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Watch out folks; here it comes. Obama recognizes that his days of influence are rapidly waning as his super majority will end in November. As a result, he is putting the pedal to the metal on all of the plans initially outlined for a roll-out over 8 years. He must pony up on the promises he made to the unions, the environmentalists, the homosexuals, the pharmaceutical companies, the illegal aliens, ACORN, Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton, Al Gore, George Soros, NOW, Planned Parenthood, the Federal Reserve, and the 60’s radicals that helped him launch his political career. We are witnessing the first snowballs on the slippery slopes of state. And they will continue as long as we permit him to behave as a king.

John McCain must believe that he lost to Obama because he wasn’t socialist enough. This is the only way to explain his having written a bill to regulate nutritional supplements a la the European model, and this before sitting down with a handful of real Republicans at Obama’s health care summit.

Most people who are even slightly conscious do not have a problem understanding that proper nutrition is a critical component of good health. How many of the 60+ minerals essential to good health are found in the food we eat? How many maladies are the result of inadequacies in our diets? Are supplements an important element in maintaining good health?

I have lived in Europe and have been subject to socialized medicine. Their control over the supplement market is part of their socialized program. European governments do not want people to be responsible for their own well-being. That sounds like a bold statement on the surface but what other conclusion can be drawn? My friends over there give me orders for things as simple as multivitamins and vitamin C every time they hear that I am coming over, so tightly are these things controlled and so expensive are they when available at all.

I honor McCain’s service to our country but I think he has been on the DC cocktail circuit way too long. What is he thinking? Is this hypocrisy or hubris? From whom is he taking advice? McCain should fire that person or the people of Arizona should fire him. Adding this to the disaster that was McCain/Feingold and the best solution to the problem seems obvious; to generously contribute to JD Hayworth’s campaign to unseat the increasingly unhinged senator from Sedona.

The First Lady, in an admirable effort to rein in childhood obesity and borrowing a line from Nancy Reagan, has been quoted as saying “Just say No to food deserts”. I am wondering if California’s lower central valley, turned into a dust-bowl by the EPA’s favoritism of the Delta smelt over the human population, qualifies as a food desert. Or was she actually saying “Just say No to dessert”?

The Harvard educated Alabama university professor, Amy Bishop, who shot and killed the male members of the faculty who had just denied her tenure has provided us with some timely insight into the nature of irrational anger and its manifestations.

In this age of the politically correct vilification of men (especially while men) it is appropriate to recall some of the famous and infamous women whose deeds overwhelmingly prove that women can also be cold, hard, calculating criminals. Lucretia Borgia comes to mind, along with Lizzy Borden, Bonnie Parker, Salome (the one who asked for John the Baptist’s head on a platter), Typhoid Mary, Eva Peron, Susan Atkins, Squeaky Fromme, Andrea Yates, Frances Newton, Blanche Moore, Diane Downs, Susan Smith, Elena Ceausescu, Tokyo Rose, Ma Barker, Jezebel, Ethyl Rosenberg, Mata Hari, Belle Starr, Pearl Hart, Etta Place, Ellen Watson, Elizabeth Bthory, Mary Anne Cotton, Genene Jones, Marybeth Tinning, Karla Homolka, Ailene Wuronos and Janet Reno, whose Justice Department made it chic to revile men.

A Texas University study, conducted by two women, on the subject of domestic violence determined that women are more likely to commit violence on their counterparts than the other way around. The reason that we do not hear much about this is because men are less likely to call the cops. It is simply not manly to complain that one’s wife or girlfriend beat him up.

It would be well to have an open dialogue about the realities as opposed to perpetuating the myths; not just about domestic violence but about all things that have been protected and promulgated by the PC police over the last generation. Don’t you think we have had enough of the lies?

I am sure that Professor Bishop will now find a life-time position in an Alabama institution as a result of her actions.

(The Bishop story also tells us that a Harvard University education is not the imprimatur that some would have us believe.)

Common sense is found in the willingness to objectively view available evidence and draw conclusions based upon the application of logic and then to ethically employ that information in formulating a plan of action consistent with the principles thus identified. Common sense would then dictate that one use rational thought in conveying one’s findings to others without fear of contradiction or without the necessity to impugn the character of the other; in other words exercising discretion sufficient to avoid the thoughtless temptation to misrepresent the content and context of a conversation in which one has lost intellectual traction, choosing instead to mis-color the other as a racist, bigot or fool. One cannot claim to possess common sense if he cannot defend his position other than through a virtueless effort to vilify the other in a manner wholly inconsistent with point being debated.

My last post was not motivated by nostalgia for the Clinton days as much the pure disdain I feel for the current administration as a result for their disdain for the rest of us. Compared to the present occupant of the Oval Office, Bill was an affable rogue with a testosterone problem. By contrast Obama perceives all Americans as wearing blue dresses.

—but I miss Bill Clinton.

Is there really something wrong with using notes when speaking in public? Is there a significant difference between occasionally jotting a few notes on one’s hand and using a teleprompter in nearly every venue?

No, this is not my last post. I refer to my last post in which the text reads “test”. Merely an accident. But while we are here I must confess that I do focus heavily on politics, economics, history and foreign affairs and I am sure that many merely sigh and move on when they see my posts. This is certainly your option but I hasten to remind you that he who does not learn from history is condemned to repeat it and he who is not conscious of the present will be called to account. All Americans will ultimately be held to held to the standards set forth by our Founding Fathers and the Founding Father. What will you say when you are asked what you did to defend the liberty and truth?

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Last year there were 164,000,000 prescriptions written for anti-depressants in the USA. This is half of the population! I would love to see the correlation between political affiliation and depression. All I can say is that I’m happy being a life-long independent voter.

Continuing with the big numbers, the Obama administration has made a big deal of late about saving or creating 2,000,000 jobs with their stimulus package. If you run the math, these jobs have cost the taxpayers $392,500 each. Where do I apply? Is this why so many take anti-depressants?

Obama says that two of his very favorite movies are Godfather I and Godfather II. The reason he did not include Godfather III is that it runs a little to close to the truth. “Politics and crime are one in the same.”
-Don Thomasino

The Democrats create more voters by addicting them to government subsidies of one kind or another. Those who consider themselves less fortunate or suffering from some disadvantage are always happy to get things, ostensibly for free. In this they lose their freedom. To succeed in getting more voters the Dems (or the government; the distinction may not really matter) have only to create more poor people. Crashing the economy and raising taxes seems to be a great strategy.

The spending freeze is designed to combat political climate change. Of course it is purely a smoke screen. Cutting $250,000,000,000 in discretionary spending will have no impact whatsoever on our $100+ Trillion national debt (yes, this number is correct. the $12 Trillion number being thrown around does not include social security, medicare, treasury obligations, or interest to foreign creditors.

The death of Air America is proof that Al Franken’s ideas do not resonate outside of Minnesota. The fact he was elected as Senator from that state only served to prolong the Viking curse. Not even Brett Favre could overcome the consequences of the moral decay of the majority of the voters in and around the Twin Cities. Franken voters have proven, however, that one doesn’t have to wear one’s hat crooked or have his pants on the ground to look like a fool.

As if the Brown victory was not sufficient to rock the political world, the Supreme Court has just overturned significant, long-term restrictions on free speech despicably enshrined by the vile and unwise over the last 100 years. The most recent and egregious in this line of limitations on democracy being the legislation bearing the names of John McCain and Russ Feingold.

Essentially, the 5-4 ruling allows corporations and unions the ability to participate in politicking through contributions with the caveat that their contributions are duly and publicly noted for all interested parties to see. This makes great sense. We should know who supports who.

Some cry foul however, because of their misunderstanding of the role and function of corporations, especially in American life. Many look upon the corporations the way I look upon big government and the Federal Reserve; as being evil and corrupt. The reality is that the form and function of the corporation is democratic capitalism; economic egalitarianism; the vote one makes with one’s pocketbook, but more than that. It is not just supporting a product or service through the purchase of that product or service, it is investing in it.

So, who are the corporations? They are you and me, if we have chosen to invest and participate in democratic capitalism. What is so bad about that? Nothing, unless you are a communist.

If Obama can serve two years in the US Senate before a successful run for the president, what can Brown do? The guy obviously has what it takes to win as a Republican in a Democrat stronghold. Apart from being tall, dark and handsome, he drives a pickup truck! In a political landscape devoid of clear landmarks, a man of his stature could go a long, long way. His truck has over 201,000 miles on it. He might even be able to rescue the Blue Dog Democrats from the tyrants on the left and from themselves as enablers.