem was involved in the transportation of oil. Drilling has never been the problem. If we had the will, we would make the transportation just as safe. The problem is, Liberals do not have the will. They would rather be bed buddies with the environmentalist then solve your gas dilemma.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Which brings us to the bigger picture. What is Obama’s energy plan?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No drilling off shore or in Alaska. No shell harvesting in Utah or Colorado. No new coal plants (Well unless you want to be bankrupt &lt;a href="http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=211243"&gt;http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=211243&lt;/a&gt;), and no new nuclear plants.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wow, this is stunning. You mean to say that his whole plan is to NOT create any new usable energy, even though we all know that consumption is rising and the reserves and supply are falling? That even though China will eclipse our &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;usage&lt;/span&gt; in a few years, we are not going to find any more for us? You mean to tell me that he has some new “supply and demand” model that trumps the old “supply and demand” model that we have been using for centuries?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, wait, that’s right he is going to tax those evil oil companies because they make too much money. That will solve it. Take away their profits and redistribute them to other sources of energy to develop. That makes total sense. Because then they will produce more oil for us to use when they get their profits taken away. They’ll just squeeze it out of their rear ends.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let’s look at this policy in real life. Michael Phelps trained everyday for four years, worked hard at his business and went to China and earned 8 gold medals. He earned them. He was in the right place at the right time, he had a little luck, and he swam his guts out. But, since we are into leveling the playing field and have a need to punish those who are successful, he should give up three of those medals and give them to another participant who did not medal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sound stupid? It is, but it is exactly what he is suggesting to do to the oil companies. Heck, movie stars make ten times the amount teachers do, so why &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;aren&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;’t they taxing them? Or how about professional athletes, or heaven forbid Harvard University. They should have to live by the same rules too, right? Wrong. You are missing the critical point. Socialism &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;isn&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;’t really about leveling the playing field. It is about blaming an easy target so that you can provide hope and change when you attack them. It is never about accomplishment, it is about keeping the masses in check and presiding over their salvation. The liberals don’t care if your problems are solved, because if they were, you &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;wouldn&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;’t need them anymore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, let’s get back to the problem. No new energy sources, and tax the one we have. How does that help you? Will the tax they levy on oil companies put gas in your tank so you can go to work and earn a living?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, the gas companies already have hundreds of thousands of acres they could be pulling gas from, Obama told me so. Man, you really swallowed it all &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;didn&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;’t you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Again real life example: Sorry Will, you can’t have the Independence Day script. It might make too much money. Or even better yet, nope sorry Native Americans, you can’t keep your traditional hunting grounds, we need you to move to the desolate &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;backlands&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; of America. Or, yeah, sorry but you’ll have to sit at the back of the bus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The offering to the gas companies look different when you realize that where they have been given the rights to drill &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;isn&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;’t profitable. Then add onto it that they will be taxed even more if they are, and you’&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;ve&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; got the best plan for Middle East energy dependence in history. Now why would they want that?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I thought that the Liberals wanted energy independence? I thought it was their battle cry that Bush started the war over oil. I thought that it was them who said that we brought 9/11 on ourselves by being dependent. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;Wouldn&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;’t it make sense then that they would be for creating our own oil, and getting us out of the war? Then it must be something else?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh that’s right, socialism. One fire for another, keep the masses needing the political messiah, so he can stay in power. Right. I almost forgot.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-4496022604210948119?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/4496022604210948119/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=4496022604210948119&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/4496022604210948119'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/4496022604210948119'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2008/11/energy-why-nothing-is-going-to-get-done.html' title='Energy: Why nothing is going to get done'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-5191751880236544662</id><published>2008-11-11T08:00:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-11T08:00:03.832-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Media’s New Role</title><content type='html'>It is no mystery that that the mainstream news casted its vote early on for Obama. Given their left tendencies it was no surprise to see them fondling themselves in anticipation. The accolades, the adoration, the “tingles that run up their legs” with the prospects of an Obama presidency. Well they got what they wanted. Now what?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The news now days isn’t about reporting facts or stories, it is about creating the news, telling people what they should think, and allowing surrogates and talking heads time to fill up the 24 hour news cycle. Have you ever wondered why they only allow sound bites from the candidates themselves, but give endless time to their surrogates and talking heads to analyze what they said, how they said it and what you should think about it? It is because they don’t trust you. They don’t want you to think for yourself, they want to do it for you. You are not educated enough, you are not aware enough and you are certainly not capable of crafting your own opinion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But now they have a problem. They promoted Obama, helping raise the expectations of his supporters. They fueled the fire of his greatness, the political messiah, the chosen one, to the point they know he cannot live up to. But when he can’t deliver on his myriad of promises, they won’t be able to criticize him. Now, I know that you are reading this several days after the election, but I wrote it the Thursday after the election and I will tell you what is going to happen, because it started this morning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the Today Show they had a full four minutes of “the daunting tasks that face the new President Obama.” Except, they used every chance they had both in the story and right after the story to lower the bar. They have decided that they need to begin, the day after the election, to douse the fire that they fueled for the last year. They realize that if they don’t, they will lose more credibility. What is telling about this is that they know they are manipulating you, and they don’t care. Why? Because, the general populace is too uneducated to follow their subtle “strategery.” They proved it during the election. They could give you the Obama talking points and you think it is the news. They could tell you what to think, how to think and what to say, then it was repeated over and over again by the uneducated watchers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The media wants you to trust them. I say, you know better. So when they start defending the “failed Obama policies” remember, they put them him there, they need to own up to their bias.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is a great report on the history of studies done by reputable sources about media bias. Of course the numbers are not in for this last election, but I suspect that the results will be more negative news for the media. Here is the source: &lt;a href="http://www.mrc.org/biasbasics/pdf/BiasBasics.pdf"&gt;http://www.mrc.org/biasbasics/pdf/BiasBasics.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are some highlights from 2004’s election:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The vast majority of American voters detected media bias: “83 percent of likely voters said the media is biased in one direction or another, while just 11 percent believe the media doesn’t take political sides,” Zogby reported.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By a huge margin, most of those who saw media bias thought it favored liberals: “Nearly two-thirds of those online respondents who detected bias in the media (64 percent) said the media leans left, while slightly more than a quarter of respondents (28 percent) said they see a conservative bias.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Republicans and independents both saw the media as dominated by liberals, and even some&lt;br /&gt;Democratic voters agreed: “While 97 percent of Republicans surveyed said the media are liberal, two-thirds of political independents feel the same....Just two-thirds of Democrats were certain the media skewed right — and 17 percent said the bias favored the left.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is some from the horse’s mouth:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“I don’t know if it’s 95 percent...[but] there are enough [liberals] in the old media, not just in ABC, but in old media generally, that it tilts the coverage quite frequently, in many issues, in a liberal direction....It’s an endemic problem. And again, it’s the reason why for 40 years, conservatives have rightly felt that we did not give them a fair shake.”&lt;br /&gt;— ABC News political director Mark Halperin appearing on The Hugh Hewitt Show, October 30, 2006.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“I believe it is true that a significant chunk of the press believes that Democrats are incompetent but good-hearted, and Republicans are very efficient but evil.”&lt;br /&gt;— Wall Street Journal political editor John Harwood on the April 23, 2005 Inside Washington.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“At ABC, people say ‘conservative’ the way people say ‘child molester.’”&lt;br /&gt;— ABC 20/20 co-anchor John Stossel to CNSNews.com reporter Robert Bluey, in a story posted January 28, 2004.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“As the science editor at Time I would freely admit that on this issue we have crossed the boundary from news reporting to advocacy.”&lt;br /&gt;— Time Science Editor Charles Alexander at a September 16, 1989 global warming conference, as quoted by David Brooks in an October 5, 1989 Wall Street Journal column.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-5191751880236544662?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/5191751880236544662/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=5191751880236544662&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/5191751880236544662'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/5191751880236544662'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2008/11/medias-new-role.html' title='The Media’s New Role'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-4339931742655952524</id><published>2008-11-10T08:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-10T08:00:01.230-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Obama’s Mandate</title><content type='html'>The night after the election I happened to catch the Reverend Jesse Jackson on Larry King. He was using the “M” word. Now, a lot of conservatives want to fight the notion that that there is a mandate. Lets’ be honest, you can claim a landslide victory in the Electoral College, but at least 50 million people don’t want what Obama is selling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But still, rather than fighting the notion on whether or not Obama has a mandate, I say, let’s jump on the bandwagon and increase the hype, the expectations and the endorsement of such a thing. Here’s why.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 1994, I was working at a college that had one of those huge pendulums that hung from the ceiling and rotated using the worlds wobble to tell time. Two brilliant freshman (liberal arts majors I’m sure) thought that it would be a smashing idea to see how far they could swing the pendulum by pushing it. They got behind it and pushed it with all they had, then stood back to watch their achievement. What they didn’t know was that the force in which they pushed the pendulum increased the arc’s apex on the other side. When it came back it swung further than either of them suspected. One lost his two front teeth, the other got a concussion, a skull fracture, and a black eye.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mandate, sure. You go for it! You push that pendulum with all your might. I wonder if Pelosi has enough makeup to cover up a black eye, (oh wait, have you seen the make-up on that woman? I am sure she does.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VTdCoqtmRR8/SRMSgAPRf_I/AAAAAAAAADo/PuxPb1svxe0/s1600-h/Pelosi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265572730355417074" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 180px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 232px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VTdCoqtmRR8/SRMSgAPRf_I/AAAAAAAAADo/PuxPb1svxe0/s200/Pelosi.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But more importantly, I think something else needs to be addressed here. While the liberals run around talking about this mandate, they have lost sight of one minor detail. By their own accounts, the middle of America voted because of their hatred for Bush. This is a mighty big difference than voting for Obama, no matter how they want to spin it. When middle America wakes from this hope induced hangover and realize that what Obama wants is different than what they want, those same voters who didn’t take the time to actually learn something about politics, promises and political marketing will be easily swayed to hate him as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What goes around, comes around.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Oh, and don't get all over me for finding the ugliest picture of Pelosi I could find. I envoke the Bush Rule.)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-4339931742655952524?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/4339931742655952524/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=4339931742655952524&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/4339931742655952524'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/4339931742655952524'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2008/11/obamas-mandate.html' title='Obama’s Mandate'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VTdCoqtmRR8/SRMSgAPRf_I/AAAAAAAAADo/PuxPb1svxe0/s72-c/Pelosi.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-1403644513341069833</id><published>2008-11-08T08:00:00.007-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-08T08:00:01.773-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Clueless Obamanomics</title><content type='html'>On the Today Show Firiday one of Obama’s top economic aides was on showing his towering intellect. Wow, this is staggering, even now as I write it, I can’t believe that this is the guy who might be leading the charge for Obama’s economic plans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meredith had established that our country survives on consumers. Need to add a little bit more here. We only survive on consumers. We don’t make much anymore, if you don’t consume, (buy something today) your neighbor down the street loses his job. If he doesn’t consume, you lose your job. We have built the most fragile economy on the planet and it is showing its frailty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, this brain trust that Obama has developed began to answer questions and what he said was once again the half truths of his campaign.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;‘We need to stimulate the middle class so that they will spend. We need to either get a tax cut into their hands or a stimulus check to them so that they will stimulate the economy.’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, on the surface this sounds good right. Those of us in the middle class would like more money to spend, but, THAT ISN’T THE ISSUE AT ALL!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So let’s have a little economics lesson shall we?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The economy is mostly affected by jobs. Why? Because, jobs provide a constant flow of money for consumers. When people have a job, they spend their money. (People without a job spend other people’s money, it’s just a lot less) When people lose their jobs, mostly because other people are not spending their money, they stop consuming and other people lose their jobs. Cyclical.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So what’s wrong with a stimulus plan, nothing. But, I know something that is better. You see, a stimulus plan is a booster shot, a one hit wonder. It is not a gift that keeps on giving. If you want to stimulate the economy, create new jobs. Jobs don’t provide a one month $1,800 check to spend, it creates an ongoing consumer stream that saves your job, your neighbors job, and mine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So obviously, a job is worth much more in the long run then a middle class tax cut or a stimulus check. Many times more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So this aide to Obama says, ‘we need to create 100-200k jobs as quickly as we can.’&lt;br /&gt;So let’s check the Obama plan for creating jobs. ‘We are going to tax people who make $250K+ and give tax relief to everyone else including $1,000 checks to people who don’t pay taxes.’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Need more information? Thought so. How many poor people are going to take their $1,000 check and hire someone? Right, none. How many people who make $70,000 a year working for UPS are going to create a job with their tax refund? Right again, none. How many people who have jobs working for someone else, are going to take their tax cut, start a business and hire five other people? In this climate? Right again, none.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It isn’t Reaganomics, it is simple economics. Poor people, people who work for other people, and people who don’t work, DO NOT CREAT JOBS!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who does? Well therein lays the craftiest lie in all of this. The average successful small business owner in this country makes just about $250,000 a year. They supply the greatest number of jobs nationwide. They get paid to take the chance, build a business and they have earned their reward. These are the people Obama’s brain trust wants to tax. Brilliant. That’s the way to get them to invest more, and hire more people, by punishing them with more taxes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am a small business owner. I have a desk, a phone, and work for another employee. I know if I hire that employee, I could make more money. I could grow my business. But that desk has gone unoccupied for the last three months and I have no intention of filling it anytime soon. Why? Because if you (my dear reader) lose your job because your neighbor stopped consuming, you won’t buy my products and then I lose the income from that sale. This hurts my business. So instead, I will sit on the capital that I so wisely saved during the economic boom, and wait this economic crisis out. (I can do that because I saved a lot more than I consumed during the last five years personally too.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama’s plan to tax the rich and give to the poor sounds great as a stump speech, It placated the masses, and trumped the promises of economic security for all. But, I will bet you a whole bunch of my money that when push comes to shove, people would rather have a job then a stimulus check. They would rather have a job then a tax cut.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So as you contemplate your hope filled Obama future, think about this. That person I didn’t hire, because I am unsure about Obama’s taxes, didn’t get a paycheck from me this week, so he/she didn’t consume, so your neighbor is about to lose his job, which means, yep, you guessed it, you’re about to lose yours.(Now, don’t even think about blaming me for not hiring that person. I do what’s best for me and my family just as you do yours. Blame Obama if you must, I invoke the Clinton Rule)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-1403644513341069833?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/1403644513341069833/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=1403644513341069833&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/1403644513341069833'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/1403644513341069833'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2008/11/clueless-obamanomics.html' title='Clueless Obamanomics'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-5712099279787689836</id><published>2008-11-07T08:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-07T08:06:48.980-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Socialism Rears its Ugly Head</title><content type='html'>When I was young, naive and in my first years of college, I’ll have to admit, I leaned the left and thought myself to be quite liberal. I think when you’re young, liberalism offers you hope because it promises to level the playing field. It equalizes this unfair world so that you can participate. It promises you a place of equal standing regardless of your current stature.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then you enter the real world and you realize that it is not equal. It is not fair. And you don’t get a prize for showing up and participating. There are no ribbons for sixteenth place. That the world is highly competitive and unless you are willing to step ahead of someone, you will always be behind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back in those years I was given an assignment by a history teacher to read a book from an “opposition to democracy” leader. Being the over active, over achieving student I was, I read Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ and Karl Marx’s ‘ The Poverty of Philosophy’ and ‘The Communist Manifesto’. I’ll admit, I was taken under their spell. Both are written in such a way that they suck you in and turn your own life’s situations into powerful examples of why socialism is the way for everyone to have equal opportunity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, many are afraid that Obama is a socialist. The radio-right talk show hosts always point to his policies of redistributing wealth, welfare taxation, and tax the rich to give programs to the poor ideology. This is summed up in Marx’s philosophy:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The rich must give all they can, but the poor must take all that they need.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, this pales in comparison the Marxist ideology of how to gain power. You see. I am a much bigger fan of judging a person by what he does, rather than what he says. So let’s take a look at the Marxist playbook of gaining power and then we can draw some conclusions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Idea number one&lt;/strong&gt;: You must sow seeds of discontent among the poor. They must feel that they are not participating, disenfranchised, or have lost something. Their discontent must be drawn out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Idea number two&lt;/strong&gt;: Blame the opposition for everything. They are the ruling power, they must accept blame for all their actions. Sow the seeds of discontent against the ruling party. It is much easier to believe that things are wrong and that someone else is to blame, then it is to promote your ideology.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Idea number three&lt;/strong&gt;: Offer hope and change. You have now sowed the seeds of discontent and assigned blame. Now offer hope and change. It will not matter what that hope is, or what that change is because if done correctly people won’t ask. They will believe that anything is better than what they currently have.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So far kind of scary, huh? But he isn’t done, and the scary part is yet to come.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Idea number four&lt;/strong&gt;: Use any means necessary to gain power. It does not matter what you offer, how you offer it, or if you can ensure that it will happen. Gain power by any means necessary (yes to Marx, this includes lying, cheating, stealing or any other way) because until you have power, nothing else matters. Only the powerful get to make decisions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Idea number four&lt;/strong&gt;: Keep your power. In order to keep your power, you need to keep the masses and create more of them. Advances in social status must be offset by reductions in social status. Fight one fire while creating another fire somewhere else. Destroy the middle class and create an “us versus them” mentality. The have-nots must always be reminded that they don’t have what the rich do, and that they need the government to level the playing field.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, having Obama actually say he wants to redistribute wealth is awful disturbing. But in light of the Marxist playbook, I am more scared of his actions during the election. If you can’t see the parallels you’re blind. This is how he beat Clinton and then beat McCain. He took this play by play straight from the Marxist playbook.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The last two ideologies scare me the most. Take a look at how liberals operate. In all the years they have been fighting for the under classes, what’s changed? What have they done to improve their status? In every case for the last 50 years they continually created programs that were supposed to help people, but they never get better. Their programs fight one fire, while they create another somewhere else. In all their billions upon billions in governmental programs, they have solved nothing. They blame the conservatives at every chance, but by purpose, they have nothing to show because if the poor, the discriminated, the minority, the illegal were to ever advance, they would lose their power. Socialism is why it will never change. Read Marx, he’ll tell you, straight up, what is going on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are just too uneducated, too unread, and to apathetic to care. The masses would rather blame the opposition then change, and the programs that were established to help ALWAYS come back to burn them.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-5712099279787689836?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/5712099279787689836/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=5712099279787689836&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/5712099279787689836'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/5712099279787689836'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2008/11/socialism-rears-its-ugly-head.html' title='Socialism Rears its Ugly Head'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-7520500265564466707</id><published>2008-11-06T08:20:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-14T08:19:10.015-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Bush Haters United</title><content type='html'>When history writes this chapter, I am afraid that a footnote will need to be written about Obama’s campaign. One that won’t get as much press, but will none-the-less be worthy of a great deal of scrutiny. It is not the amount he spent, or about the way in which he campaigned. It will be the award winning job he did marketing to the American people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Marketing has always been part of the campaign, but it was taken to new heights and in ways that when viewed with historical facts, unsettling. Not because he used them, by all means, we all market, but because the American populace was dumb enough to buy it hook line and sinker.&lt;br /&gt;What am I talking about? The wholesale marketing of hatred for Bush.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now before you go all postal on me and start shrieking about Bushes failed policies, remember results take time to measure, and we are now just getting the facts of how much deception there was in Obama’s marketing. I guess we are also getting more facts on just how Americans believed the marketing lies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama didn’t win because of his amazing intellect, his great plan, or even for good policies. He won because he convinced enough people to hate Bush. He used it over and over, then used it over and over again, until people who don’t think for themselves believed. Then he told them there was hope in his change. (By the way, this is a play right from Karl Marx’s socialism playbook. But, that is for another posting.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Want proof. Good, cause I got plenty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are in this position of economic crisis because of Bush’s failed economic plans, right? That is what most Americans believe and voted on, but here is some interesting exit polling time statistics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since 2004, through Bush’s failed economic plan, the number of people making less than $15k dropped to 6%. That is a 25% decline.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since 2004, through Bush’s failed economic plan, the number of people making less than $30k dropped to 12%. That is a 20% decline.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since 2004, through Bush’s failed economic plan, the number of people making between $100k and $150k increased to 14% which is a 27% increase.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since 2004, through Bush’s failed economic plan, the number of people making between $150k and $200k increased to 6% which is a 50% increase.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since 2004, through Bush’s failed economic plan, the number of people making over $200k increased to 6% which is a 100% increase.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since 2004, through Bush’s failed economic plan, the total number of people making over $100k increased to 26% which is a 44% increase.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, wait. Didn’t the liberal Bush hating machine tell you that you were worse off than in 2004? Didn’t they spend hundreds of millions of dollars convincing the uneducated masses that Bushes failed economic plans had made things worse?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hook, line and sinker. The uneducated bought it because the media feeds you a constant flow of gloom and doom. It is easier to get you to think that you are worse off, then show you how the numbers actually work. Oh, and there was that thing about the media hating Bush as well and wanting the ‘chosen one’ elected, but that is for another post as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is some more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bush’s failed economic policy caused the current credit meltdown and the stock market crisis. Two questions. One, who controls the laws and the purse strings of the United States? Answer: Congress. Question two, who oversees Fannie May and Freddy Mac? Congress. Whether it was democratic or republican, Congress had a hundred fold more impact on the current economic crisis than Bush did. So what did the brain dead electorate vote? More bone heads in congress. Bush warned congress 27 times in the first six years of his presidency that it was broken and needed to be fixed. Great job doing your homework America. Oh wait, those weren’t in Obama’s marketing plan, so you didn’t get that memo did you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here’s some more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bush’s failed policies caused jobs to go overseas, and for companies to move outside of the U.S. raising unemployment, and job loss. Let’s take a look shall we? Where did you shop this week? Where were the best deals for your family on clothing, electronics, house wares, and textiles? You did what every red blooded American did this last week and bought those items at the best prices so that you could save money, and still get what you want.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, go take a look at where that stuff was made. Find the tag and see. I’ll bet that 90% of the stuff you consume is from somewhere else other than The U.S.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So let’s put two and two together shall we? Was Bush there when you bought those items? Did he in some way whisper in your ear and tell you to buy foreign merchandise? Of course not. You did it because you made the decision consciously or unconsciously that whatever you bought was the best thing for you. You did it to save money, get better quality, or because it was simply the one you wanted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Companies move overseas to compete with overseas companies. When you as a consumer demand a better T.V. at a lower cost, companies have to find ways of producing a T.V. at lower costs. When an American demands $30 an hour to build a T.V., but the company can’t compete at that labor cost, that company moves its production overseas. You, me and everyone else in the U.S. wants goods at a lower cost, much lower than what it costs to produce in the states.&lt;br /&gt;Bush has little or nothing to do with that, YOU DO. Your desire for cheap goods to fill that whole in your emptiness causes more job loss than any president. Once again, great job doing your homework America. But of course, you bought into Obama’s marketing didn’t you, so you didn’t notice you were the problem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bush’s failed foreign policy has made the world hate us. Agreed, I am not a fan of the war, or of the Bush doctrine in general. History has not been kind to people who start wars. However, hindsight is 20/20. It is interesting how people have skewed history to mean something it didn’t, rewrite it if you will.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 2001, Muslim extremists from the Middle East hated us enough to attack us on our soil. They hated us enough to attack and embassy, a warship, and some other targets as well. Most Muslim countries have always hated us. Europe didn’t much care for us, nor did China, Venezuela, or Southeast Asia. So who hates us now? The same people. Nothing has changed, they just voice it more. (Mainly because they want Obama too. Someone they can "talk to.")&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But Obama marketed to all of you that the Bush failed foreign policy has been bad for the U.S. Let’s see. The eight years prior to 9/11 brought us 7 different terrorist attacks on U.S. Assets. Since, none. Bush traded some counterproductive “light petting” with some of the fringe countries and protected our assets around the world. Countries who have taken the Obama approach of foreign policy have had the reverse effect. England, Spain, the Philippines all have been attacked and all of them think diplomacy is the key to working with terrorists. Oh, another memo that the Obama campaign failed to get you. Ouch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Look I am not a fan of Bush, and I think that in many ways he made bad choices. But Obama marketed half truths to you about where you stand, who’s to blame, and where you were headed, to get elected. He used you. He used a prevailing feeling, cultivated it into a fire, and then dropped an atom bomb on it with creative marketing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who’s the bigger idiot? One who makes up the lie or ones that believes it? Hook, line and sinker.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-7520500265564466707?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/7520500265564466707/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=7520500265564466707&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/7520500265564466707'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/7520500265564466707'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2008/11/bush-haters-united.html' title='Bush Haters United'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390901445628523.post-6370145186580072228</id><published>2008-11-05T10:01:00.010-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-05T10:20:01.303-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Messiah?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VTdCoqtmRR8/SRHVAxsYjFI/AAAAAAAAACY/JhVGFXhIGUU/s1600-h/BO.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265223648689032274" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 141px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VTdCoqtmRR8/SRHVAxsYjFI/AAAAAAAAACY/JhVGFXhIGUU/s200/BO.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;As I sat and watch Obama’s acceptance speech last night, I found my heart repeating “yes we can.” I found myself swelling up with the crowd full of emotion as they repeated it over and over again. “Change we can believe in.” I saw the tears, the joy, the pride. I found myself almost believing that this man was the savior of our nation, the messiah of politics and the answer to all my concerns. He could save us. He could save us all! He’s the man with the plan. He’s the man with all the answers! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;And then I woke up from my audacity of hope induced coma . My keen intellect wouldn’t allow the brainwashing to sink in. The crowd mentality, the me too, crackerjack prize at the bottom, jump on board, “Change we can believe in” snake oil salesman’s empty promises would not work with me.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then it hit me. I get to have the job that the liberals got to have for the last 8 years. I get to sit back and watch it all implode. I get to armchair quarterback the destruction of the United States and comment on all the things that they do wrong. I don’t have to offer any hope, real legislation, or bipartisan support, but instead, offer a steady does of “well, here’s what you did wrong” finger wagging. What a great job! Then in four years, I get to lead the charge as stupid people who drank the cool-aide wonder, “what just happened? I though t that they were going to save me. I thought they were going to help me. I thought that things would be perfect, easy, and. . .” (gulp) “What happened?”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;So let’s set some ground rules to how this is going to work.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;1. I am not going to call him by his title. The Liberals and their media desecrated the presidential office by calling that other dude “Mister Bush.” So according to rule #2, I will continue this practice and it is fair game. This is the “&lt;strong&gt;Not my President Rule&lt;/strong&gt;.”&lt;br /&gt;2. Anything that was fair game with the Liberals is fair game now. You all got to sit back and criticize without impunity, now it is my turn. (Nothing is off limits.) This is the "&lt;strong&gt;Bush Hater Rule&lt;/strong&gt;."&lt;br /&gt;3. I have chosen ten promises that Obama made to the nation in his election speech. I will from time to time, critique him on how well he is doing. Although, I will almost always going to place it in the larger context, the final judgment will be based on how what he does directly affects me, personally. Not fair? That’s how you voted, isn’t it. On whether you thought he would affect your life personally? Hey, if you voted because you personally hated Bush, I got news for you, you’re going to hate Obama even worse. This is the “&lt;strong&gt;Bite Me Rule&lt;/strong&gt;.”&lt;br /&gt;4. I do not have to accept any personal responsibility for anything I write. You want facts checked, go check them yourself. If you think that my take on the facts is not accurate, tuff. Your left wing agenda media didn’t do their own fact checking and when they were called on the carpet, they never took responsibility. When they take responsibility, so will I. “&lt;strong&gt;Blind Faith Rule&lt;/strong&gt;”&lt;br /&gt;5. If you’re going to argue with me, and make posts on this blog, be prepared for two things. One, if I don’t like it, I will remove it and call you a hatemonger, a bigot, or a radical (that’s all you’ve done and it works for you). Two, you better come with both barrels loaded because I’m a pretty smart guy, with a whole lot to say, and oh yeah, it’s my blog. (Oh, don’t cry, your media will still feed you your daily dose of Obamacrack.) This is the “&lt;strong&gt;Mainstream Media Rule&lt;/strong&gt;.”&lt;br /&gt;6. For those of you who think it is going to be funny to just post “Yes we can” because B.O. says for you to say it to all the naysayers, critics, and pundits who don’t agree with him, save it. Go read a little history, Hitler, Stalin and Carl (Marx for all you non-readers out there), all had their “followers” repeat slogans in the face of detractors. So do cult leaders and the mentally insane. This is the “&lt;strong&gt;Empty words Rule&lt;/strong&gt;.”&lt;br /&gt;7. For all those who want to support B.O. by invoking the failed policies of Bush, stop. I won’t defend Bush. It is time for B.O. to stand where he was placed, by his supporters, on his own. Every single thing he does, he does now alone. All the nation’s problems are now his problems. No excuses, no fall back, no scapegoat. He takes full responsibility for the nation as of today. You have the Clinton’s to thank for that little rule. The buck stops with the president. Period. The moment I hear “Bushes failed ______” (insert the blank) I will invoke the "&lt;strong&gt;Clinton Rule&lt;/strong&gt;."&lt;br /&gt;8. If you like my blog, pass it on. If you don’t agree with me, you’re a hatemongering bigot that is just trying to divide the nation (hey it worked for you), because it couldn't possibly be a difference of idiology. This is the “&lt;strong&gt;it works both ways rule&lt;/strong&gt;.” &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;So check back often. I am going to hold everyone who voted for this guy responsible. I am going to call it how I see it, and I am going to use my right to free speech. If no one reads, at least I will be able to vent my frustration, (that is until the liberal congress votes in the fairness doctrine, then my rights to an opposition voice will be limited until I can find a liberal who can take the time to paste two sentences together for equal time.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/937390901445628523-6370145186580072228?l=middleamericanparty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/feeds/6370145186580072228/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=937390901445628523&amp;postID=6370145186580072228&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/6370145186580072228'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/937390901445628523/posts/default/6370145186580072228'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://middleamericanparty.blogspot.com/2008/11/messiah.html' title='The Messiah?'/><author><name>JAM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01208698453999505836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VTdCoqtmRR8/SRHVAxsYjFI/AAAAAAAAACY/JhVGFXhIGUU/s72-c/BO.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry></feed>
