Post Scripts

Posted by Tina

** WASHINGTON A 50 percent increase in gasoline and diesel fuel taxes is being urged by a federal commission to finance highway construction and repair until the government devises another way for motorists to pay for using public roads. The National Commission on Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing, a 15-member panel created by Congress, is the second group in a year to call for higher fuel taxes. **

Yep…those people in the middle class really need a break…is it too soon to start saying we warned you?

Posted by Tina

As long as were keeping track isnt it time we exposed BIG Union Boss? Michelle Malkin thinks so and, as many of you would suspect, I agree. Take a gander at her article, The UAWs Money Squandering Corruptocracy posted at IBD

** Nero fiddled while Rome burned. The UAW golfed. While carmakers soak up $17 billion in taxpayer bailout funds and demand more for their ailing industry, United Auto Workers bosses have wasted tens of millions of their workers’ dues on gold-plated resorts and rotten investments. The labor organization’s money-losing golf compound is just the tip of the iceberg. **

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Posted by Tina

Cuban Stalinism at 50–and the Media Lies Continue, by Humberto Fontova American Thinker

** “Cuban mothers let me assure you that I will solve all Cuba’s problems without spilling a drop of blood.” Upon entering Havana on January 7, 1959, Cuba’s new leader Fidel Castro broadcast that promise into a phalanx of
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Posted by Tina & Nick

Our discussions about terrorists and the war often lead back to the same frustrating point. Those who oppose the war claim equivalence: all war is bad, killing is killing, and there are no valid reasons to fight back. More frustrating than this is the propensity to portray the aggressor as victim. Diabolical provocations elicit equally diabolical responses….and the lords of terror revel in it.

Continue reading “A Most Diabolical Provocation & Response” »

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
He who laughs last, thinks slowest.
Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don’t.
Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there’s a 90% probability you’ll get it wrong.
The things that come to those who wait will be the things left by those who got there first.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat all day drinking beer.
The shin bone is a device for finding furniture in a dark room.
A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.
When you go into court, you are putting yourself In the hands of 12 people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.

by Jack Lee

Mr. Nizar Rayyan, a rabid Muslim cleric widely regarded as one of Hamas’s most hardline political leaders responsible for promoting many deaths in the past decade, who had recently called for renewed suicide bombings inside Israel… has been killed.

Seems he was blown up by the Israelis while sleeping in his bed. Medical officials, confirming his death, said two of his four wives and seven of his children were killed in the bombing, in Jabalya refugee camp. Upon the news release, not one Israeli was observed dancing in the streets or passing out celebratory candy to children, but I did a quick jig in my living room.

Posted by Jack Lee

1. If [Hillary Clinton] gets a race against John Edwards and Barack Obama, shes going to be the nominee. Gore is the only threat to her, then. Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single Democratic primary. Ill predict that right now. William Kristol, Fox News Sunday, Dec. 17, 2006

2. Should I be worried about Bear Stearns in terms of liquidity and get my money out of there? No! No! No! Bear Stearns is fine! Do not take your money out. Bear Stearns is not in trouble. I mean, if anything theyre more likely to be taken over. Dont move your money from Bear! Thats just being silly! Dont be silly! Jim Cramer, CNBC Mad Money. (Bear Stearns is defunct)

3. [In] reality the risks to maritime flows of oil are far smaller than is commonly assumed. First, tankers are much less vulnerable than conventional wisdom holds. Second, limited regional conflicts would be unlikely to seriously upset traffic, and terrorist attacks against shipping would have even less of an economic effect. Third, only a naval power of the United States strength could seriously disrupt oil shipments. Dennis Blair and Kenneth Lieberthal, Foreign Affairs, (Somali pirates hijacked the first super tanker a month later.)

Continue reading “8 Really Bad Predictions for 2008” »

by Jack Lee

Better we start the New Year out on a positive note, since 2008 ended so ignominiously. Here’s what we have to look forward to in 09: Stock are favorably priced now and this price includes much of the anticipated slowing in the economy for 09. So, investment-wise you probably could do very well buying greatly oversold quality stock, especially in sectors likely to recover first as the recession plays itself out.

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Jack, Bruce and Tina wish all of you the very best in 2009.

By Tina Grazier

Looking back over the past year I have to say Im very happy to leave it behind even though the future doesnt look better. 2008 reminds me of the year we spent pondering Y2K. Instead of the imagined horrors of a computer meltdown, however, weve been witnesses to actual the horrors of a financial meltdown…and it promises to get worse in the coming year! Well placed tax cuts would make a big difference but since the country voted for change BIG SPENDING will feature prominently in the new administration…some change! Making sure the golden goose is strangled to death is a backward goal for a governing philosophy that depends on BIG PROSPERITY to cover its NUT. Oh well, Marxists the world over will be happy to see the U.S. floundering in the collective mire. But there are others who are beginning to ask who will keep the world secure and prosperous if the United States goes under…something we might all do well to think about.

Continue reading “2008 Goodbye & Good Riddance II” »