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A Stake In the Heart of Global-warmists

it's snowed for four straight days in eastern Nebraska . . .

This is the most prolonged snow season that I've ever seen in our area and I'm having a very hard time rationalizing all of this cold and snow vs the book of Irrationality in the religion of Global Warming.

Then again, with all the scandal out there over Global Warming, maybe there is no need to try and rationalize it. Just take a read on the latest upheaval in the religion of Global Warming as seen in the The Globe and Mail out of Canada. 

From Sunday's Omaha World-Herald and cartoonist Jeff Koterba:

New Unemployment Numbers Re-enforce Business Unease

the uncertainty is for real and Obama and team better wake up . . .

It's always good news when you see the unemployment rate decrease and that's what the latest figures  show that came out today. The drop from 10% to 9.7% is good news for families across the country. Ed Morrissey over at HotAir has written a concise, easy to understand article on what's all in this latest drop. 

The bottom line on unemployment is that it will not start showing marked improvement until:

1. Obama and the Dems cut taxes on the job creators

2. Obama and the Dems stop all the regulations and new leftist programs

Business does not like uncertainty and right now Obama and the Dems are doing nothing but providing uncertainty-on-steroids to the business community. Consequently, companies of all sizes, but particularly the small businesses which are the backbone of our economy, can not do any long range planning.

It's become very clear how ill-prepared these folks are in leading this country when this White House has so few of its staff and cabinet leaders who have ever run a business or been involved with the daily operation of a business.

I believe that we will not see any marked improvement in the unemployment level until after November and that's only IF Republicans retake the House and Senate and they actually legislate like Conservatives this time around. It would be the balancing act that I think would provide business with some calmness and allow them to at least realize that nothing to much was going to happen with a Conservative Congress and a Leftist President fixed in a stalemate.

Until then, well, I hope it gets better but the environment is just not business friendly right now. 

Obama 2011 Budget-Is This A Joke?

Obama and Congressional Democrats can't be serious . . .

Did Massachusetts not happen? Did Virginia and New Jersey not happen? Are the Democrats in Congress and in the White House living in a dream world?

The President just released his proposed 2011 budget and folks around the country have to be shaking their collective heads in disbelief.

Here's just a couple of the mind boggling numbers:

• Establishes a new single year record for spending of $3.8 trillion
• Establishes a new single year record for a deficit of $1.6 trillion
• Establishes a new overall record of total debt of $9.3 trillion

The so-called spending freeze that Obama so loudly proclaimed in his State of the Union address is at  best a reduction of $20-billion over last year coming from about 14% of the overall budget. Now some may say that's progress but consider that Obama and Democrats injected over $260-billion in so-called stimulus dollars last year plus increased their overall budgets by an additional 14% last spring in the Omnibus spending bill. You end up with each of these agency starting it's budgeting at an overall 84% higher level than the prior year. I would hope they could find a few bucks to reduce.

How many households got an 84% increase in their budget last year? This doesn't sound like much of a freeze to me. 

One final thought on this so-called freeze. Last year, Democrats in Congress and Obama agreed on $6.9 billion in spending cuts mostly in defense. They then took that "savings" and spent it and much, much more in non-defense spending which I outlined above. So don't hold your breath on this freeze happening either.

The end game is this. President Obama is showing early in year two that what happened in year one was not inexperience, it was who he is, i.e. a big time Liberal who fully believes that more Government not less is the answer.

In the end, as Brian Riedl of the Heritage Foundation points out this F.Y. 2011 budget will "over the next decade, pass $75,000 per household in additional debt into the laps of our children and grandchildren".

Voters now have a clear picture of who Obama is and who the Democrats are. Apparently Massachusetts wasn't enough of a slap in the face for Mr. Obama and his party, I guess it now goes to Colorado, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Arkansas, New York and even California . . .

If This Isn't A Red Flag

the Dems are having to spend campaign cash in Jan. & Feb. of a non-election year in Nebraska???

Found this little gem this morning about our Democrat Senator Ben Nelson and who is financing all those TV ads that we are having to endure. 

The problem with these ads is as I mentioned before, Nelson has become THE JOKE throughout the country whenever the subject of abuses occurring in Washington comes up whether it be on talk shows, late night shows or during the special elections like those in Massachusetts and today in Illinois.

Once the public gets a vision of you, it's really difficult, if not impossible to change and Ben Nelson and the "Cornhusker Kickback" are the first words that roll off people's tongues whenever the subject turns to what's wrong in our Nation's Capitol. 

Boy, that's a legacy I'm sure Nelson must be proud of. I wonder if that will go on his newly erected statue out in McCook . . . Governor, U.S. Senator and face of the now famous phrase "Cornhusker Kickback"

Ben Nelson STILL In Denial

he is either in a dream world or just so arrogant not to realize what he did . . .

Our fine U.S. Senator Ben Nelson has continued to insult the intelligence of Nebraskans with these complete idiotic television ads he is running that defend his vote for Obamacare and the sale of Nebraska. Nelson has only increased the level of ire with additional recent "explanations" on his vote which hold absolutely no credibility at all.

Now, the Senator has decided that pro-life supporters are just as stupid as Nebraska voters. Yesterday, Mr. Nelson showed up UN-invited to a meeting of pro-life activist in Washington D.C. And according to LifeSiteNews.com, it was tense to say the least. 

It's amazing how history repeats itself. How many times have we seen a politician blame the people instead of looking in the mirror for the cause of his/her problems?

I'm might suggest that Mr. Nelson read John Fund's latest piece in the Wall Street Journal entitled, Scott Brown: People Aren't Stupid.

And so it goes for Mr. Nelson . . .

A Couple Items You May Not Have Seen

The State of Nebraska has once again received the highest rating from the Standard & Poor Credit Rating service of AA+.

• The service cited "little debt and good budgeting practices" and pointed out that Nebraska has been very fortunate in the stewardship members of the Legislature and recent Governors have provided in maintaining a healthy cash reserve and "making budgetary adjustments where needed". The tortoise and hare approach to life has once again proven out during these tough times as we manage conditions while states like Florida, California, Arizona, etc are going through major financial crisis.

That same Standard & Poor Credit Rating Service also reports that state's leading employers:

• State of Nebraska - 18,653
• U.S. Government - 15, 403
• Offutt Air Force Base - 11,137
• Tyson Foods - 11,000
• University of Nebraska, including the Med Center - 10,547
• Wal Mart Stores - 9,755
• Omaha Public Schools - 8.073
• Union Pacific - 7,200
• Alegent Healthcare(largest not-for-profit, faith based healthcare system in Nebraska) - 6,675
• First Data Corp - 6,300

I'm not surprised that 4 out of the top 5 are Govt related. I certainly am not criticizing anyone who works for those entities. This is just a trend that we are seeing across the country where public sector is playing a larger and larger role in providing jobs to our society.

Speaking of jobs, it appears that Grand Island may be adding some in the future in President Obama's "Green jobs" sector.

• The White House announced that TPI Composites has received $5-million in federal funds(translated your tax dollars) to build a plant in Grand Island that will produce next generation wind turbine blades.

 I have no idea what difference "next generation" makes but my real question is whether there is that much of a market for wind energy and if there is such a demand then why is Obama having to use tax payer money to fund a business. Wouldn't you think that a private company would be willing to invest in that business IF it was such a gold mine? Hmmmmmm

Strap On Those Seat Belts

it's tomfoolery . . .

The President can give it his best stern-I'm-pissed-at-the-world tough guy look but the words coming out of his mouth tell us it's the same old liberal, government is the answer to all ills.

On foreign affairs, I don't have enough time to go there because these guys are so far over their heads that it's just best to say that world events are going to carry the day and they will do nothing but react. Proactive is not in their genetics when it comes to fighting terrorism and all those gosh-darn bad old man-made disasters (!), Obama and crew do not want to offend anyone so let's just leave these terribly misunderstood folks alone and bury our heads in the sand.

Domestically, it's spend and spend and spend. It's just in Obama's DNA. The man has never run a business or even really worked in a business whose goal was to MAKE MONEY. His speech should only solidify his place as the most Liberal President in our country's history.

And here, my friends is the tomfoolery. Yes, tomfoolery, which is defined as "foolish behavior, utter nonsense, rubbish"

Yep, that pretty much describes this President's BIG Plan on reducing the exploding deficit. You see President Obama is proposing freezing spending . . . well, ok, freezing spending on domestic spending . . . well, ok, so not really. Here's his plan:

• Mr. Obama raised the baseline of discretionary domestic spending by $115-BILLION since he was sworn into office just one year ago.
• Mr. Obama then increased that spending midway through the '09 fiscal year during the reconciliation-pork laden bill he signed.
• Mr. Obama then increased it again with his 2010 budget.
• Mr. Obama is now calling for a freeze that will save $15-billion for fiscal year 2011

Wow, that's attacking all that out of control spending you folks are doing in Washington. President Obama's so-called freeze will leave in place:

• 24% INCREASE in discretionary, non-security domestic spending AND will exempt from the freeze the $512-BILLION that has yet to be spent from last year's wonderful "Stimulus" bill.
• To present this as some serious attack on out of control spending is an insult to the American people.
• One final figure, the Congressional Budget Office shows that over the first three years of his presidency, Obama will borrow an estimated $3.7 TRILLION and that my friends is more than the entire accumulated national debt for the first 225 years of U.S. history!

So yes, strap on those seat belts because the turbulence in this economy is going to continue to be very bumpy with Mr. Obama as our pilot . . .

Obama Being Obama

arrogance and stupidity on display . . .

If last night didn't finally convince the folks in this country that Obama is a true-blue LIBERAL than I'm not sure what will.

It's very simple. He believes that only Government can create jobs and jobs can only be created if we throw more tax money out to the minions, tax dollars that we don't have.

Bottom line. It was more of the same and after the initial afterglow wears off, it's business as usual in Washington. Greattttttt

Man I feel better. I'm heading downtown to the bank and gettin' me some of that free money that Obama thinks is out there.

The First Anniversary of the Obama Presidency

blind arrogance permeates this White House . . .

January 20th will mark the one year anniversary of Barrack Obama as President of the United States. Let's look at what Obama's leadership has produced over the past year:

• Highest unemployment in generations
• $787-billion "stimulus" plan that
• • stimulated overall unemployment to over 10-percent
  • stimulated federal spending
  • stimulated the ballooning federal deficit
  • stimulated the size and scope of the federal bureaucracy
  • stimulated the long arm of Washington DC into our lives
• Largest single year increase in the nation's long term debt in history
• Largest single year deficit in the nation's history
• Largest single year budget in the nation's history
• Nationalized almost the entire auto industry
• • strong armed creditors & took ownership and gave it to the United Auto Workers in a sweetheart deal as a political payoff
  • infused billions of tax payer dollars
  • demanded that "green cars" be manufactured even though consumers have little or no interest in buying them because Washington knows better than consumers
  • took demand out of the market through Administration's major economic initiative "Cash for Clunkers" thereby lowering future demand for cars (brilliant, simply brilliant)
• Appointed the largest number of federal government Czars, many of who were left wing nut jobs and all of who have no accountability to anyone
• Numerous other cabinet appointments apparently didn't realize that they have to pay their taxes(the Obama team vetting process was absolutely lacking)
• Spent a year of wasted energy on:
• • Obamacare in spite of overwhelming opposition to it by the American people, particularly with older Americans who aren't buying the President's reasoning that slashing Medicare funding in Obscure by hundreds of billions of dollars and increasing the number of participants in the program will improve the quality of care
  • Cap and Trade as e-mails between major "global warming" alarmists slow them perpetrating a fraud by concealing scientific information that shows the earth is in fact cooling. At the same time many areas of the country had their coolest summer in decades followed up with the coldest December on record as cold gripped the U.S. from the Midwest down through Florida and up into New England.
  • a verbal war with FOXNEWS and Rush Limbaugh (just stupid and immature)
• As the '09 drew to a close, Democrat icon John F. Kennedy's belief that cutting taxes is the best way to spur economic growth is thrown under the bus.
• • In fact, Obama and Democrats look at an array of new taxes to fund massive federal spending increases and to fund the unwanted health care program as well Cap and Trade
• The Obama apology tours. In particular to the Middle East, combined with the discarding or watering down of Bush-era terrorist programs was rewarded with continual suicide bombings in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as two terrorist attacks in the U.S.(Arkansas and Texas) and one attempted in the air on a plane bound for the U.S.
• Obama further shows his peace-and-love side to extremists by allowing his Secretary of Homeland Security to call any terrorist act a "man-caused disaster" so as she said, "that we can move away from the politics of fear". I believe this is the modern day version of Flower-Power. Cool man. Peace brother. Make love not war. Can flowers in rifle barrels be far behind?
• Iran welcomed Mr. Obama's apology tour and his kind overture of not condemning Iran's brutal crackdown on protesters last summer by cracking down harder on freedom dissidents and by continuing to enrich uranium and testing long range missiles that could carry future nuclear missiles to surrounding areas, in particular Israel.
• As yet another attempt to show the Arab world that Mr. Obama is different and feels their pain, Obama decides to try a couple prominent detainees including the mastermind of 9-11 in our court system instead of military court. The ACLU is ecstatic.
• U.S. casualties escalated over the last six months in the "right war" in Afghanistan meanwhile in December in Iraq "Bush's war", there were no U.S. casualties.

I forecast that Obama strategist will move from Hope and Change to Rope-a-dope in 2010 in the hopes that they can avoid as many hits as possible, exhaust the American people and ultimately imposes their will on the American people, like it or not.

"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves" - Ronald Reagan

Don't Look Now . . .

I think we could all live without this . . .

but gasoline prices are heading toward $3.00 a gallon.

Anyone notice that gas prices have been climbing? According to the Department of Energy, we are paying more at the pump right now than we have since November 2008 when we were coming off those record breaking high summer gas prices.

Indications are that even higher gasoline prices are ahead.

Gosh, this Obama economic and green energy strategy is really working wonders for the American people. Whatever glimmer of Hope that White House economists see in our economy could quickly Change to naught if gas prices continue to rise past the 3-dollar mark.

UPDATE: I guess my timing was a bit ironic as the Omaha World-Herald has as its lead story today on the increase in gas prices.