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THE SHOE GAME - STARRING PRESIDENT BUSH

Posted by Mike Silverman on Wednesday, December 17, 2008 11:21:14 AM
President Bush has faced many hard trials and tests during his time in office.  Some doofus Iraqi throwing his shoes at the President hardly compares to things he has faced in the past. A real entrepreneur could take that whole shoe-throwing incident and make a profit. I can envision a computer game, or a video game called Shoe-Down at the Baghdad Corral. The player of the game would take the role of the President, and during a press conference in Baghdad a disgruntled Iraqi reporter starts tossing shoes at you.  You have to duck and dodge the shoes, everything from sandals and loafers to spike heels, but you have the ability to use the presidential seal as a shield to block the shoes and a number of acrobatic moves such as back flips and somersaults to avoid being hit.  The goal is for you to keep ducking , dodging and deflecting the shoes until the slow moving secret service agents eventually reach and tackle the Iraqi reporter. You can take a certain amount of hits from the flying shoes, but get hit too many times and your lose the game and have to retire from the Presidency to become a shoe salesman for Al-Jazeera brand footware. Win the game, and you will receive the glorious title of SOLE SURVIVOR!
 
- Mike Silverman
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THE SICKNESS OF GOVERNOR BLAGOJEVICH

Posted by Mike Silverman on Tuesday, December 16, 2008 11:57:25 AM
I have been studying the case of Governor Blagojevich, and after some careful consideration I believe I have discovered a new psychological disorder. I call it Blagojevism; a form of political corruption that causes the victim to believe that by denying what everyone knows to be true you can make a scandal disappear. First known case on a national level, President William Jefferson Clinton denying sexual relations with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. The strength of the Blagojevistic approach is in it's use of political capital. Typically, Democrats with strong political capital in media circles are able to employ Blagojevism in a successful deflection of criticism. This heavily relies upon a secondary form of Blagojevism called Hyper-Ratherosis. This is a deeply rooted psychological ailment which typically appears after obtaining credentials with agenda driven news media networks such as CBS CNN, MSNBC and NBC. Psychiatrists have been studying this abnormality for years. The desire to achieve a political agenda at any cost appears to form a cranial depression in the frontal lobe that manifests itself in the form of ridiculous analysis and skewed world views. Some psychiatrists believe this has it's roots in a strange condition called Colin-Powellitis; A syndrome marked by the need to be respected for having no core principles while in fact having a core belief in liberal dogma. The mental dilemma this poses to the victim eventually causes the victim to be engulfed in a delusional state of grandeur believing that anything that the individual says is beyond reproach. People with Colin-Powellitis often display fits of anger when criticized and can only be calmed through an interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria.
 
- Mike Silverman
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LIKE...,GAG ME WITH A GUITAR, DUDE.

Posted by Mike Silverman on Wednesday, December 10, 2008 9:56:05 AM
  Some rock bands are now suddenly outraged to learn that music, in particular thiers, blasted at high volumes at terror detainees imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base has been used as a coercion method to get them to talk. Thier stated outrage is a shabby publicity stunt by the rockers who hope they can capitalize on the news media coverage that thier stupid protest over this will generate. This is silly, and makes these "musicians" look bad.  And, to try to get us to sympathize with these whining idiotic band members we are treated to tales of woe in news stories about how brutal and cruel it was to be exposed to the high pitched music blasts. Take the sad story of Ahmed, for example. He said the agony was compounded when music was introduced, because it was used on him and his fellow detainees .."before you could actually concentrate on something else, try to make yourself focus on some other things in your life that you did before and take that pain away, It makes you feel like you are going mad,". Well boo hoo Ahmed. life bites doesn't it? Maybe this will teach you to stop hanging out with your terrorist buddies? Boy these terrorists sure learned fast from all the radical liberal vomit infesting our country how to play the media for suckers. But this is what we get with Obamaism. Rivers of sympathy for murderous scum. As far as I care they can take all the human filth prisoners at Gitmo and toss them into a giant meat grinder and let the dogs finish them off, though that much filthy meat might make the dogs sick. 
 
- Mike Silverman
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A NATION OF BEGGARS

Posted by Mike Silverman on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 6:00:09 PM

Henry Ford, inventor of the automobile assembly line, founder of what is today the Ford Motor Company, said the following; "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.". In other words, results are what makes or breaks success. Henry ford is no longer with us, and it seems today that the ideals he brought to the manufacture and sales of cars has been lost with him. You can't succeed on a notion or an idea. You can't succeed by saying you will build hybrids and green cars, you have to have to build them and then be able to sell them. And if there's one thing manufacturers learn very quickly, it's that you can't sell what people don't want, no matter how you market it. People like lots of room in thier cars, they like to be able to carry more than three people comfortably in a big strong car that will survive a crash and can handle lots of luggage or groceries or camping equipment. They want big, powerful cars and trucks for thier businesses. And they like to get them at a reasonable price. For a brief time, when gas was over four dollars a gallon, sales of hybrid vehicles were on the rise and orders for them were big. But now sales of cars such as the Toyota Prius are way down from what they were six months ago. So, what has replaced those sales of the hybrid? Big flashy gas guzzling cars. It's what a lot of people want. There's still a niche market for the more expensive Hybrids but sales show they simply are not popular and not desirable unless gas prices force people to make that decision. With gas prices dropping every day, the market forces have returned to pre gasoline price shock consumption. If the federal government forces GM, Ford and Chrysler to change thier focus to the diminutive hybrids and green cars, sales will hit the bottom of the barrel for these companies faster than Barak Obama can say "change you can count on". If you worked in a private business ( and of course a lot of people do..), would you be embarrassed to take a gift of tax money to support your paycheck? I would. I would be embarrassed and ashamed and would never get up and demand that my neighbors pay my salary because I'm suffering, or because they "need" my services. When I hear the GM executives begging, it's embarrassing.  It's an embarrassment on a national scale that we have leaders of industry groveling before a bunch of self serving liberal socialists in congress. These men have no sense of honor, no sense of pride in themselves or the ingenuity that makes the country great. It is a comic tragedy when one of the most innovative industries our country has ever given rise to can not put their own brain trust into action to save themselves from themselves. These CEO's do not deserve to have the jobs they hold, and may God forbid that the youth of our nation look at these leaders of disaster as an example of anything worth becoming.  And when a union leader... or worse.. a typical UAW worker at GM or Ford or Chrysler whines to the media about how they're hurting financially and want the bailout to happen, it sickens me that they would want to play on the sympathies of others , play the violin and expect us all to cry for them, instead of getting themselves out and pulling double duty, extra jobs, whatever it takes to make the bill payments and , call me hard hearted if you want but no tax dollars should go to prop up the benefits and pensions that GM is on the verge of defaulting on. I don't paint them all with a sweeping brushstroke, but it's a sad commentary when an able-bodied person will become a beggar if they think they'll get tax money out of it. There are, of course, people who are genuinely disabled and can not fend for themselves, and we should always be ready to care for those people. But we are not a nation of sob stories, we're a nation of successes built on individual courage and the determination to make it happen. To see our government foster those who would be bums and beggars with promises of spare change in the form of bailouts is just disheartening. I support neither the auto executives nor the Autoworker's Union if that "support" is by way of tax money forcibly taken from me ... and given to them. But that's Obamaism in action. Taking money from those who produce and succeed and giving it to those who don't. If I want to support the auto industry then I will "support" them by purchasing the products they make if they make something I want. It's the government's constitutional duty to provide for the common defense, but it's not the government's duty to provide for failing domestic auto companies and don't bother trying to tell me that Ford, GM and Chrysler are a key part of our national security, you won't be able to sell that bridge here.
 
- Mike Silverman

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ATHEISTS DISPLAYING THIER HATE

Posted by Mike Silverman on Wednesday, December 03, 2008 7:48:32 PM

The Freedom From Religion Foundation posted a bitter hate-filled placard in the state of Washington's capitol  hallways alongside normal traditional Christmas decorations including the Nativity and a Christmas tree that was given the PC treatment and is called a "Holiday tree". On the placard it reads ""There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds." This is a sick message from dour, sour, bitter minds. The Nativity and the Christmas tree are harmless peaceful symbols that do not denegrate those who don't believe.  But the nasty message on the Atheists "holiday" placard is plainly hateful and derogatory. It certainly does not inspire anyone to want to listen to what they have to say about anything, and lends a dim view to the already dubious title of those who call themselves Atheists.  A better message, a more reasonable message, might have been something like "For those who do not have a religious faith we would like to remind you that you need no holiday to offer goodwill, kindness and charity to your fellow man". And leave it at that. But no, they had to get in thier foul little digs and slaps at religion and thus at those who hold faith.  Anyway, I would like to close this post with a poetic tribute to a special lady, Patricia ( Trish) ,  who lives in a distant place, far from my embrace, but who is always on my mind;
 
Twilight glows,
It comes and goes,
With shifting winds
That bend the rose,
But the chaos
Driving days apart
Can't cool the chaos in my heart.
Through my body
Thunder rips
At the softest whisper
Of your lips,
My fingers tremble,
They starve obsessed
To enclose you tight
To my pounding chest,
Wind can scream
Like a child's birth
And bend the trees
Till they touch the earth
But it can not see
Within its cries
The heaven-born beauty
Of your eyes
That glow with a thousand
sunstruck skies,
And all that is bright
can fade away
Till the world is dead
And the stars are gray
And while others mourn
The loss of day
I would warm my heart
In the soul stirring
Light of your eyes.
 
- Mike Silverman

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WHAT DO WE HAVE TO BE THANKFUL FOR?

Posted by Mike Silverman on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 9:07:59 AM
 There are many reasons to give thanks every day. When I think of all who have sacrificed thier own lives in fighting for our freedom, life itself is something to be thankful for. When I remember to consider the things I'm thankful for many things come to mind. My family members, especially my mother and my brothers, my niece and the grandparents I was fortunate enough to have known before they passed away. But I wanted to remember in a marked way, an event that many people may have forgotten about in recent years. It happened on an airline flight, on September 11th, 2001. It was United Airlines flight 93, hijacked by terrorists who were bent on flying it to our nation's capital to make a missile out of it. A man named Todd Beamer, 33 years old, an account manager at the Oracle Corporation, a man who might not otherwise have stood out from the crowd attempted to make an in flight call during the hijacking to warn others and let someone know what was happening. He managed to provide some information to a telephone operator about conditions on the plane, and then mentioned that he and some other passengers had formed a plan to strike back at the terrorists and try to regain control of the plane. His last known words were.. "Are you guys ready? Let's roll." The plane subsequently was brought down in a field over Pennsylvania killing all the passengers and the terrorists averting the terrorist's goal of striking a target in DC. It's believed that along with Todd Beamer, Mark Bingham, Tom Burnett and Jeremy Glick formed the team of passengers who made the assault on the cockpit. We should always be thankful for citizen heroes who step up to do what needs to be done in times of crisis regardless of the consequences to themselves. So I will close this commentary with a simple phrase of tribute to all of the uncommon, everyday heroes of our country, without whom we would not be the strongest and greatest nation on earth..., "Are you guys ready? Let's roll."
 
- Mike Silverman
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IT'S TIME FOR CONSERVATIVES TO BREAK THE GLASS CEILING

Posted by Mike Silverman on Thursday, November 20, 2008 9:24:28 AM
The most obvious lesson people should be learning right away from all the bailout failures and frustrations, is that the people who control government revenues are the most politically powerful people on earth and will tolerate no one telling them they can't do what they want to do, and that includes the Constitution, and the citizens of the country.  It's Obama fever now for the liberals in congress. The Democrats are giddy right now with visions of massive spending like never before. Can you see the incrementalism occurring here? It's staggering, it's literally staggering. When they talk about granting the domestic auto manufacturers tens of billions of dollars to restructure... and in doing so ... they say they will create new bureaucracies such as an automobile czar, and oversight committees to rule GM, Ford, and Chrysler... it's pure incrementalism. And it's only the start. This is how the socialist agenda will take control of the biggest segments of our economy and make them government run entitites. This is massive. And it's frightening because they know it will work if they can sneak this sort of phased socialist takeover in under the radar. Everybody should be very worried about this. People want to feel good about the country. The liberalized media, political leader extremists like Al Gore, propped-up race baiters like jackson and Sharpton, all the radical groups who claim the US is a land of intolerance,  Obama himself saying that the US needs to reform its image..., have been working hard for years to convince people we are the dregs of the world, we are selfish greedy, resource wasting, polluting, race intolerant, war mongers. Where has the visible counter argument been except on the internet, occassionally on Fox News, a few periodicals for example the National Review and the Weekly Standard and a few nationally syndicated radio shows like Sean Hannity's, Laura Ingrham's and Rush Limbaugh's, ... , when you have the public being pounded with a sledgehammer of liberal talking points for years, and the opposition being falsely discredited with lies that do not get investigated or revealed as lies but perpetuated by the news media ( the alleged voice of "the people" ). The message that we need to get into the public arena is being stifled at the edges by an overwhelming broadside from the massive fleet of liberal agendas.  And when we have gutless , self-absorbed politicians on our side who are afraid of confidently defining right and wrong, who are reduced to liberalized media wonks looking to massage thier message to be sure they dont offend any particular group of voters.. of course we were doomed to lose this election, and probably many more, unless we stand on uncompromising principles. How can you realistically vote for a wobbly plate of Jell-o? Obama is a stuffed shirt full of phoney promises, but formed an issue on which he would not move, namely his phoney tax cut for 95% of citizens and raising the rate on the evil rich people AND here's where I think the pivotal point was..., he represented an iconic figure who ... with a LACK of anything more powerful being articulated and offered from the Republicans.., represented the most significant positive thing to vote for offered in either campaign, a breaking of the minority glass ceiling in the Presidency. That is a feel-good issue that McCain did not find a way to trump. He SHOULD have found a way to trump it... he COULD have found a way to trump it with a vital core Conservative message delivered with confidence and unabashed reverence for ALL the traditions that make the country great.. but he was awash in his maverick personna and his fear of upsetting some blocks of voters. Fear..., fear of the media has crippled the Republican party. You know, if a Republican Conservative would simply say... "screw the media..." and be staunch, it wouldn't matter how the media spins it. A genuine Conservative message is what it is at face value, there is no massaging or nuancing in Conservatism. Sarah Palin said at the Convetion that she wasn't going to DC to please the media. If only we could give that steel spine of resolve to the party, wonders could occur. The media talks about glass ceilings being broken, well..., there's been a glass ceiling that's been in existence now for years, built by the intolerant left with the willing aid of national media in order to keep traditional values down... it's time for Conservatives to break through that glass ceiling.
 
- Mike Silverman
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DUMP CLINTON - AND LET GENERAL MOTORS FALL ON ITS OWN

Posted by Mike Silverman on Monday, November 17, 2008 12:04:44 PM
On September 24th President Bush publicly stated "We are in the midst of a serious financial crisis. Our entire economy is in danger.The market is not functioning properly." As a result of high pressure tactics and big government intervention, we got the reviled "bailout" bill. And it is still reviled today. It did nothing to prevent job loss, except among the executives of certain specific companies, it did nothing to "stabilize the markets" as indicated by the still gyrating swings of the DOW. You know, we might have had a teachable moment here for congress, but they didn't get the message.  The government can't take control of the economy, and win. That should have been the message congress got out of it. Taking over the economy.., failed when they tried it in the Soviet Union and eventually became a factor in it's downfall, it's failing in China which is why they are moving toward open markets, it eventually fails everywhere it's tried. Why can't congress make it work?  Because.., the government does not control the US economy.  Therefore the government can not correct downswings in the market. The government has some tools at it's disposal that can influence economic conditions, such as lowering taxes.. and in combination with the Federal Reserve cutting interest rates can be a major spark in growth, but the government does not... CAN NOT.... determine the success of our country's businesses. It NEVER has. Since our country's founding, the free market enterprise system has been the determination of business success.   Now Obama is saying the same thing Bush said back in September, only this time it's about the auto industry and middle America. There's an old saying, Fool Me Once, Shame on YOU.... Fool Me Twice, Shame on Me.  If the congress is fooled again into voting for another vile bailout bill, they will have proven thier national foolishness, proven to be an international embarrassment and a waste of taxpayer money for thier salaries, and every one of them who votes for it doesn't deserve to be re-elected. Its tragic that so many people are losing thier jobs, but sometimes it's the only way trim the waste in companies and allow them to survive. Because you lose one job, doesn't mean you can't turn around and start looking for another.  I've had to do it myself several times when companies I've worked for went under financially.  I went to the nearest temp work agency and took the first job I was qualified for.  I held on and bided time until I could get back into a corporate position similar to what I had before. It is simply not American to whine and moan and beg the Government for a hand out when you lose a job. You get out there and do the best you can, like so many people are trying to do right now. 
 
As for Hillary Clinton for Secretary Of State..., Obama could do a LOT better. Hillary is basically worthless on her own . She used her husband to get herself into a viable political position, clinging to his name to get elected in NY, and all through her campaign for the nomination hoping that he could sell her to the public, a man who is a proven philandering dog in so many ways, including soiling the oval office , still accused by Anita Broderick of rape, an absolute slime of a man who was impeached by the House Of  Representatives for lying under oath,  and she stays with him out of weakness, fearful that she will lose connections if she dumps him. She's shrill, doesn't understand the issues that most citizens care about, look at her ignorant response to the issue over driver's licenses for illegals. I think she's a terrible politician who brings nothing to the table except her husband's name, she should go back to doing the only thing she's any good at, being a lawyer.
 

- Mike Silverman

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THE AROMA OF EXCREMENT

Posted by Mike Silverman on Sunday, November 16, 2008 2:35:31 PM
The excrement is being spread thick by the Obama media. The latest meat being added to the bull sandwich is that Obama is a great Lincoln-esqe leader because he is reaching out to rivals to be on his Presidential cabinet. The Associated Press has a perfumed cake of fluff reporting on this that's so syrupy it would make even a sugar junkie vomit. The AP..., interviewing Doris Goodwin ,(  who wrote a book about Lincoln and his cabinet ), quoted her saying this; "I think it reflects a great inner strength on Obama's part that he is seriously considering creating a team of rivals as Lincoln did,".  That is a jam packed load of grade A baloney. Who is this great rival that Obama is reaching out to for a cabinet position?  Hillary Clinton. A senator who agrees with every political position he holds. Big deal. She offers no diversity of opinion, and this works only to his benefit anyway if he does it. And the article points to him making Joe Biden, a one time primary election rival, his running mate. WOW.  What a gutsy move! Bull. It was in fact move made from weakness because he needed someone to shore-up his lack of foriegn policy knowledge, and it was a media blooper-fest as he had to suffer the embarrassment of Biden's unrivaled stupidity on the stump.  If Obama wants diversity let him ask Newt Gingrich to be his Secretary of State, and Mitt Romney to be Secretary Of the Treasury, then i'll consider that he's actually seeking a diverse cabinet.
 
- Mike Silverman
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THE NEW AMERICAN CIVIL WAR HAS BEGUN

Posted by Mike Silverman on Thursday, November 13, 2008 12:12:10 PM
What's going on here is despicable. People whose livelihood is in jeopardy because of badly managed companies are being given false hope that thier jobs can be saved by government redistribution of wealth in the form of multi-billion dollar giveaways to prop up  those failing companies. And this sets up not only a class warfare situation but a war among the common citizens of the country who have every right to expect that thier tax money will not be blown away propping up failing industries, and those who work at the blue collar jobs in those very industries who feel that this multi-billion dollar boondoggle is their only hope. This irresponsible behavior by congress is causing an economic CIVIL WAR. Thank you United States Congress for pitting citizens against each other over the fate of the money you force from our wallets and pocketbooks..., you political wretches!  This is what we can expect from the next four years of an Obama administration as he and Pelosi and Reid sit back like emperors who will determine the fate of each struggling business in the country.., and if they think it will benefit them politically will push to bailout that particular business..., draining tax funds.., which will invite tax increases...and... sadly all of this having been kicked off by President Bush and Hank Paulson with the declaration that a hurting economy must be bailed out by the government.  This is a mess, and an opportunity for Republicans to take a hard line stance against all of it. Will they?  Only time will tell.

- Mike Silverman

 

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REPUBLICANS CAN WIN BACK POWER - STARTING NOW!

Posted by Mike Silverman on Thursday, November 13, 2008 10:07:52 AM
 The political party that STOPS the federal government's dangerous slide into the centuries of debilitating debt that this horribly dangerous approach to solving economic problems with various industries is taking, will rise to Power in the next election cycle. The congress has grown into a sickening entity of socialism, resolving to give away hundreds of billions of dollars of "our" money to companies who they randomly decide are worthy of getting our redistributed wealth, and now.. is taking ownership of stock in banks.  Paulson should be fired, forced to resign immediately for abusing the power of the treasury and using billions of taxpayer funds to buy stock in banks, basically committing fraud by using the bailout money for something other than for what it was intended. . Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi should be the target of a special prosecutor for thier role in stopping reforms that might have prevented the mortgage crisis. The Republicans need to fold thier arms and say NO MORE.  Every Republican Senator, every Republican Representative needs to stand shoulder-to-shoulder and vote no on every spending proposal, every spending bill that is a bailout of any industry, any company. Let the Democrats fall flat on thier faces under the anger of the public as they prepare to give away ever more billions of dollars to any struggling company that can call itself a bank, including GM and now American Express. let's see if the Democrats like Pelosi who are salivating like kids in a candy store at all the money they can now play with because an Obama presidency will rubber stamp thier social agendas have the guts to take the heat all by themselves for subsidizing all these businesses with taxpayer funds.  To every bailout , every giveaway proposal raised by Democrats Republicans should counter with a plan to cut taxes and refuse any plan from the Democrats that calls for using tax money to shore-up weak businesses.

- Mike Silverman

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OBAMA'S THE GREATEST - LINDSAY LOHAN'S A RACIST

Posted by Mike Silverman on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 7:38:07 PM
 He hasn't even taken the oath of office yet, and Obama is already the greatest president the country has ever had. At least you would think so from all the adoring love stories the press has been printing and vocalizing over the past week since he won the election. In fact , I've found none.. zip , zero, that have anything at all negative to report about Obama. Here's what I've read, Obama will be the greatest bi-partisan President ever, as shown by his desire to bring on board more than just one Republican to his cabinet, as long as they agree with his world view. And much is being made of his sending Jim Leach ( former Republican rep ) along with Madeline Albright to represent him at the Global economic summit. Leach supported and endorsed Obama's candidacy. So much for Leach being a Republican. Fox is headlining a puff piece on how the Obama's will decorate the White House. Yawn. Humorously, a report has surfaced that the US Secret Service has set up a code name of "Renegade" for Barack Obama. Yes, that's fitting. Though no word on what inspired that code name. MSNBC suggests that Obama's decision to hold "tough" unconditional talks with Iran could help ease tensions between the US and Iran. ( how do you hold a "tough" talk when you base the talk on no conditions?) And then... there's this. According to the New Republic, DC economists and Democrat party members are urging Obama to "scale back" his plans for any sort of tax cut, in response to the "Economic emergency". This, I assume, is the same economic emergency that existed a few weeks ago while Obama was pledging ( ahem ) to cut taxes for 95% of working Americans. Suddenly, the emergency is such that he may need to hold back on that for a while. SO we are told. Now, I'd like a show of hands from the Movement Conservatives... how many people knew this was coming? Good. You can all put your hands down now. Of course, Obama isn't quite in office yet. So we're safe for at least another two months, until Obama's first batch of official executive orders hits the street. Here's a fun sidebar.., poor Lindsay Lohan ( an obama supporter, of course) referred to Obama as our first "colored president" , for which she was chided as having used racist language. I don't suspect Lindsay is a racist, and I'm sure it was just an innocent remark. But she just learned that speech is not free if you have liberal leaders. I guess this means the NAACP ( National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) is a racist organization.

- Mike Silverman

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HERE COMES THE TAX TYPHOON - OBAMA'S LIES ARE COMING HOME TO ROOST

Posted by Mike Silverman on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 11:45:18 AM
  First, McCain's answer on Leno's show to criticism of Sarah Palin shows that he is bitter about the loss and it suggests that he is fine with letting Sarah take the hit for his own bad campaign. It calls into question what kind of leader he would be, who turns his back on his own campaign ally. Secondly, regarding the Democrat proposed bailout of the auto industry and the cash Christmas present to the country. It is sad to hear those hard working guys who put in time at GM ( et al) basically begging the case to bailout thier livelihood. I can understand how it must feel to have that pressure on you as an employee on the brink. And while I sympathize with any hard working guys who lose thier job through no fault of thier own, "WE" the American public, are not responsible for the downfall of the US auto industrial complex. Therefore "WE" should not be bailing them out. The auto manufacturers need to face the music and deal with the anger of thier own employees, not try to PASS that anger to the PUBLIC because "WE" don't want to spend public money to bailout another industry. Those angry workers at GM have a right to be angry, but NOT at YOU and ME... they need to direct thier anger at the company that so badly mismanaged thier business that they are now on the brink of disaster "and".... and.... they need to also look to the congress and president who continually ratchet up the demand for higher and higher fuel efficiencies in Domestic auto manufacturers who CAN NOT be expected to meet those demands reasonably and produce market competitive vehicles. The whole CAFE standards practice is a fiasco that in its own way contributes to the problem the auto manufacturers face now. Also, maybe some of these hard working GM union guys should maybe check out working for Toyota. It means giving up the union, but I hear Toyota does very well by thier employees regardless. And lets agree..., we got a disaster with the election of Obama.  The out-of-control spending proposals in the form of bailouts and stimulus packages that are currently flying from the flapping gums of Nancy Pelosi are an indication of the tidal wave of debt we are facing for future generations with an Obama administration. The Democrats have taken out thier super powered deluxe tax sucking vaccume and have it aimed at our wallets and pocket books, and we've got no realistic way to stop them now. Zip, zero, nada.  Not till the next election cycle. Obama has been a tax hungry radical liberal his entire known career, now he's President and has gotten a congress to match his ambitions, and we are about to face the music for having elected him and a liberal democrat congress to back him up.  The only question is, how long will it be until the people who fell for his phony baloney tax cut for 95% of Americans rhetoric will realize they've been conned.  If Pelosi gets her way, it won't be long.  50 billion to bail out GM ( which Obama already said he is in favor of) , a 500 billion infrastructure stimulus package that includes  a one time cash gift to a segment of the population to spend for Christmas , ( allegedly a proposed $2000 dollars for each family making under 140K per year ). Lump that in with the 850 billion mortgage bailout earlier, and we're talking about over 1.5  trillion dollars in spending giveaway's and Obama hasn't even taken the oath of office yet. There will be a lot more to come as well.  Let's see what the congressional Republicans do in the face of this disaster. If they want to redeem themselves, then it's time for them to stop any and all bi-partisan agreements on any and all Democrat plans for spending and bailouts.  Let the Democrats fall flat on thier faces all by themselves with this tax and spend typhoon they're building as they prepare to grow the debt and destroy the economy.
 
- Mike Silverman
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REAGAN IS NOT A DIRTY WORD

Posted by Mike Silverman on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 7:27:46 PM
I am getting more than a little concerned that we are about to lose the Republican Party to a vast no-man's land of squishy principles and gray definitions. With the collapse of the McCain campaign, an opening presented itself to restore the guiding light of the party to the rock-ribbed Conservative base...., to the Reagan Revolution base. Right now the leadership of the party is basically up for grabs. That means that any party member can try to campaign to obtain the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee. Two Conservative men are trying for it. Michael Steel, in collaboration with Newt Gingrich ( who does not want the chairmanship, but is trying to help Steel get there), are vying for the position. Michael Steel is a fairly Conservative man. Former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, though he is against the death penalty , supports raising minimum wage, and supports affirmative action. On everything else he appears to be straight down the line Conservative.  I like Michael Steel but he's not a full Conservative and so I would rather have someone like Bobby Jindal who, except for one vote on completely eliminating personal income tax which he was against doing ( he is otherwise strongly in favor of cutting all forms of taxes ), is a 100 percent Conservative in every way. But... he's not trying for the leadership position.  That's unfortunate. here's what really troubles me. In a report on Fox News, it was stated that Steel and Gingrich were trying to build a new approach to running the GOP. That's fine, a new approach is needed. The  new approach "should" be a return to Reagan Conservatism.  BUT, Gingrich was quoted as saying THIS
 
... "my job as an American first is to develop a tri-partisan approach to developing solutions for the challenges we face. I use the word tri-partisan to designate the concept of attracting Democrats, Republicans, and independents to solutions that unify most Americans"..
 
That may seem like an innocent statement, but if this is the plan to reorganize the Republican leadership, and if it gets launched, the party is doomed.  The Republican Party is already losing its soul and purpose and needs to be steered back to it's founding Conservative principles. If Michael Steel , working with Newt, steer the party into some sort of conglomerate no-man's land of a watered down common denominator to attract multi-platformed views of Democrats and Independents, then there is no Republican Party. Political parties are built on principles, not on bendable talking points, not on bi-partisanship, not on pulling in the most people.  You begin with a foundation, a core, a solid cement of working, successful principles upon which the party is formed by like-minded persons. Then, you try to convince others of the value of joining you and the principles you stand for. Changing your core party principles in order to attract others who don't agree with you on most things, would be like pulling random bricks out from the bottom of brick wall, you weaken the entire structure to the point where it has no intrinsic value. This is the lesson to be learned from McCain's tragic campaign for President. He prided himself on bucking the principles of his Party in the name of bi-partisanship to work with his party's political enemies. But don't misunderstand, there's nothing wrong with Republicans working with Democrats, as long as Republicans do not sell out thier core principles in doing that. But John McCain did just that, he worked on liberal bills and agendas with the likes of Kennedy, Feingold and others that brought about legislation that defied the core principles of Conservatism and weakend the position of the party. We need loyal Conservatives leading the Republican party who will not give in to media pressure, Democrat deals, and personal gains at the expense of weakening the Conservative foundation. And one more thing, Reagan is not a dirty word. I am sick and tired of self-anointed beltway Conservatives declaring that Reagan's approach to politics is over, a thing of the past. It's not over, it's not a thing of the past, and it is as relevant now as it was when he took his first oath of office. Those who want to declare Reagan as irrelevant do not belong in the Republican party.
 
- Mike Silverman
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IT'S TIME TO BE PATRIOTIC TOWARD OBAMA

Posted by Mike Silverman on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 1:20:04 PM
It's great how big hearted the liberal media can be when Bush is leaving and the Democrats hold all the power, calling Bush "gracious" in his meeting with Obama.  But gee... I wonder. During the transition will we see Michelle Obama kicking the White House travel office staff out into the parking lot like Hillary did? Will we see general thievery and destruction of property in the White House by Bush administration staffers like the Clinton staffers committed? Removing the "B" from all the keyboards perhaps, like the Clinton staff removed the "w"'s? Stolen fixtures, doorknobs, computers, telephones with missing numbers, overturned furniture, telephone lines pulled from the walls, offices left in a general state of trashing, desk drawers emptied, writing on the walls, and voice mail greetings that had obscene messages. All of this according to an investigation by the Genral Accounting Office on the condition of the White House left by the Clinton administration during transition. Will we see any of this? And if so, will Obama generously refer to it as "just a couple of pranks, but now it's time to move forward..".. as Bush very generously described it, or would there be outrage by an Obama administration and cries for investigation and prosecution? We will see a smooth, generous and professional transition of Power because we have a man of impeccable character as President currently. George Bush is a gentleman and good person. Also, I thought it was the liberal media and Pelosi and Ried and the rest of the typical liberal suspects, who said that opposing the President is patriotic? That what they said when we complained about them opposing the President on the Iraq surge.., so how dare they criticize any of us for being critical of Obama now?  We are merely being patriotic , by thier own standards. In fact, I think every person should show thier patriotism by railing against the rise of the Obama administration and calling for his resignation, even before he takes office. Let's get very very patriotic. 
 
- Mike Silverman
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