It just my damn luck

Sort of politics and current events and sort of not…

I’ve never been very lucky, I could buy 5 scratch offs lottery tickets with the odds of 1 in 4 winning and I’ll loose on all 5 – likely why I rarely ever play the lottery. As a result I’ve worked for everything I have and nothing has been given to me – no handouts here. Right now I am in need of a vacation – it might be this year it might be next year it might be never and I was looking at vacation deals online because I have a knack for finding deals – it’s not luck of finding deals, it’s looking high and low for them – so I just don’t stumble across deals nor do they fall in my lap. I hunt them down like the deals they are. Oh you can go use Hotwire, Priceline, Orbitz, Travelocity or any of those discount sites but if you know where to look and how to look you can find some real deals out there a lot better than theirs. However, you have to be flexible and ready to go at a moment notice or wait a long time to go because you’re banking on a down economy that you have the money and they want it. Keep in mind you don’t have to stay in their hotel, but they have to fill rooms to stay in business. Same goes for products – use the attitude that you don’t have to buy it, but they have to sell it and you’re in the bargaining drivers seat.

Anyway I digress, I’ve been all over the world and those I travel with have not and I’ve seen most of this great country blah, blah, blah – long story short I was randomly looking for deals online earlier this week (Aug 24) I do that sometimes for fun – some people plays games I look for deals and I came across this great deal to go to a foreign tropical beach and stay in a 5 star hotel with a free room upgrade to a deluxe suite and it was for 8 days and 7 night including round trip airfare all taxes and fees included for just $711.00 per person! Now that’s a deal – 2 people at $711 – that’s $1422 – toss in an another $1000 for meals, shopping, shows, local transportation etc and you’ve got a pretty decent get away for about $2500.00 – not cheap, but not outrageous either. Hell, we spent nearly that much going to a beachfront resort in Florida panhandle for less than a week last year.

Now, I know what you’re thinking ‘damn man book it!’ Well I was seriously thinking about it, but it was in Acapulco, Mexico! I use to work a lot in Mexico and I have no problem with the Mexican people or the ones here LEGALLY and truthfully I enjoy their culture, their food, the ruins and the beaches – not to mention the exchange rate is now 13 peso to a dollar. I also figured that Acapulco was far enough removed from the border that perhaps it’s was safe(r) there and I wouldn’t have to worry about the drug wars and all that crap – after all you can’t write off all of America just because San Francisco full of nuts nor can you write off any other country because of a given area.

Well I was still thinking about it this week and still thinking of booking it then I got home late Friday and what was the headline on Drudge?

Well what the $&%*!! Acapulco – that’s just my luck.

Actually it was 15 murdered – 15 Slain in Acapulco, Mexico

MEXICO CITY – Fifteen people were found shot to death Friday in and around the Pacific coast resort town of Acapulco, authorities in the southern state of Guerrero said.
Acting on an anonymous telephone tip, police discovered the bodies of six men along the highway linking Acapulco with Mexico City.
The victims’ hands and feet were tied and their eyes covered with duct tape, Guerrero police said, and beside the bodies were messages from the killers to rival criminal groups.

So it’s either my luck that I saw the headline before I booked the trip or it’s my luck that this happened thus killing a great deal… then again maybe that’s why they had such great deals in the first place or I could risk it and the deals would be even better – if I was soloing a trip you can bet your ass I’d shoot (no pun intended) for a better deal. Hell it can’t be any worse than staying in a run down motel in Compton, CA like I once did, but I doubt the other travelers would go for that.

So if you are wondering about deals and how to get them – I went directly to the website for the Festiva Americana which are really great hotels for the price in Mexico, Central and South America and clicked on “book a package” then pick some dates, but you have to play with the dates and as you do the price changes and make sure you play with the airlines to -  BTW SCREW Continental Airline those bastards have lost my luggage more than any other airline I’ve flown and that’s a lot and they’re rude asses too. You’re best prices are on Delta normally (at least from here) which also brings up your departing airport it can make a huge difference in the overall price – fly out of a international hub if you can – for me it means driving 3 hours to Nashville to an major airport but that 3 hour drive saves me over a $1000 in airfare that I’d pay flying out of a regional airport, it’s a drive I can make for a $1000.00!

A word about hotels – I like nice hotels but I don’t like fancy expensive hotels after all you’re on vacation and you aren’t going to be spending a lot time in the room and if you are all you need is a bed (knowhatImean) – so while there are some really great hotels out there I’d rather spend my money on something better than a room I’m rarely in – I generally leave the hotel in the morning and I don’t return until midnight or so/ So why waste my money on a overpriced fancy hotel? Who am I trying to impress the hotel staff?

Acapulco Beach

Oh and I checked around on the regular travel deals sites for 8 days and 7 nights with round trip airfare and the rates ranged from $2800-$5000 … none of them getting close to the $1411.00 for two people I got by looking around – I also found so good deals at East Travel Resorts – I’ve never used them, I can’t endorse them and I know nothing about them other than their prices look good -  BUT they have fixed packages and I don’t like those much, maybe you do. I want to do what I want to do and not what some tour guide thinks I should do.

Safe to say I’m not going to Acapulco anytime soon so I can’t be like Elvis and have “Fun in Acapulco” – maybe Belize or Costa Rica? By the way you can rent a nice condo in Costa Rica for $400 a week. (That’s what they are asking – I bet you can bargain for less or get some perks thrown in too if you try.)

(Final note: For those of you that think I should stay here and spend my money on an America vacation – I spend my money in America every day and I my very well end up taking an American vacation but sometimes you just need to get away from everything – the news, the phone, the language, the culture all of it and do something different.)

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AWG, August 28th 2010 | Tags: , , , , , ,
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What about this Mosque in ….

Not Ground Zero it’s not Chicago no, no, no it’s rural Western Kentucky!

WTF?

Here is the deal some time back the local chicken plant, Pilgrim’s Pride got nervous about the number of illegals they had working there – the local folks didn’t like it and it was becoming a political hot topic as not only did Pilgrim’s Pride just emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy they also had a company wide problem with illegals. So while Pilgrim’s Pride was a large employer in the area they weren’t employing locals as they employed a lot of Hispanics both legal and illegal and in a area high in unemployment this didn’t set well. Since the immigration debate was raging across the country – Pilgrim’s Pride quietly got rid of most of their Hispanic workers and replaced them with Somali workers brought in on a government refugee program – how the hell they end up in rural Kentucky I don’t know, but whatever.

So now most of the Hispanics are gone and they have been replaced by Somalis refugees. And they asked and apply for a permit to open a Mosque in a small building downtown with no parking and do this lack of parking and a small building the permit was refused on August 25, 2010 and on August 26, 2010 a Somali man allegedly tries to kidnap a 12 year old girl was arrested at the address of the purposed Mosque building. Kind of odd don’t you think? No in fairness just like every person in jail he claims he is innocent and didn’t do it – shocker there.

Side note: From my days of working around convicts I never met a single one that was guilty – so I asked them “Then way are you here?”

So here is the story – now I’m going to have to copy all of the articles from West Kentucky Star as their active links change as fast as the wind … Now, I don’t like copying full articles but if Joe, Ro, Donna or Dunker have a problem with it then call me and I’ll fix it.

From the West Kentucky Star written by Joe Jackson (not the song writer)

Board Denies Request for Somali Mosque in Mayfield
By Joe Jackson
MAYFIELD, KY – There will be no Muslim Mosque in Mayfield. The Mayfield Zoning Board on Tuesday denied a group of Somali Muslims’ request for a conditional use permit to open a Mosque in Mayfield.

The board ruled the size of the building was not big enough to hold the number of Somalis who might worship at any given time. The board also said there wasn’t adequate parking at the proposed site at 312 East Broadway.

“There’s really no off-street parking,” Commissioner Don Costello said. “There’s very limited on-street parking and the neighbors say they can’t use the spaces they’re not using. So it came down to parking and public safety.”

Pam Frizzell from New Wave Hair Salon next door to the proposed Mosque site said it would have definitely caused a parking problem for her customers.

“Our patrons have a hard time finding a place to park right now,” Frizell said. “I don’t want my customers to have to walk from two blocks away just to get their hair done.”

The proposed site only has six parking spaces and the section of the building the Somalis wanted to hold religious meetings in can only hold 40 people. City officials estimate there are between 150 and 300 Somalis in Mayfield and Graves County.

City Planner Brad Rodgers said this is the first time the city has denied a religious group a conditional use permit and he says this might not be the last we hear about the issue.

“This issue may not be over,” Rodgers said. “They could choose to go to another building. They could appeal this to the Circuit Court if they so choose. This is probably not a dead issue.”

An overflow crowd filled the council chambers of City Hall Tuesday for the public hearing. More than 100 people were turned away because there was not enough room.

No Somalis attended the hearing. Graves County Sheriff John Davis said one of the Somali petitioners showed up but was turned away by law enforcement by mistake.

Well the Somali lost that permit due to parking and building size – I know the area and that’s a valid concern also the building is very small which would be a problem for a large crowd. So what to do – maybe kidnap a child? Yea that’s it.

Somali Man Charged with Attempted Kidnapping
By Joe Jackson
MAYFIELD, KY – Mayfield police are investigating the attempted abduction of a 12-year-old girl by a Somali refugee. Police arrested 23-year-old Yusuf Hassan of Mayfield Tuesday at 312 East Broadway.

If that address sounds familiar it’s because that’s the address that a group of Somalis had sought to use as a mosque before Mayfield’s Zoning Board denied it a permit. Hassan has been charged with the attempted kidnapping of a minor.

Police say Hassan approached the girl Tuesday around 5 pm on South Sixth Street. He allegedly grabbed her on the shoulder but the girl shrugged him off. He then grabbed her around the waist and tried to take her to his car which was parked in a nearby lot. The girl broke free and ran to her mother’s workplace nearby.

Police found the car and the girl was able to identify Hassan in a photo lineup. He was arrested and lodged in the Graves County Jail. His bond is set at $100,000.

So what you think about that?

I’ve read dozens of liberal bloggers calling the folks here backwoods rednecks, hicks, inbred, racist, intolerant and about any other derogatory term you can think of – but it’s funny I didn’t here them say a single word about the attempted kidnapping of the young girl by the Somali immigrant. Weird huh?

But it not just us redneck toothless hicks in Western Kentucky denying permits for Mosque they are doing it in Chicago too…

Permit Denied For Mosque In West Rogers Park

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AWG, August 26th 2010 | Tags: , , , , , ,
Posted in FYI, WTF, immigration

Let them eat Spam

Obamas Depleting U.S. Lobster Supply

So how much lobster are you having during these precarious economic times? What? You’ve had to cut back? No longer ordering it stuffed with crab meat, at least?

Well, if you happen to be the President of the United States or the First Lady, your lobster consumption is continuing at a robust pace.

I don’t know what it is in Obama’s world but around here lobster is about $10/lbs and you know this guy isn’t cooking his own – oh no you’re paying for it, to be bought, cooked and served. So let me ask you – when was the last time you had lobster? I mean a big meaty tail and claws – not some little bits served up in a Chinese dinner. For me and I love lobster – I could eat it every week, but I don’t think I could pin point the last time I had a lobster if I had to guess it was over a year ago in Florida and that was a Caribbean spiny lobster which lacks the big juicy meaty claws and this clown is eating it all the time – and lets not forget the Kobe beef too.

It goes on…

According to ABC’s Jake Tapper, the president savored some lobster tempura at the trendy State Road Restaurant in West Tisbury on Martha’s Vineyard. Oh, just the thought of it. If he brings some back to the White House for me, I’ll write whatever he wants.

Lobster tempura? You don’t do that to lobster – you don’t batter up and deep fry lobster and then drown it in some over powering soy based dipping sauce! That’s just wrong! For God sake it’s lobster, not popcorn shrimp.

Monday night at The Sweet Life Cafe in Oak Bluffs on the Vineyard it was the lobster pasta appetizer for the president and a surf and turf entrée – the “surf” being a lobster tail – for Mrs. Obama.

And what would the vacation to Maine in July have been without a taste of everyone’s favorite crustacean. The president did it in a little less genteel fashion that time, heading over to something called Stewman’s Downtown restaurant where he was served the “Lobster Experience” dinner – just regular lobster, corn and slaw.

Poor thing… just a regular lobster dinner with corn and slaw – what no Lobster Thermidor, Lobster Newburg – no Chilled Lobster With Mimosa Dressing… oh the humanity!

But the Obamas’ lobster experience is not confined to these shores. Michelle Obama was barely off the plane during her voyage early this month to the Spanish Riviera when, according to the Spanish press, she dived into a feast of sea bass tartare, strawberry gazpacho and sardines, and a main course of lobster with seaweed risotto.

Oh where is my Thurston Howell III voice at … sea bass tartare (that’s minced raw meat), strawberry gazpacho and sardines, and a main course of lobster with seaweed risotto – eww I hope the strawberry gazpacho and sardines were two different dishes – but at least risotto and lobster goes together. However I’d prefer an al dente orzo over risotto – but what do I know I’m just a hick from the country eating mudbugs and gator meat.

Michelle enjoyed the repast so much that she was right back at it on August 14 during the Obamas’ two-day Panama City, Fla photo-op vacation. There, at the Firefly restaurant, it was more lobster for Michelle.

Has this hog had a look in the mirror? She needs to lay of the lobster dripping in ghee and look into a diet heavy on the tofu because her “see-food” diet isn’t working. My God doesn’t she know there are children in Africa that have no ass.

The Obamas were supposed to be showing support for the good people of the oil spill-stricken Gulf, eating their seafood and so forth. So the big question is, was it a Caribbean lobster or one shipped down from Maine?

And who knows what lobster delicacies the White House chef is whipping up for them in between vacations?

No wonder the Russians just started fueling the Iranian nuclear reactor at Bushehr. When President Medvedev was here, Obama took him for burgers.

Well at least it wasn’t Borscht otherwise we’d be looking at mutually assured destruction right now.

Here is the deal – Obama knows he is an one term’er and he is going to milk the perks of being president for all it’s worth – I’d expect to see him and lard-ass take a lot more vacation before he is gone. I think Obama thought the job was like the campaign trail – all talk, adoring crowds and play with no real responsibilities and now that he is in office he doesn’t want it so the easiest thing to do is go on vacation and he does that quite well.

Question is how many more lobsters will be murdered at the hands of the Obama’s – can’t they eat spam?

(Pay attention at the 0:36 mark)

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AWG, August 26th 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , ,
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Joe ‘Bite Me’ Biden verses the Reality

First I want to say that I truly hope Joe Biden gets help for his drug problem – clearly after many of his remarks, he’s on them. Get help Joe – you need it.

Anyway I guess you heard what Bite Me said now…

Biden: ‘We’ve seen this movie before’

“For eight years before we arrived in the West Wing, Mr. Boehner and his party ran the economy literally into the ground,” he said. “We’ve seen this movie before, Mr. Boehner. We’ve seen it before and we know how it ends.”

Really?

Biden conceded that the economic recovery was not proceeding as fast as the administration had hoped, but claimed there was “no doubt we’re moving in the right direction.”

Problem is they’ve never said which direction they hope to go – if it’s down then that’s a true statement, otherwise it’s a lie.

Yeah that prior eight year really sucked deficit wise compared to Obama – what about unemployment? (NOTE: Bush spent way more than I liked but he was a rank amateur compared to Obama’s spending.)

Gee seems the unemployment under Bush was on average about 5.3% and under Obama it has been on average above 9.5% with a real unemployment rate is way over double that at 22% yeah the good old days they were horrible – if you were HOPING to be unemployed – but don’t worry Obama CHANGED that. Now unemployment is easy.

Well I’m sure Obama’s tax plan will make everything OK – right?

Obama’s Tax Plan: Bad for Economic Growth

Small businesses that employ the most workers would be particularly hard-hit if the top income tax rates go up.

Ok – well I was wrong about that – what else? Well BiteMe let’s have a look at some of the great leap forwards under Dopey and Thief…

Foreclosure rates surge, biggest jump in 5 years

More homes were taken over by banks and scheduled for a foreclosure sale than in any quarter going back to at least January 2005, when RealtyTrac began reporting the data, the firm said.

U.S. Bankruptcy Rate Skyrockets

The financial crisis just won’t go away. It has manifested itself in the poor performance of the housing market, the failure of hundreds of banks and an unemployment surge. One more problem that has emerged as a result of the recession is the soaring rate of bankruptcy filings across the nation. Bankruptcy filings rose by 20% in the past year, according to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. A stunning total surpassing 1.5 million bankruptcy cases were processed between June 2009 and June 2010, up from about 1.3 million in the prior 12-month period.

CD Rates are Falling: Bad News for Savers

The news of low overall interest rates could be good for borrowers and not so good for savers. Borrowers can look forward to paying lower fees when returning money on a loan which will them help pay off debt more quickly.

Savers are not so lucky. If you are living on a budget and stashing away money for later in CDs, you will not see high returns on those accounts. Many economists don’t see the problem improving in upcoming years. It can be frustrating if you are attempting to be responsible with your finances but not seeing much in return.

Food stamp use hit record 40.8m in May (2010)

The number of Americans who are receiving food stamps rose to a record 40.8 million in May as the jobless rate hovered near a 27-year high, the government reported yesterday.

Number of Houston homeless children increasing at rapid rate

According to statistics released in 2009 by the Coalition for the Homeless of Houston/Harris County, 2,891 homeless children lived in the Houston area. That number has nearly doubled in 2010, as 5,404 children have been reported homeless so far this year.

The number of Americans who are receiving food stamps rose to a record 40.8 million in May as the jobless rate hovered near a 27-year high, the government reported yesterday.

Tell me Joe do I really need to go on? We are on to your bullshit delusional lies and propaganda that things are better now than they were under Bush – Obama and Biden cannot point to a single success that their policies have yielded – not one! Oh the liberals will say the auto bailout was a success… really is it? GM is desperate to shake the “Government Motors” image and get out from under their thumb. How about the “Cash for Clunkers” program it was a fail. Oh they will say that Obama’s long delayed surge in Afghanistan was a success – a surge that fell 10′s of 1000′s of troops short resulting in a troop death increased to record levels under Obama. So tell me Joe what have you and the other idiot in office done that has worked? Where are the jobs? Where is the growth? Where is the booming economy? How about a easy one for the great communicator – foreign policy – how’s that working out? Not to good huh? So where are your successes Joe, where?

Don’t buy anything that comes out of this administration – the only truth I’ve heard is the claim of the “Fundamental Transformation of America” they just didn’t finish the sentence which said… ‘into a third world, third rate country.’

Yeah Joe, we’ve seen this movie you speak of before and you have too and it was shown in November 1994 and it will see it again this November when you tax and spend progressive morons are sent packing back under the rock from which you came. Remember Joe – what Nancy Reagan said “Just say no to drugs.” It’s good advice, take it.

Reality just ate Biden’s lunch.

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AWG, August 24th 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
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And then just like that it was gone …

So I was mowing the yard riding back and forth for hours and around the trees. around the barn, around the garden with a million thoughts from work to deadbeats that owe me money to life to ideas for inventions to short stories to absolutely nothing at all running or not through my head and I had this idea for a blog post that was thought out, relevant, complete and fully composed in my mind. Sadly driving a tractor doesn’t lend itself to writing things down or even recording it with voice recorder – noise you know, lot’s of noise. So I have to rely on memory which is normally pretty good – but do to the fact I thought this up rather early in the mowing and not later, thousands upon thousands of other ideas and thoughts came and went and with every passing thought the original idea was buried a little deeper layer by layer and by the time I had finished mowing hours later it was gone.

Well I have fragments of the original idea which I could likely build upon but this one was in my opinion pretty good rant and the longer I dwell on this little post here the more that comes back to me – thus the reason for writing this which I normally delete and go with the original idea -but not this time… this time you get to see the ‘I forgot what the hell I was going to say post’ that I often trash to the dust bin of history.

So anyway – I was going to talk about which I’ll write about later is the fact that we all need to start being race-less, genderless, groupless America – the democrats and the progressive liberals want the enter country in little camps pitting one against the other. The democrats have no power if the people are united – they feed on division, they have to have blacks against whites against Hispanics, gays against straights, men against women, rich against poor, and in the progressive liberal eyes the world is full of villains and victims, a world full of lemmings – the biggest problem with the liberals aside from their need to divide is they need to tell you how to live – but that’s another post I thought up – the primary difference between liberals and conservatives is freedom… liberals hate freedom, because free people are hard to control.

So stay tuned – I’m still incredibly busy and I’ll post what I can when I can – I still have to work a real job since this blog pays so well (NOT) at least I remember what I was going to say and that’s was the goal – MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.

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AWG, August 23rd 2010 | Tags: , , , , , ,
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Dissecting the APObama

Obama a Muslim? Rumors gain steam, defying facts

By HILLEL ITALIE
The Associated Press
Thursday, August 19, 2010; 10:00 PM

NEW YORK — “President Obama is a Muslim.” “He’s not an American citizen.” “He wasn’t even born here.”

None of this is true. But to surprising levels, it is believed.

And your proof is what? What Obama said? Oh he would never lie…

Blame it on the media, or on human nature. All presidents deal with image problems – that they’re too weak or too belligerent, too far left or far right. But Obama also faces questions over documented facts, in part because some people identify more with the rumormongers than the debunkers.

Questions over documented facts? No there are questions over documents and that’s the facts – there are none. Where are the college transcripts? Why didn’t the editor of the Harvard Law Review ever write a article? Where are the records from Occidental? The list goes on – the guy has a resume you could put on a Post-it.

“Trust and distrust – that explains almost all of it,” says Nicholas DiFonzo, professor of psychology at the Rochester Institute of Technology and an expert on rumor and gossip research. “We are in such a highly polarized political environment. Our country is sorting itself into more closely knit, opposing factions each year” – factions, DiFonzo suggests, that in turn become “echo chambers” for factoids that aren’t fact at all.

Again this professor guy is assuming his facts are right thus playing into his own rhetoric.

Nearly one in five people, or 18 percent, said they think Obama is Muslim, up from the 11 percent who said so in March 2009, according to a poll released Thursday. The proportion who correctly say he is a Christian is just 34 percent, down from 48 percent in March of last year.

Actually it’s one in five and the percentage is 24 percent. (You note that this Time article says “mistakenly believes” – they don’t know anymore than I do)

The White House even felt compelled to respond with a terse knockdown from spokesman Bill Burton: “The president is obviously a Christian. He prays every day.”

And so do Muslims, Buddhist, Taoist and 100′s of other religions – so tell me Bill what so obvious about that.

Obama is the Christian son of a Kenyan Muslim father and a Kansas mother. Born in Hawaii, he lived from ages 6 to 10 in predominantly Muslim Indonesia with his mother and Indonesian stepfather. His full name, Barack Hussein Obama, sounds Muslim to many.

Interestingly they fail to mention that his Indonesian father Lolo Soetoro was devout Muslim nor the fact his step-sister is a philosophically Buddhist.

Confusion about Obama’s religion was common, and sometimes encouraged, during the 2008 campaign. An Associated Press photograph that circulated on the Internet, and was posted on The Drudge Report, showed Obama dressed in traditional local garments – a white turban and a wraparound white robe – during a visit to Kenya in 2006. Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton may have contributed through her response to a question, during a “60 Minutes” interview, about whether he was a Muslim. “There’s nothing to base that on,” she said. “As far as I know.”

Well certainly 20 years in Jeremiah Wrights church clears things up about Obama faith…

Others have helped keep rumors about Obama’s religion and birth alive. Conservative commentators including radio talk show host Michael Savage have repeated debunked claims that Obama attended a radical Muslim madrassa in Indonesia. Rush Limbaugh has facetiously referred to “Imam Obama” in recent days, and last year praised a woman who at a Delaware town hall meeting questioned Obama’s citizenship. Lou Dobbs gave significant air time to such “birther” claims on CNN – despite his own insistence that he believed Obama was born in the U.S.

Hell Obama keeps the rumor alive with his actions, his refusal to release records and his pandering to the Muslim world while still two years in Washington has yet to go to church.

The new survey, conducted by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center and its affiliated Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, is based on interviews conducted before the controversy over whether Muslims should be permitted to construct a mosque near the World Trade Center site. Obama has said he believes Muslims have the right to build an Islamic center there, though he’s also said he won’t take a position on whether they should actually build it.

Isn’t stating a position taking a position? What kind of asinine double talk is that?

We have never been without misperceptions, but they are speeded and multiplied in the Internet age. Last month, right-wing bloggers – citing unnamed sources within the Laredo Police Department in Texas – reported that the Mexican drug cartel Zetas had captured two Laredo ranches. The story was picked up by author-pundit Michelle Malkin and other conservatives.

Inquiries from local media and the liberal Web site Talking Points Memo turned up different news: The raids never happened.

What the hell does that have to do with “Is Obama a Muslim?” I’m A.D.D. and can focus better than that.

“The Internet has made it worse,” says Lori Robertson, managing editor of the website FactCheck.org, a nonpartisan project run under the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. “Any of these rumors are more rampant, and there’s more stuff about them – blogs writing about conspiracy theories. People are exposed to it more.”

Robertson says her organization has been asked hundreds of times about Obama’s religion, even after FactCheck published an explanatory article in early 2008 called “Sliming Obama.” It focused on the chain e-mail that many believe helped spread the lie.

Who fact checks FactCheck.org – never let a weasel guard the hen-house

Despite what the e-mail claimed, FactCheck.org has noted that Obama was sworn into office as a U.S. senator using the Bible instead of the Quran; a photograph was posted to prove it. FactCheck also posted videos of Obama reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in the Senate, in an attempt to counter claims that he refused.

Well gee I’m relieved he is a true red, white and blue American then – there is a picture and video online… case closed.

Still, the questions about Obama’s faith didn’t stop.

Don’t worry there are more questions about Obama than his faith that won’t stop, plenty more.

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AWG, August 20th 2010 | Tags: , , , , ,
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President Handout losing the Poor

Even the Poor Are Abandoning Obama, According to Gallup Poll Data

In every week of his presidency until now, Barack Obama has enjoyed a majority approval rating in the Gallup Poll from people earning less than $2,000 per month. But that changed in the Gallup survey conducted from Aug. 2-8, when only 49 percent of Americans in that income bracket said they approve of the job Obama is doing.

I know a number of people making less than $20,000.00 a year – I even know several making less than $10,000.00 a year and out of those people I know a few who are sadly Obama fans, but when I explain what Obama is doing to damage the economy and how and keep the class warfare debate out of it and speak straight from an economic point of view they seems a little less impressed with The One – it seems from this latest poll they are others catching on.

For the week of Aug. 2-Aug. 8, only 42 percent of Americans earning $7,500 per month or more said they approve of the job Obama is doing. Forty-four percent of those earning between $5,000 and $7,499 said they approve of the job he is doing. And forty-six percent of those earning between $2,000 and $4,999 said they approve of the job he is doing.

This prove my theory that 2 out of 5 people are complete idiots and there really should be a season on them.

The higher the income bracket an American occupies, the sooner he or she was likely to stop approving of the job Obama was doing and the more likely he or she was to stop approving of the job Obama was doing.

The higher the income bracket the more likely they pay taxes – so I think “duh” covers that paragraph.

In May 2009, when Obama’s approval rating was at its peak among those earning less than $2,000 per month, the national unemployment rate was at 9.4 percent. It is now at 9.5 percent.

It’s a good thing we passed that trillion dollars in stimulus bill to keep it under 8% isn’t it? Oh wait…

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AWG, August 13th 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
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Are federal workers overpaid?

Are federal workers overpaid?

WASHINGTON – When it comes to pay, federal workers receive benefits that averaged about $41,791 in 2009. When you factor in salaries and those benefits, which include pensions, federal civil servants earned about $123,049 in 2009.

By comparison, private workers made $61,051 in total compensation, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Let me answer the question as clearly as possible … YES

Colleen Kelley, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, tells USA TODAY the data are not useful in a direct public to private pay comparison.

Public union employees say the gap reflects the growing skill and education levels needed for most federal jobs, while the government farms out lower paid jobs to the private sector.

Well surprise, surprise a Union boss thinks they have skills and education – yep it take a lot of skills to set all day and surf for porn and I takes even more education to fill up you hard drive with it and then burn it to disc just to store in your office. That’s Ivy league genius at work there.

A budget analyst at the Cato Institute believes federal workers are overpaid.

Gee who to side with a Union entitlement boss or the Cato Institute… hmmm I’ll go with Cato.

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AWG, August 11th 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
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Facts vs. Propaganda

First the FACTS -

Fed set to downgrade outlook for US

The Federal Reserve is set to downgrade its assessment of US economic prospects when it meets on Tuesday to discuss ways to reboot the flagging recovery.

Faced with weak economic data and rising fears of a double-dip recession, the Federal Open Market Committee is likely to ensure its policy is not constraining growth and to use its statement to signal greater concern about the economy. It is, however, unlikely to agree big new steps to boost growth.

From the White House the PROPAGANDA …

A Summer of Recovery

With tens of thousands of projects funded and millions of Americans on the job today, it’s hard to believe that it’s only been 16 months since President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. And with so many jobs saved and created already, you might think that the Recovery Act’s greatest impact is behind us.

But it’s not.

As the summer heats up, it is becoming clear that it could quite possibly be the most active season yet when it comes to recovering our economy. There are Recovery Act-funded projects breaking ground across the country that are creating quality jobs for Americans and economic growth for businesses, large and small.

This summer is sure to be a Summer of Economic Recovery.

From The Hill the assessment …

Obama tries to sell ‘recovery summer’ amid slow economy

President Barack Obama and his team are trying to sell Americans on an economic recovery this summer, but the economy is stubbornly refusing to cooperate.

Obama and his Cabinet officials will fan out across the country over the next few days to spread the message to voters about how effective their $787 billion recovery plan has been, an effort they’re calling “recovery summer.”

The administration’s message has run into several negative economic headwinds that have led to worries the economy is at risk of entering a double-dip recession, not a recovery.

So while Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Reid and the rest of the lying scumbags in the Democrat Party try to claim we are in recovery – the reality speak otherwise. Meanwhile while you scrap and struggle to get buy the Obama’s live large on your money.

Michelle Antionette’s vacation – $75,000.00 per day
While Obama preaches sacrifice, his family frolics in Spain
Obama To Play Presidential Pickup With NBA Stars

In the real world …
City of Camden, NJ Broke – Closing Public Library System
Governor of Wyoming threatens to sell chunk of Grand Teton – Schools Broke
Food stamp use hit record 40.8m in May
California – Place Your Bet, Help the Debt
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: Unemployment Could Go Up Before It Comes Down

But it’s not all bad news – made you’ll get luck and find a rare comic book in the basement…
Superman Comic Saves Family Home From Foreclosure

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AWG, August 8th 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
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You paid for it

I have a lot to say but I am to busy to post right now so here are some links of interest about your tax money being pissed away along with a couple of other things… (Hopefully I’ll get tie to write something meaningfully soon.)

Michelle Obama Criticized as “Modern-day Marie Antoinette” Over Spain Vacation

CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller reports the C-32A (757) the First Lady used to fly to Spain – one of the planes that usually serves as Air Force Two, and sometimes Air Force One – operates at a Department of Defense reimbursement rate of $11,351 per hour.

So a 6.5 hour flight to Spain would run $73,781.50 – double for the round trip.

US Postal Service loses $3.5 bln in third quarter

Revenue in the third quarter that ended June 30 fell $294 million to $16 billion from a year ago, while expenses were $789 million higher at $19.5 billion, due largely to higher workers’ compensation costs and retiree health benefits.

Fannie Mae Seeks $1.5 Billion From U.S. Treasury After 12th Straight Loss

Fannie Mae, the mortgage-finance company operating under federal conservatorship, is seeking $1.5 billion in aid from the U.S. Treasury Department after a 12th straight quarterly loss.

Food stamp use hit record 40.8m in May

An average of 40.5 million people, more than an eighth of the population, will get food stamps each month in the year that began Oct. 1, according to White House estimates.

The figure is projected to rise to 43.3 million in 2011.

GM donates $41,000 to lawmakers’ pet projects

The carmaker gave $41,000 to groups associated with lawmakers, the vast majority of it — $36,000 — to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, the company reported on a disclosure form last week. The CBC Foundation is a charity with 11 members of the Congressional Black Caucus on its board.

Social Security in the red this year

Social Security will pay out more this year than it gets in payroll taxes, marking the first time since the program will be in the red since it was overhauled in 1983, according to the annual authoritative report released Thursday by the program’s actuary.

Meanwhile President Obama’s health care overhaul has given Medicare’s basic Hospital Insurance an extra 12 years of financial stability, though it did not solve all of the program’s long-term challenges.

Is Obama about to forgive billions in mortgage principal?

James Pethokoukis hears rumors of an August surprise coming from the White House, one that will attempt to win backs the hearts and minds of voters dismayed at the failing economic policies of the Obama administration.  With the government fully in control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Barack Obama may issue an order to forgive portions of underwater mortgages processed through the GSEs, where negative equity approaches $800 billion overall.  Some financial houses have begun quietly preparing for the possibility:

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