Scotty Anderson is a pretty cool guy and is somewhat laid back in most things he does. If you remember Scotty is the one who I was having coffee with, some months ago, when he looked at his watch and said slowly, “I have an appointment in one minute. I can make it if I don’t catch the light.” This based on the fact his Insurance Office is four blocks from the Hubbard City Café, two on the café side of the one and only three-way stop light in Hubbard, and two on the main street side of the light.
Well this morning Scotty was not so much under control, “I have had it with Washington. They all drive me crazy. Typical politics, Planned Parenthood is helping Pimps get girls as young as 13 abortions using the Pimps as falsified guardians. Everything about this is illegal. These people, and I am talking about the Pimps and the people at Planned Parenthood, should be locked up for a long, long time. They are trafficking, and aiding and abetting the trafficking, of child rape and prostitution not to mention the illegal drugs, kidnapping, illegal immigration, and other unlawful and despicable things that go along with this insanity. And what will our politicians do? They will argue about whether Planned Parenthood should continue to get $360,000,000 (that’s with an M) each year of our taxpayer money. Prediction: the Democratic Senate and White House will win the arguments, keep funding these creeps, and a small number of ‘Planners’ get fired and go on Obama's unemployment and insurance programs for the rest of their lives.”
Butch was the only one who would break this silence, “And this outfit claims their purpose in life is to help our young women plan for their families and parenthood. Truth is these are mostly abortion factories. No gift from God is anymore special than a child. I just hate to see them treated as inconveniences.”
Scott Riddle, locally famed player of Texas Holdem changed the subject, “Here we are 26 months into this administration and time and again I hear folks questioning and arguing about just who this President is. Some say a Muslim, others a Socialist, many a narcissist and clinical at that, most call him a Liberal or Progressive, others think he a Moderate or moving to the middle, now some even say he is Reagan-like or Kennedy-like or Carter-like, some feel he is a devout ideologue, he comes from Kenya or Somalia or Hawaii, while many say he is just a slick politician who will say and lie about anything. Just seems to me that we should know who our President is by now.”
Billy Roy rode in on a big old white horse, “My inside sources say our current President was born in Shiraz, Iran to American parents. The father, a pathologist and geneticist, ran a hospital for children in Shiraz, as part of a program where American doctors and agricultural experts sought to help jump-start developing countries' health and farming efforts. When the President was five, the family moved to London for one year, returning to Chicago in 1963. As a child the President spoke Persian and French and was friendly with people like Bill Ayers and Rev. Wright. The President started in Chicago politics in 1987 working for Black Mayor Washington as Deputy Corporation Counsel for Finance and Development.
The current President continued to work in the mayor's office in the 1990s. As Deputy Chief of Staff for Mayor Richard Daley during which time (1991) the President hired Michelle Robinson, then engaged to Barack Obama, away from a private law firm. You see the President today is Valery Jarrett. Obama has been told very clearly to spend his next two years in office ‘looking good’ and ‘not getting into trouble’. If you saw the pre-Super Bowl interview with O'Reilly you have verification. He didn't truthfully answer one question while trying to come across as a 'regular guy'. Jarrett will run the President’s business with the primary goal that each have of getting Obama re-elected.
Jarrett is now the President's top Advisor with both Axelrod and Rahm back in Chicago. She holds the re-titled position of Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement, managing the White House Office of Public Engagement, Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, and Office of Urban Affairs. And now she, a radical leftist amateur, runs the Free World.
My sources say even people loyal to this regime are scared to death of the consequences. They just don't know how much longer they can fake it for this incompetent.”
Think about it,
Jim
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Monday, January 31, 2011
From Now On It's All About Obama's Second Term
Scott Riddle opened discourse at the Cafe with a summary of Obama's Speech in Cairo last year, "Let me net some of his key points:
1. Colonialism and treating Muslim countries as proxies over the years had caused strife between the Muslim and non-Muslim worlds
2. The US should not have invaded Iraq and he will pull out
3. He will stop the US practice of torturing people and close GITMO
4. The US played a role during the Cold War in overthrowing a democratically elected government in Iran
5. Islam has a proud tradition of religious freedom
6. The US will have friendly relations with any country whose government is elected democratically (basically implying an overthrow of the Egyptian government)
7. He called for Israel to stop building its settlements in occupied territory
8. He profusely quoted the Koran at every turn and bragged of living in three different Muslim nations.
And now is there any wonder Egypt could possibly fall into the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood? When Hillary was asked this week-end if she was afraid the Brotherhood could fill a void in leadership, she avoided an answer by saying we didn't want a void. We wanted a peaceful migration of leadership. The Obama administration refuses to oppose Radical Islamists even though their takeover of Egypt will not just cause chaos in the middle east but all around the world."
Butch Jackson intercepted the conversation at the Cafe, as he is apt to do and particularly on slow days when there aren't Friday night football games, "To quote a famous American, Forrest Gump, stupid is as stupid does. How stupid can we be? First we put this current guy in the White House. Can you imagine you are Mubarak, who ran the Egyptian Air Force before Sadat was assassinated, and then was the President of Egypt for 30 long years in which he fought off Jihadists. His tenure included no fewer than 7 attempts to assassinate him. Months after Obama gives his speech to college students in Egypt, then when he has what Obama calls 'peaceful street demonstrations', he gets a call form Skinny. After the call the American President attends his propaganda chief, David Axlerod's going away party. Axelrod is leaving to go back to Chicago to avoid scrutiny as he organizes the likes of ACORN for the 2012 election. Back to poor Mubarak, Skinny wants to lecture him about how to rule a country whose last opinion poll said 70% of the people want a radical Muslim government. Obama lectures him on 'listening to the folks and how leaders rule by the consent of the people'. This is from the guy who stuffed Health Care up the rears of the folks completely against our wishes. I will bet Mubarak would rather fight off 10,000,000 terrorists than have a 15 minute telephone conversation with a hypocrite like Skinny."
A deep breath and Butch is off again, "And now, I repeat, and now we have to spend two years watching Skinny, who is supposed to be running the country, run for re-election. The first thing he must do, and has started doing, is to raise $1 Billion (with a B). He has to go buy off the big contributors that put him in office last time. Example: Generous Electric. He puts their CEO into his regime to run his Business Council to funnel money in an openly disgusting case of crony capitalism. All Socialist do this in the early days. Why do you think he is pushing Clean Energy and Innovation for investment? These are his big contributors and Obama can make GE, Algore, and cronies billions if he can set regulations to increase the prices of oil (mid-east turmoil will help), gasoline, and coal while funneling tax payer money into so called 'investment or research'. When Obama came into office gasoline was less than $2 a gallon. Now the average is $3.15 and going up fast. Trump says it will easily hit $5."
Billy Roy Mitchum added, "Don't forget the education investment thing. This buys votes from the teachers union while indoctrinating the class rooms with Socialist doctrine, a double whammy. I'll bet folks like GE can provide some really cool light rail technology. Hammock tells me the trains in Austin are running on empty with less than 10 riders per car on a good day. And Obama wants 80% of all people to have access. And you know what?", there was a long pause.
"What?", the folks could wait no longer.
"The time to stop Obama is right now. No compromises. Yet, I will bet a dollar against a Krispy Kreme that the Republicans make a deal with Obama. They will give him his 'investments' if he will let them cut some spending just like he let them give tax breaks to 'the rich'. He will then tell the folks how the mean Republicans are trying to cut expenses on the backs of the poor, old, young, sick, and crippled as they protect their 'fat cats and billionaires'. Meanwhile these investments in innovation, education, clean energy, and infrastructure will make Obama's backers billions and fill Obama's pockets with campaign money now, and personal graft once he is out of office just like Clinton. These guys also shovel money to the Chinese in trade agreements like Clinton did and my guess is the payback to those with the shovels is huge once they leave office."
"Lastly, Obama will buy votes everywhere possible. All the way from pushing Gay Marriage to claiming to be the saviour of the middle class as they war against the fat cats.. He has already turned unemployment compensation into basically a welfare program. Remember when Clinton reformed welfare to get re-elected. Well those days are over. Why work?"
Actually Mom summed it up, "Does anyone, not on the take from Obama, really think the country and free world could survive a second term of his corruption and incompetency?"
So the slow day ended on somewhat of a sour note. I just hope the new guys in D.C. tune in and make Butch and BM dead wrong. Butch, BM, and the folks at the Cafe pray they are dead wrong as well.
Think about it and pass it on if you think the new guys,in D.C. need a warning,
Jim
1. Colonialism and treating Muslim countries as proxies over the years had caused strife between the Muslim and non-Muslim worlds
2. The US should not have invaded Iraq and he will pull out
3. He will stop the US practice of torturing people and close GITMO
4. The US played a role during the Cold War in overthrowing a democratically elected government in Iran
5. Islam has a proud tradition of religious freedom
6. The US will have friendly relations with any country whose government is elected democratically (basically implying an overthrow of the Egyptian government)
7. He called for Israel to stop building its settlements in occupied territory
8. He profusely quoted the Koran at every turn and bragged of living in three different Muslim nations.
And now is there any wonder Egypt could possibly fall into the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood? When Hillary was asked this week-end if she was afraid the Brotherhood could fill a void in leadership, she avoided an answer by saying we didn't want a void. We wanted a peaceful migration of leadership. The Obama administration refuses to oppose Radical Islamists even though their takeover of Egypt will not just cause chaos in the middle east but all around the world."
Butch Jackson intercepted the conversation at the Cafe, as he is apt to do and particularly on slow days when there aren't Friday night football games, "To quote a famous American, Forrest Gump, stupid is as stupid does. How stupid can we be? First we put this current guy in the White House. Can you imagine you are Mubarak, who ran the Egyptian Air Force before Sadat was assassinated, and then was the President of Egypt for 30 long years in which he fought off Jihadists. His tenure included no fewer than 7 attempts to assassinate him. Months after Obama gives his speech to college students in Egypt, then when he has what Obama calls 'peaceful street demonstrations', he gets a call form Skinny. After the call the American President attends his propaganda chief, David Axlerod's going away party. Axelrod is leaving to go back to Chicago to avoid scrutiny as he organizes the likes of ACORN for the 2012 election. Back to poor Mubarak, Skinny wants to lecture him about how to rule a country whose last opinion poll said 70% of the people want a radical Muslim government. Obama lectures him on 'listening to the folks and how leaders rule by the consent of the people'. This is from the guy who stuffed Health Care up the rears of the folks completely against our wishes. I will bet Mubarak would rather fight off 10,000,000 terrorists than have a 15 minute telephone conversation with a hypocrite like Skinny."
A deep breath and Butch is off again, "And now, I repeat, and now we have to spend two years watching Skinny, who is supposed to be running the country, run for re-election. The first thing he must do, and has started doing, is to raise $1 Billion (with a B). He has to go buy off the big contributors that put him in office last time. Example: Generous Electric. He puts their CEO into his regime to run his Business Council to funnel money in an openly disgusting case of crony capitalism. All Socialist do this in the early days. Why do you think he is pushing Clean Energy and Innovation for investment? These are his big contributors and Obama can make GE, Algore, and cronies billions if he can set regulations to increase the prices of oil (mid-east turmoil will help), gasoline, and coal while funneling tax payer money into so called 'investment or research'. When Obama came into office gasoline was less than $2 a gallon. Now the average is $3.15 and going up fast. Trump says it will easily hit $5."
Billy Roy Mitchum added, "Don't forget the education investment thing. This buys votes from the teachers union while indoctrinating the class rooms with Socialist doctrine, a double whammy. I'll bet folks like GE can provide some really cool light rail technology. Hammock tells me the trains in Austin are running on empty with less than 10 riders per car on a good day. And Obama wants 80% of all people to have access. And you know what?", there was a long pause.
"What?", the folks could wait no longer.
"The time to stop Obama is right now. No compromises. Yet, I will bet a dollar against a Krispy Kreme that the Republicans make a deal with Obama. They will give him his 'investments' if he will let them cut some spending just like he let them give tax breaks to 'the rich'. He will then tell the folks how the mean Republicans are trying to cut expenses on the backs of the poor, old, young, sick, and crippled as they protect their 'fat cats and billionaires'. Meanwhile these investments in innovation, education, clean energy, and infrastructure will make Obama's backers billions and fill Obama's pockets with campaign money now, and personal graft once he is out of office just like Clinton. These guys also shovel money to the Chinese in trade agreements like Clinton did and my guess is the payback to those with the shovels is huge once they leave office."
"Lastly, Obama will buy votes everywhere possible. All the way from pushing Gay Marriage to claiming to be the saviour of the middle class as they war against the fat cats.. He has already turned unemployment compensation into basically a welfare program. Remember when Clinton reformed welfare to get re-elected. Well those days are over. Why work?"
Actually Mom summed it up, "Does anyone, not on the take from Obama, really think the country and free world could survive a second term of his corruption and incompetency?"
So the slow day ended on somewhat of a sour note. I just hope the new guys in D.C. tune in and make Butch and BM dead wrong. Butch, BM, and the folks at the Cafe pray they are dead wrong as well.
Think about it and pass it on if you think the new guys,in D.C. need a warning,
Jim
Friday, January 28, 2011
Obama Fiddles as the Middle East Burns
Of all things, Butch Jackson came into the Cafe this week raving about an funny little Northern African country, "Tunisia overthrew their government in January and were rarely even mentioned in our press, and when mentioned, the press said the government's leader stepped down because of 'street protest'. Obama made a positive statement about Tunisia in his state of the union speech. So what is the history that led up to the present situation in Tunisia that Obama praises? I took this information from the BBC:
'French colonial rule ended in 1956, and Tunisia was led for three decades by Habib Bourguiba, who advanced secular ideas. These included emancipation for women - women's rights in Tunisia are among the most advanced in the Arab world - the abolition of polygamy and compulsory free education. The diverse economy has grown steadily and the slum population has halved. Mr Bourguiba insisted on an anti-Islamic fundamentalist line, while increasing his own powers to become a virtual dictator.
In 1987 he was dismissed on grounds of senility and Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali' became president. He continued with a hard line against Islamic extremists, but inherited an economically-stable country.
Although Tunisia has introduced some press freedoms and has freed a number of political prisoners, human rights groups say the authorities tolerate no dissent, harassing government critics and rights activists. Political violence was rare until recently, but militant Islamists have become an issue of concern for the authorities. A suicide bomb attack on an historic synagogue in the resort of Djerba in 2002 killed 21 people and led to a dramatic drop in tourist numbers.
Violent repression of protests over unemployment and lack of political freedom in the winter of 2010-2011 left dozens of people dead. But popular street protests continued and President Ben Ali went into exile in January 2011'."
Aunt Martha did her best to follow Butch, "So what, Butch? Why do we care?"
"Because history repeats itself. While we were focused on Jimmy Carter's incompetence in screwing up the American economy we found out later that our foreign policy was even more screwed up. Carter never met an enemy of the free world that he didn't like. While Obama has us focused on deficits, socialism, and even gays in the military (all serious issues) while his Radical Muslim friends are taking over the Middle East."
"Martha, I think once again Butch is on a really big issue," weighed in Billy Roy. "While Obama and Clinton just give mushy statements about democracy and violence trying to play both sides, the Radical Muslim's seem to be making huge gains as they take advantage of Obama's weakness and incompetence. Any sane person knows that the conflicts in the Middle East come down to the Radical Muslim Brotherhood and their comrades like al-Queda and the Taliban against more secular and less radical Muslims who, in all cases except Afghanistan and Iraq, are headed up by dictators or royal families.
Let's go through several situations:
Hezbollah is taking over the Lebanon government. Hezbollah is on the U.S. terrorists list. Obama never mentioned this in his State of the Union message. Hezbollah's prime interest is the destruction of Israel and all other 'infidels'.
In Egypt the Muslim Brotherhood is rioting against the current secular (that means non-radical-Muslim) government and the military, who have been U.S. allies. Obama's idiot press secretary Gibbs, of all things, called this morning for the Egyptian Government to restore the use of Twitter and Social Networking. Meanwhile, what Obama calls peaceful demonstrators, have set the Egyptian President's headquarters on fire. Today commentators are attacking Obama for supporting Radical Street Muslims and at the same time for supporting the present government. Bottom line, no one knows what Obama is doing. Bottom line, we know with Obama in office the radical Muslims have the upper hand in the Middle East.
Afghanistan is an active war in which our clear enemy is the Taliban who George Bush ran out of office because they were providing sanctuaries for al-Queda, who then fled to Pakistan and Yemen. Obama wants to pull out at all costs and hopes to negotiate a compromise with the Taliban.
Iran sits with a huge army on the border of Iraq just waiting for the Obama pull out there. Meanwhile Iran is developing nuclear weapons. The free world has no idea whether Obama will prevent a nuclear Iran. Nor whether he will even allow Israel to stop Iran.
Islamist radicals are taking major steps to control the 80% of the world's oil supply in the middle east. Meanwhile Obama wants to spend money, we don't have, to ramp up our solar and wind sources which currently supply less than one per cent of our needs. He also has done everything he can to hinder our development of coal, oil, and nuclear energy. No sane person can explain these actions and inactions."
Think about it,
Jim
'French colonial rule ended in 1956, and Tunisia was led for three decades by Habib Bourguiba, who advanced secular ideas. These included emancipation for women - women's rights in Tunisia are among the most advanced in the Arab world - the abolition of polygamy and compulsory free education. The diverse economy has grown steadily and the slum population has halved. Mr Bourguiba insisted on an anti-Islamic fundamentalist line, while increasing his own powers to become a virtual dictator.
In 1987 he was dismissed on grounds of senility and Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali' became president. He continued with a hard line against Islamic extremists, but inherited an economically-stable country.
Although Tunisia has introduced some press freedoms and has freed a number of political prisoners, human rights groups say the authorities tolerate no dissent, harassing government critics and rights activists. Political violence was rare until recently, but militant Islamists have become an issue of concern for the authorities. A suicide bomb attack on an historic synagogue in the resort of Djerba in 2002 killed 21 people and led to a dramatic drop in tourist numbers.
Violent repression of protests over unemployment and lack of political freedom in the winter of 2010-2011 left dozens of people dead. But popular street protests continued and President Ben Ali went into exile in January 2011'."
Aunt Martha did her best to follow Butch, "So what, Butch? Why do we care?"
"Because history repeats itself. While we were focused on Jimmy Carter's incompetence in screwing up the American economy we found out later that our foreign policy was even more screwed up. Carter never met an enemy of the free world that he didn't like. While Obama has us focused on deficits, socialism, and even gays in the military (all serious issues) while his Radical Muslim friends are taking over the Middle East."
"Martha, I think once again Butch is on a really big issue," weighed in Billy Roy. "While Obama and Clinton just give mushy statements about democracy and violence trying to play both sides, the Radical Muslim's seem to be making huge gains as they take advantage of Obama's weakness and incompetence. Any sane person knows that the conflicts in the Middle East come down to the Radical Muslim Brotherhood and their comrades like al-Queda and the Taliban against more secular and less radical Muslims who, in all cases except Afghanistan and Iraq, are headed up by dictators or royal families.
Let's go through several situations:
Hezbollah is taking over the Lebanon government. Hezbollah is on the U.S. terrorists list. Obama never mentioned this in his State of the Union message. Hezbollah's prime interest is the destruction of Israel and all other 'infidels'.
In Egypt the Muslim Brotherhood is rioting against the current secular (that means non-radical-Muslim) government and the military, who have been U.S. allies. Obama's idiot press secretary Gibbs, of all things, called this morning for the Egyptian Government to restore the use of Twitter and Social Networking. Meanwhile, what Obama calls peaceful demonstrators, have set the Egyptian President's headquarters on fire. Today commentators are attacking Obama for supporting Radical Street Muslims and at the same time for supporting the present government. Bottom line, no one knows what Obama is doing. Bottom line, we know with Obama in office the radical Muslims have the upper hand in the Middle East.
Afghanistan is an active war in which our clear enemy is the Taliban who George Bush ran out of office because they were providing sanctuaries for al-Queda, who then fled to Pakistan and Yemen. Obama wants to pull out at all costs and hopes to negotiate a compromise with the Taliban.
Iran sits with a huge army on the border of Iraq just waiting for the Obama pull out there. Meanwhile Iran is developing nuclear weapons. The free world has no idea whether Obama will prevent a nuclear Iran. Nor whether he will even allow Israel to stop Iran.
Islamist radicals are taking major steps to control the 80% of the world's oil supply in the middle east. Meanwhile Obama wants to spend money, we don't have, to ramp up our solar and wind sources which currently supply less than one per cent of our needs. He also has done everything he can to hinder our development of coal, oil, and nuclear energy. No sane person can explain these actions and inactions."
Think about it,
Jim
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Why Has Our President Intentionally Chosen to "Court the Disaster" of the Free World?
America's President just lauded Communist Red China's investments in technology and their superior education system while holding up Communist Russia's successes with Sputnik (even though he has basically defunded NASA) during his State of the Union "massage" of his Socialist followers. What he didn't talk about was this week's bombing of a Russian airport by Muslims nor the Hezbollah takeover of Lebanon nor the radical Muslim's attempt to overthrow our US friendly Egyptian allies. On constant is his solutions don’t change. Just tell bigger lies and continue to overload key American systems until they collapse (economy, health care, transportation, energy, real estate, banking, immigration, military, etc.). Lies? In 2010 Obama called for a 3 year freeze of spending and then increased spending by 20%. And to top it off, he and Pelosi/Reid never even submitted a budget. This year he doubled up on the big lie by calling for a 5 year freeze. And of course he made the big move to the center by saying he would "talk" about medical malpractice.
Meanwhile a new book, "Courting Disaster", How the CIA Kept America Safe (Regnery), has been recently published. The author is President George W. Bush's top speechwriter, Marc Thiessen, who was provided unique access to the CIA program used in interrogating top Al Qaeda terrorists, including the mastermind of the 9/11 attack, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad (KSM).
The book covers in great detail how on March 1, 2003, two dozen heavily armed Pakistani tactical assault forces move in and surround a safe house in Rawalpindi . A few hours earlier they had received a text message from an informant inside the house. It read: "I am with KSM."
Bursting in, they find the disheveled mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, in his bedroom. He is taken into custody. In the safe house, they find a treasure trove of computers, documents, cell phones and other valuable "pocket litter."
And now pay close attention because this part of the story is what is so relevant to our safety and the free world's future. Once in custody, KSM is defiant. He refuses to answer questions, informing his captors that he will tell them everything when he gets to America and sees his lawyer. But KSM is not taken to America to see a lawyer Instead he is taken to a secret CIA "black site" in an undisclosed location.
Upon arrival, KSM finds himself in the complete control of Americans. He does not know where he is, how long he will be there, or what his fate will be.
Despite his circumstances, KSM still refuses to talk. He spews contempt at his interrogators, telling them Americans are weak, lack resilience, and are unable to do what is necessary to prevent the terrorists from succeeding in their goals. He has trained to resist interrogation. When he is asked for information about future attacks, he tells his questioners scornfully: "Soon, you will know."
It becomes clear he will not reveal the information using traditional interrogation techniques. So he undergoes a series of "enhanced interrogation techniques" approved for use only on the most high-value detainees. The techniques include waterboarding.
His resistance is described by one senior American official as "superhuman." Eventually, however, the techniques work, and KSM becomes cooperative.
He begins telling his CIA de-briefers about active al Qaeda plots to launch attacks against the United States and other Western targets. He holds classes for CIA officials, using a chalkboard to draw a picture of al Qaeda's operating structure, financing, communications, and logistics. He identifies al Qaeda travel routes and safe havens, and helps intelligence officers make sense of documents and computer records seized in terrorist raids. He identifies voices in intercepted telephone calls, and helps officials understand the meaning of coded terrorist communications. He provides information that helps our intelligence community capture other high-ranking terrorists, KSM's questioning, and that of other captured terrorists, produces more than 6,000 intelligence reports, which are shared across the intelligence community, as well as with our allies across the world.
In one of these reports, KSM describes in detail the revisions he made to his failed 1994-1995 plan known as the "Bojinka plot" to blow up a dozen airplanes carrying some 4,000 passengers over the Pacific Ocean.
Years later, an observant CIA officer notices the activities of a cell being followed by British authorities appear to match KSM's description of his plans for a Bojinka-style attack.
In an operation that involves unprecedented intelligence cooperation between our countries, British officials proceed to unravel the plot. On the night of Aug.9, 2006 they launch a series of raids in a northeast London suburb that lead to the arrest of two dozen al Qaeda terrorist suspects. They find a USB thumb-drive in the pocket of one of the men with security details for Heathrow airport, and information on seven trans-Atlantic flights that were scheduled to take off within hours of each other. They seize bomb-making equipment and hydrogen peroxide to make liquid explosives. And they find the chilling martyrdom videos the suicide bombers had prepared.
In addition to helping break up these specific terrorist cells and plots, CIA questioning provided our intelligence community with an unparalleled body of information about al Qaeda Until the program was temporarily suspended in 2006, intelligence officials say, well over half of the information our government had about al Qaeda-how it operates, how it moves money, how it communicates, how it recruits operatives, how it picks targets, how it plans and carries out attacks-came from the interrogation of terrorists in CIA custody.
Former CIA Director George Tenet and former CIA Director Mike Hayden have said: "The facts of the case are that the use of these techniques against these terrorists made us safer. It really did work."
Even Barack Obama's Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair, has acknowledged: "High-value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qaeda organization that was attacking this country. Leon Panetta, Obama's CIA Director, has said: "Important information was gathered from these detainees. It provided information that was acted upon."
Despite the facts on Jan. 22, 2009, President Obama issued Executive Order 13491, closing the CIA program and directing that, henceforth, all interrogations by U.S personnel must follow the techniques contained in the Army Field Manual.
The morning of the announcement, Mike Hayden was still in his post as CIA Director, He called White House Counsel Greg Craig and told him bluntly: "You didn't ask, but this is the CIA officially nonconcurring". The president went ahead anyway, over ruling the objections of the agency.
A few months later, on April 16, 2009, President Obama ordered the release of four Justice Department memos that described in detail the techniques used to interrogate KSM and other high-value terrorists. This time, not just Hayden (who was now retired) but five CIA directors -including Obama's own director, Leon Panetta -- objected. George Tenet called to urge against the memos' release. So did Porter Goss. So did John Deutch. Hayden says: "You had CIA directors in a continuous unbroken stream to 1995 calling saying, 'Don't do this.'"
In addition to objections from the men who led the agency for a collective 14 years, the President also heard objections from the agency's covert field operatives. A few weeks earlier, Panetta had arranged for the eight top officials of the Clandestine Service to meet with the President. It was highly unusual for these clandestine officers to visit the Oval Office, and they used the opportunity to warn the President that releasing the memos would put agency operatives at risk. The President reportedly listened respectfully-and then ignored their advice.
With these actions, Barack Obama arguably did more damage to America and the Free World's security in his first 100 days of office than any enemy of the free world has the power nor will to do. We can and will argue "why" Obama has chosen to harm our nation to such an extent. Is it because of a desire to "transform" us to become more like other weaker global nations? Does he desire to overthrow our capitalist nation? Is he just so incompetent as a leader that "he knows not what he does"? No matter how we answer the "why", no sane person can argue the damage of the "what". For whatever his reasons he has put our families, loved ones, and soldiers at great and unnecessary risk.
Think about it,
Jim
Meanwhile a new book, "Courting Disaster", How the CIA Kept America Safe (Regnery), has been recently published. The author is President George W. Bush's top speechwriter, Marc Thiessen, who was provided unique access to the CIA program used in interrogating top Al Qaeda terrorists, including the mastermind of the 9/11 attack, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad (KSM).
The book covers in great detail how on March 1, 2003, two dozen heavily armed Pakistani tactical assault forces move in and surround a safe house in Rawalpindi . A few hours earlier they had received a text message from an informant inside the house. It read: "I am with KSM."
Bursting in, they find the disheveled mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, in his bedroom. He is taken into custody. In the safe house, they find a treasure trove of computers, documents, cell phones and other valuable "pocket litter."
And now pay close attention because this part of the story is what is so relevant to our safety and the free world's future. Once in custody, KSM is defiant. He refuses to answer questions, informing his captors that he will tell them everything when he gets to America and sees his lawyer. But KSM is not taken to America to see a lawyer Instead he is taken to a secret CIA "black site" in an undisclosed location.
Upon arrival, KSM finds himself in the complete control of Americans. He does not know where he is, how long he will be there, or what his fate will be.
Despite his circumstances, KSM still refuses to talk. He spews contempt at his interrogators, telling them Americans are weak, lack resilience, and are unable to do what is necessary to prevent the terrorists from succeeding in their goals. He has trained to resist interrogation. When he is asked for information about future attacks, he tells his questioners scornfully: "Soon, you will know."
It becomes clear he will not reveal the information using traditional interrogation techniques. So he undergoes a series of "enhanced interrogation techniques" approved for use only on the most high-value detainees. The techniques include waterboarding.
His resistance is described by one senior American official as "superhuman." Eventually, however, the techniques work, and KSM becomes cooperative.
He begins telling his CIA de-briefers about active al Qaeda plots to launch attacks against the United States and other Western targets. He holds classes for CIA officials, using a chalkboard to draw a picture of al Qaeda's operating structure, financing, communications, and logistics. He identifies al Qaeda travel routes and safe havens, and helps intelligence officers make sense of documents and computer records seized in terrorist raids. He identifies voices in intercepted telephone calls, and helps officials understand the meaning of coded terrorist communications. He provides information that helps our intelligence community capture other high-ranking terrorists, KSM's questioning, and that of other captured terrorists, produces more than 6,000 intelligence reports, which are shared across the intelligence community, as well as with our allies across the world.
In one of these reports, KSM describes in detail the revisions he made to his failed 1994-1995 plan known as the "Bojinka plot" to blow up a dozen airplanes carrying some 4,000 passengers over the Pacific Ocean.
Years later, an observant CIA officer notices the activities of a cell being followed by British authorities appear to match KSM's description of his plans for a Bojinka-style attack.
In an operation that involves unprecedented intelligence cooperation between our countries, British officials proceed to unravel the plot. On the night of Aug.9, 2006 they launch a series of raids in a northeast London suburb that lead to the arrest of two dozen al Qaeda terrorist suspects. They find a USB thumb-drive in the pocket of one of the men with security details for Heathrow airport, and information on seven trans-Atlantic flights that were scheduled to take off within hours of each other. They seize bomb-making equipment and hydrogen peroxide to make liquid explosives. And they find the chilling martyrdom videos the suicide bombers had prepared.
In addition to helping break up these specific terrorist cells and plots, CIA questioning provided our intelligence community with an unparalleled body of information about al Qaeda Until the program was temporarily suspended in 2006, intelligence officials say, well over half of the information our government had about al Qaeda-how it operates, how it moves money, how it communicates, how it recruits operatives, how it picks targets, how it plans and carries out attacks-came from the interrogation of terrorists in CIA custody.
Former CIA Director George Tenet and former CIA Director Mike Hayden have said: "The facts of the case are that the use of these techniques against these terrorists made us safer. It really did work."
Even Barack Obama's Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair, has acknowledged: "High-value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qaeda organization that was attacking this country. Leon Panetta, Obama's CIA Director, has said: "Important information was gathered from these detainees. It provided information that was acted upon."
Despite the facts on Jan. 22, 2009, President Obama issued Executive Order 13491, closing the CIA program and directing that, henceforth, all interrogations by U.S personnel must follow the techniques contained in the Army Field Manual.
The morning of the announcement, Mike Hayden was still in his post as CIA Director, He called White House Counsel Greg Craig and told him bluntly: "You didn't ask, but this is the CIA officially nonconcurring". The president went ahead anyway, over ruling the objections of the agency.
A few months later, on April 16, 2009, President Obama ordered the release of four Justice Department memos that described in detail the techniques used to interrogate KSM and other high-value terrorists. This time, not just Hayden (who was now retired) but five CIA directors -including Obama's own director, Leon Panetta -- objected. George Tenet called to urge against the memos' release. So did Porter Goss. So did John Deutch. Hayden says: "You had CIA directors in a continuous unbroken stream to 1995 calling saying, 'Don't do this.'"
In addition to objections from the men who led the agency for a collective 14 years, the President also heard objections from the agency's covert field operatives. A few weeks earlier, Panetta had arranged for the eight top officials of the Clandestine Service to meet with the President. It was highly unusual for these clandestine officers to visit the Oval Office, and they used the opportunity to warn the President that releasing the memos would put agency operatives at risk. The President reportedly listened respectfully-and then ignored their advice.
With these actions, Barack Obama arguably did more damage to America and the Free World's security in his first 100 days of office than any enemy of the free world has the power nor will to do. We can and will argue "why" Obama has chosen to harm our nation to such an extent. Is it because of a desire to "transform" us to become more like other weaker global nations? Does he desire to overthrow our capitalist nation? Is he just so incompetent as a leader that "he knows not what he does"? No matter how we answer the "why", no sane person can argue the damage of the "what". For whatever his reasons he has put our families, loved ones, and soldiers at great and unnecessary risk.
Think about it,
Jim
Monday, January 24, 2011
If It Quakes Like a Socialist, Don't Sit Next to Them
Butch Jackson stormed the Cafe after watching week end news shows, "Two months after the voters routed the Socialist Dems the media has launched a gigantic counter attack aided and abetted by RINOs (Republicans In Name Only). Old John McCain, after calling Obama a patriot, now says 'he has already changed'. And then, of all people, they drag Collin Powell out and he says the Republicans should not make cuts across the board, like returning to 2006 spending levels, but should itemize every program they want cut and by what amount. Any idiot knows this plays right into the Socialist's hands so that they can claim Republicans hate the elderly, the young, the poor and downtrodden, women, minorities, and of course gays. This is exactly what Powell, who supported Obama in 2008, wants to happen."
"And what are the Republicans in Congress doing? They are trying to decide which Socialist they will sit by at the State of the Union speech? Any idiot knows this is a ploy by the Dems to disguise the number of losses they had in November from the TV audience in an attempt to spread their small number across the screen. And Obama has already tipped his hand with this quote, 'I want to make America competitive and create jobs, not just now, but into the future. How, by investing in education and green energy for the jobs of tomorrow'. This is code for 'don't hold me to create jobs now or in the short term as I continue to cripple America's energy industry and the economy even more'. I will continue to send tax payer money to Algore, GE, and the Chinese who are stashing it away for Michelle and my retirement'. God help us if American voters and RINOs believe this crap.Has anyone noticed that gasoline prices have risen from a national average of $1.65 to $3.15 since big O took office. Donald Trump says we are going to over $5.00. "
Billy Roy strolled into the conversation like John Wayne in the real True Grit movie, "Well the folks are not falling for it. Did you see the road sign in Waco with a picture of Obama calling him a 'Socialist by Conduct'? This weekend letters to the editor in the Waco Tribune answered those who thought the sign was 'disrespectful' to our President. Here is what they said:
'I looked up the definition of a Socialist as one who advocates collective government ownership and administration of production and distribution of goods rather than private or corporate ownership. Listening to our President I have learned that all big business and rich people are bad and that it is fair and right for the government to take money away from these bad guys and spread it around. Of course not included in that list of bad people are folks like George Soros, book writers like he and Clinton,and selected crony-capitalism companies like Goldman Sachs, GE, and now Wal-Mart. Can you believe with all the real problems in our large cities with crime, drugs, abortions, welfare, hip-hop, illegal immigration,and parent less children that Michelle and Wal-Mart are going to save the ghetto with inexpensive healthy meals.'
'Liberals and Socialists advocate for the unlimited powers of the Federal Government in violation of our Constitution the following ways: income redistribution, rich versus poor class warfare, micro-managing the economy, and a takeover of certain industries such as health care, student loans, real estate banking, energy, and Wall Street. These are socialists themes and policies and are un-American. If liberals and progressives don't want to be called socialists they should quit advocating socialist policies.'
'We need to get rid of this guy in 2012. I have yet to see another liar like him in politics. He is nothing but a socialist at heart and wants to enslave the U.S. population.
'Why would Progressives object so profusely to us calling Obama a socialist by observing his conduct? As I recall Socialism is supposed to be an internationally accepted respectable set of political beliefs. Why do socialists have to always hide their attempts at political takeovers?'
'Regarding the billboard, I am reminded of that old saying, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck.'
'Surely there has never been a President more vilified than George Bush. There are many avowed socialists in this administration and Congress. We all know who their leader is.'
'On my way to Killeen on Sunday this road sign made my day. It proves that I am not the only one that knows Obama is a socialist'."
BM then close things down, "The RINOs say we should treat Obama like a patriot and not question his motives. They might as well tell us to just be deaf, dumb, and blind while leaving things to Washington. Ain't no way! And, sit with your own folks!"
Think about it,
Jim
"And what are the Republicans in Congress doing? They are trying to decide which Socialist they will sit by at the State of the Union speech? Any idiot knows this is a ploy by the Dems to disguise the number of losses they had in November from the TV audience in an attempt to spread their small number across the screen. And Obama has already tipped his hand with this quote, 'I want to make America competitive and create jobs, not just now, but into the future. How, by investing in education and green energy for the jobs of tomorrow'. This is code for 'don't hold me to create jobs now or in the short term as I continue to cripple America's energy industry and the economy even more'. I will continue to send tax payer money to Algore, GE, and the Chinese who are stashing it away for Michelle and my retirement'. God help us if American voters and RINOs believe this crap.Has anyone noticed that gasoline prices have risen from a national average of $1.65 to $3.15 since big O took office. Donald Trump says we are going to over $5.00. "
Billy Roy strolled into the conversation like John Wayne in the real True Grit movie, "Well the folks are not falling for it. Did you see the road sign in Waco with a picture of Obama calling him a 'Socialist by Conduct'? This weekend letters to the editor in the Waco Tribune answered those who thought the sign was 'disrespectful' to our President. Here is what they said:
'I looked up the definition of a Socialist as one who advocates collective government ownership and administration of production and distribution of goods rather than private or corporate ownership. Listening to our President I have learned that all big business and rich people are bad and that it is fair and right for the government to take money away from these bad guys and spread it around. Of course not included in that list of bad people are folks like George Soros, book writers like he and Clinton,and selected crony-capitalism companies like Goldman Sachs, GE, and now Wal-Mart. Can you believe with all the real problems in our large cities with crime, drugs, abortions, welfare, hip-hop, illegal immigration,and parent less children that Michelle and Wal-Mart are going to save the ghetto with inexpensive healthy meals.'
'Liberals and Socialists advocate for the unlimited powers of the Federal Government in violation of our Constitution the following ways: income redistribution, rich versus poor class warfare, micro-managing the economy, and a takeover of certain industries such as health care, student loans, real estate banking, energy, and Wall Street. These are socialists themes and policies and are un-American. If liberals and progressives don't want to be called socialists they should quit advocating socialist policies.'
'We need to get rid of this guy in 2012. I have yet to see another liar like him in politics. He is nothing but a socialist at heart and wants to enslave the U.S. population.
'Why would Progressives object so profusely to us calling Obama a socialist by observing his conduct? As I recall Socialism is supposed to be an internationally accepted respectable set of political beliefs. Why do socialists have to always hide their attempts at political takeovers?'
'Regarding the billboard, I am reminded of that old saying, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck.'
'Surely there has never been a President more vilified than George Bush. There are many avowed socialists in this administration and Congress. We all know who their leader is.'
'On my way to Killeen on Sunday this road sign made my day. It proves that I am not the only one that knows Obama is a socialist'."
BM then close things down, "The RINOs say we should treat Obama like a patriot and not question his motives. They might as well tell us to just be deaf, dumb, and blind while leaving things to Washington. Ain't no way! And, sit with your own folks!"
Think about it,
Jim
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Politely Vote His Ass Out of Office in 2012
Scott Riddle made his weekly visit to the Cafe, not being a regular since he is big time busy with his cows, insurance, and mostly Texas Holdem poker games, and as usual launched into an assessment of current political strategies and tactics, "Well Obama waits a week after the Arizona shooting to check out the polls and read the wind's direction before he kicks off his 'triangulation' strategy."
"What the heck is triangulation? I never understood it when Clinton was doing it? Does it have anything to do with having sex with young girls?", Butch Jackson engaged with a semi-serious set of questions.
"Don't know about the sex part, Butch, but Obama did meet with Clinton for advice after the November shellacking he took. Triangulation is where the President sits at the top of the triangle with the Conservative Republicans on one vortex and the Progressive/Liberal/Commie Dems at the other vortex. The idea is for Obama to appear moderate for two years and stay above the fray in an attempt to get re-elected in 2012. So Obama comes out with a plea for civility and a plea for us to all get along and work together trying to make both sides look bad and for him to look good. Of course, the whole strategy is based on folks being stupid enough to fall for it because if re-elected, he will gut this Country and Conservatives like a pig before a 4th of July barbecue"
"And how do you think his first triangulation worked?"
"Obama's approval ratings are up about 6 points since his speech, so it did work to some degree with Moderates. A great example is old John McCain. The Arizona senator and Obama's 2008 opponent penned an op-ed in the Washington Post, saying Obama 'comforted and inspired the country' by calling for greater civility in the nation's political discourse. I disagree with many of the president's policies, but I believe he is a patriot sincerely intent on using his time in office to advance our country's cause,' McCain wrote. 'I reject accusations that his policies and beliefs make him unworthy to lead America or opposed to its founding ideals.' Now that sounds nice but the last time I looked up the definition of patriot it described someone who vigorously supports their country and is prepared to defend it against enemies or detractors. Obama defended our country just last night by giving one of his few state dinners sucking up to the Communist President of China who is killing us in trade because they cheat by controlling their currency valuations, and they support every enemy we have (N. Korea, Iran, etc.) in the world. Obama defends us against Islamic Muslim Terrorists by calling them a small radical group of outliers and wants to give captured murderers full US Citizen rights in our courts. The man will not say the word war."
And here came Billy Roy, "Scott, you are right on. First, this is exactly why McCain isn't President. He consistently compromises with the Socialists, particularly when he isn't in an election year. More importantly though, I hear Republicans say we should question Obama's policies and not question Obama's motives. The problem with that is that he and his thugs lie like dogs. They will argue with the Republicans over whether Obamacare will reduce health care costs when the truth is they don't care what is in the legislation as long as the government can take over and run all of the insurance companies out of business. Their motive is not to reduce the costs of health care, but to take it over."
After a sizable deep breath because BM is a big man, "Look what happened when people didn't question Castro's motives, or Stalin's, or Hitler's motives. Many people in those countries tried to have civil debates and could not believe that anyone would take over the government and destroy their freedom and way of life. We damn well better question Obama's motives. He has told us everything we need to know and that is he wants his government to 'transform' American and redistribute our wealth in a manner that he will determine to be fair. Period. What more do we need to know about his motives. Limbaugh has it right. Obama's agenda must be stopped now by the Republican House and by the non-Socialist courts. We need to be civil and polite all right. We need to politely vote his ass out of office in 2012."
Scott actually closed this session, "I just hope folks realize we face a choice between two futures. One is a Socialist future where the federal government claims ever increasing shares of our income and grants itself the authority to make decisions affecting virtually every aspect of our daily lives. The other future is built upon the idea that individual freedom trumps government authority, and that in those rare cases when solving a problem requires government, the government that governs best is the one that is smallest and closest to the people. That is the future that we should fight for – reaffirming our individual liberty, strengthening private markets, shrinking the size of governments, and making decisions wherever possible at the local level rather than in Washington."
Think "civilly" about that,
Jim
"What the heck is triangulation? I never understood it when Clinton was doing it? Does it have anything to do with having sex with young girls?", Butch Jackson engaged with a semi-serious set of questions.
"Don't know about the sex part, Butch, but Obama did meet with Clinton for advice after the November shellacking he took. Triangulation is where the President sits at the top of the triangle with the Conservative Republicans on one vortex and the Progressive/Liberal/Commie Dems at the other vortex. The idea is for Obama to appear moderate for two years and stay above the fray in an attempt to get re-elected in 2012. So Obama comes out with a plea for civility and a plea for us to all get along and work together trying to make both sides look bad and for him to look good. Of course, the whole strategy is based on folks being stupid enough to fall for it because if re-elected, he will gut this Country and Conservatives like a pig before a 4th of July barbecue"
"And how do you think his first triangulation worked?"
"Obama's approval ratings are up about 6 points since his speech, so it did work to some degree with Moderates. A great example is old John McCain. The Arizona senator and Obama's 2008 opponent penned an op-ed in the Washington Post, saying Obama 'comforted and inspired the country' by calling for greater civility in the nation's political discourse. I disagree with many of the president's policies, but I believe he is a patriot sincerely intent on using his time in office to advance our country's cause,' McCain wrote. 'I reject accusations that his policies and beliefs make him unworthy to lead America or opposed to its founding ideals.' Now that sounds nice but the last time I looked up the definition of patriot it described someone who vigorously supports their country and is prepared to defend it against enemies or detractors. Obama defended our country just last night by giving one of his few state dinners sucking up to the Communist President of China who is killing us in trade because they cheat by controlling their currency valuations, and they support every enemy we have (N. Korea, Iran, etc.) in the world. Obama defends us against Islamic Muslim Terrorists by calling them a small radical group of outliers and wants to give captured murderers full US Citizen rights in our courts. The man will not say the word war."
And here came Billy Roy, "Scott, you are right on. First, this is exactly why McCain isn't President. He consistently compromises with the Socialists, particularly when he isn't in an election year. More importantly though, I hear Republicans say we should question Obama's policies and not question Obama's motives. The problem with that is that he and his thugs lie like dogs. They will argue with the Republicans over whether Obamacare will reduce health care costs when the truth is they don't care what is in the legislation as long as the government can take over and run all of the insurance companies out of business. Their motive is not to reduce the costs of health care, but to take it over."
After a sizable deep breath because BM is a big man, "Look what happened when people didn't question Castro's motives, or Stalin's, or Hitler's motives. Many people in those countries tried to have civil debates and could not believe that anyone would take over the government and destroy their freedom and way of life. We damn well better question Obama's motives. He has told us everything we need to know and that is he wants his government to 'transform' American and redistribute our wealth in a manner that he will determine to be fair. Period. What more do we need to know about his motives. Limbaugh has it right. Obama's agenda must be stopped now by the Republican House and by the non-Socialist courts. We need to be civil and polite all right. We need to politely vote his ass out of office in 2012."
Scott actually closed this session, "I just hope folks realize we face a choice between two futures. One is a Socialist future where the federal government claims ever increasing shares of our income and grants itself the authority to make decisions affecting virtually every aspect of our daily lives. The other future is built upon the idea that individual freedom trumps government authority, and that in those rare cases when solving a problem requires government, the government that governs best is the one that is smallest and closest to the people. That is the future that we should fight for – reaffirming our individual liberty, strengthening private markets, shrinking the size of governments, and making decisions wherever possible at the local level rather than in Washington."
Think "civilly" about that,
Jim
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Washington "Made Off" With Our Money and Now They Want to Manage Our Health
Semi-unofficial Chairman of the Hubbard City Cafe, Billy Roy Mitchum, loves Ronald Reagan, and it all started when he heard someone ask Reagan how the government was going to solve a particular problem. He answered, "The government doesn't solve problems, the government is the problem." In a rare show of domination, BM seized the Cafe's stage on this particular day in a show of passion. "With huge arguments just around the bend on how the government is going to solve our entitlement problems, which have bankrupted the country, we need to be careful about compromising with Socialists. They will agree to anything as long as they can get control. I saw a comparison that everyone needs to understand. Here it is:
Why did Bernie Madoff go to prison? To make it simple, he talked people into investing with him. Trouble was, he didn't invest their money. As time rolled on he simply took the money from the new investors to pay off the old investors. Finally there were too many old investors and not enough money from new investors coming in to keep the payments going. Next thing you know, Madoff is one of the most hated men in America, and he is off to jail. Not enough of the folks know that the government has been screwing tax payers, Madoff style, for years.
Yep, I repeat, Madoff screwed his investors just like the Congress has been screwing us for over 70 years with Social Security. There is no meaningful difference between the two schemes, except that one was operated by a private individual who is now in jail, and the other is operated by politicians who enjoy perks and privileges, fly in tax paid jets, and lie to the public like dogs.
Do you need a direct comparison? Well, here it is:
BERNIE MADOFF
Takes money from investors with the promise that the money will be invested and made available to them later.
SOCIAL SECURITY
Takes money from wage earners with the promise that the money will be invested in a 'Trust Fund' and made available later.
BERNIE MADOFF
Instead of investing the money Madoff spends it on nice homes in the Hampton's and yachts.
SOCIAL SECURITY
Instead of depositing money in a Trust Fund the politicians use it for general spending and vote buying for their own re-elections.
BERNIE MADOFF
When the time comes to pay the investors back Madoff simply uses some of the new funds from newer investors to pay back the older investors.
SOCIAL SECURITY
When benefits for older investors become due the politicians pay them with money taken from younger and newer wage earners to pay the geezers leaving future problems to future generations.
BERNIE MADOFF
When Madoff's scheme is discovered all hell breaks loose. New investors won't give him any more cash.
SOCIAL SECURITY
When Social Security runs out of money they simply force the taxpayers to send them more while blaming 'the other party'.
BERNIE MADOFF
Bernie Madoff is in jail.
SOCIAL SECURITY
Politicians remain in Washington arguing the government should be working in a bi-partisan way to 'solve' all of our other problems like energy, global warming, wall street, local school curriculum and menus, marriage, gun ownership, conservative talk shows, and of course enabling illegals to vote while they continue to leave our borders open for drug dealers and the entry of more illegals.
This is why a real economist, Milton Friedman, said, 'If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there'd be a shortage of sand'. And now Obama and crew have put the government in charge of health care, 1/6 of the economy, giving the government control of our health as well of our economy. Give the government ten years managing health care and they will solve the retirement problem because most folks won't live long enough to retire.
Well my Dad always said good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment. We can't let Obama do the same thing to health care (the greatest system in the world) that they have done to Social Security. Promise to pay for every one's health care with no limitations. Then , when they run out of money, they will increase taxes again on the 'rich' (no harm there, right?). When they run out of the rich's money (which won't take long), they will cut back and ration health care like any other third world socialist country. We will run out of health care just like we'd run out of sand in Friedman's Sahara."
Think about it,
Jim
Why did Bernie Madoff go to prison? To make it simple, he talked people into investing with him. Trouble was, he didn't invest their money. As time rolled on he simply took the money from the new investors to pay off the old investors. Finally there were too many old investors and not enough money from new investors coming in to keep the payments going. Next thing you know, Madoff is one of the most hated men in America, and he is off to jail. Not enough of the folks know that the government has been screwing tax payers, Madoff style, for years.
Yep, I repeat, Madoff screwed his investors just like the Congress has been screwing us for over 70 years with Social Security. There is no meaningful difference between the two schemes, except that one was operated by a private individual who is now in jail, and the other is operated by politicians who enjoy perks and privileges, fly in tax paid jets, and lie to the public like dogs.
Do you need a direct comparison? Well, here it is:
BERNIE MADOFF
Takes money from investors with the promise that the money will be invested and made available to them later.
SOCIAL SECURITY
Takes money from wage earners with the promise that the money will be invested in a 'Trust Fund' and made available later.
BERNIE MADOFF
Instead of investing the money Madoff spends it on nice homes in the Hampton's and yachts.
SOCIAL SECURITY
Instead of depositing money in a Trust Fund the politicians use it for general spending and vote buying for their own re-elections.
BERNIE MADOFF
When the time comes to pay the investors back Madoff simply uses some of the new funds from newer investors to pay back the older investors.
SOCIAL SECURITY
When benefits for older investors become due the politicians pay them with money taken from younger and newer wage earners to pay the geezers leaving future problems to future generations.
BERNIE MADOFF
When Madoff's scheme is discovered all hell breaks loose. New investors won't give him any more cash.
SOCIAL SECURITY
When Social Security runs out of money they simply force the taxpayers to send them more while blaming 'the other party'.
BERNIE MADOFF
Bernie Madoff is in jail.
SOCIAL SECURITY
Politicians remain in Washington arguing the government should be working in a bi-partisan way to 'solve' all of our other problems like energy, global warming, wall street, local school curriculum and menus, marriage, gun ownership, conservative talk shows, and of course enabling illegals to vote while they continue to leave our borders open for drug dealers and the entry of more illegals.
This is why a real economist, Milton Friedman, said, 'If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there'd be a shortage of sand'. And now Obama and crew have put the government in charge of health care, 1/6 of the economy, giving the government control of our health as well of our economy. Give the government ten years managing health care and they will solve the retirement problem because most folks won't live long enough to retire.
Well my Dad always said good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment. We can't let Obama do the same thing to health care (the greatest system in the world) that they have done to Social Security. Promise to pay for every one's health care with no limitations. Then , when they run out of money, they will increase taxes again on the 'rich' (no harm there, right?). When they run out of the rich's money (which won't take long), they will cut back and ration health care like any other third world socialist country. We will run out of health care just like we'd run out of sand in Friedman's Sahara."
Think about it,
Jim
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