17 Jan

The BoBo Carnival of Politics – January 17, 2009 Edition

Posted by: The BoBo  //  Category: BoBo, Carnival, Conservative, Harry Reid, Liberals, P-BO, Politics, Religion, blogs, government, libertarian

Hi All – welcome to another great edition.  Before we get started – I recently learned that a high school buddy of mine was trapped and survived a building collapse in Haiti.  I just wanted to give a public shout-out to Lt. Col. John Christopher Thomas and say – thanks for your service – and glad you’re a live buddy!  While were on the subject – Haiti and the people are in some very serious trouble right now.  If you can’t volunteer your time or talents – please make a donation to help them out. Now – on with the show!


Conservative

Scott Spiegel presents Reid to African Americans: “I Come Too Far From Where I Started From” posted at Scott Spiegel.

I’m with you on this – Democrats have definitely manipulated the black community for political gain and power.  See the post before this one.  Great analysis.

Liberal

Madeleine Begun Kane presents Al-Qaeda Talking Points? posted at Mad Kane’s Political Madness.

Not really sure where you’re going with this one.  Those individuals you pointed out spoke the truth about the failures of the administration to keep the people safe.  That could have turned out much worse had the bomb actually detonated.  Just out of curiosity – what were you saying when Reid said “The war is lost?”  What about when Durbin called our marines baby killers?  What about when Kerry said our soldiers were terrorizing citizens in the middle of the night?  What about when Obama said our military was bombing villages indiscriminately?  Those were truly statements that undermined our military, our national security, and helped to truly bolster Al-Qaeda.  I think in this instance you are trying to make a case where there isn’t one.

Libertarian

Wenchypoo presents D-I-Y Economic Reform–Starving the Evil Piggies posted at Wisdom From Wenchypoo’s Mental Wastebasket, saying, “Probably more in line with “money” carnivals, but it does contain some political talk in there.”

Wenchy – no problem – it does loosely fit with politics given today’s economy.  These are all good pointers.  My family has tightened the belt as well.  Given your list – it appears there is more we can do.

Miscellaneous

Steven and Debra presents Government False-flag Operations and Operation Northwoods posted at The END TIMES Hoax, saying, “Could our very own government be the enemy?”

That was indeed a very interesting read.  However, you failed to put it in context – JFK never signed off on Operation Northwoods.  You have to remember, this was just one of many potential strategies put forth to deal with the Cuba problem.  Everything is on the table during war planning.  It is then up to the President to decide what actions the military should take.

Steve Parry presents Racism In American Politics posted at The Axis, saying, “It’s about time we fight back on this.”

Great post, Steve.  One of the very first blog posts I wrote was about the hypocrisy of the Democrats regarding racism.  It was their party that started the KKK.  My most recent post points out how they use and enslave blacks just as they did when they were slave masters – only now they use social policies and laws instead of chains.  The good thing is that they have overplayed the race card and no one is buying it any longer – except for those really hard left libtards who believe anything coming from another liberal’s mouth.

News

SVB presents Can A Home Loan Modification Ruin Your Credit? posted at The Digerati Life, saying, “How one person is dealing with a home loan modification, given the credit crunch and the possibility of losing a home.”

Some great information to consider.  I personally don’t care about my FICO score.  At one time I did – but not now. With the exception of one credit card – we paid them all off and closed them.  Essentially, the only credit debt we have is our house, the one card, and a leased vehicle.  We pay for everything with cash now.  If we can’t pay for it with case – we can’t afford it.  Once the lease is up on the SUV – we’re buying a used one with cash.  I know not everyone is in the same position as I am and may not have the resources available right now – but – lowering debt by any means (not including not paying your bills) is always a good option and a loan modification shouldn’t be ruled out just because it might hurt your credit score.  That can always be fixed later.  Ten years ago I had a FICO score of 450 because of my divorce and previous marriage.  Since my divorce I have done a lot of repair and built my credit up.  I hit 780 two years ago and have been consistent ever since.  It has fluctuated as we paid off our debt and closed our accounts.  It’s odd how having money in the bank and little to no debt changes your FICO score. Maybe that’s a good topic for one of your next posts.

Politics

Super Saver presents Holding Congressional Leaders Accountable posted at My Wealth Builder, saying, “Here’s a change I’d like to see happen.”

AMEN!  We used to be able to hold our representatives and senators accountable before they put in the 17th Amendment.  Prior to 1913 – Senators were appointed by the Governor and were subject to recall whenever the people felt the Senators were not acting on behalf of the people of that state.  The 17th Amendment changed all that – that also marked the beginning of the progressive era in the U.S.  I say we need to repeal the 17th Amendment.

Ann Margrain presents Road to Terrorism posted at Heroin and Cornflakes, saying, ““Terrorism is the greatest threat of the 21st century”, a phrase often uttered by our leading politicians. But does this statement hold true?”

WOW!  I don’t know whether to laugh or be offended.  You use terrorism and the horrors of 9/11 as a lead-in to car safety?  I’m not real sure how to take that.  What you presented with regards to roads, car safety, and transport tubes is very informational.  I just think it loses its value when you lead in with something not even closely correlated.

Joe Garecht presents How to Get Elected Even if Nobody Knows You posted at Local Victory – Your Guide to Winning Elections, saying, “This recent article gives tips on how candidates can get elected, even if they are starting from square one, without name recognition.”

Those all great pointers.  Very similar to getting recognized as a blogger in the blogosphere.

DWSUWF presents Scott Brown in Massachusetts: Hope or Delusion? posted at Divided We Stand United We Fall, saying, “Obama is stumping for Coakley using the same old”Change” mantra – exactly as if the last year never happened. Does he really have so little respect for Massachusetts voters that he thinks he can just repeat the same empty campaign slogans of a year ago? I mean – we now know what “change” means. It means two massive blowout omnibus spending bills with a combined 14,000 earmarks. It means a trillion dollar “stimulus” bill that didn’t stimulate anything, was written by the House of Representatives and was predominantly a vehicle to funnel money to Democratic districts. It means a trillion dollar Health Care “reform” bill that was written by big pharma, big insurance, and big union lobbyists and does not go into full effect until 2019 when it still will not cover 28 million Americans. It means a massive escalation of the War in Afghanistan. I guess if that is the kind of “change” Massachusetts wants, they should vote for a rubber stamp like Coakley.”

Let’s hope you have a lot of readers in Massachusetts and gets the whole DWSUWF point you are trying to make.  While Brown is not what I would call a real conservative – the fact of the matter is that he is at least fiscally conservative and is on the right side of the issues.  If anything – we need him to be there just to break that supermajority.  Who’s to say though that once he gets in there that given his moderate leaning he wouldn’t vote with the Dems on other issues?   Either way – let’s hope he wins so we can break the morale of the Dems and get rid of that horrendous health care bill.  I realize you submitted this before the weekend – but – did you hear that Coakley said in a radio interview that Curt Schilling is a Yankee’s fan?  LMAO – I think that alone may have just cost her the election regardless of what potential, of at all, bump P-BO could give her.  She just offended the entire state with that comment.

Diana Hall presents Jesus killed my political apathy posted at damascusmoments.

Welcome to the world of politics.  Given this day and age, I believe everyone should be passionately engaged in politics.  It is because of our global apathy towards politics that we allowed politicians to ruin our lives and the global community as a whole.  Politicians are supposed to be servants of the people and they have by nature now become self-serving and corrupt.  Jesus knew this.  We should have all heeded his actions and remained engaged.

smrtas1 presents Obama Proposes New Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee posted at Conservative Patriot HQ.

You’re spot on with the observation that this fee covers Geithner’s failure.  If they really wanted to fix the banking crisis – the would get rid of the CRA, Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac – along with a few politicians directly involved.  My wife and I had a discussion about this fee last night – if these taxes get passed on to us as fees at our bank – we’re switching to a local bank.  Right now, we pay absolutely zero fees.  There is a very reputable local bank with three branches.  They started off just 5 years ago with only 1 in my neighborhood.  They added their 3d branch this past year during the bank bailouts and they did not receive funds.  I would encourage everyone that if they are with one of those top 50 banks and the taxes are passed on to them – start researching your local smaller banks and make the move.

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12 Jan

Tuesday Mash-up

Posted by: The BoBo  //  Category: A Nation at Risk, African-Americans, America, Children, Harry Reid, Liberals, P-BO, Politics, government, libertarian

I rarely do any kind of post mash-ups – but – given that I’ve gotten so behind – and there is so much to talk about – I’m just going to put up some shorts here.

Scott Brown

I was alerted about Scott Brown and the Massachussetts Senate race coming up on January 19th by Rod over at Disgrunted Republican. Go read his posts on this. Apparently, there was a money bomb yesterday. From reports, he took in over $1 Million yesterday. I saw this video on Drudge today. This guy gets it and he needs our support – donate here. Wouldn’t it be great if he took Ted Kennedy’s seat? What a message that would send to those idiots in Congress who are trying to force this healthcare bill on us in Kennedy’s name!

Lead Based Toys

I’m posting this as a favor to NDFENCOFOBAMA.  You have to read this post.  Many of you read my post about the problem I had with Toys R Us.  Well – this post is even more frightening.  I already knew a lot of this because of my studies – but – I never posted about it.  China is killing our animals and our kids slowly – and the American government allows it.  Check out the post and you’ll understand what I am talking about. In case you aren’t aware – the CDC has “acceptable” levels for human exposure to dangerous toxins.  Many of these toxins are in our children’s toys.  I published a paper regarding phthalates in our kids’ toys, bottles, furniture, and pacifiers.  Phthalates has been banned in every country but the U.S. with the exception of California.  If you are interested in seeing the government accepted levels for human exposure to toxins – check it out here at ATSDR.

Obama is a Negro

While I stated in this post a while back that Obama is NOT the first black president because he is actually a mulatto – I guess now it is okay to call Obama a negro.  Al Sharpton and the NAACP say it’s okay.  The Congressional Black Caucus says its okay.  Whoopie Goldberg says its okay.  Even the head Negro himself says it’s okay. From this point forward – I’ll just refer to P-BO as “Our Negro President.”  Let’s see how long it takes for those liberal idiots to show the double standard and start calling me a racist even though all the above says its okay for us to start referring to blacks as Negroes.

UPDATE: Apparently, Michelle Obama doesn’t have a problem with this either.  So, from this point forward, I am going to start referring to her as The First Negro Lady.  Combined, they are going to be The Negro President’s Family. Let’s see how long before someone decides this actually is offensive!  From now on, I no longer have any “black” or “African-American” friends – they will all be my negro friends.  Additionally, I will no longer refer to “blacks” or “African-Americans” as such – they will all simply be negroes from now on seeing as how nobody in the negro community finds it offensive to use terminology so closely associated with the hate filled, racially charged, 50’s and 60’s. But, I bet if I fly my confederate flag – they’ll be knocking on my door!

California Might Legalize Marijuana

You have got to be freakin’ kidding right?  Here is what is reported:

The law would also call for a fee of $50 per ounce sold and would help fund drug eradication and awareness programs. It could help  pull California out of debt, supporters say, raising up to $990 million from the fees.

WTF?  Only liberals could come up with the idea to legalize drugs in order to tax them so they can then use that drug tax money to prevent future drug use!  These people have obviously been smoking some good shit themselves if they really believe this.  For those idiots who keep saying that pot is NOT addictive – you’re just fooling yourselves.  Two of my kids have been heavy users since they were 12 and 13, respectively.  Both of them ended up dropping out of high school.  Both have not been able to keep a job.  They both spend all their money on pot before anything else.  One has already been in jail for possession and distribution – and neither of them can stop smoking pot despite all the problems.  One has had to sleep in his car because he can’t save enough money to get his own apartment.  He is going on 22 years old now.  While I certainly do love him and worry about him – there isn’t shit I can do for him until he decides that he needs help.  BTW – he has already done a court ordered six month stint in rehab – only to go right back to smoking again because of idiots out there pushing it on him saying its not addictive – and he’s stupid enough to buy in to it.  The other one is following right behind him. So – don’t give me your liberal bullshit that pot is not addictive – it sure the hell is.

White House Says America Stronger Since Our Negro President Took Over

All I can say is – Bwahahaha!  That’s a joke – right?  Read the lies here yourself. Wasn’t it Hitler that said if you tell a lie enough times, sooner or later someone will believe it?  We’re not buying it any more.  We see the truth because we live the truth.

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28 Sep

Crap and Tax bill on the move in the Senate!

Posted by: The BoBo  //  Category: A Nation at Risk, America, Congress, Global warmongering, Harry Reid, Middle-class, Politics, Socialism, government

Okay people – The House of Representatives completely dissed America when they passed the Crap and Tax bill this past summer.  Despite the fact that the majority of this country, once again, overwhelmingly told those idiots in Congress to vote NO – they still passed it.  Well, it’s up in the Senate now:

Boxer, Kerry Set to Introduce Climate Bill in Senate

They’re already playing games with this thing.

Kerry last week sought to change the vernacular surrounding the climate bill and sell its concepts more broadly, insisting it is not a “cap and trade” proposal but a “pollution reduction” bill. “I don’t know what ‘cap and trade’ means. I don’t think the average American does,” Kerry said. “This is not a cap-and-trade bill, it’s a pollution reduction bill”

What a fucking moron horse face Kerry is.  I dont give a shit what you call it – it is Crap and Tax and it is absolutely bad for this country.  As with healthcare, this bill will absolutely destroy our economy and raise taxes on the middle class once again.  If you recall, if you are under the poverty level – you get a full refund – ergo – this will only impact the middle class AGAIN.

Senate Democratic leaders, including Reid and Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), have said that they do not know if there will be enough time to get to the climate bill on the floor this year. But Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), one of the lead authors of the House bill, said that he is not giving up yet.

Keep your eyes on this folks – they’re going to try to sneak this by us while everyone else is so focused on the health care bill.  In Harry Reid’s own words “It is clearly moving.”

Let’s face it folks – global warming has already been completely debunked.  One of the lead authors of the IPCC report that started this whole thing with Al Gore has already flipped.

In a speech last week at the U.N.’s World Climate Conference in Geneva, Professor Mojib Latif of Germany’s Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at Kiel University, one of the world’s foremost climate modelers and a lead author for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change acknowledged that the Earth has been cooling and is likely to continue that trend for the next couple of decades.

Not only that – but – here’s how he came to that conclusion

Latif has been looking into the influence of cyclical changes to ocean currents and temperatures in the Atlantic, a feature known as the North American Oscillation. When he factored these natural fluctuations into his global climate model, Professor Latif found the results brought the allegedly endless rise in global temperatures to a screeching halt.

Latif conceded the planet has not warmed for nearly a decade and that we are likely entering “one or even two decades during which temperatures cool.” Latif still believes in a warming trend and thinks it will resume. But he at least acknowledges the empirical evidence of cooling, that there are factors at work here other than your SUV, and that doom will not occur the day after tomorrow.

Hey – when the lead author of the IPCC report backs out and now is in synch with the rest of us who have been stating such – then those Global Warmongers have no where else to go – except – push this damned this down the throats of Americans in the name of socialism and wealth redistribution.  Let’s not let it happen people.

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07 Aug

Townhall Protestors – Beware – The REAL Mob has been called in.

Posted by: The BoBo  //  Category: A Nation at Risk, ACORN, America, Congress, Conservative, Democrats, Freedom of Speech, Harry Reid, Obama, Politics, President, RINO, government, health care

Wow, my hometown of Tampa had a major blowout at the Townhall meeting on healthcare tonight.  Damned, I wish I were there tonight.  But – here’s the deal – the Dems are so freakin’ scared of WE the PEOPLE that they have called out the REAL MOB – union organizers have now been contracted out to attend the townhall meetings in order to “counter” your protests.

Scroll down to the bottom of this article and here is what you find:

Also Thursday, the AFL-CIO announced plans to mobilize labor activists to attend town hall meetings in 50 congressional districts this month to counter the conservative protesters.

Make sure you read the rest of that entire article – Freakin’ Harry Reid is saying these townhall protests by we conservative Americans are staged.  He is so fuckin arrogant and out of touch that he can’t believe that the country really is outraged by their activities up there.  Sure, you and the rest of the idiot dems just keep it up – you are all but guaranteeing your asses are gone in 2010.  You RINO’s out there supporting this power grabbing bill and others like Cap and Trade – this serves as a warning to you to – you have awoken a sleeping giant – America is finally starting to pay attention and we aren’t going to take any of your shit either.

I’m also getting sick and tired of the media siding with the libs continuing the lies and trying to state these protests are organized by Republicans and other media talking heads.  Guess what – these are REAL Americans with REAL issues.  Every article I have read about these townhall protests always state, as if it were fact, that these are all orchestrated and everyone who questions their representatives are just plants.  Forget the polls now state that almost 60% of the population is against this bill.  You just keep up your biased reporting – its no wonder MSM outlets are tanking everywhere.

The point of this post is for all of you that will be attending townhall meetings – be prepared to get roughed up by union thugs – if you don’t believe it – check out the link regarding the Tampa townhall meeting.  Some SEIU thugs beat up one of the protestors outside of the doors to the meeting.  Obama has turned his administration in to a thugocracy by fascist means and he is using his ACORN and SEIU goons to stifle your freedom of speech.

Keep up the good fight people – there is a paradigm shift going on – we need to make sure the politicians once again fear the people.



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05 Jul

The BoBo Carnival of Politics – July 5th, 2009 Edition

Posted by: The BoBo  //  Category: A Nation at Risk, America, Carnival, Civil Rights, Congress, Conservative, Democrats, Fascism, Freedom, Global warmongering, Harry Reid, Iraq, Liberals, Media Bias, Obama, Politics, President, Socialism, Soldiers, Taxes, Troops, blogs, energy, government, libertarian

I hope everyone had a great day yesterday reflecting on and celebrating the independence of this country! Well – not its time to get back to business! You’ll notice we have some new contributors, regular contributors, and contributors from the past posting up again. Thanks to you all for making this the Carnival that it is!

Conservative

David Lamb presents When Treasuries Crowd Out Lending posted at Killer Buffalo.

David – welcome back!  Haven’t seen you around in a while.  I take it you’re getting prepared for your college years now! LOL…enjoy them!  In this article, I found it interesting that you attributed the recession to “skyrocketing interest rates.”  Actually, I’m still waiting for them to increase.  In 1990 when I bought my first home, it was at an 11% interest rate – and that was normal back then.  My car loan was at 14% – again, normal in 1990.  I would hardly say our interest rates have “skyrocketed.”  With the prime lending rate still floating around 4% – I would say the cause of this recession has been the lack of the fed to stabilize the markets by actually, and truly, increasing interest rates.  If you want people to invest – you need to raise the interest rates.  The best I can get on my CD’s right now is 3.5% if I go out 3 years.  My Money Market is only earning 1% interest.  I remember in 1990 when I could get 10 – 12% on my short-term CD’s.  The best way for this economy to stabilize and to bring investors back in to the market is to raise interest rates.  So – if you want to attribute this recession to interest rates – I would actually attribute it to the falsely deflated interest rates.

Jared Rhoads presents The Lucidicus Project posted at The Lucidicus Project, saying, “If the proposed public option for health insurance becomes law, then we may as well have Fannie Mae run it.”

“Fannie-Mae Healthcare” – sounds about right for this proposed monstronsity!  Let’s hope we garner enough support in the house to kill it right away.  The real solution is not “affordable health INSURANCE” – it’s affordable HEALTH CARE – Lower the cost of access to health care – i.e, through tort reform, and you open health care back up to free-market capitalism which is good for all.  Just providing insurance to everyone does nothing to lower the actual costs of healthcare. If anything – having this public option health insurance will just drive the costs up further.  Healthcare providers will increase their rates in order to cover the losses from that idiotic public plan.

Scott Spiegel presents Global Warming Killed Michael Jackson posted at Scott Spiegel.

Bwahaha!  Great title!  However, this is probably one of the best detailed posts regarding the “global warming” issue.  I’m with you – let’s hope there actually is an American Senator out there that is willing to ask the same questions as the Australian Senator and actually look at the facts rather than the myths before they vote on that economy killer of a bill.

Steve Parry presents This Explains A Lot posted at The Axis of Stevil, saying, “Sarcastic, but true.”

Michelle Obama hates kids!!!!!!  LOL – you’re right – this does actually explain a lot.

Silicon Valley Blogger presents Commodity Market Index: An Inflation Indicator posted at The Digerati Life, saying, “Let’s talk inflation for a moment. I discuss various ways to predict inflation. I’m surprised nobody’s commented on this post yet (all other posts get comments) — are people just intimidated by this subject?”

Me – I say inflation is another necessary evil in a free-market capitalist system.  Inflation helps to stabilize the economy.  When you don’t allow inflation to occur and if you falsely keep interest rates down to try to curb inflation – you get what we have now – a serious recession leading towards a depression.  We could have avoided this had the Fed just allowed inflation to occur and run it’s natural course.  We wouldn’t be seeing the possibility of hyperinflation now.  In addition, when all these idiotic policies start hitting our economy – the price of everything will increase.  You are right though – If you follow your local prices at your local stores – you can see inflation creeping.  We should have seen this coming years ago.

The Smarter Wallet presents The Credit Crisis Explained Video posted at The Smarter Wallet, saying, “I’m going for a video this time, to display how the credit crisis evolved. Thanks!”

Excellent video.  Who’s Jonathon Jarvis?  I’ve seen similar illustrations -but – this was by far one of the more simplistic and easiest to understand.  Highly recommended.

Democrats

DWSUWF presents Under My Thumb. posted at Divided We Stand United We Fall, saying, “The damage is already done. Senator Al Franken will not make a meaningful difference. This single party Democratic government has already committed to trillions of new spending while quadrupling the deficit. They’ve dug a financial hole that can only be filled by imposing new economy-throttling taxes and unleashing the inflationary and currency devaluing monetary printing presses. These are the simple facts. Before Senator Al Franken, or after Senator Al Franken, the only thing that can restrain the Democrats now are the Democrats.”

Yup – but – considering all the crap they’ve been able to force through without Franken – I don’t think it really matters that they actually seated him.  We’ll see how many Senators up for re-election in 2010 would rather side with the people rather than the party of Franken and Obama.

Liberal

SpkTruth2Pwr presents Iraq: Roll ‘Em Up! Move ‘Em Out! posted at The Apathy Remedy, saying, “Why is it that there has been sparse coverage of the U.S. troops in Iraq lately? Maybe it is because things are actually on the right track with U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East.”

You do realize that by the MSM acknowledging the success – they would have to actually give credit to Bush, Cheney, and the entire Bush administration!  Since they can’t say this is a Democrat or Obama success – there’s no reason for them to report on it.  This withdrawal has nothing to do with Obama’s foreign policy as you have stated.  This withdrawal was agreed upon by Bush and Malaki last year.  So – why is there no reporting?  Because this is a conservative, republican, and Bush success. We know how Liberals and the liberal media hate to give credit to conservatives for anything.  Hell, Harry Reid and Obama both said last year that this war was lost.  Maybe that’s why the MSM doesn’t want to report on this success – it makes their Obamessiah look bad.

Rick Foreman presents Ice Cream and the Freedom of Dessert posted at Waiting for the Singularity.

OH…this has nothing to do with ice cream does it? ;) But, I am in agreement with you on this one, being the Libertarian Conservative that I am.  Our forefathers did not intend for my favorite, Moosetracks, to be forced upon those who prefer vanilla. I believe you have the right to believe that your favorite is better than my favorite and we both have the right to disagree with each other without the government forcing us to choose one, such as what the Obama administration is doing with all of their policies.

Miscellaneous

BH presents 7 Out of Top 10 Failed States are Muslim States posted at Bangladeshi Hindu.

Interesting!  What I also find interesting is that two countries currently at war (Iraq and Afghanistan) are actually ranked 6 and 7, respectively.  Those other countries 1 – 5 must be in REALLY bad shape then!

Kenny Silveira presents Is this what we have become? posted at Black Holes And Revelations, saying, “An article about the recent violence in Iran after the 2009 elections.”
Nice tribute to Neda and an eye-opening post to those that are sleeping.  It’s too bad our own President sides more with the Mullah’s than with the people.

Madeleine Begun Kane presents De-Moralized? posted at Mad Kane’s Political Madness.

Hmmm…that’s just as crazy as libtards blaming Glenn Beck and O’Reilly for Tiller The Baby-Killer’s death. Neither of them compute.

Bob Brooks presents Dazed and Confused – The Weapon of the Politicians posted at Bob Brooks – Prudent Money Blog.

Just keep reporting on this kind of stuff.  With enough of us bloggers out here pointing out the truth – eventually someone is going to come across it.  I have people that I work with that didn’t even know this thing passed last week.  I spoke to as many colleagues as possible leading up to the vote – but – I guess I wasn’t talking to the right people.  Keep up the great work, Bob.

News

nickel presents $15,000 Homebuyer’s Tax Credit is Back on the Table posted at fivecentnickel.com.

Personally, I think that’s a load of crap.  The tax credit – not your article! :)   We don’t need any more freakin’ tax credits.  What we need is more permanent tax cuts.  The tax credit is not going to incentive anyone to buy a home in this market unless they can also come up with the 20% downpayment.  Many banks are actually going back to using solid business decisions and lending practices – that includes money down and income and employment verification.  The smart home-buyers are staying in the homes the are already in rather than risk the values of their homes going down further.  The market still hasn’t bottomed out.  Using my money to incentivize people to buy homes they may not really want or can’t afford is just another bad idea.  Kinda sounds like what caused the financial meltdown in the first place.

Politics

Allen Scott presents With Malice Toward None posted at Journey Across the Sky, saying, “Something to think about as we celebrate our Freedom.”

Hey Allen – sorry this didn’t appear before July 4th.  I guess that’s just one of the hazards of posting this regularly on Sundays – sometimes the posts come a little later.  In any case – whether this comes before or after 4th of July – your discussion is still relevant for every day.  Long – but well worth the read.

Wenchypoo presents About That Climate Change Bill Voted On Last Friday… posted at Wisdom From Wenchypoo’s Mental Wastebasket.

Hey Wenchypoo – perhaps you might want to resubmit?  For whatever reason – this doesn’t link to anything – blogger says this link doesn’t exist.

Gal Josefsberg presents An Open Letter To Our Elected Officials posted at Gal Josefsberg, saying, “I want someone to inspire me, someone who will give us a cause to rally behind. With so many issues facing us, we need more than a manager, we need a leader.”

Good letter.  Hey, did you hear that Steve “Air” McNair was shot and killed?  Seriously, this country needs to focus on what is right rather than what the media wants us to look at.  We have far too many issues that effect all of individually that are before Congress that needs to be looked at.  I too am so tired of all the idiots in this country tied to the “boob tube” that they can’t even think critically any longer – nor do they care about the real issues.  Great post.

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01 Jun

The BoBo Carnival of Politics – May 31, 2009 Edition

Posted by: The BoBo  //  Category: A Nation at Risk, America, BoBo, Carnival, Congress, Conservative, Harry Reid, Illegal immigrants, Immigrants, Liberals, Obama, Pelosi, Politics, President, government, libertarian

Welcome to the May 31, 2009 edition of the bobo carnival of politics. Sorry for the delay – and the rushed post.  I’ll be back later to add some commentary to these.  Just wanted to get these out there for everyone to peruse in the meantime.

Aetius Romulous presents Freud’s Bastards posted at ScreamBucket.

C. E. Dowalt presents “Jimmy” Obama or Geopolitics Abhors a Vacumn, Part 2 posted at Money Confidential.

Conservative

Dana presents Homeschooling as a protest movement posted at Principled Discovery.

lsm presents Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire. posted at awaken the elephants blog.

Selkirk presents The Impending American Clash of Civilizations posted at Political Castaway Blog: Broadcasting Conservatism to Rescue America.

Steve Parry presents Clueless In Washington posted at The Axis of Stevil.

Silicon Valley Blogger presents Economic Statistics From The Bush – Cheney Administration: Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat! posted at The Digerati Life, saying, “You must feature this cute cat…. :) . He has something to say about Cheney…”

Liberal

Glowing Face Man presents Why English Should Not Be The Official Language of the U.S. posted at Glowing Face Man: Awaken the Badass Within, saying, “An article opposing the officialization of English in the United States”

GFM – I definitely have something to say about your position on this.  The one thing, and the most important thing, that you left out is the huge economic cost we taxpayer have to share because EVERY freakin’ government document that comes out has to be in EVERY freakin’ language imagineable.  We would save BILLIONS in taxpayer dollars alone just by switching to English only.  Why is it that every country around this globe can have an official language but us?

Madeleine Begun Kane presents Hark! The Disgraced Former Speaker Speaks. posted at Mad Kane’s Political Madness.

Libertarian

NotYourDaddy presents Rise Up and Take a Stand posted at Government is not your Daddy., saying, “Margaret Goodwin addresses the Tax Day Tea Party in Grants Pass, Oregon about Our Grievances, and delivers a call to action to the people to rise up and take a stand against overtaxation and overregulation.”

News

Eric Kuha presents Why the California Supreme Court Screwed Up on Gay Marriage posted at Spin One Half, saying, “California Supreme Court has not served democracy. This is a biological take on the same-sex marriage issue.”

Bob Brooks presents The Car CZAR has Spoken posted at Bob Brooks – Prudent Money Blog.

steven germain presents Why We Believe Big Lies (Iraq & Torture) posted at Rough Fractals, saying, “Like banks, lies can be too big to fail as well…”

Politics

NotYourDaddy presents Entitlement, Dependency, Control posted at Government is not your Daddy., saying, “For years, our government has been actively encouraging people to become less and less self-reliant. By the same token, it has been making us more and more dependent on government. The flip side of dependency is control. The more dependent one is on another, the more control the other has over them. Perhaps the underlying motivation is not so innocent as politicians trying to buy their constituents’ love. Perhaps it’s far more insidious.”

Ezra Swerdlow presents safe for seven years posted at Rough Fractals, saying, “Dick Cheney and his henchmen…”

Wenchypoo presents Late Night Energy Examination posted at Wisdom From Wenchypoo’s Mental Wastebasket, saying, “A follow-up to my “Examining Efficiency” article.”

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