Worst is yet to come

Presidents’ second terms are usually not as good as the first. Obama’s 2nd term will  suck.
Why would I say that? I mean, there’s no way he could suck as bad in his second term as he did in his first, right?
WRONG!!!
Let’s look at history. Okay, who’s the oldest person here?
Okay, everybody put your hands down. Is there anyone here born before 1950? 1940? Oh, heck, 1900? No one?
That’s our starting point. We’ll cover all the presidents who won re-election all our lifetimes, m’kay?
Let’s see. 1900. That was William McKinley, and he was re-elected in 1900. He got shot. That sucks.
Teddy Roosevelt finished McKinley’s term, then got elected again in 1904. That’s when he proposed income taxes (this was before the 16th Amendment, remember) and inheritance taxes, both of which passed shortly after he left office, along with the creation of the Federal Reserve. Tell me that second term didn’t suck.
Woodrow Wilson was re-elected in 1914 1916. His second term included World War I and the League of Nations, forerunner to the United Nations. He implemented segregation laws in Washington (for segregation, not against). Oh, and then the whole having a stroke thing happened. That second term sucked.
Franklin Roosevelt was re-elected in 1936, and never would leave office. He finally had to go to Warm Springs, Georgia and die to get him out of the Oval Office. He made government really, really huge. He extended the Great Depression by screwing with the economy, instead of leaving it alone and letting it right itself in 18 months like it would have. World War II started in his second term, which sucked. Of course, it took his attention off screwing with the economy and expanding government, and the economy suddenly got better, but a lot of soldiers died. So, his second and third terms sucked. He died in his fourth. Which sucked.
Harry Truman, so full of promise after nuking his way to victory in World War II, won in 1948 and, within two years, we were in another war. Plus, he fired MacArthur. Truman let Commies in the government, but you can almost excuse that, since there’s not a hill of beans difference between a Commie and a Democrat. Oh, and a couple of Puerto Ricans shot at him. That sucked.
Dwight Eisenhower was re-elected in 1956 and then had heart attacks about every third day. The Soviets orbited satellites while ours blew up on the launch pad. And, Hawaii became a state, allowing their fake birth certificates to be used to put idiots in the White House. Then, there was the whole deal with taking over from the French in a little place called Vietnam. You might have heard of that. His second term sucked.
Lyndon Johnson got to keep his office job at 1600 Pennsylvania after winning the 1964 election. Remember that Vietnam thing Eisenhower got us into? Johnson doubled down. Hippies were running wild in the streets and left-wingers were blowing up college buildings and shooting people. They waited until after he left office to land on the moon, his second term sucked so bad.
Nixon was re-elected in 1972. Watergate. I don’t need to go any further, do I? His second term sucked.
Ronald Reagan’s second term had Iran-Contra, which led to a bunch of folks going to jail. He failed to get Robert Bork on the Supreme Court, and we wound up with Anthony Kennedy instead. And, a Space Shuttle blew up. Reagan’s second term kinda sucked.
Bill Clinton was re-elected in 1996. He was impeached in his second term. That kinda sucked.
George W. Bush was re-elected in 2004. A year later, somebody in Georgia (not ours, the other one) threw a grenade at him. He didn’t tell the military to kick everyone’s ass and come home in his first term, and that lead to the Democrats taking over Congress in 2006. That sucked big time.
Now, you’re wondering why I left out Calvin Coolidge. Well, it turns out that Calvin Coolidge is the anomaly of this group. He kept the presidency by winning the 1924 election, and then cut taxes, reduced regulation, and the economy flourished. He’s the only president to do a great job in his second term.
So, what would happen if Barack Obama won a second term? Well, you can be damn sure he won’t cut taxes and reduce regulation, and that the economy won’t flourish.
You think his first term was bad? If even good presidents like Reagan, Bush, Truman, and Eisenhower can screw up their second term, what do you think a born screw-up like Barack Obama will do?
Don’t even want to think about it.

Proposed GOP Cuts to Spending

No wonder Democrats are sweating bullets over proposed cuts to the spending that has been the hallmark of their party and politics for decades. This list, taken from a recent issue of U.S. News & World Report provides an insight to the many ways fiscal sanity can be restored.

These are some of the programs that the Republican House has proposed cutting.

* Corporation for Public Broadcasting Subsidy -- $445 million annual savings.

* Save America 's Treasures Program -- $25 million annual savings.

* International Fund for Ireland -- $17 million annual savings.

* Legal Services Corporation -- $420 million annual savings.

* National Endowment for the Arts -- $167.5 million annual savings.

* National Endowment for the Humanities -- $167.5 million annual savings.

* Hope VI Program -- $250 million annual savings.

* Amtrak Subsidies -- $1.565 billion annual savings.

* Eliminate duplicating education programs -- H.R. 2274 (in last Congress),

authored by Rep. McKeon, eliminates 68 such programs at a savings of $1.3 billion annually.

* U.S. Trade Development Agency -- $55 million annual savings.

* Woodrow Wilson Center Subsidy -- $20 million annual savings.

* Cut in half funding for congressional printing and binding -- $47 million annual savings.

* John C. Stennis Center Subsidy -- $430,000 annual savings.

* Community Development Fund -- $4.5 billion annual savings.

* Heritage Area Grants and Statutory Aid -- $24 million annual savings.

* Cut Federal Travel Budget in Half -- $7.5 billion annual savings

* Trim Federal Vehicle Budget by 20% -- $600 million annual savings.

* Essential Air Service -- $150 million annual savings.

* Technology Innovation Program -- $70 million annual savings.

* Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Program -- $125 million annual savings.

* Department of Energy Grants to States for Weatherization -- $530 million annual savings.

* Beach Replenishment -- $95 million annual savings.

* New Starts Transit -- $2 billion annual savings.

* Exchange Programs for Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Their Historical Trading Partners in Massachusetts -- $9 million annual savings

* Intercity and High Speed Rail Grants -- $2.5 billion annual savings.

* Title X Family Planning -- $318 million annual savings.

* Appalachian Regional Commission -- $76 million annual savings.

* Economic Development Administration -- $293 million annual savings.

* Programs under the National and Community Services Act -- $1.15 billion annual savings.

* Applied Research at Department of Energy -- $1.27 billion annual savings.

* Freedom CAR and Fuel Partnership -- $200 million annual savings.

* Energy Star Program -- $52 million annual savings.

* Economic Assistance to Egypt -- $250 million annually.

* U.S. Agency for International Development -- $1.39 billion annual savings.

* General Assistance to District of Columbia -- $210 million annual savings.

* Subsidy for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority -- $150 million annual savings.

* Presidential Campaign Fund -- $775 million savings over ten years.

* No funding for federal office space acquisition -- $864 million annual savings.

* End prohibitions on competitive sourcing of government services.

* Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act -- More than $1 billion annually.

* IRS Direct Deposit: Require the IRS to deposit fees for some services it offers (such as processing payment plans for taxpayers) to the Treasury, instead of allowing it to remain as part of its budget -- $1.8 billion savings over ten years.

* Require collection of unpaid taxes by federal employees -- $1 billion total savings.

* Prohibit taxpayer funded union activities by federal employees -- $1.2 billion savings over ten years.

* Sell excess federal properties the government does not make use of -- $15 billion total savings.

* Eliminate death gratuity for Members of Congress.

* Eliminate Mohair Subsidies -- $1 million annual savings.

* Eliminate taxpayer subsidies to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- $12.5 million annual savings

* Eliminate Market Access Program -- $200 million annual savings.

* USDA Sugar Program -- $14 million annual savings.

* Subsidy to Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) -- $93 million annual savings.

* Eliminate the National Organic Certification Cost-Share Program -- $56.2 million annual savings.

* Eliminate fund for Obamacare administrative costs -- $900 million savings.

* Ready to Learn TV Program -- $27 million savings.

* HUD Ph.D. Program.

* Deficit Reduction Check-Off Act.

TOTAL SAVINGS:
$2.5 Trillion over Ten Years

I would add the elimination of the U.S. contribution to the budget of the United Nations. There is no reason why decisions regarding our national security and sovereignty should be subordinated to the UN. The humanitarian work undertaken by UN agencies can be done just as well, if not better, by independent international organizations.

The Top Ten Reasons To Dislike Mitt Romney :

The Top Ten Reasons To Dislike Mitt Romney :

1. Drop-dead, collar-ad handsome with gracious, statesmanlike aura. Looks
like every central casting's #1 choice for Commander-in-Chief.

2. Been married to one woman his entire life, and has been faithful to
her, including through her bouts with breast cancer and multiple sclerosis.

3. No scandals or skeletons in his closet. (How boring is that?)

4. Can't speak in a fake, southern, "black preacher voice" when necessary.

5. Highly intelligent. Graduated cum laude from both Harvard Law School
and Harvard Business School...and by the way, his academic records are NOT
sealed.

6. Doesn't smoke or drink alcohol, and has never done drugs, not even in
the counter-culture age when he went to college. Too square for today's
America?

7. Represents an America of "yesterday", where people believed in God,
went to Church, didn't screw around and worked hard to become successful!

8. Has a family of five great sons....and none of them have police records
or are in drug rehab. But of course, they were raised by a stay-at-home
mom, and that "choice" deserves America's scorn.

9. Oh yes, he's a Mormon. We need to be very afraid of that very strange
religion that teaches its members to be clean-living, patriotic, fiscally
conservative, charitable, self-reliant, and honest.

10. And finally . . . pundits say because of his wealth, he can't relate to
ordinary Americans. I guess that's because he made that money himself, as
opposed to marrying it or inheriting it from Dad. Apparently, he didn't
understand that actually working at a job and earning your own money made
you unrelatable to Americans.

My goodness, it's a strange world, isn't it?

Personal Information:

His full Name is: Willard Mitt Romney

He was Born: March 12, 1947 and is 65 years old.

His Father: George W. Romney, former Governor of the State of Michigan

He was raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

He is Married to Ann Romney since 1969; they five children.

Education:

B.A. from Brigham Young University,

J.D. and M.B.A. from Harvard University

Religion:

Mormon - The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints

Working Background:

After high school, he spent 30 months in France as a Mormon missionary.

After going to both Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School
simultaneously, he passed the Michigan bar exam, but never worked as an
attorney.

In 1984, he co-founded Bain Capital a private equity investment firm, one of
the largest such firms in the United States.

In 1994, he ran for Senator of Massachusetts and lost to Ted Kennedy.

He was President and CEO of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.

In 2002, he was elected Governor of the State of Massachusetts where he
eliminated a 1.5 billion deficit.

Some Interesting Facts about Romney:

Bain Capital, starting with one small office supply store in Massachusetts,
turned it into Staples; now over 2,000 stores employing 90,000 people.

Bain Capital also worked to perform the same kinds of business miracles
again and again, with companies like Domino's, Sealy, Brookstone, Weather
Channel, Burger King, Warner Music Group, Dollarama, Home Depot Supply and
many others.

He was an unpaid volunteer campaign worker for his dad's gubernatorial
campaign 1 year.

He was an unpaid intern in his dad's governor's office for eight years.

He was an unpaid bishop and state president of his church for ten years.

He was an unpaid President of the Salt Lake Olympic Committee for three
years.

He took no salary and was the unpaid Governor of Massachusetts for four
years.

He gave his entire inheritance from his father to charity.

Mitt Romney is one of the wealthiest self-made men in our country but has
given more back to its citizens in terms of money, service and time than
most men.

And in 2011 Mitt Romney gave over $4 million to charity, almost 19% of his
income.... Just for comparison purposes, Obama gave 1% and Joe Biden gave
$300 or .0013%.

Mitt Romney is Trustworthy:

He will show us his birth certificate

He will show us his high school and college transcripts.

He will show us his social security card.

He will show us his law degree.

He will show us his draft notice.

He will show us his medical records.

He will show us he has nothing to hide.

Mitt Romney's background, experience and trustworthiness show him to be a
great leader and an excellent citizen for President of the United States.

You may think that Romney may not be the best representative the Republicans
could have selected. At least I know what religion he is, and that he won't
desecrate the flag, bow down to foreign powers, or practice fiscal
irresponsibility. I know he has the ability to turn this financial debacle
that the current regime has gotten us into. We won't like all the things
necessary to recover from this debt, but someone with Romney's background
can do it.

But, on the minus side, he never was a "Community Organizer", never took
drugs or smoked pot, never got drunk, did not associate with communists or
terrorists, nor did he attend a church whose pastor called for God to damn
the US.

8 Things That Should Be Said at the RNC

The Republican National Convention is starting today — probably. Anyway, this is the GOP’s chance to really get some attention when they lay out the facts. Thus, I thought I’d lay out some ideas of the sort of things I’d like to hear said in prime time speaking slots:
THINGS THAT SHOULD BE SAID AT THE RNC
“I remember back in the day you didn’t have to spend $5 trillion more in debt to get a failing economy.”
“Obama’s four years as president can be summed up in one word: Derp!”
“If you look at America now and think this is the result of being a good president who deserves reelection, you hate America.”
“In a just world, Obama would have to sit quietly while job creators lectured him and how he didn’t build anything.”
“I have a feeling that in Obama’s next memoir, there’s going to be this odd four-year gap.”
“Anyone who thinks Obama is competent for a black man is a stupid, bigoted racist who should be shunned from polite society.”
“It’s good Obama made his birth certificate public, because when I hear him talk about his thought on the economy and capitalism, I do need to keep glancing at it to remind myself that he is in fact an American.”
“This all rather pointless because the solutions to all our problems comes out next week.”

Fun Facts About Oiho (as spelled by his HIGHNESS Owebama)

I think it is high time that we look at some fun facts about the state of Oiho….
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* Oiho became the 58th state on August 21, 2012 by executive order of President Obama, despite calls for the contrary by residents of the 57th state of North Virginia Carolina.
* The state flower of Oiho is the Corpse Flower, and is dedicated to the memory of the Navy corpsemen from Oiho that fought in past wars.
* A large number of Corpsemen come from Oiho, and represent an important voting bloc for the Democratic Party.
* While the ambulance was invented in Ohio, the method of writing “AMBULANCE” backwards on the front of the vehicle was invented in Oiho as a means of confusing lawyers approaching it from the front.

The state flag of Oiho is basically a rip-off of the French flag, but with O-i-h-o written in big letters lest anyone forget how to spell it correctly.

* Doctors at the Oiho State University Medical Center were the first to perfect the method of testing kids for asthma using a breathalyzer.
* It is now state law in Oiho that erratic drivers be pulled over and administered an asthma test by police.
* The state is named “Oiho” which is a Native American Warren tribe word for “You didn’t build that teepee”.
* Oiho State University is the largest school in the state. The football team is named the Oiho State Buckets.
* The mascot of the Oiho State Football Team is a man in a suit wearing a bucket on his head.
* The fans also usually wear buckets on their heads to support the team, but have trouble following the games this way.
* The hothound was invented in Oiho in 2009. Unlike the hotdog, it is actually made of dog.
* Hothounds are traditionally served at all Oiho State football games, but are difficult to eat with a bucket on your head.
* Cleaverland, Oiho is the home of the Mom Jeans Hall of Fame. Across the street is a museum dedicated to nerdy bicycle helmets.
* The state of Oiho currently bans its citizens from visiting most of Asia, including the small island Asian country of Hawaii.
* The Intercontinental Railroad first began construction in Cincy, Oiho, connecting Oiho to France.
* Toldeo, Oiho was the site of the first Special Olympics Bowling Championship. The winning score was 129.
* Every Memorial Day, the city of Akorn, Oiho holds a parade including corpsemen and fallen heroes.
* Dual use door-windows were first used in Oiho. The placement of these in all government buildings was a requirement for statehood.
* Oiho is one of the only states to not allow citizens to conceal-carry guns. The state does, however, issue permits for the bitter-clinging of weapons.
* The permit also allows for the bitter-clinging of religion. Only one religion and one gun can be bitterly clinged to at a time.
* Oiho is home to the national Typical White Person Association. Its mission is to be typical, white, and bitterly cling to things.
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That about wraps it up for fun facts about the state of Oiho. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go try and eat a hothound with a bucket on my head.

Fun Facts About the 50 States: Kansas

Welcome to Fun Facts About the 50 States, where – week by week – I’ll be taking you on a tour around this great nation of ours, providing you with interesting, yet completely useless and probably untrue, information about each of the 50 states.
This week, it’s time to follow the yellow brick road out to Kansas, so let’s get started…
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In 1952, this design replaced the old Kansas state flag, which consisted of a blue background behind a wicked witch and four flying monkeys.

* Kansas became the 34th state on January 29th, 1861 because America needed to meet its Affirmative Action quota for stolen Indian land.
* Kansas was originally populated by people from Iowa who just couldn’t handle that state’s hectic, fast-paced lifestyle anymore.
* The state bird of Kansas is the meadowlark, whose beautiful song failed to impress Simon during an American Idol audition.
* The state flower of Kansas is the sunflower, the seeds of which are highly poisonous and can only be cured with high doses of steroids.
* At least according to the Major League Baseball Player’s Union.
* Kansas lies along the eastern edge of Colorado, but sometimes sneaks across the border in the dead of night to steal the occasional mountain.
* Kansas normally maintains a constant temperature of 72 degrees all year long, but sometimes impish tornadoes mess with the thermostat when no one’s looking.
* At just over 4000 feet, Mt. Sunflower is the highest point in Kansas.
* And yeah, they stole it from Colorado. Dirty, thieving Kansasians!
* Members of the Kansas Board of Education voted to outlaw the teaching of evolution in Kansas schools to avoid offending monkeys who were outraged at the suggestion that they evolved from hippies.
* The state song of Kansas is “We’re Not Too Crazy About Newton’s Theory of Gravity, Either”.
* The state motto of Kansas is “Flat, boring, and full of wheaty goodness. We’re like America’s snack cracker!”
* The word Kansas comes from a Sioux Indian word meaning “Probably not a good place to build a ski resort”.
* Cawker City, Kansas is home to the world’s largest ball of twine. It contains over 300 miles of string and 73 slow kittens.
* Kansas has a population of 2.6 million people, but surprisingly, NONE of them have ever seen “The Wizard of Oz”, and they’ll just stare at you blankly if you refer to someone’s dog as Toto.
* The state tree of Kansas is the cottonwood tree, which is used to make very splintery T-shirts.
* The first female Mayor in the US was Susan Salter, elected in Argonia, Kansas in 1887. However, she was soon driven out of office due to a scandalous affair with her intern, Marvin Lewinsky
* No relation to Monica, although he WAS rumored to occasionally wear a blue dress.
* The dial telephone was invented by Almon Stowger of El Dorado, Kansas and was a vast improvement over earlier models which required the user to make different animal noises for each digit.
* The 34th President of the US – Dwight Eisenhower – was born in Abilene, Kansas. His portrait was removed from the dollar coin in 1979, but still remains on most Chuck E. Cheese game tokens.
* In exchange for the relatively low income tax rate, citizens of Kansas are required to spend one week each year working in one of the state’s wheat mines.
* Kansas has the lowest suicide rate of any state in the US, mostly because there’s nothing high enough to jump off of.
* The state sport of Kansas is WheatBall, which is even less exciting than it sounds.
* The state constitution of Kansas guarantees its citizens the right to keep and bear tornadoes.
* Mostly as a defense against any flying monkeys that might their way over the rainbow from Oz.
* Kansas has the largest population of wild grouse in the US. These birds are also known as “prairie chickens” or “meadow Frenchmen”.
* There are over 500 caves in Kansas. The fact that Bruce Wayne owns all of them does NOT prove that he’s Batman.
* Last year, Kansas grew 500 million bushels of wheat, which, if it were all made into bread, would be enough to feed Michael Moore lunch.
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Well, that wraps up the Kansas edition of Fun Facts About the 50 States. Next week I’ll be out shopping for moonshine in Kentucky.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go play a game of WheatBall… yay.

Obama Fools Many of the People All of the Time

President Barack Hussein Obama firmly believes the first part of that truism and is staking his re-election on the premise he can fool enough of the people all the time in order to continue sacking the country for four more years.
Obama is a smart if brazenly unethical and remarkably incompetent individual or, as then-Senator Joe Biden said in 2008, “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”
What’s also “storybook, man” is that Obama chose Biden for his running mate despite his racist observation and that they managed to win the highest offices in the land by convincing the electorate their candidacies represented an opportunity for “change we can believe in” while never defining those changes.
Over the last 3 years, and 7 months Americans have been witnesses to those undefined changes, many of us have been repulsed by them, and Obama knows his work is cut out for him to get the fools to vote for him again.
Obama knows, too, that he can’t do it alone or just with his sidekick, bumbling Biden. Therefore, his trusty acolytes and his mainstream media have to carry the ball for him so he can pretend to appear ”presidential,” a goal he has been unable to pull off since his inauguration, except to the fools who voted for him.
Obama’s obvious first step toward re-election was to thoroughly “diss,” in black parlance, any and everyone who presumed to challenge his reign. Thus, his media lackeys dutifully ridiculed and misrepresented Michelle Bachmann, Herman Cain, Rick Perry, Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, and Donald Trump while covering up the president’s numerous gaffes, factual distortions, and outright lies.
They keep fooling the foolish.
. Even when former CBS writer/producer Greg Kandra announced he was “fed up” with liberal media bias, they are still being fooled into believing Obama’s MSM is telling them the truth.
. Even when a federal court effectively outed the Obama administration’s political (racist) chicanery in dismissing voter intimidation charges against the New Black Panther Party they think Obama wants a race-neutral society.
. Even when FactCheck.org revealed Obama was prevaricating with his phony allegations that Mitt Romney outsourced jobs they support their hero while they stand on the unemployment line.
. Even when the House Judiciary Committee showed that illegal aliens released by the Justice Department went on to commit 19 murders, 3 attempted murders, and 142 sex crimes they back Obama because he will keep them safe.
. Even when Oklahoma Republican Senator James Inhofe contended the administration overrode Defense Department directives against uniformed service members’ participation in political events to allow gays in the military to march in parades they believe Obama isn’t a dictator.
. Even when proof positive emerges that Obamacare rationing has begun with 16 states already setting limits on prescription drugs they will cover for Medicaid patients (according to Kaiser Health News) they foolishly hope they and grandma won’t be sacrificed on the Obamacare altar.
. Even when a major Democrat donor-abortionist, Ron Virmani, defends himself by saying he is aborting “ugly black babies” as a “public service” African-Americans will nevertheless vote in droves for Obama.
. Even when black crime in America is off the charts they blame repression and discrimination for blacks murdering fellow blacks and causing national mayhem instead of adopting Bill Cosby’s view that they alone are responsible for their own lives and for their success or failure.
. Even when Obama and his cohorts repeatedly lie about jobs and the economy, commit slander and libel against Romney and characterize him as a tax cheat, a felon, and a virtual murderer and post such disgraceful videos as one depicting conservative black congressman Allen West beating an elderly white woman, they still accept the president as honest, fair, and anointed.
This campaign for America’s future, this campaign for America’s survival, will end on November 6th, 2012. This campaign will determine whether Lincoln was correct in suggesting a candidate can fool a sufficient number of people to vote for him after all-too-frequent demonstrations that he is inept, vicious, and unethical.
If Barack Hussein Obama is re-elected the fools will have won and the rest of us will have to resign ourselves to the distinction of being the last of the dwinding group of Americans who loved our country and who watched it decline into chaos. Next time, in 2016, we will have another opportunity to rectify the damage this president has wreaked on our nation–if there is a next time.
Lincoln would weep.

Obama's Communist Mentor

I have been reading about Frank Marshall Davis since Dr. Jerome Corsi tried to warn Americans about Barack Obama in his 2008 book, “The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality.”

Dr. Corsi noted that “On December 5, 1956, Frank Marshall Davis appeared in executive session before the U.S. Senate subcommittee investigating ‘the scope of Soviet activity in the United States. It was one of the McCarthy-era committees seeking to expose communist considered to be a security threat. A year earlier, in 1955, the Commission on Subversive Activities organized by the government of the territory of Hawaii identified Davis as a member of the Communist Party USA.”

In the 1970s, when Obama was an adolescent growing up in the care of his grandparents in Hawaii, among their circle of friends was Davis. His grandparents wanted to provide a black man as a role model for the young mixed-race child, the result of a short marriage between their daughter and Barack Obama Sr., a Kenyan she had met while both were studying Russian at the University of Hawaii.

Obama came of age in a household devoted to leftist ideologies so it was no surprise that Davis was among their circle of friends. He had moved to Hawaii from Chicago in the late 1940s, continuing a lifetime of work as a journalist editing and writing for newspapers advocating the communist ideology and the party line set forth by the Soviet Comintern, short for the Communist International whose aim was to extend communism worldwide. It directed the work of the Communist Party USA whose members were devoted to the Soviet Union. Most members like Davis, when questioned, denied membership, taking the Fifth Amendment.

While today’s leftists have successfully smeared Sen. Joseph McCarthy and the work of the congressional committees to expose Soviet infiltration of the U.S. government as “McCarthyite” historians have since revealed the depth of penetration by Soviet spies in the administrations of FDR and Truman. Later declassified intercepts of messages to them, known as the Venona Papers, reveal how vast the Soviet espionage program was.

Presently the leading historian on communism in America is Dr. Paul Kengor, the author of “Dupes: How America’s Adversaries have Manipulated Progressive for a Century.” His latest book is “The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis—The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor.”

“There were hundreds of thousands of American communists like Frank,” writes Dr. Kengor, “who agitated throughout the twentieth century. They chose the wrong side of history, a horrendously bloody side that left a wake of over 100 million corpses from the streets of the Bolshevik Revolution to the base of the Berlin Wall—double the combined dead of the century’s two world wars.”

Davis’ influence over Obama is carefully documented by Dr. Kengor who says, “The people who influence our presidents matter.”

Americans have learned this truth, starting with Obama’s 2008 campaign and over the course of his term in office. In his memoir, “Dreams from my Father”, written before his rise to fame, Obama provides a trail of hints as to his long history of association with leftists. Primary among them was Frank Marshall Davis who came into his life in the 1970s.

Not once in his memoir does Obama identify him, referring to him only as Frank, neglecting to mention that Davis was “a pro-Soviet, pro-Red China, card-carrying member of Communist Party USA” whose card number as 47544. It should come as no surprise that Davis found Chicago a favorable place to live. It was where he founded and edited the Chicago Star, “known among the locals as the ‘Red Star.’” He would repeat this later in Honolulu.

“Frank Marshall Davis’s political antics were so radical,” writes Dr. Kengor, “that the FBI placed him on the federal government’s Security Index, which meant that he could be immediately detained or arrested in the event of a national emergency, such as a war breaking out between the United States and the USSR.”

I grew up during the early years of the Cold War that commenced following the end of World War Two and I vividly recall the fear that the Soviet Union would wage war, particularly after it had acquired the atomic bomb, the result in part from Soviet spies that provided vital information about our bomb.

Americans have lived through nearly four years of what can only be described as an attempt to take over our government and “fundamentally transform” it away from the limits of the Constitution to a nation in which the government, under Obama, seized General Motors to nationalize it, imposed Obamacare to take control of our healthcare system, and attacked “millionaires and billionaires” as greedy capitalists. His slogans have been “change” and “forward”, longtime favorites of communists.

On November 6, 2012, Americans will have just one chance to rid the nation of Barack Obama, an acolyte of Frank Marshall Davis and a friend of many who scorn America.

If he is reelected, he will do what communists have always done when the opportunity arose. He will seize complete control of the machinery of government to enslave Americans who were duped into voting for a man whose true past was and continues to be carefully hidden by the mainstream media, a man mentored by a notorious communist.

Fun Facts About the 50 States: Iowa

Welcome to Fun Facts About the 50 States, where – week by week – I’ll be taking you on a tour around this great nation of ours, providing you with interesting, yet completely useless and probably untrue, information about each of the 50 states.
This week, it’s time to fire up the ol’ combine, because we’re headed out to Iowa, so let’s get started…
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The state flag of Iowa is rumored to be the inspiration for the “ribbon” portion of the Olympic rhythmic gymnastics event.

* Iowa became the 29th state on December 28th, 1846, after Congress finally persuaded the state to change its name from “Corntopia”.
* The state bird of Iowa is the goldfinch, which should not be confused with any criminal masterminds who tried to kill James Bond.
* Iowa contains exactly 99 counties. The legendary “lost 100th county” is currently being sought by a ragtag band of spaceships fleeing from the evil Cylon Empire.
* Geographically, Iowa is one of the flattest states in the US, but it IS considering getting implants so that South Dakota will FINALLY pay attention to it.
* Iowa was nicknamed the “Hawkeye State” after the popular deep-fried delicacy served in most of the state’s taverns.
* The 31st president of the US – Herbert Hoover – was born in West Branch, Iowa. The Hoover Dam was named in his honor, since its construction was made possible by his invention of the concrete beaver.
* The state song of Iowa is “Corn! Corn! Corn!”, which consists entirely of people singing the word “corn” for 5 minutes, and was the inspiration for Monty Python’s “Spam” sketch.
* The state tree of Iowa is the oak tree, because… well, they had to choose SOMETHING, and since corn doesn’t grow on trees, they figured acorns were close enough.
* Burlington, Iowa is home to Snake Alley, the crookedest street in America, which rates an impressive 9.5 on the Kofi Annan crookedness scale.
* Strawberry Point, Iowa is home to the world’s largest strawberry. It’s 10 feet tall, weighs 500 pounds, and subsists on a diet of migrant farm workers.
* The world’s smallest city park is in Hiteman, Iowa, and consists of a single blade of grass growing through a crack in the sidewalk.
* And yes, keeping it mowed IS a union job. How did you guess?
* Iowa has more people of Norwegian extraction than it does black people, which is why pickled herring is sold at basketball games.
* Or WOULD be, if Iowa had enough black people to put together an NBA team.
* You know that team that the Harlem Globetrotters always beat in exhibition games? They’re all from Iowa.
* Crystal Lake, Iowa has a statue of the world’s largest bullhead fish, which was finally caught in 1982 by a hockey-mask-wearing serial killer.
* Kalona, Iowa is the largest Amish settlement west of the Mississippi. It was founded in 1858 by ultraconservative Amish who were sick of those Pennsylvania harlots shamelessly flaunting their naked wrists.
* Cedar Rapids, Iowa is home to the world’s largest breakfast cereal company – Quaker Oats – which also makes other funny-hat-wearing, religion-related cereals, like Islam Puffs, Jew Chex, and Pope-ee-o’s.
* In Scrabble, Iowa is worth 7 points, which, coincidentally, is the same number of points awarded for running down a pedestrian while playing Grand Theft Auto: Des Moines.
* Dubuque, Iowa is frequently the site of violent turf wars between rival gangs of Hicks and Bumpkins.
* Johnny Carson was born in Corning, Iowa in 1925. Had he been born 50 years later, his homely face and mediocre comedic talent would’ve prevented any career in the entertainment industry, except for maybe IMAO Podcaster.
* Native Iowans are easily identifiable by their unique ability to actually locate Iowa on a map.
* Iowa has a population of nearly 3 million people, all of whom will punch you right in the freakin’ nose if you tell one more stupid corn joke.
* The state vegetable of Iowa is corn, which [punching sound effect] OW! MY FREAKIN’ NOSE!
* Well, that wraps up the Iowa edition of Fun Facts About the 50 States. Next week I’ll be stealing some ruby slippers & riding a cyclone to Kansas.
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Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go put some ice on my freakin’ nose… ow…

3 PRESIDENTS

Three Presidents. Did you ever hear of this in school or otherwise?? I do not remember it but then I do not remember a lot of things from school. I looked this up and was surprised that this is true and kind of interesting if you read the information online

What did Hoover, Truman, and Eisenhower have in common?

Here is something that should be of great interest for you to pass around.
I didn’t know of this until it was pointed out to me.

Back during The Great Depression, President Herbert Hoover ordered the deportation of ALL illegal aliens in order to make jobs available to American citizens that desperately needed work..

Harry Truman deported over two million Illegal’s after WWII to create jobs for returning veterans.

And then again in 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower deported 13 million Mexican Nationals! The program was called ‘Operation Wetback’. It was done so WWII and Korean Veterans would have a better chance at jobs. It took 2 Years, but they deported them!

Now…if they could deport the illegal’s back then – they could sure do it today.

If you have doubts about the veracity of this information, enter Operation Wetback into your favorite search engine and confirm it for yourself.

Reminder: Don’t forget to pay your taxes…
12 million Illegal Aliens are depending on you

Thought for the day—————- Calling an illegal alien an “undocumented immigrant” is like calling a drug dealer an “unlicensed pharmacist?

Cry Treason!

Treason is generally defined as the offense of attempting to overthrow the government of one's country or of assisting its enemies in war. Benedict Arnold burned his name into U.S. history by conspiring with the British to turn over West Point to them. When his plot failed, he fled to England.

Having all formerly been traitors to the Crown, the framers of the Constitution defined treason narrowly. Historians tell us this was to lessen the possibility that those in power might falsely or loosely charge their political opponents with treason.

Article III, Section 3 of the Constitution says “Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.”
Let it be said that probably all presidents have been called treasonous by their political opponents.

A growing body of popular opinion, however, is beginning to regard the actions of Barack Obama as treason because they coalesce into a pattern that suggests a deliberate effort to undermine national security and the economy. The liberties we take for granted, privacy, freedom of speech, and others are seen to be in jeopardy.

What is troubling to many was the way Obamacare was foisted on a nation that clearly opposed the takeover of one sixth of the economy. The political process by which passage was achieved was ugly, but it was not treason.

Now the Cap-and-Trade Act is being ushered hastily into the Senate for a vote despite widespread opposition to the fact that it is based on a total fraud, “climate change”, otherwise known as “global warming.” Can a law based on a lie be lawful? Is passing such a law treasonous?
The President’s displeasure with the Arizona law that mirrors almost word for word the federal law regarding illegal aliens presages a likely effort to grant amnesty to millions here illegally; a measure that is also widely opposed by the majority of Americans.

The hasty passage of any or all of these laws, now that the midterm elections loom in November, is completely legal, but they all represent a refusal to acknowledge the will of those in whom the Constitution posits ultimate power, the People.

The Tea Party movement, taking its name from an act of insurrection against the Crown, is ample evidence of the unrest among many Americans. The effort to smear members as racists or violent suggests the seriousness with which the White House takes the movement.

Given the virtual free hand any president has to determine foreign policy, he has consistently offended our allies and raised questions among them as to his judgment. That is not treason, but it is harmful when the U.S. needs to call upon them for support.

His actions regarding Iran have been a green light to continue their quest for nuclear weapons. His actions toward Israel are nothing less than astonishing given the long record of cooperation and mutual support that has existed since its founding.

Surrounding himself with White House staff, one of whom was an admitted communist, another who praised Mao Tse Sung, and still others whose views reflect bizarre “scientific” theories or proposals, raise questions and legitimate concerns regarding his true political philosophy, but it is not treason.

The takeover of General Motors, his firing of the company’s CEO, the disgraceful treatment of investors and creditors should have raised serious constitutional questions. When Harry Truman tried to take over the nation’s steel manufacturers, he was rebuffed by the Supreme Court. The U.S. retains an ownership position with AIG, the insurance company.

Obama’s attacks on insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, even physicians, then migrated to attacks on Wall Street despite the fact that banks receiving TARP funds swiftly repaid the loans. There is at this point no aspect of life in America that has not been sharply criticized by the President.

None of this can be called treason under the strict and narrow definition of the Constitution, but taken together it is a pattern of acts that pose what many are coming to see as a clear and present danger to the nation.

The midterm elections in November represent the only constitutional means to rebuke the passage of legislation that has saddled the nation with greater debt than all previous administrations, with the takeover of key elements of the economy, and the prospect of the further erosion of our national security and sovereignty.

Everything that President Obama and the Democrat leaders in Congress have done has the sanction of law, but not the approval of the people whose lives will be affected by it.

It is not treason, but it has the look, the feel, and the smell of treason.

FUN FACTS ABOUT INDIANA

Welcome to Fun Facts About the 50 States, where – week by week – I’ll be taking you on a tour around this great nation of ours, providing you with interesting, yet completely useless and probably untrue, information about each of the 50 states.
This week, grab your racing gear because we’re headed to Indiana, so let’s get started…
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The state flag of Indiana consists of a solid blue background with a flaming torch surrounded by 19 stars. This celebrates the state’s historical tradition of burning Indian villages to steal land for white people.

* Indiana became the 19th state on December 11th, 1816. It’s residents are nicknamed “Hoosiers”, which is a Chippewa Indian word meaning “What the hell does that word mean?”
* The city of Gary, Indiana, was named after Gary Coleman, and is populated entirely by black midgets.
* Singer Michael Jackson was born in Gary, Indiana, but was eventually exiled from the city for being too tall and too white.
* The state bird of Indiana is Larry
* Natives of Indiana are the only people in the US who can say “French Lick” or “Ball State” without giggling.
* Beaver City, however, makes EVERYONE snicker.
* Actor James Dean was born in Marion, Indiana, but soon left the state, as all cool things do.
* Indiana is SO boring that people will actually PAY MONEY to watch other people drive around in circles. No wonder James Dean left.
* Crazed socialist nutjob and vocal World War I protester Eugene V. Debs was born in Terre Haute, Indiana. He was sorta like an early version of Jane Fonda, except less skanky.
* The state of Indiana was once 80% forest, but over the years has lost 3/4 of its trees to hordes of plundering Amish furniture-makers.
* Indiana is home to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which – with relative safety – combines public drunkenness and reckless driving.
* 25% of people in Indiana are of German extraction, leading to occasional blitzkriegs into Ohio and Illinois.
* Indiana has more covered bridges than any other state, mostly so that the bridges don’t go around flaunting their sexuality and frightening the Amish.
* Some of the more rural parts of Indiana only accept farm animals as currency. However, a lot of the small-town general stores DO take MasterCow.
* Although people in northern Indiana must contend with long, harsh winters, at least they’re safe from the cruel assault of bluegrass festivals that plague the southern part of the state.
* The state flower of Indiana is the peony which – being large, pink, round, and smelly – perfectly represents the people of the state.
* The city of Santa Claus, Indiana, has a 20-foot statute of the jolly old elf at the outskirts of the town, which is usually covered in graffiti by gangs from the nearby cities of Grinch and Scrooge.
* Indiana has only 40 miles of shoreline along Lake Michigan, most of which is covered by the corpses of people who hired non-union labor which wash in from Chicago.
* The highest point in Indiana is only 1200 feet above sea level. Geographically speaking, if Indiana were a woman, it’d be Olive Oyl.
* Traditionally, Jewish people in Indiana wear yarmulkes made out of used Indy Car tires.
* Well… they WOULD… if there were actually any Jews in Indiana.
* Indiana’s state tourism motto is “Hope you brought something to do.”
* The city of Peru, Indiana, was known as the “Circus Capital of America” until 1952 when it was wiped out by an epidemic of Mad Clown Disease.
* South Bend, Indiana, is home to Notre Dame College. Their nickname – The Fighting Irish – is considered offensive by some, but it’s still better than previous nicknames such as the Brawling Bog-Trotters and the Surly Spud-Munchers.
* Stainless steel was invented in Kokomo, Indiana, by Elwood Haynes in a desperate bid to get his wife to stop nagging him to “polish the damn silverware!”
* Singers Axl Rose and John Cougar Mellencamp are both natives of Indiana. In a knife fight between Rose and Mellencamp, bet on the guy with the most tattoos.
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That wraps up the Indiana edition of Fun Facts About the 50 States. Next week… well, I hope you really like corn jokes, because we’re headed to Iowa.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go put fifty bucks on Axl Rose.

Mitt Romney and the Bowl of Spaghetti

Well, the 2012 Presidential Election is in full swing and the Obama Campaign, the DNC, and their lapdogs the old guard media, continue to trot out accusation after accusation, half-truths and yes, some actual facts about Mitt Romney to turn the undecided and independent voters against him.

The only fly in the ointment is that for everything they say about Romney, anyone who pays any attention to the truth can counter with something equally damning...if not something worse... about Obama. Yet they continue to fling their strands of underdone spaghetti against the refrigerator door of the voters' opinions in hopes that something will stick.

Let's take them point by point.

First up, they tried to turn people against him by claiming Romney was a bully, based on some behavior from his teen years. Seems he had been a bit of an ass to a boy in school. Trouble is, Obama admitted to some bullying of his own. Of a girl. Ooopsie! I guess the person in charge of propagating that meme didn't read either of the books the President wrote about his favorite subject: himself.

Next up, they tried to get animal lovers up in arms when they leaked a story about how Romney had once strapped a dog crate (with the dog inside!) to the top of his car and drove the dog around like that. That one didn't last long for a couple of reasons. People with pickups drive around with their dogs in the back all the time and the dogs suffer no ill effects and...someone who actually READ Obama's books pointed out that he once ate dog meat. So...even though PETA gives the President a bye on his behavior, ostensibly due to cultural differences, those of us who think for ourselves want to know what's worse: putting a dog in a crate on the roof of a car or putting a dog in the oven?

As an aside, why is it okay for some folks to eat dog because it is culturally traditional for them, but PETA gets bent out of shape because people in THIS country eat beef or chicken (but not at Chick-Fil-A) or pork when that is OUR cultural tradition?

By this time, Romney had sewn up the Republican nomination so the accusations were coming at a Fast and Furious (heh) pace, so I hope you will forgive me if I miss any.

That Romney is one of the evil rich was an obvious go-to argument. But then, so are the Obamas. Next!

Romney accepts campaign donations from evil, rich white guys. Ditto Obama. Plus, Obama's not above figuratively shaking his paper cup on the off-ramp to get those two and fews. Heck, for the cost of a Venti Latte you can get in on a raffle to win a seat in the room where he and George Clooney are going to eat dinner together.

You have to donate big to get in on the party in the steam room after dinner, though. Or maybe that's just an unfounded rumor.

There was also some scandal about the Olympics in Salt Lake City that Romney was associated with. Too many of the wrong people won medals or something. To tell the truth, I didn't even pay that much attention to this one. Being from Chicago myself, I remember when the SITTING PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES went to the Olympic Committee (newly minted Nobel Prize in hand) to sell them on Chicago as a venue because, hey...he's from there and how cool would it be for your little Olympic Games to be associated with his awesomeness? Anyone recall how that worked out? Anyone?

Hey! Romney is a Mormon! They're so weird even other Christians think they have screws loose. But...Jeremiah Wright, anyone? That the President spent twenty years going to this man's church, but never heard any of his hate-filled invective more than strains credibility, it downright pops it at the seams. For what it's worth, I don't believe Obama to be religious at all. In any faith. Being an Atheist myself, I can relate to that. It's one of the very few things about him I can relate to. That he falsely claims a faith he does not have makes him a politician. "I believe that you believe that I believe what you believe. So vote for me.".

That he ended up in Wright's church at all can be explained by the assumption that Michelle (who admits to having no pride in the country that provided her with an Ivy League education) browbeat him into going. After a brief period, he came to the conclusion that it wasn't fun and/or wouldn't advance his career, so he stopped going. Mere conjecture on my part, but it seems a logical conclusion.

So...let's see...oh! I know! Romney "outsourced" jobs to other countries when he was running some businesses. Obama definitely has the edge on this point. Of all the businesses he's created or run, he has sent not one single job out of the country.

Romney's wife spends an obscene amount of money doing weird stuff that only rich, white people understand? Well, yeah...but it's HER money. Michelle spends equally outrageous sums of money taking extravagant vacations or buying expensive clothes or...well the list goes on. The subtle difference being WE, the taxpaying public, are paying for her extravagances.

And finally, just this week, the new narrative is that Romney is a wimp. Too big a wimp to be President.

This one boggles the mind of any thinking, rational human being. Wasn't it just a few months ago they were complaing he was a bully? Now he's a wimp? I guess his position has "evolved", but wait...Republicans don't evolve. They are knuckle-dragging Neanderthals who
oppose...well, everything really.

And even if Romney were indeed a wimp, do you really want to do a side-by-side manliness comparison with Barack Obama? Oooh, girl...don't go there!

The closer we get to November, the more vile the accusations are likely to be. And as long as Romney continues to brush them aside while focusing on Obama's record, actions and words (You didn't build that!) I don't see how he can lose. For the record, I am not a Romney fan, and voting for the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil, but Obama is a proven failure as a President. And to quote Mae West: "When forced to choose between two evils, I always choose the one I haven't tried before".

10 Liberal Excuses for Missing Starbucks Appreciation Day

After freedom-lovers across America turned out in record numbers to show support for Chik-fil-A, embarrassed liberals decided that they should do something constructive (for a change) and vowed to show support for a corporation themselves.
They chose Starbucks Coffee.
Like most constructive efforts by liberals, it failed miserably. Which you didn’t know because an embarrassed media just ignored it, on the theory that if no one actually TALKS about a failure, then it didn’t actually fail.
Denial. River in Egypt. Not just.
I’m sure they had plausible excuses, though. Like maybe…
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Too creeped out by the way the mermaid’s eyes seem to follow you wherever you go.

1) Pulled into the Starbucks parking lot, forgot why they were there, threw a garbage can through the window out of habit, and fled.
2) Too frightened by all the gun owners showing their appreciation for Starbucks’ supportive concealed-carry policy.
3) Heard a rumor Mitt Romney might pop by and give them cancer.
4) All the food items at Starbucks are 100% dog-free, a racist insult to the President.
5) Never got over the disappointment of discovering that, while Starbucks coffee looks & smells like rancid bongwater, it has none of the happy side-effects.
6) While reading Facebook on their iPad, discovered that Starbucks was secretly a corporation and thus totally evil.
7) Scheduling conflict. Flipped a coin, it came up heads, and went to the Roseanne Barr for President rally instead. Yay! Socialist solutions!
8) Sorry, STILL too busy wandering around Madison, Wisconsin, screeching about how it’s CNN’s fault that the military-industrial-media complex conspired to throw the election to Scott Walker.
9) Denied admittance to the store by Starbucks’ strict “No Bongos” policy.
10) Apollo’s Coffee is just SO much better.
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On the bright side, when I heard liberals were going to throw their support behind Starbucks, I did what any prudent person would do: short-sold a ton of their stock & made a fortune when it tanked.

Facts Obama Doesn't Want You to Know

Why is the economy going to collapse? Have you ever been asked that question? If so, what did you say? Sometimes it is difficult to communicate dozens of complicated economic and financial concepts in a package that the average person on the street can easily digest. It can be very frustrating to know that something is true but not be able to explain it clearly to someone else. Hopefully many of you out there will find the list below useful. It is a list of 70 numbers that show why we are headed for a national economic nightmare. So why does the title of the article single out Barack Obama? Well, it is because right now he is the biggest cheerleader for the economy. He is attempting to convince all of us that everything is just fine and that the economy is heading in a positive direction. Well, the truth is that everything is not fine and things are about to get a whole lot worse. Certainly others should share in the blame as well. Congress has been steering the economy in the wrong direction for decades, the “too big to fail” banks have turned Wall Street into a pyramid of risk, leverage and debt, and the Federal Reserve has more power over the financial system than anyone else does. Our economy has been in decline for quite a while now, and soon we are going to smash directly into an economic brick wall. Unfortunately, a lot of Americans are in denial about this. A lot of people out there doubt that an economic collapse is coming. Well, if you know someone that believes that the U.S. economy is going to be “just fine”, just show them the list below.
The following are 70 facts that Barack Obama does not want you to see….
$3.59 - When Barack Obama entered the White House, the average price of a gallon of gasoline was $1.85. Today, it is$3.59.
22 - It is hard to believe, but today the poverty rate for children living in the United States is a whopping 22 percent.
23 - According to U.S. Representative Betty Sutton, an average of 23 manufacturing facilities permanently shut down in the United States every single day during 2010.
30 - Back in 2007, about 10 percent of all unemployed Americans had been out of work for 52 weeks or longer. Today, that number is above 30 percent.
32 - The amount of money that the federal government gives directly to Americans has increased by 32 percent since Barack Obama entered the White House.
35 - U.S. housing prices are now down a total of 35 percent from the peak of the housing bubble.
40 - The official U.S. unemployment rate has been above 8 percent for 40 months in a row.
42 - According to one survey, 42 percent of all American workers are currently living paycheck to paycheck.
48 - Shockingly, at this point 48 percent of all Americans are either considered to be “low income” or are living in poverty.
49 - Today, an astounding 49.1 percent of all Americans live in a home where at least one person receives benefits from the government.
53 - Last year, an astounding 53 percent of all U.S. college graduates under the age of 25 were either unemployed or underemployed.
60 - According to a recent Gallup poll, only 60 percent of all Americans say that they have enough mo
61 - At this point the Federal Reserve is essentially monetizing much of the U.S. national debt. For example, the Federal Reserve bought up approximately 61 percent of all government debt issued by the U.S. Treasury Department during 2011.
63 - One recent survey found that 63 percent of all Americans believe that the U.S. economic model is broken.
71 - Today, 71 percent of all small business owners believe that the U.S. economy is still in a recession.
80 - Americans buy 80 percent of the pain pills sold on the entire globe each year.
81 - Credit card debt among Americans in the 25 to 34 year old age bracket has risen by 81 percent since 1989.
85 - 85 percent of all artificial Christmas trees are made in China.
86 - According to one survey, 86 percent of Americans workers in their sixties say that they will continue working past their 65th birthday.
90 - In the United States today, the wealthiest one percent of all Americans have a greater net worth than the bottom 90 percent combined.
93 - The United States now ranks 93rd in the world in income inequality.
95 - The middle class continues to shrink - 95 percent of the jobs lost during the last recession  were middle class jobs.
107 - Each year, the average American must work 107 days just to make enough money to pay local, state and federal taxes.
350 - The average CEO now makes approximately 350 times as much as the average American worker makes.
400 - According to Forbes, the 400 wealthiest Americans have more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americanscombined.
$500 - In some areas of Detroit, Michigan you can buy a three bedroom home for just $500.
627 - In 2010, China produced 627 million metric tons of steel. The United States only produced 80 million metric tons of steel.
877 - 20,000 workers recently applied for just 877 jobs at a Hyundai plant in Montgomery, Alabama.
900 - Auto parts exports from China to the United States have increased by more than 900 percent since the year 2000.
$1580 - When Barack Obama first took office, an ounce of gold was going for about $850. Today an ounce of gold costsmore than $1580 an ounce.
1700 - Consumer debt in America has risen by a whopping 1700% since 1971.
2016 - It is being projected that the Chinese economy will be larger than the U.S. economy by the year 2016
$4155 - The average American household spent a staggering $4,155 on gasoline during 2011.
$4300 - The amount by which real median household income has declined since Barack Obama entered the White House.
$6000 - If you can believe it, the median price of a home in Detroit is now just $6000.
$10,000 - According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute, 46 percent of all American workers have less than $10,000 saved for retirement, and 29 percent of all American workers have less than $1,000 saved for retirement.
49,000 - In 2011, our trade deficit with China was more than 49,000 times larger than it was back in 1985.
50,000 - The United States has lost an average of approximately 50,000 manufacturing jobs a month since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001.
56,000 - The United States has lost more than 56,000 manufacturing facilities since 2001.
$85,000 - According to the New York Times, a Jeep Grand Cherokee that costs $27,490 in the United States costs about $85,000 in China thanks to all the tariffs.
$175,587 - The Obama administration spent $175,587 to find out if cocaine causes Japanese quail to engage in sexually risky behavior.
$328,404 - Over the next 75 years, Medicare is facing unfunded liabilities of more than 38 trillion dollars. That comes to$328,404 for each and every household in the United States.
$361,330 - This is what the average banker in New York City made in 2010.
440,000 - If the federal government began right at this moment to repay the U.S. national debt at a rate of one dollar per second, it would take over 440,000 years to totally pay it off.
500,000 - According to the Economic Policy Institute, America is losing half a million jobs to China every single year.
2,000,000 - Family farms are being systematically wiped out of existence in the United States. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the number of farms in the United States has fallen from about 6.8 million in 1935 to only about 2 million today.
$2,000,000 - At this point, the U.S. national debt is rising by more than 2 million dollars every single minute.
2,600,000 - In 2010, 2.6 million more Americans fell into poverty. That was the largest increase that we have seen since the U.S. government began keeping statistics on this back in 1959.
5,400,000 - When Barack Obama first took office there were 2.7 million long-term unemployed Americans. Today there are twice as many.
16,000,000 - It is being projected that Obamacare will add 16 million more Americans to the Medicaid rolls.
$20,000,000 - The amount of money the U.S. government was spending to create a version of Sesame Street for children in Pakistan.
25,000,000 - Today, approximately 25 million American adults are living with their parents.
40,000,000 - According to Professor Alan Blinder of Princeton University, 40 million more U.S. jobs could be sent offshore over the next two decades if current trends continue.
46,405,204 - The number of Americans currently on food stamps. When Barack Obama first entered the White House there were only 32 million Americans on food stamps.
88,000,000 - Today there are more than 88 million working age Americans that are not employed and that are not looking for employment. That is an all-time record high.
100,000,000 - Overall, there are more than 100 million working age Americans that do not currently have jobs.
$150,000,000 - This is approximately the amount of money that the Obama administration and the U.S. Congress are stealing from future generations of Americans every single hour.
$2,000,000,000 - The amount of money that JP Morgan has admitted that it will lose from derivatives trades gone bad. Many analysts are convinced that the real number will actually end up being much higher.
$147,000,000,000 - In the U.S., medical costs related to obesity are estimated to be approximately 147 billion dollars a year.
295,500,000,000 - Our trade deficit with China in 2011 was $295.5 billion. That was the largest trade deficit that one country has had with another country in the history of the planet.
$359,100,000,000 - During the first quarter of 2012, U.S. public debt rose by 359.1 billion dollars. U.S. GDP only rose by 142.4 billion dollars.
$454,000,000,000 - During fiscal 2011, the U.S. government spent over 454 billion dollars just on interest on the national debt.
$1,000,000,000,000 - The total amount of student loan debt in the United States recently surpassed the one trillion dollar mark.
$1,170,000,000,000 - China now holds approximately 1.17 trillion dollars of U.S. government debt. Yet the U.S. government continues to send them millions of dollars in foreign aid every year.
$1,600,000,000,000 - The amount that has been added to the U.S. national debt since the Republicans took control of the U.S. House of Representatives. This is more than the first 97 Congresses added to the national debt combined.
$5,000,000,000,000 - The U.S. national debt has risen by more than 5 trillion dollars since the day that Barack Obama first took office. In a little more than 3 years Obama has added more to the national debt than the first 41 presidents combined.
$5,000,000,000,000 - What the real U.S. budget deficit in 2011 would have been if the federal government had used generally accepted accounting principles.
$11,440,000,000,000 - The total amount of consumer debt in the United States.
$15,734,596,578,458.59 - The U.S. national debt as of June 7, 2012.
$200,000,000,000,000 - Today, the 9 largest banks in the United States have a total of more than 200 trillion dollarsof exposure to derivatives. When the derivatives market completely collapses there won’t be enough money in the entire world to fix it.

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10 Crazy Facts About Democrats I Have Evidence For

Apparently the big thing today is to throw around allegations without any evidence behind them. Well, I know a bunch of things about Democrats which I do have evidence to prove though I’m going to keep that evidence to myself as I’d have to take pictures and size them right and upload them and… eh… sounds like a lot of work. But I do evidence about all this stuff, but don’t pester me about it.
FACTS
* Jar Jar Binks is based on imitations of various racial minorities Harry Reid did for George Lucas.
* Obama won’t release his college records because he got an F in every class except Marxist theory and recess.
* Nancy Pelosi can neither read nor write nor make facial expressions.
* Biden spent all of October 2007 pushing on a door labeled “PULL.”
* Ted Kennedy was actually brain dead for the last decade he was in Senate and no one noticed.
* Obama cheers every time unemployment goes up until an aide reminds him that a higher number for that is bad.
* Eric Holder personally authorized selling guns to Mexican drug cartels because he thought that would be hilarious. “The U.S. government — selling guns to Mexican murderers? How is that not funny?”
* Not a single member of Obama’s economics advisors were able to pick out the correct definition of what a job is, instead identifying it as some sort of soft drink popular in the Midwest.
* The “No Blackface” sign outside the Senate chambers was put there specifically because of Harry Reid.
* Obama has been a complete and utter failure as president, causing debt to skyrocket while getting no economic gains from it, and thus is desperate for any distraction he can latch on to.

Fun Facts About the 50 States: Illinois

Welcome to Fun Facts About the 50 States, where – week by week – I’ll be taking you on a tour around this great nation of ours, providing you with interesting, yet completely useless and probably untrue, information about each of the 50 states.
This week, we’re stopping in the heartland of America to visit Illinois, so let’s get started…
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The state flag of Illinois features an eagle with a banner coming out of its mouth, and is affectionately known as “Old Pukey”

* Illinois became the 21st state on December 3rd, 1818, and – except for Arkansas – is the only state that carries the death penalty for pronouncing the S at the end of the state’s name.
* Politically, Illinois is like 2 states in one. The Chicago area – which is urban and heavily Democratic – and the rest of the state, which is rural and sane.
* Chicago politicians are easily identifiable by their colorful “Bribe me!” lapel pins.
* During the Civil War, Illinois was bitterly divided between those who wanted black people to vote and those who wanted to restrict the franchise to white people and the dead.
* 10% of Illinois’s economy is based on the production of various corn products. The other 90% consists of official “Just wait ’till next year!” logo Cubs merchandise.
* Although Illinois borders both Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River, most citizens get their water from large, camel-like humps on their backs.
* Every year, millions of Illinoisans head north to the Wisconsin Dells to spend their money on water parks, souvenirs, and speeding tickets.
* Illinois is currently experiencing rapid population growth because an Illinoisan’s only natural predator is the Wisconsin State Highway Patrol.
* Few people shop at the malls in Illinois due to the twin hazards of high sales taxes and recklessly-driving Blues musicians.
* The first skyscraper was built in Chicago in 1895. When completed, it was 9 stories tall and was immediately destroyed by God for using non-union labor.
* At least according to the Teamsters who witnessed the event.
* Thanks to Illinois’s strict gun control laws, you may wander about freely after dark without having to worry about being mugged by a law-abiding citizen.
* Due to the extremely harsh winters in Illinois, natives of the state grow thick coats of fur to protect them from the elements, and are frequently clubbed to death by Alaskan tourists.
* People from Chicago like to brag about their “Chicago-style” pizza, but it’s really just regular pizza sprinkled with bits of people who hired non-union labor.
* Springfield is the capitol of Illinois. While there, be sure to visit Lincoln’s Tomb and Moe’s Tavern.
* The state dance of Illinois is the Square Dance.
* Except in certain parts of Chicago, where it’s the “I NEED CRACK!” jitterbug.
* Chicago was setting for George Romero’s movie “Night of the Voting Dead”.
* The Sears Tower in Chicago is the tallest building in North America and contains enough office space to hold a year’s supply of Twinkies for Michael Moore.
* The state tree of Illinois is the White Oak, which is just plain racist.
* The state snack of Illinois is popcorn. MORE racism!
* The first McDonald’s restaurant opened in Des Plaines, Illinois in 1940 after the McDonald brothers perfected their technique for making thin, round patties out of rat turds and sawdust.
* Early in the church’s history, the Mormons settled in Nauvoo, Illinois, but moved to Utah after the Iroquois Indians gave them smallpox and stole their land.
* During the Civil War, Illinois was home to the notorious Rock Island prison camp, where it’s estimated that over 100,000 Confederate prisoners were either starved to death or denied access to Korans.
* 13% of Illinois’s population is foreign-born. Mostly Irishmen who ran out of money while traveling to Idaho’s annual Spud-Fest.
* People from Chicago must pass a literacy test before they are allowed to vote, which consists of correctly identifying the letter “D”.
* It was the original French settlers who chose the White-Tailed Deer as the Illinois state animal. They looked upon it as a kindred spirit, since it appeared to be raising a white flag while fleeing at the first sign of danger.
* Chicago is home to the world’s largest public library. Sadly, not enough of the books have pictures to make it of any use to the Irish.
* In 1999 the city of Kankakee, Illinois, was voted “America’s Worst Place to Live”. It improved to “America’s Best Place to Live” after the city implemented its “free breast implant” program.
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That wraps up the Illinois edition of Fun Facts About the 50 States. Next week we’ll disappointed to learn that there ARE some places where you’re not allowed to drive 200 mph as we visit Indiana.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go eat some popcorn because I’m a racist.