Democrats want to target different sectors of the economy to achieve their social engineering goals.  Any economist of any intelligence (this means no Marxists) knows that it is impossible for any person or government to pick and choose which sectors of an economy will be affected by any particular fiscal policy.

There are thousands of factors at play, and it is impossible to to isolate specific factors to effect the desired change on the target populations.

For example, the government is not able to effectively target research projects for technologies that will be successful in reducing our dependence on foreign oil.  There are existing private research projects for the same technologies, but they are not heavily funded with private money.

Important note: Private enterprise will NOT aggressively fund research that has little to no potential over a five to ten year period. If private enterprise will not commit money to a loser, why should the Federal Government?

Another important note: Manhattan Project style funding for energy projects does nothing to overcome basic laws of physics, or make a technology economically feasible.

The Manhattan Project was a success because scientists had already figured out nuclear fission. They just weren’t sure they could manufacture enough nuclear fuel to make it work.  Government stepped in and delivered massive funding to overcome a lack in facilities and manpower to do the work.

So, why do so many government bureaucrats and socialists think they can change the world’s energy picture just with the application of money?  The answer is really simple.  They don’t understand the basics of physics or economics.

For the same reasons, the Obama Administration cannot substantially change the nation’s jobs picture by targeting massive amounts of spending.  The jobs created by Obama’s stimulus plan are mainly government jobs, which will have to be funded by additional taxes after the stimulus money is gone.  That’s a fool’s game.

Even targeting small businesses will not necessarily increase job creation in the economy.  Nobody can know which business sizes, or what part of their business, will be affected by the targeted stimulus programs.  That’s why a general tax cut is always a good idea.

A general tax cut will make huge amounts of money available, INSTANTLY, to millions of businesses, consumers, and entrepreneurs.

Because we don’t know which entrepreneurs or small businesses will make the most difference, the smart move is to cut taxes for EVERYBODY!

That’s why targeted tax cuts and targeted stimulus spending is a fool’s game.

Obama and his socialist trained economists haven’t figured out that they cannot effectively or efficiently target economic progress.  It never has worked.

That’s why Obama is playing a fool’s game.

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A few months ago, my answer for the above question would have been, “Who cares?”

About one American out of five care.  According to the latest polls they think that Barack Hussein really is a Muslim.

Are 20% of the American people right in thinking Obama is Muslim?  It doesn’t matter whether they are correct or not.  As long as they think he is Muslim, Obama will always be a Muslim for that group of people.

Why would anyone think Obama is a Muslim?  Well, for one thing a critical part of his upbringing was in Muslim households and partly in a Muslim country.

Barack Obama has been seen in photographs bowing to the King of Saudi Arabia and other Muslim leaders.  Does that mean he is Muslim or does that mean that he harbors a deep seated favoritism for Muslims?

Then we have to take into account Obama’s forgiving attitude toward Muslim terrorists.  His defense of Muslim terrorists is almost criminal in and of itself.

Lastly, we have Obama’s proclamation of support for the siting of a mosque in the ground zero neighborhood.  He tried crawfishing on this one, but nobody intelligent is buying it.

If all the above behavior does not indicate a strong support for Muslims, nothing does.

Do all these things mean Obama is a Muslim?  I don’t think so.

Obama is big nothing!

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There seems to be an iPhone application for everything.  Now, there is one for global warming.  A global warming skeptic in Australia created the following app, and it is growing in popularity by leaps and bounds.  I paid the 99 cents for the app, and find it to have some great charts and information about the science of global warming.

Our Climate iPhone App - Great Source of Climate Science Info

When the catastrophic climate alarmists found out about this app, they went ballistic.  It seems that there is an iPhone app called “Skeptical Science” which is purposely misleading.  The author is an over-the-top, catastrophic global warming freak, and has included in incredible amount of non-science to try to refute the real climate skeptics.

Pro-Global Warming iPhone Application

The Australian newspaper, The Guardian, blogged on the side of the global warming activist, and other global warming activist blogs are arguing that the Our Climate app is bogus.  Genuine skeptic sites point out the BS that is in the “Skeptical Science” app.  The fight goes on and on.

Enter a cartoonist, Josh, who has been reading climate blogs for years, and understands all the subtleties of the arguments.  So, from cartoonsbyjosh.com comes this cartoon.  It helps to have a sense of humor about these things.

Here is Josh’s response to the whole argument.

Josh's Cartoon Response iPanic iPhone Application

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Unbelievable!  Here’s the CNN news report.

Notice that the news breaks late Friday night or early Saturday morning.  What a slob, and Bloomberg is a suck-up.  Read this stuff and have a good weekend.

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I constructed the above title to be search engine friendly, and this is part of my learning process in building web pages.

But, I digress.

It seems that everyday, somebody is charging someone else with being racist.  It happens so often that I am beginning to think that a lot of these people haven’t looked up the definition of racism.  Allow me to quote from Wikiepedia.

Racism is the belief that the genetic factors which constitute race are a primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.^[1] Racism’s effects are called “racial discrimination.” In the case of institutional racism, certain racial groups may be denied rights or benefits, or receive preferential treatment.

Everybody knows that Wikipedia cannot be trusted, but I have elected to use their definition for my purposes.  I believe that racism can be confused with dislike of individuals, or even bias and prejudice in everyday social decisions.  I don’t believe that all bias and prejudice is derived from racism, even though people of different races may be involved in a situation.

I am biased against stupid people, people who smell bad, people who chain smoke, people who are drunk, and people who make loud noises through their bodily orifices.  You might even say that I am prejudiced against these people, even if they are a different color than I, or if they are from a different country, state, city, or neighborhood.  There are some people I will avoid.

Still, there are people against whom I harbor extreme prejudice, and am capable of wishing them ill tidings and bad will from the rest of the world.  I can’t always tell you who these people are, but you know them when you see them.  Henry Waxman, Barney “Rubble” Frank, and Chris Dodd fall in this group because they have contributed to the destruction of what little wealth I have managed to accumulate in a lifetime of work and saving.

I don’t like rap music, any kind of hispanic music, and I literally hate mariachi bands.  Come to think of it, I don’t like music much, anyway.  I don’t like any culture where I don’t feel comfortable.  None of this makes me racist

When you hear someone call someone else racist, you need to question them closely as to what they mean, and why they think the way they do.  Chances are, you will find the accuser basing their opinions on their own limitations and racist attitudes.

This is serious.

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According to the news reports, the man that killed eight people in Connecticut was either doing it because of being a target of racial harassment, or because he was fired for stealing from the company.

He was as driver for a beverage distributor and attended a meeting with his management and union representative. He was shown videos of himself taking merchandise from his truck, and was asked to resign or be fired.

Either way, he murdered eight people and committed suicide.

If there were multiple harassment events targeting this man, maybe the last straw was his firing during the meeting.

From the news reports, he had told his girlfriend that there had been a pattern of race related abuse, and he was the target.

The nation needs to know what happened in this case.  The investigation needs to be swift, and the local law enforcement needs to publicize all the facts.

If you are invited to a meeting with your management and union representative, would you anticipate a railroad job out of the company and carry a handgun to the meeting?

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We have a problem.

Millions of people from the interior of Mexico and points south are pouring into our great country every year.  These are the modern day hungry, defeated, despised, and wretched refuse no other country in the world wants to shelter.

In the minds of many these illegals should be sent packing back to the tropical paradise of their origin.   They take jobs legitimate Americans should have, and cost local and national taxpayers billions of dollars in services they do not deserve.

Democrats and other atheists want us to do the Christian thing and show mercy to these poor souls, declare them citizens, and register them to vote for more Democrats.  They want “Comprehensive Immigration Reform”.

Comprehensive Immigration Reform is code for amnesty, and it’s a non-starter.

We need new solutions; stuff out of left field; brain storming ideas; and just plain bold proposals.

I have a bold plan.  It is simple, but not simplistic.

We should ask our illegal Mexican squatters to go home. They are no longer welcome.

The follow-up action is to vigorously prosecute companies who hire illegal aliens.  This is easier than it sounds, and does not involve buses, cattle cars, or German shepherds.

Note the simplicity, directness, and economy with which the problem is addressed.

The really big thing about the “Go Home” program is that it would not cost anything to implement.  No new laws, no prisons, and you can use the same cops we have.

The one thing that will make it work is to lock down the border.  Everything else will follow from this.

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We have a whistle blower. A senior attorney in the Department of Justice, and a lead attorney in the prosecution of the New Black Panther’s intimidating presence at a Philadelphia voting poll has resigned in protest of the dropping of the case, even though the case had already been won.  Nothing remained except for deciding the punishment of the evil doers.

See the YouTube video, below, taken by a University of Pennsylvania student of the actual incident.  The Black Panther dudes were not Jehovah’s Witnesses or Mormons out to convert you to their brand of worship.  They were there to intimidate poll workers from challenging the legitimacy of thousands of illegal voters registered by the Democrats favorite stooge organization, ACORN.

One of the charges against the Department of Justice is that there is an internal, non-published policy of NOT prosecuting cases where the victims are white.  How does this happen?

This happens when the President of The United States has befriended, and belonged to a black supremacist church for 25 years.  Barack Hussein Obama’s past and subsequent influences are now showing themselves, and it’s not pretty.

Opponents of Obama were belittled for observing that he has a Muslim background, and was likely to prejudice US policy towards leniency to Muslim terrorists.  Barack Obama’s bowing and kissing up to terrorist leaders, and trying to shut down the Guantanamo detention facility bear witness to his bankrupt, Muslim leanings.

It became obvious in the campaign that Obama was using the language and reasoning of the discredited Marxist movement which has failed, or is failing, in ALL of its host countries.  Socialism is just a cousin of Marxism, and the source of Obama’s swooning love for socialism is probably his Ivy League education.

Prior to his election, Obama made the statement that he would bankrupt coal companies. Liberals tried to laugh it off as a remark of the moment.  Now, we know that Barack Obama meant what he said, and he is ignorant enough to follow through with his threats.

Now, we have a Racist, Marxist, Extreme Environmentalist President, and the nation is in huge trouble.  Everything Obama believes in is either anti-American or injurious to our freedoms and economic health of our great nation.

Read the Pajamas Media article written by J. Christopher Adams, the bravest whistle blower in US history.  He is braving the onslaught of the Democrat, liberal media slime machine for telling the truth.  The Department of Justice is trashing Mr. Adams, but the truth will eventually come out.

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Just kidding.

It is a wonder that we haven’t seen a blog using this theme among the “progressive” internet organs favored by the brainless liberal Democrats.  This is just the kind of thing you would expect from them.

Of course, Karl Rove, Republican Political Advisor to President Bush, is not in action anymore as advising major Republican candidates.

With Rove out of action, who will the liberal left blame with tempting Al Gore to do his Sex Crazed Poodle Act?

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I just read a provocative article by Roger L. Simon on the Pajama’s Media web page titled, “Does Barack Obama Want To Be President?”.  Mr Simon’s approach is that Obama has had such a tough time in his first year in office that he is tired and would rather be somewhere else.  We can see some signs of Obama’s fatigue, and there may be some truth to Simon’s thesis.

I disagree.  I think Obama is there for the long haul.  Even with his lack of experience, lack of understanding, and egregious errors in domestic economics, foreign relations, and national security, Obama is the kind of man who will keep on marching to his particular drummer’s beat.  His ego is like Adolf Hitler’s ego. Barack Obama will imagine victory is within his grasp until the very end, and he may never understand his mistakes.

We are already seeing the first signs of Obama bunker-mania with him blaming everybody in the world for the BP oil spill and lack of Government response in the cleanup.  When the November elections go bad for the Democrats, we will see a huge cloud of dust and a whole flock of de-frocked Democrats bounced out of office.

Obama’s bunkermates will run over each other trying to  get out of the way of the American voters’ wrath.

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