Border Patrol

The Clueless Snapping Turtle and a squad of US border patrol agents, including Woody the ICE man, are in Afgahanistn to show the dudes overthere just how one controls the border. I wonder what they are going to use as an example? The so called friendly 2000 mile border between US of A and Mexico? There were more deaths, mostly in Mexico, than between Afghanistan and Pakastan this year, and there is a war going on for 10 years at the latter area. Oh well, it just taxpayers money being wasted again, but Earl's boy will put the stop to stupid expenditures come 01.05.11.

Cap and Tax legislation was stalled in Congress this year. But thats not to stop PP using the EPA to propose new rigid industry specs on emmission standard. (Power plants, refineries, and other fossile fueled fired plants). This will do wonders for our economy, especially our export business.

Speaking about end around, do you realize there are at least 33 College Football Bowl games. Most of the bowl games were aready played starting 12.18.10, but will not end until 01.10.11 with the National Championship. Hech, when I was a kid I didn't know what college bowl games were about, until we got an B/W TV. Then there were just the Rose, Orange, Cotton, Sugar maybe one or two more bowl games. Big $'s

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ONE AND ALL.

Generalization-Yr. 2010 Car sales

It has been reported that there were more trucks and SUVs sold in Yr 2010 YTD than compacts and hybrids. Let's watch PP spin that one.

The Chevy Volt is to be marketed with a net sticker price of ~ $31,000+ prep, tax and title. Introduction/timing of this new vehicle could not be at a worse time. The future of GM hanges by a thread. However, WH Motors are standing in the wings. Taxpayers just wonder when the "loan" will be paid to the Tresury? A reality check...EMS groups are concerned as to how one approaches a Volt accident. There could be a tremendous potentional for zapping not only the occupants, but the first responders. One wonder if the lines of people to purchase a Volt will be as long as those waiting in line to buy Sarah Palin's "America by Heart"?

Six days to go until the #112 Congress is seated.

Doc Fix

There is another $350,000,000,000 Bill somewhere between the Congress and the WH that carries the handle...Doc Fix. The Lib-Dem-Progresives sliced the original funding from the O'HealthCare Bill so that the latter Law would be < $1,000,000,000,000 by CBO scoring (short for SWAG estimate). The "doc fix" has to do with, if not passed, those "doc" and et.al agencies not being reimbursed by 25% who treat Medicare patients. That puts the doc and et.al. between a hard spot and a rock from a financial standpoint, worse yet for the Medicare patient.

The new L-D-P Hawaiian governor is going to put to rest,(so to speak) the burning issue that has been troubling many, including this writer. Proof the dude in the WH an American or not?. Heretofore, the Hawaiian hospital presented a ~ 3" x 5" card in Yr. 2008 as proof the dude is an American. But that document is not the original or a copy of the actual "Birth Certificate", rather it is a "Certificate of a Live Birth". Big difference.

"W" new book " Decision Points" has out sold, since Nov. 2010 issuance, more books than Zipper Bill's book issued over 6 years ago in Yr 2004 YTD. (2M Vs < 2M respectively)

Energy Policy

Just yesterday I had to gas up the Jeep and the cost of regular unleaded was $3.15/gal. Its even higher in other parts of the country. I bet Hawaii is $5.00/gal+. By the way, thats where PP and family are vacating, Gosh! The last time oil spiked in 2008 it was pinned on "W" being in bed with Big Oil. Hardly, it wasn't the case back in 2008, nor is it the cause now. Its free market forces at work reacting to the supply and demand cycle. The US simply does not have a Energy Policy. Increase purchasing of energy fuels from foreign countries would spell disaster for our fledging economy. PP still clinges to the green energy sources to make the US energy independented. That will happen Sir, when hell freezes over. In the meantime, we need to exploit our conventional fuels: gas, oil, coal resources now, not halt there development because of some green environmental reason...like CO2emmissions. BACT (best available control technology) is being installed on power plants and factories, with onging researsh and development, coupled with engineering design improvements to cope with even tighter emmission standards down the road. Development of nuclear energy has to happen if everything to autos are to run on electricity. Just plain conservation of energy is something everyone can participate.

Yes, we can.

There is absoletely no reason other green energy resources should not be developed, but not financially subsidized, as with ethanol, boifuels. There are areas of the country where wind mills, solar panel farms, tackling ocean wave for hydroelectric energy generation will be competive in cost, can and should be developed.

Yes, we can.

#100 Blog 2010

Fairwell, good-bye, auf weiderschen to the #111th. A backward glance at what the Lib-Dem-Progressive packed #111 Congress achieved do not reflect what their leader's (PP) positive spin statement of recent. Anyhow, things will change next year. In fact, PP's #1 focus will be on jobs,jobs,jobs not only next year, but also in 2012! Prediction: He be looking for a new job also come January 20, 2013. Wait a moment, didn't he state this objective in the Yr 2010 State of the Union message? Sure enough did, just check the records. Just yesterday it was reported that another 240,000 folks signed up for their 99 weeks of unemployment checks. You know what? While I have been retired for 10 years, I might go downtown Monday and sign up for unemployment since I ain't employed, and my COLA is frozen going on two years now. I wonder how long it would take for the IRS to catch up with me? Just kidding and by the way...
May you and yours have a Merry Christmas!

Reality Triumphs!!!

81 to 19 Senators voted to extend the Bush-era tax cuts. It wasn't close...Dirty Harry, you wasted peoples time. The likes of Moron Mom will be found in the back of a SF bus. The extension also includes other beneficial tax related issues. I have a problem with extending the unemployment benefits for another 13 months, thats three years, but folks its trough other there. Nothing the WH dreamed up to cut or to stem unemployment rate has worked or has backfired in the real world. This week rack up another 420,000. Thats what happens when you don't have a real live businessman/...strike that, businessperson in the WH inner circle.
Another win...the Omnibus Spending Bill was pull for lack of support. I believe the Lib-Dem-Progressive party can see the Edison invention at the end of the tunnel, and its on a locomotive heading there way.
Gosh, Gee! What has PP accomplished this year? Can't count BO, the dog, that was last year as was the Nobel Pease Prize. Racked up more frequent flyermile points, it is true, but to what avail? Visited Afghanistan under cover of night, but did not met the Afghan president, because of weather condition? Or was it the State Dept ( Clinton-Holbrooke) doings to preclude such a visit for fear PP would screw up dipomatic initives? Petraeus has some of the heavy lifting done and will maintain military status quo until the spring offences, when a hell breaks out in that neck of the woods.
So what has PP done to promote the US image around the globe or helped him dig out of the ditch out front? A new agenda w/o the Czars, is in order, or Earl's boy will do it for him.

Only in America

There is this guy in Las Vegas, that robbed a big casinos of $1.5M dollars. He is catch on camera running out of the building. A spokeperson said the robber took chips and coins from the teller equalling $1.5M. Right there I have a problem. Do you realize what a $1.5M pile of coins and chip would weigh? This dude either didn't take the money (inside job perhaps), stached the coins before leaving the building for he would not be able to stuff that many chips in his pockets and be running. Or maybe he could? Same spokeperson later said the casino chips were of high denominational value. That explains he ability to run with all that metal in his pockets, on the other hand how is he going to get rid of the chips...Pawn Stars maybe.

Another guy in a different part of the country attends a Parent/ Teachers meeting packing a small arsenal. He confront the school board nine members, chases the three ladies member and then fires point plank, w/i 20 ft., and misses all six male members of the board. Prior to target practice, he clearing of the ladies from the table and in doing so he was accosted by one of the fisty lady board members. Her action might of blurred his vision when target practing wil fellow board members. She is now a hero. Happy ending...the next person shot and killed was the shoter.

In another part of the country, but related to NV, is this guy presenting a last minute OP bill of some 2,000 pages and is trying to hold up congress for another $1.1T of more debt. Whats left of the Lib-Dem-Progressive party will have a bounty on their heads soon, or sure to bdicate there office before the "A" team take command of congress in January.
My question to you...which of the three/ strike that; two idiots from NV above is more nuts?

An Update

Good news in regard to the #112 Congress. There will be no Kennedy clan member on the roster. Since the late 50s when JFK was first a member of congress there has been a Kennedy clain member either in the House or Senate.

Looks like the Bush-era tax extension will go down to the wire. Christmas eve perhaps? But it will pass.

With Holbrooke's untimely death, it does remove one layer of bueaucracy between the generals in the field and the DOD and DOS. Clinton's was meeting with Holbrook, when he took ill. They were preparing a end of year report on the status of the war in Afghanistan (and Iraq) for PP review. Always seemed strange to me why PP passed out the request for a complete review for end of year report. Maybe it was a flash back? Some professors would appear on the first day of a semester, give an assignment and the student was on his/her own until the report was due at end of semester. Thats a non-resident professor, so to speak. Do we have a non-resident President or one that doesn't like to be distrubed by details, he loves to deligate. Did PP follow that agenda. Seems to me with a war, actually two onging, the Chief Dude's should have his pulse on the absolete status minute by minute, not weeks down the road. Gotta go... wife wants me to go to another Christmas party.

Earl's boy

Did you see Earl's boy on 60 Minutes last night? Our neighbor's late husband grew up with the John's father Earl Boehner in Reading,OH. They graduated from St Xavier HS, when it was downtown. A huge family of 12 children.

Lame Duck President

I cannot spend too much time with you dudes right now, gotta meet my wife for a Christmas Party!

Can you believe it? PP hands the podium over to...the former first black US president, the zipper king. Seems to me Billy was held in a hellish hot room before being released to address the WH press core. He looked like a red man with white hair. He motor mouthed for 15-20 minutes, after PP walk of the stage? Unprecedented. PP does knows leader don't preform that way. PP is a ruptured duck!

At first the logic of having the Zipper present excaped me, but I thought about it over the week-end and here is my conclusion. Even PP knows the economic bobby traps and especially that big ditch out front, are little of Bush's making, but they were invented mostly during the zippers tenure...the 1990s. Subliminal payback maybe?

Mr Stone aka algore, the internet inventor, climate change corrector, god jr. maybe next PP standin.

Reality Stikes Again.

In England, the gov't Vs students and union members clash over the student tuition increased. Socialism promised tuition would never increase. Wrong.

In the USA, the Lib-Dem-Progressives are fighting a rear guard action, trying to escape DC for another vacation. Some to never return. That's good news. The Bush Tax Plan will be extended to 2012, plus there are other tax cutting line items in the package that will help the economy more than any stimulus plan ever did.

Why has the camel herder been so slow in clamping down on Wikileaks? Just one PFC (Manning) drained the swamp and e-mailed all the secured info. They should of tracked Wikileaks in hot pursute as far back as 04/10. Although an embarrisment to the WH, I think the WH encouraged the Wilileaks as part of a foreign policy plan. Wikileaks has all foreign government looking over their shoulder.

Fantastic

The Republican, Conservative and the Tea Party Coalition have treed the principle occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Yes sir, PP finally caved. What he said he would never do, he is doing. Extend the Bush Tax Cuts for two years for all Americans, cut federal payroll taxes by 2% for 2011, recommed changes to the estate tax, plus allow companies to write off new equipment, all of Yr. 2011. He recited a whole bunch of other debt building expenditures to satisfy the left wing who must be fuming by now. However nothing about the AMT impact, but that may come out in the details, I hope. All the right wing things could of been done months ago, allowing companies to plan their three year forecasts and next year's budgets. The next thing they should do is to flatten the tires of all WH planes and change out all the WH executive cars to the Chevy Volt with no extension cords. Keep him home on the WH (plantation), so to speak, so he can start backfilling that big ditch out front.

Gridlock in DC

You can readily see why congress doesn't get anything done e.g. Charley Rangel. After two years, the full house 333 to 79 found ole Charley guilty of 11 of 13 charges and for his punishment... he is censured. If just one charges, not paying our taxes was leveled at you or I we would be heading for the slammer. Then he has the audacity not to show any remorse, but whines. Had dude, 333 to 79, you lose.

Down the road from the Capital, you have another dude wondering around in a cul-de-sac of mixed messages and indecision. When the #1 dude knows what he should about the extension of all of the Bush tax cuts say for three years... he stalls. Appoints a "bi-partisan" committee, with the Jockey in charge along with WH budget sidekick to come up with a resolve. Notice the how bi-partsan went to 4 on 2. The resolve--extend all tax cut for three years and pray we start to climb out the Obama hole. Guess what? The IRS is printing Yr. 2010 1040's as we speak, based on PP's word, as if only the middle class get a tax extension, so the form can be distributed in early January '11. Now, if what I think is going to happen, an addendum will have to printed @ distributed showing a new tax schedule, things will be all screwed up and an automatic late filing date of August 15 will be set by the President. More government costs. That's chicken shit!