Last 2 weeks of News

I have been MIA the last two weeks, to much work and to do at home in the nice Spring weather to spend time on the computer.

1) California Supreme court rules Prop 8 is a “legal” amendment but stating the only the term marriage is what was made illegal for same sex couples in California. This is a ruling I actual agree with. Marriage is a religious term and should be taken totally out of the Governments hands. The government should create a mutual support contract to be filed with a government agency to give the “marriage rights” to any two people who want to enter such a relationship. Also a dissolution of the mutual support contract form and process would be needed. No need for lawyers or courts. Just a notarized form.
A good legal analysis can be found here.

2) Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, A normal far left wing hack job who thinks that they no better than anyone else what is “good” and “just” for all without any regard for the actual law.

3) Government Motors is now bankrupt. Big shock here, a poorly managed company for the last 30 years that has a huge union presence so short and long term costs can’t be controlled. To bad it will result in a motor company which is fascist in nature, supposedly privately owned by run by the government.

4) Obama stumping for his health care plans passage this summer before the bill is even written. The plan is here but there are no specifics. Normal politics, talk, give speech, no substance and rush through a plan in the darkness of night that nobody can read or comprehend since a true debate of the bill will result in it being something a vast majority of US citizen’s do not want.

5) North Korea leaves the peace Armistice, blows up a nuclear weapon and tests some long range missiles, the US response, maybe we can get a harsher worded letter to be considered at the UN but no passed. While this is going on make statements that this is not tolerable and North Korea is a rogue state, yada yada yada, nothing changed in 20 years on this front.

Searching for a silver lining but do not see anywhere that people are being told to be responsible for themselves and live with the consequences of poor decision making. Another couple of weeks on the road to fascism.

Tax Day Tea Party – Rochester NY

I went to the Tea Party on today (April 15th) – I would estimate there was about 2000 people in attendance.

here are some pictures

Update : Local media is saying 400 hundred. Sorry the line of people in the march was 2 or 4 wide and at least a 1000 long and took 15 minutes to pass me from start to finish.

Saturday’s cartoons – politics

from townhall.com

Rochester, NY Tea Party – Tax day

Freedom loving American’s can no longer afford to be the silent majority. The path America is on will result in everyone being equal, we will all have nothing. Except for the self appointed political class who want to rule over their fiefdom.

Tax Day Rochester NY Tea Party, April 15, 2009 11am

Republicans need to do more of this

Jindal Says Republicans Can Only Blame Themselves for Loss

SPRINGDALE, Ark. — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said Saturday that the Republicans only had themselves to blame for losing control of Congress and the White House.

“The country fired us from our congressional majority in 2006. Why? The country didn’t stop being conservative. The Republican Party did,” Jindal told a gathering of Arkansas Republicans. “We became what we came to Washington to change — the party of earmarks and government spending. The party needs to stop worrying about what to do to fix itself. Let’s worry more about fixing our country. Then the party will fix itself.”

Jindal also discussed his push to put a new set of ethics rules in place in Louisiana — a state where he said “half of it is under water and the other half is under indictment.”

“Hundreds of members of state boards and commissions resigned in protest,” he said. “That was fine with me. I knew they could be replaced by people who’d work for free and wouldn’t mind having everyone know what they were doing.”

Jindal, 37, spoke to a crowd of 660 people at the Washington County Lincoln Day dinner Saturday night, an event attended by U.S. Rep. John Boozman, former Arkansas gubernatorial candidate Asa Hutchinson and several state legislators. On his trip to Arkansas, Jindal also visited the Bentonville headquarters of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to thank the world’s largest retailer for its help after Louisiana’s four hurricanes since 2005.

Friday, Jindal attended a private fundraiser in Fayetteville. His previous fundraising travels have taken him to Texas, North Carolina, Mississippi, Florida and Connecticut.

Jindal, a former member of the House, has strong support from conservatives for his income tax-cutting initiatives and is an early favorite among many Republicans for the 2012 presidential election. Many of them advocated for John McCain to pick Jindal as his vice presidential running mate.

I could not agree more with this statement.
The country fired us from our congressional majority in 2006. Why? The country didn’t stop being conservative. The Republican Party did

This is why the Washington centric republican party is falling apart. A lack of leadership, the party has been to much of a liberal-lite party.

Thomas Sowell: Republicans as Democrats

Find his entire column here: Republicans as Democrats

A brief glimmer of sanity among Congressional Republicans has been followed, almost immediately, by a return to the more traditional Washington insanity.
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This was a rare smart move by the Republicans. If the Republicans had gone along, pursuing the will o’ the wisp of “bipartisanship,” then if the stimulus had by some miracle succeeded, it would have been a bill for which Democrats would claim credit at the next election.

On the other hand, if the stimulus failed– which seems far more likely– then it would be called a “bipartisan” bill, meaning that the Democrats would pay no price at the next election for a colossal failure.
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Within 24 hours, however, Republicans in the Senate came out with a plan to have the government fix mortgage interest rates at four percent– and use taxpayers’ money to cover the losses that lenders would otherwise sustain.

It is painfully obvious that government intervention in the housing markets over the past several years has been at the heart of the boom and bust that has led to a huge economic downturn.
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The last time the Republicans pushed for price controls was during the Nixon administration. It was very popular in the short run. But, in the long run, even Nixon admitted in his memoirs that it was bad for the country.
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What principle separates the Republicans from the Democrats? If they are just Tweedledee and Tweedledum, then elections come down to personality and rhetoric. If that happens, you can bet the rent money on the Democrats winning
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When have the Republicans won big? When they stood for something and told the people what that something was.
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It is the only advantage the Republicans have. The Democrats have the media, the unions, the environmental extremists and the tort lawyers on their side. Why should Republicans throw away their one advantage by becoming imitation Democrats?

This article expresses my beliefs very well.
More thinking and acting like this will revive the conservative concepts that allowed America to push forward and improve the lives of humans world-wide.

Sunday’s Editorial Comics

All from Townhall.com

Judge Obama on Performance Alone

This is a link to a Juan Williams article in the Wall Street Journal. I have never been a great fan of Juan but sometimes the best comments come from the least expected places.

Judge Obama on Performance Alone

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If his presidency is to represent the full power of the idea that black Americans are just like everyone else — fully human and fully capable of intellect, courage and patriotism — then Barack Obama has to be subject to the same rough and tumble of political criticism experienced by his predecessors. To treat the first black president as if he is a fragile flower is certain to hobble him. It is also to waste a tremendous opportunity for improving race relations by doing away with stereotypes and seeing the potential in all Americans.
Yet there is fear, especially among black people, that criticism of him or any of his failures might be twisted into evidence that people of color cannot effectively lead. That amounts to wasting time and energy reacting to hateful stereotypes. It also leads to treating all criticism of Mr. Obama, whether legitimate, wrong-headed or even mean-spirited, as racist.
This is patronizing. Worse, it carries an implicit presumption of inferiority. Every American president must be held to the highest standard. No president of any color should be given a free pass for screw-ups, lies or failure to keep a promise.
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When fellow Democrats contending for the nomination rightly pointed to Mr. Obama’s thin proposals for dealing with terrorism and extricating the U.S. from Iraq, they were drowned out by loud if often vacuous shouts for change. Yet in the general election campaign and during the transition period, Mr. Obama steadily moved to his former opponents’ positions. In fact, he approached Bush-Cheney stands on immunity for telecommunications companies that cooperate in warrantless surveillance.
There is a dangerous trap being set here. The same media people invested in boosting a black man to the White House as a matter of history have set very high expectations for him. When he disappoints, as presidents and other human beings inevitably do, the backlash may be extreme.
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There is a lot more at stake now, and to allow criticism of Mr. Obama only behind closed doors does no honor to the dreams and prayers of generations past: that race be put aside, and all people be judged honestly, openly, and on the basis of their performance.

President Obama deserves no less.

If what Juan Williams writes about comes true that it will prove that the liberal media is doing its job. If it is 4 years of fawning over the first black president then the media is demonstrating the prejudice and racism that a lot of conservatives believe exists in liberalism.

I agree with Juan that a lack of critical analysis of President Obama policies and the media continually challenging every decision he makes is a necessity, anything less does a disservice to America.

Free Markets – Another Midnight Bank of America Bailout

Bank of America to get $20 billion in emergency funds

Glad to see that Bush and Obama are agreed that the government needs to give money to one private bank to buy another private bank and when the purchase of the failing bank does not work out the government will give more money to the original private bank.

Socialism to save the free-markets. What a grand concept.

Michelle Malkin has a great history and commentary on this topic.

Middle of the night bailout for Bank of America; TARP investigation of BoA and Citigroup/Jesse Jackson event requested

Bush the Socialist, sacrifice free-markets

Bush says sacrificed free-market principles to save economy

Principals are principals you either always believe in them or you do not. To say I sacrificed a principal for anything means it is not really your principal.

GOP Rep. Jeb Hensarling
If we lose our ability to fail, we will soon lose our ability to succeed. If we bail out risky behavior, we will soon see even riskier behavior.