Post Scripts

Posted by Jack (Update on the violence)

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) – Mexico is sending thousands more troops and federal police to the country’s most violent city, where law and order is on the brink of collapse in a war between gangs supplying drugs to the United States.

The army said on Thursday the deployment of up to 5,000 personnel could take the number of soldiers and federal police to over 7,000 in Ciudad Juarez, which is across the U.S. border from El Paso, Texas.

This month alone, drug hitmen killed 250 people in Juarez, where a meeting of cabinet members on Wednesday was rattled by three bomb scares, forcing soldiers to briefly shut the city’s international airport.

by Jack Lee

(This article is reprinted from 2007)

I’m not saying prison is a cushy place to hang out, but things like weight training, law libraries, ethnic meals, observance of Wicken holidays, love letters to serial killers, prison marriages, smoke breaks, prisoners filing their own writs, tattoo artists, prisoner advocate groups gaining access to prisons for more prisoner rights, etc., they have just gone too far.

Continue reading “Either Reform Prisons Or Watch Society Decay” »

by Tina Grazier

Private industry investment places risk on those private investors who find an idea worthy enough to risk their own personal money. Private investemnt keeps risk off of the backs of taxpayers. In the process good ideas thrive and grow…bad ideas fail.

This is how it works when government is in control:

1. Become enamored with a new idea (example – ethanol)
2. Write legislation that encourages the industry
3. Include in the legisalation a generous subsidy to jumpstart the industry
4.Create tarrifs to protect the industry domestically.
5. The above measures fail to create demand so write legislation mandating ethanol be added to gasoline.
6. Americans now MUST buy the product and distillaries pop up in the midwest.
7. An economic downturn…gas consumption declines
8. Distillories begin to close
9. Distillaries begin asking for a $1 Billion bailout
10. Joke is on Americans…$20 Billion is set aside for “renewable-energy subsidy in the porkulus bill. The process and expense could go on forever.

Government spending for new ideas has just begun…Americans are looking more and more like suckers.

HT – National Review March 9, 2009 print edition.

Posted by Tina

More historical obfuscation from Obama’s address to Congress, by Joseph Rosenberger American Thinker

** President Obama opined, “History reminds us that at every moment of economic upheaval and transformation, this nation has responded with bold action and big ideas. In the midst of civil war, we laid railroad tracks from one coast to another that spurred commerce and industry.” *** The expansion of the railroads was accomplished by, primarily, British railroad speculators and a land bribe, giving a section (one square mile) of land along each mile of railroad bed right-of-way. It cost taxpayers nothing, and created hundreds of thousands of jobs and planted the seeds of the great catalog retailers, Sears Roebuck and Co. and J.C. Penney. To suggest that the great railroad expansion was a Federal program is patently silly. **

Continue reading “Lies II” »

Posted by Tina

Theres strong evidence that the economic crisis is not only very serious for America but around the entire world . Many nations are looking to the United States to lead the way toward strong recovery and stability:

** Washington- President Obama and senior administration officials have begun receiving a daily CIA report on the global economic crisis in addition to briefings on terrorist threats and other national security issues, CIA Director Leon E. Panetta said Wednesday. The CIA’s role in producing the report underscores the level of anxiety within the administration over how rapidly the economic downturn is spreading, as well as its potential to hobble foreign governments and trigger instability overseas. Los Angeles Times **

So why, given the gravity of the situation, would our esteemed elected officials in Washington overload the stimulus bill with so much extraneous pork spending?

And a rhetorical question, if I may: Why does the bulk of this article, Obama begins getting daily CIA report on economic crisis, by Greg Miller – LA Times, address issues related to the terror war rather than the economic crisis as the title suggests? Its almost like the LA Times is trying to avoid war headlines” during the Obama presidency.)

Posted by Tina

Obama’s shaky claims before Congress (updated), by Thomas Lifson – American Thinker

** If I were president I’d make damn sure every claim I made in an address before a joint session of Congress was verifiable. Last night, President Obama made two very dubious claims. **

Continue reading “Were Obama Claims Fibs?” »

Posted by Tina

I didn’t say anything when they criticized Michelle Obamas dress the night Barack Obama won the nomination for his party. I kept my mouth shut when they criticized her dress at the innaguration. I can’t tolerate it a third time.

** You’d think sleeveless were akin to topless in the setting of President Barack Obama’s speech Tuesday…her choice of a Narciso Rodriguez sleeveless plum-colored dress in this venue ignited some indignation among the citizenry. “Does the lady not understand that these Big Speech Events are serious and important? Not a cocktail party?” e-mailed one Tribune reader, who said she scanned the crowd for other bare arms and spied none. Chicago Tribune **