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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Couldn’t resist writing a bit on 1-1-11. Ok…that’s out of my system, let’s get on with it.

First up is Mexico…does anyone in the media, other than some intern, give a dump about Mexico and what’s going on in Acapulco? You better, because the same kind of violence is headed right for the USA! This should be on the front page of every newspaper in the nation if not the world! 31 people were killed in Acapulco in just four days…January 7 – 10! At least 14 were beheaded! Oh well, let’s take a vacation and get some sun in Acapulco…NOT!

Jews…it’s not often that I comment on religions…but here is one that needs to commented on. It’s another media-kept secret; Hate crimes against Jews were nearly 38% of all Hate Crimes in New York state in 2009. And it you think that’s astounding, in LA, it was 88%! A note here; according to the Washington Post, only a small fraction of those hated “Hate Crimes” were against Muslims! Maybe some believe that Jews were behind the 9-11 attack…ya think?

This subject is a goodie…hooray for good ‘ol Ford! I’m sure they didn’t mean to, but they stole the stage at the Detroit Auto Show when they announced they would hire 7,000 workers in 2011-12. If you are an automotive or electrical engineer, you’ll get more than 10% of those jobs…crank up the Model A and hit the road!

Last for today, Pet Peeve No. 24: MicroSoft Corp. MS’s Ballmer is looking for “new blood to head up the company”. Aren’t they getting enough of our blood as it is? Now for the peeve…It’s that these geeks don’t support software that they tell us we “must have” for more than five years. If Ford or GM did that…well…’nuff said I think. I don’t mind them introducing better, faster, cooler applications, but for us oldsters, who have purchased so many programs and OS’s I’ve lost count, just support them for at least 10 to 15 years! Then all of us old guys and gals will probably be more interested in signing up for Medicare and ordering hearing aids…not trying to get FrontPage, Image Composer and other MS software to run on the latest OS!

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Saturday and Sunday, January 8 & 9, 2011

I'll try to make this short as again there is so much stuff to write about. Very revealing was the article about GM's CEO Dan Akerson in the WSJ (Saturday) "I'm Not A Car Guy". It's a dumb statement for sure, but somehow Mr. Akerson makes it work. He gets big points from me for his take on Toyota's Prisus...his quote: "Prisus haybrid is a Geek-Mobile...and I wouldn't be caught dead in one."...he's got that right! However, he does need to bridge the gap and bring us "car guys" into his camp. Remember, GM started by some accounts in 1897...114 years ago!  Last, a missed opportunity in the article seems to be that there was no comparison or even any comments about  Ford...who didn't take a dimes worth of bailout money from us tax-payers while GM still owes us a big $45.3 Billion which translates to Uncle Sam holding on to a 25% stake in the company.

Kudos to Star Parker on her comments about Kaleephorneeah's (infamous) Henry Waxman...in the interest of time and space, you'll just have to look her up on the net...hint (http://www.urbancure.org/subs.asp?b=1).

Shooting in Arizona...a terrible tragedy...and you've heard that from nearly everyone. However, listening briefly to radio station KGO (San Francisco...where else!) late Saturday night...the Christine Craft talk program...one word: Condemnation! For an attorney, she should know better than to introduce "suspicion" while the dead bodies are still warm, that the Tea Party had some involvement these shootings. That kind of drivel is so out of line, KGO should send Christine back to Salinas where her puke-speak can't really be heard by anyone. A little bit more...the Stupid award goes to Sarah Palin for putting a target on Giffords' Representative seat...not too kool! The Left and their media puppies have neatly tied the Republican party and the Tea Party citizens together...now comes the execution...I can hear the train 'a comin!

The whole incident and all the happenings around it is terrible...both personally and politically. But this could be a turning point that gets Yomama term number two. I do think at this time, that considering the above web site foopah, Palin may be done as a serious Presidential candidate...if she ever was one. Where is Bobby Jindle when we need him most?

And on top of that, Republicans in the HoR, postponed all business next week when the vote on defrocking YomamaCare was to take place...don't think this is a smart move as it now gives Yomama the upper hand through a pre-emptive strike with his State-Of-The-Union message scheduled for January 13th. Yomama, despite the Arizona tragedy and anything else for that matter, won't squander this opportunity to take a step closer to victory in 2011.

Next to last. Seems to me that 2011 is being set up to be the "Lost Year". I hear and read many comments about the presidential election of 2012...the economy will bloom in 2012...the stock market will normalize by 2012...More jobs will be created in 2012 and so on. Should we just pull the covers over our heads and let 2011 slide on by? I don't think so. 2011 should go down in history as the "Year of the Work Horse."

Last at last for Sunday; in December and with little media attention or reporting, Hugo Chavez, the wannabe dictator of Venezuela, started seizing land owned by private citizens in that country...can you say Julius Caesar?

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Friday, January 7, 2011

There is so much crap out there today (Friday), I just don’t know where to start! I guess the best place is with one of the best explanations I’ve read yet about the Cash For Clunkers program…or should I say…government waste…remember it last summer? Friday’s gem was in the WSJ…an article by Victor Dial, Ford’s top executive in Europe appears on page 11A. Within his piece, Mr. Dial states twice that this type of program is nothing more than marketing exercise and it’s not new. It has been done again and again in Europe…so much so that European car buys are badly addicted to their versions of Cash For Clunkers, it may just devastate the struggling industry across the pond. It’s almost funny when he states that “That the car industry, labor unions, and the environmentalists were all winners…the losers were the taxpayers!” You’ll recall that there was a bit more grumbling here, but not much. A good read and a tip of the hat to Mr. Dial.

This little goodie was heard on the Bill Bennett radio program early Friday morning…Rick Santorum filling in…he’s better than Bill anyway was interviewing Tracy Byrnes from FOX Business. As best I can recall, Tracy stated that ADP’s estimate of the unemployment numbers released today, were so far off, they weren’t even in the ball park. Hey, ADP (Automatic Data Processing, Inc.) are the people in the employment business for crap sakes…can anyone say Accounting 101?

Ah…now I come to one of my bigger pet peeves…NAFTA…thank you Bush 41 and Klinkton…the part that galls me pretty good is the part that allows Mexican 18-wheelers to roll down our highways at overloaded weights  of more than 100,000-lbs. Last year, Yomama killed the test that was allowing the Mexicans to run their rigs into the good ‘ol US of A up to 50 miles from the border. Now, all of a sudden due mostly to pressure from south of the border via punitive tariffs to the tune of $2B on US goods imported into our drug-riddled neighboring country, Yomama has directed Transportation Secretary LaHood to reopen talks with the “Pancho Villa” inspired country that eventually will lead to rolling their huge , uninspected rigs down our (mostly) nicely paved roads. Mexicans always do it for less…can anyone say…job loss!

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Thursday, January 6, 2011

Well, here I am back for the second shot. Missed yesterday due to lots of "to dos". The celebrated 112^th Congress was sworn in for it’s two year run with the bawling John Boehner as the new Speaker of the House. Thank Gawd. Ding dong…the witch is…finally…dead…or at least wounded!

I enjoyed (NOT) some of the comments by some "celebrities". And boy, do I hate the word "celebrity"! Most people on television or any media for that matter are not celebrities! To me celebrity means someone who is better than the rest of us "folks" and there is another word that grates me the wrong way. One of the definitions of "folks" is people of the land, the commoners; not of the elite. Bill O’Reilly uses "folks" quite a bit on his TV program and that has caused me to lessen my frequency of watching his program.

Anyway, on with my gripe for today about celebrity comments about John Boehner. Dave Letterman, who is not a very good comedian…I remember when he thought throwing TV’s out of second story windows was funny…and yeah, I AM THAT old! Letterman on Thursday, while interviewing NBC’s Brian Williams (http://www.youtube.com/

watch?v=ePlXsjvu9Bs) said …"[Boehner] cries like he’s on drugs" and then laughs loudly when Williams complains about Dave’s disrespect for the Speaker of the House. And Letternut still can’t reign himself in goes on to say  "…I’m suggesting he [Boener] needs some sort of counseling." Boy oh boy, even though it was Letternut’s attempt at a joke, I dare say it was received as something less than that. Hey Dave, on a scale of 1 to 10, that line of humor was a –5…that’s a minus five!!!

Comedian Dennis Miller on the Bill O’Reilly show on Wednesday (http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/oreilly/

transcript/miller-reflects-039the-

governator039) described Nancy Pelosi as "…Bad to the bone" and "She’s a bad dame. And you know what? She is a hack." Again, not sure if his comments are terribly funny, but unlike Letternut, it’s not a personal attack and may actually even bear some truth. Dennis goes on to say "…She has no conscience. She'll look you right in the eye and, guess what? You'll blink first." I might ask here, is she capable of blinking ever?

OK. It’s time for some predictions: 1) I really don’t think this (112^th) Congress is going to be able to repeal YomamaCare. If extremely lucky, they may be able to slow down some parts of it from taking effect as scheduled. No matter what anyone believes, the Prez still has the most power in the world and will just veto anything sent to him that he doesn’t like. This man has an agenda like no other U.S. President in history. He is more like a strongman climbing the ladder to a full dictatorship. Does the name Ahmadinejad or Chavez mean anything. Just the other day, the congress in Venezuela lost more of it’s power to govern by Presidential decree from Hugo Chavez. Don’t look over your shoulders now, but…

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