It seems Halloween keeps coming earlier and earlier every year.  Its seems just like yesterday my wife and I were handing out gobs of fancily wrapped chocolates and other sweets.  But here we are, August 8th and I haven't even gone shopping yet.

Oh wait!  Halloween isn't on August 8th (actually its my brother's birthday... Happy Birthday Jim!)  but apparently our politicians think it is.  Why?  Because they are rolling out the biggest bowl of "goodies" our country has ever witnessed in its 233 year history, that's why!  But this isn't just ANY NORMAL candy.  No.  This is "special" candy the government hopes will take and gorge ourselves on.  Why?  Because there is poison inside that is why.

As any good parent, I have always gone through my child's candy to make sure none of it has been tampered with.  We all know that there are crazies out there that get their jollies by harming little children and we don't want that to be our child. 

We as good citizens are being asked to "not look too closely" at this bill and take it at its face value and pass it.  Like people who poison dogs by wrapping poison in hunks of meat, the dog doesn't smell the poison until its too late and they have already taken the bait and are mindlessly gorging themselves on the delicious red meat.   So it is with this bill.  You see, as with all bills there is good and bad.  There may be some very good things in this bill.   But inside it is also a lot of bad economic poison in it that will cripple our country for decades to come.  It's an all-or-nothing proposal to our politicians and Obama knows it.   We can't just take part of it and leave the rest behind.  It's too big to read and understand its ramifications (and Obama knows that too).   It's also being pushed through too quicklly and there is no time to debate and analyze. (or at least that is what Obama is saying, like there is some sort of expiration date on the bill).  

We need to use our common sense I think before we take this candy, for once we do, there is no turning back the clock.  We need to slow down.  We need to unwrap this candy and examine it thoroughly for what could be inside it.   We also need to know WHO is providing us this candy and their intentions.  Is it Grandma Jones or Charlie Manson?  It makes a big difference.  We also need to know WHO wrote this bill and what are their intentions.  I don't think this bill was written by our politicians in the past 6 months.  No!  I think this bill was written by a variety of think-tanks and special-interest groups like SEIU and ACORN.   

I, for one, am not ready to eat this piece of "special candy", and I think most of America is with me on that too.

Leave "Trick or Treat" to the children on Halloween night and keep it out of our government!

Its a RAT! 

If you have heard, the White House now wants its supporters to write to flag@whitehouse.gov to report (yet.. REPORT) any FISHY emails or web-sites reporting what they think might be "mis-information" on the proposed Obama-Care bill. 

Well like I said, its not FISH we smell, but instead a RAT.   The White House now wants people to RAT on other people.  Something that is illegal for his administration to do.  In the early 70's, Nixon tried to do this against Vietnam protesters and had the FBI taking pictures of protesters to try to scare them.  Congress said that such actions infringe on our 1st amendment rights and passed legislation that prohibited this kind of actions by the White House. 

Let me say this to be fair though.  There probably is some mis-information out there.   People are prone to fear that which they cannot understand.  That's normal.  But I think most of the information out there is on the mark and correct.

So what exactly is it that we fear? 

I think the fear comes in 2 forms:   Present and Future


Fear #1:  No one knows whats in the bill
    Lets look at this 1000 page monstrosity called Obama-Care.    First, we know that most (if any) have read this bill and know what is in it.  Most of this bill was written in backrooms by Left-Wing so called "think tanks" and groups like ACORN and SEIU.   It wasn't written by our congressmen so they don't even know what's in it.  If someone put a 1000 page contract in front of you and said "SIGN IT!" ,  would you sign it?   Of course not.  We would demand to have months to have a team of lawyers to go over it and see if its in my best interest or not.    But of course, this bill does not affect our leaders as they have their own healthcare already.  This bill only affects their constituents who for the most part are invisible and meaningless masses to them. 

How congress can alieviate this fear:
Simple, break it up into 100 smaller bills and vote on each one separately.   Do you know that the bill that built our Interstate system was only 60 pages long?  Instead congress is trying to shove down our throats this huge bill all at once claiming its ALL OR NOTHING!   Well I guess we the voters would rather take NOTHING.   What the American people want really need is a Constitutional Amendment that states:

       "Congress shall not pass any bill over 10  (8.5x11  12 pt font, single spaced, single sided) pages in size". 

This would allow our people to voice their concerns on each item separately.  Some of the ideas may be good and it would allow those ideas to be passed.  

Fear #2:  Costs are too high and will bankrupt our country

    Since when has Congress ever had a bill come UNDER the proposed budget?  Answer: NEVER   So when we tell them that this bill will bankrupt the country when its spending increases out pace our taxes.   Thats not being stupid, that's being reasonable.  I have every reason to believe that this system will go the way of every other program (Medicare, Medicaid, Social-Security, Welfare). 

How can congress alieviate our fears?

Simple.  Take out every provision that has $$$ attached to it.  We do need some healthcare reform, but not all of it needs to have $$$ attached to it.  Hear is what we REALLY need

1. Legal Reform to cap medical malpractice payouts
2. Legal Reform to have "Loser Pays" which would prevent FRIVOLOUS lawsuits from being thrown at doctors and hospitals
3. Stop allowing illegal aliens from getting FREE medical care. This is why hospitals charge $10 for an asprin.  They need to in order to cover the costs of their care of illegals.
   
4. Build more medical schools to help increase the number of doctors and decrease the huge costs of getting trained

None of these require large government agencies to impliement and yet solves most of the problems we have in our current healthcare industry.

Fear #1:   Elderly will be given limited care

This is not an unfounded fear.  Every country that has implimented socialized health-care ends up doing this.   Costs will inevitably rise and curtailing those costs will require "choices".  Choices not made by the people but by the government.  Who gets care and who does not.  Since government ALWAYS favors the tax-payer over the non-tax-payer,  those elderly who are not employed and therefore bring nothing to the tax table, will be the last to get care.  The next in line behind them will be the infirmed and the mentally retarded who are less productive and therefore pay less in taxes.   These fears are not un-reasonable.  Where do these fears come from?  From Obama's own staff that's where.  People in his own cabinet have written articles and papers on this very topic and there is no way for them to refute these claims.   Its all there in black and white. 

    Let me also say this.  I label this a FUTURE fear because while maybe this current bill only HINTS at such a possiblity, it does nothing to ever put a roadblock against it ever happening.  Maybe Obama will never propose this to be added, but what about a future successor?  Why give the government this power in the first place?  

Fear #2:   Government run healthcare will run private health-care out of business.

     Government HATES competition because it knows it cannot compete.   Its not a question of IF the public "option" will take over the system, but WHEN.   Here is why I think we will eventually have no choices at all.

1. Government system will be so complicated, hospitals and doctors will drop private health-care from their lists.   That right!  Unlike private health-care which is optional for hospitals and doctors to accept.  The public system is not optional.  So if the public system is SO convoluted and difficult to manage they need more workers to support it, they will need to drop private health-care as a way to keep their costs down.  Its as simple as that!
2. Businesses will see that being fined for NOT carrying healthcare is CHEAPER than being taxed for supplying health-care.  Therefore more and more business will drop their employees private health-care provisions over time.  Also as taxes increase to cover the public option, people themeselves will have no choice but to opt-out of their own health-care and go to the public option to save money.  Of course the governement will see this as people CHOOSING them as a BETTER choice when instead its that they have no other choice.

How can government alieviate this fear?  
How about taxing those who don't fund their own health-care to cover the costs of their PUBLIC health-care.  This could provide incentives for them to take their health-care more seriously as over half of the un-insure inflict that on themselves by opting out of paying for health-care.  

      

    Below is a link of a VERY GOOD EXAMPLE of what I wrote in my last blog (2 sets of rules)  about HOW TO CONDUCT YOURSELVES.   I would like to commend these people from New Hampshire (My wife has a brother that lives there and grew up in New England and they are good people there) for being courageous and good citizens.

http://www.thefoxnation.com/health-care/2009/08/06/shaheen-constituents-right-have-been-trampled-protesters

This is how you protest in a way to engage the public and other protesters in a way that is decent and yet to the point.  I especially liked how they confronted these "out of state supporters" and showed how they did not belong there.  The reporter also showed that they were getting their instructions from "someone else"

I urge all of you to view this video and use it as a form to build on. 

They:
   - stated their names and where they were from
   - stated that they were NOT paid but in fact some had to take time off from work to be there
   - they did not YELL at the other group but calmly confronted and asked questions
   - they documented where the other side was from and that they would not answer basic questions about themselves
   - showed that ANYONE can be a journalist today
   - had signs that were descent and to the point
   - they did not yell at their congressman's staff but asked simple questions and let them know that a form letter was not enough

Our forefathers would be PROUD!!

    Imagine playing any organized sport where the 2 teams have 2 different sets of rules to follow.   Say for example a football game allowed the following to occur:
                                       Home Team                           Visiting Team
    Touch Down                       6 pts                                      4 pts
    Field Goal                           3 pts                                      2 pts
    Extra point                          2 pts                                      1 pt
    Downs allowed                   4                                           2
    Yards per 1st down            10                                         20
   
    What visiting team would agree to such absurd rules and would not just get back on their bus and go back home?   Answer: NONE

    Yet sadly that is that state of our political system today.   The Democrats can disrupt any forum they wish with chants of racism or vicious lies or even call for the death of the President, while Republicans can't even raise their voices in a Town Hall meeting without being labeled as "angry mobs".   People dressed in everyday clothes bought at WalMart or Kmart are characterized as "organized by Right-Wing groups" and "astro-turf", while people dressed in pre-fabbed T-shirts baring logos for ACORN or SEIU are labeled as "grass-roots".  This is only allowed because the so-called "referees" of the system, the media, allows these absurd difference in the rules and promotes this kind of behavior. 

     But I think things are changing slowly.  The media is still operating on a 20 year old view that they control what people see on the field.  But with the internet sites such as YouTube, FoxNews, and a variety of blogs such as this one, the truth has found a way around the system like water flowing around stones in a makeshift dam.  People are getting their information from a wider variety of sources.  Too many for any President to control (unless of course we go the direction of China). 

What do I think we need to do in the mean time?

1. Be ABOVE the system.  I don't see a reason for us to SHOUT down our representatives.  We do need to be stern with them and make sure they ANSWER our questions and not dodge them as they so often do. If you don't feel they adequately answered your question,  politely let them know and ask them to try again. (re-state your question again if needed). 
   
2. Be prepared with your question.  This will keep you from rambling or sounding un-intelligent (something the left wants to paint us as ... such as being called "stupid rednecks").  Don't YELL your question unless you have to. 
   
3. Make your question specific about the bill.  Don't ramble on about "The Constitution" or "The Declaration of Indepedence".  Yes we do want to honor these documents, but often our representatives sadly don't give a rats-a-- about it.  I know it's sad, but it's important to confront them about the bill and how it will impact our country and how passing it will impact their future jobs.
   
4. Don't call them names.  We didn't like it when they did that to Bush. We should not do it either.  They are not satan in the flesh.
5. Make sure we have all of our facts before we confront.  The left wants nothing more than to highlight some person who is yelling about something in the bill that is not there (like killing old people).   Check and re-check your sources.  If not 100% sure, phrase your issue as a question to your representative to clarify as truth or not.
6. Personalize your question if you can.  Show them how this bill will directly affect you as a person. 
7. If you have never been involved politically before.  Let them know that.  Show them that their job is on the line if this bill is passed because they have woken up a "sleeping giant". 
   
8. Confront people who may give our side a bad name.  (They may actually be from the other side)   If someone shows up with Nazi symbol or a congressmen hanging in effigy tell them to put those away and that they have no use or purpose there.  If you see a reoprter talking to one these idiots, make sure you get in on the conversation and let them know that you want nothing to do with that person and to have the report pan the hall to see all the good signs and protestors. 
   
9. Video tape the event as much as possible.   If your local news only shows the 10 seconds of stupidity by one person.   Call them and let them know you have the whole event and you are posting it on YouTube.  Also if a local news station shows a positive view of the meeting,  call them and thank them for their even handiness in covernig the meeting.   We often forget to do this and only contact them when we are angry.  You may also want to tell the negative station that the other station was much better at covering it and you will be watching their competition from now on (also let their advertisers know this as well).  This of course does not work on large outfits like MS-NBC and the like as they are well funded by left and have no concern about viewership.   Also, video tape the reporters as they walk around.   Let them know you are watching them as well and how they are targeting various people in the meeting, either by looking for Nazi's or people they can exploit as "stupid".   All is fair in love and video. 
10. Be prepared for the media to question why you are here.  Have an answer ready that is short, simple and non-frightening.
    

     Watch what you say or write these days.  You may very well get "flagged" by those who do not agree with your view.  Like a play out of Communist Russia, the Obama administration has enabled a high-tech way of reporting on discentors by creating an email address to report people who are discussing the negative points of the current healthcare bill.  Now people can send information directly to the administration using "flag@whitehouse.gov" to report on us "right-wing-loons". 

    I believe we are witnessing the disintigration of this administration as it flales its arms in desparation to convince the American people that it can "fix" health-care.   Just how they "fixed" Social Security,  Welfare, Medicare, Medicaid and a host of other government run programs.  The people obviously are not buying it and all the current polls show that the American people are not behind it.  We know that is has failed in every other country that has tried it.   We know that money will be wasted by the billions, if not trillions.  We know that our health-care will get rationed especially if we are old or of no use to the country.  We know that our taxes will go ballistic to cover the costs and that our choices will be limited.  We are not as stupid as you may think.

    To "fix" the situation,Obama is trying to spin DIS-information to the public on health-care and telling the people that these protestors are "not real" and that they are "astro-turf" (payed by insurance companies) and not "grass-roots".   They are also busy telling people that the videos that have popped up on the internet, showing Obama's true intentions of replacing private health-care with single-payer, are "fake" or pieced together.  I have seen the videos myself and there is NOTHING pieced together about them and there is nothing Obama can say to change that.

   We are being LIED to America and treated like sheep.   They hope to scare us into following along with the fear of being turned in.  Well this is one blogger who will NOT go quietly into the night. 

   Flag THIS Mr. President if you like.  I will not shut up!

During the Civil War a song was written  by Julia Ward Howe to inspire the troops and the people during this horrible, but necessary, war.  Today we are not at war with other states, but with our own government that has forgotten what freedom is and what price has been paid to earn that freedom.  We are no longer treated as citizens but instead as servants to do their bidding whenever they say JUMP.  But we as Americans have NEVER gone quietly into the night.  We have in ourselves the confront "change" that seeks to take away our freedoms as individuals.  Freedom to speak.  Freedom to own a gun.  Freedom to choose our doctors.  Freedom to own our own companies.  Freedom to earn a living.  Freedom to live where we want to live and how we want to live.   All these are quietly being taken away from us by countless "czars" who answer to no one but the President.  Call it a secondary or shadow government that does not have the constitution to concern itself with as it operates "above" the constitution. 

Today we need a new "Battle Hymn of the Republic" to inspire us and help us REMEMBER what it REALLY means to be AMERICAN.  And I think I have found it.  I have listened to this video a hundred times already and cannot get enough of it.

I urge you to go and check it out at:
http://www.thefoxnation.com/politics/2009/08/03/rate-video?page=1

Then PASS IT ON to others.  

We need to fight for our freedoms again.  These modern day "King Georges" have underestimated us again and we need to send them a modern day equivalent of the "Declaration of Independence"

    I am so grateful to the 52 blue-dog democrats (God I can't believe I am saying that), who are holding up the president's so-called "health-care bill".  We should all write them and thank them for putting their country first BEFORE their party or their "president".  Our country cannot handle this level of spending and it will forever cripple our country (financially and physically).  Tonight Obama is hitting the air-waves again hoping his TV charisma will charm the American people into writing their representatives to "get on board".  But with the presidents poll numbers falling I don't think it will do much good.  The president himself even had to recognize that the interview with Susan Boyle from "Britians Got Talent" was going to be MORE likely to be watched than his speech so he ended up moving his time slot earlier in the evening.  Geez!  Must be tough being out done by an over-weight, 40-something, brit with bad hair and bushy eye-brows. 
  
     I think America is waking up and realizing that this Chicago-trained Politician is nothing more than a thug who is pushing his own agenda no matter who it hurts in the end.  Obama is selling yet another "crisis" situation as an excuse to pass another 1,000 page bill that no one has time to read and which creates a maze of bureacracy never seen before.  Only problem is this crisis is completely made up just like global-warming.  But we can only allow so much pushing of the panic button.  Eventually we will turn a deaf ear to the alarm just like in the old story "The Boy Who Cried Wolf!" and will not come running to his aid anymore. 

Now, do I think NOTHING should be done about health-care in America?   No.  I think there is plenty to be done, but not so much by the governement!  Here is what I think the government COULD do to help:

1) People to take "invested" interest into their own care
         - Pay more if you smoke
         - Pay more if you are grossly over-weight
         - Pay more if your cholestoral is too high
         - Have higher deductibles to keep patients from running to the doctor for runny noses

2) Income based tax-credit for Heath-Insurance
         - If government says poor people need access to health-care then let them HELP pay for it....but NOT supply it.
         - Its simple and it directly helps those who need it the most.

3) Over-sight into price gouging
          - This is where our government can help with to insure hospitals are not over charging for aspirn etc..
          - It would help keep costs down and therefore the cost of insurance.

4) Loser-Pays Legal reform
          - When it comes to medical malpractice, help protect our doctors by enforcing "loser-pays" so that lawyers don't bring frivolous lawsuits which indirectly drives up medical costs by burdening the insurance companies
          - But I doubt that with 99% of all our law-makers being lawyers (including Obama) that it will ever get passed.

These are the REAL CHANGES we need in ouir health-care. But I doubt that any of these ideas mean much to Obama.  These mostly fall in to his "We should look at" category which really means "You can F-ing forget it". 

But its worth considering

   We Americans need to send our politicians in Washington a clear message that we will not go quietly into the night when it comes to the separation of "Government and Business".   Even if that means those businesses are going to fail. 

   GM should have gone through a normal bankruptcy that left out the federal government.   There was no need for Obama to step in and "help out"  (I always remember what Ronald Reagan once said, "The words that Americans should fear the most are, ' I am from the government and I am here to help'" ).   Government never gives help for nothing.  there are always strings attached which are used to manipulate others to do their bidding. 

   We need to write GM and let them know that we will NOT be buying their cars until they give the government the "boot" and become "General Motors" again.  If congress won't listen to us then hopefully GM will!

    Lately we have been hearing a lot of "economic data" being released from Washington. Some of that data is OK and some of it is not (depending on your perspective).   One piece of data brought it is the ever debatable, Consumer Price Index which measures inflation.  I have written an article in the past on this meaningless measurement from our government and how it has been twisted and mangled over the years to where it measures absolutely nothing we care about.  Yet we refer to it as some infallible yard-stick.  We are being told today that if you remove FOOD and GAS from the equation, our inflation is practically ZERO.   But who on God's green earth can live today without FOOD and GAS? 

   Now today more economic data is being spewed from DC to help try to spur on the markets.   But what does this have to do with Bernie Madoff?   Simple, Madoff played off of peoples desires to be financially secure.  Madoff was able to provide his investors with complex reports showing earnings of 12% or more year after year even though the markets as a whole where not doing nearly that well (and lost money in some quarters).  People were willing to turn a blind-eye to these discrepencies because inside they desired "security" over "reality".   Now the government is doing the same to us as Madoff did to his investors, by giving us dishonest numbers that are not based in reality but a desire to make us feel better and more positive about our futures. 

   One thing I have learned over my years as an engineer is that numbers can be made to say whatever you want.  You just need the right data and the right charts.  Even more easily skewed are so-called "survey numbers".  These numbers are extremely suspect as they are totally dependent on who and how you survey.  What companies did you call?  Ones that got stimulus money or ones that did not?  What questions did you ask them? 

    If your gut is telling you things are not well and you see people being laidoff left and right, do the numbers jive?  Probably not.  Washington is playing the same game as Madoff did.  Crossing their fingers and hoping things don't get too bad and people start bolting for the door.  Madoff was able to keep his investors duped only as long as ONE thing did not occur and that is the markets did not fall too much.  He knew that not even HE could pull a rabbit out of his hat and provide earnings high enough to keep his investors from leaving and emptying their accounts.  That is when he knew the game was over and turned himself in to the authorities.

   I think most Madoff customers today would tell us all one thing:  TRUST YOUR INSTINCTS AND NOT THE NUMBERS!!

   The weather forecast for Washington DC is "cold with little chance of change" as  a cold front has moved in on Jan 20th of this year and looks to worsen as time moves on (despite all the global-warming alarmists).  So far no connection to the Obama himself as the cause although some (mostly from FoxNews) are still investigating.   The latest indication that this cold-front is worsening and has no end in sight  is the most recent firing the the Investigator General Gerald Walpin who was investigating the misuse of funds by our very own Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson.  Oddly, this firing came without the required 30 days notice to Congress of why he was to be fired.   Intead Walpin was given a full 1 HOUR to decide if he was going to resign or be fired.  Now the Obama administration has informed his media suckups that the "aging" Mr Walpin was "confused and disorientated at meetings" and no doubt trying to make the case that he was too old for the job and needed to be replaced.  Most likely Mr. Walpin was resisting the "high pressure system" of the administration and the only solution was to remove him.

    Forecasters say this firing will have a chilling effect on on IG's whose job is to insure that money spent (and we have been spending a LOT lately) is not misused or mis-directed.   They will feel the chill in the air and stop investigating any programs that are even remotely connected to the Obama's.   These freezing conditions will persist until light can be shown on who made the  decision to fire Mr Walpin and what were their REAL motives in doing so.  But given the "foggy" conditions in our mainstream-media that supplies "cloud-cover" for the Obama administration there is little hope of a warming trend any time before the 2010 elections.  

   All I can say to the people in Washington DC is:  "Welcome to Chicago! Now put on a coat!!"

   Well its too bad  Billy Mays has already endorsed a Health-Care company or else he would be the perfect pitch-man for Obama's one-size-fits-all health-care system.   He could pitch how "inexpensive" (if you are a millionaire) it will be and how Obama will cure all the major diseases (after all if he can make the ocean levels fall, why not cure all the sick while you are at it too!).  

   But instead, Obama will have to do his 1 HOUR infomercial on ABC without Billy's help.  We are told that everyday people will be able to submit questions to the president via their web-site, but who here believes that we will here actual people.   Gone are the fireside chats of Rosevelt and Reagan to talk to the people.  Now we will have an over-glorified commercial filled with heartache cases of people with no insurance because the big-bad-insurance-company dropped their coverage ( little will be said that these people smoked 2 packs a day and ate bacon-eggs-and -gravy every day of their life)  We will see the president put his arm around an elderly person or cancer victim and tell them that he is going to make sure they get the coverage they need.   Music befitting a tear-jerking Hollywood drama will play in the background and pull on our heart-strings (and later our wallet-strings).   No debate over taxes or costs will be mentioned, for we should not belittle the debate with anything so petty as money (after all whats a few trillion among friends and family).  We will be urged that, "We are our brothers keeper" and that BIG-brother needs to make sure that all the litte-brothers are taken care of.

   I won't be watching this infomercial.  I think it's egregious to have government in bed with our media.  This is a replay of the progressive movement in the 20's and 30's where newspapers and movies did the dirty work of the government and painted rosy pictures of Rosevelt as sort of god-like figure that could do no wrong.   We are being sold a bucket of crap and we need to let them know we aren't buying.

   I urge everyone to call or write ABC and let them know you are NOT WATCHING the Obama infomercial

   The enemy has told us their game plan of the other team.  They have talked about it in great detail in speeches.  Their strategy for victory is to strangle the other team into submission.  To cut off all support until until all their allies fall one by one and there is no left standing except them. 

   Sound like something from a WWII or Vietnam movie?   Or maybe another message from Al Quaeda?  

    No.

    This is the strategy for our government  to take over health-care in America.  The plan is quite simple.

    1) First announce you just want a plan that will cover only those who don't have a company sponsered health-care.

    2) Tell everyone that they can KEEP their plan if they want to and that you will actually penalize companies for NOT having healthcare (sounds great doesn't it?)

    3) Tell employers that you are going to TAX their health benefits to pay for those who don't have health-care.

    4) Employers will grow tired of being taxed (increasing their costs) and will find it cheaper to pay the penalty of NOT providing health-care.

    5) This will wipe out virtually all the health-care providers as eventually everyone will be on the government dole

That's their plan.  I didn't think this up.  Its out there in plain view for all to see.   Yet what are we going to do about it?  Are we going to just sit idly by and let this happen?   This will bankrupt our nation and leave us waiting for months to see our doctor or to have operations.   We will be the ones hurt by this snake-oil salesman Obama.  We  need to get the word out to all who will here us.  Like the "WHO" on "Horten Hears a Who"  we need to make as much noise as possible to all in congress that we will not sit idly by. 

Wake up America!!!

It used to be that a contract meant something.  Whether it was an agreement between an investor and a company (ie secured-bond-holder) or a warranty from a manufacture.  But the Obama administration has shown that when the government is involved, contracts mean NOTHING. 

   Just look at how the whole GM and Chrysler deals have been done.  With Chrysler, secured-bond-holder who are by contract supposed to get 100 cents on the dollar in the case of bankruptcy ( that is what "secured" is supposed to mean ) are told that they have to accept 26 cents on the dollar.   This screws the investors (many of them are pension plans) and sends a chilling effect to all future investors in our markets.   GM on the other hand, with the governments help, is indiscriminately closing down dealers and telling them that if they don't accept their deal that they will invalidate their warranty's (contracts) leaving thousands of people who have purchased vehicles from them equally screwed.

   This is illegal and unconstitutional and needs to be stopped!  With each breaking with the rule of law the Obama administration is amassing more and more power and thanks to our weak-kneed congress it looks like nothing will.

   We need to urge our congress to stand up for our rights as citizens. 

    Last night I happened to watch the environmental show called: The World: 2100.   Not only was I aghast at the large number of lies this program promoted as "truth", but also at the over-the-top scare tactics that were used.  My hope is that children under the age of 12 were not up to late watching it.  It could easily be the cause of nightmares and depression in young children (I found it funny that one of the advertisements was for an anti-depressant).  It might even be a good case for a lawyer seeking a class-action-suit as one could argue the show created undo stress on young children and a general loss of hope for a future. 

    When Bush was in office, the left argued that the right was using "scare tactics" related to 9-11 to get us to go to war against Iraq and Afghanistan.  But now the left is using even worse scare tactics to get us to "go green" and "consume less", by showing a hypothetical world of: no water, no food, no clean air,  no borders and rampant chaos.  It literally advertised for various solar and wind technologies being developed today as viable solutions when in fact they are not even close to filling our needs.  No mention was made during the entire show of real solutions like nuclear fission or fusion.  It was like they didn't even exist. 

    Another thing that bothered me greatly abou t this program was how they re-wrote the history of both the Myan and Roman empires.  So called "experts" claimed that the Myan's fell apart because they out grew their resources when in fact many do not know what caused the extinction of the Myans.  Some suggest it was disease that destroyed their people and not famine.  We really don't know.  Later another expert claimed the Roman Empire collapsed due to it exhanding beyond what their resourses could handle, when in fact any person who has read anything about the Romans' knows it was the relentless attack by northern barbarians who eventually saw Rome's Achilles' heel was its aqueduct system bring water into the city and disrupted their flow.   For without water,  Romes' population quickly shrank from over a million down to a few thousand.  It was terrorism and weaker and weaker emperors that sought to negotiate with them, that destroyed the Roman Empire and not some environment collapse as claimed by this show.  But now millions of people have been MIS-educated by this program for years to come. 

    Fear has been used for generations to rally the "uneducated masses".  Hitler did by making people fear the Jews and their corruption of the german gene-pool.   By using the pseudo-science of eugenics, Hitler was able to create the illusion that the German race was under attack and that in some future point in time it would be too weak to sustain itself.   That fear made millions of Germans do unthinkable things against millions of Jews, elderly, mental and physically disabled people, for there is no greater fear than the fear your future family will not be able to live on.   Now some are using the pseudo-science of climatology to scare our children into believing thar we are on the brink of disaster. 

    Now I am not saying that we shouldn't try to conserve more and recycle what we have.  I, myself, was raised in a Midwest-Lutheran-German family and the word waste was not in our vocabulary.   But we do not need to whip our children into a frenzy like a bunch of cattle.  For no decision made in a state of fear and anxiety is ever a good one.  We have all experienced those poor decisions in our lives before such as when we are sitting in the car dealers showroom and the good deal is going to vanish in minutes if we don't sign now (or the car will magically disappear tomorrow off the lot).  We regret those decisions for years mostly because we eventually wake up and see that we were duped by slick salesmen only interested in lining their pockets with our hard earned money.

   And who are these "salemen" or "fear-mongers" today who are saying we are all going to go to hell in a handbasket?  Could it be "General Electric" selling us windmills and solar panels?  One has to wonder....

     Remember the movie with Woody Harrelson: "White Men Can't Jump" ?   In this  movie Woody teams up with another street ball player who is black.   During the movie, Woody (who is a good shooter and ball handler) is poked fun of by his counterpart saying he can't dunk the ball because he is white (as if dunking is all the basketball is about).   This movie epitomizes the whole one side can prejudice but the other cannot. 

    Applying this to Judge Sotomayor, Obama has already warned those who will be grilling her on her past, to "not go there".  Pardon me, Mr Obama, but since when are you the head of the Senate too?    We have every right to find out how "fair" this judge will be.   We need to kno w that if a case is sent her way where race is involved, she will side with the law and the constitution and not her ethnicity.  Is she Latina first and American second?  

    I am angry that white men are being treated as if their skin color gives them some sort of priveledge when we know that today, being white is a disadvantage to most.   I know lots of very poor "white folk" who have to work their butts off just to get by.   Why is being latina supposedly worse?   Why is it even important at all?  

    One of my most favorite episodes of Seinfeld is where George is trying to convince the apartment board to let him have the nice apartment  instead of an older man who is a vet.   He and the vet square off at the board meeting by telling their life stories and trying to be more pathetic than the other.   Seinfeld cheers George on saying "You go George. No one has a more pathetic life than you",   Today this  odd story is playing itself out on the American stage.  Each ethnicity is trying to look more pathetic than the next to get the larger share of government pie.  Each one claiming that their "life story is more compelling" (Obama's words... not mine)  than the others.   What a sad sad world we live in now.  Rather than fighting for the top, we are climbing over each other to get to the bottom.

   Maybe when we have to fill the next spot on the Supreme Court, we can hold a similar competition using the American Idol judging system to find the most "pathetic person in the country" to insure that person has the most empathy possible.   Wouldn't that be great!