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How the Stimulus Works

December 4th, 2010

I’ve listened to the economists, I’ve listened to the “spinners” on TV, I’ve heard the mechanics explained by Democrats and Progressives, yet I really didn’t understand the STIMULUS PACKAGE until a friend sent me what you will read below.

The money goes “round and round” but it doesn’t “stimulate” anything. The proof of Stimulus Failure is the most recent 9.8 Unemployment Figure.  And, at last, here is an explanation of why it fails …

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I am going to show you how the liberal economics “stimulus package” just $100 dollars. But keep in mind the government (both Democrats and Republicans) boys did this with trillions.

  • It is a slow day in the small town of Pumphandle, IA and streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody is living on credit. A tourist visiting the area drives through town, stops at the motel, and lays a $100 bill on the desk saying he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs to pick one for the night.
  • As soon as he walks upstairs, the motel owner grabs the bill and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher.
  • The butcher takes the $100 and runs down the street to retire his debt to the pig farmer.
  • The pig farmer takes the $100 and heads off to pay his bill to his supplier, the Co-op.
  • The guy at the Co-op takes the $100 and runs to pay his debt to the local prostitute, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer her “services” on credit.
  • The hooker rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill with the hotel owner.
  • The hotel proprietor then places the $100 back on the counter so the traveler will not suspect anything.
  • At that moment the traveler comes down the stairs, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, picks up the $100 bill and leaves.
  • No one produced anything. No one earned anything. However, the whole town is now out of debt and now looks to the future with a lot more optimism.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how a “stimulus package” works.

Original Source: Unknown (if you know the original source, contact me)

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OK … now you know … and you know why it will NEVER work.

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Tidal Islamophobia in America

September 16th, 2010

It’s a bright and sunny day at the seashore. Calm winds, waves barely lapping at the white sand. You’ve strategically placed your folding chair and cooler a short distance back from the water. Your book is open and you  are reading and enjoying the wonderful surroundings. But with abrupt suddenness, a tiny wave, almost unnoticed laps at your sandals and briefly surrounds the cooler. You look up to discover you are now at the water’s edge. Aware now, you watch the quiet little waves as the march closer to your position. It is time to move back up the beach, the tide is coming in. And such is the quiet, almost unnoticed and seemingly harmless tidal wave of Islam coming to the quiet shores of the United States, at first almost unnoticed tiny waves. Then with the violence of 9-11, real awareness. And with awareness and the knowledge associated with it,  Islamophobia rises with the steady march of the incoming Islāmic tide.

Why is there a feeling of spreading “Islamophobia” in America? It is spreading because “awareness” of Islam, and its destruction of individual freedom under the tyranny of Shari’a law is spreading.

Then there was a wake up call ... awarness!

As Freedom-loving Americans, we sense this is not just another “group” coming to our shores to eventually be assimilated and enriching the American Experiment … because we are learning this new group does not assimilate. This group takes over. So our “phobia” is not one of misunderstanding a racial or religious “difference” in out midst, it is a growing awareness of danger to our way of life, our religions, our personal beliefs in freedom and liberty. This “religion” does not assimilate, it takes control changing the environment around it to its way of thinking and behaving. This “phobia” is not a false fear. The destructive  march of Islam, destroying established societies is historically documented. The Islāmic tide is coming in, 9-11 was a wake up call, and since then there have been too many “indicators” that the tide is rising and coming at us … Ft. Hood, the Victory Mosque. There are NO indicators the Islāmic tide is going out … only coming in. So awareness  becomes a rational alertness to danger that the liberal press coins as “Islamophobia.”

With new awareness, it is a good time to look at the “state of the Islāmic tide” and this is well documented in Dr. Peter Hammond’s book entitled: Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Rootes and the Contemporary Threat. It is worth the time to read the entire book (found here).

The following excerpts are adapted from Dr. Peter Hammond’s book:

Islam is not a religion, nor is it a cult. In its fullest form, it is a complete, total, 100% system of life.  Islam has religious, legal, political, economic, social, and military components. The religious component is a beard for all of the other components.

We are Americans Too, Just asking for Religions Freedom

We are Americans Too, Just asking for Religions Freedom

As long as the Muslim population remains around or under 2% in any given country, they will be for the most part be regarded as a peace-loving minority, and not as a threat to other citizens. This is the case in:

  • United States — Muslim 0.6%
  • Australia — Muslim 1.5%
  • Canada — Muslim 1.9%
  • China — Muslim 1.8%
  • Italy — Muslim 1.5%
  • Norway — Muslim 1.8%

At 2% to 5%, they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups, often with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs. This is happening in:

  • Denmark — Muslim 2%
  • Germany — Muslim 3.7%
  • United Kingdom — Muslim 2.7%
  • Spain — Muslim 4%
  • Thailand — Muslim 4.6%

From 5% on, they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population. For example, they will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature halal on their shelves — along with threats for failure to comply. This is occurring in:

  • France — Muslim 8%
  • Philippines — 5%
  • Sweden — Muslim 5%
  • Switzerland — Muslim 4.3%
  • The Netherlands — Muslim 5.5%
  • Trinidad & Tobago — Muslim 5.8%

At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves (within their ghettos) under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islamists is to establish Sharia law over the entire world.

When Muslims approach 10% of the population, they tend to increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions. In Paris , we are already seeing car-burnings. Any non-Muslim action offends Islam and results in uprisings and threats, such as in Amsterdam , with opposition to Mohammed cartoons and films about Islam. Such tensions are seen daily, particularly in Muslim sections in:

  • Guyana — Muslim 10%
  • India — Muslim 13.4%
  • Israel — Muslim 16%
  • Kenya — Muslim 10%
  • Russia — Muslim 15%

After reaching 20%, nations can expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings, and the burnings of Christian churches and Jewish synagogues, such as in:

  • Ethiopia — Muslim 32.8%

At 40%, nations experience widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks, and ongoing militia warfare, such as in:

  • Bosnia — Muslim 40%
  • Chad — Muslim 53.1%
  • Lebanon — Muslim 59.7%

From 60%, nations experience unfettered persecution of non-believers of all other religions (including non-conforming Muslims), sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon, and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels, such as in:

  • Albania — Muslim 70%
  • Malaysia — Muslim 60.4%
  • Qatar — Muslim 77.5%
  • Sudan — Muslim 70%

After 80%, expect daily intimidation and violent jihad, some State-run ethnic cleansing, and even some genocide, as these nations drive out the infidels, and move toward 100% Muslim, such as has been experienced and in some ways is on-going in:

  • Bangladesh — Muslim 83%
  • Egypt — Muslim 90%
  • Gaza — Muslim 98.7%
  • Indonesia — Muslim 86.1%
  • Iran — Muslim 98%
  • Iraq — Muslim 97%
  • Jordan — Muslim 92%
  • Morocco — Muslim 98.7%
  • Pakistan — Muslim 97%
  • Palestine — Muslim 99%
  • Syria — Muslim 90%
  • Tajikistan — Muslim 90%
  • Turkey — Muslim 99.8%
  • United Arab Emirates — Muslim 96%

100% will usher in the peace of ‘Dar-es-Salaam’ — the Islamic House of Peace. Here there’s supposed to be peace, because everybody is a Muslim, the Madrasses are the only schools, and the Koran is the only word, such as in:

  • Afghanistan — Muslim 100%
  • Saudi Arabia — Muslim 100%
  • Somalia — Muslim 100%
  • Yemen — Muslim 100%

Unfortunately, peace is never achieved, as in these 100% states the most radical Muslims intimidate and spew hatred, and satisfy their blood lust by killing less radical Muslims, for a variety of reasons.

‘Before I was nine, I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; the trib eagainst the world, and all of us against the infidel. — Leon Uris, ‘The Haj’

It is important to understand that in some countries, with well under 100% Muslim populations, such as France, the minority Muslim populations live in ghettos, within which they are 100% Muslim, and within which they live by Sharia Law. The national police do not even enter these ghettos. There are no national courts, nor schools, nor non-Muslim religious facilities. In such situations, Muslims do not integrate into the community at large. The children attend madrasses. They learn only the Koran. To even associate with an infidel is a crime punishable with death. Therefore, in some areas of certain nations, Muslim Imams and extremists exercise more power than the national average would indicate.

Today’s 1.5 billion Muslims make up 22% of the world’s population. But their birth rates dwarf the birth rates of Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, and all other believers. Muslims will exceed 50% of the world’s population by the end of this century.

Can a Muslim become a “good American?” With the Islāmic beliefs, if they adhere to those beliefs, and they do, they will not assimilate as have other groups in the history of the United States. A person from another society becomes a “good American” through assimilation. Islam does not assimilate. Here are examples:

  • Religiously – no… Because no other religion is accepted by His Allah except Islam (Quran, 2:256)(Koran) This is incompatible with the Constitution of the United States of America welcoming all religions. (A factor that could, in this case, add to our downfall).
  • Socially – no… Because his allegiance to Islam forbids him to make friends with Christians or Jews..
  • Politically – no…Because he must submit to the mullahs (spiritual leaders), who teach annihilation of Israel and destruction of America , the great Satan.
  • Domestically – no… Because he is instructed to marry four Women and beat and scourge his wife when she disobeys him (Quran 4:34) Women’s rights would be set back somewhat!
  • Philosophically – no… Because Islam, Muhammad, and the Quran do not allow freedom of religion and expression.. Democracy and Islam cannot co-exist. Every Muslim government is either dictatorial or autocratic.
  • Spiritually - no… Because when we declare ‘one nation under God,’ we are declaring so for the “Christian God” … the only way a Muslim would declare being “one nation under GOd” is if that God were Allah.

Contemporary Posts on Islamophobia


  1. Why we need Islamophobia (09.21.10)
  2. Should Americans Fear Islam? (10.07.10)
  3. CAIR (Muslim Brotherhood Front!) Launches Islamophobia Dept. (10.17.10)
  4. It is LOGICAL to be “Islamophobic” (10.18.10)

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Øbama is Banning the Bullets

August 25th, 2010

UPDATE: CONGRATULATIONS ALL … THE EPA HAS NOW REJECTED THE PETITION (THAT THEY HAD ORIGINALLY ACCEPTED AND POSTED). THEIR SUBSEQUENT (AND “UNEXPECTED”) REJECTION IS PROOF THAT VIGILANCE AND ACTION CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

NRA 2 days later: Responding to a grassroots outcry from gun owners, the Environmental Protection Agency today announced that it has denied a petition by the Center for Biological Diversity and other radical groups that had sought to ban the use of lead in ammunition.

I”LL LEAVE THIS POST INTACT AS AN EXAMPLE of GRASSROOTS ACTION:


Original Post Starts Here

Once again, the Øbama Administration is making another stealth move for circumventing the 2nd Amendment against the will of the American People. It is time to S.T.O.P. this nonsense once and for all, the EPA is the tool he is using again, this time to ban “lead” bullets … which are the ONLY kind that are affordable and legal. There is an actual petition that is now “ready for comment”. All of us need to take this opportunity to give them the “comments” they deserve.  Below is the information you will need to (1) Understand the Problem, (2) Look at the Causes and (3) take action to S.T.Ø.P. it!

1. THE PROBLEM

WARNING: TODAY, AUGUST 25, 2010, THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) HAS OPENED TO PUBLIC COMMENT  ON THE CBD* PETITION THE COMMENT PERIOD ENDS ON OCTOBER 31, 2010.  IF THERE WAS EVER A TIME TO SUBMIT YOUR COMMENT, THAT TIME IS NOW!

Now, the Øbama Administration are attempting to ban lead bullets. Copper is not a viable alternative because of the expense and materials other than lead are already banned as they are considered “armor-piercing”. If this passes, “sports shooting” as we know it will be basically “outlawed” in the USA. This is another not-so-stealthy attack on the 2nd Amendment. And remember, the EPA was set up by the RINO Richard Nixon. This is just more proof that anything with a RINO label on it is actually a progressive idea in sheep’s clothing.

2. THE CAUSES OF THE PROBLEM

* CBD What is the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD)?

Mission ... At the Center for Biological Diversity, we believe that the welfare of human beings is deeply linked to nature — to the existence in our world of a vast diversity of wild animals and plants. Because diversity has intrinsic value, and because its loss impoverishes society, we work to secure a future for all species, great and small, hovering on the brink of extinction. We do so through science, law, and creative media, with a focus on protecting the lands, waters, and climate that species need to survive. We want those who come after us to inherit a world where the wild is still alive.

Patriot’s Flag Comment: Yes, it’s a bunch of lib do-gooders out once again to “save the world” from those of us who would like to LIVE in it! And once again a tiny MINORITY of people are trying to dictate the behavior of the MAJORITY.  Time to slap them down! (Again!)

The Environmental Protection Agency,  Øbama’s tool for skirting the will of the American People is simply out of control, here are three recent examples:

3. ACTION NEEDED TO S.T.Ø.P. THE PROBLEM

Here is the official “heads up” from the National Shooting Sports Foundation:

The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF)The trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industry — urges you to submit comment to the EPA opposing any ban on traditional ammunition. Remember, your right to choose the ammunition you hunt and shoot with is at stake. The EPA has published the petition and relevant supplemental information as Docket ID: EPA-HQ-OPPT-2010-0681. If you would like to read the original petition and see the contents of this docket folder, please click here. In order to go directly to the ‘submit a comment’ page for this docket number, please click here.

STEPS TO TAKE: (Info from National Shooting Sports Assn)

1. Submit comment online to the EPA. (see further instructions below **)

2. Contact Lisa Jackson directly to voice your opposition to the ban:

Lisa P. Jackson
Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20460
(202) 564-4700
Fax: (202) 501-1450
Email: jackson.lisa@epa.gov

3. Contact your congressman and senators and urge them to stop the EPA from banning ammunition. To view a sample letter, click here.

4. (Patriot’s Flag Addendum: This may also be an excellent time to JOIN the NSSF … LINK HERE)

** Note: When you submit your comment, you will be faced with an intimidating entry table suggesting you must be a government agency … just fill out out similar to how I did it. I used “The Patriot’s Flag” for my organization, but you could put in the name of your Tea Party Group, your bridge club or any other “organization” which you “represent.”

Also, if you would like to put a space between your paragraphs so they don’t all run together, insert <P> where you want a paragraph break. Example:

Dear Sir or Madam …

<P>

I would like to comment …

Updates

Fox News: The Environmental Protection Agency has denied a petition filed by environmental activists seeking to ban lead in ammunition and fishing tackle, saying such regulation is beyond the agency’s authority. The agency’s decision, announced Friday shortly after FoxNews.com published its report on the issue, sided with hunters and fishermen who had argued that the such regulations weren’t allowed under the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976. “EPA is taking action on many fronts to address major sources of lead in our society, such as eliminating childhood exposures to lead,” the agency said in a written statement. “However, EPA was not and is not considering taking action on whether the lead content in hunting ammunition poses an undue threat to wildlife.”

Washington Times (08.27.10) The Supreme Court‘s recent McDonald and Heller decisions have thus far thwarted the gun grabbers’ best efforts by upholding the individual’s right to own firearms. Late Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency added another victory to the list as it shot down an attempt to undermine the Second Amendment through the regulation of bullets. On Aug. 3, the American Bird Conservancy and groups like Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to ban traditional lead ammunition as a “health risk.”

US News: In a swift and unexpected decision, the Environmental Protection Agency today rejected a petition from environmental groups to ban the use of lead in bullets and shotgun shells, claiming it doesn’t have jurisdiction to weigh on the controversial Second Amendment issue. The decision came just hours after the Drudge Report posted stories from Washington Whispers and the Weekly Standard about how gun groups were fighting the lead bullet ban. The EPA had planned to solicit public responses to the petition for two months, but this afternoon issued a statement rejecting a 100-page request from the Center for Biological Diversity, the American Bird Conservancy, and three other groups for a ban on lead bullets, shot, and fishing sinkers. The agency is still considering what to do about sinkers.

Update – Still Watching the EPA’s Comment Link:

However, even with this “rejection” note the following:

  • As of 9:05pm 8/27/10, the Petition is still there and did refer to AMMUNITION COMPONENTS
  • CLICK HERE to see if link is “pulled”
  • . . . As of August 29th at 9:55 AM EST, the link was still active!
  • We can only believe what the DO, not what they SAY. It may be “rejected”, but it is still THERE!

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The “Tar Baby Mosque”

August 20th, 2010

IT IS FASCINATING to watch people walk up to Ground Zero Mosque Issue and take a verbal swing at it … only to get stuck to it forever.  If there was ever a time to “dodge” an explosive political issue, the Ground Zero mosque is that time. But, amazingly, people have weighed in on the controversy and now they are “stuck” to the issue forever.  Obama’s comments lecturing us on a Friday night that “people have the right to worship anywhere” (duh, I didn’t know that, did you?) and now Pelosi jumping in to “investigate the funding for people who are against the GZ Mosque.”  And while they try to “educate us” … it seems they missed a lesson from long ago. It simply shows these folks ‘jis ain’t to smart’ as they think … ‘Ol Uncle Remus could have taught them a thing or two.

Go to ‘da List – doz who be fo’ o ‘genst

From the Uncle Remus Bookstore

“DIDN’T the fox never catch the rabbit, Uncle Remus?” asked the little boy the next evening.

“He come mighty nigh it, honey, sho’s you born—Brer Fox did. One day atter Brer Rabbit fool ’im wid dat calamus root, Brer Fox went ter wuk en got ’im some tar, en mix it wid some turkentime, en fix up a contrapshun w’at he call a Tar-Baby, en he tuck dish yer Tar-Baby en he sot ’er in de big road, en den he lay off in de bushes fer to see what de news wuz gwine ter be. En he didn’t hatter wait long, nudder, kaze bimeby here come Brer Rabbit pacin’ down de road—lippity-clippity, clippity -lippity—dez ez sassy ez a jay-bird. Brer Fox, he lay low. Brer Rabbit come prancin’ ’long twel he spy de Tar-Baby, en den he fotch up on his behime legs like he wuz ’stonished. De Tar Baby, she sot dar, she did, en Brer Fox, he lay low.

“‘Mawnin’!’ sez Brer Rabbit, sezee—‘nice wedder dis mawnin’,’ sezee.

“Tar-Baby ain’t sayin’ nuthin’, en Brer Fox he lay low.

“‘How duz yo’ sym’tums seem ter segashuate?’ sez Brer Rabbit, sezee.

“Brer Fox, he wink his eye slow, en lay low, en de Tar-Baby, she ain’t sayin’ nuthin’.

“‘How you come on, den? Is you deaf?’ sez Brer Rabbit, sezee. ‘Kaze if you is, I kin holler louder,’ sezee.

“Tar-Baby stay still, en Brer Fox, he lay low.

“‘You er stuck up, dat’s w’at you is,’ says Brer Rabbit, sezee, ‘en I’m gwine ter kyore you, dat’s w’at I’m a gwine ter do,’ sezee.

“Brer Fox, he sorter chuckle in his stummick, he did, but Tar-Baby ain’t sayin’ nothin’.

“‘I’m gwine ter larn you how ter talk ter ’spectubble folks ef hit’s de las’ ack,’ sez Brer Rabbit, sezee. ‘Ef you don’t take off dat hat en tell me howdy, I’m gwine ter bus’ you wide open,’ sezee.

“Tar-Baby stay still, en Brer Fox, he lay low.

“Brer Rabbit keep on axin’ ’im, en de Tar-Baby, she keep on sayin’ nothin’, twel present’y Brer Rabbit draw back wid his fis’, he did, en blip he tuck ’er side er de head. Right dar’s whar he broke his merlasses jug. His fis’ stuck, en he can’t pull loose. De tar hilt ’im. But Tar-Baby, she stay still, en Brer Fox, he lay low.

“‘Ef you don’t lemme loose, I’ll knock you agin,’ sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, en wid dat he fotch ’er a wipe wid de udder han’, en dat stuck. Tar-Baby, she ain’y sayin’ nuthin’, en Brer Fox, he lay low.

“‘Tu’n me loose, fo’ I kick de natal stuffin’ outen you,’ sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, but de Tar-Baby, she ain’t sayin’ nuthin’. She des hilt on, en de Brer Rabbit lose de use er his feet in de same way. Brer Fox, he lay low. Den Brer Rabbit squall out dat ef de Tar-Baby don’t tu’n ’im loose he butt ’er cranksided. En den he butted, en his head got stuck. Den Brer Fox, he sa’ntered fort’, lookin’ dez ez innercent ez wunner yo’ mammy’s mockin’-birds.

“‘Howdy, Brer Rabbit,’ sez Brer Fox, sezee. ‘You look sorter stuck up dis mawnin’,’ sezee, en den he rolled on de groun’, en laft en laft twel he couldn’t laff no mo’. ‘I speck you’ll take dinner wid me dis time, Brer Rabbit. I done laid in some calamus root, en I ain’t gwineter take no skuse,’ sez Brer Fox, sezee.”

Here Uncle Remus paused, and drew a two-pound yam out of the ashes.

“Did the fox eat the rabbit?” asked the little boy to whom the story had been told.

“Dat’s all de fur de tale goes,” replied the old man. “He mout, an den agin he moutent. Some say Judge B’ar come ’long en loosed ’im—some say he didn’t. I hear Miss Sally callin’. You better run ’long.”

Patriot’s Flag Note: Like dat tar baby, dat ol’ mosque propty it jis sits dere and says nuttin, it jis watches. If deys fo it or if deys ‘genst it, deys gits stuck da same. But Ol’ Brer ‘Bama an Sisr p’losi an a whol bunca uder folks, dey all keeps ona yellin’ ’bout it and dey all keeps gettin’ it stuck to ‘em mo’ ‘n mo’. Brer ‘Bama he even gots a fist n’ a foot stuck to it now. Kinda’ like ‘ol Brer Rabbit ‘n dat uder tar baby s’long ‘go. As da autor o dis blog, I duz spectate dat Tar Baby Mosque’s gonna’ have more politicians stuck to it than fleas on an ol’ hound. Deys all gonna’ own a piece of it in da’ end. An dat tar be tuf to rub off.

Jis fer fun, Les count da fleas …

Da’ List

I be fo’ dat Mosque, leave it be

I be agin’ dat Mosaque, move it ‘way

I ain’s sayin’ nuttin’ bout dat Mosque

I likes it but den agin, I don

(If I “miss” a flea, drop me a note)


The Bottom Line


The “fallout” is expanding: It’s not just about the Mosque any more, now it is about Obama’s personal religion coming into question and Peolsi’s sanity.  No matter what Obama says … he gets “stuck” more to the controversy, not matter what Pelosi says (now she’s doubled down) she is associating herself with something 75% of the American Public DO NOT AGREE WITH.  Ah, but keep swinging away folks, that’s why the tar baby is “there.”

“So what’s all this racist stuff you are putting on your blog, Doug? ” Ah spoken probably by one of 90% of the people who were never blessed to have a parent read them small treasures, written by Joel Chandler Harris, when they were a child.  These  little stories were read to us over and over, and the lessons they left on our minds are strong-enough to be remembered for a lifetime … I’m living proof, I remembered this one almost three-quarters of a century later!  So we are talking about powerful lessons, but alas lessons today’s politicians either never studied or simply forgot. The “dialect” is a little hard to read, but if you “say it” rather than “read it” … you get the feeling that Ol’ Uncle Remus is in the room with you.

The best source of these little stories I’ve found are at the Uncle Remus Bookstore. They have 35 stories there, and many of you, who have never encountered Uncle Remus should take JUST A MOMENT and go there and read at least one.  Look “into” it for the lesson … it’s as deep as Alice in Wonderland and thoroughly enjoyable to read.  Give yourself a moment from politics and oil wells and birth certificates  and mosques … and just spend a few minutes there reading some of the rich tales from Uncle Remus. For me it was like meeting and “ol’ fren.” And the lessons still apply today … clearer lessons from a simpler time.

(And, yes, I used this theme before with the Oil Rig … it is amazing how the “lesson” keeps coming up to be learned again … but will they ever learn?)

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Blago and Obama

July 17th, 2010

Did Obama and Blagojevich have a discussion about the Senate Seat in Illinois? We will probably never know. To “know” would mean we would have to be privy to the “inside track” of Chicago politics … a circle where we, as outsiders, are not welcome, and a circle in which a form of Omerta exists. The political danger is not an “old-time hit” … you just get “thrown under the bus.” Same result … “fino!” It is done quickly, seemingly with little effort … but it is done. Here’s how you do it …

Obama’s Key Statement:
“Well, one question: “I had no contact with the governor or his office, so I was not aware of what was happening.”

This statement in the “circulated email” cannot be confirmed:

Barack Obama Supposedly Said: “I only saw Rod Blagojevich one time … and that was in the stands and from a distance at a Chicago  Bears Football Game.”

  • So be careful with the “email” you might receive showing these pictures and attributing them to the [probably] false statement above.

Axelrod said there was a discussion:

Axelrod said, “I know he’s talked to the governor and there are a whole range of names many of which have surfaced, and I think he has a fondness for a lot of them.”

We can establish a Personal Relationship: However, we can surmise quickly from the pictures that there was a personal relationship between Obama and Blagojevich.  With the overall lack of credibility of both men, it is easy for one to surmise they [probably] talked about the Senate seat.  Denying that any such conversation took place is difficult for most people to swallow when they dare to fathom Chicago politics and see actual pictures of a “distanced” relationship.

Let’s allow the pictures to do the “talking:”

Rod Blagojevich, Barack Obama and Richard Daley during a rally in  Chicago , April 16, 2007.
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Do you think they “knew” each other well-enough to have a “discussion” about the Senate seat?  Pictures are worth thousands of words, so I’ll say no more here.

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