No Wonder the Statists Hate Her Memory

Explains why the liberal/progressive Demorats in the U.S. Congress are blocking a resolution honoring Lady Thatcher.

Quick Look at Obama's Proposed Budget

From the Heritage Foundation

Tale of Two Cities II

CHICAGO vs HOUSTON

 

	Chicago, IL	Houston, TX
Population	2.7 million	2.15 million
Median HH Income	$38,600	$37,000
% African-American	38.9%	24%
% Hispanic	29.9%	44%
% Asian	5.5%	6%
% Non-Hispanic White	38.7%	26%

Similar - until you compare this:

	Chicago, IL	Houston, TX
Concealed Carry gun law	no	yes
Number of Gun Stores	0	84 - Dedicated gun stores plus 1500 - legal places to buy guns - Walmart, K-mart, sporting goods, etc.
Homicides, 2012	806	207
Homicides per 100K	28.4	9.6
Average January high temperature – (F)	31°	63°

Does cold weather cause homicide?

My Instruction to and for One and All

From Better Days and Wiser Leaders

My ardent desire is, and my aim has been ... to comply strictly with all our engagements foreign and domestic; but to keep the United States free from political connections with every other Country.  To see that they may be independent of all, and under the influence of none.  In a word, I want an American character, that the powers of Europe may be convinced we act for ourselves and not for others; this, in my judgment, is the only way to be respected abroad and happy at home. 

 . . . George Washington

letter to Patrick Henry

1775

 [W]hat has America done for the benefit of mankind? . . . She has, in the lapse of nearly half a century, without a single exception, respected the independence of other nations while asserting and maintaining her own.  She has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when the conflict has been for principles to which she clings, as to the last vital drop that visits the heart . . . .  But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy.  She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.  She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.

. . . John Quincy Adams

Foreign Policy Speech

1821

Bulletin From NASCAR

Raleigh, North Carolina:

Jeff Gordon announced today that he was firing his entire pit crew.  This announcement followed Gordon's decision to take advantage of President Obama's scheme to employ Harlem youngsters.

The decision to hire them was brought about by a recent documentary on how unemployed youths from Harlem were able to remove a set of wheels in less than six seconds without proper equipment, whereas Gordon's existing crew could only do it In eight seconds with thousands of dollars worth of high tech equipment.

 It was thought to be an excellent and bold move by Gordon's management team, as many races are won or lost in the pits.

 However, Gordon got more than he bargained for.

 At the crew's first practice session, not only was the inexperienced crew able to change all four wheels in under six seconds, but within nine seconds they had changed the paint scheme, altered the VIN number, and sold the car to Dale Earnhardt Jr.,  for ten cases of Bud, a bag of weed, and some photos of Jeff Gordon's wife in the shower

Nothing like our NY home boys!   

Truth - Like It or Not

In Memorium: A Magnificent Lady and Great Leader

Margaret Thatcher

By constantly working hard, 

never ducking the hard decisions,

alway courageously telling the truth, and 

seeing to it that the bills got paid on time, 
she saved Britain and made it great again.

. . . and that's without even touching on how she, together with President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II, ended decades of appeasing, groveling to, and propping up the 
Soviet Union, recognized it as the evil empire that it was, 
and thus finally brought it crashing down.  

Rotting From Cynical Corruption at America's Core

In formulating the Constitution and establishing the federal government, America's founders recognized that the success of their efforts would depend on an informed, intelligent, vigorous, and virtuous population . . . a citizenry made up of individuals like themselves.  They counted on such a citizenry . . . and there's the rub.

Americans have been dumbed down.  The nation's educational institutions -- from the public schools through our elite universities -- have been fostering complacent mediocrity. Students  are indoctrinated in submissive political correctness instead of being inculcated with individual critical thinking skills and habits.

As for virtue . . . look elsewhere.  

Food stamps, mindless entertainment, and sports provide the modern substitute to the country's complacent commoners for the bread and circuses that the corrupt and crumbling Roman Empire provided for its plebians.

Yes, there are some vestiges of unease over the monstrous public debt when it is pointed out that we are impoverishing our children and grandchildren by sloughing off to them all the bills that we have piled up in an effort to continue basking in the undeserved good life that our forefathers bequeathed to us.  But we elect to public offices politicians willing and able to continue to do the same thing while convincing us that it is fine and dandy to do so.

The ways in which the poseurs who constitute America's current political elite do this are many and varied . . . but a private businessman or ordinary citizen would quickly end up in the pokey for engaging in any of the same techniques.  

For a look at a few of the three-card monty and fast shuffle tricks being used to disguise and obscure reality and to shield it  from public view, take a look at this report.

Finally . . . don't blame the politicians.  They are what they are and always have been -- charlatans who would eagerly sell their parents into slavery for a vote.  Instead, look in the mirror -- we are the people who put them in office and tolerate what they do.

Incentivizing Dependency . . . and Ruin

These 11 States now have More People 

on Welfare than they do Employed

Last month, the Senate Budget Committee reported that in fiscal year 2011, between food stamps, housing support, child care, Medicaid and other benefits, the average U.S. household below the poverty line received $168.00 a day in government support. The median household income in America is just over $50,000, which averages out to $137.13 a day.

To put it another way, being on welfare now pays the equivalent of $30.00 an hour for a 40-hour week, while the average job pays $20.00 an hour.

Just a Coincidence ? ? ? ?

Safety Now Requires Prevarication Or Obfuscation

Liberal Logic

To Travel Comfortably Plan Strategically

Whose Interests Are Served By the Federal Reserve?

It is no accident or anomaly that the Federal Reserve -- with Americans were suffering high unemployment and losing their homes to foreclosures -- has been debasing the nation's currency by printing money to bail out big banks, including foreign as well as domestic ones.

That conduct was and continues to be consistent with the history of the nation's periodic experiences with a central bank . . . and that conduct has made the existence of a central bank in the U.S. a fault line that time and again has led to major realignments of the country's politics.

Read a capsule account of the recurrent phenomenon here . . . and join your not-the-least-bit humble blogger in hoping that we soon will see it repeated. 

Proof That Men Have Better Friends

Friendship among Women: A woman didn't come home one night. The next morning She told her husband that she had slept over at a friend's house. The man called his wife's 10 best Friends. None of them knew anything about it. 

Friendship among Men: A man didn't come home one night. The next morning he told his wife that he had slept over at a friend's House. The woman called her husband's 10 best friends. Eight confirmed that he had slept over, and two said he was still there.