Outrage

Your editor will, on occasion, sheepishly admit to being a fan of conspiracy sites. For the most part, they’re a form of entertainment that I find…well, entertaining. They can be dark and dank, but many of them are written by very smart people with startlingly fresh and creative perspectives. You probably know the kind of sites I’m talking about. Some of them are hugely successful.

In this deepening “Greater Depression,” many of these sites are starting to prove themselves to be more than just fantasy and fiction. The terrible things they’ve been predicted are, in more than a few cases, starting to appear to us in our day to day world, and that makes us take a harder look at the other predictions and issue they discuss, to see if those things are coming down the road toward us, still just over the horizon.

For that reason, I sometimes feel like I have to avoid publishing what seems absolutely true to me. I no longer believe it’s impossible for American citizens to be rounded up in the middle of the night for opposing the power structure in this country. The unbelievable fiction I see playing out on the news channels these days suggest to me that the men and woman who have hijacked our Government are dropping all pretense about what they are doing. When I see Barney Frank berating the new ($1 per year) CEO of AIG for paying bonuses that the TARP allowed, and demanding the names of the people who did not return them, is it unreasonable to imagine doors kicked in at 2am?

Am I the only one who is disgusted by the holier than thou attitude of a man who was a regulator of this industry demanding justice for things that happened when he was watching? Am I the only one disgusted by this attitude from a man who had a gay prostitution ring being run out of his house by his live-in lover not that many years ago?

“We get the government we deserve,” the old saying goes. At what point will enough people who don’t live in states clueless enough to elect the likes of Barney Frank and Christopher Dodd say no more?

Then, things will get really interesting.

Big Mistake…BIG Mistake

President Obama has made what historians may well cite as the misjudgement that brought down his promising, young administration’s chances for any kind of success and a second term.

He identified Rush Limbaugh as his enemy.

Big mistake.

It’s assumed that Raum Emmanuel came up with this strategy, and sadly, it shows just how out of touch the people running the White House are.

We are falling headlong into probably the greatest financial catastrophe in the history of our nation. Forget the Great Depression, that event will eclipsed by what we’re entering now. This is bigger. President Barack Hussein Obama didn’t have any more to do with creating this mess than did any other member of the Senate or House. But he did raise his hand and promise himself into the leadership of our Republic. There are questions whether there will be another President after him, presiding over a 50 state Union. There are serious questions being talked about that question exactly how bad things will have to be for him to declare Martial Law and suspend the Constitution of the United States. There are men and women who could be a sufficiently respected President to pull that one off. For reasons that are completely unfair but real nonetheless, he is not one of them.

The White House, in setting Rush up as the head of the resistance, Obama and Emmanuel have annointed an opposition leader with real teeth.

Again, big mistake.

Conservatives are indeed divided. There are the Republicans, who true conservatives are not terribly happy with. The Republican Party is the party that put John McCaine and Sarah Palin on the ticket last November. True conservatives gritted their teeth, held their noses and voted against Obama. The Republican Party is the party that has marginalized Ron Paul, the only vocal member of the party who gets it. The numbers of people in the United States who are infuriated that Dr. Paul’s message is being ignored are big. McCaine was an attempt to get the “moderate” Republicans on board after the difficult Bush years.

The Conservatives, who outnumber Liberals in the U.S. are divided, without a standard bearer. Or, they were, until the White House’s new residents created one for us.

Rush Limbaugh.

I became a fan of Rush in 1988 when his national show began to take off. I’m a conservative voice on the radio myself, a broadcaster since the early 80s. Right now, I keep my writing and my broadcasting on different “channels,” writing under my real name, broadcasting under the name I’ve used in the industry for going on 30 years. I’m an Economist, who has been devoted to the philophies of Milton Friedman since first reading Free to Choose while in college. During the Bush years, I drifted from Rush, not happy with his position as a party “hack” who worked hard to sell Bush’s mistakes to us. I questioned my Conservatism, and as someone who respects and admires Al Gore, regretted my 2000 vote for Bush.

But, seeing the realities of Liberal American Socialism born under the guise of “Change,” I have snapped back to my Conservative roots, quickly rallying with a growing multitude under the Limbaugh standard. The White House has miscalculated, and sent everyone a map and directions to that rally point. If they thought the name “Rush Limbaugh” was one that would repel true conservatives from a central meeting point, they were wrong. Conservatives will find a Rush-led Conservative movement a very compelling place to be, and as the economy worsens, unemployment soars, and more and more of Obama’s promises are broken, the White House will see just what a monster they’ve created, and just how few true Liberals there are, outside the Beltway.

Morons Leading

First of all, let me state my opinion.

Christopher Dodd is the worst kind of leader we could possibly have. What kind of chump takes a “sweetheart deal” from Countryside when he oversees that industry’s regulation (or lack thereof)? I know, I know, that’s the whole POINT of getting elected to Congress, to feed at the trough of graft. I get that. But, jeesh, Chris. Be a little more shamed, would you?

Now, he’s calling for the resignation of the head of GM as a condition of bailout.

Okay. Dodd and Obama say things like Obama did on TV today:

“The big three U.S. automakers have made repeated strategic mistakes,” Obama said. “They have not managed that industry the way they should have.” Any financial aid must be “conditioned on them making significant adjustments.”

Is he kidding? What business has he or Dodd ever run that he can make statements like that? Where did these geniuses, almost all of them in Congress there because they couldn’t make the kind of living they can get stealing from the taxpayers, relying on their business acumen or hard work in the private sector, get their business savvy?

What business do they have telling anybody anything? Wasn’t Dodd part of the oversight of the financial industry (hence, the kickbacks and sweetheart mortgages he got) that is melting down? Wasn’t he talking about how healthy it was when there were those ringing alarms about Fannie and Freddie, only to be beaten down and called idiots for their opinions that we were heading for disaster?

Christopher Dodd is a failed regulator, and should be given no oversight of anything more important than a mop, but I’m sure he’d screw that up as well.

Amazing.

Ron Paul Says Obama Admin More of the Same

U.S. Congressman Ron Paul told Russia Today recently that the G20 Economic meetings were just talk about more of the same, and that behind the scenes, the leaders of the world’s biggest countries were discussing one-world central banking, and managing a single fiat currency.

What would this mean? Disaster.

Keep these things in mind:

Every fiat currency in the history of the world has failed, as the dollar is set to do.

A “reversion to the mean” will not protect the United States’ wealth and the standard of living anywhere near what we have now. This whole thing means that the 20th Century was “The American Century.”

The 21st won’t be.

Editor’s note: Ron Paul was America’s best hope in the 2008 election, but the mainstream media decided to marginalize Dr. Paul, a long-time Congressman from Texas, because though he’s a Republican, Dr. Paul doesn’t seem interested in putting the needs of current one-party system rule (despite the farce the “Republicans” and “Democrats” want you to believe in) above the needs of the American People.

Link to Dr. Paul’s interview with Russia Today.

Hopeful Signs from Washington?

In these terribly troubled times, as I write this on Thanksgiving Day, 2008, at 3:35am (I’m an early riser), I am a little puzzled, but feeling some hope creep into my thoughts about the leader we elected earlier this month.

Since Ronald Reagan, the first Presidential candidate I voted for, casting that first vote when I was 21, the politics of who the Chief Executive surrounded himself with was at least as important as his own. Though I stress it’s still early, it looks like the far left, who thought they were electing an almost socialist radical got duped. President-Elect Obama is surrounding himself with a moderate to (shockingly) conservative cabinet and panel of advisors.

I have to admit, I’m intrigued and…OK…a little Impressed.

The left is…Well, pissed.

The appointment of Paul Volker to a panel of experts hoping to stabilize the economy is, though hopeless, a great choice. He should be the Chairman of the Fed again, but then any one of the cast of the television show Laverne and Shirley would be better than Ben Bernanke.

Retaining Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense is on the one hand an example of promise-keeping, as Obama said he’d have Republicans in his administration, but on a darker note, probably a reflection of what the President-Elect has learned since getting a big upgrade in the quality of his intelligence briefings. My gut tells me he’s heard things that rule out his changing horses at the Pentagon right now, and thought it could be as simple as the fact that we’re currently in two wars, it’s probably much more than that.

Making Hillary Clinton Secretary of State is, in my opinion, one of the boldest, most Machiavellian moves ever. Many wondered exactly why Obama would appoint such a bitter rival for the nomination that led to his election. What better way to eliminate Hillary from the game than to make her Secretary of State? To accept the job, which takes much, much more tact and finesse than Hillary possesses, she must give up her Senate seat. Hillary Clinton will fail at State. No one likes her, and that’s a problem. She’ll run, like a bull through a china shop, over allies and adversaries alike. To be Secretary of State, I would think you would need a huge reservoir of humility and empathy, traits that Hillary Clinton has famous shortages of. Once she’s gone from the State Department, she’s gone for good. Her Senate seat will have been filled. She’ll be out, unless the Governor of New York, David Paterson, replaces her with Bill. Nice.