Becks warning- Government control of your computer

The Cash For Clunkers program is idiotic anyways unless you do not pay any taxes (in that case it is just another welfare handout) you are just having your tax money redistributed back to your pocket. Put it this way the $4,500 is your (or rather was your) money. All for what? Destroying a perfectly good running vehicle to trade in for another you may not be able to afford. Another bill to add to your personal deficit.

Here is the warning: It appears to apply to the dealer tab on the screen
"“This application provides access to the DoT CARS system. When logged on to the CARS system, your computer is considered a Federal computer system and is the property of the US Government. Any or all uses of this system and all files may be intercepted, monitored, recorded, copied, audited, inspected, and disclosed to authorized CARS, DoT, and law enforcement personal, as well as authorized officials of other agencies, both domestic and foreign."

Some people are so damn naive. But then again look at who the majority elected as POTUS

I want to know...can i cry now?

OK, so I am at work and talking to a vendor on the phone, and we start talking about business trends, and can't figure out how come stocks seem to be doing better, banks are pulling in the money, yet businesses across the country say things suck...and are cutting jobs, salaries, whatever to stay in business.

Personally, my few credit cards have all shown little interest in the fact I have a excellent credit score, by reducing my available credit and raising interest rates...Dell raised their rate to 30% - I am not kidding. Major banks making a crap load of money from the bail out, and what happens to us???

Now the government (which supposedly represents us) is handing out (our) money to promote car sales, yet who has any money to afford the new $40,000 hybrids they want us all to drive? Even at half that amount, its a tough purchase with your earnings cut by 20%...

Now add in the fact that our presidente does not want to release any of his personal records, which would end the discussion about whether he is a natural born citizen..and that congress has gone full boat bozo about passing laws without much if any discussion, passing trillions of dollars of expenses we will all just need to buckle down and pay...WAIT A MINUTE

who the heck  said i wanted to be party to this land of looney baloney...so here i am being dragged kicking and screaming to the brink of personal finanical ruin by a thug and his henchmen that think what I have needs to be redistributed, and now you want to take over my health care??? what the hell, lets pass the Canice Recovery Act- any and every body, all 300 million gets a check for $10,000...thats only 3 trillion, what the heck?

Can I just cry now???

NC men charged with plotting 'violent jihad'

Frank Zappa had a song with the phrase "It can't happen here..." which poked fun at American mores and culture...although i doubt he would see a lot of humor in the headline today.

RALEIGH, N.C. — A father, his two sons and four other North Carolina men are accused of military-style training at home and plotting "violent jihad" through a series of terror attacks abroad, federal authorities said Monday.

Officials said the group was led by Daniel Patrick Boyd, a married 39-year-old who lived in an unassuming lakeside home in a rural area south of Raleigh, where he and his family walked their dog and operated a drywall business. But two decades ago, Boyd, who is a U.S. citizen, trained in terrorist camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan and fought against the Soviets for three years before returning to the United States.

An indictment released Monday does not detail any specific terrorist plans or targets overseas, although it claims some of the defendants traveled to Israel in 2007 with the intent of waging "violent jihad" and returned home without success.

"These charges hammer home the point that terrorists and their supporters are not confined to the remote regions of some far away land but can grow and fester right here at home," U.S. Attorney George E.B. Holding said. He would not give details of the alleged plots beyond what was in a news release and indictment.

The seven men made their first court appearances in Raleigh on Monday, charged with providing material support to terrorism. If convicted, they could face life in prison. Court documents charged that Boyd, also known as 'Saifullah,' encouraged others to engage in jihad.

Boyd's beliefs did not concur with his Raleigh-area moderate mosque, which he stopped attending and instead began meeting for Friday prayers in his home, said Holding, who did not say whether any or all the defendants met with him.

Their wives told The Associated Press in an interview at the time that the couples had U.S. roots but the United States was a country of "kafirs" — Arabic for heathens.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j34g9gaPJEUOAIczVt028baWrkaAD99N6JT00

More of my thoughts...

For moment, i will try to stay off national politics...

I have thought about this quite a while, which doesn't make it any more or less valid, just the same idea keeps coming around.

I my travels throughout the country over the last 9 nine years I have seen large cities (which are getting generally larger) exercise more political clout than non-urban areas...you know, parts of your state cover the most ground, and are small town, farms, rural...what the media refers to as fly over country. Here in wacky California, the most people live in urban metropolitan areas, and what makes sense there does not necessarily make sense in the rest of the state. Country folk tend to be more conservative, not necessarily repoopicrat, but not into gun control as defined by liberal legislators. Not prone to wanting to legalize dope for taxes, or promote end of life counselling for senior citizens or any of the nonsense coming out of many capitols    these days.

Because these large urban areas have more people, they have more votes, hence while territorially someone like Obama lost in California, where the votes were concentrated in the urban areas he won, therefore majority rules and there goes all California's electoral votes to him.

So I was wondering why it an all or nothing deal? Why simple majority rule carries all the votes? Why cant each state allocate the electoral votes by pure per centage of the popular votes?

The other thing I have been thinking about is the same issue from the perspective of one large city dictating the laws for an entire state, like Oregon and Washington.

These states have several cities, but it the largest metro area that dominates statewide politics. In California that power struggle is between the San Francisco Bay area (SF Oakland San Jose) and "The South Land(a.k.a Los Angeles) "

So here is my idea- I think we would be better off if we passed a law that any time the national census determines a Metropolitan Statistical Area exceeds say a million people, it automatically is granted District status, making whatever laws passed in that district binding ONLY on that district. So we could have Portland, District of Oregon or Seattle District of Washington, or Los Angeles, District of California...and the legislatures of each state would then represent only the non district areas of the state...

Think of it...Chicago District of Illinois. I am just saying....

Of course, the obvious faults of this plan are many, especially if the President takes over the census (against the constitution, isn't it?)

My thoughts...

Several years ago, I started blogging mostly about myself and family, to amuse myself, and keep an online journal. As time progressed, i started to share that blog with strangers, many of whom have become friends. And has the conversations continued between us, my journals became more diverse, covering cooking, my travels, the death of my dog, my daughters wedding, etc. Then November 2008 happened...America elected Obama. Everything I had worked for, my savings, our retirement, the value of our home(which was supposed to be our backstop in the retirement plan) went from bad to worse....as you all know, and probably experienced as deeply as my family. And I remember thinking about how come January, I would give this brash man with some pretty expansive expensive ideas the benefit of doubt, and hope he could deliver, even though I doubted it. That was then.

Now, nearing August, he has led our government for 1/2 a year- so lets see where we are:

-deeper recession, more unemployed.

China is threatening to dump our currency in favor of something else;

once predominant American companies (GM and Chrysler) have gone in the dumpster, shedding thousands of good paying jobs, while simultaneously dragging the entire auto supply industry down with them.

He has overseen the most rapid expansion of national debt in our nations history, while achieving nothing of significant value in return.

His administration has continued to blame Bush for everything, including the debt, citing "Bush started it.." as a rationale.

His thug Chief of Staff routinely chastises the opposition, while his inept media spokesman makes feeble excuses for every presidential and vice presidential gaff...

He has proposed the idea, now being debated nationally, about Health care reform, when the issue really  is about insuring the uninsured which could be quickly remedied in a manner similar to auto insurance for the uninsured, and assignd risk pool that would lump the uninsured together and assign them to a company for coverage, perhaps with a subsidy to lower cost, not unlike the credit idea proposed ny Senator McCain back in the election, which was WIDELY dismissed by the Obamaistas.

The Obama administration has stood by idly by while pirates seize ships at sea, while thousands protest sham elections in Iran, and has the audacity to call a police department stupid in a matter the knows nothing about.

He has snubbed national leaders that are among the few friends the US has, such as the botched visit to the US by Gordon Brown of the UK, and Netanyahu of Israel, while authorizing the transfer (today) of $200 million to the Palestinian Authority "...to help ease their government's growing budget crisis.." This while states like California and Pennsylvania struggle to balance their financial houses due to the recession.

While on this topic of state wide (California) economic collapse, let me add that I am able to be home today writing this blog because my employer is going through a tough time financially, and so in addition to reduced salary, i get to spend an extra week at home. Since this makes me technically a part time employee, now there is discussion of cutting benefits as well, not to mention they already cut off the 401k contributions...meaning I am looking for another job, to make ends meet. That after a staff meeting where the previously stated temporary nature of the se cost cutting measures was being reviewed with an eye towards making them permanent. Not welcome news.

So amidst this now national insanity, i continue to hope (pray) that calmer heads will prevail. I also have made up my mind on some things, after discussion with my spouse:

We will never buy a GM car or truck until the government has NO interest in the company- likely never again

Same for Chrysler- which means our love affair with Jeeps now is limited to past models

We will support politicians that support America, not apologizers...

We will not help any incumbent get re-elected in 2010 or thereafter unless they realize they work for the people, not the other way around; we will specifically do what we can to defeat our current Senators from California, and that awful Nancy Pelosi...and our own ninny congresswoman...

We will continue our support for the organizations that lobby for things we believe in.

My sincerest wish that in 2010 we the people retake Congress, and curb the abuses of the current White House....

Obama's birth certificate challenge...

main stream media covering Obama birth issue...... this version is from YouTube.

After the congressman says the president is a citizen, listen to the angry call "PROVE IT!!".

Well Mr. Obama...can you prove it???

 

Additionally...watch this...grand jury indictments against Obama for Fraud and Treason...

Obama- Socialismo o Muerte! (Socialism or Death)

This was written last November, and is posted here to illustrate that not everyone was fooled then....or now.

Anyone would think we had just elected a hip, skinny and youthful replacement for God, with a plan to modernise Heaven and Hell – or that at the very least John Lennon had come back from the dead.

The swooning frenzy over the choice of Barack Obama as as President of the United States must be one of the most absurd waves of self-deception and swirling fantasy ever to sweep through an advanced civilisation. At least Mandela-worship – its nearest equivalent – is focused on a man who actually did something.
I really don’t see how the Obama devotees can ever in future mock the Moonies, the Scientologists or people who claim to have been abducted in flying saucers. This is a cult like the one which grew up around Princess Diana, bereft of reason and hostile to facts.
Just look at his sermon by the shores of Lake Michigan. He really did talk about a ‘new dawn’, and a ‘timeless creed’ (which was ‘yes, we can’). He proclaimed that ‘change has come’. He revealed that, despite having edited the Harvard Law Review, he doesn’t know what ‘enormity’ means. He reached depths of oratorical drivel never even plumbed by our own Mr Blair, burbling about putting our hands on the arc of history (or was it the ark of history?) and bending it once more toward the hope of a better day (Don’t try this at home).
I had attended an election-night party in a smart and liberal white area, but was staying the night less than a mile away on the edge of a suburb where Spanish is spoken as much as English, plus a smattering of tongues from such places as Ethiopia, Somalia and Afghanistan. As I walked, I crossed another of Washington’s secret frontiers. There had been a few white people blowing car horns and shouting, as the result became clear. But among the Mexicans, Salvadorans and the other Third World nationalities, there was something like ecstasy. They grasped the real significance of this moment. They knew it meant that America had finally switched sides in a global cultural war. Forget the Cold War, or even the Iraq War. The United States, having for the most part a deeply conservative people, had until now just about stood out against many of the mistakes which have ruined so much of the rest of the world. Suspicious of welfare addiction, feeble justice and high taxes, totally committed to preserving its own national sovereignty, unabashedly Christian in a world part secular and part Muslim, suspicious of the Great Global Warming panic, it was unique. These strengths had been fading for some time, mainly due to poorly controlled mass immigration and to the march of political correctness. They had also been weakened by the failure of America’s conservative party – the Republicans – to fight on the cultural and moral fronts. They preferred to posture on the world stage. Scared of confronting Left-wing teachers and sexual revolutionaries at home, they could order soldiers to be brave on their behalf in far-off deserts. And now the US, like Britain before it, has begun the long slow descent into the Third World. How sad. Where now is our last best hope on Earth?

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1084111/PETER-HITCHENS-The-night-waved-goodbye-America--best-hope-Earth.html#ixzz0Lx7KSOds