Really? February 16-28, 2011

Highlights of the month

According to Gallup, unemployment is now at 10.3%

Balanced Budgets Must Go. I need my money now, says Big Gov.

To Congress: Cut Spending. Balance the budget. This will help create jobs.

TUO = The Undocumented One, and you know who this is!

Which nation would you like to dominate the world militarily, if not the USA. [Neil Boortz, 2/25/11] What a great question. China? India? Iran? North Korea? Russia? Do you prefer one that kills and imprisons dissidents to bring about compliance and conformity?

There is something inherently wrong with a system where government unions receive massive financial salaries and benefits from one political party, the Democrats, in return for 100% union leadership support. The same might be accused of US business and the Republican Party. However, there are many examples of businesses that heavily favor Democrats. They include the Soros financial empire, GE, AARP, ABC, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, Google, Progressive Insurance, banks and many major print newspapers and magazines. US businesses are not in the tank for one party as are unions. =trj

Unions and Democrat politicians on the same side of the collective bargaining table. US Taxpayers left out in the cold.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says that he wants to outlaw prostitution in his home state of Nevada. He said he wants to keep prostitution where it belongs, in Washington, D.C. - - - Jimmy Fallon, comedian.

And now on to our posts

Can’t we just get along?

NPR reports on falling or failing construction sector. Must be bad for a Left leaning news organization to make this report. Raw material prices up. Mortgage lenders holding on to their money. Click Here.

@michellemalkin on Twitter
RT @SykesCharlie: WI Dem Rep to female colleague: "You are F***king dead!" Click Here.

@danieljmitchell on Twitter
Having Now Watched the Movie, Here’s a Glowing Review of Atlas Shrugged. Click Here.

When muslims take over the USA, President Obama must embrace Islam as a way of life or face the consequences of a trial under the Shariah Islamic court system, declared British extremist cleric Anjem Choudary. Choudary, founder and former chief of two Islamic groups disbanded by the British authorities under anti-terror legislation, is planning a Washington protest later this week in which he says he will call on American Muslims to revolt against the country and implement Shariah law. Click Here to read more: Obama to face Shariah court? [WND 2/28/11]

US Big Government unions have no ability to bargain over wages as do state and local government unions.

Union membership should be voluntary. In the workplace through management, they should have available to them adjusted payment options for comparable union benefits such as health care, insurance and liability protection for teachers in particular. =trj

Union strategy: Bullying reporters. Incivility. Nasty signs. Big numbers. Unruly mobs. Trash. Not exactly what you would like your children to see and hear.

Big Gov wrong-doers, Dems and GOP, seem to never face criminal charges as do business wrong-doers. Carter, Clinton, Obama are the 3 Dem Presidents behind the housing mess using the power of Big Dem Gov to intimidate lenders into making unsecured loans. Lenders are not off the hook at all for their bundling of toxic assets. Reagan went to the people when Dem Congress would not behave. Bush 41 and 43 are on the hook for not putting up resistance. Read my lips. =trj

Starting with Carter, then Clinton and now Obama. Democrats threatened mortgage lenders of government retribution if they did not make loans to people who could not afford them. Barney Franks and Chris Dodds in particular. Fannie and Freddie with Dem leadership. Plus Paulson, a Dem, at Treasury under Bush 43 pushing for bailouts. And Bush 43 for OKing it.

Obama version of transparency is the absence of international leadership and domestic governance. This is what happens when pure partisan amateurs with no business experience to boot are elected and then are confronted with decisions that have dire consequences. =trj

Every oil-producing country in the world is drilling in the Florida Keys, Gulf of Mexico, and along the California coast - EXCEPT THE UNITED STATES! Our government is subservient to the fears that environmentalists have raised. It begs the question: Who are the environmentalists in bed with, other than the Democrats? [Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise 2/26/11] Click Here.

Abortions. 1.2 million abortions done annually in US via surgical abortions or the mifepristone abortion drug. Planned Parenthood has increased its share of the abortion industry to 27.6% of all abortions done annually. [Western Center of Journalism] Click Here for story. 2/25/11

Latest annual study from Movieguide® reports that movies with conservative worldview make 3 to 5 times more than their liberal counterparts. Figures don't lie.

US Budget. Democrat Congress and TUO had total control and did not pass their budget in October 2010 when it was due. Now these same Democrats and their Big D Puppet Media want to slander House Republicans for trying to pass a budget or face a government shutdown [of some but not all functions]. Hey voters, you must pay attention to multiple news sources so that you know what is going on.

John Stossel joined FOX Business and FOX News in October 2009. His show, Stossel, airs on the Fox Business Network on Thursdays at 9 PM and midnight ET. It re-runs Saturdays at 9 p.m. and 12 midnight, and Sundays at 9 p.m. (all times eastern). He is New York Times best-selling author of Give Me A Break, and Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity. His "Give Me a Break" commentaries take skeptical look at wide array of issues, such as education, the economy, parenting. See: stossel.blogs.foxbusiness.com

US Department of Justice under orders from Obama is not going to ignore or not defend and/or prosecute Defense of Marriage violators, black power voter intimidation, US border violations, union violence and terrorism, pimp abortion cases by Planned parenthood. Democrats are not following the US Constitution. Democrats are making their own rules related mandatory health care fees and taxes, gun control, energy. No transparency among the Democrats as they make all manner of financial deals with their favored businesses [like GE] and benefactors [like George Soros]. =trj

Why would anyone, other than the deeply committed 20% on the Left ever vote Democrat? Why? Our debt load is already unsustainable and Democrats show no signs of changing their ways. =trj

Which nation would you like to dominate the world militarily, if not the USA. [Neil Boortz, 2/25/11] What a great question. China? India? Iran? North Korea? Russia?

36% of US budget spent on military. [War Resistors League]
19% US Dept of Defense budget figure, 2010

25%. Budget increased by 25% in the last two years under Democrats and TUO.

Informative sources to follow on Twitter:
• CatoInstitute
• DanielJMitchell
• JamieDupree
• MichelleMalkin
• RasumssenPoll

Domestic Terrorists. If you have ever lived in a heavily unionized area, you know that intimidation, beatings and bombings are the union way.

Business mogul colludes with government to make big money -- No, we're not talking about Koch Industries: "George Soros is launching a new investment fund that plans to profit off of the 'green energy' boom, which is entirely dependent on government subsidies supported by the groups Soros funds," writes the Washington Examiner's Tim Carney. And not only is Soros starting a business to profit off policies lobbied for and written by the Center for American Progress--which Soros himself bankrolls!--but he's also hired Cathy Zoi, Barack Obama's "Acting Under Secretary for Energy and Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy," to run it. [The DC Morning, 2/25/11 Click Here for the story.

80+ million gun owners in the USA

52% of likely voters still blame Bush 43 for our current economic problems.
41% blame Obama. Telephone pole by Rasmussen published 2/23/11. Click Here.

Is TUO a muslim as he “treads softly with no stick” when commenting about middle east turmoil so as not to offend radical muslims and Muslim Brotherhood? =trj

Real Estate. Previously owned home sales unexpectedly climbed in January to highest level in eight months as investors used all-cash transactions to snap up distressed properties. Purchases were up 2.7% to a 5.36 million annual rate, figures from National Association of Realtors showed in Washington. The share represented by foreclosures and short sales rose to a 12-month high, pushing the median price to the lowest level in almost nine years. [Friends of US Chamber of Commerce 2/24/11]

Said Musa is sitting in prison in American-liberated Afghanistan, condemned to death. Musa has been brutally abused and tortured during the course of his imprisonment. His crime? Converting to Christianity. Obama's response so far? SILENCE. In Islamic countries where shariah is practiced, the law clearly states that those who convert to any faith other than Islam bear the penalty of death. This was the system of law under the Taliban, and inspired the terrorist attacks of 9/11. [Traditional Values Coalition] 2/24/11

Obama goes easy on Moammar Gadhafi's bloody crackdown as MG has ties to Rev Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakham of the Nation of Islam. Click Here for the article.

Balanced Budgets Must Go. I need my money now, says Big Gov.

According to Gallup, unemployment is now at 10.3%

TUO = The Undocumented One.

"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." -- Thomas Paine, 1776

A Kerry Moment? TUO is now for homosexual marriage after saying he was against in during this electioneering against John McCain. Say one thing and do another. Yet another hole to plug in the dike. See Clinton’s Defense of Marriage Act signed by him in 1996. 2/23/11 =trj

Democrats put Unions on their gravy train. Then they whine when cost cutting is absolutely necessary because of their generous free spending on their constituents. Big spending costs everyone, not just unions. We all pay for it in one way or another. 2/23/11 =trj

Tis fine to support unions. Let's have free choice. Dems always point to Business ~ GOP links but Soros Empire, GE, Progressive Insurance, Google, Big Time Dying media corps, AARP and Wall Street big wigs plus others are all businesses siding with and giving to free spending Democrats. Do these Big Dem Companies not also create misery for the poor and middle class? =trj

Obama recruits an army of community organizers to carry his "movement forward for years to come." Click Here for the article.

Google May Have Promoted a Contest to Get Kids’ Social Security Numbers [Updated] Why is Google collecting personal information on students and their parents? Google has given China the ability to censor the internet. What else do we not know about Google? [nymag.com] Doodle-4-Google.

Profits drop at union firms and shareholders returns decline by 10%. Unionism reduces future business investments. Unionism delays state economic recoveries. [Neil Boortz 2/23/11]

RE: Union Contracts. There ain’t a contract that can’t be wrote and there ain’t a contract that can’t be broke.

Union rank and file members favor Democrats over Republicans 55% to 45%. Makes sense. Searching for updated poll numbers.

657,257 million acres. Total amount of US land the federal government claims.
2.3 billion acres. Total US land mass.

Major uses of land in USA in 2002. Click Here.

Obama is gearing up to make millions of acres of public lands off limits to development and energy production through regulatory fiat! Get ready for heart-attack inducing energy prices! [Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise 2/23/11] Let your representatives in Congress know how you feel about this massive federal energy-rich land grab that will be placed under the Bureau of Land Management. =trj

More Corporal Klingers? TUO [Obama] pressured by a team of activists to issue an executive order that would require US military to permit those individuals with a mental disturbance known as Gender Identity Disorder – including cross-dressers, drag queens, transsexuals, she-males and the so-called "intersexed" – to serve openly. Click Here for more.

Gun Fee. Vermont State Rep. Fred Maslack has recently proposed a bill to register "non-gun-owners" and require them to pay a $500 fee to the state. Vermont would become the first state to require a permit for the luxury of going about unarmed and assess a fee of $500 for the privilege of not owning a gun. Clearly, says Maslack, Vermonters have a constitutional obligation to arm themselves, so that they are capable of responding to "any situation that may arise." [Emailed received by the right jack on 2/23/11]

Why there should be no public sector government unions:
[1] Union leadership nationwide is nearly 100% Democrat.
[2] Democrats in federal, state and local government give in easily to union wage and benefit demands.
[3] Then union bosses give huge moral, financial and personnel resources back to Democrats who gave them unobstructed ability to collect union dues.
[4] Spending escalates.
[5] Those who pay taxes loose any way you cut it. =trj

The fix is in. Democrats give away generous salaries and benefits. Budget goes up and up. Then spending becomes unsustainable. Republicans say they will cut spending. Then Democrats cry foul. =trj

There is something inherently wrong with a system where government unions receive massive financial salaries and benefits from one political party, the Democrats, in return for 100% union leadership support. The same might be said for US business and the Republican Party. However, there are many examples of businesses like GE, AARP, ABC, MSNBC, CBS, Google and Progressive Insurance that favor Democrats. US businesses do not favor one party as do unions. =trj

"Senate Bill 5 … would strip away collective bargaining rights, hurt the middle class, kill jobs and destroy communities," former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland wrote in a blog post on Saturday on Ohio Democratic Party website. "This fight … (is) about whether or not we will be a state that stands up for the middle class."

Looks to me like the former Wisconsin governor is going 180 degrees in the wrong direction with his comments. And he neglected to mention that unionization would “save” money. His concern for the middle class is touching as gas and grocery prices go up and up. =trj

According to Gallup, fewer people call themselves Democrats in every state and DC including the swing states. Democratic states still outnumbered Republican states by 23 to 10 in 2010. There were 14 solidly Democratic states compared with 5 solidly GOP states. More states competitive now. 2/22/11

House Democrats in Indiana leave the state so they are not forced to vote on anti-union legislation. Only 2 of 40 Dems stay. 2/22/11

TSA undercover agent with hidden gun slips past DFW enhanced body scanner multiple times. Click Here for details about how she did it. [NBC Dallas-Fort Worth] Click Here for more. Were screen monitor not paying attention? =trj

Repeat: If they ban guns, only criminals and governments will have guns. How comforting is that? The first thing that dictators and despots do is shoot the dissidents. =trj

After 6 years, favored Obama energy company short-circuited despite massive Big Dem Gov grants. Layoffs. Losing money. [More evidence that Obama and the Dems know nothing about business, much less start-up operations in a new field. TUO rolled the dice and they came up snake-eyes, again =trj]

Shift toward Republican! Number of Solidly Democratic States Cut in Half From '08 to '10. Gallup finds 14 solidly Democratic states in 2010, based on their residents' party affiliation, down from 30 in 2008. There are now 18 competitive states, up from 10. Maryland, Massachusetts, Vermont, and the District of Columbia are the most Democratic; Wyoming and Utah, the most Republican. Read more at GALLUP.com. 2/21/11
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There was no massive outcry about budget cuts in Wisconsin by unions and others when former Wisconsin governor, a Big D Democrat, talked about the need to cut spending.

The Real ID Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-13, 119 Stat 392). Barack Obama's Department of Homeland Security will now require federalization of State-issued driver's licenses by May 11, 2011. Every State will be required to issue driver's licenses that conform to new federal identification compliance "standards." [An internal passport? Another unfunded mandate? Who picks up the tab for this?]

Carbon. US business and industry cut emissions to near Obama levels for 2009 without heavy job-killing hand of US Big Gov taxes and restrictions. US 2010 reports likely to be near or better than target. Nations like China not onboard giving them a unfair competitive advantage in the world marketplace.

Strikes. It is really bad timing for professional sports leagues like the NFL to go on strike. Popular sympathy for any union cause in this weak economic climate must at an all time low. There is no sympathy for “workers” with 6, 7 and 8 figure incomes. =trj

AFL-CIO notes that around 50% of their members are Republicans and Conservatives. It is higher among teachers. Ditto for pilots. 2/21/11

PPD. For Republicans who have been identified as front-runners for presidential nominations. Democrat Dirty Tricks Department has already started their Politics of Personal Destruction. Then once there is a presidential nomination, the “stuff” they have already created along with substantial new updates will be broadcast far and wide via Big Time Dying Democrat Media. Obviously, this sleazy strategy is pointed to the middle 40% of the voters who may still be undecided. Remember, politicians are not held to the same standard of truth that is required of business. =trj

Teachers and other workers should have the "right" to choose whether or not they wish to join a union when they work in what might be called a Union Shop. Forced union membership violates our freedom.

Big Dem Gov creates fake people on social network sites to support their views, in simple terms, on Big Gov actions. Click Here to read more about the secrecy and transparency of this Democrat administration. 2/19/11 [Yet another way to stuff the ballot box. Comforting, eh? =trj]

Dependence. Why Democrats are in trouble because of government union employees. Click Here. 2/18/11

Democrats trying to show how much they are like Ronald Reagan to pull a slick one on the uninformed and uneducated. Click Here.

I. O. - I. O. Living off Big Gov is the way to go!

Thinking budget catastrophe as the doom and gloomers suggest: The average grocery store has just 72 hours of inventory ... and that is easily wiped out even by severe weather warnings.

Living off the grid. It starts with a farm, garden, animals, water collecting, wood stove and crank radio. Solar and wind power are expensive options. Then barter for what you need.

4 more US bank failures. That makes 22 in 2011 so far. 157 in 2010. 140 in 2009. Just 25 in 2008. 2/18/11

$3.73 Trillion is proposed 2012 budget by Obama = This amount is equal to the cost to buy every Wal-Mart around the world 15 times over. [WND]

Obama and the Dems show no sign at all that they will cut spending. Budget forecast for years into the future is absolutely catastrophic. Eventually comes the point where our financial death can be neither averted or reversed. Yet, Dems continue to push for more spending with full support from people on their believers on the Left, including their media. It appears that the Dems are relying on inflation in the years ahead to bail us out. But there may be more sinister motives. I do not trust the Dems for one New York minute. =trj

@CatoInstitute on Twitter. How has education spending impacted test scores since 1970? Check this out. Quite interesting.

Taxpayers who are age 70½ with IRAs can give money directly to a charity from their IRA this year. Making charitable gifts this way keeps the taxable income off your tax return. This could lower the amount of your Social Security benefits that are subject to tax.

Obama White House calls in the Wisconsin protesters in order to overturn election results of We The People. This Dem tactic is probably not generating any sympathy or support for Big Gov Unions.

Organizing for America. Obama initiative and web site where highly motivated rent-a-mobs can join Obama to flood Republican events with opponents, mobilize “mobs” who can be bussed in to hold spontaneous protest, and turn out union members, supporters, and all manner of unbiased sympathizers for any Democrat cause. This is an arm of the Democrat National Committee. www.barackobama.com. Click Here to read more.

Unions = Me. Me. Me. Balanced budget. Don’t make me laugh. Country be damned. Me First. Let everyone else share the debt.

USA is broke. Cut spending now.

Commentator said that we pay China enough interest on our debt to fund their military.

TUO announces that it is time to cut spending. Then he proposes grants for teachers, light intercity rail and on and on. What a maroon, as Bug Bunny would say.

Labor Secretary Robert Reich proposes to raise taxes to 70% on income of more than $15 million, to 60% on income between $5 million and $15 million, and to 50% on income between $500,000 and $5 million. [Guess what is going to rise. Tax shelters. Guess what is going to come down. Tax money collected. =trj]

Tea Party targets 3 GOPers who need to go. Richard Lugar [R-IN]. Olympia Snowe [R-ME]. Orrin Hatch [R-UT]. [Too chummy with the Dems and soft on spending cuts? =trj]

11 most dangerous cities in terms of greatest crime risk. Index: Highest is St. Louis: 530 2. Atlanta: 484 3. Birmingham AL: (tie) & 380 3. Orlando (tie): 380 5. Detroit: 369 6. Memphis: 361 7. Miami: 346 8. Baltimore: 339 9. Kansas City MO: 337 10. Minneapolis (tie): 331 10. Cleveland (tie): 331 [Onboard Informatics] Hmmm. Where is DC with a murder rate higher than Iraq, or is it Afghanastan?

Wisconsin state legislators. 19-14 R-Dem split. All 14 Democrats abandoned their Senate with a hasty bus retreat out of state [no quorum] so they were not forced to vote on cost cutting state budget proposed by new Republican Governor. Union protesters and sympathizers swarm the Madison legislative building in protests. Cuts include government salaries along with increased payments for their own retirement and health care. 2/17/11

Over 3 million Big Gov employees now. Over 1,000 new auditors needed to support [enforce?] ObamaCare. For example, 76 agents will oversee drug makers and importers; 81 members will be assigned to handle the tax reporting of tanning salons. Etc. [NewsMax.com] Read more on Newsmax.com: IRS: We Need $359 Million to Deal With Obamacare