Losing Ground

Apparently, our POTUS (you know who he is) is now blaming earthquakes and Europe for the disastrous economy here in our country.

He may have a golden tongue, but certainly has the opposite of the Midas touch.

In case you think that soundbite is a poor selection to hang your hat on, read this article from the Washington Examiner.

“The signal was clear. Obama had already ignored his own deficit reduction commission in preparing his annual budget, which was later rejected 97-0 in the Senate. Now he was signaling that the time for governing was over and that he was entering campaign mode 19 months before the November 2012 election. People took notice, especially those people who decide whether to hire or not. Goldman Sachs’s Current Activity Indicator stood at 4.2 percent in March. In April — in the middle of which came Obama’s GW speech — it was 1.6 percent. For May it is 1 percent. . . . The message to job creators was clear. Hire at your own risk. Higher taxes, more burdensome regulation and crony capitalism may be here for some time to come.”

Homeowner Forecloses On Bank

Heh. That is accurate.

Ever hear of a bank trying to foreclose on a homeowner that didn’t have a mortgage with them?

Well now you have. Taken to court, losing, refusing to pay costs to homeowner. Sweet Justice indeed.

Financial Future For Who?

Us? China?

There is way too much in the way of articles, essays, opinions to opine about here.

Instead, here are a few links to whet your whistle, or increase your angst:

China has dropped 97 percent of its holdings in U.S. Treasury bills, decreasing its ownership of the short-term U.S. government securities from a peak of $210.4 billion in May 2009 to $5.69 billion in March 2011, the most recent month reported by the U.S. Treasury. . . .”

29 Months into the most Left Wing U.S. Presidency and we are heading into an economic disaster.

More bad economic news.

I have one question:

How can one man, such as our President, solve this crisis when it is Congress that has helped him more than triple our indebtedness (and waants to spend even more) and our primary lender is separating itself from our poor financial dealings?

Revere Warned Threatened Told Truth

As did Sarah Palin. Told the truth.

So. As the Professor says, so all these people will apologise to her, right?

Read what the Professor has and you will find out a little more about Paul Revere’s history.

Nothing is ever simple, or complete. But some folks know.

Predator Did It

Top al Qaeda leader Ilyas Kashmiri killed in US Predator strike

The US has killed Ilyas Kashmiri, one of al Qaeda’s most dangerous military commanders and strategists, in a Predator airstrike yesterday in South Waziristan.

Kashmiri is said to be one of nine members of the al Qaeda-linked Harkat-ul Jihad Islami, or HUJI, who were killed in yesterday’s Predator airstrike that leveled a compound in the Wana area of South Waziristan. A Harkat-ul Jihad Islami spokesman told Dawn that Kashmiri was killed in the attack.

Read the whole thing.

FB No Like TP

Censorship, sounds like. Doesn’t matter how incremental it is accomplished.

If FaceBook chooses to implement policies that eventually restrict politics from their (his) site, then when does it stop being a social platform?

And isn’t the Tea Party exactly a social body? Yes? Bueller?

Retirement Plans

At risk? At colleges and private plans?

Not good. Not. Good. At. All.

UPDATEx8: Epic Failure

I was hoping I would outlast the Weiner-gate monotony. Guess not.

After reading this Hot Air article and watching the last CNN video (over 9 minutes of distraction), I can’t hold back anymore.

If the elected representative was honest about having his internet Twitter account hacked by someone else, there would be no reason to NOT have proper authorities investigate, find and prosecute the criminal. At the end of that last video, it was said there is still no notification, from him or his office, to authorities to investigate the Government’s internet security breach of a national elected official of Congress.

This elected representative, as he points out this topic is now into its third day, cannot and will not answer simple questions that would settle this.

If he were my representative, I could not in good faith vote for him.

I cannot trust him. How many others trust him to do right?

It’s up to his constituents, looks like.

CNN? You are wasting your time with him.

UPDATE: It appears someone has experimental evidence that gets Weiner off the hook. I’ll let you figure that out as you wish. But I still have some misgivings considering everything so far. We shall see.

UPDATEx2: Yeah, Publius voices the same concerns I have.

UPDATEx3: This just gets better and better. Apparently, Jim Hoft at GatewayPundit also says more of the same AND that Cannonfire is wrong.

UPDATEx4: Uh oh. He’s in real trouble now.

UPDATEx5: Apparently, Weiner’s office called the Capitol Police on a reporter who was never asked to leave the office yet was not in the office when the reporter was approached by the police.

Glad he’s not my Congressman.

UPDATEx6: With a head of DNC like this, I would think Weiner would tell her he doesn’t need her help. Ditz.

UPDATEx7: Oh, how about a little trip by way of the time machine to see what little Debbie had to say back in 2006. And there’s a bit more history on Weiner.

UPDATEx8: Today (6/6/11) Weiner held a press conference between 4 and 5pm declaring his apology and admitting lying to everyone. Yet, unwilling to resign his office. An office his constituents put him in because of their unwavering trust in him.

How’s his trustworthiness now? How about his morality, his ethics? Still think he deserves to keep that job?

I do not.

318-97

U.S. Debt Cieling stays where it is.

For now.

Very Bad Policy

And I would say idiotic in addition to being acknowledged, finally, to being THE reason our government’s agencies do a poor job of managing our country’s needs.

Pitiful, just pitiful. Get rid of this agency or fix it to be economical for itself AND the rest of us. The debt clock is ticking waaaaay too fast.

EPA Says It’s ‘Prohibited’ From Considering Costs When Issuing Air-Quality Regulations