Positive news :
Illegal immigrant population drops in Va.
Virginia was one of only three states to see a significant drop in its illegal immigrant population from 2008 to 2009, but it still ranked 11th in number of illegal immigrants in the state — with Maryland just in front at 10th.
The number of illegal immigrants in Virginia dipped from an estimated 300,000 to 240,000, while Maryland’s held steady at 250,000, according to a report released Wednesday by the Pew Hispanic Center.
Over the course of the last few days, Al Sharpton has been appearing on several talk shows, and the common theme appears to be trashing Glenn Beck for the success of Beck’s 8/28 rally. When I see Sharpton, I keep asking myself, why does he appear to be so vengeful ?
Sharpton, like a tick, seems to have traveled his miles in life on the backs of others, both willing and unwilling hosts. Is it conceivable that Sharpton tried to bury his fangs in the Beck event, but his involvement was flatly refused ?
From what I have seen of Sharpton, I can see him trying to capitalize on Beck’s event to feather his own nest. Being turned down by Beck would, in my view, most certainly explain why Sharpton has been so vocal in his recent nonsensical criticisms of Beck.
The Glenn Beck Restoring Honor rally in DC, which looks like it is going to attract over 250,000 people based on the current crowd, is live on Ustream. Click here to watch.
Sarah Palin just went on. Wish I could be there!
After many years of incremental health insurance cost increases, I was informed by my employer this week that the cost of our health care is going up 50%.
Bend over America.
Our economy is in the toilet, agreed? We have non-compliance with our laws and apathy for those poor immigrants (legal and illegal) who just want to bilk our system yet retain their cultures intact. Well, why the hell not? I have a solution for a win-win proposition that will cure all our current woes…….land annexation. It is very simple when you think about it.
First, we send a shrimp boat down to Cuba heading for Gitmo….the long way around. Since we have won the war in Iraq, we now have a plethora of military personnel that need something to do. When Cuban forces open fire on our shrimp boat (which will have some insignificant U.S. diplomat aboard), we can declare war on Cuba. We’ll use the prisoners at Gitmo for “bombing missions” at military installations on the island. Of course they will do this for us or face having to eat a pound of raw bacon (tape worms are a backup plan). Now we have a strategic island to park nukes on (nothing new, right?)
Next we send another insignificant diplomat into Mexico to flirt with, say, the President’s wife or some cartel’s squeeze. Once that fight ensues, we invade them. Now we have all the medical marijuana that California needs and they can get their sorry ass out of debt without us having to do a bailout. The money we confiscate from the cartels will pay off politicians here to vote the “conservative way” and reduce those losing expenditures we are feeling. Of course, all Ex-panics look alike so we can just continue conquering all the way down to the (and including) Panama Canal. Now that we got the Jimma project back in our ownership we can levy heavy tolls on the Chinese ships that are making their way to the left coast Wal-Marts. In no time at all, we will break even with the China debt and go into the black.
Next we take all the illegals and park them down in their respective (or possibly) new countries and fit them with explosive ankle bracelets. Around each respective country will be one of those invisible fences that zaps you when you get too close only this will have harsher repercussions. That will keep the little suckers where they belong. And we can take all the Sharia compliant people and park them down there also (plenty of desert) where they can practice their way of life without having to change ours.
Now we can call the place the United States of South America or maybe The United States of America Part Deux but I think giving it a military rank would be more appropriate: The United States of America-Second Class. We can make Joe Arpaio supreme ruler and dictator of this little nation. Their main resources will be agriculture (wheat for bread) and pigs (for boloney of course) to feed the masses. Well, maybe not the Sharia-ites but change or perish I always say.
No, I didn’t forget about Cuba. Those missiles? Just go ahead and slam America one more time. I dare you.
Did you miss me???? 
A quote often attributed to Japanese Admiral Yamamoto, “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve” may be a message from history that the Progressive movement, led by President Obama, should have listened to.
While President Bush left office with a very low approval rating, primarily driven by an MSM feeding frenzy, his popularity appears to be rebounding quite well after leaving office. A recent Gallup poll shows Obama’s popularity at 52 percent, and George Bush at 45 percent. During Obama’s time in office, his overall popularity has fallen 20 percent, Bush’s has risen by 10. Quite a significant turn around, given Bush finds it necessary to swim against the tide of the MSM, while Obama has them washing his feet. Against all odds, and a very vocal minority, Bush’s star is rising as Obama’s falls.
Also significant :
A prominent Democratic pollster is circulating a survey that shows George W. Bush is 6 points more popular than President Obama in “Frontline” districts — seats held by Democrats that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee sees as most vulnerable to Republican takeover. That Bush is more popular than Obama in Democratic-held seats is cause for outright fear.
To what would we attribute these turnovers in presidential popularity ? It would appear the sleeping giant is awakening in response to Obama’s full frontal assault assault against America.
We have all seen the “Do You Miss Me Yet ?” posters. It would also seem that America’s answer is quickly becoming ‘Hell, Yes!’.
Sometime back I wrote about an observed lack of “shovel ready projects” being funded by Obama’s stimulus package.
Well, I finally found some. Visitors to Skyline Drive are now being treated to a plethora of “Your Recovery Tax Dollars At Work” signs along the 107 mile roadway. Probably as many signs as there are men actually working. I have to admit, they are damn good looking signs, but I could not help but ask myself, why here, and why now ?
Years ago Andre Agassi reminded us that “image is everything”. Recovery.gov signs all over Skyline Drive, a prime tourist attraction, in an election year. Now I get it, it’s all in the illusion.
We have all heard repeatedly from the left how our current economic mess is to be blamed on George Bush and the Iraq War. American Thinker points out, that yet again the left is being dishonest :
So the following are facts, based on the government’s own figures.
Obama’s stimulus, passed in his first month in office, will cost more than the entire Iraq War — more than $100 billion (15%) more. Just the first two years of Obama’s stimulus cost more than the entire cost of the Iraq War under President Bush, or six years of that war. Iraq War spending accounted for just 3.2% of all federal spending while it lasted. Iraq War spending was not even one quarter of what we spent on Medicare in the same time frame. Iraq War spending was not even 15% of the total deficit spending in that time frame. The cumulative deficit, 2003-2010, would have been four-point-something trillion dollars with or without the Iraq War. The Iraq War accounts for less than 8% of the federal debt held by the public at the end of 2010 ($9.031 trillion). During Bush’s Iraq years, 2003-2008, the federal government spent more on education that it did on the Iraq War. (State and local governments spent about ten times more.)
According to the CBO, the Obama stimulus will cost us more than the Iraq War. Think about that..
Yes, it is summer all right, but certainly not the “Recovery Summer” the White House kept telling us about. What will be the next empty promise to the American people, Recovery Fall ?
Jobless claims rise to highest level in 9 months
WASHINGTON – Employers appear to be laying off workers again as the economic recovery weakens. The number of people applying for unemployment benefits reached the half-million mark last week for the first time since November.
It was the third straight week that first-time jobless claims rose. The upward trend suggests the private sector may report a net loss of jobs in August for the first time this year.
Read Story at Yahoo
I certainly hope we are not entering a double-dip recession, a second recession completely owned by DOTUS and his team of bungling economic advisors. The indicators are certainly trending that way.
With the way the country is, and the way Lincoln trampled the constitution (even call these united states “a nation” instead of looking at this as a union of independent states) we need not a right of cessation, but a right to expel. I’d like to put on the list Maryland, Mass., California (at least the southern part), New Jersey, Delaware, Illinois, Michigan and a hand-full of New England states.
One of the things I think is forgotten in this day is how many of the great thinkers of the past received much of their education. Prior to the mid 1800’s, there was little or no formal education in this country. Many of the greatest minds in our country had no early education outside the home. Yet my thoughts on education are not based on what I see of history, but what I see as a parent.
One of my children, my seven-year-old son, is autistic. He is “high function” meaning he is in many ways a very bright young boy that learns well in many areas, but his communication and social skills are far behind his other skills. His experience is just one child, but I have seen a pattern that is more than just one child … I’ve seen it with many children. What does this have to do with schooling? It has a lot to do with home schooling and a non-random, informal sampling (the kind the human mind does very well by just observing what a person sees) of comparison of home schoolers and modern “warehouse” (many students, all the same age, in a classroom) schoolers.
One of the most frequent questions/complaints by those not associated with home schooling is “what about socialization of home schoolers” as a sort of trump card argument against home schooling. What about it? It seems to me that socialization occurs best in the home school environment. One of the things I have observed is that nearly universally, if children playing with my seven-year-old and being kind, not being mean at all, they are home schooled. It seems that socialization, if that means being able to deal kindly with others and get along with others, is best done in a home school environment.
My wife, being a home school mom, has taken our children many places, and one thing she has observed is that many of the places we’ve taken our kids, she has been asked if we home school our children by those that see children in large groups every day (like at parks and historical sites). Typically, she will respond “Yes, why do you ask?” The response is often “the children are well behaved and polite … that is what we see with home schoolers all the time.”
So while I teach my children at home for religious reasons, I believe they get, serendipitously, a better education … especially in socialization, than what their public school peers do. Home schooling costs taxpayers nothing, delivers a better education, and produces better socialized children than public schooling. Why do we have public schools again? Oh, that’s right, in large measure because parents cannot afford to give their children the best education … one of the parents stay home and teach … so we have institutions for warehousing the children.
So if you want to save money on taxes and have a better citizenry, provide incentives for home schooling children. We spend well over $10,000 per student to educate them per year. Provide a grant (tax free, no strings attached, no reporting needed grant) of even $5000 per student who is either home schooled or in a private school would reduce taxes and provide a better education to those that choose that route.
Poll shows more Americans think Obama is a Muslim
The number of Americans who believe — wrongly — that President Obama is a Muslim has increased significantly since his inauguration and now accounts for nearly 20 percent of the nation’s population.
Full story at Washington Post
Suggest they poll again after his recent comments pertaining to the New York mosque.
Yes the Ninth Circus Court rears its liberal head again. In the latest stupidity coming from the Court, a three-judge panel has ruled that the Stolen Valor Act, which made it illegal to falsely claim to have received a medal from the U.S. military.
For the first time, bald-faced lies constitute speech protected by the government. Well, I guess the politicians are safe once again.
The contrast between the two viewpoints could not be drawn in a manner any starker. Reagan is the adult in a room full of dimwitted children. “We want what we want, and we want it now”, is an apt summation of the cries of the Democrat Congressmen. Reagan’s counter point, one of personal responsibility could not be more poignant.
The Republicans will win the battle this fall. They will win not because of their brilliance, but because of a nationwide revulsion of the Democrats in power. The question is can the Republicans win the war. The 40% of the country that self identifies as conservative will be watching. If the Republicans revert to their 2006 big government big spender mode – they are finished as a party.
The answer to the Pelosi-Obama-Reid Democrats is not accommodation. Healthcare needs to be repealed. The mountain of deficit spending demands large cuts in spending, not an increase in taxes – we are long past the peak on the Laffer curve. Cap and trade is a job killer as is the recent economic ‘reform’ bill that only increased the level of uncertainty in the market.
Accommodation and compromise are called for when the two parties at the table have some common ground. When the issue on the table is the choice between liberty and servitude, where is there common ground? When the issue is a choice permanent state of national indebtedness and economic freedom, how does one accept servitude? When the choice lies between the US maintaining its hard won sovereignty and the likes of the UN making decisions for us, do we agree to let the likes of Libya, Sudan and China telling us how we are to live?
Reagan did not compromise his principles. He made deals in order to further his agenda and philosophy, and took what he could in the face of a foe who had the media in his pocket. The American people know the difference. We will be watching. The yardstick by which Republican performance will measured is not the sad marker set down by the Teleprompter in Chief. The yardstick will be the one stacked out by legacy of the Great Communicator.
It is now on Verizon On Demand, and presumably on the other cable outlets. Do not read the reviews, do not ask around. Just go watch Kick Ass: definitely the most enjoyable film experience I have had in years.
While rated R for good reason, it also has a touching familial side and a quaint ultraviolent side. Seriously, don’t muck up your thinking with other people’s takes: just put the kids to bed and watch the damn movie. Twenty minutes in I told my wife “this may be the greatest movie I have ever seen.” Do yourself a favor. My Second Amendment, libertarian brethren in particular.
And you’re welcome.
