Sarah Palin – Going Rogue

I’m currently reading Sarah Palin’s book, Sarah Palin – Going Rogue. I’m about half way through it.

I bought it mainly to show my support – I’ve never been much for autobiographies. But I must say this is actually a pretty good read. I don’t know if she actually wrote it herself, but it is written as if she did, and it is interesting and entertaining.

Pretty good, so far!

-Popgun

A Former Liberal Woman Said…

A formal liberal woman said:

The Left has declared war on Palin because she threatens their existence. Liberals need women dependent and scared so that women, like blacks, will vote Democrat. – Robin of Berkeley

I’d been truly wondering why the attacks from the Left on Palin were so vicious. I think maybe this lady is right.

-Popgun

What Are They Up To?

Warning: This article is an opinion piece. Use your own judgement.

What are they up to, really? Obama, Pelosi and Reid, among many others. Far left radicals, all.

I’ve seen a lot of people online asking the question “Why isn’t our government listening to us?”

The answer to that is: they are doing exactly what they intend to do.

They do know and understand the consequences of their policies, and they are proceeding full steam ahead because these things are necessary to achieve their actual goals. They are:

• Intentionally spending this country into oblivion. Irrevocably.
• Devaluing the dollar. I haven’t had a raise in a couple of years, but the value of what I take home has fallen around 15% depending on who you ask.
• Loading every government position they can with far-left, socialist, marxist ideologues (think czars, and others).
• Increasing the size of government as quickly and as much as they can (admitted outright by Barney Frank).
• Attempting to give the government control of all health care (17% of the entire economy). (Cato Institute points out the real cost of this is over $6 trillion, in reality).
• Attempting to pass Cap & Trade – the largest tax increase in history – on the basis of fraudulent science.
• Nationalizing everything they can get away with. Banks, finance companies, auto manufacturers…
• Attempting to destroy or minimize the capitalist free market system.
• Attempting to suppress dissenting opinion (i.e. Fox News and others).
• Breaking MANY campaign promises, such as – taxation; transparency, review period for bills, no earmarks; MANY others 1, 2. In short, Obama never intended to keep these promises – he lied and deceived to get elected.
• Prosecuting terrorists in civil court – in NYC of all places.
• Mirandizing terrorists.
• Not allowing us to develop our own oil and gas reserves.
• Extending constitutional protections to non-citizens and terrorists.
• Attempting to prosecute the CIA for political reasons.
• Bowing to foreign monarchs. Deferential, apologetic, weak foreign policy. Intentionally reducing our closeness with our best allies, Britain and Israel. Not honoring foreign commitments regarding missile shields, etc.
• And probably more that don’t come to mind at the moment.

These acts, combined, appear to constitute an attempt to:

• Destroy the U.S. as an economic powerhouse of the world.
• Weaken the U.S. militarily.
• Weaken the U.S. in terms of foreign affairs.

Each of these things is detrimental to the health and well-being of this country.

Therefore, the goals of these people – are detrimental to the health and well being of this country.

What could their ultimate goal be? Rest assured, they do have a goal. A goal they are not making public.

I personally think that this administration constitutes the greatest threat to the United States of America that it has ever faced.

-Popgun

Climategate

Here’s an excellent article about how the climate debate has been controlled from the beginning. There has been a relatively small group of scientists who control the publishing in peer-reviewed magazines such that only ‘approved’ papers were published.

There is also some pretty arrogant talk by the originators of the emails that claim that these ’scientists’ talk in a language that the rest of us are too stupid to understand, and it only sounds like they were rigging the results. That’s a bunch of hooey by arrogant academics, and crooked ones at that.

These people have lied to the world in order to create a movement based on global warming; and they are trying to cover it up. In the face of a cooling trend that has been recognized for years – by real scientists whose views have been suppressed or disparaged and dismissed out of hand.

Setting government policy based on lies is criminally stupid.

-Popgun

Thanks!

Yesterday was Thanksgiving. I’m thankful for a number of things, including our health, and our family, and that I have a job and am staying ahead of my bills at the moment.

I think it’s important to remember today who we are thanking. In these latter years, the emphasis is on being thankful, but you don’t hear much about who we are being thankful to.

From the very beginning of the Thanksgiving holiday, that thanks is owed to none other than God – the one described in The Holy Bible. Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Jesus.

Just wanted to point this out. I watched all kinds of stuff on TV yesterday, about Thanksgiving; I saw lots of turkeys, but no God.

-Popgun

Is It Intentional?

Please see this article over at Hot Air for references. Apologies, this article has lots of arithmetic.

ADDENDUM: Related – at Fox News: Obama Shatters Spending Record for First-Year Presidents. End Addendum.

Facts:

The ObamaCare bill, they claim, will result in saving $130 billion over ten years. This is because they start taxing immediately, but services don’t start until 2014. If you take the ten years starting in 2014, the cost is a staggering $1.8 trillion.

National Debt: Now topping $12 trillion, the annual interest payment on this will be $700 billion dollars a year by 2019.

NOTE that $700 billion dollars is about the cost of the ENTIRE IRAQ WAR SO FAR. That WE will have to pay EVERY YEAR as interest on the national debt. Also, this is at current (low) interest rates.

The following data comes from TreasuryDirect government website. The fiscal years start/end September 30.

In the years from 2001 through 2008 (Bush years), the national debt grew at an average rate of about $602 billion per year.

In 2008 through 2009 (Obama partial year) the national debt grew almost $1.9 trillion – THREE times the average of the Bush years for a PARTIAL year. Not defending Bush on this, but the rate of increase is radically higher under Obama than Bush. Even Bush was spending way too much. Obama saw we are way in debt, and radically increased spending anyway.

On top of this, the Democrats want to inflict us with their ObamaCare bill, which, starting in 2014 will add an additional $180 billion a year every year it is in operation to the national debt.

Obama, Pelosi and Reid cannot possibly be ignorant of this.

Indications are strong that our foreign debtors are losing confidence in our ability to repay the debt. The numbers above are some of those that they are looking at. If they cut us off to prevent us from spending more, we would be worse than bankrupt. The only reason they haven’t done that is that it would likely destroy their economies along with ours.

There are, according to Wikipedia, about 138 million taxpayers in the U.S. The interest alone on the national debt in 2019 will be about $5072 per taxpayer per year. BEFORE Obama, Pelosi and Reid complete their spending spree.

I’ll say it again – that $5072 is just the interest. EVERY YEAR. If that’s all we pay, it will go on forever.

When you are in a hole, it is time to stop digging! But, Obama has not stopped; quite the opposite.

I’m beginning to wonder if Obama and his cronies are trying to destroy this country. Is that their real goal? If you tried to think of a way to bring this country down, can you think of a better way to do it? It would certainly fit in with all those radical associations he has, starting with Bill Ayers and Reverend Wright, and so on, and so forth.

It’s either that, or Obama is the most foolish, stupid, incompetent president we have ever had. It’s just about got to be one or the other. And his supporters keep saying how smart he is…

I make no accusations. I just point out the facts, and raise the questions. This is how it looks from where I sit.

-Popgun

Representation?

Do we really have representation in congress?

This isn’t about health care, but my point is made by an example from that debate. Mary Landrieu, Democrat senator from Louisiana, voted for cloture of the health bill – after an amendment was added that sees to it that Louisiana will receive $300,000,000 dollars is benefits the other states won’t get.

On the face of it, Landrieu is bargaining for benefits for her state, and I cannot argue with that.

On the other hand, nationwide only 38% of voters now favor the current health care plan. I was unable to find statistics just for Louisiana.

So it seems likely that Landrieu is voting for a bill that her constituents do NOT want.

I’m not picking on Landrieu; it’s just that this is a convenient example of how our government is NOT a representative democracy. In point of fact, our ‘representatives’ can do any damn thing they want to, and our ONLY recourse is to vote them out in the next election.

It’s nice to have a recourse. But I’d rather our elected representatives would, well, you know, represent us.

-Popgun

We Have a Smart Dog!

We were watching reruns of Frasier last night, and there was a skit in which Martin had heard that you can tell how smart a dog is by throwing a towel on his head. The faster he removes the towel, the smarter he is. Eddie (the dog) of course just sat there with the towel on his head.

I’m here to tell you that (according to the skit) our dog is smarter than a Border Collie (7 seconds) or a Poodle (12 seconds). Our dog Rascal removed the towel in 2 seconds!

So he must be very smart!

-Popgun

THIS is What Obama Calls Smart Diplomacy

This is what Britain thinks of Obama.

-Popgun

Global Warming is a Fraud!

The ’scientists’ have been fraudulently stroking the data to support the global warming hypothesis. In these emails they clearly admit that even they can not find true evidence for global warming. Here’s a link to the Fox News story. And here’s one to John Lott’s article. And here’s another John Lott article with a more detailed breakdown. The climatologists have been distorting the numbers for a very long time.

In point of fact, the last ten years has shown a decline in global temperatures. As mentioned in the emails, and noted elsewhere.

We need to put a stop to the Cap and Trade Bill – NOW. It is the most insane thing I can imagine to wreck our country financially for a stated purpose that does not exist!

Now that this is out in the open, just watch – the Obama and the Democrats will still try to push Cap & Trade through, anyway. If they succeed, it will really hurt this country economically (while lining Al Gore’s pockets), and turn even more of our economy over to control of the government. Which is the real purpose of the bill.

Ask your Senators – what is the Cap and Trade bill for, if global warming is not a risk? And tell them NOT to vote for it.

-Popgun