further thoughts on where we go from here

Even if McCain wins, which I find an implausible outcome at this juncture, he is damaged goods and will be unable to do anything except his amnesty in his (probably single) term. The media have pronounced him ‘worse than Bush’ (isn’t it amazing how each Republican candidate is worse/more venal/facist/dishonest/stupid, than the last? a truly amazing coincidence), and Palin is Cheney x 1,000.

(Lordy Lordy Bite! We agree on most things…….not everything, but who agrees on everything?)

But, I think we may take a hammering this time, and be out of the loop for four years. If that’s the case, we could do with revisiting our (very-easy-to-caricature) stance as the Party of Self-Righteous Christians. It’s so 1980’s.

I don’t give two hoots about gay marriage plus I cannot see Roe v Wade ever being overturned, so why not accept that and move on to becoming the party of expanding adoption and avoiding unwanted pregnancies?

You don’t have to be pro-abortion, as the Democrats are, to accept it as a reality.

We should aggressively attack wasteful and corrupt congressional appropriation - we must be whiter than white; we are held to a higher standard than Democrats which is fine with me. I wouldn’t want to be judged against Rangel, Jefferson, et al, but I also do not wish to be identified with Ted Stevens and his ilk. Washington is not a free-for-all, or at least it should not be, and we should be the party that champions that, including exposing and shunning those on our side who are tainted. I don’t care what party you’re in - if you’re taking backhanders, bribes and freebies, you’re stealing FROM ME.

Earmarks should be illegal. We should introduce bill-after-bill-after-bill outlawing the practice - let the Democrats keep them from coming to a vote.

Drill, baby, drill. That’s a winning issue, and we should coalesce around it and make it ours exclusively - Obama’s double-talk on nuclear waste typifies their view of the electorate’s intelligence. We need to educate people in clear and unpatronizing language, and win with this issue. Oil prices are not going back to 50 bucks a barrel, so we might as well run with it.

Why not become the party of minorities? Introduce legislation that rewards and encourages academic and commercial excellence. Start scholarships in Hispanic communities and schools, push for aggressive SBA activity in financing MBEs - the Democrats don’t want to assist minorities get off the federal teat, they like them just where they are. let’s talk about that, and start asking pointed questions - if Democrats are so good for the African-American community, then how come all the worst school districts in the United States have been controlled by Democrats for forty years, and they deteriorate further each and every year? What’s so good about that? (This is probably more a state and local campaign, but we need to start talking about how utterly useless and bankrupt the socialism of the other side is).

I don’t identify with Wall Street bankers. I don’t think many people do. They are not ‘of our side’; they are not entrepreneurs; they do not create wealth; they do not create jobs; they do not create products. They are parasites, for the most part, playing in a casino with a stacked deck and other people’s money. We don’t need to demonize them, we do need to realize what they have just wrought (besides a probable Obambi Presidency), and we need to make sure they can’t do it again. We need to explain what just happened - it’s actually pretty simple - and hang it around the necks of the Democrats, who own it almost exclusively.

Fannie and Freddie were Democrat piggy banks, which is why they escaped any proper oversight and control. We should never, ever tire of talking about this. Lending money to people who can’t pay it back doesn’t even pass the laugh test as a business proposition, but they forced it down everybody’s throats and put the Federal Government in the role of guarantor. This is not a complex issue, and if McCain and the Republicans think it is, then AGAIN, they underestimate the intelligence of the American public. We’ll get our message over in the end, because THE TRUTH WILL OUT, always. Even the mainstream media cannot ignore the facts, although they are going to until after November 4th, for sure.

Any thoughts from others would be gratefully received.


Gosh, No, Really? Shocking!

So is this a surprise to anyone? Nebraska has a safe haven law that was set up to allow mothers of newborns to abandon their child in a safe place without fear of being prosecuted. Now, I am totally in favor of that. Better somewhere safe and allow the baby to be raise by a loving family who has the means than to see a news story of another prom-mom. However, the problem in Nebraska was that they didn’t have an age limit. Sooooo, what happened? Well, a big chunk of the new safe haven drop offs have been teenagers. No! It can’t be! I mean teenagers are so much fun! Why would you want to get rid of your teen? Seriously, I have a feeling that Nebraska will be seeing a huge influx of families with teens.


The dumbest people on Earth

So who are the dumbest people on Earth according to Chris? Read on. It’s not who you think.

Meet Tom and Tina. They have bad credit. They picked up a loan in the subprime market and now, they can’t pay. They’ve fallen behind and now they are in default. However, they didn’t get their mortgage through Fannie or Freddie. They’re screwed, right? Well, not so fast my friend. You see, Tom and Tina got their loan through the FHA. Well, we can’t have FHA loans looking bad can we? That won’t do one bit. FHA currently has 3 in 10 mortgages and many are like the one owned by Tom and Tina: subprime and in default. Enter congress. Per Bloomberg: Congress has directed HUD to buy up those bad mortgages and re-issue them. They will sell them off to someone but still back them. Meaning when Tom and Tina fall behind again (and they will), the bank will go to HUD and will say “pay their bill please” and you and I will be responsible for it. Welcome to the Hope for Homeowners program that congress snuck into that crap sandwich on 10/1. It allocates up to 300 billion over the next couple years for HUD to do just that. Now, the CBO says that 1 in 3 of these loans will go bad again. But that’s ok. You and I will take care of them.

What makes this worse, is our candidates for president are in full support of this or worse. John McCain proposed just this kind of thing in the debate on Tuesday the 7th. In the last debate Obama suggested this and reducing the principal in the process. Think about that one. Tom and Tina have been paying on their 100k mortgage for a couple years before having trouble. The home is still worth 100k so they have a small bit of equity. If they sold, they would make a small profit maybe depending on the realtor costs. But now enter Obama’s idea. The bank is told to rewrite the load as a 75K loan for 30 more years. Now Tom and Tina turn around immediately and sell the house for that 100K and make a quick 20k plus profit all courtesy of the federal government. They can and will do that over and over. The “poor” know how to game the system and exploit every dollar. This will become the new career. Defaulting on mortgages to get equity and selling for that equity.

I’m beginning to think that the dumbest people on Earth are people like me who actually pay their bills on time. I see all that is going on and I keep thinking why should we when you can apparently just walk away and have no consequences. It’s truly sad and is what happens when we stop judging people based on the content of their character and make failures into heroes.


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game over

Beth would kill me, and I hope I’m wrong.

But game over. McCain is seemingly incapable of smacking this moron into submission.

And nationalizing all the bad mortgages? Are you kidding me? Can I have the money back I lost on the unfair stock market, please? Because I deserve a bailout. Don’t I?

Oh, and David Gergen. Please go and get f***ed. I’m not voting for Obama because he’s an orthodox anti-American liberal blowhard. His skin color is neither here nor there.


Presidential debate the sequel

Let’s hope McCain has dropped his Mr. Nice Guy act and is ready to tear Obama a new one. The gloves have to come off and Obama has to get flustered. Senator McCain needs to pull a Palin here. Totally disregard the moderator and go to town. I’ll be out and about. I’ll get it started but if your comment takes a while, please be patient. Someone will get it when they see it and can approve it.


Rightchange.com’s McCain Ad

Finally! Here come’s a 527. It’s about time. The group in question is Right Change

Right Change is trying to run some commercials in the battleground states. The first one hits the Obama tax plan:

The next one hits the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac/Obama connection:

And this one is even better:

If you have some spare change, send a couple bucks RightChange’s way. We need to get these on the air before it’s too late.


bloomberg reporting snl scripts as news

In their thirst to portray Sarah Palin as a borderline-retarded, permatanned Northern Exposure snowbilly, Bloomberg News (ha!!) stoops to reporting an SNL sketch in their news piece on Palin taking of the gloves. It’s actually sad.

Impersonating the Republican candidate in a skit on Saturday Night Live this weekend, comedian Tina Fey lampooned her responses to a question about how a McCain administration would handle the financial crisis gripping the U.S.

“We’re gonna take every aspect of this crisis and look at it, and then we’re gonna ask ourselves what would a maverick do in this situation and then you know we’ll do that,” Fey, as Palin, said.

That got through sub-editors and editors to make it into a news item. They don’t even pretend any more.


Pity Party over. Time to fight

Ok, we’ve passed the bailout. Can we stop getting along now and fight back? I’ll admit I’ve been a bit down lately due to the reality of the numbers. Typically these numbers are in concrete this late in the election. Typically, who ever pulls away in October wins. However, who can say this is a typical year. It’s anything but. No one knows anything about Obama other than he’s black and the messiah. It is time to start educating people on this guy as fast as we can.

Palin started Thursday with a very admirable debate run. I think she won it on style and drew it on points. Neither hurt the other, but what Palin did do was stem the bleeding. Now she’s out pointing out Obama’s shady past. Maybe, just maybe, the campaign can turn this around.

The bailout is over and the market will shake it. We can get on with other issues now and deal with the louts who did the bailout stuff to us later. We need to remind everyone that while Obama was sending secret letters to people about this problem, McCain actually submitted bills to stop it. He was shot down by the democrats. And contrary to the people trying to say otherwise, it WAS forcing banks to lend money to people who should never have had loans that caused it. That’s why it’s the SUBPRIME crisis and not the rich people going broke crisis.

Let’s go 527’s. Let’s get to Obama’s record in Illinois and his infant born alive views. Let’s get to the Chicgo Amherst Project where Obama was able to get very wealthy at the same time 150 million dollars “mysteriously” disappeared. No wonder he won’t release those records. These are the fun things. Let’s get to them.

Oil and gas are still our issues. Press them. Palin negotiated an international pipeline to deliver natural gas to the lower 48. She did so by crushing the American oil companies who were given sweetheart deals by her predecessor. She has balanced budgets, she has fought corruption. Obama embraces corruption. He embraces criminals. It’s time to expose him.

I started in church this morning when some congregants were discussing Tina Fey and her Palin protrayals. One remarked “it’s too be we can’t get Fey instead. She seems to be more intelligent than Palin.” To which I leaned in and said “and yet Palin is more qualified than Obama” and brought the discussion to a crashing halt.

Palin is more qualified than Obama. Let them know that. McCain is a million times more qualified than Obama. Shout it out. We have 4 weeks and our pity party is officially over. Time to get moving!


How are we going to fight this?

Surprise, surprise. From NoQuarters, it appears that ACORN has been busted again registering dead people who you just know have already sent in absentee ballots.

In Ohio, they are bussing homeless people to register and vote and of course they will make sure any non Obama vote gets “lost” on the way. Plus since they don’t have to completely fill in all the forms, single individuals can fill in multiple registrations. Dead people, duplicate votes, etc.

How can we fight this? I know they have done this for several elections, but eventually they will succeed in getting enough votes to overturn a legit election. We have to fight back somehow. I just have no idea how.


how was your lunch? i had a shit sandwich delivered

By our representatives, or should I say Overlords, in Congress.

Yummy! And my kids get to pay for it too!!

I’m very seriously reconsidering my party affiliation.


VP Debate

Usually the VP debate is nothing. It’s a sideshow. This year, it’s crucial for Sarah Palin to deliver a good performance. No more hockey mom. No more championship snowmachine rider. No more moose hunter. It’s all business and taking on Obama. Ignore Biden. He’s a clown. Obama needs to be hit and hit hard.

Go Sarahnator!


On Sarah’s Shoulders

Sarah Palin won elective office for city council, mayor and governor. She took out a sitting governor and a former governor in her run for governor. She took down corruption and smacked the powerhouses around. She didn’t do that by being held back. She waded into the fray with a baseball bat and used it. Why haven’t we seen Sarah on the offense? Because her hands are tied by the McCain campaign. She has handlers that give her her speeches and talking points and keep her sheltered. This is a terrible decision and it has been very costly. Just as her popularity peaks and she lifts the campaign to a lead, the people in the campaign tied her up and shut her down. No interviews. No talking to the press. No unchauffeured stops. It’s like they actually think she is the lightweight that the press is painting her as. She’s not. She can more than hold her own and it’s time to get her going again.

Sarah Palin needs to be the attacker of the McCain team. She needs to be the Mrs. Hyde to the Senator’s Dr. Jekyll. She needs to be let loose and allowed to fire up the show. McCain can stop campaigning to help and be nice and bipartisan. Sarah Palin needs to start naming the names that the Senator refuses to. I understand that this is a choice of the campaign. He wants to take the high road. The problem is when he refuses to answer the charges, they stick. When they stick, he loses support to Obama. This has to change and fast. This bi-partisan make nice garbage is only going to get Obama elected.

The time has come to name the names Senator. You said you would in the convention, it is time to do so. The democrats are responsible for this banking mess. That needs to be said. Frank, Dodd, Kennedy, Clinton, Carter. It’s time to name them. Raines and Gorelick from Obama’s campaign. Name them.

The American public thinks the republicans are at fault for this when they are the only ones that have tried to fix it. How the heck has this happened? That answer is easy. While McCain tried to be nice, Obama tagged him over and over, day after day with “the republicans caused it and we’ll fix it”. He set the message and stayed on message. It could have been countered. Palin was out there. She could have gone on and refuted it. It would have helped her too. As opposed to being the disappearing VP candidate of late, she would have been seen in the spotlight and seen fighting Obama night after night on the news. Obama has been successful in his “I’m youth and McCain is a dinosaur” theme. Palin would have stopped that dead in its tracks. The people in the McCain camp who are responsible for such a poor use of a great asset should be fired.

So where are we now? The dems have the bailout and THEY are seen as taking the credit for fixing it. Of course it’s still an illusion. The cause of this mess, giving loans to “under served” neighborhoods, is still the law. THAT wasn’t changed. But for now, they have the “fix to the republicans mistake” and as long as McCain allows that message to stand, Obama can be seen with a live boy, girl and the corpse of Eddie Murphy’s transvestite prostitute and will still win.

Right now, this whole thing rides on Palin’s shoulders. She is more than up to the task. Palin needs to be unleashed. It needs to start tonight and not stop until election night.


no on the bulti-billion-bank-bailout-bonanza™

It’s still a shit sandwich, and as your mother told you, we should not eat shit sandwiches.

Call your Congressman and let his office know you’ll vote for his or her opponent if he or she votes “yes”. If enough people do it, the bill fails. If not, it passes, we let Paulson (former CEO Goldman Sachs) throw $700B at the wrong problem, and find that amazingly enough, it WON’T WORK. The market is the only thing that can fix this - please ask yourself this; when was the last time Congress acted in haste (or indeed at all) and you said to yourself “thank God they acted, I’m sure everything will be alright now”.

NEVER - they got us into this, with their hands in the Fannie and Freddie cookie jars and their ludicrous insistence that lenders loan money to uncreditworthy borrowers. You seriously think these isiots are going to get us out of it? Think again.

The names and numbers are all here, although the website seems pretty busy, and calling the switchboard? Not so much.

Do it.

UPDATE: 11:05am CST - Todd Akin, Missouri 2nd District is a definite NO.

Please post any updates in comments.


More cool bumper stickers!

Here’s my bumper so far. In all my life, I have never had a bumper sticker and now I have several with a couple more to be added later. Win or lose, they come off on election day. I will not keep my 2008 stickers on for the next x years like some I’ve seen.

bumper 1

Y’all remember the Palin/wassisface 2008.

The Hero/Zero and the cancelling your Obama vote are not on just yet.

bumper 2
The new ones: More experienced than Obama with a smiling Sarah Palin and the “War is not the answer” Gosh Wally, if only Al Queda, Hamas, Iran and suicide Bombers could read your little bumper sticker. That one will be a permanent fixture along with this one “I support War for Oil” on a yellow ribbon and this one with a smiling sun and the caption “Global warming for 4 billion years”


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Francis and Newman

Of course the answer to the Francis query was Stripes. One of my favorite scenes from that movie. Funny thing is I didn’t want to see it in the first place. I was dragged to it by my friends Chris and John when it came out. It is in a league by itself. Here’s the classic Francis clip:

I am not big into “favorite actors”. I don’t even know half the people in my favorite movies. When Paul Newman died this weekend, my thought was, “bet my mom’s sad”. I couldn’t name a single movie he was in. Only this weekend did I realize he was in one of my favorites: Slapshot. Of course, the Hanson brothers were my favorite.

R.I.P. Paul.


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