Weiner pull out

Sorry for the obvious headline there .. but I’m going in a direction you might not expect, so I needed that to maintain my reputation for insensitivity.

First – I think that Anthony Weiner is actually emotionally disturbed.  I would have seen nothing wrong with allowing him to seek therapy and continue with his job.  The one factor that speaks against this would be his blatant lying to the media and his attempt to hang the whole thing on Andrew Breitbart.

Another thing … I thought Tony the Bone showed some class yesterday when those idiotic hecklers showed up at his announcement.  This is a man who lost his career and is fighting to save his marriage, and these fools are yelling insults at him.  Weiner showed far more courage and class with his stoic demeanor than these ignoranuses did with their attacks on him.  

THIS AIN'T A DAMN JOKE, PREZBO

Yesterday PrezBo went to North Carolina to meet with his Council on Jobs and Competiveness.  I know what you are thinking .. Barack Obama is the last guy that I would associate with job creation or competitiveness .. these businessmen must be insulted when he gets up to talk about the issue.  But when asked about the bureaucratic red tape that can delay projects or put a stop to them completely, Obama jokingly says:  "Shovel-ready was not as ... uh .. shovel-ready as we expected." 
Gee, ya think?  And it was nice of you to have a little chuckle at your own cleverness, PrezBo …. But the people who have been out of work for six months weren’t laughing with you. 
Barack Obama said that if we implemented his grand stimulus plan, it would provide for hundreds of thousands of “shovel-ready” projects that will bring our unemployment rate below 8%.  We HAD to do this, otherwise our country would not recover.  Remember?  So $821 billion later, what do we have to show for it?
“Unemployment is now 25 percent higher than when the president took office, the deficit is 35 percent higher, and gas prices have more than doubled,” according to Commentary Magazine.
Obama’s stimulus included $28 billion in new highway money, which he said would "create or save" 150,000 jobs by the end of 2010.  These are the quintessential “shovel-ready” jobs that Obama jokes turned out to be not so shovel ready. 
From Investors Business Daily:

A new study by economists Timothy Conley of the University of Western Ontario and Bill Dupor of Ohio State found that despite the influx of all that federal money, highway construction jobs actually plunged by nearly 70,000 between 2008 and 2010.
As the authors explain, many states simply took the free federal money and shifted their own highway funds to meet other needs.  Examples:

• Texas got $700 million in highway stimulus funds last year, but spent $560 million less on its roads in 2010 than it did in 2009.
• New York's highway spending was basically unchanged between 2009 and 2010, despite getting $522 million more in federal highway bucks.
• Michigan boosted its highway spending just $17.4 million, far below the $189 million extra the feds handed the state for highway improvements.

These jobs and our economy, Mr. President, are not a joke.  This stimulus bill was your great plan at turning the tide of this nation.  This was it!  When others, like yours truly, were telling you that MORE government spending on “shovel-ready” projects were not going to be the way to save this nation and grow our economy, you passed the gargantuan bill, continued to pass other bills (like ObamaCare) that increased the size of government and then refused to do anything to actually tackle our entitlement crisis.
According to government figures: When you add up all of the money that we owe in order to cover our future liabilities in entitlements, our country is now in worse financial shape than Greece.  Greece!  While Obama has nearly doubled our debt to $14.3 trillion, that doesn’t even compare to the $50 trillion that we owe when you include Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
This is not a laughing matter.  Americans are not impressed that you “have a better plane” than three years ago or you now travel “with a bigger entourage.”  What Americans DO know is that your stimulus plans were a big fat freaking failure and their families are paying the price for it and will continue to pay the price for your policies for decades.

Separation of church and state

The concept of separation of church and state refers to the distance in the relationship between organized religion and the nation state. The term is an offshoot of the phrase, "wall of separation between church and state," as written in Thomas Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptists Association in 1802. The original text reads: "...I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church & State." Jefferson reflected his frequent speaking theme that the government is not to interfere with religion.^[1] The phrase was quoted by the United States Supreme Court first in 1878, and then in a series of cases starting in 1947. Like many other governing principles, the phrase "separation of church and state" itself does not appear in the United States Constitution. The First Amendment states that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
The concept of separation has since been adopted in a number of countries, to varying degrees depending on the applicable legal structures and prevalent views toward the proper role of religion in society. A similar principle of laïcité has been applied in France and Turkey, while some socially secularized countries such as Norway have maintained constitutional recognition of an official state religion. The concept parallels various other international social and political ideas, including secularism, disestablishment, religious liberty, and religious pluralism. Whitman (2009) observes that in many European countries, the state has, over the centuries, taken over the social roles of the church, leading to a generally secularized public sphere.

FALLING OFF A CLIFF

And, of course, it just has to be Bush’s fault, doesn’t it?  Well come on!  Obama now knows that everything thing he’s tried; his moronic and economically destructive Pelosi-designed stimulus plan, his hire-more-government-workers jobs programs, his promoting of jobs-killing unions, his animosity toward private enterprise … none of it is working.  So of course he’s going to blame Bush.  We’ll keep hearing phrases from the Obamajahadeen about “turning the corner” and “moving in the right direction” as Barry begs for another term so that he can continue his “fundamental transformation” of the United States. 
When the people look at our economy there are two things that really stand out right now.  One is jobs, the other is housing.  And just how are we doing on the jobs front?  In January, February and March we added about 200,000 private sector jobs every month.  That fell to 180,000 in April.  In may it looks like the numbers may be around 40,000.  That’s “turning the corner?”  That’s “moving in the right direction?”  For people looking for work, I don’t think so.  It takes about 150,000 new private sector jobs every month just to keep up with population growth.
Housing?  I don’t know about where you stays (or “live,” if you don’t live in the city center) but in Atlanta home values now are around their 1999 value.  Many Americans, perhaps most Americans, have the bulk of their wealth tied up in home equity … and now that equity has turned to vapor for many.  People are seeing their retirements disappear! 
Simply put, Obama has no plan to bring our private sector economy back.  He has grand plans to expand the size of government and to improve the economic lives of those who work for government however.  What is the one place in this country where home prices are holding their own?  That would be around Washington DC.  The one economically secure area of our country – the seat of the Imperial Federal Government of the United States. 
Many experts think we’re heading back into another recession.  Inflation is up.  In fact, if we measured inflation with the same metrics that were in use when Jimmy Carter was in office the inflation rate would be around 10%.  Reelecting Obama would be like strapping on an economic suicide vest and giving the trigger to your worst enemy.