Checks and Balances
Jul 20, 2009 Political
Our form of government, as we all have been taught (at least those who have had a government and/ or civics course would know), has three branches of governmental powers and duties, all designed to split the power, so no one branch could rule over the other two. This truly took a lot of thought, and was revolutionary for it’s foresight in that day and time. It still is, or would be if the Socialists were not so intent on working around the strictres of this government.
The Executive branch is the titular head of the government, but has to answer to the Legislative branch- this is supposed to keep the President honest, and within bounds legally. The president proposes legislation- a laundry list of what he believes need to be done to keep this country on course. If he is an honest man, he proposes things we actually need, and things we can afford.
It is up to the Legislative branch to actually write the laws that the president wants done, but in addition, these lawmakers have yet another duty, a higher duty, and that is to the people they serve. If the president is proposing onerous laws, laws that would harm the people back in the Representative’s or Senator’s areas, it is their duty to oppose this. This not only gets them re- elected, but it serves the greater good of the people they represent.
This is admittedly a fine balancing act, where your duty to country and your duty to the people you represent can sometimes be seemingly at odds. But, if you are honest, and truly want what is best for all, you will be able to craft just laws that will serve the country well. Unfortunately, there are many lawmakers who will blindly follow this Resident and his Socialist agenda. Once upon a time you could count on legislators to protect their turf from even a president within their own party, jealousy being a strong emotion, and turf is something to protect- but not now, apparently.
Even if not, there is the third branch, the Supreme Court, where all the laws can be looked over to see if it passes the Constitutional Test- does it co- exist within the framework of the Constitution? The Supreme Court is supposed to be the arbiter of All Things Constitutional. In recent years, there has been a distinct ideological split in the makeup of the court, and that makes for often close and contentious decisions- when they do make decisions.
Unfortunately, the Court doesn’t take every case- just those where there could be a question of constitutionality from lower courts, so there is a lag on the time something becomes law to when the Court might rule on it, and Hussein is going to try and pack the Supreme Court so the “empathy” factor favors him.
If Barry can tilt the court, and he maintains the party majority in the legislature, he can be King in everything but name- he can pass whatever laws he wants, and tax us until we bleed, and I believe he will. I have no sense of ease in his ability to govern with an even hand, I do not believe he wants to- at least not until he has made over our country into something we do not recognize, a faint ghost of what we once were.
When that happens, you can be sure of one thing- we will have war(s)- the rest of the world will see us as weak, and they will be right, and we will have fights with Mexico in the south over the borders, N. Korea, China, Iran, and of course Russia will all test our will and our ability to deter their plans.
Russia will begin to try to take back the satellite countries like Lithuania, Estonia, the Ukraine, and Poland. It has already begun to creep into Georgia again. China practically owns us- at least our debt, and we have a Resident who is all talk. Whoop-de-do.
Just when we need to be strong, Hussein will wussify us, I guarantee this- this is already happening.
We are writing checks we can’t cash, because we have nothing in our balances.
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Tags: constitution, hussein, socialists, trouble in River City
What’re The Odds?
Jul 19, 2009 Political
Right on time, in the summer in Chicago, where they can bask like lizards in the summer heat they like so well, come the Jihadist Conventioneers.
Oh, they call it something else, but the Islamic group that touts itself as a recruiter for Al-Qaida (even though they are NOT on a terrorism Watch List- Why Not?).
This group, Hizb ut- Tahrir, an Islamic group that openly espouses an Islamic World, is holding it’s first United States conference in Chicago, the home of Hussein- go figure- they probably like the revolutionary ambience, even though the scent of pork runs through Chicago politics as pervasively as through the slaughterhouses nearby.
Hizb ut-Tahrir is a global Sunni network with reported ties to confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Al Qaeda in Iraq’s onetime leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. It has operated discreetly in the U.S. for decades.
Now, it is coming out of the shadows and openly hosting a July 19 conference entitled, “The Fall of Capitalism and the Rise of Islam,” at a posh Hilton hotel in a suburb of Chicago.
Hizb ut-Tahrir insists that it does not engage in terrorism, and it is not recognized by the State Department as a known terror group.
But some terrorism experts say it may be even more dangerous than many groups that are on the terror list.
foxnews.com
This is insane- this would be akin to the Communist Party holding a symposium on the “Fall of Capitalism” in say, New York, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I know, the “Liberals” won, but you might think they still love their country- a fact that is becoming much less clear with every day. If Homeland Security doesn’t flood this gathering with every agent it has at its disposal, then someone is engaged in traitorous activity at the highest levels. Here is why:
“Hizb ut-Tahrir is one of the oldest, largest indoctrinating organizations for the ideology known as jihadism,” Walid Phares, director of the Future of Terrorism Project at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told FOXNews.com.
Phares said that Hizb ut-Tahrir, rather than training members to carry out terrorist acts like Al Qaeda, focuses instead on indoctrinating youths between ages of 9 and 18 to absorb the ideology that calls for the formation of an empire — or “khilafah” — that will rule according to Islamic law and condones any means to achieve it, including militant jihad.
Hizb ut-Tahrir often says that its indoctrination “prepares the infantry” that groups like Al Qaeda take into battle, Phares said.
“It’s like a middle school that prepares them to be recruited by the high school, which is Al Qaeda,” he said. “One would compare them to Hitler youth. … It’s an extremely dangerous organization.”
foxnews.com
Hitler youth, with a twist of jihad- smells a bit like teen spirit,doesn’t it? I am sure it is oh so innocent, as I know the Liberal pinheads will tell me. I am blowing this all out of proportion, they will say. Really? Will you stake your life and the lives of your friends and family on this? Will you stake the future of your country on this?
I am not willing to be so sanguine about this- this is another wedge that our enemies seek to drive into our side, just to see if they can, now that they have an arab- sounding “friend” in the White House. Just because we have a history of tolerance for other religions does NOT mean we need to roll over and show our belly when a religiously based terrorist sympathizer group wants to set up shop in our back yard.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is one of the group’s most famous alumni, New Statesman journalist Shiv Malik reported, citing intelligence sources. In addition to plotting the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, he also is implicated in the World Trade Center bombing of 1993, the Bali nightclub bombings and the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
Malik’s report, the public policy institute the Nixon Center and the counter-extremism think tank the Quilliam Foundation agree that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq until he was killed in June 2006, also was once a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir.
They say other former members include Asif Muhammad Hanif, a British man who blew himself up outside a bar in Tel Aviv, killing four people (including himself) and wounding more than 50; and Omar Bakri Mohammed, a radical cleric currently banned from Britain who praised the 9/11 attacks, raised funds for Hezbollah and Hamas and called for attacks on the Dublin airport because U.S. troops transfered there on their way to Iraq.
Segal said Hizb ut-Tahrir is becoming more active online in the U.S. — particularly on social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace — and now it may be able to add a significant number of Americans to its ranks.
foxnews.com
And because of all the liberals in our schools,not properly teaching our students the subject of History, our children are NOT getting the proper background to enable them to recognize this threat for what it truly is- a blatant subversion of our people. This trend needs to be halted in its tracks, NOW. If not, then everyone will end up under an Islamic thumb, with our women wearing burkas, and not being allowed to drive or have other rights we all take for granted today,
You say this cannot happen, but if one looks at history, all it takes is forgetting for a moment that it CAN happen.
If we forget for one moment- if we do not have eternal vigilance, this can and will happen.
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Tags: Al-Qaida, hussein, radical islam, subversion
It’s not Blackmail, It’s Brownmail
Jul 17, 2009 Political
Man oh man- just when you think people can not possibly get much weirder, here you go.
In a “payback” scheme, the Hussein administration is trying to “level” the playing field for UPS, which is a mainly ground deliverer, versus FedEx, who ships mainly by air. Why does this matter? Because FedEx has fewer onerous labor contracts with unions, who backed the Hussein administration, and now want mo’ money and more control over FedEx.
Now it is the Teamsters’ turn at the trough. Congress might change labor law to assist UPS, a Teamsters stronghold, by hindering its principal competitor, FedEx.
At 2 a.m. in Memphis, where FedEx is headquartered, the airport is humming as FedEx sorts and dispatches many of the 3.4 million packages — 10 million pounds of freight — it ships daily, mostly with its fleet of 654 aircraft. Eighty-five percent of FedEx packages go by air; 85 percent of UPS’ go only by truck. This matters because:
The growth of railroads had put America’s increasingly integrated economy at the mercy of local strikes. “Brakemen in Altoona, signalmen in Wichita,” says Fred Smith, could cripple the transportation network. Smith, FedEx’s CEO, says that in 1926 Congress, to protect commerce, passed the Railway Labor Act (RLA). It ensured that any bargaining unit for workers must be systemwide so that no local unit could hold the railroads hostage.
In 1935, the National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act), which covered everyone except railway workers, allowed organizing and bargaining based on localities. The path to unionization is steeper under the RLA, which requires a nationwide vote by all workers.
—–George Will, Washington Post, 7/18
This would be bad enough for FedEx, since it faces a threat of being hamstrung by every rinky- dink local union that figures it needs mo’ money, but apparently every organization wants a bite of FedEx’s butt- people you might think are friends turn out to be whores themselves, and sell their allegiance for money- you say mercenary, I say whore.
The American Conservative Union asked FedEx for a check for $2 million to $3 million in return for the group’s endorsement in a bitter legislative dispute, then flipped and sided with UPS after FedEx refused to pay.
For the $2 million+, ACU offered a range of services that included: “Producing op-eds and articles written by ACU’s Chairman David Keene and / or other members of the ACU’s board of directors. (Note that Mr. Keene writes a weekly column that appears in The Hill.)”
The conservative group’s remarkable demand — black-and-white proof of the longtime Washington practice known as “pay for play” — was contained in a private letter to FedEx that was provided to POLITICO.
The letter exposes the practice by some political interest groups of taking stands not for reasons of pure principle, as their members and supporters might assume, but also in part because a sponsor is paying big money.
politico.com
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In 1981, UPS began air services and in the 1990s it tried to be put under the RLA. In 1993 UPS said all its operations, “including ground operations,” are properly subject to the RLA “because the ground operations are part of the air service.” FedEx supported UPS’ efforts, even though the vast majority of UPS parcels never go on an airplane, whereas FedEx’s trucking operations exist to feed its air fleet and distribute what it carries.
FedEx characterizes itself as the “world’s most effective airline” and UPS as “a 100-year old trucking company.” FedEx, Smith insists, is not anti-union; its pilots are unionized. He says that the pay and benefits for its drivers are, on average, higher than those of UPS drivers, and that new FedEx drivers must wait only three months to be eligible for benefits whereas UPS drivers must wait a year. Nevertheless, today’s Democratic majority in Congress, with UPS now aligned with the Teamsters, wants to put FedEx’s ground pickup and delivery operations under the NLRA, thereby making FedEx’s entire integrated system susceptible to disruption by local disputes.
FedEx characterizes what Congress might do for UPS as the “Brown Bailout.” But properly used, “bailout” denotes a rescue of an economic entity from financial distress. Although UPS is suffering from the recession, so is FedEx. Furthermore, UPS, whose revenue is 36 percent more than FedEx’s, began advocating this injury to FedEx long before this recession.
What UPS is doing is called rent-seeking — bending public power for private advantage by hindering a competitor. This practice is banal but can have entertaining ricochets:
If Congress makes FedEx’s operations more precarious by changing the law to make it easier for local disputes to cripple its operations, Smith says a multibillion-dollar order for 15 Boeing 777s will be automatically canceled. One of the unions lobbying on behalf of UPS and the Teamsters is the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, whose members make 777s.
—- George Will, Washington Post 7/18
I just have to shake my head at the complete and utter stupidity of unions- the saying “cut off your nose to spite your face” must have been coined about the ridiculous actions of these unions, but to then have a Conservative group tearing like piranhas at the fresh meat of FedEx, hoping to get money for their endorsement is just cynical in the extreme, and cannot help the economy, or any other aspect of life in the United States, it’s just lining the pockets of white collar extortionists.
The unions can be excused- they are the village idiots here.
It’s the so- called “Conservatives” that I find to be criminally liable and totally without morals.
And that is inexcusable.
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Tags: extortion, hussein, union graft, union incompetence, unprincipled people
Are THESE Saved Jobs?
Jun 10, 2009 Political
Today’s the day- oh boy, I’ll bet the workers at the Chrysler dealerships who voted for Hussein are feeling a bit betrayed by the beloved leader. Oops— his bad. Yep, today, at least one third of all Chrysler Dealerships, with their salesmen, repair crews, make ready and body repair people, all are out on the street. Hussein must be so proud. Yes, in one bold stroke, he put another several hundred thousand people onto welfare. Democracy at work, as he does that voodoo he does so well.
As of today, those dealerships may not operate as Chrysler new-car showrooms, nor may they provide warranty service.The two courtroom triumphs were clear wins for the automaker, which filed for bankruptcy April 30 and has been blazing through what can be a drawn-out process.
They are also a victory for the Obama administration.It has lent Chrysler $8.6 billion in bailout funds and has pushed the automaker’s bankruptcy on a fast track, arguing that time is of the essence in ensuring the company stays in business. Under terms of its deal with Fiat, the sale of Chrysler into a new entity must be completed by Monday.
latimes.com
This is a total of 789 dealerships, and the reasons given are murky at best, and completely dishonest at worst. The fact that the dealerships have to actually buy the automobiles makes this a case of the government hindering commerce, something that should be unthinkable in a free market system, but as we have seen, Hussein wants to redistribute the wealth. You could see it in the way the government restructured the bankruptcy of Chrysler, and that of GM, giving the unions first grab at the candy, and shorting the creditors who by contract law rights, should have been first in line.
And now comes the flood- stuff flows downhill, and the dealers are at the bottom, and if you think Hussein cares about the dealers, think again.
The original motion to reject the dealers’ contracts was, in our view, extremely overreaching and appeared to preempt multiple state franchise laws,” said Stephen Lerner, an attorney representing roughly 340 of the targeted dealers.He and other lawyers argued for several hours Tuesday that the automaker’s decision to eliminate a quarter of its dealer body was capricious, unwarranted and arbitrary. Further, they contended, the automaker had not shown that doing so would improve its financial situation.
On May 14, the automaker notified the dealers slated for elimination that it would use the bankruptcy process to terminate their franchises Tuesday. Chrysler argued that its network of roughly 3,200 dealers was far too large, affecting profitability and customer service.In response, dealers sought to nullify the terminations or at least extend the deadline, giving them more time to unload inventories of vehicles and parts. But the bankruptcy judge, Arthur Gonzalez, soured those hopes. His ruling dictated that as of close of business Tuesday, those dealers would no longer be allowed to sell new Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge vehicles, perform factory warranty service or display signage indicating that they are Chrysler retail showrooms.
latimes.com
This is just another in the series of “Let’s see just how badly we can run this Nation.” Between this action, and the “Czars”, people Hussein appointed, who have noone but Hussein to be accountable to, we are on the way down the hill, with Hussein greasing the slide.
What will now happen, is that the jobless numbers will increase, and Hussein will use this CRISIS OF HIS OWN MAKING to ask for more power and more money, so he can do other stuff that doesn’t work either.
The man isn’t a man- he is ignorant, he is spineless (Yes, Virginia, he DID just tell Iran they could have nukes), and he is dedicated to the destruction of the Capitalistic system in this country. If you do nor believe this, just ask any dealer of American cars today- if they are not out of business, they are scared that they will be next.
And they will- no doubt of that- it’s only a matter of time.
On Friday, the automaker sent those dealers contracts guaranteeing reallocation of their remaining stock — amounting to roughly 26,000 vehicles as of last week, according to spokeswoman Carrie McElwee.But the automaker will charge dealers $350 for each car and truck that is reallocated, and in some cases the loss on the vehicles could be larger than that. McElwee said that closed dealers also would have the option of selling any remaining new cars on their own, but that they would not have access to any sales incentives, nor would they be able to advertise as Chrysler dealers.
But because dealers had been scrambling to unload vehicles, many had sold cars for a larger loss, leading to frustration among those selected for closure.
“We had another dealer come by who basically wanted us to lose 10% of invoice price on every car,” said Gary Kihs, general manager of Larry Menke Inc., a Chrysler dealer in Seaside, Calif.
latimes.com
Don’t you just love it when the government orders you to lose money on YOUR cars- talk about arm- twisting- I can tell that Hussein simply must have our best interests in mind when he hurts us so lovingly.
He amputates our businesses with all the subtlety of a Civil War Surgeon using an axe on someone’s leg.
At least give them something to bite down on.
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The Protectors of Hussein
Jun 9, 2009 Political
I have been posting on this site for a little while now, and I have begun to notice something curious. Some of my posts have been, in my opinion, critical of BHO (Barak HUSSEIN Obama), the “Christian” man with muslim roots, who is doing such a bang- up job of destroying our country at a break- neck pace. Some of my posts have been on different subjects, barely touching on Hussein’s gross incompetence when it comes to all things real and important.
The one thing I have found is that when I post something critical of his Saintedness, the moonbats come out in droves, ready to feast, much like buzzards at a carcass- and with all the finesse and manners, I might add. One might think there would be an automatic “Hussein” alert-” quick, roll out so- and- so— we HAVE to refute!” To the keyboards, one and all! And so they arrive, circling the post like a pack of hyenas, ready to attack with half- truths and innuendo, plus the occasional outright slur. That’s okay, but there is something curious here.
If the column is not critical of Hussein, they leave it alone, by and large- no comment, positive or negative, and that is curious indeed, because several of the most rabid, left wing, atheistic moonbats just LOVE the “sound” of their own voices, and feel the more the better. Not true, but you just can’t convince some people.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I welcome the back and forth- I have my opinion, and they have theirs, but I find it to be curious that they only have an opinion that they want to share if it is about Hussein- but not so much if it is anything else. Are the mindless acolytes of the Sainted One actually that mindless? Have they no opinions other than hiz Lowness?
I see a lot in the political world that outrages me- I know that there’s a lot that outrages the disciples of Hussein (probably some of what I write does this- tough), but I would think, indeed I would hope, that they are not as one dimensional as they seem to be. Their whole being (and keyboard) devoted to one thing and one thing only, the unquestioning and blind devotion to the Cause- the destruction of America as we know it.
Oh, I know they do not think of it as such- if they did, they would be in support of me, but they are not- alas!I guess I will have to truck on, trying to convince many of the baby- boomers and failed hippies that their 60s philosophy never did work, and it is time to grow a new set of philosophies- ones that actually relate to the real world and its threats.
In the fifties and early sixties, people left their teen years eager to become adults, and embrace adult ideas and ethics. but now, since the late sixties and on, people seem to want to stay children, and abrogate many of their responsibilities. This has led to an unfortunate emphasis on self- how does this affect me, how do I profit, what do I get out of this? It’s all about “me, me, me!”
All of this egoistic nonsense instead of “how does this affect my country, how can I help my country?” How self absorbed, how conceited some of these people can be.
Oh, there are true believers on both sides, and the sides have become polarized- often not by the problems and their possible solutions themselves, but by the personalities driving these ideas. The acolytes who attack me and others are rabid in their unquestioning adherence to blind faith dogma, rather a contradiction to the atheistic ones, as they have traded their belief in God for a belief in someone they treat as a god- kind of hypocritical in a twisted, very perverse way, but it takes all kinds, I guess.
So bring it on, all you excusers, and “explainers”, and protectors of Hussein, the patron saint of wanton government control, I can take it. Believe me, I am not going away.
It’s just a shame you have no opinions other than those relating to Hussein.
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Tags: acolytes, excusers, hussein, incompetence, rant