To tell you the truth I had not planned to continue this blog, but the absolute PAP that the mass media is coming out with along with the new administration, it is necessary for me to do so, at least while we still have a forum to be heard. You realize they want to shut Rush Limbaugh down and all others who don't fall in line with "The One". I figure eventually they will even come after me. Oh well, on with the show.
Remember the Bush administration? I know it has been ages ago, but for those of you with a longer attention span than the typical Obama voter, you might take a look at the first story.
Yes, we can!!
As I said, the pap the mass media calls news these days is enough to make you sick. Hang on and grab your barf bag, cuz here it comes.
On a tough day, Obama escapes for a while; Feb 3, 2009; By BEN FELLER; apnews.myway.com
I wonder if the messianic president thought he only needed to raise his arms and make commands and that would solve all problems. Wake up to the real world Berry.
On the rockiest day of his young administration, President Barack Obama did what surely made him happy for a while.
He left.
He left? ........ He left?
With little notice, the president and first lady Michelle Obama bolted the gated compound of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in their tank of a limousine on Tuesday. They ended up at a Washington public school, greeted by children who could not care less about the collapse of a Cabinet secretary nomination.
This brilliant leader appointed 3 tax cheats of which two withdrew their appointments and this is pressure?
"We were just tired of being in the White House," the president candidly told the gleeful second-graders at Capital City Public Charter School.
He's been in charge now for all of two weeks and the pressure got to him? He didn't even submit a judgeship up for nomination like Bush did. He didn't have to fight over a Secretary of State pick, or an Attourney General pick like Bush did.
"We got out! They let us out!" Mrs. Obama said as the kids and their teachers laughed.
I guess the appointment of a Health Czar was equal to the 9 1 1 attacks. As his mental giant VP said, "This guy has a spine of steel."
One child asked him if he had a favorite superhero. Spiderman and Batman, the president answered.
Now those are some controversial questions for our new president. The rumor was, Obama had to check with his advisors as to which super hero had a clear tax record before answering.
Consider what happened just before the president left the White House compound.
In the span of a few hours, he dealt with the aborted candidacy of his government's chief performance officer over an embarrassing tax problem; he announced a new commerce secretary nominee to replace the one who withdrew weeks earlier because of corruption investigation; and he accepted the stunning withdrawal by Daschle, who had his own problems over back taxes and ethical conflicts.
HE DEALT WITH WHAT? The guy bolted and let the cards fall.
None of that came up at school, although Obama did sneak in a plug for his economic stimulus plan.
OK, back on message. Pound socialism into the heads of the little tykes early. I sorta wonder who his super hero is. I think I already know. It's Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
What shall I talk about next?
This administration is under 3 weeks old and already there is so much to talk about that I could update this blog multiple times a day. Little Tommy Dashole was thrown under the bus before the ink dried on the update page, and I don't even use a pen.
California farms, vineyards in peril from warming, U.S. energy secretary warns; By Jim Tankersley; February 4, 2009; LA Times
This article is almost as funny as another tax cheat appointed to an Obama cabinet position. But, let's look at it for a laugh. God knows we need one.
Reporting from Washington -- California's farms and vineyards could vanish by the end of the century, and its major cities could be in jeopardy, if Americans do not act to slow the advance of global warming, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu said Tuesday.
You have to wonder if this Chu guy tunes into the the weather channel.
In his first interview since taking office last month, the Nobel-prize-winning physicist offered some of the starkest comments yet on how seriously President Obama's cabinet views the threat of climate change, along with a detailed assessment of the administration's plans to combat it.
And this guy wins a Nobel prize? I guess that relegates the value of that honor to less than that of the Carter presidency years. Seriously speaking if Jimmy Carter and Algore can win a nobel prize then Chu can as well.
"I don't think the American public has gripped in its gut what could happen," he said. "We're looking at a scenario where there's no more agriculture in California." And, he added, "I don't actually see how they can keep their cities going" either.
The real problem is that I agree with him. Not for the reason he cites, but California is in danger of losing their agriculture industry (and every other industry they have) not to global warming but to a mass exodus of people fleeing the state because its broke and taxes are stacking up to highest heaven.
A pair of recent studies raise similar warnings. One, published in January in the journal Science, raised the specter of worldwide crop shortages as temperatures rise. Another, penned by UC Berkeley researchers last year, estimated California has about $2.5 trillion in real estate assets -- including agriculture -- endangered by warming.
Oh, you better reassess those real estate assets. Chu hasn't seen the economic news in the paper either it seems. Housing/real estate values have tumbled.
Let's get serious here and look at the stupidity of this claim of global warming.
90% of USA forecast to freeze tonight: Florida in the icebox... ; Drugereport.com; Feb 4, 2009
One thing for sure, Chu didn't get his nobel prize for current events.
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