Coleman Concedes Franken Wins

Not much more to say. Now the GOP has no filibuster power in the Senate and Barack Obama can cram ANYTHING he wants through Congress.

TTFN,

Jim

A Hollywood Liberal Who Is TIRED Of Obama!

Greetings,

In case you haven't heard, Bill Maher is getting tired of Obama-mania.

Now you have to wade through his swipes at Bush, Cheney, McCain & Limbaugh which are unpleasent but he (who voted for Obama) is getting sick and tired of Obama's celebrity image - in short Maher - who is a comedian wants Obama to act like a serious leader and even gives a few backhanded compliments to Bush's clear leadership skills,

"And we need to marry the good ideas Obama really believes in with that Bush attitude and Bush certitude. I'd love for Obama to come out one day and say, "Jesus told me to fix healthcare." Or, "History will decide whether stopping the polar ice caps from melting and drowning us all was a good thing."

In conclusion, Bush was a jerk, but he never cared about being seen having a burger with Dick Cheney. He picked up the phone in the White House and said, "I'm the president, bring me a burger." And they'd say, "Sir, this is NORAD. Would you please stop ordering burgers with the red phone?"

Maher may be a anticlerical, obnoxious Hollywood bigot but he has 'moments of clarity' from time to time and this is one of those rare moments where the fog lifts and a few rays of common sense break through.

Be sure to read it.

TTFN,

Jim

Coleman Franken Fight Still Dragging On (Go Norm!)

Greetings,

Yes, they are stilling battling it out like Rock 'Em Sock 'Em robots in Minnesota:

Franken Coleman (Getty Images)

Coleman recently was ordered by the court to pay part of Franken's legal fees to the tune of $94,783 - ouch!

What makes the race key is two things:

1) First and foremost - Coleman was the original winner by about 700 votes and then Minnesota law kicked in giving Franken the right to an immediate recount - but a win is a win and how do you go from being 700+ ahead to 300 behind?

2) If Franken is seated, Obama, Pelosi and Reid will be an unstoppable train wreck of runaway big government. Republicans in the Senate will loose any power to filibuster which is the sole tool of the minority to stop bad legislation. A filibuster can be invoked with a 2/3 cloture vote. Than the liberal monster will be set loose!



Help Norm Continue The Fight!

TTFN,

Jim

Great Tea Party Song!

Greetings,

For those of you old enough to remember the '60s (I know, I know, if you can remember the '60s you really were not there) you may recall that it was the folk music protest songs that really captured the imagination of young people back then politically. Well, some clever people tipped that on it's head with a good anti-tax rendition of the old Pete Seeger tune, Where Have All The Flowers Gone: titled Where Has All Your Money Gone?

Video courtesy of the Polk County Republican Party (although the event was a non-partisan Tea Party held in the city of Wausau in Marathon County Wisconsin).

Some acid-overdosed hippie must be rolling over in their grave right now . . . you think?

TTFN,

Jim

Pawlenty For Prez 2012?

Greetings,

Tim Pawlenty, the governor of Minnesota who was thought to be the sure-fire pick for John McCain's VP until 24 hours before Palin was picked has announced he will not seek a 3rd term as governor of Minnesota:

For a 2012 Contender, Some Advantages in Leaving Office

Pawlenty won’t run for re-election

Pawlenty calls for GOP to be optimistic,
positive in speech to College Republicans

Introducing Tim Pawlenty — non-candidate for 2012



I don't have 2012 pick yet but having worked with and supported Tim in the past, it would be nice to know someone in the Oval Office.

TTFN,

Jim

Palin Cleared of ALL Ethics Charges

Greetings,

As if we had any doubt!

State Board Dismisses Palin Ethics Complaint
It was the 13th ethics complaint filed against the governor or her staff
that has been resolved with no finding of a violation of the state ethics law,
the governor's office said Wednesday.



The liberals have filed all kinds of law suits to harass her and damage her politically but the truth has a funny way of coming out.



So far, the reporting on this has been pretty sparse, even by the conservative media, pretty sad.

More coverage:

Palin fends off ethics charges

TTFN,

Jim

From Across The Pond

Greetings,

Daniel Hannan is a Conservative MP in the U.K. who has a certain 'Ron Paul' - like appeal over in Britain. Here is a video of a speech he gave recently when Labor got a whacking in the recent Parliamentary elections:



The tie-in to Dr. Seuss' Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! is the part I liked the best.



I'd LOVE to give Obama the same message in 2010!

TTFN,

Jim

Funny And Serious - From NewsBusters

Greetings,

You gotta watch yesterday's broadcast:

Also check out NewsBuster's story on how FOX News anchor Gretchen Carlson's family was affected by the auto bailout. Gretchen's dad owned (past tense) a GM dealership that had been in their family for 90 years. Payback from the Whitehouse? Who knows? If it is payback against a FOX news person who has been an Obama critic, they should not have picked one on the highest rated Morning Show across America - Duh-duh-duh-DUMB!

Watch

Fascism, you bet folks. When the government can dictate to businesses, "Do this, don't do that" like this administration is currently doing to companies we are on a slow slide into a dictatorship. Don't kid yourself folks, there had better be a real and credible opposition from the Republican Party in 2010, not Democrat lite - the message has to be one of free markets and scaling back the size, scope and power of government or we are going to be in dire straights folks.

TTFN,

Jim

National Healthcare Art

Shamelessly ripped off from Michelle Malkin:

Lead Story

Death, taxes & Obamacare: Poster contest, Round Two

By Michelle Malkin • June 9, 2009 10:48 AM

We kicked off the Obamacare poster contest yesterday with some fantastic entries — spearheaded by Scott G. at Ah, Shoot.

Readers have risen to the challenge! Here’s round two. Vote on your favorite. Print ‘em out. Spread the word. Counter the ACORN/SEIU mob taking to the streets to take over your health care. Resistance must be met not just in the halls of Congress, but in your neighborhoods, at the grocery store, in your car window, everywhere at the grass-roots level:

From reader Rachael in Kentucky:

From reader Kyle:

From reader Mike:

From our friend Leo Alberti:

From American Elephant:

From reader Scott:

From reader Flynn:

From reader Erin F.:

From John at Verum Serum:

From reader Anon:

From Nice Deb:

From reader Tennessee Dave:

And from Violetbird, who writes:”Here’s my attempt - great idea, btw! As our government has shown, there’s nothing like images to get the message home.”

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Jim

Clever Coin Video!

Greetings,

Somebody sure came up with a low cost and creative video using coins to critique the Obama 'stimuless'.



You don't have to be a numismatist to get that one!

TTFN,

Jim

Back Online

Greetings,

Computer viruses suck. What is even worse is that many freeware programs hawked online that are alleged to 'cure' your virus contain malware (malicious hidden software) or spyware (software that monitors what you do and sends messages to an unauthorized 3rd party) as well!

But after several weeks of battle with both my desktop and laptop PCs, I have reformatted both hard drives, reinstalled Windows and all my old software and am back up online with no more malware or Trojan horses.

For years I had been lulled into security by always using whatever Norton / Symantec's most powerful program was at the time. No longer. I had a healthy reality check when I chatted with a Symantec customer service person who said I would have to fork over $99 for help in manually removing the virus. Isn't that what I forked over $100 for when I bought the software? I asked. He did not have a good answer for me. I also used Yahoo's anti-spyware program that comes with the Yahoo toolbar - which sometimes caught (and removed) Trojan Horses that Symantec missed, not bad for a freeware program!

Illustration of the Trojan Horse from Virgil's Aeneid

For my desk top I used a Windows program recovery disk and even after doing that, there were still traces of the virus on my PC. I did some fishing around online and discovered a company called Paretologic which sells a number of computer software programs that did a nice job of filling in the gaps and removed everything else. 5 programs cost me about $50. My desktop computer has now regained much of it's old speed and eficiency. All I lost was all my old emails (and address book). I had emails going back to 2005 on my desktop PC - no more!

My laptop is another story, I tried to do a repair on it but I had to do a full reformat and reinstallation of everything from scratch. I had to burn 50 CDs to back up what I wanted to save off of it but that only cost $17 for a pack of 50 CDs at Walmart.

That's all I have to say about this in this very unpolitical post, I'll make the next post more political.

TTFN,

Jim