Enjoy The Weekend!

Have a great weekend folks... Here is a pic from Vacation 2008... Ahh... Warm weather, bright sun and friendly faces!

Enjoy!

Here We Go... Through The Looking Glass...

Basking in the warm, wonderful, forgiving glow of newly minted President-Elect Zero, it appears that a Long Island school is already giving The One the honor bestowed on great leaders of our country...

From Channel3000.com in Madison, WI...

NEW YORK -- It was only a matter of time. A New York school has been renamed in honor of President-elect Barack Obama.

The former Ludlum Elementary School, in Long Island's Hempstead Union Free School District, was renamed at a school board meeting Thursday -- effective immediately. School officials say most of the 440 students there are black or Hispanic, and Obama's victory is a source of great pride.

Hope! Change!

Hat Tip: Molly J.

Bloomies Property Tax Rebate Issue

Mayor Mike Bloomberg (Billionaire-NY) is now saying that due to the City's current awful fiscal state, that the mandated $400 property tax rebate owed homeowners will not happen in 2009. Why? There is just no money.

Mayor Bloomberg suggested yesterday that he won't send out the annual $400 property-tax rebate to small homeowners - even if legally forced to do so by the City Council. "We have no money," said the mayor. "I think that's what you have to understand. This is not a legal issue; this is a fiscal issue."

I get on Mayor Bloomberg a lot but in this case he is right. If we have no money for this giveback, we can't give it back... Unless the City decides further cuts in services are required. Now, I am not for raising taxes at all, but I do think the City can save some $ by reducing the overwhelming numbers of municipal employees, most of whom are just living off the government dime and not doing much of anything (trust me, I know, I've worked with them...)

So I support the Mayor on this. A one-year moratorium on this rebate.

Market Since the Obama Election...

This is all you need to know about investor confidence in President-Elect Zero...

Market Close, November 3, 2008: 9,625

Market Close, November 20, 2008: 7,552

That is a drop of 2,073 or 22%...

THIS Is Contested?

It's pretty clear who this person voted for? So why is Al Franken contesting it? Why, he's trying to steal an election!

Fun With the MTA!

So, the NYC MTA has a huge gap to fill... Well let's raise fares... OK, fine... While we are at it, let's cut service too!!! WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

Here are some exciting highlights...

Up to a 23 percent increase in bus. subway, LIRR and Metro-North fares...

Scrapping bus and subway lines.

Reducing service on all other lines and LIRR and Metro-North.

Increase in Express Bus fares from $5 to $7.50...

This 'doomsday' budget is bad but most likely will only get worse... BTW, if I continue commuting as is, it would cost $50 per week... For this level of service, NYC can go to hell...

More Good News!

This morning's good news comes from the International Herald Tribune...

Iran has now produced roughly enough nuclear material to make, with added purification, a single atom bomb, according to nuclear experts analyzing the latest report from global atomic inspectors.

Incredible. As we sit here and bask in the warm, radiating, satisfying glow of The Zero, the homicidal maniacs running Iran are still busy working hard at their 'peaceful' nuclear energy program...

Well our allies in Israel are not sitting idly by...

"We are ready to do whatever is demanded of us" in order to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, IAF commander Maj. -Gen. Ido Nehushtan told German magazine Der Spiegel in an interview published Tuesday.

Good... I get the feeling that they have until January 20, 2009 to do it with our full support. I do not expect President Zero to 'approve' of a pre-emptive Israeli strike on Iran... You know, because we REALLY want the World to like us...

Return of the Barbary Pirates?

There has been a recent rash of pirate takeovers of ships, including a Saudi Oil Tanker... These pirates are sailing in inadequate ships and are coming on board and taking over large vessels... And yet, nothing happens to them...

My remedy... Blow them away...

Zawahri Called Obama What???

So, Al Qaeda's number 2 (or 1 if you believe Osama is dead...) has chimed in with his words to President-Elect Zero... Saying that Americans electing him show that we are defeated in Iraq (good to know that Al-Q believe electing the Zero was equivalent to our admission defeat, like we all said...)

And then, there is this:

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, using a demeaning racial term implying that the president-elect is a black American who does the bidding of whites.

The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies. Ayman al-Zawahri said in the message, which appeared on militant Web sites, that Obama is "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans" like Malcolm X, the 1960s African-American rights leader.

In al-Qaida's first response to Obama's victory, al-Zawahri also called the president-elect — along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice — "house negroes."

Wow... 'House negroes"... Obama, welcome to the real world. Do you think these monsters want to sit down and chat?

MN Senate Race UPDATE

Here is the latest from the Land of 1000 Lakes...

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- When Minnesota election officials begin recounting the nearly 3 million votes in the Senate race between Norm Coleman and Al Franken, they will face a logistical task of gargantuan proportions -- one that may provoke more commotion than bring about closure.

Republican incumbent Norm Coleman currently leads his Democratic challenger Al Franken by 206 votes out of 2.9 million cast -- a margin of seven one-thousandths of one percent. Under Minnesota law, a hand recount is required because the margin between the two candidates is less than one-half of one percent.

So, Al Franken is closing in... What a joke if this moron wins a seat in the Senate... If he does, the Dems will have 59 seats... Too close for comfort...

Excellent Op-Ed by Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney, my selection in the NY State Republican Primary, writes an excellent Op-Ed piece today in the New York Times (yes, they actually printed it...)

IF General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye. It won’t go overnight, but its demise will be virtually guaranteed.

Without that bailout, Detroit will need to drastically restructure itself. With it, the automakers will stay the course — the suicidal course of declining market shares, insurmountable labor and retiree burdens, technology atrophy, product inferiority and never-ending job losses. Detroit needs a turnaround, not a check.

Of course, Romney is right. He's a brilliant financial mind... Too bad he wasn't the nominee...

Read it all...

AK Senate Race UPDATE: Stevens Out...

The Dems now own 58 seats in the Senate... Things are getting bad...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest serving Republican in Senate history, narrowly lost his re-election bid Tuesday, marking the downfall of a Washington political power and Alaska icon who couldn't survive a conviction on federal corruption charges. His defeat by Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich moves Senate Democrats within two seats of a filibuster-proof 60-vote majority.

Irresponsible Is Not The Word For This...

This is absurd... From today's Cleveland Plain Dealer... This article discusses this major Cleveland, OH bridge and it's major weak point... In color and DETAIL...

It's like putting a 'kick me' sign on someone...

Are we asking to be attacked again?

The Beggars of Detroit?

So, representatives of Detroit's Big Three automakers have their hands out on Capitol Hill today... They are asking Congress to bail them out to the tone of $25 Billion... When you look critically at this, you would say it's important to save these companies. However, you realize that these companies are in dire straits because of Union contracts and government controls...

Forcing these companies to declare Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, as most major airline did, will allow for these companies to realign and regroup. It will allow everyone to see how dire their economic situation is. Perhaps they will renegotiate with the UAW in order to reduce their pension and benefits plans for retired employees, as well as cut salaries, which are significantly higher than that which are paid by Japanese auto makers in their US factories.

I support our US auto industry but handing out money to them without remedying their ills is insanity...

Article on the Situation...

Join In! Victory in Iraq Day!

The United States of America and our allies have won the War in Iraq. Please join Conservative bloggers in celebrating Saturday, November 22 as Victory in Iraq Day!

We and our allies have defeated all enemies in Iraq, including Al Qaeda in Iraq. We have brought peace and security to major hot spots in the country such as Fallujah and Basra. We captured and executed members of the previous terrorist regime. We assisted in the development of a new constitution for Iraq and a parliamentary government and fought back the remaining insurgency via the troop surge policy.

Celebrate our troops! Celebrate a victory of good over evil! Celebrate Victory in Iraq Day!

Key Legislation: Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA)

Over the course of the coming months, I plan on discussing key legislation set to come up for a vote in front of the solidly Democratic legislative and executive branches. The first of which to discuss is the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA).

The basics: The official summary of this act, as presented in the United States Senate in 2004 is as follows:

To prohibit, consistent with Roe v. Wade, the interference by the government
with a woman's right to choose to bear a child or terminate a pregnancy, and for
other purposes.

Status: This bill, introduced in 2004 and sponsored by Sen. Barbara Boxer (CA) and co-sponsored by Sen Jon Corzine (now NJ gov.), Sen. Patty Murray (WA), Sen. Frank Lautenburg (NJ), Sen. Hillary Clinton (NY), Sen. Maria Cantwell (WA), Sen. Jim Jeffords (retired-VT), Sen. Joe Lieberman (CT), Sen. Dianne Feinstein (CA), Sen. Paul Sarbanes (retired-MD), and Sen. Barbara Mikulski (MD)

Prognosis: The House will overwhelmingly pass this legislation in 2009. As presently constituted, the Senate will pass with less than 60 votes. If Republicans can win one Senate race in either MN, AK or GA, they can filibuster it. President-Elect Zero will sign this bill.

This bill basically codifies the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court ruling and prohibits any Federal Government prevention of any abortion techniques, including a repeal of any ban on Partial-Birth Abortion.

This is consistent with the virulent pro-abortion stance of Barack Obama.