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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Picture via Wikipedia

Nineteen months into the Obama Administration, even Time Magazine is recognizing that Obama has lost his popularity.  Glaringly missing from the Time article is the admission that absolutely none of Obama’s policies, programs, or leadership moves have worked.

None!  Nada!  Zip! Please follow the previous link for an excellent article by Keith Hennessey documenting the Obama economy.

Just last week, our Loser in Chief announced that the US combat phase in Iraq was over. Immediately, the Al Queda insurgents started actions they have been planning since Obama was elected to office and promised to be out of Iraq by a certain date.  Their patience is payng off.

Barack Obama has no clue what it means to be Commander in Chief of the armed forces of the most powerful nation on earth.  By announcing politically motivated withdrawal dates, this Humpty-Dumpty President guarantees more lost lives of American and Iraqi soldiers and civilians.

When Obama came into office, the war in Iraq was his to lose.  The unchallenged triumph of George W. Bush’s hard work, and the blood and honor of our military is at stake.

Unfortunately, it appears that Barack Obama is dead earnest in pursuing his cut-and-run policies.  The long term security of our nation does not mean much in his political calculus.

How ’bout them apples?

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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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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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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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Things are so bad that the cartels have established forward fire bases (camps) within the US where they can coordinate their illegal trades of smuggling drugs and people.

Smuggling drugs and people go together, since the drug thugs use the people  to carry the drugs.

In a panic response to the huge outcry from the American public about the lack of action from the Obama Administration, the Democrat Congress has passed a 600 million dollar piece of legislation to “secure the border”.

The lackluster, but expensive bill will fund the addition of 1,000 additional border agents and a lot of high tech hardware.  This is not even one agent per mile of the border.

We still need large contingents of National Guard troops to GUARD the border.  The new agents will only arrest a few thugs after the border has been breached and the harm done.

The Democrat goal is clear.  They want to grant amnesty to the illegal aliens in the hope of getting all those millions of extra votes so that they can rape the US Treasury even more.  The Demos anticipate huge returns from this kind of brain dead action.

This morning Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security, announced the signing of the bill and bragged about how the Administration is solving the problems along the Southwest border.  If  there were ever a feminine empty suit, she is the one.

Agents will be hired, people will die, and nothing will get better in our southern border regions.  Fear will continue to rule.

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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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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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That’s it, pure and simple.  Not only did people with bad credit get loans, but people with decent credit could finance much larger homes for speculative purposes.

The financial sharks came out in droves milking the situation for everything it was worth.

If this were not bad enough the government backed home loan guarantors, The Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and  the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac),  were forced by Congress to buy the high risk mortgages from the loaning mortgage banks.

Fannie and Freddie turned around and resold around these bad mortgages packaged with some good ones to the rest of the world.  Since the US Government is on the hook for everything Fannie and Freddie do, we are now having to pay Trillions of dollars in tax money to correct the stupid laws Congressional Democrats passed.

So, what does Obama do to  1) get the nation out of a recession if his party’s doings, and  2) what do the Democrats do about the dangerous way Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac do business?

Obama and his Democrat majority did NOTHING about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac except hide their heads and pretend that everything is alright. Those silly laws are still in existence.

Obama passed an almost one Trillion dollar “stimulus” package that generates NO MEASURABLE ECONOMIC BENEFIT in jobs or anything else.  His bill is simply the same old political payoff to big cities and states.

The recession may have started before Obama was elected to office, but this recession is his bought by the useless stimulus spending and ignorant economics of his Administration.

It has become generally known that Obama is not only incompetent as an executive, but in economics, too.

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It is not hard to start a blog. You can get free blog space on Google sites, and especially WordPress.com. WordPress is a software package that was designed to be the best platform for blogs. The interesting, nerdy, thing is that WordPress can be used for regular web sites, too. The REALLY BIG DEAL is that once you get the basic graphical and structural details knocked out, you can have a web site with dozens of web pages that can be easily updated.

What WordPress has morphed into is a Content Management System.   In other words WordPress is a software package that resides on the web server that handles all the web functions for you, and gives you easy access to all your site content to update, change, and edit for any purpose without having to be a goofy geek to search out file names, use HTML editors, and all that nonsense.

I am now using WordPress to structure a web site for a client as part of a class exercise where we do real stuff for real clients.

WordPress is open source software. Open source software is free software, and is created by literally hundreds or even thousands of people from all over the world.  Open source is taking over the world wide web, and we are all part of this evolution.

Now you know what I have been doing for the last few weeks, and it will continue for a while.

Life is still fun, and I am learning new stuff.

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