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Gov. Grendel on the Prawl Again

Posted by Marked in Pgh on Monday, February 02, 2009 7:58:38 PM
Just when I was in a good mood in Pittsburgh, PA Gov. Grendel shows up on the radio to talk about the Steelers and ticks me off.  I just heard him say Pittsburgh is in good shape and has weathered the economic storm.  Well, Grendel, that may be because Pittsburgh, like Garp's house in the movie "The World According to Garp" has already been pre-disastered by having an economic disaster, like the airplane plowing into Garp's prospective home.  What's the possibility of that happening again?  In Pittsburgh's case, the disaster is an ongoing political and economic disaster decades in the making.  What has Grendel done to relieve the problem? Nothing.  He was much better at trying to steal the presidential election of 2000 in Florida.  He failed at both, the one in Pennsylvania to our detriment, the one in Florida to our benefit.
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The Steelers Six Pack

Posted by Marked in Pgh on Monday, February 02, 2009 7:15:22 PM
It was incredible, but not inevitable.  The Steelers were the favorites, but Arizona could not be taken for granted.  I watched part of the NFC Championship Game and watched Warner, with protection, make some amazing passes while destroying the Eagles hopes for the Super Bowl.  It turned out to be a closer game than most people predicted, but that's why I like the Steelers.  They don't give up, just like we haven't given up on them.  They weren't perfect, they made mistakes, but they adjusted and went on.  The defense came up with an amazing play when Harrison caught a miraculous interception, was defended by other Steelers and ran the longest play in Super Bowl history.  Then, there was the winning touchdown. 
 
Almost as incredible was the celebration in Pittsburgh.  The cheering, the horns and the fireworks started up almost immediately, with rockets going up on the Northside and on Mt. Washington.  Why, they only turned over one car, again, in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh.  I wonder if it was the same one overturned in Oakland in 2006 after Super Bowl XL.  We're even going to have another parade tomorrow in downtown Pittsburgh.  Last time, a quarter of a million people showed up, and except for a couple of idiots, it was pretty orderly.  That's why you stick with what works, like the Steelers, America and the Constitution, not the fools in Washington. 
 
I am, however, thinking about applying for a position in the Obama administration.  I just need to cheat on my taxes for a couple of years and change parties so the Press will cover for me by saying I'm sloppy.  Tempting, tempting.  No, I'd rather keep going toe-to-toe with misinformed public opinion.  It's much more gratifying.
 
P.S. Thanks for the comments.  Go Steelers!
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Steelers Nation vs. Obama Nation

Posted by Marked in Pgh on Thursday, January 29, 2009 6:58:03 PM
I was a Pittsburgh Steelers fan even as a child and was the only kid in my elementary school who had a Steelers lunch box.  I got the snot beat out of me, several times; by groups of other kids who followed "Public Opinion" and thought the Steelers were lousy.  The Steelers were lousy during their first forty years.  But the Steelers were my hometown team and had potential.  So I  defended the team and myself well enough and forcefully enough so the promoters of public opinion gave up on us.  I never surrendered to the tyranny of public opinion.  Then, after the Steelers became the Super Steelers, these same schmucks became their biggest fans, until the team started faltering after the last of their four Super Bowl wins.  Most fans, however, never gave up on them in the lean years, as the team slugged it out in the league.  Our loyalty became legend.  I have the same loyalty for the hapless Pittsburgh Pirates and the Stanley Cup winning Penguins.
 
Now it seems most people, at least in Washington, are following public opinion, as crafted by the News Media, and are rallying around Barack Insane Obama.  To be truthful, Obama looks like he was beaten up a lot as a kid because of the goofy look on his face and his big ears.  He should have learned to stand his ground against the mass hysteria of public opinion he now wheels against any opposition.  His thin skinned response to the slightest criticism confirms he is not someone to be counted on to stand by his convictions, if he had any he would admit to, without consideration of their value in his own political calculus.
 
This week he was desperate to drag any of the Republicans in the House into supporting his 800 billion dollar plus Pork-a-Matic Economic Strangulation Bill.  None of the Republicans crossed party lines to vote for the scam and were joined by eleven Democrats in true bi-partisanship, for a total of 188 in dissent.  Now Obama and the lockstep Dems in the House will have to face decreasing support for the economically destructive features of the legislation as the people see what a bill of socialist goods it is.  He won't be able to drag the House Republicans down with him on this one to cover for himself and his allies.  We can only hope the Senate Rinos won't cross over, again, and provide the liberal Dems with some coverage in the future in the name of Democrat bi-partisanship.  Obama will need them if he doesn't want to get his Dumbo ears boxed.
 
In the Obama Nation, I detect more of a short term, changeable group "me too" mentality wanting to embrace the newest fad of change, while delving and devolving into a cult of personality.  They have no staying power, or they will become wagon jumpers to the next fad.  That is why I am a  Steelers fan and not a follower of the newest political expediency trumped up as public opinion.  Public opinion be damned, you stay with what lasts, what works and wins against the ebb and flow of life.  The success of the Steelers Nation stands in contrast to the economic Diaspora that spread Pittsburghers around the country during the same time period as a result of the actions of local, county, state and Federal level Democrat politicians wrapped up in the dementia of liberal socialist policies, which never work.  More on the mania of taxing ourselves into prosperity later. 
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Luxuriating in Global Warming

Posted by Marked in Pgh on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 2:59:48 PM
The news media says it's so, Obama and Gore say it's so.  Really?  Then why are we freezing our assets off in the Midwest, the Northeast and Florida?  Here, in Pitttsburgh, we haven't been hit as hard with snow this winter as the Great Lakes States; but we have been around 0°F without wind chill for most of the last two weeks and have received more snow than all last winter so far.  Even many parts of Florida, including Orlando and Daytona Beach, have had frost last week, with temperatures down to the low thirties and twenties.  It is the coldest winter Floridians have had in decades.
 
As I ask people I talk with each day, "How about all this global warming we're having?"  Most laugh, knowing, as I do, that it's all a lie.  One woman, however, said she had heard it explained to her on the news, that the more extreme cold was caused by global warming.  She said global warming actually causes greater variation in temperatures, even greater cold.  What a fascinating yarn.  And the bull goes on, even as we are experiencing the coldest winter in years, caused by lack of solar sun spot activity, not man.
 
Here are some more specific examples of so-called global warming.  In Michigan, there's many places continually covered in deep snow in the lower peninsular for weeks.  One place in Wisconsin was down to -20°F without wind chill.  Last month, there were locals with two feet of snow from Wisconsin to New England.  This week it hit 14°F above zero someplace in Florida.  Other areas in Florida have had damage to plants and bushes and experienced large losses in the orange crop because of the unseasonable plunge in the cold.  And still the liberals call it global warming.
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The Coronation

Posted by Marked in Pgh on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 6:59:01 PM
Was everyone as fed up with the anauguration as I was?  For a protector of the people, Obam had to be bailed out of his own extravagent coronation.  This after he had complained about the $1,200,000 spent remodeling the executive offices of Merrill Lynch before the October surprise, and yet he blows more than a hundred times that that amount, at $150,000,000 on a one day Maoist rally and outspends George W. Bush's second anauguration four to one.  After all that, he did not measure up, by flubbing his oath of office. 
 
Obama could have skipped the cermonies, the bankrupt balls, taken the oath in the Rose Garden, walked down to the steps of Congress to give a more inpiring speech, then walked back down Pennsylvania Ave. like Jimmy Carter and gotten to work.  He could have at least saved us some of the $110,000,000 he spent above what was supposedly lavished on Bush.  With his perverse Napolean Complex, it was surprising he did not place a crown upon his head with his own hands.  Napolean did, and all subsequent dictators have always wanted to do the same thing.

Obama had also complained about the Big 3 CEOs flying to Washington for Senate hearings in their private jets.  Over six hundred private jets came to Wahsington for the coronation so their occupants could pay homage to or buy off the new ruler.  Pelosi was already in Washington, so she couldn't fly the Speaker of the House's private jet anywhere.  Of course, we can suggest to the queen bee what she can do with it.
 
History will show Obama is not the savior, he is not a demi god, he is just a run of the mill demagogue and the head of the newest band of looters.  Everyone needs to read Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" to know where Obama and the rest of the left are heading.  Rand was born in Russia and was twelve when the Red October Revolution overthrew an earlier, broad based revolution which deposed of the Tsar.  Red October ushered in communist rule.  The people of the new Soviet Union had to then live under Communism as it was imposed upon them.  "Atlas Shrugged" and the Federalist Papers should be required reading in all high schools and journalism schools so the obtuse can be enlightened to the tendency to class envy in pure democracies James Madison warned against in Federalist Paper 10.  If they won't listen to that, remind them of Federalist Paper 29 concerning the militia and the right to bear arms written by Alexander Hamilton.
 
It is said that those who forget the lessons of history are condemmed to repeat it.  Actually, those who forget the lessons of history force the rest of us to suffer the consequences of their hubris and destructive actions in endleess repetition once they're in power.  We were looted by FDR, Carter and Clinton; we will now be looted more systematically by Obama. 
 
In the future, after the destruction of America and the Economy by the imposition of the newest Communism, we will need to send the culprits to the ultimate retirement home for demagogues, prison.  Former Democrat Rep. Traficante, who was rail roaded into prison for being a real maverick, could have summed up the present situation with his famous send off "Beam me up!" 
  
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Opocrisy II-Closing Gitmo, Killing 18+ in Pakistan

Posted by Marked in Pgh on Friday, January 23, 2009 1:44:47 PM

Obama is signing two odious executive orders to close Club Gitmo and send terrorists to American courts with the same rights as citizns of America without the obligations to pay for it all in taxes and blood.  And some fools say he's ending the war.  Then he kills at least 18 terrorists and/or innocents in Pakistan, continuing a policy of engagement from the George W. Bush adminstration.  It's another example of opocrisy from Obama.  Will the Gobblist News Media start calling him Bush Jr.?  Not damn likely.  Later I'll comment on the $150,000,000 coronation. 

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Boobs on the Left

Posted by Marked in Pgh on Thursday, January 15, 2009 3:00:01 PM
I saw a picture of Sarah Palin's face superimposed on the topless body of a model a couple days ago.  It was set up in someone's place of business; where the owner, or its employees, obviously thought it will not be taxed to death by the new administration.  And some dare say the Left are insensitive and politically incorrect.  I found it insulting, to Sarah Palin.
 
At the same time, as a straight guy, I have to admit I found the anonymous model's body inspiring.  She had a lovely set of eyes.  I'm talking, in the vernacular, about boobs.  But I know, if I want to envision a perfect set of boobs; I couldn't do better than to envision the winning set of Obama and Biden.  Then, there's Reid & Pelosi, Dodd & Schumer, Rev. Wright & Blago, the Ayres and the matched set of Bill & Hillary.  They are inspirational and irrational, but only to the Left. 
 
Last, but not least, we shouldn't forget Barney Frank.  Though boobs are not his preference; his behavior, persona and attitude makes him more a boob and a half than the others.  He could qualify for a pair of boobs himself, with little augmentation, while he pretends he knows what he's talking about, as he excoriates everyone else.  If he does need help to make a set, there's always Waxman and Rangel to help fill in with one or the other's contributions.  The other two could qualify as a pair in partnership.
 
So, the Left should leave Gov. Palin alone.  She's her own woman, just like Coutler, Malkin and the Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher.  They are all immune to juvenile tactics.  The Left has enough boobs to play with in Washington, including institutionalized sets as diverse as the Washington Post and New York Times or CNN and the Asinine Press.  Then, there's the Kennedy clan; a true royal flush, or flash, of boobs.
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The Abominable Recession & the Snow Man

Posted by Marked in Pgh on Wednesday, January 14, 2009 6:55:25 PM
The left and the News media may finally have a recession they can blame on Bush.  But, technically speaking, only the last quarter of 2008 may show a downturn in economic activity.  We have to wait until after the first quarter of 2008 to know if we have had two consecutive quarters of economic downturn to officially be in a recession.  That is the economic definition of a recesion, if Economics has any relevance in Washington or in news rooms of failing newspapers and networks across the country, which it doesn't.  Conceding that point, may I ask, who's recession is it then?  The same culprits who brought us the recessions of 1993-1994 and 1977-1982, the Demagogues in the Federal government.
 
First, there was the Carter Recesion.  Then the Clinton Recession, with both of them speeded along and jointly caused by Democrat majorities in both houses of Congress.  In the current situation, Hannity is right in projecting the new, impending recession as the Obama Recession caused by Democrat majorities in Congress and another Democrat nitwit in the White House.  I concur, but I call it the Abominable Recession, because it may be coming about even before Obama has assumed the office a President Shill Du Jour.  Now, as the head of the laughable "Office of the President-Elect" [or the Elected President of the United States (E Potus Deploriabus)] his pompous attitude, his pick of Clinton cronies and his obvious flip flopping on some of his campaign promises have already seriously affected the Economy caused by increased fears about what he will actually do and his unknown basic nature.
 
Obama does not help the situation by never being forthcoming about any thing.  Every time he opens his mouth, we get a snow job of lies and deception; including his tap dancing around the sale of his Senate seat.  In this newest Democrat scandal, the Illinose Governor has been trying to auction off the seat to the highest bidder.  (Actually, I think I finally figured out what happened to Howdy Dowdy.  He grew up to become Blago).
 
With such uncertainty and the same cast of characters installed to supposedly remedy it all; is there any wonder we have an impending recession?  It will be impressed on the ignorant who voted for the same people who caused it.  Never leave the Economy in the hands of children; especially overeducated children who haven't learned a thing since they subsumed their intellect to the group think found in most universities and colleges.
 
There is just one problem, the economic situation they have created is turning into something far beyond their capacity to control or even understand.  It's getting away from them, and as Dick Morris pointed out in his posting "The Eminent Demise of Our Enemies", the fiasco is even hurting our enemies around the world.  The result of such unforeseen consequences of Liberalism and Gobblist excess may very well destroy the demogogues here and abroad.  But don't bet on it.
 
 
 
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Obama's Very Bad Poiltical Theater

Posted by Marked in Pgh on Thursday, January 08, 2009 3:45:57 PM
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette recently praised Obama's idea to take the oath of office on the same Bible used by Lincoln.  They said it was a touching gesture.  How about touched?  The gall of this subterfuge is only exceeded by its arrogance.  The gall comes from the presumption of the least qualified president in American history to use something handled by Honest Abe.  No other president since Lincoln has had the effrontery to attempt this empty political and theatrical gesture.  It's all a farce.
 
First, Obama is not descended from any black American slaves who were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, but is descended on his mother's side from white slave holders who suffered from it; so much for truth in advertising.  Add to that fact that Obama is now the head of not the party of Lincoln (the Republicans, who were for Abolition) but of the pro-slavery, pro-Jim Crow party (the Democrats).  Welcome to a production of double speak.  Orwell was only off by twenty-five years.
 
Second, Obama may very well have occupied the same Senate seat denied to Lincoln because Lincoln was a Republican.  Even though Lincoln is considered to have won the senatorial debates with Douglas, Douglas was appointed to the seat because Illinois was, as it is now, controlled by the Democrats.  That is because senators were appointed by their respective states before the Seventeenth Amendment changed them into elected super stooges, as apposed to the regular representative stooges of the mob; by changing the senators from representatives of the various States in what was originally the States' house.  In this regard, Gov. Blago is right while Senator and Chief Stooge Reid is wrong, as far as Blago appointing a successor to Obama in the seat.  At least the Illinois governor is within his rights.  Obama is out of his mind. 
 
Third, Obama is for the virtual lifetime financial enslavement of us, the taxpayers of America, to finance the continuing indentured servitude of those who pay no taxes and who are themselves in servitude and slavery in perpetuity to the Federal government because of their dependence on Federal programs and largesse.  Will he ever sign a new Emancipation Proclamation for the second group?  Not likely.  Well he rent out the Lincoln Bedroom, Lincoln's old office where Abe signed the Proclamation, to political contributors with cash in hand like Clinton had done in the past?  Very likely.  He is the last man to use the same Bible to take an oath to a document, the Constitution, that he has no intention of upholding.  He is, supposedly, a Constitutional scholar.  However, among liberals, that simply means he is always trying to get around its restrictions to benefit his "Precious", the Federal government.  As a liberal Constitutional scholar, he is in the same company as Sen. Byrd, a former recruiter for the Ku Klux Klan.
 
Where is Leonard Pinth Garnell (the fictional theatrical critic played by Dan Akroyd on Saturday Night Live) to knock out the support, or plinth, from under this production and chuck this equally fictional piece of Very Bad Political Theater into the trash or dust bin of history?  Obama has only four yers before he joins this empty, touched farce in the same bin.
 
P.S.  I appreciate your comments.  However, I have not been very good at answering them.  This is not out of arrogance, but because I am not very familiar with email.  I have made it a New Year's Resolution to become more responsive.
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Where's All This Gobal Warming?

Posted by Marked in Pgh on Thursday, December 25, 2008 11:18:49 AM
That's a question we asked ourselves over the weekend, when it was 17 degrees below zero in Pittsburgh with wind chill and there were two feet of snow in Michigan, Upstate New York and New England and up to 33 inches in Wisconsin.  We didn't have snow here, but we had the wind, negating the wind of public opinion from the News Media.  Are we to thank global warming for this widespread White Christmas or hope the News Media continues to make fools of themsleves?  All this snow and cold weather seems to be following Al Gore around and is now being called the "Gore Effect".  Maybe it's caused by the low pressure zone between his ears.
 
This coming year, we should not worry about the government or the weather, but wonder if God has a sense of humor.  All we have to do is look at some of the prominent liberals of our day (from Barney Frank to the Clintons, Al Franken, Al Sharpton, Nancy Pelosi and Gov. Blago with all their pontificating) to realize God may have a very good sense of humor.  So, don't despair about the new year, enjoy the farce and have a Merry Christmas.
 
 
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The New Press-A Paine to the Left

Posted by Marked in Pgh on Monday, December 08, 2008 6:39:55 PM
What can we do as individual citizens, as individual bloggers after the election?  We continue being who we are, individual voices of liberty, dissent, opinion and thought.  We become the pamphleteers and the New Press of our age, like some of the Founders, including Tom Paine, against the people in power.  It's an American tradition, and our right.
 
Long before the creation to the Constitution, it was our God given right of dissent, protected and backed up later on by the freedom of the press clause in the first Amendment.  Thomas Paine was very argumentative with the other Founding Fathers and pulled no punches.  He even questioned the legitimacy of George Washington's birth.
 
Today, no one can take freedom of speech or of the press from us, unless we allow ourselves to be overwhelmed.  We are not overwhelmed, we are not intimidated.  We are Americans and this is our country.  We have the right to disagree and state our opinions and views.  We are not subjects of the Federal government.  We are the owners of the government and nothing shall subvert us to something the people of America brought about after they won their independence through armed revoution, to create "a more perfect Union".  The more perfect Union can not be the agent of our own repression.
 
So, we keep on writing; we keep on on pointing out the blind sides, the blind spots in the News Media coverage as proponents of the New Pamphleteers, the New Media and the New Press.  Congress can threaten to pass draconian new laws, but "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press".  We do not need the interpretation of the courts for language so plain and unambiguous.  Any laws passed by Congress which violates the First Amendment are null and void and we are not beholden to them.  If there was ever a moment for civil disobedience, it will be when these unconstitutional laws are imposed.
 
Will we prevail?  We, as Americans, are a naturally rebellious people.  The impostition of new taxes by the British Crown without representation of those imposed upon, resulted in the creation of a new country.  A tax on whiskey led to the Whiskey Rebellion here in the Pittsburgh area, at that time the frontier, against George Washington's own administration.  Prohibition was widely ignored by the American people living under this unenforceable constitutional amendment.  That fact can be seen by comparing two statistics.  How many speakeasies existed in America during Prohibition?  The answer, about the same number as the number of bars which existed in America before Prohibition.
 
Even the Soviet Union could not change the economic behavior of the oppressed and enslaved so-called Soviet citizenry.  It only drove such behavior underground and created a huge black market as the people reacted to the natural economic laws of unlimited demands pursuing limited supplies.
 
Free enterprise allows free individuals to exchange goods and services among themselves in order to satisfy their needs in free markets.  Any constrictions on these activities, arbitrarily imposed by the government, are disturbances in normal activities and create artificial limitations to the best utilization of goods and services.  Free enterprise is very democratic in its economic dynamics.  Central planning is oppressive, unresponsive and tyrannical in its distortions within any economy and society imposed upon.  This is just as true concerning the free exchange of ideas, political dissent and thought.
 
No matter how many degrees liberals in government have printed on parchment and hung on their walls; all these overeducated experts can do is to fleece the people in order to have more sheepskins to print their additional degrees and decrees upon.  None of them could ever come up with the idea of, or implement the plan for something like Federal Express, McDonald's, Wendy's, Hewlett Packard, Dell, Apple Computers or the E.I.B. Network.  The potential of the individual living in freedom is infinite.  The potential of government bureaucracies is limited by the mental disorders of its entrenched bureaucrats.
 
We are the entrepreneurs of free thought.  We are the New Press.
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Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss

Posted by Marked in Pgh on Monday, November 24, 2008 6:47:15 PM
Just like the old song by The Who "Won't Get Fooled Again", we will not be fooled by the new administration.  But enough Americans were fooled with the promises of change.  So much for vague illusions spoon fed to the easily deceived.  The New Boss Obama and his minions are simply the minions and mental minnows of Old "Boss Tweed" Clinton.
 
So far, most of Obama's picks for his Administration of Change have turned out to be Clintonistas touting what Rush just today called the Bold Old Policies.  Even Hillary is now the Secretary of State (or Intestate) in the Regency of the Obama Era and only three heart beats away from the presidency.
 
I still believe the economic fallout of the new Regency and the equally tone deaf Democrat controlled Congress will be more akin to a second Carter Administration; with all its inherent economic melees.  Now, the economic follies will star the same cast of nefarious schmucks from the days of Bubba Clinton, called the Bald Old Retreads.
 
This may very well cause us to suffer under the worst of both possible worlds.  But wouldn't Voltaire have had a field day satirizing the presumptions of this cast of clowns?  So why shouldn't we do the same with economic and political commentary while having a blast as the cracks appear?  Personally, I'm looking forward to it.
 
All this can be summed up in a baseball analogy.  There is no joy in Mudville, the Mighty Barack has struck out. 
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2008 Election-The Death of the Rinos

Posted by Marked in Pgh on Thursday, November 20, 2008 2:04:17 PM
The election was devastating to the Republican Rinos.  They were the ones who ran the campaign, ran it poorly and lost, while trying to make themselves into Liberal Light.  They even had their own candidate: an inoffensive, politically correct and amiable fall guy in McCain.  They got their clocks cleaned and many of the Republicans who lost their seats in Congress were Rinos.  That makes our work easier to rid the Republican Party of their kind.
 
In their prime, they rampaged over the political terrain and damaged the efforts of conservatives within the party.  Now they have decimated themselves and their numbers.  There are just a few prominent ones left, including Sen. Snarlin Arlen of Pennsylvania, who we need to defeat in the 2010 primaries if he doesn't retire first.
 
What can the rest of us do in the aftermath?  The same thing the conservatives within the Republican Party did after the defeat of Gerald Ford in the 1976 election.  Every once in a while the News Media actually screws up and reports something truthful and newsworthy.  The CBS Evening News did just that when they sent a single female reporter to a meeting of the Republican leadership of the party around two years after the election and reported the conservatives were actively taking over control of the party.  The conservatives did just that and came back to win the election of 1980 with Ronald Reagan.  It was done then, it can be done now, to bring about electoral revolutions in 2010 and again in 2012.  The first reform within the party needs to be no more open primaries.   We choose our own candidates for President, not the Democrats or the Rinos in our own party.  History is, in fact, cyclical and we can bring about another 1994 take over of the House in 2010, followed by another 1980 election in 2012.  Yes, we will.
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Barack's First Tax Test Subject-the Wife

Posted by Marked in Pgh on Monday, November 10, 2008 6:50:06 PM
Obama promises to raise taxes on those making over $250,000 a year.  What about the little woman?
 
The News Media, myopic as always, overlooked the fact Mrs. Obama makes over $300,000 a year from her job working for a hospital in Chicago.  Since she meets the criteria of being rich, then she should be the first test case of the new tax.  It's only fair.  If she thought America was a downright mean country before, wait till he presents her with the bill.
 
To be really fair, considering she's going to leave her job soon, he should make it retroactive for the last two years during his political run at the presidency, just to show he's serious.  Will he collect, will he get his block knocked off or will he even try?  The IRS should not expect any funds for money transfers to non-taxpayers from the Obamas.  Liberals never suffer the fate they prescribe for others, because they never gore their own.
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Analyzing the 2008 Presidential Election Result

Posted by Marked in Pgh on Monday, November 10, 2008 5:57:59 PM
Despite the News Media spin about the great Obama victory on Nov. 4, 2008; he did not have a landslide victory in the Democrats' much vaunted popular vote as a result of his magnetism.  George W. Bush, certainly not a dynamic speaker and after four years of being called an idiot, a frat boy by the News Media; still won re-election in 2004 with almost 51% of the popular vote.  Obama won on Tuesday with just 53% of the popular vote.  So much for a popular landslide.  McCain still received around 46% of the popular vote in the same contest, even as we were carrying our own quaterback throughout the campaign.  Most of those votes were actually for Plin, who was only a known factor since the convention.  Palin, like the rest of us, is not going away.  It does not bode well for any Obama legacy or the elction of 2012, even before the inevitable let down of his presidency.
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