Tag Archives: Incompetence

New Book Explains A Lot

A brief description of Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon:

In Reckless Endangerment, Gretchen Morgenson, the star business columnist of The New York Times, exposes how the watchdogs who were supposed to protect the country from financial harm were actually complicit in the actions that finally blew up the American economy.

Drawing on previously untapped sources and building on original research from coauthor Joshua Rosner—who himself raised early warnings with the public and investors, and kept detailed records—Morgenson connects the dots that led to this fiasco.

Get it at Amazon.

Time for Self Education

Ballooning deficit spending and projected insurmountable national debt was known waaaaay back in 1986.

Don’t believe it? Watch the videos in this article. One was refused by all the national TV news networks at the time.

UPDATE: Gas Prices MythBusted

Just before Memorial Day Weekend.

Staying close to home? Here’s why.

UPDATE: As if anyone needed further explanation.

Ironically Iconic

Sorry. Can’t stop laughing. This is priceless.

This couldn’t have worked out any better had they planned it.

Imagine. An abortion clinic wanting reader assistance to upload their photos to bolster their website.

Heh heh. Gotta love it. Pro-life folks absolutely filled it to overflowing.,

Dain Bramage Demonstrated

By Georgetown students.

Having Joe Schoffstall walk around with a petition to ban conservative “hate sites” like Hot Air, Instapundit, Drudge Report – to name but a few.

Students should scream for their money back for being so poorly educated indoctrinated.

Excesses

At home and at the G8.

Let’s see now, here at home federal revenues will top $2 trillion this year, but federal spending will approach double that amount.

Meanwhile, Sarkozy calls for Internet regulation as it is a “moral imperative” needed to “correct the excesses and abuses that arise from the total absence of rules.”

Well now, we need this communication so we can educate each other about the elite who don’t even bother with EXISTING RULES to do the jobs they are supposed to do. Instead they want to misdirect and hide what they do from all of us.

Too late, folks, you aren’t invisible any more.

UPDATE: Voter ID

Guess what? It’s up to the state. Hear that, Maryland?

Look who else has it, and is getting it.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker signed into law Wednesday a requirement that voters in Wisconsin show photo identification at the polls, marking the end of a nearly decade-long push by Republicans to enact it.

Be sure to read the comments also.

UPDATE: Apparently, the Governor of Minnesota doesn’t “get it”. Which only means the he has now REALLY ticked off the voting public.

Over Two Years Ago

The answer to a Jeopardy-like game show – When was the last time the U.S.Senate passed a budget?

The so-called deliberative body of Congress, (controlled by the Democrats), have cowardly made another political choice by again ignoring the will of the people—to put the Federal Government’s fiscal house in order—and to stop the deficit spending. Instead, the majority leader and Senate Budget Committee Chairman, Kent Conrad have no intention of performing their statutory responsibility:

So Senator Harry Reid says, “There’s no need to have a Democratic budget, in my opinion.”

Truly an irresponsible lunatic. For willful failure to do his job – he, and those that back him up, should be terminated immediately. And lose any right to pensions funds.

UPDATE: Long Past Time To End SWAT Night-time Raids

And no-knocks.

See if you believe this story out of Tucson. And note that after the ambulance shows up, the police keep them from working on the veteran (that they shot 60 times) for an hour.

This is insane. There is no justification for this.

Be sure to let the video keep playing, there’s more similar stories.

UPDATE: Here’s more of a followup. I believe I agree with this assessment:

Only, Guereña never fired his weapon. Awoken by his wife with screams that men with guns were invading his home and threatening his family, Jose Guereña armed himself with a AR-15 rifle and crouched in the hallway. The SWAT team unloaded upon Guereña on sight. He apparently recognized the home invaders as police. He took 60 rounds, but never — as the Pima County Sheriff’s Department was forced to admit — took off his weapon’s safety as he was being killed

Gun Control Under the Radar

According to the Greeley Gazette, that’s what the POTUS said to Sarah Brady.

Executive orders have to be stricken and disallowed in all future Presidential terms. No good is coming from them.